The federal trial on North Carolina's legislative districts has ended. On Wednesday, a senior election analyst and three expert witnesses, including a political science professor at NC State, took the stand. The case is centered on whether lawmakers drew lines to favor one party over another.

Advocacy groups and individual voters suing GOP state lawmakers in federal court claim Republican legislators drew racially discriminatory district maps.

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Jen Psaki breaks down the North Carolina GOP's "frantic scramble" following their state-level losses in the 2024 elections — and what Trump's attacks on Sen. Thom Tillis could mean for the state's national leaders in the upcoming midterms.

The spate of individuals and organizations attempting to intervene in the DOJ lawsuit fear that this correction process has the potential to disenfranchise voters who fail or are unable to respond to the mailings, or discourage North Carolinians from voting because of the additional hoops it creates.

Sen. Thom Tillis’s (R-N.C.) decision to not seek reelection to another term has scrambled the field for what will be one of the most competitive Senate races in the country next year. The North

Saying it created “more opportunity for dark money in our politics,” North Carolina first-term Democratic Gov. Josh Stein on Wednesday vetoed legislation tied to decisions on

Somebody that would really be great is Lara, she grew up there,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One when asked who he would want to replace Tillis in the Senate.

Sen. Thom Tillis' retirement tells us a lot about the current dynamics in Washington — and a little about how U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff’s race in Georgia just got a bit easier.

His decision creates a political opportunity for Democrats seeking to bolster their numbers in the 2026 midterm elections, creating a wide-open Senate race in a state that has long been a

N.C., announced he will not run for re-election a day after he was one of two GOP senators who voted no on a motion to proceed on the Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill. NBC News' Sahil Kapur reports on Tillis' viewpoint of the budget bill and working in Congress.