Tag: South Carolina

Special election results in Connecticut and Delaware confirm the recent surge in Democratic interest in voting and activism. (AP Photo/Matt Volz)

Beltway Confidential

Special elections: Increased Dem turnout shows midterm headwinds already howling for Republicans

David Freddoso · March 1, 2017 5:32 pm

Not allowing citizens to sue the government over permits for projects that could affect them limits due process, one activist said.

Energy and Environment

Bill targets environmental lawsuits that block infrastructure projects

Kyle Feldscher · February 27, 2017 5:01 am

Trump, during a speech at Boeing in South Carolina on Friday, spoke of Air Force One. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump: ‘What can look so beautiful at 30? An airplane’

Washington Examiner Staff · February 17, 2017 6:54 pm

Benjamin Thomas Samuel McDowell, 29, was arrested Wednesday afternoon in Myrtle Beach after purchasing a .40 caliber Glock handgun and ammunition from an undercover FBI agent. (Image courtesy screenshot)

National Security

FBI arrests South Carolina man planning attack ‘in the spirit of Dylann Roof’

Kelly Cohen · February 16, 2017 6:28 pm

Scott read messages blasting him as a "House Negro," and a "disgrace to the black race," on the Senate floor. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Beltway Confidential

Tim Scott #Persisted

Emily Jashinsky · February 9, 2017 4:26 pm

President Obama on Thursday designated three new national monuments having to do with the Reconstruction era and the civil rights movement. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama designates new national monuments to Reconstruction and civil rights

Alex Pappas · January 13, 2017 12:07 am

Jurors needed just three hours of deliberation on Tuesday to unanimously sentence convicted Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof to death. (Grace Beahm/The Post and Courier via AP, Pool)

Charleston church shooting: Dylann Roof becomes first to receive death penalty for federal hate crimes

Kelly Cohen · January 10, 2017 9:53 pm

Dylann Roof, 22, was convicted of all 33 federal counts against him in federal court. (Grace Beahm/The Post and Courier via AP, Pool)

Dylann Roof’s state trial indefinitely delayed

Kelly Cohen · January 5, 2017 8:39 pm

Charleston shooter Dylann Roof tells jurors: ‘There’s nothing wrong with me psychologically’

Charleston shooter Dylann Roof tells jurors: ‘There’s nothing wrong with me psychologically’

Kelly Cohen · January 4, 2017 5:59 pm

Dylann Roof, who is on federal death row, will be getting a $1,400 stimulus check as part of the relief bill, according to Sen. Tom Cotton

Dylann Roof ruled competent to represent himself

Caitlin Yilek · January 3, 2017 12:16 am

Fiscal conservative Mulvaney picked as Trump’s budget director

Fiscal conservative Mulvaney picked as Trump’s budget director

Joseph Lawler · December 17, 2016 1:14 pm

In this June 18, 2015 file photo, Charleston, S.C., shooting suspect Dylann Storm Roof is escorted from the Cleveland County Courthouse in Shelby, N.C. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File)

Jury convicts Dylann Roof

Associated Press · December 15, 2016 8:30 pm