by Rafaela Jinich | Feb 27, 2024 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON – Supreme Court justices on Tuesday seemed skeptical of arguments that state laws can override national banking rules, but some did wonder whether the state policies did “significantly interfere” with a national law. New York is one of the 13 states with...
by Maria Heim | Feb 27, 2024 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON – When is it too late for the government to provide notice that they are seeking forfeiture in criminal cases? That was the question at the heart of a Supreme Court hearing on Tuesday. The case arose after a federal jury in New York convicted Louis...
by Braedyn Speight | Feb 27, 2024 | Featured, Politics
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. – At an election eve campaign rally in North Charleston the feelings were unanimous among those attending: they will support Donald Trump no matter the legal woes he attracts. Facing 91 felony counts in four indictments, the cult of personality...
by Lance Wilhelm | Feb 27, 2024 | Campaign 2024, Featured, Politics
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Students in South Carolina prepared to cast their votes in the Republican presidential primary on Saturday. Young, college-aged voters have largely grown up in the post-Trump era. They have – as a result – become politically active in a very different...
by Alicia Tang | Feb 26, 2024 | Campaign 2024, Featured, Politics
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Donald Trump easily won the South Carolina Republican primary on Saturday by capturing almost 60% of the vote while former governor Nikki Haley earned 39.5% in her home state. Earlier in the day, some of Haley’s voters said they strongly...
by Simone Garber and Charlotte Ehrlich | Feb 26, 2024 | Campaign 2024, Featured, Politics
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Voters across the Palmetto State arrived at the polls as early as 7 a.m. Saturday, eager to cast their ballots for the Republican they prefer to represent the party in the presidential election in November. Though South Carolina is candidate Nikki...
by Aidan Johnstone | Feb 25, 2024 | Campaign 2024, Featured, Politics
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Many South Carolina voters arrived at their usual voting locations on Saturday to find no other voters there, which was an unexpected sight on the day of the state’s Republican primary election. These locations weren’t just empty, however – they were...
by Clare Zhang | Feb 24, 2024 | Campaign 2024, Featured, Politics, Topics
North Charleston, S.C. — The day before the South Carolina Republican primary, a crowd of supporters gathered at the Team Trump state headquarters to hear Donald Trump Jr. speak. As former President Donald Trump hosted a rally in Rock Hill, his son spoke to Trump...
by Clare Zhang | Feb 24, 2024 | Campaign 2024, Featured, Politics
Columbia, S.C. — In 2020, Black voters in South Carolina handed now-President Joe Biden his first primary victory and helped propel him to the White House. This year, Biden changed South Carolina’s Democratic primary to the first in the nation, because its diversity...
by Alicia Tang and Lily Ogburn | Feb 24, 2024 | Campaign 2024, Featured, Politics
Columbia, S.C. – Many college students are choosing not to vote in Saturday’s Republican presidential primary election in South Carolina, saying they feel unrepresented by the candidates and apathetic towards politics. In 2020, only 16.4% of S.C. voters participated...
by Simone Garber and Emma Sullivan | Feb 21, 2024 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday on whether to freeze an EPA policy aimed at reducing air pollution that crosses from one state to another in a case that experts say could significantly limit the agency’s ability to regulate air pollution...
by Charlotte Ehrlich | Feb 20, 2024 | Business, Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in a case involving commercial truckers that could expand the definition of transportation workers to include people who drive goods for companies that are not in the transportation sector. The case,...
