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ATLANTA (AP) — Republicans aren't the only ones roiled by internal jostling and recruiting hiccups ahead of next year's midterm elections. Two top-tier Democratic prospects recently bypassed running for Senate seats in Georgia and South Dakota,...

The salvation of the tower at Hickory Regional Airport is not a done deal. In fact, air traffic control towers across the nation are awaiting word from the Federal Aviation Administration on their fate. "The FAA still hasn't given us the word," said...

Editor's note: Reader comments have been disabled on this story because of numerous violations of our comment policy. Someone placed an oversized picture of a smiling Jameson "Jamie" Kirk Hahn in the pulpit of the Pullen Memorial Baptist Church before...

This time Jim Hunt will not be available to rescue the North Carolina Democratic Party. It is a role that Hunt, the former four-term governor, has often played, bailing out Tar Heel Democrats when they hit troubled waters. He did it in the early 1970s...

It's debatable as to which is the real news -- the new law saving air traffic control jobs across the country, or Congress passing that law in less than a week. Either way, both happened, and now the tower at the Global TransPark will remain open, along...

Congress approved a quick budget fix Friday to end air traffic controller furloughs that have delayed thousands of airline flights across the country this week. The action also appeared to cancel plans by the Federal Aviation Administration to shut down...

Sen. Kay Hagan, D-N.C., will introduce a bipartisan bill to streamline regulation on pesticides, according to a news release Tuesday from her office. Called the Sensible Environmental Protection Act of 2013, it seeks to eliminate "unnecessary and costly...

WASHINGTON — A single conversation on the Senate floor Monday illustrated the challenges senators face in pushing a bipartisan measure to extend background checks to most gun sales. Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.), the chief author of the proposal,...

WASHINGTON — In a lopsided vote, the Senate launched a debate Thursday over the most significant gun legislation in more than a decade, setting up a contest that could last weeks between reinvigorated advocates for stricter laws and conservatives...

President Barack Obama pleaded with Congress last week to remember the victims of December’s schoolhouse shootings in Connecticut and tighten the nation’s gun laws. "Shame on us if we’ve forgotten," he said. "Don’t get squishy."...

President Obama pleaded with Congress last week to remember the victims of December's schoolhouse shootings in Connecticut and tighten the nation's gun laws. "Shame on us if we've forgotten," he said. "Don't get squishy." But four months after the...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama pressed Congress on Thursday not to forget the heartbreak of the Newtown elementary school massacre and "get squishy" on tightened gun laws, though some lawmakers in his own Democratic Party remain a tough...