(ABC News) — A young Iraqi Christian girl, whose family has been living in a refugee camp after fleeing ISIS threats, says she forgives the terrorist group and shared her hope for the future. “Yes I forgive them,” Myriam told ABC News “20/20” co-anchor Elizabeth Vargas, adding that “as Jesus said ‘forgive each other, love each other the way I love…
Republicans by more than a 20-point margin support Donald Trump’s proposal to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the United States – but independents and Democrats oppose the idea by wide margins, producing a broadly negative reaction among Americans overall. All told, 36 percent of adults in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll support Trump’s suggestion, while 60 percent say it’s…
(ABC News) — Throughout his improbable run for the White House, Bernie Sanders has boasted that he “has never run a negative ad.” That seemed to change over the weekend, when a Washington Post report noted a new digital advertisement from the Sanders campaign, portraying Hillary Clinton as a candidate funded by banks and “other big money interests.” Within hours…
Shoebox distribution at Mulunguzi Dam in Zomba, Malawi (Provided) FLORENCE, S.C. (AP) – Florence School District One will no longer endorse Operation Christmas Child or any other charity supported by religious organizations. Media outlets report that the district had supported the charity since 2006, but will now support secular charities. The American Humanist Association said in a release that a…
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Charleston City Council is considering another memorial to the victims of the shootings at Emanuel AME Church. The council takes up a resolution Tuesday night to dedicate 15 trees outside the city’s new Gaillard Center in memory of those who were killed and wounded during the shootings last June. The street in front of the church…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The state Department of Public Safety and local law enforcement agencies are kicking off their annual holiday safe driving campaign. News conferences are being held around the state Tuesday to announce the Sober or Slammer campaign through the end of the year. It’s an effort to crack down on driving under the influence during the holidays….
KERSHAW, S.C. (AP) — Lancaster County sheriff’s deputies are trying to determine what happened to a woman who said she was hit by a truck shortly before dying over the weekend. Sheriff Barry Faile said in a news release that officers were called to a farm in Kershaw around 8 p.m. Saturday, where a man told deputies a woman told…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Gov. Nikki Haley has warned the Department of Energy she expects South Carolina to collect a $1 million daily fine for the agency’s failure to meet a Jan. 1 nuclear fuel deadline. In a letter obtained by The Associated Press, Haley told Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz that South Carolina “will almost certainly be forced” to sue…
WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO) — On the busiest mailing day of the year nationwide, U.S. Postal Service workers are working around the clock to get your packages where they need to be on time. At the Columbia Postal processing and distribution center in West Columbia, close to 1,000 employees move your letters and packages off to their destination, or home…
Members of the Muslim community react to Trump’s suggestion of banning Muslim immigration and travel.
