New closed primaries bill brings mixed reactions from lawmakers, governor
“You should not be able to disrupt the will of the people, when you totally disagree with a candidate or issue,” says Norman.
BY WILL WEISSERT Updated 8:13 AM EST, January 17, 2026 WASHINGTON (AP) — From toppling Venezuela’s leader to ordering mass deportations, from turning once independent government entities into rubber stamps to demolishing the East Wing for a White House ballroom, President Donald Trump spent his first year back in office trampling political norms and testing institutional checks and balances. Some of his ideas that once seemed implausible, if not outright fanciful,…
“You should not be able to disrupt the will of the people, when you totally disagree with a candidate or issue,” says Norman.
“He’d advance bills that criminalized child pornography distribution and severely punished it while distributing child pornography,” says Assistant U.S. Attorney Elliott Daniels.
Should it pass, the bill would also treat abortions as murder, allowing women to be subject to current laws on homicide.
Thousands of people ventured out to the streets to catch a glimpse of Buddhist Monks on their 2,300 mile “Walk for Peace” as they made their way through West Columbia and Columbia.
Thousands of people ventured out on Saturday to get a peak at Buddhist Monks on their Walk for Peace to the Statehouse.
Bob Weir, guitarist, singer and founding member of the Grateful Dead, has died at age 78.
Investigators with the Columbia Police Department have charged a man in connection with two indecent exposure incidents.
The South Carolina Forestry Commission is issuing a Red Flag Fire Alert for 33 counties across the Midlands, Pee Dee and coastal regions of the state, effective at 6 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 11.
A West Columbia man has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for sexually abusing two children in Brazil. His co-conspirator, say authorities, was the children’s aunt.