Haley: Remove Confederate flag
The SC gov. joined those calling for the flag to be removed from state Capitol grounds.Read More ...
Report: Walmart to halt sales of Confederate-flag related merchandise
Walmart will reportedly pull items displaying the Confederate flag, according to a report late Monday.Read More ...
Diddy released in arrest at UCLA, where son plays football
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South Carolina governor calls for Confederate flag's removal
CHARLESTON/COLUMBIA,
S.C. (Reuters) - South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley on Monday called
on lawmakers to take down the Confederate battle flag at the state
capitol grounds, a week after a white gunman allegedly shot dead nine
black worshipers at a historic church. The flag that has flown at the
State House grounds in Columbia for a half century became a fresh focus
of criticism after the Charleston church massacre. Federal authorities
are investigating the attack as a hate crime and an act of terrorism by
accused gunman Dylann Roof, 21, who posed with the flag in photos posted
online.Read More ...
Baltimore police face October trial for Freddie Gray death
Six
Baltimore police officers charged in the death of a black man will go
on trial on Oct. 13 in a case that sparked rioting and protests, a
spokeswoman for prosecutors said on Monday. The trial is set for
Maryland's Circuit Court for Baltimore City, the spokeswoman for State's
Attorney Marilyn Mosby said. The officers have been charged in the
April death of Freddie Gray, 25, who allegedly died from a spinal injury
suffered in police custody.Read More ...
Tornado rips up homes near Chicago, disrupts power, traffic, injures several
(Reuters) - A tornado destroyed several homes near Chicago late on Monday, injuring some people and leaving others trapped, besides forcing the closure of a highway, weather and rescue officials said, in addition to snapping power links to thousands of homes. Emergency responders in the small town of Coal City, about 60 miles (100 km) south of Chicago, reported that homes were destroyed by the storm, said Joe Schroeder, director of the Grundy County Emergency Management Agency. At least three homes had been heavily damaged in Monday night's storm, Brittany Halliday, daughter of Coal City Mayor Terry Halliday, told a regional newspaper, the Herald-News.
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Top lawmaker: Remove Confederate sign from Mississippi flag
JACKSON,
Miss. (AP) — A top Mississippi lawmaker said Monday that the
Confederate battle emblem is offensive and needs to be removed from the
state flag.Read More ...
Uniquely Nasty: The U.S. Government's War on Gays
As
the U.S. Supreme Court is preparing to rule on same-sex marriage, Yahoo
News presents a new 30-minute documentary, “Uniquely Nasty: The U.S.
Government’s War on Gays,” reported and narrated by chief investigative
correspondent Michael Isikoff. The film explores a dark and little-known
chapter in America’s recent political past, when gays and lesbians were
barred from working for the federal government and the FBI, through
its“sex deviates” program, secretly collected hundreds of thousands of
files on the sex lives of American citizens.Read More ...
Obama to give eulogy for slain Charleston pastor
President
Barack Obama on Friday will deliver the eulogy for pastor and South
Carolina state senator Clementa Pinckney, one of the nine victims of the
mass shooting at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston last week.Read More ...
Republican Presidential Candidates Say They Will Return or Donate Contributions From So-Called White Supremacist Leader
Ted
Cruz, Rand Paul, and former Sen. Rick Santorum said this morning they
would return or donate thousands of dollars possibly linked to the head
of the Council of Conservative Citizens, which the Southern Poverty Law
Center calls a white supremacist group. The group was cited in a
purported manifesto believed linked to the suspect in last week’s
massacre at a church in Charleston, South Carolina. The head of that
group, Earl Holt, appears to have made contributions to several
Republican candidates for president over the past several years or their
political action committees, including Cruz, of Texas, Paul, of
Kentucky, and former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, as well as
former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, former Rep. Michele Bachmann of
Minnesota, and other prominent Republicans.Read More ...
How small-town police foiled the accused Charleston killer’s getaway
For
13 hours and 44 minutes last week, an unemployed high school dropout
just barely of legal drinking age was the most wanted man in America.
Then in an unexpectedly mundane fashion and in an unlikely place,
alleged Charleston killer Dylann Roof’s getaway was thwarted.Read More ...
Hunt for NY escapees focuses on area near burglarized cabin
By
Pete DeMola CADYVILLE, N.Y. (Reuters) - The 2-week-old search for two
escaped murderers focused on a rural area about 20 miles away from the
upstate New York prison they fled, authorities said on Monday, after
evidence reportedly showed the pair had been inside a burglarized cabin.
CNN, citing an unidentified law enforcement source, said the escapees'
DNA was found on items in a cabin in Owls Head, New York. New York State
Police said items from the cabin were being tested for DNA, but at a
midday news conference, Major Charles Guess would not confirm the DNA of
the two convicts had been found.Read More ...
Obama in first presidential podcast: U.S. not cured of racism
The president uses the N-word to make case that the U.S. hasn't overcome its racist past.Read More ...
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