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After a lifetime outside politics, an artist chooses his side: Trump

After a lifetime outside politics, an artist chooses his side: Trump

by Yiqing Wang | Mar 19, 2024 | Immigration, Politics

CHARLESTON, S.C. – White Converse shoes, green work pants scattered with paint stains, black hoodie and a cowboy hat covered with dozens of rock ‘n’ roll pins. Anderson Lee Smith, a 66-year-old, 6-foot-tall man with his long, gray hair tied back in a low ponytail,...
Impeachment is just another weapon in a time of deep polarization

Impeachment is just another weapon in a time of deep polarization

by Meaghan Downey | Mar 12, 2024 | Featured, Politics

For 211 years, only one president had been impeached. But three of the last five presidents have been impeached or faced impeachment inquiries, and just this month a Cabinet secretary was impeached for the first time since 1876. While a powerful constitutional weapon...
Charleston, South Carolina waits for the Supreme Court Decision on the legality of the first congressional district

Charleston, South Carolina waits for the Supreme Court Decision on the legality of the first congressional district

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...
Food deserts persist as Congress seeks to help

Food deserts persist as Congress seeks to help

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...
House Committee attacks Biden’s border policies

House Committee attacks Biden’s border policies

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...

‘Uncommitted’ voters and Haley supporters may cause trouble for Biden and Trump

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...
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