by Julia Jacobs | Feb 23, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Politics
After three days reporting on Republican rallies in the lead-up to the South Carolina primary, one thing was clear: Trump was the chief news generator in the race. So on the eve of the South Carolina primary, three journalism students on the campaign trail decided to...
by Jasper Scherer | Feb 23, 2016 | Environment, Politics
WASHINGTON — Oil-producing Gulf Coast states would lose hundreds of millions of dollars if Congress approves the Interior Department’s budget request, which proposes a repeal of offshore oil and gas revenue-sharing allotted to four states —...
by Jack Corrigan | Feb 23, 2016 | National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON — The Senate Foreign Relations Committee used a State Department budget hearing Tuesday to grill Secretary of State John Kerry on far more than diplomatic finances. “I think that as former chair of this committee,” Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., joked with...
by Julia Jacobs | Feb 23, 2016 | Business, Politics
WASHINGTON — U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Tuesday that the federal government has an “obligation” take Apple to court to force the tech company to allow access to the phone of one of the San Bernardino, California, shooters. Speaking before a gathering of...
by Jacob Meschke | Feb 22, 2016 | Politics
After paying their respects to the tragic death of Justice Antonin Scalia, the members of the Supreme Court turned their attention to the vacancy his departure has left on the bench: the unofficial title of funniest justice. WASHINGTON – Monday’s Supreme Court session...
by Isabella Gutierrez | Feb 22, 2016 | Environment, Politics
WASHINGTON— The late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s death leaves uncertainties surrounding government Clean Power Plan in doubt, a former governor said on Monday. Earlier this month in a 5 to 4 vote, the Supreme Court ordered the Obama administration...
by Nicolas Rivero | Feb 22, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Politics
ROCK HILL, S.C. – Jeb Bush looked reenergized at a rally Thursday evening after a testy appearance the day before in which he joked that he should “stop campaigning maybe.” But those who came to hear him speak in Rock Hill still had the same doubts that have plagued...
by Nicolas Rivero | Feb 22, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Politics
PAWLEYS ISLAND, S.C. – Donald Trump supporters in South Carolina on Friday were unmoved by Pope Francis’s comments the day before that were widely interpreted as a criticism of the Republican front-runner’s Christianity. “A person who thinks only about building walls,...
by Julia Jacobs | Feb 22, 2016 | Politics
PAWLEY’S ISLAND, S.C. — Republican frontrunner Donald Trump advised people to “boycott Apple” until the giant tech company assists the FBI in unlocking the cell phone of one of the San Bernardino, California shooters. “We’ve got to get to the bottom of it — and you’re...
by Julia Jacobs | Feb 22, 2016 | Politics
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Religion dominated the Republican presidential town hall Thursday night, featuring the front-runner Donald Trump, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Ohio Gov. John Kasich. The second of two town halls hosted by CNN prior to the South Carolina’s...
by Julia Jacobs | Feb 22, 2016 | Politics
GREENVILLE, S.C. — Trey Parker, 22, has devoted his life to God, but that doesn’t mean he thinks his president should invoke scripture on the stump. Parker, who works at Clemson University’s campus ministry, said he is skeptical of Bible talk from candidates as...
by Shane McKeon | Feb 18, 2016 | Politics
GREENVILLE, S.C. — Florida Sen. Marco Rubio cast himself as a candidate of the future at a town hall here Thursday, basking in the glow of two of the state’s top Republican officials. Nikki Haley, the state’s 44-year-old governor, joined 50-year-old Sen. Tim...
