Amid accusations of insider trading, U.S. Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., stepped down as chairperson of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence earlier this month. Here's what could happen next, according to law professors at UNC and Duke.
HBCUs open higher education to new generations of students.
Also known as the Mexico City Policy, the rule was enacted by President Donald Trump on his first day in office and forbids the allocation of U.S. foreign aid to organizations that offer abortion services or information.
A new bipartisan bill in the U.S. Senate would give HBCUs in North Carolina more financial flexibility.
In response to the Florida school shooting, some legislators are tweeting about arming school faculty.
U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis, R-NC, and U.S. Sen. Richard Burr, R-NC, announced in a press release Thursday there would be an additional $125 million from the recent budget deal for North Carolina’s recovery from Hurricane Matthew, which hit the state in 2016.
A proposal to open off-limits federal offshore areas to drilling was announced on Jan. 4 by the U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke.
Four months have passed since President Donald Trump’s September announcement repealing the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, and Congress has yet to find a legislative solution to the problem.
U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., and Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., have expressed opposition towards Michael L. Dourson, President Donald Trump’s nominee to oversee chemical safety at the Environmental Protection Agency.
U.S. Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., and U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., are among the top four recipients of funding from the National Rifle Association, according to a ranking released by the Center for Responsive Politics.
As Congress works to overhaul the United States tax system, one local leader hopes to use North Carolina as an example.
U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis, R-NC, along with four other Republican and Democratic senators, co-sponsored the Marijuana Effective Drug Study Act of 2017.
Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., called for Republicans to reach across the aisle to work toward meaningful solutions rather than mistakenly assuming there was a conservative mandate, in an op-ed in The Charlotte Observer last week.
As the North Carolina primaries approach, Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C. has come out in support of Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.
As the country prepares for the presidential primaries in 2016, political groups on campus are organizing in an effort to increase the amount of voters who reach the polls. The results of the 2012 election showed low youth turnout because of disenchantment and increased obstacles to vote.
By Nick Niedzwiadek Senior Writer The state’s two-month overdue budget glacially neared completion Wednesday as the legislature reached an agreement on teacher pay. Teachers across the state will receive a one-time $750 bonus this year as opposed to the House’s original plan to give all teachers a 2 percent raise, according to documents provided by Sen.
U.S. Sens. Richard Burr and Thom Tillis of North Carolina were among a coalition of 47 Republican senators to send a controversial letter to Iranian leaders in the midst of potential nuclear negotiations.
Five years after the British Petroleum Deepwater Horizon Oil spill, thoughts of offshore oil drilling are slipping back into the long-term plans of North Carolina’s members of Congress and the White House.
Tim Moore is slated to become one of the most powerful politicians in North Carolina on Wednesday, assuming the role of speaker of the N.C. House. More than two decades ago, Moore stirred controversy as speaker of UNC’s Student Congress for attempting to defund the Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association (CGLA).
A barrage of political spending and a Republican surprise defined the 2014 U.S. Senate election in North Carolina.
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