North Carolina

Trump demands immediate answer from governor on RNC capacity

8:41 pm May 25, 2020

Washington: President Donald Trump demanded Monday that North Carolina’s Democratic governor sign off immediately on allowing the Republican National Convention to move forward in August with full attendance despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Trump’s tweets Monday about the RNC, planned for Charlotte, come just two days after the North Carolina recorded its largest daily increase […]

One more victory: Biden wins most Super Tuesday delegates

3:56 pm March 7, 2020

Washington: Former Vice President Joe Biden has put an exclamation point on his Super Tuesday victories by winning the most delegates on the presidential primary calendar’s biggest night. The Associated Press has allocated more than 92% of the 1,344 delegates that were up for grabs on Tuesday, and Biden has such a commanding lead that […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Democrats argue ‘right matters’ in Trump impeachment trial

9:30 pm January 24, 2020

Washington: Democratic House prosecutors made an expansive case at Donald Trump’s impeachment trial that he abused power like no other president in history, swept up by a “completely bogus” Ukraine theory pushed by attorney Rudy Giuliani. On Friday, the Democrats will press their final day of arguments before skeptical Republican senators, focusing on the second […]

US: State officials are at the core of 2020 election security

9:23 pm December 26, 2019

SPRINGFIELD: Inside a hotel ballroom near the nation’s capital, a U.S. Army officer with battlefield experience told 120 state and local election officials that they may have more in common with military strategists than they might think. These government officials are on the front lines of a different kind of battlefield — one in which […]

NOAA chief thanks Alabama weather office in Hurricane Dorian forecast

8:34 pm September 10, 2019

Huntsville: The head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is both defending the administration and thanking a local weather office that contradicted President Donald Trump’s claims about Hurricane Dorian threatening Alabama. Acting administrator Neil Jacobs told a meteorology group Tuesday that a NOAA statement which criticized a local forecast office that contradicted Trump […]