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As some go full-virtual, SC schools get $84M to help reopen

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - South Carolina's public school districts are getting more than $84 million in federal aid to help get facilities reopened amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The move comes as some of the state's largest districts shut off…

Supreme Court rejects Republican push to overturn Biden victory

HOUSTON (AP) - The Supreme Court has rejected a lawsuit backed by President Donald Trump to overturn Joe Biden's election victory, ending a desperate attempt to get legal issues rejected by state and federal judges before the nation's highest court.…

Congress stuck as McConnell torpedoes emerging COVID-19 deal

WASHINGTON (AP) - An emerging $900 billion COVID-19 aid package from a bipartisan group of lawmakers all but collapsed Thursday. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Republican senators won't support a key compromise.…

US carries out rare execution during presidential transition

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) - The Trump administration has carried out its ninth execution of the year and the first during a presidential lame-duck period in 130 years. Federal prison officials in Terre Haute, Indiana, on Thursday executed a Texas…

High court rejects GOP bid to halt Biden’s Pennsylvania win

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court has rejected Republicans' last-gasp bid to reverse Pennsylvania's certification of President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the electoral battleground. The court without comment Tuesday refused to call into question the certification process in Pennsylvania. Gov.…

Nikki Haley says her sister-in-law died of COVID-19

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley says her sister-in-law has died after contracting the coronavirus. Haley tweeted Tuesday evening that Rhonda Lee Nelson, sister of her husband Michael, "passed the day before Thanksgiving of Covid." An online…

Biden, top Democrats push for bipartisan virus aid bill

WASHINGTON (AP) - President-elect Joe Biden has swung behind a bipartisan COVID-19 relief effort. That comes as his top Capitol Hill allies cut their demands for a $2 trillion-plus measure by more than half. The goal is to break a…

Jay Lucas reelected as SC House Speaker

The South Carolina House of Representatives has elected its leadership for the upcoming session. House Speaker Jay Lucas was re-elected to a fourth two-year term without opposition.

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