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Interview Daniel Strauss The highest ranking African American Democrat in House leadership talks about Black Lives Matter, reforms and the 2020 US election Jim Clyburn at a news conference in Washington DC on 8 June 2020. Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters South Carolina congressman Jim Clyburn has been at the heart of some of the most pivotal […] More
Covid-19 cases are now growing quickly in some rural and exurban areas with strong Trump support Beaches reopen, in Miami, Florida, on 10 June. Photograph: Michele Eve Sandberg/Rex/Shutterstock Skepticism among some Republicans about the real threat of the coronavirus pandemic, that may have been influenced by racial attitudes, could shift as positive cases of infection […] More
College will also drop tribute to ‘Pitchfork’ Ben Tillman South Carolina trustees cite protests over killing of George Floyd John C Calhoun by Mathew Brady, 1849. Some scholars think the senator and vice-president was Melville’s model for Captain Ahab. Photograph: Sotheby’s Clemson University trustees voted on Friday to rename its honors college, stripping the name […] More
US governors seeking to relax public health restrictions on the activity of people and businesses are acting prematurely and risk inciting a second, more damaging wave of infections from the coronavirus pandemic, public health experts have warned. A wave of reopenings is set to spread across the south and midwest of the US, led by […] More
Biden won South Carolina – and days later, Super Tuesday – after Jim Clyburn, the highest-ranking African American Democrat in Congress, backed him When the House majority whip, Jim Clyburn, endorsed Joe Biden ahead of the South Carolina primary it effectively set off a series of events that resulted in the former vice-president trouncing his […] More
Buttigieg will not quit race despite Biden surge Bloomberg will address US in Sunday night TV ad Joe Biden’s decisive victory in South Carolina on Saturday night has teed up a major showdown in the battle for the Democratic presidential nomination, as the race speeds towards the critical Super Tuesday vote and the former vice-president’s […] More
Moderate finishes distant fourth in South Carolina Former VP is clear leader in moderate challenge to Sanders Pete Buttigieg will not drop out of the race to be the Democratic presidential nominee, despite finishing well behind Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders in the South Carolina primary on Saturday. Related: Joe Biden breathes new life into […] More
It was a good night for Biden, but will the victory translate into momentum for the crucial set of contests on Tuesday? The former vice-president under Barack Obama needed a decisive win in South Carolina after dismal performances in the earlier voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire, and he got it. Biden defeated progressive […] More
