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

Strategists say Cooper’s entry makes North Carolina a more difficult seat for the GOP to hold, though a Democrat hasn’t won a Senate race in the traditionally competitive state since 2008.

In a series of mid-decade redistricting gambits, state legislatures are looking to rig next year's congressional balloting in ...

Members of both parties on the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee chastised a U.S. Department of Agriculture official ...