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COLUMBIA — A University of South Carolina student event featuring a pair of controversial far-right political provocateurs drew some 150 attendees. Before it started, protesters both outside the event and on Statehouse grounds criticized it as hate speech.

Unlike at other college campuses where speakers sparked protests, no violence erupted Wednesday. The small group of protesters outside the event largely dispersed before the pair took the stage, though several entered and argued with the speakers when they took the stage.

Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance vowed Wednesday to deport Haitians who were in the U.S. legally.

During a rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, a reporter asked about Vance's recent attacks on Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, who were granted Temporary Protected Status, or TPS.

If Republican presidential candidates have traditionally been seen as more closely aligned with the U.S. national security establishment — the military, the intelligence community, foreign policy experts — it’s a run that’s come to an abrupt halt in 2024.

This fact was brought home yet again today in an announcement from the Harris-Walz campaign that more than 100 Republican former national security and foreign policy officials who served in senior roles in multiple presidential administrations and in Congress are endorsing Vice President Harris for President.

A new campaign ad from Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign features sexual abuse survivor Hadley Duvall, a Kentucky woman who was raped by her stepfather and became pregnant when she was 12 years old.

Duvall says in the 30-second spot, titled “Monster” that at the time she discovered she was pregnant, she “had options” that survivors of rape and incest no longer have after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. Kentucky’s current abortion ban has no exceptions for rape or incest.

Some politicians live in fear that old, racist posts they made on social media years ago will come back to haunt them in an election year. But Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) apparently feared the exact opposite might happen to him.

According to CNN's KFILE team, in 2016, Vance, who at the time was already exploring the idea of a run for office, successfully pressured an old professor to scrub a blog post he wrote when he was a student at Yale Law, in the days immediately after former President Barack Obama was re-elected in 2012 — the central thesis of which was that Republicans were destroying their future prospects by chasing racist fantasies about deporting nonwhite people.

Scientific American magazine has endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris. It's only the second time the magazine has backed a presidential candidate in its 179-year history.

In an editorial column published on Monday, the magazine warned that Republican nominee Donald Trump "endangers public health and safety and rejects evidence, preferring instead nonsensical conspiracy fantasies."