In a scenario that has played out in three states in recent years, a federal court ruled Thursday that time had run out to draw a new congressional district in South Carolina and that the state would ...

Wildfires returned to the Carolinas, and fires have taken over 10,000 acres and prompted another state of emergency, burn bans and evacuations. In the Carolinas, wildfires have set 11,314 acres ablaze ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday made it far more difficult to challenge state redistricting plans as unconstitutional racial gerrymanders. By a vote of 6-to-3, along ideological lines, the court ...