Life on South Carolina death row: months of ‘barbaric’ isolation before execution

found 2025 › Jan › 28 (Tue) @ 16:49 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Marion Bowman Jr has been caged in a tiny ‘execution watch’ cell since September, waiting to be killed: ‘I won’t let the prison turn me into an animal’

For 135 days, Marion Bowman Jr has been locked i…

JD Vance defends Trump’s January 6 pardons as Graham says it could spur more violence

found 2025 › Jan › 26 (Sun) @ 20:52 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Senator Lindsey Graham says pardoning violent offenders is a ‘mistake’ and could spur more violence

JD Vance on Sunday tried to offer a rationale to a record number of executive orders and controversi…

Two teen girls arrested for murder of 13-year-old found stabbed to death in burned home

found 2025 › Jan › 21 (Tue) @ 07:44 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

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Two teenage girls, aged 15 and 16, were arrested in connection with the murder of a South Carolina 13-year-old girl, who was found bludgeoned and stabbed to death in a vacant home.

Biden's delusional final promise to Americans on his last day as president as he defends controversial clemencies

found 2025 › Jan › 20 (Mon) @ 06:45 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Outgoing President Joe Biden made a final promise to the American people as he spoke to the Royal Missionary Baptist Church in Charleston, South Carolina on Sunday.

Dawn Staley becomes highest-paid women’s basketball coach with $25m extension

found 2025 › Jan › 17 (Fri) @ 20:54 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Extension keeps Staley at South Carolina until 2030
Gamecocks have won three NCAA titles under coach

Coach Dawn Staley received a contract extension on Friday that South Carolina said will make her the…

‘Let’s all go to Gullah Gullah Island!’: the groundbreaking TV show that affirmed Black kids

found 2024 › Dec › 23 (Mon) @ 12:43 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

The Nick Jr series encouraged cultural preservation of the Gullah Geechee, descendants of formerly enslaved people in South Carolina

Thirty years ago, Ron and Natalie Daise and their children, Sara an…

Why the Black American origins of mac and cheese are so hotly debated

found 2024 › Dec › 22 (Sun) @ 23:22 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

In an era punctuated with persistent loss, our culinary rituals are a scrumptious bridge

It stood on my kitchen bookshelf, Sylvia’s Family Soul Food Cookbook: From Hemingway, South Carolina, to Harlem…

US animal lab from which monkeys escaped accused of widespread abuse

found 2024 › Dec › 21 (Sat) @ 20:34 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

AGI in South Carolina investigated by government after leaked files revealed traumatic injuries and animal deaths

The US Department of Agriculture is investigating allegations from an animal rights or…

Senate passes $895bn Pentagon spending bill despite provision denying transgender care to minors – live

found 2024 › Dec › 18 (Wed) @ 21:00 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Senate votes 85-14 to pass National Defense Authorization Act, which has provision preventing gender-affirming care to transgender children of military members

Bennie Thompson, the Democratic chair of…

ABC News and George Stephanopoulos agree to $15m payout in Trump case

found 2024 › Dec › 15 (Sun) @ 09:26 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Network and anchor agree to settlement in defamation lawsuit Trump filed against network earlier this year

ABC News and anchor George Stephanopoulos agreed on Saturday to pay $15m to a foundation and …