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(04/24/17 5:55pm)
Three presidential candidates faced questions from voters and moderator Anderson Cooper Thursday evening, Feb. 18, 2016, inside the USC School of Law auditorium at a town hall hosted by CNN. The event came as all three candidates — Donald Trump, Jeb Bush and John Kasich — are making their final push on the campaign trail before Saturday's Republican presidential primary here in South Carolina.
(08/01/16 12:57pm)
PHILADELPHIA – Once again the weather matched the mood at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday, as the oppressive heat and tensions that occurred earlier in the week gave way to cooler temperatures, light rain and optimism as Hillary Clinton accepted the party’s presidential nomination. It wasn’t a picture-perfect ending, but it paired well with the somewhat muted but nearly unanimous enthusiasm that Clinton’s speech was greeted with in the Wells Fargo Center.
(07/28/16 11:01pm)
PHILADELPHIA – President Barack Obama painted an optimistic picture of America under
his leadership in his keynote speech on Wednesday at the Democratic
National Convention, which came after a week where Donald Trump and most
speakers at Republican National Convention did just the opposite.
(07/28/16 3:11am)
PHILADELPHIA – As the sun set in the City of Brotherly Love on Tuesday, the Democratic National Convention became less divided. The focus of the convention and the country shifted from a divisive primary to a historic milestone, as the Democratic Party officially made Hillary Clinton the first woman nominated by a major political party for president of the U.S.
(07/27/16 4:43am)
PHILADELPHIA – Mother nature’s mood mimicked that of the delegates in Philadelphia at the Democratic National Convention on Monday, as tensions and temperatures came to a roiling boil before giving way to a torrential downpour and an endorsement of Hillary Clinton by Bernie Sanders that offered relief but an intense thunderstorm that foreshadowed trouble to come.
(07/24/16 5:43am)
Sen. Tim Kaine smiled throughout his introduction as Hillary Clinton’s choice for vice president Saturday in Miami. Despite his lighthearted demeanor, the happy warrior from Virginia delivered an emotional case for his fellow Democrat and a stinging rebuke of Donald Trump in his debut outing.
(07/23/16 5:41am)
Donald Trump accepted the Republican Party’s nomination for president Thursday night in Cleveland and delivered a lengthy and passionate speech that painted a dark picture of America under Democratic leadership before returning to his campaign’s pledge to “make America great again.”
(07/22/16 5:21am)
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz ripped open old wounds from a contentious primary in a fiery speech Wednesday night at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, and he was booed off the stage as he began a civil war within the Republican Party that he continued Thursday morning. Cruz upstaged Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, the final speaker of the night who GOP nominee Donald Trump picked as his running mate in the interest of “party unity.”
(07/21/16 4:53am)
After a rough start to its national convention, the Republican Party was back on message Tuesday in Cleveland as it officially nominated Donald Trump to be its presidential candidate this November. But that message was more focused on criticisms of Hillary Clinton than on praise of the new nominee.
(07/20/16 4:30am)
Just when it looked as if the tide was turning on a rough start to the Republican National Convention on Monday in Cleveland, disaster struck again. A day that started out with divisive floor fights ended with a speech from Donald Trump's wife Melania that was initially well received, but soon became marred by accusations of plagiarism.
(07/16/16 7:10pm)
Donald Trump formally introduced Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as his running mate and choice for vice president Saturday morning in New York. But the boisterous billionaire and Republican presumptive nominee for president remained center stage.
(07/13/16 3:33am)
After a hard-fought primary for the Democratic presidential nomination, Bernie Sanders endorsed his rival Hillary Clinton on Tuesday and ended his campaign.
(07/06/16 2:45am)
FBI Director James Comey announced Tuesday morning the agency will recommend Hillary Clinton face no criminal charges for her use of a private email account to send classified materials while secretary of state.
(07/02/16 6:16am)
The House Select Committee on Benghazi released its final report on Tuesday, which concluded their lengthy investigation into the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack on a U.S. consulate in Libya. The committee's chairman, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC), led a combative and disjointed press conference during which he defended the report and the committee itself from a skeptical press corps.
(06/29/16 12:00pm)
After being ruled out of order twice by Speaker of the House Paul Ryan for bringing up gun legislation, U.S. Representative Jim Clyburn (D-SC) decided it was time to try a different strategy. Last Wednesday, he helped lead a group of Democrats in a sit-in protest on the floor of the House that lasted over 25 hours.
(06/16/16 5:51pm)
Incumbent politicians won several big victories on Tuesday as voters across South Carolina went to the polls for primary elections.
(06/13/16 11:31pm)
Mourners gathered in solidarity across the U.S. this week to honor the victims of the worst mass shooting in the country's history.
(06/10/16 4:56pm)
"Ours is a campus of tolerance and civility," USC President Harris Pastides said in a statement last summer.
(06/09/16 12:03am)
South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham emerged Tuesday as a leader of a chorus of Republicans criticizing their party's presumptive nominee for president Donald Trump for his attacks on a Mexican-American U.S. federal judge. Graham is an alumnus of the University of South Carolina School of Law and was a military lawyer in the U.S. Air Force before being elected to congress.
(06/08/16 2:21am)
Hillary Clinton declared victory in the Democratic presidential primary Tuesday night as the presumptive nominee and will become the first female major party nominee for the presidency in American history, according to the Associated Press and the major television networks. Despite losing four of six contests Tuesday night, including the critical state of California, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has vowed to contest the primary all the way to the Democratic National Convention.