Meg Kinnard, Associated Press

DeSantis was criticized by a number of fellow Republicans who expressed concern about the potential 2024 presidential candidate’s dismissive description of the conflict.

The former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador is the first major official challenger to former President Donald Trump for the 2024 GOP nomination.

The gunman who killed five people including a prominent doctor in South Carolina was former NFL player Phillip Adams, who killed himself early Thursday.

Five inmates extorted more than half a million dollars from military personnel throughout the country, using illegal cellphones to pose as women on dating sites, authorities said.

Authorities said Frederick Hopkins opened fire on the deputies from inside a home and held children hostage while shooting long-range at other officers who rushed to a suburban neighborhood.

With muddy river water still washing over entire communities on Friday, new evacuation orders forced residents to flee to higher ground amid a sprawling disaster that’s beginning to feel like it will never end.

Marion County Coroner Jerry Richardson said the van came across rising water and was carried off the road.

A deputy was fired Wednesday after video showed him flipping a teen backward out of her desk and tossing her across a classroom, with the sheriff saying the officer did not follow proper procedures and training.

The Justice Department opened a civil rights investigation Tuesday after a deputy flipped a student backward in her desk and tossed her across the floor for refusing to leave her math class.

For the first time since the civil rights movement, the Confederate flag was removed entirely from the South Carolina Statehouse, in a swift ceremony Friday before thousands of people who cheered as the Civil War-era banner was lowered from a 30-foot flagpole.

A crowd of hundreds gathered Friday among security officers and news crews to witness the historic removal of the Confederate flag from the South Carolina Statehouse grounds — a day many in the state thought would never come.

Preliminary indications suggest arson was not the cause of a fire that destroyed a black church targeted by the Ku Klux Klan 20 years ago, a federal law enforcement official said Wednesday.

President Barack Obama used his eulogy for a slain pastor to deliver an unvarnished lecture on America's racial history Friday, and then boldly sang "Amazing Grace," a spiritual meant to summon hope in the darkest of times.