10 h. ago South Carolina prisons director is named the new US attorney for the state

The man who has led South Carolina prisons for more than a decade has been named the new U.S. attorney for the state

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17 h. ago Ocean Boulevard gunfire: What we know about the Myrtle Beach mass shooting that left one dead

An 18-year-old man from Bennettsville, South Carolina, – roughly 90 miles away – was shot dead at the scene

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24 h. ago Shooting in Myrtle Beach as one killed and 11 injured amid tourist season chaos

A man has been killed and at least eleven people have been injured in a shooting that took place at a popular tourist destination in South Carolina, with police opening fire during the incident

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32 h. ago Myrtle Beach shooting: Man shot dead by police at popular tourist destination in South Carolina

A man who witnessed the shooting, described the incident as "traumatising" as one individual began firing a weapon resulting in a police officer at the scene discharging their firearm

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36 h. ago Mass shooting in Myrtle Beach tourist hotspot leaves 11 injured, suspect killed by police

At least 11 people have been injured and one suspect has been killed in an officer-involved shooting in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

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3 d. ago Big Brother’s first transgender winner says she would refuse hospital treatment in male ward after Supreme Court ruling

Big Brother’s first transgender winner has said she would refuse hospital treatment in male ward after the Supreme Court’s ruling on the definition of a woman.

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4 d. ago Britain's Got Talent finalist raped two women, grabbed them by the neck and refused to wear a condom, court hears

Andrew Johnston, 30, allegedly gripped his victims' by the throat during sex and refused to wear a condom.

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4 d. ago Tanzania opposition officials arrested as Tundu Lissu refuses to appear in court

Chadema spokesperson says party’s vice-chair John Heche and secretary general John Mnyika held on way to protest over treason chargesTanzania’s main opposition party said on Thursday at least two of its officials had been arrested on their way to a rally to support the leading government opponent Tundu Lissu, who refused to appear at a virtual court hearing to face a charge of treason.Authorities in the east African country have increasingly cracked down on the opposition Chadema party ahead of presidential and parliamentary polls in October. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago John Swinney refuses to say if trans women are women after supreme court decision

When quizzed during a press conference in Glasgow, John Swinney refused to say if trans women are women.

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6 d. ago Georgia university receives $500,000 grant to preserve Gullah Geechee heritage

GSU will establish the Gullah Geechee Sacred Land Project to research and protect the community and its cultureA new $500,000 Mellon grant will allow Georgia State University to develop archival, historical and cultural research to protect Gullah Geechee heritage and communities in Georgia and South Carolina.Using the grant, GSU will establish the Gullah Geechee Sacred Land Project (GGSLP), which will be “dedicated to maintaining African American burial grounds by recovering communities’ spiritual, genealogical and spatial lineages and safeguarding the places where those communities interred their ancestors”, according to a statement by the college. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago South Carolina man gets life sentence for killing New Mexico officer

A South Carolina man has been sentenced to life in prison for gunning down a New Mexico state police officer who had stopped to help him

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7 d. ago House Democrats land in El Salvador to push for return of Kilmar Ábrego García

Four representatives join effort to challenge the Trump administration’s refusal to facilitate the immigrant’s releaseWho is Kilmar Ábrego García, the man wrongly deported to El Salvador?A delegation of four House Democrats has arrived in El Salvador to push for the release of Kilmar Ábrego García, part of a mission to challenge the Trump administration’s refusal to comply with a supreme court order to facilitate the return of the immigrant to the United States.Representatives Yassamin Ansari of Arizona, Maxine Dexter of Oregon, Maxwell Frost of Florida and Robert Garcia of California touched down in Central America on Sunday, following a visit by the Maryland senator Chris Van Hollen last week. The lawmakers are seeking to meet with Ábrego García, who had lived in the US for more than a decade before being swept up in a 15 March operation. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago John Swinney refuses to issue apology to women after Supreme Court verdict

John Swinney says he has ‘no regrets’ over his support for gender self-ID.

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9 d. ago Protesters fill the streets in cities across the US to denounce Trump agenda

Organizers call for 11 million people to march and rally in this weekend’s effort to ‘protect democracy’Protesters poured into the streets of cities and towns across the United States again on Saturday, in the second wave of protests this month, as organizers seek to turn discontent with Donald Trump’s presidency into a mass movement that will eventually translate into action at the ballot box.By early afternoon, large protests were under way in Washington, New York and Chicago, with images of crowds cascading across social networks showing additional demonstrations in Rhode Island, Maryland, Wisconsin, Tennessee, South Carolina, Ohio, Kentucky, California and Pennsylvania, among others. Americans abroad also signaled their opposition to the Trump agenda in Dublin, Ireland, and other cities. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Senate Democrat meets Ábrego García in El Salvador as legal battles continue – US politics live

Visit by Maryland’s Chris Van Hollen comes as a federal appeals court rules against the Trump’s administration’s efforts to block return to the USThe Democratic senator from New Jersey, Cory Booker, plans to travel to El Salvador, a source familiar with his itinerary said, as Democrats seek to pressure the Trump administration to return Kilmar Ábrego García, the wrongly deported Maryland resident.Booker’s trip to the Central American country would come after the Maryland senator Chris Van Hollen traveled there this week to meet with his constituent.The Supreme Court was clear: the Trump administration must act to facilitate the return of Kilmar Ábrego García to the United States. There is no room for debate – yet Trump is refusing, in defiance of a lawful court order.Every member of Congress should be standing up for the Constitution and demanding that the administration act to return Mr. Ábrego García to the U.S. and to his family.” Continue reading...

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1 week ago Appeals court warns of mounting ‘crisis’ over Trump’s refusal to ‘facilitate’ Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s return

Reagan-appointed appellate judge slams Trump for trying to ‘stash away residents in foreign prisons’ without due process

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1 week ago Money launderer refuses to attend court as he is ordered to surrender tens of thousands of pounds in frozen assets

Robert Norris is currently serving a lengthy sentence for laundering dirty money

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1 week ago Mob boss Mark Richardson paying Edinburgh army "huge track and trace bounty" to attack firebomb hitmen

The Edinburgh cocaine kingpin has hired a squad to take down the thugs responsible for the firebomb attacks in the city.

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1 week ago Nancy Mace, who challenged a lawmaker to ‘take it outside,’ says that political violence is getting out of control

A man who allegedly threatened Trump is also accused of writing that he wanted to shoot the congresswoman from South Carolina

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1 week ago I rented out my home for the Masters in Augusta... and it paid our mortgage for a year

A family just paid off a year's mortgage - thanks to the 2025 Masters Tournament. 

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