GOP leaders appear to have achieved their stated goal of shifting one congressional district from a swing seat to reliably Republican.

The president and the Republican Party are bringing capital punishment back to the forefront of American criminal justice.

By Gene Nichol The Republican war on democracy in North Carolina is apparently boundless. Unsatisfied by a 2023 congressional districting map that moved, in an evenly divided state, from 7-7 ...

With just one week before Election Day, Virginia lawmakers returned to the state Capitol Monday for a surprise special ...

Democratic leaders convened a special session of the Virginia legislature on Monday to consider redrawing congressional ...

By DAVID A. LIEB President Donald Trump’s call for Republicans to redraw U.S. House districts ahead of next year’s election ...

President Donald Trump has granted clemency to six people in NC, plus those convicted of crimes surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, ...

Observer readers comment on White House renovations, Charlotte police, NC legislative inaction, redistricting, MAGA, ‘No ...

North Carolina lawmakers gave final approval Wednesday to a revised U.S. House map backed by President Donald Trump, intended ...

North Carolina's new congressional map provides Republicans with an additional seat, giving them 11 of the total 14 ...

Republicans have made it plenty clear that they have a particular outcome in mind, and they've done as much as possible to ...

The North Carolina House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to pass a new congressional map into law, two days after the ...