The Justice Department is taking direct aim at the financial lifelines of Mexico’s most violent drug cartels, targeting money brokers who prosecutors say have adapted to intensified enforcement by increasingly routing drug profits through cryptocurrency from American cities to cartel leaders in Mexico.
The Horry County Council voted to support the naming of a portion of I-73 "President Donald J. Trump Highway," removing the requirement that the road receive federal funding before the end of Trump's presidential term.
U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham introduced the Medal of Sacrifice Act in honor of fallen first responders.
The Trump administration wants to create a critical minerals trading bloc with its allies that will use tariffs to maintain price floors and defend against China’s tactic of flooding the market to undermine any potential competitors.
The Trump administration is eliminating four out of the six locations that had been slated for a practice test to try out new methods for the 2030 census, raising concerns that the U.S. Census Bureau might not learn enough about communities that have been traditionally difficult to count.
Congresswoman and candidate for governor Nancy Mace is calling an article in New York Magazine "a hit piece aimed at debunking her reputation."
The Republican-led House on Tuesday voted to pass the government funding package to end the partial shutdown.
Former Vice President Kamala Harris has announced that she will be seeing the Midlands at a later time.
Speaker Mike Johnson’s ability to carry out President Donald Trump’s “play call” for funding the government will be put to the test on Tuesday as the House holds a procedural vote on a bill to end the partial shutdown.
SCDSS says as of Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026, new federal work requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) have taken effect under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA).
The partial government shutdown is vastly different from the record closure in the fall.
Wild swings that swept through financial markets overnight eased after Wall Street opened for trading on Monday. U.S. stocks rose modestly following gains in Europe and sharp drops in Asia, while gold and silver prices rallied back from severe earlier losses.
The Trump administration plans to deploy nearly $12 billion to create a strategic reserve of rare earth elements, a stockpile that could counter China's ability to use its dominance of these hard to process metals as leverage in trade talks.
President Trump's disagreements with Canada took a new turn Thursday, Jan. 29, this time over aircraft.
Senate leaders were scrambling on Friday to save a bipartisan spending deal and prevent a partial government shutdown this weekend as Democrats demanded new restrictions on federal immigration raids across the country.
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