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A call to honor a black Civil War hero with a monument at the South Carolina Statehouse grounds, onetime epicenter of a groundswell movement to rid communities of Confederate symbols, is being made by two lawmakers in a bid to encourage consensus-building in a nation divided by the issue. Two state senators - a black Democrat and a white Republican - announced their proposal Wednesday to memorialize Robert Smalls, who in 1862 hijacked a Confederate supply ship he worked on, steered his family to freedom and delivered the ammunition-laden vessel to the Union.
Even as Republicans scramble to find the votes to pass their latest attempt to repeal Obamacare, the list of advocacy and industry groups opposed to the bill continues to grow. On Wednesday, the two major health insurance industry associations voiced their concerns about the legislation, which would jettison several major Obamacare provisions and curtail federal support of Medicaid.
Two US politicians are calling for a monument to honour a black American Civil War hero to be installed at the South Carolina Statehouse grounds, one-time epicentre of a groundswell movement to rid communities of Confederate symbols. Two state senators - a black Democrat and a white Republican - are behind the proposal to memorialise Robert Smalls, who in 1862 hijacked a Confederate supply ship he worked on, steered his family to freedom and delivered the ammunition-laden vessel to the Union.
President Donald Trump ignored seething Republicans and made good on his deal with Democrats, signing legislation that links $15.3 billion in disaster aid to an increase in the U.S. borrowing limit. The law is a first installment in replenishing depleted federal emergency coffers.
The US state of South Carolina said Friday it is eliminating all state or federal aid to any medical practice linked to clinics practicing abortions. President Donald Trump had cleared the way for such changes in April, when -- in a move applauded by many conservatives -- he signed a bill revoking a rule from his predecessor, Barack Obama, that aimed to protect public funding for family-planning clinics.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
As the nation was preparing to celebrate its storied independence from the British crown, the president secured his place as history's greatest jester. Trump did so by tweeting a doctored video clip of himself from several years ago in which he takes down wrestling magnate Vince McMahon and gives him a good pummeling.
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 .
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
By definition, nut job means a "mentally unbalanced person," according to Merriam-Webster, which tweeted Friday lookups of the word spiked 173,750%. "'Nutjob' is our number 2 lookup right now," the dictionary's Twitter account tweeted Friday, using one of the two spellings for the phrase.