(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…
Since Donald Trump and his helicopter descended on the Iowa State Fair back in August, the billionaire businessman has been the steady front-runner in Iowa, surviving attacks from fellow candidates, controversial proposals and a short-lived burst in two polls from…
(ABC News) -- Following a private roundtable meeting with pastors and religious leaders in Chicago, Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson addressed the healing that needs to happen in the city following the police-involved shooting death of Laquan McDonald, calling the shooting…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's advisers are finalizing a proposal that would expand background checks on gun sales without congressional approval. White House adviser Valerie Jarrett says the president has asked his team to complete a proposal and submit…
House Republicans have nominated Wisconsin Republican Rep. Paul Ryan to become the chamber's next speaker.
Just a day after Ben Carson blew open a double-digit lead over Donald Trump in the state of Iowa in a new Monmouth University poll, a new poll shows the New York real estate mogul's national advantage is slipping away.
Lawyers for a former Republican staffer fired from the House Benghazi committee on Tuesday challenged comments by the panel's GOP chairman, calling them "unequivocally false" in an escalating internal dispute just days before Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton testifies.
Gov. Nikki Haley has suspended Dorchester County Coroner Chris Nisbet after he was indicted Thursday on a misconduct in office charge following an armed confrontation with his neighbor.
Here is the full text of the speech Pope Francis was slated to give to Congress, as translated by the Holy See:
On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Moynihan Report, Daniel Geary, author of Beyond Civil Rights: The Moynihan Report and Its Legacy will be visiting the University of South Carolina from Sept 22 to 24 as a guest…
Ahead of the First in the South Primary, the University of South Carolina aims to educate its students about the process.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Gov. Nikki Haley has asked South Carolina's public health agency to investigate the state's three abortion clinics, concentrating on the one operated by Planned Parenthood.
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — State Sen. Paul Thurmond says he won't seek re-election next year so he can focus on his family.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Gov. Nikki Haley says more than 10,000 people have registered to attend a Republican presidential forum in Greenville next month.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina House Republicans are seeking an audit of Planned Parenthood clinics in the state as Congress considers cutting off federal funding to the abortion provider.
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