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Warnings of 'Catastrophic and Historic' Flooding as Experts Say Worst of Hurricane Florence Yet to Come

As Florence Makes Landfall, Poorest Once More Likely to Suffer Most From Storm's Destruction

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

An emergency crew rescues a woman and her dog

"These disasters drag into the light exactly who is already being thrown away," notes Naomi Klein

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Nuclear Plants, Toxic Waste Sites Under Threat as Florence Readies 'Mike Tyson Punch to Carolina Coast'

Jon Queally, staff writer

Florence

As new pathway of storm predicted, National Hurricane Center calls looming...

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As 1.5 Million Flee Hurricane Florence, Worries Grow Over Half Dozen Nuclear Power Plants in Storm's Path

Julia Conley, staff writer

"Flooding-prone Brunswick Nuclear Plant among rickety old Fukushima-style...

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Hurricane Florence is now a Category 4 storm, NOAA's National Hurricane Center announced at noon on Monday. Data from a NOAA Hurricane Hunter indicate that Florence has continued to rapidly strengthen and has maximum sustained winds near 130 mph. (Photo: NOAA)

On Track to Hit Carolinas and Virginia, Warning of 'Historic Storm' as Hurricane Florence Becomes Category 4

Planned Parenthood supporters

Defunding Clinics, GOP Governor "Throws Women Under the Bus" in South Carolina

Charleston Shooter Gets Nine Life Sentences, Likely Ending Case

Lawmakers Feel the Heat as Resistance Shows Up in Droves to Town Halls

'Truths Not Tweets': Protesters Greet Trump at Boeing Plant

Transgender Community Faces 'Attacks on Humanity' in Six More States

An 'Abomination' of Justice: Mistrial Declared Over Police Shooting of Walter Scott

Sending Novice Haley to UN, Trump Clears Path for Loyalist in South Carolina

Florida Coast Braces as Deadly Hurricane Matthew Nears Shore

'Like Visiting a Cemetery': Millions of Honeybees Dead After Zika Pesticide Spraying

2016 Election Lawsuit Tracker: The New Election Laws and the Suits Challenging Them

'This is History': Police Officer Indicted on Federal Charges in Walter Scott Killing

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ACLU

ACLU Challenges Unconstitutional Debtors’ Prison Practices in South Carolina County

ACLU

ACLU Challenges South Carolina ‘Disturbing Schools’ Law

NAACP

LDF and South Carolina Leaders Ask U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch to Open Federal Investigations in the Aftermath of the Police Killing of Walter Scott and the Emanuel Nine Massacre

NAACP

NAACP Applauds South Carolina State Legislature for Voting to Remove Confederate Battle Flag

Color of Change

ColorOfChange Calls on South Carolina Legislators to Vote Immediately to Remove the Confederate Flag

Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA)

South Carolina Church Killings and Roots of White Supremacy

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Juan Cole

Lindsey Graham Disregards Violence Toward Women, and His State Is a Women's Murder Capital

Chase Strangio

Legislatures Gear Up to Target Transgender People. We Gear Up to Fight Back.

Chris Kromm

From Charleston to Orlando, Sanctuary and Struggle in the South

Richard Eskow

For Nine Souls in Charleston, One Year Later

Robert Borosage

South Carolina: Clinton’s 'Firewall' Holds

Derrick Z. Jackson

Hillary Clinton’s Black Conversion

Cornel West

Why Brother Bernie Is Better for Black People Than Sister Hillary

Michelle Alexander

Why Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Deserve the Black Vote

Aki Soga

How Bernie Sanders Can Win the Black Vote

Kerry Taylor

How Local Workers Brought Fight for $15 Agenda to South Carolina Democratic Debate

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