US flag lowered to half-staff at White House after death of Lindsey Graham

South Carolina residents reflect following the death of Sen. Lindsey Graham

WASHINGTON (AP) – Two of South Carolina’s top officeholders will compete one-on-one for the Republican nomination for governor in a primary runoff election on Tuesday. Voters will also select nominees for a handful of congressional races and other contests in which no candidate received a majority of the vote in the June 9 primary.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – President Donald Trump changed his tune Friday heading into South Carolina’s runoff next week, saying either Republican contender for governor – not just Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette, whom he endorsed before the primary earlier this month – would be a good pick.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – After a decade of roiling South Carolina and national politics, Rep. Nancy Mace finished a distant fifth in her state’s Republican primary for governor, leaving an uncertain future for one of the nation’s unabashed politicians.

GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) – South Carolina voters on Tuesday are aiming to winnow the field in high-profile races for governor and U.S. Senate, with Republicans seeking to maintain a statewide winning streak that stretches back decades.

Today is Sunday, June 7, the 158th day of 2026. There are 207 days left in the year. Today in history: On June 7, 1998, in a crime that shocked the nation and led to stronger state and federal hate crime laws, James Byrd Jr., a 49-year-old Black man, was hooked by a chain to a pickup truck and dragged to his death in Jasper, Texas.

A two-year investigation into immigrants with fake identity documents led to federal officials detaining 48 workers at a South Carolina metal casting business and six people facing state charges, including two top managers at the plant, authorities announced Thursday.