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11 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: August 12, 2026.
Ten Republicans ran in Tuesday's special primary for the Senate seat left vacant when Graham died in July. Nobody cleared 50%, so the appointed senator now faces a two-week sprint against a sitting congressman.
Netanyahu and Zelenskyy sat in the same pews as Vance, Pence and Justice Kavanaugh for the South Carolina senator's funeral, 17 days after his sudden death at 71.
WatchThe Rules and Bylaws Committee voted Friday to keep South Carolina in the lead-off slot on January 22, 2028, choosing Black voters over Nevada's Latino electorate as the party's first test. New Hampshire falls to third.
Darline Graham Nordone, appointed to the South Carolina seat this month, says she will run in the August 11 special Republican primary.
WatchGov. Henry McMaster, acting on a recommendation from President Trump, named Darline Graham Nordone to serve out the remainder of her late brother's term as Republicans move quickly to protect a fragile Senate majority.
WatchThe five-term South Carolina Republican and close Trump ally died Saturday night after what his office called a 'brief and sudden illness'; the D.C. medical examiner's preliminary findings point to a torn aorta.
No candidate cleared 50 percent in the crowded Republican primary, forcing a June 23 runoff to succeed term-limited Gov. Henry McMaster as Nancy Mace finished fifth.
The 24-vote cloture defeat — after a personal speakerphone lobbying appeal from President Trump and three weeks of rushed hearings — preserves the majority-Black 6th District the 84-year-old former House Majority Whip has held since 1993 and is the second major redistricting setback for the White House in three weeks.
The decision citing jury interference by a court clerk upends one of America's highest-profile homicide cases.
Within nine days of Louisiana v. Callais, four Republican-led Southern states have launched coordinated mid-decade redistricting drives that strategists say could net the GOP between four and seven additional U.S. House seats.
Schaeffler facility deploys robotic workers for manufacturing tasks as industry debates impact on human employment and workforce displacement.