President Barack Obama can’t get enough of North Carolina and its people – or at least that’s the impression he gives in a series of interviews to anchors in local television markets.He tells WSOC anchor Natalie Pasquarella of Charlotte that he hopes next year’s Democratic National Convention will highlight “how wonderful Charlotte is.” He tells WXII ancho...

Republican White House hopefuls condemned President Barack Obama’s handling of the economy from the opening moments of their first major debate of the campaign season Monday night, and pledged emphatically to repeal his historic year-old health care overhaul. “When 14 million

There she sat, in her new black suit, in the first lady's box at the State of the Union address. So it shouldn't have been a surprise when President Barack Obama started talking about Kathy Proctor, the 55-year-old student retraining for a biotechnology career at Forsyth Technical Community College.But when Proctor heard her name and all the network and cable TV cameras zoomed in, her amazement wa...

Pleading for unity in a newly divided government, President Barack Obama implored Democratic and Republican lawmakers to rally behind his vision of economic revival for an anxious nation, declaring in his State of the Union address Tuesday night: “We will move forward together or not at all.” To a television audience in the millions, Obama addressed a Congress sobered by the assassinati...

. His State of the Union address will reflect reality: The economy trumps all.To a nationwide television audience Tuesday ni...

Tunisians couldn't stand her even more than they couldn't stand him.The end of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's iron-fisted, 23-year rule brought joy to many ordinary people in this North African nation - and they were especially elated at the prospect of life without his wife and her rapacious family.The clan of former first lady Leila Trabelsi, a one-time hairdresser who rose to become Tunisi...

When Nikki Haley takes the oath of office next week as the first Indian-American governor of South Carolina, the ceremony at the State House will resonate not only across South Carolina but in her parents’ native India.Haley, a child of Sikh parents who emigrated from India and built a successful clothing company, earns a place in state history as the first minority governor and its first fem...

Bargain shoppers, braving rain or frigid weather, crowded the nation's stores and malls in the wee hours of the night to get their hands on deals from TVs to toys on Black Friday.In a bid to grab shoppers earlier on the traditional start to the holiday shopping season, a number of stores including Old Navy, Toys R Us and Sears opened on Thursday's Thanksgiving holiday. Toys R Us was counting on ge...

The full transcript of the president's speech can be found at the bottom of this page.Claiming no victory, President Barack Obama formally ended the U.S. combat role in Iraq after seven long years of bloodshed, declaring firmly Tuesday night: "It's time to turn the page." Now, he said, the nation's most urgent priority is fixing its own sickly economy.From the Oval Office, where George W. Bush fir...

Cast members of the television program "Army Wives" are urging South Carolina lawmakers to continue the incentives for the program.Multiple media outlets reported about a dozen cast members gathered in Charleston on Sunday to encourage people to push for the state's incentive package.Gov. Mark Sanford had vetoed the incentives offered to the program and lawmakers narrowly overrode the veto.Wendy D...

The three Democrats vying to become governor of South Carolina are meeting on the state's coast to debate how best to help the state's economy.State Superintendent of Education Jim Rex and state Sens. Robert Ford and Vincent Sheheen meet Thursday evening in a debate at Coastal Carolina University in Conway.The Republican candidates were in Florence earlier this week to discuss the same issue.The d...