Joe John, a longtime Raleigh lawmaker and former judge, died on Wednesday. John had only just resigned his District 40 House seat in the General Assembly days earlier, as he announced Sunday that his ...

WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Thursday to confirm John Ratcliffe as the next CIA director under President Donald Trump, approving the second high-level appointment for the new administration.

Ratcliffe said that if confirmed, he would push the CIA to do more to harness technologies such as AI and quantum computing while expanding use of human intelligence collection. Democrats raised ...

Former state Sen. Brian Kelsey sought Thursday to vacate his conviction on federal campaign finance violations, citing prosecutorial misconduct by the U.S. Department of Justice and ineffective legal ...

There’s good reason to believe that the president’s campaign of revenge will be felt throughout the federal government.

The Senate is poised to confirm John Ratcliffe as CIA director on Thursday as Republicans work to approve officials to the top posts in his administration amid delays by Democrats.

They can reconquer the House and the White House. But the Senate looks problematic, thanks to a solid red bloc of 25 states.

The Laken Riley Act will now go to Trump's desk and symbolically will become the first measure he signs into law of his ...

Joe John, the Wake County Democrat who resigned from the North Carolina House of Representatives this week, has died.

A veteran prosecutor who spearheaded indictments of top-ranking members of the depraved gang MS-13 has been appointed interim ...

John J. Durham, 48, of Suffolk County, was sworn in to temporarily serve as Long Island’s top federal prosecutor Tuesday, ...

The LI federal prosecutor will serve in this role for 120 days or until the presidential nominee is confirmed by the U.S.