Former Governor Roy Cooper enters race for U.S. Senate in NC; NC lawmakers approve a mini-budget, including teacher pay raises. Panelists: Rep. Brandon Lofton (D-District 104), Rep. Erin Paré ...

Expected to be the most expensive U.S. Senate race in history, polling released Friday gave former North Carolina Democratic ...

Roy Cooper led Republican National Committee chairman Michael Whatley by six points in the first major poll of the 2026 North Carolina Senate race. The Emerson College poll, obtained by Politico, ...

Sen. Elizabeth Dole, a Republican who represented North Carolina in Congress, also never ran for public office before being elected in 2002. Whatley served as her chief of staff for one of her six ...

Former two-term Democratic North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper is leading his much lesser-known likely Republican opponent by just ...

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Democrats still in the dumps over last year's elections have found cause for optimism in North Carolina, ...

Roy Cooper should be an overwhelming favorite to be North Carolina’s next U.S. senator, but Michael Whatley is strong where ...

Strategists say Cooper’s entry makes North Carolina a more difficult seat for the GOP to hold, though a Democrat hasn’t won a ...

Trump has justified tariffs on goods from Canada, the top U.S. export market, by accusing it of failing to stop the ...