Central Americans traveling in a mass caravan broke through a Guatemalan border fence and streamed by the thousands toward Mexican territory Friday, defying Mexican authorities' entreaties for an orderly migration and U.S. President Donald Trump's threats of retaliation.

A famous balloon depicting President Donald Trump as a baby in diapers will fly over the Port City next week.

Lawmakers say money should soon be getting into the hands of Hurricane Florence victims now that Gov. Roy Cooper has signed an $850 million Florence Emergency Response bill into law.

North Carolina's elections board has sent to prosecutors the case of a state House member whom investigators allege failed to report over $140,000 in campaign contributions expenditures over several years.

First lady Melania Trump's plane has been forced to return to a Washington area military base because of smoke in the cabin.

Legislators on Monday approved a second emergency spending plan a month after Florence slammed into the state.

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Monday released the results of a DNA analysis that strongly supports she has some Native American ancestry, a rebuttal to President Donald Trump and other critics who have long derided her claim.

Many people on food assistance now have to work to eat in Michigan as the state tightened the rules for assistance for certain able-bodied adults.

North Carolina lawmakers are going back to work to decide on approving hundreds of millions of dollars to clean up from Hurricane Florence and help the storm's victims.