Author: Associated Press

Jan. 6 Capitol attack committee goes prime time with probe

By Lisa Mascaro, Mary Clare Jalonick and Farnoush Amiri (AP)

Thursday’s prime-time hearing will open with eyewitness testimony from the first police officer pummeled in the mob riot and from a documentary filmmaker who recorded the melee, and it will feature the committee’s accounts from Trump’s aides and family members of the deadly siege that put U.S. democracy at risk.

After quiet year, SC Democrats heat up in governor primary

By Meg Kinnard (AP)

In a string of tweets, state Sen. Mia McLeod and House Minority Leader Todd Rutherford sparred back and forth with personal vitriol, which began with McLeod noting Rutherford had backed Joe Cunningham, and not her, because McLeod had refused “to appoint his unqualified new wife” as a magistrate.