Memorial services for the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. begin in Chicago and stretch across the country to honor his long civil rights legacy.
Authorities in the Bahamas have closed a majority of schools following mandatory evacuations for some islands in the archipelago as Tropical Storm Imelda drops heavy rain and unleashes flooding in the northern Caribbean, with two people killed in Cuba.
Tropical Storm Imelda has formed near the Bahamas and is forecast to become a hurricane curving away from the southeast U.S. seacoast early this week.
Crews have been preparing for a weather system forecast to hit South Carolina as a hurricane early next week.
A Black man in South Carolina is pushing for the state to pass its own hate crime law after police say he was shot at by a white man in a racist attack.
President Donald Trump's administration has told 40 states to remove references to what it calls “gender ideology” from federally funded sex education materials.
South Carolina Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette is highlighting her connection to President Donald Trump in her first campaign ad for the state's gubernatorial race.
A chief architect of Project 2025 is launching a Republican primary challenge to Sen. Lindsey Graham in South Carolina.
The Supreme Court says states can block the country’s biggest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, from receiving Medicaid money for health services such as contraception and cancer screenings.
Alan Wilson, the four-term Republican attorney general of South Carolina, kicked off his bid for the state’s first open gubernatorial race in 16 years.
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster has held a ceremonial bill signing in the hot summer sun to assure the air conditioners across the state will keep humming well into the future.
Alan Wilson, the four-term Republican attorney general of South Carolina, is set to enter the state’s open gubernatorial race in 2026.
A South Carolina man sent to death row twice for separate murders has been put to death by lethal injection in the state’s sixth execution in nine months.
A federal judge doesn't plan to stop the execution of a South Carolina inmate in two days because the convicted man's lawyers didn’t have evidence of problems with the state’s lethal injection process.
The explosive growth of the data centers needed to power America’s fast-rising demand for artificial intelligence and cloud computing has spurred states to dangle incentives in hopes of landing an economic bonanza.
South Carolina Democrat Dr. Annie Andrews says she’s running against Republican U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham in 2026.
The South Carolina Supreme Court has ruled the state can keep banning abortions around six weeks after conception by agreeing with the earliest interpretation offered of when a heartbeat starts.
A few more details are known about South Carolina's firing squad as the state prepares to carry out its second execution by that method.
South Carolina’s highest court has rejected the last major appeal from Mikal Mahdi, who is scheduled to die by firing squad this week for the ambush killing of a police officer.
The Supreme Court will hear arguments in a South Carolina case over whether states can cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood.
Firefighters have announced progress on containing two of the largest wildfires burning in the North Carolina mountains, but are warning that fire danger remains from dry and windy conditions.
Firefighters in North and South Carolina are battling multiple wind-driven wildfires.
At least three-quarters of South Carolina’s House members approved the more than 100 sections of the state’s $14 billion spending plan this week.
A South Carolina man has been executed by firing squad, becoming the first U.S. prisoner in 15 years to die by this method.
The South Carolina Supreme Court has rejected what is likely the final appeal of condemned man Brad Sigmon, clearing the way for Friday’s firing squad execution.
Three volunteer South Carolina prison employees will be the firing squad used to execute condemned killer Brad Sigmon on Friday.
Lighter winds in South Carolina and North Carolina are helping firefighters battle blazes that caused evacuations and threatened hundreds of homes over the weekend.
Crews battled wildfires in North and South Carolina amid dry conditions and gusty winds as residents were forced to evacuate in some areas.
Legislation to let Volkswagen-backed Scout Motors sell its electric SUVs directly to people in South Carolina, where the vehicles will be built, has stalled after fierce opposition from traditional automobile dealers.
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham is kicking off his pursuit of a fifth term with his home state’s top Republicans chairing his 2026 campaign.
South Carolina has has put a third inmate to death in four months as it goes through a backlog of prisoners who exhausted their appeals while the state couldn’t find lethal injection drugs.
The federal government has sued South Carolina, saying the state has not done enough to make sure people with serious mental illnesses are taken out of group homes and helped back into communities where they can work and lead independent lives.
South Carolina has put Richard Moore to death by lethal injection for the fatal shooting of a store clerk in Spartanburg.
A federal judge appears unlikely to grant the request of a South Carolina inmate scheduled to be executed on Nov. 1 to take away the power of granting him clemency from the governor.
A South Carolina inmate scheduled to be executed in just over three weeks is asking a federal judge to take away the power of granting clemency from the governor and place it with a parole board.
The death toll after Hurricane Helene left a trail of destruction across the U.S. Southeast has reached at least 133.
South Carolina’s prisons director says the state's supply of its lethal injection drug is pure, its electric chair was tested two months ago and its firing squad has the ammunition and training to carry out its first execution in more than 13 years.
Though no longer a tropical storm, Debby continues lashing the East Coast with heavy rain and flooding as rivers overflow their banks and authorities call on the National Guard to help with high water rescues.
Nurse practitioner and Air National Guard officer Sheri Biggs has won the Republican nomination for the U.S. House in South Carolina’s 3rd District.
South Carolina will hold runoff elections next week to decide a handful of races in which no candidate received a majority of the vote in the primary held just two weeks earlier.
For the second time this month, a police dog has been killed while trying to help arrest a suspect in South Carolina.
U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace has won the Republican nomination after a tumultuous second term in South Carolina that saw her go from a critic to ally of former President Donald Trump and make headlines for plenty of things off the House floor.
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster has signed into law a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors.
On the eve of a vote on union representation at Volkswagen’s Tennessee factory, Gov. Bill Lee and five other southern governors are telling workers that voting for a union will put jobs in jeopardy.
South Carolina has collected about $1.8 billion in a bank account over the past decade and accountants are trying to figure out where the cash came from and where it was supposed to go.
Donald Trump has won South Carolina’s Republican primary, beating his last major rival, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, in her home state.
Nowhere is former President Donald Trump more vulnerable early this presidential primary season than New Hampshire.
Donald Trump surrounded himself with leaders from Nikki Haley’s home state in a show of strength before Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary.
The super PAC supporting Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign has launched a television ad targeting Nikki Haley, a move her campaign called a signal that the GOP front-runner is seeking to blunt her rise, particularly in New Hampshire.
Donald Trump used college football rivalry weekend to bask among his supporters in a state and region that are key to his presidential fortunes, while trying to upstage his Republican opponent Nikki Haley on her home turf at the Clemson-South Carolina football game.
Former President Donald Trump is set to attend South Carolina's biggest athletic event of the year.
Several campaigns are placing a huge emphasis on South Carolina, where the Republican primary is traditionally the last chance for many White House hopefuls to break through before Super Tuesday.
Dockworkers and the Republican governor in South Carolina are digging in their heels over a labor dispute that has left the newest container terminal at the East Coast’s deepest harbor largely inactive.
A potential swing vote on the newly all-male South Carolina Supreme Court grilled lawyers over whether patients have enough time to get an abortion after learning of their pregnancy as the justices weighed whether a new ban is similarly unconstitutional to one that got shot down earlier this year.
A judge has put a temporary halt to South Carolina’s new law banning most abortions around six weeks of pregnancy until the state Supreme Court can review the measure.
Former President Donald Trump has kicked off his 2024 White House bid with stops Saturday in New Hampshire and South Carolina, The appearances in the early-voting states mark the first campaign events since Trump announced his latest run more than two months ago.
Former President Donald Trump will be joined by two of his highest-profile South Carolina supporters at the first public campaign event of his 2024 White House bid later this month in the early voting state.
With the fall campaign rapidly approaching, the time-honored tradition of debates as a forum for voters to evaluate candidates may be the latest casualty of the nation’s polarized political climate.
U.S. governors and other state officials responded to Russia's invasion of Ukraine earlier this year with public calls to divest state pension, university and other funds from Russian assets.
Political divides in the U.S. seem deeper than ever, but one of the few shared sentiments right now from voters of all stripes is the desire for something different.
It’s unknown how long a stay will hold off the execution of South Carolina’s first-ever inmate to be put to death by a firing squad as his attorneys pursue legal challenges.
An appellate court has heard arguments in Planned Parenthood’s challenge to South Carolina’s new abortion law, with attorneys for the state arguing the nonprofit doesn’t have legal standing to bring the case.
Governors and state lawmakers are prioritizing climate change as they write their state budgets, devoting money to lowering emissions and guarding against natural disasters such as flood and fire.
Forecasts of snow and ice as far south as Georgia have put much of the Southeast on an emergency preparedness footing as shoppers strip store shelves of supplies and road crews treat highways ahead of an approaching weekend storm.
Forecasters' predictions of debilitating snow and ice as far south as Georgia have shoppers scouring store shelves for storm supplies and road crews trying to prevent a repeat of past wintertime debacles.
Governors across the U.S. took sweeping action during earlier surges of the COVID-19 pandemic, but are taking a much different approach during the record-setting caseloads caused by the omicron variant.