A television ad commissioned by the Senate Leadership Fund, a Republican-backed political action committee, claims that Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Cheri Beasley "backs tax hikes — even on families making under $75,000."

Sixty-four members of Congress — Republicans and Democrats — have breached a law to ban insider stock trading, yet Washington refuses to do anything about it, North Carolina Democrat Cheri Beasley claimed in a recent ad.

When the North Carolina Troopers Association president declared that his group would support U.S. Rep. Ted Budd in the state's U.S. Senate race, he noted that violent crime is "at an all-time high." PolitiFact checks that claim.

Mike Easley, Jr., U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, recently said during the announcement of a new violent crime prevention initiative that ghost guns are a growing problem in North Carolina.

This week we look at a claim about an abortion bill and state Republicans.

It’s time for our weekly fact check of North Carolina politics. But, today’s segment is a little bit different. It’s not really a fact check. It’s more an examination of how a state senator’s false statement on hemp production got widely reported.

An ad attacking Democratic U.S. Senate candidate and former North Carolina Chief Justice Cheri Beasleymakes a few claims, including that Beasley “tossed the conviction” in a case involving a man seeking sex with a boy online. It also claims Beasley voted to free a child porn offender.

An ad attacking Democratic U.S. Senate candidate and former North Carolina Chief Justice Cheri Beasley claims she vacated the death sentence of a man who killed a teenager and threw out the indictment of a man convicted of sexually assaulting a child. Those claims leave out a lot of context, a fact-checker says.

Democrat Ben Clark accused Republican 9th District U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson of voting no on a bill to lower insulin prices. That's "flat wrong," a fact-checker says.

Once again, we're checking a statement between Republican rivals in North Carolina's U.S. Senate race. Rep. Ted Budd said former Gov. Pat McCrory appointed a GOP judge who "sided with Democrats" in a ruling deciding North Carolina's new political maps. That's misleading, a fact-checker says.