Eduardo Medina

On Friday the president made the unusual move of endorsing both candidates in the Republican runoff for South Carolina governor.

The authorities have not yet explained what led to the takeover, which ended Monday afternoon after unspecified negotiations.

Mr. Graham, a long-serving senator from South Carolina, was known for his ability to maintain relationships even with his political foes. But the support of Black voters remained elusive.

Even as ICE has retreated from its plan to buy warehouses, the new complex near the Virginia border signals that the agency remains determined to increase its detention capacity.

HERTFORD COUNTY, N.C. -- For weeks, residents near the long-dormant Rivers Correctional Institution in Winton, North Carolina, have noticed trucks

The facility is poised to make North Carolina a major hub for ICE detentions along the East Coast.

Lindsey Graham will be laid to rest Wednesday after an intimate funeral in his home state of South Carolina, where friends and family have gathered to remember a Republican who was raised in the back of a small-town bar and catapulted to the forefront of the Senate.

Representative Chuck Edwards’s decision to drop his re-election bid amid sexual harassment charges came as a Democratic farmer, Jamie Ager, was already making inroads.

South of the Border harks back to a different time in the South, before the region diversified and exploded in growth.

DILLON, S.C. -- On a long, long highway, right where one land turns into another, a place called South of the Border has welcomed weary travelers