by Andrew Zi-Qi Fang and Phillip Powell | Mar 8, 2024 | Featured, Politics
CHARLESTON — The city of Charleston is one of the most important voting rights battlegrounds in the country. In 2021, the Republican-led legislature redrew the congressional districts in the state, pushing 30,000 black voters and two-thirds of the black...
by Juliann Ventura | Mar 7, 2024 | Featured, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON — By the time Tracie Killar was 17, she said much of the food she ate contained too much sugar and there were health consequences from it. Killar, who has lived in upstate New York for more than 50 years, grew up in Albany’s South End area, a food desert...
by Yiqing Wang | Mar 7, 2024 | Immigration, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON – The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement held a hearing on Mar.7 to examine President Joe Biden’s inability to maintain border security, calling for a change in the current immigration law. While both...
by Meaghan Downey | Mar 6, 2024 | Politics
WASHINGTON – The primaries may not be a predictor of what is to come in November, but if Tuesday’s contests revealed anything, it’s that President Biden and former President Trump may find more opposition from within their own parties than outside of them, experts...
by Yiqing Wang | Feb 29, 2024 | Featured, Politics
NEWBERRY, South Carolina – Despite losses in early primaries and low poll numbers in her home state, Nikki Haley projected confidence and determination during her “Beast of the Southeast” bus tour in South Carolina, holding four rallies in two days...
by Nicole Norman | Feb 27, 2024 | Featured, Politics
COLUMBIA, S.C. – Here in South Carolina, the spread of distrust in the integrity of voting has caused election administrators to quit at high rates. According to Issac Cramer, executive director of the Charleston County Board of Elections, 70 percent of top election...