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President Obama has nominated two North Carolina judges to vacant seats on the 4th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond.

Republican Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina is lashing out against the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, accusing the group of exploiting the deadly rampage to oppose his gun lobby backed bill -- which seeks to protect veterans' rights to gun ownership.

Southern Democrats who watched the trouncing of their party's gubernatorial nominee in Virginia this week are starting to worry that a rising anti-Democratic tide in the South may reverse their hard-fought gains from the last two national elections.

"I've been told over and over again this is the event of the year." Bryan Lynip, an assistant principal at Unionville Elementary School, will witness the school's annual barbecue for the first time Friday.

Jamie Leigh Jones is an American who was gang raped by her co-workers while working for a defense contractor in Iraq.

The White House nominated two North Carolina judges Wednesday to fill seats on the nation's most conservative federal appeals court.

U.S. Sen. Richard Burr says he isn't concerned as he looks ahead to the 2010 election about any so-called rift in the Republican Party.

Reform group Change Congress launched a campaign yesterday to shame Sen. Richard Burr , R-N.C., for voting against legislation that would help ensure victims of rape have the right to bring their case to court.

North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue's communications director is stepping down from his job.

The job former first lady Mary Easley got at N.C. State University - and its fallout - is following former N.C. State University Chancellor James Oblinger across the country.

Surely it is Raleigh? No, not Raleigh either. Have a look for your self: Mecklenburg County, with a larger population that Cumberland, Lenoir and Iredell combined, receives21% of their Total spending.

A final Department of Defense authorization bill does not include language sought by members of North Carolina's congressional delegation to prevent a Navy outlying landing field in the northeastern part of the state.

North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr has a 37 percent approval rating among adults in the state, just one year before he comes up for re-election. An Elon University poll released Friday shows that 22 percent of respondents disapprove of the way the Republican lawmaker is handling his job.

Educational leaders meet Butterfield U.S. Rep. G.K. Butterfield hosted a recent meeting with several representatives of the N.C. Center for the Advancement of Teaching.

Democratic moderates who control the balance of power on health-care legislation balked yesterday at a government-run insurance option for millions of Americans, underscoring the enormity of the challenge confronting the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, one day after he unveiled the plan as a consensus product.

The Hill: Melancon hits at Vitter's rape amendment vote It didn't take long for Sen.

Back from a brief tour of Afghanistan, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse said Monday that "the baseline" of progress in the U.S. war effort there is better than it might appear from news coverage of rising casualties and the sharp disagreement over how the Obama administration should proceed.

Those opposed to building a Navy outlying landing field in northeastern North Carolina have lost one battle in Congress.

Federal recognition for the Lumbee Tribe moved forward this week as legislation was passed by a key U.S. Senate Committee - the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs.