By Seanna Adcox | Editor-in-chief
Happy Friday! This is the last day of early voting for Tuesday’s GOP primary runoff for U.S. Senate between Darline Graham and Ralph Norman. Early voting centers close at 5 p.m.
Statewide, 43,770 people total voted yesterday and Wednesday, according to state Election Commission data. (There are 3.4 million registered voters in South Carolina.)
President Donald Trump will be at a rally tonight in Myrtle Beach for Graham. Norman is holding a town hall event in Anderson, where the state GOP had intended to host a Stump Stop with the candidates.
“The use has been through the roof.” - Brice Bible, chief of information technology at the University of South Carolina, on students’ and employees’ usage of ChatGPT over the last year.
The McKissick Museum on the University of South Carolina campus. (Photo courtesy of USC)
By Jessica Holdman
University of South Carolina students and staff gobbled up 30 million credits on ChatGPT last school year — 30 times what it was contracted for — making it one of the top college users on the platform in the country. As a result, USC had to pump the brakes this school year on what was unfettered use.
A veteran waves from a housing unit built exclusively for veterans by a Utah-based nonprofit. National veteran homelessness reached a record low in 2025. (Photo Courtesy of USA Project Valor)
By Robbie Sequeira with Stateline
Nationwide, 32,495 veterans were homeless in January 2025, according to the latest point-in-time report. That’s only slightly down from the year before. But it’s a 56% drop since 2010, which is certainly a positive trend. This national article comes from our affiliate Stateline. I’ve inserted a sidebar on South Carolina’s numbers.
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