The Education Department announced Monday that it’s investigating five Republican-led states that have banned mask requirements in schools, saying the policies could amount to discrimination against students with disabilities or health conditions. The department’s Office for Civil Rights sent letters to education chiefs in Iowa, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Utah.
The European Union recommended Monday that its 27 nations reinstate restrictions on tourists from the U.S. because of rising coronavirus infections there.
South Carolina’s highest court will hear two challenges to the state’s refusal to let school districts require masks for students and teachers this week. The state Supreme Court has set aside two hours to hear the cases Tuesday.
Small towns in South Carolina waiting on $435 million in pandemic relief aid are now one step closer to getting ahold of those funds. The state Department of Administration requested South Carolina’s share of coronavirus recovery money from the federal government Friday as directed by Gov. Henry McMaster, the agency said in a news release.
The rapid rise in COVID-19 cases in South Carolina has the Department of Motor Vehicles changing how it gives road tests for driver’s licenses.
The chief contractor at a failed multibillion-dollar project to build two nuclear reactors in South Carolina has agreed to pay more than $20 million as part of a cooperation agreement with federal authorities probing the fiasco.
Hurricane Ida kills at least one person in Louisiana and causes over a million power outages in two states.
The former Clemson star had just one field goal to show for eight drives in his first two exhibition games. Lawrence changed that quickly four days after Meyer named him the starter.
WASHINGTON (AP) _ The United States military struck back at the Islamic State , bombing an IS member in Afghanistan. The airstrike comes in retaliation for a devastating suicide bombing claimed by the group that killed as many as 169 Afghans and 13 American service members at the Kabul airport Thursday. President Joe Biden said Thursday that the perpetrators cannot…
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – American forces working under heightened security and the threat of another attack are racing to complete the evacuation from Kabul’s airport, the day after a suicide bombing at the gates wrote a devastating final chapter to the war in Afghanistan. The death toll has risen to 169 Afghans, a number that could increase as authorities examine…
