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

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.

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.

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 North Carolina, the president pledged “the support that you need to quickly recover and rebuild” after a hurricane. His message to fire-ravaged California had a different tone.

From exaggerating the size of his win to rewriting the history of his supporters' attack on the Capitol, it's been a busy week for the president.

Trump said FEMA "is going to be a whole big discussion" in an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity on Wednesday.

(AP) – President Donald Trump stepped back into the presidency this week moving quickly to set a new agenda, but from his inaugural address continuing through a flurry of executive actions, press conferences and interviews Trump relied on an array of false and misleading information to support his case.

With actions big and small, Trump has spent his first days in office pushing the levers of government – and his unique powers as commander in chief – to target his perceived political enemies both inside and outside the government.

Gov Ops will bring in Stein staff to talk about his new Helene recovery office, the Governor’s Recovery Office for Western North Carolina, or GROW NC, as well as the troubled N.C. Office of Recovery and Resiliency. NCORR was heavily scrutinized by Republicans during former Gov. Roy Cooper’s administration.

Donald Trump’s Justice Department cited an archaic statute in a legal filing Wednesday, arguing that the president’s executive order ending constitutionally guaranteed birthright citizenship should be totally kosher, since the children of Native Americans weren’t historically considered citizens, either.

From activists on the far right to Elon Musk, allies of President Donald Trump have been quick to threaten primary challengers for Republican senators who don't back his