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Second wildfire in the Myrtle Beach area now 100% contained, officials say A wildfire ignited in Carolina Forest on March 28, and officials said this a different blaze than the one that has scorched more than 2,000 acres since March 1.

DYK: We had a second wildfire in the Myrtle Beach, South Carolina area recently. Crazy stuff 😅🔥
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The Staffers Helping Elon Musk Dismantle and Downsize the U.S. Government, One Agency at a Time Musk and his lieutenants are reshaping the government and its mission with the blessing of President Trump. ProPublica has confirmed the names and roles of more than 30 staffers affiliated with the bi...

We have received hundreds of tips from readers. Many have helped us identify the people helping Musk, who has not been elected to any office, force out government employees and shutter federal offices. @propublica.org
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Myrtle Beach wants minor league baseball, but a new stadium lease isn't a given. Here's why. Myrtle Beach leaders have supported a potential $20M deal to keep minor league baseball in the city. But county leaders have not decided if they'll support it.

NEW: Myrtle Beach leaders want to keep minor league baseball in the city. But who will pay for $20 million in stadium improvements? Here's what we know so far.⚾🏖️
#SouthCarolina #MyrtleBeach #baseball #news
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Here's the $20M plan to keep the Myrtle Beach Pelicans in the heart of the Grand Strand Horry County's Myrtle Beach Pelicans may continue playing baseball for the next 20 years if local governments are willing to pay for $20M in stadium upgrades.

NEW: The Myrtle Beach Pelicans could keep playing baseball in the city for the next 20 years, if the team & local leaders can finalize a $20m deal. Check out our story!🏖️⚾ #news #baseball #southcarolina
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Chase opens its first Myrtle Beach retail branch. More are planned for the area. Chase opened its first retail branch in the Myrtle Beach area at 8006 North Kings Hwy., marking its initial expansion along the Grand Strand and the Carolinas.

Chase bank opened its first retail branch in the Myrtle Beach area. They expect to open nine more in the next three years along the Grand Strand up into North Carolina.
#southcarolina #myrtlebeach

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Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Expected to Examine Another Treasury System Next Week The new target, sources said, is a sensitive database that tracks the flow of money across the government.

SCOOP: Elon Musk’s DOGE Is expected to examine another Treasury system next week. The new target, sources said, is a sensitive database that tracks the flow of money across the government.
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Court rules Facebook not liable for radicalizing Emanuel AME shooter. Attorneys say fight isn't over. Jennifer Pinckney, a survivor of the racist 2015 Emanuel AME massacre on Calhoun St, will continue to seek to hold Meta accountable for radicalizing Dylan Roof.

A federal appeals court has dismissed the lawsuit that a survivor of the racist massacre at Charleston's Emanuel AME Church filed against Facebook's parent company.

But the survivor, Jennifer Pinckney, isn't giving up.
#SouthCarolina #news #Charleston
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Thanks, Nicole!!

Fearing the deportation of their friends and family, protesters speak out in Myrtle Beach As immigrants in South Carolina brace for the Trump Administration’s mass deportation plan, Myrtle Beach-area teens protested in the city's downtown on Feb. 3.

"We're here protesting for those who can't, for those who are scared for their future."🗽

As immigrants in South Carolina brace for the Trump Admin’s mass deportation plan, dozens of local US-born teens protested in downtown Myrtle Beach.

#news #immigration
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Trump expected to withdraw US from UN Human Rights Council, Reuters reports U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to announce on Feb. 4 that the United States will withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council and extend a freeze on funding for the U.N. agency for P...

U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to announce on Feb. 4 that the United States will withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council and extend a freeze on funding for the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, a White House official told Reuters.

‘Very retaliatory’: the federal workers caught up in Trump’s DEI purge Employees condemn ‘unprecedented and scary’ effort to push out those who had worked on diversity programs Jeremy Wood thought he was safe from the shuttering of federal government diversity initiatives that he expected to start as soon as Donald Trump…

‘Very retaliatory’: the federal workers caught up in Trump’s DEI purge