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By Joseph Ax (Reuters) - Democrats and Republicans poured millions of dollars into state Supreme Court races in North Carolina and Ohio last fall, eye...

By Joseph Ax (Reuters) - Democrats and Republicans poured millions of dollars into state Supreme Court races in North Carolina and Ohio last fall, eyeing

President Biden makes the annual State of the Union speech Tuesday night at a time of intense political division. We look at the political dynamics and the relevance of this tradition.

North Carolina has never evolved into the true tossup state Barack Obama's 2008 win once appeared to foreshadow.

The relationships between big cities and rural-dominated legislatures have often been hostile. But a rift between Nashville and the Tennessee Legislature suggests the nation’s partisan divide is making things worse.

Some of North Carolina's lawmakers have obtained leadership roles which could have significant impacts on the Tar Heel state.

Analysis by Ronald Brownstein

The state’s maps are set to be redrawn, and the newly Republican state Supreme Court is unlikely to block a likely GOP gerrymander, experts say

Speaker to Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California after voting for an alternative on the previous 11 ballots.

Several North Carolina news stories from 2022 evidence an abandonment of traditional governance norms by conservative politicans