Monday, June 22, 2015

IT News Head Lines (Yahoo News) 6/23/2015





Thousands gather on Arthur Ravenel Bridge in solidarity
People raise their hands as a show of unity as thousands of marchers meet in the middle of Charleston's main bridge after nine black church parishioners were gunned down during a Bible study, Sunday, June 21, 2015, in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton)Thousands marched in a show of unity after nine black church parishioners were gunned down.



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Apple changes tune on royalties after Swift complains
FILE - In a May 17, 2015 file photo, Taylor Swift poses in the press room with the awards for top Billboard 200 album for “1989”, top female artist, chart achievement, top artist, top Billboard 200 artist, top hot 100 artist, top digital song artist, and top streaming song (video) for “Shake It Off” at the Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, in Las Vegas. In an open letter to Apple, on Sunday, June 21, 2015, Swift criticized the company’s new streaming music service for failing to pay artists for a free three-month trial. Swift said she would withhold her 2014 album “1989” from Apple Music, which launches June 30. (Photo by Eric Jamison/Invision/AP, File)PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) — Taylor Swift has Apple changing its tune.



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Spieth wins a stunner at Chambers Bay for U.S. Open title
Jordan Spieth holds up the trophy after winning the U.S. Open golf tournament at Chambers Bay on Sunday, June 21, 2015 in University Place, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. (AP) — Jordan Spieth is halfway home to the Grand Slam, a prize only three of the biggest names in modern golf have ever chased.



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Mourning shooting victims, Charleston anguishes over 'freshness of death'
Police stand outside of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church during service in CharlestonHundreds of people packed a sweltering Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston for an emotional memorial service on Sunday just days after a gunman, identified by authorities as a 21-year-old white man, shot dead nine black church members. "We are reminded this morning about the freshness of death that comes like a thief in the night," the Reverend Norvel Goff told a mostly black congregation that swelled to about 400 people for a service remembering those killed on Wednesday in the latest U.S. mass shooting. Armed police searched bags at the door of the church, home to the oldest African-American congregation in the southern United States, and officers stood at intervals inside the church along the side of the nave and in the gallery.



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Hunt for escaped convicts heats up near New York-Pennsylvania line
New York State Police engage in a manhunt for two prisoners Richard Matt and David Sweat in Friendship New YorkHundreds of law enforcement officers stepped up their hunt in western New York state for two convicted murderers who escaped from an upstate prison more than two weeks ago, as another possible sighting of the men was reported in a new search area. The manhunt centered on the town of Friendship, located about 280 miles (450 km) southwest of the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, near the Canadian border, where the escaped convicts were serving life sentences for murder. The search in Friendship was winding down by Sunday night, but increased patrols will stay in the area, New York State Police spokesman Beau Duffy told Reuters.



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Suspect arrested in fatal shooting of New Orleans policeman
New Orleans Police Department photo of Travis Boys, the suspect for the murder of Officer Daryle HollowayPolice said a "massive" manhunt led them to Travis Boys, 33, suspected of fatally shooting Officer Daryle Holloway before escaping Holloway's police cruiser, which crashed into a utility pole. Holloway, 45, a 22-year New Orleans police veteran and father of three, was found in his department vehicle with a gunshot wound.



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Graffiti appears on Confederate statue in Charleston
A vandalized memorial honoring Confederate soldiers was covered in Charleston, S.C., on Sunday as the city continues to mourn the victims of last week's shooting massacre at a historic black church.

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Coordinated ringing of bells sends message of unity, healing
Michal Williams, 3, shakes her tambourine as she and big sister Quincy listen to the bells chiming from St. Matthew's Lutheran Church in Charleston, S.C., on Sunday, June 21, 2015. Churches around the city agreed to ring their bells at 10 a.m. in honor of nine people slain during a Bible study at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)For several minutes Sunday, the sweltering skies above this grieving city were alive with the sound of bells: high in steeples and in the hands of toddlers, all ringing and tinkling in unison to honor the nine people cut down during a Bible study at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church.



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Charleston church reopens
Worshippers pack Emanuel AME Church just days after a gunman massacred nine people.



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Denmark Vesey and a battle over history in Charleston
Some residents think a monument to a former slave who plotted a rebellion never should have been erected.



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Texas abortion law teed up for Supreme Court review
FILE - In a Tuesday July 2, 2013 file photo, pro-abortion rights supporter Yatzel Sabat, left, and anti-abortion protestor Amanda Reed demonstrate at the state Capitol in Austin, Texas. The Supreme Court is considering an emergency appeal from abortion providers in Texas, who want the justices to block two provisions of a state law that already has forced the closure of roughly half the licensed abortion clinics in the state. Ten of the remaining 19 clinics will have to shut their doors by July 1, 2015, without an order from the Supreme Court. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Abortion is back before the Supreme Court, and the justices could signal by the end of June whether they are likely to take up the biggest case on the hot-button subject in nearly a quarter-century.



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