RALEIGH — The U.S. Senate could vote next week on the appointment of Thomas Farr as judge in the Eastern District of North Carolina. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) filed cloture Friday on President […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump has announced his first recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and they include the wife of a major Republican Party donor, the longest-serving Republican senator in U.S. history, […]
Tariffs are bad. They are just “taxes” by a different name. Higher taxes and tariffs retard economic production and growth. The higher the tax, or tariff, the lower amount of product is sold. Would the […]
ALIAGA, Turkey — A Turkish court on Friday convicted Montreat, N.C. pastor Andrew Brunson of terror charges but released him from house arrest and allowed him to leave Turkey, a move that’s likely to ease […]
The progressive left accomplished something I thought might never happen again — they have united all of the factions within the Republican Party a month before an important election, without doing anything to unite their […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. employers added just 134,000 jobs in September and the unemployment rate fell to 3.7 percent, the lowest level since 1969. The jobs total marked the lowest monthly growth in a year. […]
If there’s one lesson to take from the brief history of the USFL, it’s this: Always perform due diligence. Time and again in Jeff Pearman’s wildly entertaining account of the early 1980s competitor to the […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Latest on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and the new FBI investigation (all times local): 2:30 p.m. Senate Democrats want to hear directly from the FBI about the results of its […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Reserve signaled its confidence Wednesday in the U.S. economy by raising a key interest rate for a third time this year, forecasting another rate hike before year’s end and predicting […]
PHOENIX, Ariz. — Senate Republicans have selected a female prosecutor from Arizona with decades of experience prosecuting sex crimes to handle questioning about allegations of sexual assault against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, describing her […]
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