The North Carolina Court of Appeals issued a stay Friday in Republican groups’ lawsuit challenging more than 60,000 ballots cast in the Nov. 5 election. The court order arrived as GOP state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin pursues a separate legal action challenging the same ballots. Election officials requested the stay in Kivett v. North Carolina State Board of Elections, a suit filed on Dec. 31 by the Wake County and North Carolina Republican Party organizations, the Republican National Committee, and two individual voters.

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The US government is on track to surpass record debt levels set after World War II in just four years, the Congressional Budget Office warned on Friday — even as it lowered somewhat its deficit projections for the next decade.

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Gabbard’s team isn’t banking on McConnell’s vote, sources tell Axios.