Thousands of mostly young women in masks rallied Saturday in the nation's capital and other U.S. cities, exhorting voters to oppose President Donald Trump and his fellow Republican candidates …
More than 22 million Americans have already cast ballots in the 2020 election, a record-shattering avalanche of early votes driven both by Democratic enthusiasm and a pandemic that has transfo…
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump was evasive Thursday night when pressed if he took a COVID-19 test before his first debate with Democrat Joe Biden as the two men squared off again, in a wa…
WASHINGTON — It was the hug that may define – or doom – a long Senate career.
Absentee voting started in Aiken County on Oct. 5, and it has drawn quite a crowd.
WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett batted away Democrats’ skeptical questions Tuesday on abortion, health care and a possible disputed-election fight over transferring presid…
WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett vows to be a justice “fearless of criticism” as the split Senate charges ahead with confirmation hearings on President Donald Trump’s pick …
COLUMBIA — South Carolina Democrat Jaime Harrison has shattered congressional fundraising records, bringing in $57 million in the final quarter for his U.S. Senate campaign against Republican …
With a staggering $57 million haul from July through September, Harrison shattered the three-month record set in 2018 by Texas Democrat Beto O'Rourke, as the South Carolina Democrat looks to upset Republican incumbent Lindsey Graham.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Saturday made his first public appearance after being hospitalized for the coronavirus, defying public health guidelines to speak to a crowd of hundreds …
THE VILLAGES, Fla. — Sara Branscome’s golf cart whizzed down the smooth asphalt path that winds through The Villages, the nation’s largest retirement community, an expanse of beautiful homes, …
In South Carolina’s 2nd Congressional District, a longtime lawmaker and senior member of the House Armed Services Committee is facing an increasingly competitive challenge from a political new…
A South Carolina political icon and a rising Democratic star are wrestling over a single U.S. Senate seat long clutched by the Republican Party.
With the November election coming up on Nov. 3, the South Carolina Senate races are kicking into gear.
South Carolina's House of Representatives District 83 covers downtown North Augusta and the riverfront, the northern part of the city west of Interstate 520, and parts of Edgefield County west…
The only contested Aiken County Council race in the Nov. 3 General Election will be for the seat in District 4, which includes North Augusta.
Kelley Mobley is the Republican candidate in the race for the District 4 seat on Aiken County Council.
David Beja is the Democratic candidate in the race for the District 4 seat on Aiken County Council.
Anthony James is the challenger candidate running for the District 9 seat on the Aiken County Board of Education. The Aiken Standard asked James three questions, and below are his responses, e…
Cameron Nuessle is the incumbent candidate running for the District 9 seat on the Aiken County Board of Education. The Aiken Standard asked Nuessle three questions, and below are his responses…
John Bradley is the incumbent candidate running for the District 8 seat on the Aiken County Board of Education. The Aiken Standard asked Bradley three questions, and below are his responses, e…
Douglas Slaughter is the challenger candidate for the District 8 seat on the Aiken County Board of Education. The Aiken Standard asked Slaughter three questions, and below are his responses, e…
Keith Liner is the incumbent candidate for the District 4 seat in the Aiken County Board of Education. The Aiken Standard asked Liner three questions, and below are his responses, edited for length.
Patricia Hanks is the challenger candidate running for the District 4 seat on the Aiken County Board of Education. The Aiken Standard asked Hanks three questions, and below are her responses, …
Samuretta Muldrow is the challenger candidate running for the District 1 seat on the Aiken County Board of Education. The Aiken Standard asked Muldrow three questions, and below are her respon…
Sandra Shealey is the incumbent candidate running for the District 1 seat on the Aiken County Board of Education. The Aiken Standard asked Shealey three questions, and below are her responses,…
Four seats are up for election this November on the Aiken County Board of Education, and each incumbent is running against a challenger.
Editor's note: This list includes 2020 General Election candidates in races important to Aiken County voters. To view your individualized Sample Ballot, visit scvotes.org and click "Get My Sam…
COLUMBIA — Hours before a second scheduled debate between U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham and Democratic challenger Jaime Harrison, event organizers were forced Friday to change the format, offering …
The second debate in South Carolina's competitive U.S. Senate race was scrapped hours before it was scheduled to begin Friday night after Democratic challenger Harrison insisted that Republican incumbent Lindsey Graham Graham take a coronavirus test in advance and Graham refused.
Aiken County residents had the opportunity to sign their names on a gender equality bus Friday to pledge to vote for equality.
COLUMBIA — South Carolina election officials have no authority to create a process for voters to fix mail-in ballots missing a witness signature, a requirement reinstated by the U.S. Supreme C…
WASHINGTON — The fate of final debates between President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden was thrown into uncertainty Thursday as the campaigns offered dueling proposals for moving forward …
A bus tour advocating for gender equality will stop in Aiken on Friday.
SALT LAKE CITY — Republican Mike Pence firmly defended the Trump administration’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic that has killed more than 210,000 Americans while his Democratic challenger,…
COLUMBIA — The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled Wednesday a program created by Gov. Henry McMaster to allocate $32 million in federal pandemic aid to private and religious schools is unconst…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Wednesday tried to salvage a few priority items lost in the rubble of COVID-19 relief talks that he himself blew up, pressing for $1,200 stimulus checks …
SALT LAKE CITY — Vice President Mike Pence and his Democratic challenger, California Sen. Kamala Harris, are poised to meet Wednesday for a debate that will offer starkly different visions for…
Some Aiken County residents may have received more than one absentee ballot in the mail by mistake.
BETHESDA, Md. — President Donald Trump staged a dramatic return to the White House Monday night after leaving the military hospital where he has been receiving an unprecedented level of care f…
Monday was the first day of absentee voting in South Carolina and many local residents got out to cast their ballots.
COLUMBIA — Two congressional leaders, including the South Carolina congressman at the helm of a special subcommittee managing a multitude of issues related to the coronavirus pandemic, are ask…
BETHESDA, Md. — Two days after being hospitalized with COVID-19, President Donald Trump declared, “I get it,” in a message to the nation Sunday before briefly leaving the hospital to salute su…
COLUMBIA — In their first debate in a race that has shattered fundraising records and become among the more closely watched Senate contests of this cycle, U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Car…
BETHESDA, Md. — President Donald Trump went through a “very concerning” period Friday and faces a “critical” next two days in his fight against COVID-19 at a military hospital, his chief of st…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will spend a “few days” at a military hospital after contracting COVID-19, the White House said Friday, as the virus that has killed more than 205,000 Ameri…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump have tested positive for the coronavirus, he said Friday. The positive test comes a month until the election and after the pres…
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COLUMBIA — A judge has temporarily blocked private attorneys from receiving $75 million from South Carolina for helping the state negotiate a settlement with the federal government over nuclea…
In a sweeping speech Wednesday, Aiken Mayor Rick Osbon recounted municipal and private sector successes in a year pockmarked by a pandemic and foreboding economic uncertainty.
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