Wednesday, August 19, 2026

Tag: South Carolina

Investigation into fetus found at South Carolina water plant draws new...

Sumter County officials and SLED are seeking a DNA profile after workers found 13 to 15-week fetal remains at a wastewater facility, as advocates warn the probe and new bills could expand surveillance of miscarriage and abortion.

SCOTUS opinion says states can block Medicaid money for health services...

Justice Neil Gorsuch and five other justices found that "while Medicaid law allows people choose their own provider, that does not make it a right enforceable in court in the case."

Stink, sulfur and soot: Billionaire Kraft deals an air pollution crisis...

Currently, residents are still awaiting a solution to their health and air pollution crisis. As one resident told the EPA, “We are prisoners in our own smelly home.”

South Carolina cops on leave after arrest video goes viral

“There is no reason for the level of force we saw on that video yesterday. There’s no reason for that.”

Deputy fired and arrested for assaulting handcuffed woman on video

“His actions are unacceptable, and I will not have it from any of my deputies.”

‘We teach, we vote!:’ 10,000 teachers rise up against Republican legislature...

Led by the grassroots group SC for Ed, teachers from across the traditionally deep red state took personal days to stage the walkout.

‘Was that disruptive?’ congressman blasts air horn to make seismic testing...

"What if you depended on sound for hunting your food and for communication? Do you think it would be disruptive?"

South Carolina: Two women from mental health facility drown in flood...

“There are a lot of questions remaining about why this had to occur then, why there couldn’t have been some sort of an emergency delay.”

South Carolina prisoners were left in cells as Florence descended. Why...

Prisoners were instead put to work behind bars making sandbags to prepare for the storm’s arrival.

Climate change supercharges Hurricane Florence as 1.5 million evacuate in Carolinas...

People up and down the coast are preparing for extreme flooding and what the National Hurricane Center is calling a “life-threatening storm surge.”

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Arch Street Friends Meeting House in Philadelphia, a property of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, the lead plaintiff in the case. Photo: ajay_suresh / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Appeals court upholds order limiting ICE arrests at Quaker, Sikh and Baptist houses of...

The Justice Department never argued a compelling government interest before the district court, and the Fourth Circuit held that defense waived.
The Lorain County Administration Building in Elyria, Ohio, where the county commissioners meet and striking Job and Family Services workers have picketed. Photo by WeaponizingArchitecture / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Lorain County caseworkers reach day 180 of a strike over a dollar an hour

Union officials told the bargaining chair the walkout may be the longest in Ohio public sector history, a claim the county's newspaper could not confirm. Commissioners point to an $11 million deficit.
A data center hall. Photo: 123net / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Oracle drops lawsuit over Wisconsin rules that shield utility customers from data center debt

Twenty-three states had approved special rates for the largest power users by May, and Oracle's own credit rating now sits below the threshold Wisconsin regulators set.
A street view of Gaza City

Netanyahu Throws “Poison Pill” into Gaza Deal as Kushner Meets with Hamas & Israel:...

President Trump’s son-in-law and envoy Jared Kushner met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Monday after Israel rejected a 15-point plan for Gaza promoted by President Trump’s “Board of Peace.” The proposal would have seen Hamas gradually disarm and turn over governance of Gaza to an international force in exchange for Israel’s withdrawal from the besieged territory. Israel, supported by Kushner, is pushing for a deal whereby it “would not be obliged to conduct any of its obligations unless and until Hamas was fully disarmed,” says Middle East analyst Mouin Rabbani. “This is essentially Israel throwing a poison pill into an agreement by including conditions that can never be met.” Rabbani argues that Jared Kushner is not a suitable negotiator because there is a “very intimate ideological, political connection between the Kushners and Israel.”
Constitution Center at 400 7th Street SW in Washington, which houses the headquarters of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. Photo by Tim1965 / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Bank regulator clears a Trump family crypto venture to open a national trust bank

The OCC's own decision letter records four commenters raising conflict-of-interest objections involving the president and his family, and the agency placing most of those questions outside the scope of its review.