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Graham urges older judges to retire so GOP can fill openings
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lindsey Graham, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is publicly urging federal judges in their mid-60s or older to step aside so President Donald Trump and Senate Republicans can fill the vacancies with conservative jurists. Graham’s comments, in an interview Thursday...
Pompeo says Hong Kong is no longer autonomous from China
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has notified Congress that the Trump administration no longer regards Hong Kong as autonomous from mainland China, setting the stage for the U.S. to withdraw the former British colony’s preferential trade and financial status it has enjoyed since it...
Graham calls Rosenstein as first witness in Russia inquiry
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will testify next week at a Senate committee hearing on the Justice Department's Russia investigation, the committee chairman said Wednesday. The session Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee is the first in a series of planned...
Stacey Abrams endorses candidates in 7 US Senate contests
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Alongside discussions of her own national political ambitions, former Georgia gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams is wading into elections outside her home state, endorsing the campaigns of seven Democrats vying for U.S. Senate seats. On Thursday, Abrams announced that she was backing...
Editorial Roundup: North Carolina
Recent editorials from North Carolina newspapers: ___ May 20 The News & Observer and The Charlotte Observer on Gov. Roy Cooper's reopening plans for North Carolina: Gov. Roy Cooper is poised to give North Carolina its economic freedom, but with that comes much more. Cooper is expected to announce that the...
Sen. Graham plans vote to subpoena Russia probe officials
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham is scheduling a vote that would allow him to subpoena more than 50 current and former officials who were involved in the Justice Department’s investigation of Russian involvement in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, as President...
Virus means no fall break as shaggy in SC return to barbers
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — One of South Carolina's major universities has a back-to-campus plan that cancels fall break next semester and ends in-person classes before Thanksgiving to avoid getting caught in a second wave of coronavirus infections. Also on Monday, Gov. Henry McMaster agreed to give the General...
AP FACT CHECK: Trump, GOP falsehoods on Flynn, Biden, virus
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and his GOP allies are misrepresenting the facts behind the legal case of former national security adviser Michael Flynn as they seek to allege improper behavior during the Obama administration in the presidential campaign season. Broadly dubbing his allegations...
AP FACT CHECK: Trump, GOP distortion on Flynn; virus fiction
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and his GOP allies are misrepresenting the facts behind the legal case of former national security adviser Michael Flynn as they seek to allege improper behavior during the Obama administration in the presidential campaign season. Broadly dubbing his allegations...
State fines salon $14K after reopening against virus order
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A hair salon in Salem will be fined $14,000 after reopening against Gov. Kate Brown’s executive orders meant to slow the coronavirus pandemic. The Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division, known as OSHA, is fining salon owner and stylist Lindsey Graham specifically,...
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