Tax season 2026: The year of historic refunds
The average refund is up nearly 11% this year, topping $3,500. And as people adjust their withholding under the lower tax rates we made permanent, millions are already seeing more in their take-home pay.
The North Carolina congressman leading Republicans’ national US House election efforts is praising the US Supreme Court’s latest redistricting ruling blocking the redrawing of New York's congressional map.
Candidate filing for most of the North Carolina 2026 elections opened at noon on Monday, December 1, with key candidates for Congress, NC Supreme Court, and the state legislature officially throwing their hats in the ring.
Former NC Gov. Roy Cooper officially announced his campaign for the US Senate on Monday, launching a bid to flip the Republican-held seat and setting the stage for what is expected to be one of the most competitive races of the 2026 election cycle.
Two Republican members of North Carolina's congressional delegation back parents Doug and Nicole Turpin in their four-year-old dispute with Charlotte Latin.
Two Republican members of North Carolina’s congressional delegation have joined 11 GOP state legislators and a dozen groups to support parents in a legal battle against a Charlotte private school. The case has reached North Carolina’s highest court.
High energy and crowds filled the Bojangles Coliseum in Charlotte Wednesday as Trump took the stage. Rally goers also heard from NC House Speaker Tim Moore, National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd, Congressmen Dan Bishop and Richard Hudson, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley, and former NASCAR driver Richard Childress.
Key members of North Carolina’s congressional delegation have it right: unless we do something meaningful about the federal government’s chronic budget deficits, America’s future is in peril. “Reckless spending has led our country into a dire economic situation threatened by inflation and mountains of debt,” says Rep. Richard Hudson, R-NC9, chairman of the National Republican Congressional...
Republicans are pushing to get more party faithful to vote early and mail in their ballots, while also trying to assure them of ballot security. An initiative from the Republican National Committee, Bank Your Vote, is aimed at tapping into turnout tactics that Democrats have been nurturing for years.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has joined the case of widespread power outages across Moore County over the weekend. This comes after what officials say is a targeted attack on two power substations Saturday evening, plunging 40,000 homes and businesses across the region into darkness. School was also closed Monday for Moore County schools.
Rep. Richard Hudson, R-NC, was elected Tuesday to lead the National Republican Congressional Committee. The role makes Hudson the highest-ranking Republicans member of Congress from North Carolina in history.
The latest projection from elections-analysis site FiveThirtyEight is that Republicans have an 85% chance of winning a majority in the U.S. House. It’s even fairly likely that Republicans will claim far more than the 218 seats needed for a majority. And if or when current Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi hands the gavel over...