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Haley's Response to Obama Not 1st Time on National Stage

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — After a year when a church massacre and catastrophic flooding put her in the spotlight, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley will get further national exposure when she gives the Republican response to the State of the…

Jeb Bush Confronted About Trayvon Martin and 'Stand Your Ground' Law

(ABC News) -- As President Obama unveiled his executive actions on gun control Tuesday, Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush was having his own firefight. Bush was participating in a primary series hosted by the Greater Derry Chamber of Commerce in New…

Obama to announce executive actions on gun control Tuesday

(ABC News) -- President Obama plans to announce executive actions he will take on gun control on Tuesday, a source told ABC News. Obama had announced during his weekly address Friday that he planned to discuss gun control options with…

Trump Says He'll Start Spending At Least $2 Million a Week

(ABC News) -- GOP frontrunner Donald Trump said he'll be spending at least $2 million a week starting Jan. 4 as the primary season kicks into high gear, after resisting buying advertising in his self-financed campaign. "I'll be spending a…

5 Republicans Who Could Deliver State of the Union Response

(ABC News) -- Republicans still haven’t announced who will deliver the GOP response to President Obama’s last State of the Union address on Jan. 12, but if history is any indication, at least one Republican is already preparing for the huge…

Clinton Announces $2 Billion Effort to Cure Alzheimer's

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Clinton announced Tuesday a $2 billion annual effort to cure Alzheimer's disease by 2025 as part of her broader healthcare strategy in the 2016 presidential election. The Democratic front-runner says her plan will "prevent, effectively treat…

Poll: Half of Voters Would Be 'Embarrassed' by Trump as President

(ABC News) -- Fifty percent of American voters say they would be “embarrassed” if Donald Trump were president, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll released this morning. The current Republican frontrunner, whose 28 percent support in this poll tops…

Scott to Wrap Up 2015 Tour of All SC Counties

FLORENCE, S.C. (AP) -- U.S. Sen. Tim Scott will finish his goal of visiting all 46 counties in South Carolina in 2015 with several days to spare. Scott plans a trip Tuesday to Dillon County to meet people and business…

Lindsey Graham Drops Out of 2016 Republican Presidential Race

(ABC News) -- Republican presidential candidate Lindsey Graham is dropping out of the 2016 race for the White House. The South Carolina senator, who revealed the news in a CNN interview this morning, is the fourth GOP contender to drop out…

Led by GOP, House nears OK of renewing $600B in tax cuts

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans pushed a year-end tax-cut compromise toward House passage Thursday as Congress prepared to finish 2015 with a flurry of accomplishment and await the partisan collisions sure to dominate the coming election year. House Democratic leader Nancy…

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