FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee is in Florida gathering information about potential voter suppression that will be presented to Congress.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Top North Carolina elected officials, party activists and a presidential candidate are among the speakers at an annual convention for college Democrats.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Eight of North Carolina's 13 members of Congress face challengers in Tuesday's primary elections, but anticipated low turnout should have most incumbents fretting only about margins of victory, not political survival.

Primaries are being held in all districts except the 1st District, where Democratic incumbent G.K. Butterfield and Republican opponent Roger Allison are the only candidates.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Gov. Roy Cooper's new legislative affairs director previously lobbied in Washington for the energy industry, including a company wanting to build a natural gas pipeline in North Carolina and two other states.

Cooper announced Wednesday that Lee Lilley is his chief lobbyist at the Legislative Building and will promote his agenda there. He succeeds Brad Adcock.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The six living black justices of the North Carolina Supreme Court have been honored with a special ceremony.

The two current and four former justices attended Thursday's event inside the Supreme Court's courtroom. Former Govs. Jim Hunt and Beverly Perdue, who appointed some of the justices, spoke at the event, as did current Chief Justice Mark Martin.

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina lawmaker has met opposition in an attempt to name a federal courthouse for a black attorney.

ROCK HILL, S.C. (AP) — The waning days of the special election to fill South Carolina's 5th District House seat are stacking up with notable visitors.

Jim DeMint is making several stops with Republican nominee Ralph Norman on Friday. They'll be accompanied by Carrie Almond, president of the National Federation of Republican Women.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Rep. David Price says he'll attend the inauguration of Donald Trump "with pride" in the country even though he's appalled by the president-elect.

The Democrat said in statement Tuesday night that he won't join about 50 House colleagues who say they'll boycott Trump's swearing-in Friday in Washington. North Carolina's other two Democratic House members, Reps. G.K. Butterfield and Alma Adams, said Tuesday they won't attend.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Two of North Carolina's representatives to Congress are joining more than 40 other House Democrats who plan to boycott the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, while a third is still considering what to do.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Louisiana Democratic Rep. Cedric Richmond has been elected chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus.

The three-term lawmaker will take over for the current chairman, Rep. G.K. Butterfield, D-N.C., in January when a new Congress is sworn in.

The 43-year-old Richmond has a reputation of working with Democrats and Republicans.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Democrat Roy Cooper on Monday took steps to demonstrate he's the winner of the still-unresolved race for North Carolina's governor, presenting key members of his transition team and turning up the pressure on incumbent Republican Pat McCrory to concede.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Latest on recorded comments U.S. Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., made at a private Republican event (all times local):

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The head of the Congressional Black Caucus says U.S. Sen. Richard Burr has created a judicial emergency in North Carolina by blocking President Barack Obama's judicial appointments in the state, where there's been a vacancy for nearly 11 years.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Democratic members of Congress and conservative Christian activists are touring North Carolina to encourage their allies to get out to the vote and remind them what's at stake approaching Election Day.

WILSON, N.C. (AP) — The nation's secretary of Housing and Urban Development is visiting Wilson to tour a housing development and discuss providing broadband for public housing residents.

U.S. Rep. G.K. Butterfield says he and Julian Castro on Tuesday will tour a senior housing development that was built with money from HUD's Rental Assistance Demonstration Program.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of the Congressional Black Caucus on Friday called Donald Trump a "disgusting fraud" and demanded that he apologize to President Barack Obama for repeatedly challenging the first African-American president's U.S. citizenship before retreating from the claim on Friday.