Новости за 12.09.2016

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration wants to send Israel an unprecedented sum of money in military aid over the next 10 years — but U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham doesn’t think the negotiated dollar amount is nearly enough.

Non-conference games against Clemson, Presbyterian and Newberry highlight the 2017 football schedule announced by The Citadel on Monday.

Non-conference games against Clemson, Presbyterian and Newberry highlight the 2017 football schedule announced by The Citadel on Monday.

Motorists are seeing typical congested spots during the Monday morning commute, but crashes reported on area highways haven’t caused serious issues.

We wrote about the importance of exercise for brain health in one of our columns last month. I feel the need to say more.

Two building designs rejected by Charleston’s Board of Architectural Review in July are back on the agenda for Wednesday.

What: Restorative yoga professionals lead participants along short walking loops and practice yoga techniques.

Those in the Charleston area may want to keep an umbrella handy today, as forecasters are expecting a 40 percent chance of storms, mainly after noon.

There’s a 300-year-old live oak that stands a couple hundred yards from the big house at Drayton Hall. I know the grand tree has probably seen its share of good and bad. That big oak has also withstood a war, an earthquake and more than one hurricane. What I’d like to know more about has to do with some yellow ribbons or flags that...

Earlier this year, a real estate website crunched a bunch of Yelp data to produce a series of maps showing where various food types are most abundant: If you want pizza, for instance, you’re far better off in Detroit than El Paso.

It would be a stretch to describe Wise-Buck Smoked Meats, the forthcoming Café at the Gibbes or Mellow Mushroom as Jewish restaurants, but all three are led by men who identify as Jews. What that means is the topic of tonight’s "Kibitz in the Kitchen," a panel...

The Associated Press and The Center for Public Integrity teamed up to investigate the influence of pharmaceutical companies on state and federal policies regarding opioids, the powerful painkillers that have claimed the lives of 165,000 people in the U.S. since 2000.

This two-part investigation by The Center for Public Integrity and The Associated Press examines the politics behind the nation’s opioid addiction epidemic.

Enough already! I’m really tired of the manufactured outrage by the media (including this paper’s editors) about the Clinton Foundation. I doubt you can name a politician who hasn’t taken a call or a meeting or arranged an introduction for a donor to his or her campaign.

To the man who wrote to say Hispanics should vote Republican because "most Hispanics are deeply religious and their faith should make them pro-life," I ask: Where is your deep religious faith once a woman is forced, by the law of South Carolina, to deliver a child born of an unwanted or unhealthy pregnancy?

A recent AP story about "shadow insurance" misleads readers about a common life insurance industry risk management practice.

In this political climate, the Constitution appears to be a hot button. We should first and foremost remember the preamble to the Constitution which reads, "We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare,...

Conservative campaigners in the United States traditionally have three things against them: Academia, the press corps and the entertainment industry. Considering the power represented by these three monoliths combined, it is practically miraculous that any Republican ever gets elected. Now we can add a fourth column to this adversarial group:...

Charleston County’s property tax fraud crackdown achieved two welcome accomplishments:

In its Sept. 4 election Hong Kong has again shown why it remains a thorn in the side of Communist-ruled China and an inspiring example of the democratic ideal’s power.

"What I saw from my perch in the Pentagon was America sticking its hand into a thousand-year-old hornet’s nest with the expectation that our mere presence might pacify the hornets. When ancient ethnic hatreds reignited in the former Yugoslavia in 1991 and well-meaning Americans thought we should ‘do something’...

WASHINGTON — America has had better weeks than the one just past.

The American Red Cross is hosting nearly 20 blood drives this month in the local area in hopes that donors will help patients who suffer from sickle cell diseases.

One day in August 2015, the Princeton University neuroscientist Yael Niv saw an email notice of a conference on deep brain stimulation, a hot topic in treatment for depression and other mental disorders. Niv noticed that none of the 21 scientists scheduled to speak were women.

SWINTON, Francina Elaine, 61, of Awendaw, a homemaker and wife of Henry Swinton, died Saturday. Arrangements by Smith-McNeal’s Awendaw Chapel.