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GASTONIA — North Carolina resident Charles Whatley hasn’t voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since Jimmy Carter in 1976. It was his first time voting. In the past 50 years, he said he’s alternated between choosing Republicans and independents, depending on who’s running. “A lot of it is independent politics is better, such different ideas,” […]
President Donald Trump’s visit to Gastonia is drawing both supporters and protesters as he campaigns for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Michael Whatley.
Fencing has gone up around the main Kennedy Center building, a day after the Trump-aligned board voted to close most of the performing arts center for repairs. That vote came after a federal judge blocked the institution from returning President Donald Trump’s name to the building.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House is expected to depart Wednesday evening for a seven-week campaign break after spending less than two weeks in session during August and September. The extended “district work period” is intended to give incumbents from both political parties time to meet with constituents and fundraise back home before voting in this […]
Ahead of midterm elections, state Rep. Jennifer Balkcom, R-Henderson sits down with CJ to discuss her campaign. The post NC-11 candidate state Rep. Jennifer Balkcom sits down with Carolina Journal appeared first on Carolina Journal.
A federal judge will allow the mayor of Washington to move forward with her lawsuit against the city and the incumbent she beat in the 2025 mayoral election. The post Federal judge does not dismiss mayor’s lawsuit against Washington appeared first on Carolina Journal.
Kendal Hayes and Glenn Delgreco II are now charged with first-degree murder in the death of their three-month-old infant daughter.
WASHINGTON — Voters are much more likely to support U.S. Senate candidates in the November midterm elections if they have a plan to avoid an automatic cut to Social Security benefits in 2032, according to a poll released Wednesday by the nonpartisan Peter G. Peterson Foundation. “Senators elected this fall will be in office in […]
WASHINGTON — FBI Director Kash Patel sidestepped questions about FBI agents at polling places in the midterm elections at a U.S. Senate hearing Tuesday that also featured a tense exchange between GOP Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Democratic Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey. With the November midterm elections fast approaching and the parties […]
WASHINGTON — The cost of U.S. military operations in Iran has exceeded $40 billion and the war will continue to cost taxpayers between $2 billion and $3 billion per month, according to an analysis released Tuesday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. The ongoing bombing campaign, which President Donald Trump launched alongside the Israeli government […]
The son of a Huntersville Town Commissioner is behind bars, charged with first-degree murder.
Jury selection begins Tuesday in the brutal 2020 murder of 20-year-old Mary Collins.
Charlotte City Council appears to be divided on the next step to ease congestion on 77 South, but voting against the project could cost citizens up to $69 million dollars.
One month before early in-person voting begins in North Carolina, civil rights leader and Repairers of the Breach President Bishop William Barber said voters should not fall victim to the confusion surrounding voting in the midterms. The Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court to approve the president’s executive order restricting mail-in voting ahead of […]
The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals wrestled Tuesday with a North Carolina voter’s challenge to state laws banning “ballot selfies.” Oral arguments in the case Hogarth v. Hayes took place one month before early voting opens for the fall election. The post 4th Circuit hears Libertarian’s challenge to NC ‘ballot selfie’ ban appeared first on Carolina Journal.
President Donald Trump is assailing the Supreme Court after it rejected his push to restrict mail-in voting in this year’s midterms. He said in a social media post Tuesday that the justices who opposed him were “not the people I interviewed.”
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected President Donald Trump's attempt to limit mail voting by imposing new Postal Service regulations for the midterm elections. The decision announced late Monday allows mail voting to continue as usual.
After Richard Burr voted against Trump at his second impeachment trial, state party chair Whatley retaliated. Trump rewarded him—twice.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday kept in place a lower court’s order blocking President Donald Trump’s embattled plan to place new restrictions on mail ballots for this year’s midterm elections. The unsigned, one-paragraph order upheld a Massachusetts federal court’s injunction on a U.S. Postal Service rule until after Nov. 3 and did not decide whether […]
Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky has returned to the Senate after a long absence. The 84-year-old senator has not been to the U.S. Capitol since June 14, when he was hospitalized for a fall in his home.