by Ruby Grisin | Feb 28, 2024 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON – Bipartisan concern about microplastics in the Senate brought about a rich discussion on Tuesday regarding future research and policy. In a hearing focused on the presence of plastic particles in drinking water and wastewater, senators grappled with how...
by Maria Heim | Feb 28, 2024 | Featured, Politics
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Conservatives across the globe traveled to CPAC for its annual conference last weekend. It kicked off with the International Summit featuring right-wing leaders including former U.K. prime minister Liz Truss, President Nayib Bukele of El...
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...
