MORNING HEADLINES | President Donald Trump said Sunday that the U.S. and Israeli-launched war with Iran could last “four to five” weeks, and warned of the possibility of more American casualties.
Three U.S. soldiers have been confirmed dead since hostilities began early Saturday morning. Meanwhile today in Kuwait in an “apparent friendly fire incident,” Kuwaiti air defense forces are thought to have mistakenly shot down three U.S. fighter jets. All six crew members ejected safely. In other headlines related to the conflict:
- S.C.’s Graham claims ‘mothership of terrorism is sinking’
- Strikes kill top Iranian officials, including supreme leader Khamenei
- Pentagon says 1,000 Iranian targets hit
- Democrats largely oppose strikes, say Trump should have gone to Congress for authority
- Oil prices up sharply as markets react
- Israel hits Lebanon as Mideast war widens
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CP OPINION, Brack: McMaster should veto bill keeping college payments secret. “Gov. Henry McMaster needs to veto rushed legislation that seeks to keep public payments to college athletes secret. To do otherwise would tarnish his career of supporting transparency as embodied in the state’s Freedom of Information Act.”
- CP OPINION, Magid: Ukraine, U.S. share frontier democratic values
- CP OPINION, McCorkle: Trump undermines U.S. Constitution, democracy with attack on Iran
CP ARTS: ‘Something Rotten!’ riotously ramps up Venue MTP. “The details of William Shakespeare’s life have scattered in the winds of time like so many of his folio pages. The good news is that this vacuum affords the wide berth of speculation. And that inscrutability of Shakespeare, it turns out, is the makings of a highly entertaining, positively antic work of musical theater being performed now in Mount Pleasant. “
CP WEEK IN REVIEW: S.C. lawmakers advance bill requiring local cooperation with ICE. As the Trump administration continues to ramp up its controversial mass deportation program, South Carolina lawmakers took the first major step to advance legislation that would require local law enforcement agencies across the state to assist in federal immigration enforcement efforts.
- Ten Commandments could be coming to S.C. classrooms
- S.C. hands-free driving law now fully in effect as grace period ends
- S.C. Senate looks to reform gubernatorial appointments process
- S.C. measles case count rises to 985 with 6 new cases
- Biden reflects on S.C.’s role in 2020 primary in Columbia address
- S.C. Epstein victim who told FBI she was abused by Trump at center of national controversy
- S.C. budget writers break with Trump on eliminating taxes on tips, overtime
JACKSON: S.C. civil rights leader returns home to lie in state. Greenville native Jesse Jackson, a two-time presidential candidate and leader of the American civil rights movement for half a century, will lie in state in the S.C. capitol today.
Citizens invited to give input on Charleston’s Union Pier redevelopment. Charleston residents can sign up for 90-minute updates from the project team on March 4, 5, 11 and 12 at unionpiersc.com.
- Dockside evacuation left residents heartbroken, financially strapped
- Rural towns fear being ‘left behind’ by Charleston sales tax
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