South Carolina Republicans celebrated and South Carolina Democrats mourned Friday morning when the Supreme Court issued an opinion striking down its previous opinions in Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey.Â
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Former South Carolina House of Representatives candidate and Aiken businessman Cody Anderson has filed suit against the two people who sued hi…
Dozens of members and boosters of the Aiken Chamber of Commerce had the Aiken Standard's office on their agendas Thursday afternoon, as the da…
The Senate has pushed a bipartisan gun violence bill to the brink of passage. Senators voted Thursday to halt a Republican filibuster against the measure, clearing the way for Congress’ most far-reaching response in decades to the nation’s run of brutal mass shootings. Republicans have long used such procedural delays to derail Democratic efforts to curb firearms. But after last month's mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, Democrats and some Republicans decided that congressional inaction was untenable. It took nearly a month of closed-door talks but a group of senators from both parties emerged with a compromise embodying incremental but impactful movement.
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