AGT’s Mandy Harvey opens up about hearing loss

Texas facing catastrophic flooding as Harvey intensifies into a major hurricane that will bring life-threatening storm surge and up to 30 INCHES of rain when it makes landfall BREAKING NEWS: Disgruntled employee at a South Carolina restaurant shoots one person and takes hostages after declaring 'I am the new king of Charleston' There's a method to his madness! Lindsey Graham says Trump's fights with Congress are a 'thought-out strategy' and 'there's nothing crazy about it' Rapid exit: Trump's director of 'rapid response' who scoured the Internet for rare positive stories about him leaves the White House 'This isn't a negotiation': Judge Judy tells CBS her salary demands and accepts no counter, saying she could be making $20M more than the $47M she now gets if she produced the show Did Kim Jong-un execute his mentor over coup plot involving China? Korean leader's uncle met with Chinese ... (more)

Migrant family in Germany names daughter after Angela Merkel

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday Aug. 20, 2017 stood by her deci... A family hike in a western New York gorge turns tragic when a mother and father died after falling off a cliff and their 4-year-old son was seriously injured. A family hike in a western New York gorge turns tragic when a mother and father died after falling off a cliff and their 4-year-old son was seriously injured.

Trump administration’s nuclear energy plans hanging on by a thread

The next generation of U.S. nuclear power, which the Trump administration views as a key part of the nation's energy supply, is hanging on by a thread as two key projects have run into serious trouble and are raising doubts about the viability of new nuclear facilities moving forward. Utilities in South Carolina late last month stopped construction at V.C. Summer, scrapping plans to build two reactors near Columbia and ending a 10-year project that was expected to provide something of a blueprint for future cutting-edge nuclear plants.

Trump’s Thursday Morning Tweetstorm: – Publicity Seeking Lindsey…

President Trump on Thursday took to Twitter to slam Sens. Lindsey Graham and Jeff Flake, as well as the "Fake News Media." "Publicity seeking Lindsey Graham falsely stated that I said there is moral equivalency between the KKK, neo-Nazis & white supremacists and people like Ms.

Some South Carolina Democrats say news of Joe Biden’s visit adds to…

The announced Charleston visit from former Vice President Joe Biden has excited many of the state's Democrats about the possible presidential run they were denied in 2016. Biden will speak before an influential black audience next month in what is the first high-profile visit from a potential 2020 presidential candidate in this early primary state with more appearances from others being expected, despite the election being three years away.

Here’s everything we know about Trump’s 26-year-old executive assistant

Madeleine Westerhout became a familiar face in late 2016, when she was frequently photographed guiding then president-elect Donald Trump's guests - such as Rick Perry, Mitch McConnell, and Goldman Sach's Gary Cohn - through the lobby of Trump Tower. While some media outlets dubbed her the " elevator girl ," Westerhout was quickly establishing her role within the Trump transition team.

No request yet from Trump vote fraud task force for South Carolina voter information

South Carolina officials said Friday they have not received a request from the White House task force investigating alleged voter fraud in the 2016 presidential election. The state Election Commission, however, received more than 50 calls and emails from the public asking the agency to keep voter information away from the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity .

No ruling in contempt case against South Carolina political blogger for not revealing sources

Columbia-area blogger Will Folks answers questions during a hearing in Lexington where attorneys for former Rep. Kenny Bingham seek to hold him in contempt of court. Maya T. Prabhu/Staff Columbia-area blogger Will Folks answers questions during a hearing in Lexington where attorneys for former Rep. Kenny Bingham seek to hold him in contempt of court.

The Real Lesson from Last Week’s Two Special Elections for Congress

There has been no shortage of effort by pundits and big data analysts to try to draw conclusions on whether the results of the two special elections for open House seats in Georgia and and South Carolina last week meant that Democrats or Republicans had underperformed or overperformed, as compared to the recent district votes for President and Congress in 2016. Similar analyses followed the special elections in Kansas and Montana earlier.

Democrats’ disputes simmer after special election losses

Democrats were left picking up the pieces after spending millions of dollars from the party's war chest to back a young candidate in a traditionally red district outside Atlanta and pushing hard for their base of supporters from around the country to donate to him too. The loss in the high-profile, costly race was only exacerbated by a second defeat last night in a race that flew mostly under the radar: Democrats also lost a special election in South Carolina.

The Latest: Republican wins close victory in South Carolina

In this May 25, 2017 file photo, Budget Director Mick Mulvaney speaks during a meeting in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. Voters in South Carolina's 5th Congressional District choose , Tuesday, June 20, 2017, between a Republican, Ralph Norman, backing the Trump administration and a Democrat, Archie Parnell, who claims to be best aligned with district voters to replace Mulvaney.

SC Connections Academy celebrates talented graduates

More than half of South Carolina Connections Academy's 2017 graduating seniors plan to attend two- or four-year colleges at institutions including Carnegie Mellon University, Clemson University, Columbia College, Emerson College, Furman University, Purdue University, University of Colorado at Boulder, University of South Carolina and Savannah College of Art and Design, while 10 percent plan to further their education through vocational training. In total, the school's graduating seniors have secured more than $1.4 million in scholarship funds a testament to their academic success.

South Carolina editorial roundup

Proponents of legislative reforms to improve South Carolina's Freedom of Information Act didn't get everything they had hoped for in the bill that passed on the last day of the session. But the bill came close, and it should be regarded as a victory for open government and citizens' ability to gain access to public information.

APNewsBreak: New Orleans to take down Confederate statues

Farmers around the U.S. are worried that the Trump administration crackdown on immigrants will deprive them of the workers they need. New Orleans will begin taking down Confederate statutes, becoming the latest Southern body to divorce itself from what some say are symbols of racism and intolerance.

Patients’ reports may aid prostate cancer treatment choice

The only person to whom Dylann Roof confided his racist plan to massacre worshippers at a historically black church in South Carolina is set to be sentenced for lying to the FBI. The only person to whom Dylann Roof confided his racist plan to massacre worshippers at a historically black church in South Carolina is set to be sentenced for lying to the FBI.

Primary takeaways: Women keep winning and a Trump tweet strikes a fatal blow to Sanford

The sitting Republican House member lost his primary race to state Rep. Katie Arrington, who campaigned as a Trump ally, after the president made a last-minute endorsement of Arrington. Sanford has been one of the few members to criticize the president, and GOP primary voters punished him for it, handing him his first electoral defeat.

Even sharing cell phone digits, Lindsey Graham reports lunch with President Trump went ‘great’

U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham and President Donald Trump shared a meal on Tuesday, their first face-to-face meeting since the election. The private lunch in the White House presidential dining room might mark the re-set of a professional and personal relationship that has had its share of road bumps over the past year and a half.