President Donald Trump pardoned over 1,500 people charged in the U.S. Capitol riots Jan. 6, 2021 – including some from Western North Carolina.

Gregory Charles Peck, Jr., a Connelly Springs man charged in August, is expected to enter a plea on Thursday on a civil disorder charge and felony charges of assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers using a deadly or dangerous weapon.

President Donald Trump pardoned more than 1,500 people for their roles in the insurrection at the Capitol that left five people dead and injured 174 officers.

President Donald Trump on Friday is set to visit North Carolina — a state he said “has been abandoned by the Democrats” as it rebuilds from Hurricane Helene’s flooding — with questions about disaster relief taking center stage in his first days back in office.

President Donald Trump will visit storm-ravaged North Carolina on Friday in his first trip outside Washington since the start of his second term.

One of President Donald Trump’s first orders of business following his inauguration this week was to pardon those jailed in relation to convictions stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the United States Capitol.

In the weeks leading up to President-elect Donald Trump’s return to office, at least two U.S. Capitol rioters from North Carolina have ... defendants from all 50 states have been convicted ...

President Donald Trump took his oath of office Monday saying that Western North Carolinians were “treated so badly” after Helene. Now he plans to visit the state in one of his first official trips.

Hoping to shield Iowa’s public universities from potential backlash to policy changes enacted by lawmakers, Republicans pushed forward a bill that would allow them to sue private entities that review the quality of colleges.

Universities are hiring lobbyists connected to Republicans and opening offices in Washington to argue their causes amid threats to funding.

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Party leaders disagree sharply on how to interpret the losses that gave Republicans complete control of the federal government, with some calling for a reinvention and others a wait-and-see.