COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO)– Ohio Governor John Kasich, Former Governor Mike Huckabee, Senator Marco Rubio and Senator Ted Cruz are in South Carolina Wednesday. The Republican candidates are campaigning in the Low Country. The campaign stops come a day before the Republican Debate which will be held in North Charleston Thursday. Categories: Local News, News, Politics
resident Obama holds a press conference in Chicago on Oct. 27, 2015 and Donald Trump partakes in the third GOP debate, Oct. 28, 2015, in Boulder, Colo. (Getty Images) (ABC News) — As he prepares to deliver his final State of the Union address tonight, President Obama rippedDonald Trump, joking that the only way he could envision the billionaire GOP front-runner…
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump flashes thumbs up after an address to a group of supporters at a campaign stop at the Flynn Center of the Performing Arts in Burlington, Vt., Jan. 7, 2016. (Charles Krupa/AP Photo) (ABC News) — Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are locked in a tight battle for the lead in Iowa, according to…
Malcolm Butler #21 of the New England Patriots makes an interception against the Seattle Seahawks in the fourth quarter during Super Bowl XLIX on Feb. 1, 2015, in Glendale, Ariz. Harry How/Getty Images (ABC News) — For most NFL watchers, “soft” is unlikely the first word that comes to mind. Not so for Donald Trump. At a presidential campaign event in…
Eduardo Verdugo/AP PHOTO (ABC News) — A top White House official said he was “appalled” by comments made by Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman in his interview with actor Sean Penn and called it “very good news” the notorious drug lord was recaptured. “I was appalled by his bragging … about an epidemic that’s sweeping this country on heroinaddiction,” White House Chief…
COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO)– Columbia Mayor Stephen Benjamin is set to present the 2016 State of the City Address at the end of this month. The Mayor will outline his goals and vision for the City of Columbia and for the residents of the City of Columbia. The State of the City address is scheduled at City Hall, 1737 Main…
(AP) (ABC News) — President Obama participated in a town hall meeting tonight at George Mason University in an attempt to explain a new wave of executive actions his administration is taking to curb gun violence. During the forum he was confronted by a rape survivor who said that the president’s actions were making it harder for her to keep her…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The last time lawmakers met in Columbia, Democrats and many Republicans united to bring down the Confederate flag that flew outside the Statehouse for 50 years. The Legislature returns Tuesday, and lawmakers hope that unity continues. But with hundreds of ideas about how to spend hundreds of millions of additional dollars, lawmakers expect partisanship to return….
President Barack Obama addresses American University’s School of International Service in Washington on Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2015. (Pete Marovich/Bloomberg/Pool/Getty Images) (ABC News) — President Obama says his final State of the Union address will spotlight the achievements of his presidency and lay out a sweeping, optimistic vision for the future. “What I want to focus on in this State of the…
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 Union address. But she’s not new to the national stage. In 2012, she spoke at the Republican National Convention and…
