| How small-town police foiled the accused Charleston killer’s getaway Posted: 22 Jun 2015 10:05 AM PDT  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.
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| Activists urge South Carolina capitol to take down rebel flag after massacre Posted: 22 Jun 2015 10:30 AM PDT  South Carolina should remove the Confederate battle flag from the state capitol grounds, religious and local elected leaders urged on Monday, after a white gunman last week allegedly shot dead nine black worshippers at a historic Charleston church. The demand for lawmakers to remove the rallying symbol of the pro-slavery South during the U.S. Civil War follows revelations that 21-year-old Dylann Roof, charged with Wednesday's attack on the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, had posted a racist manifesto on the Internet and posed with the flag. A group of black and white leaders called for a rally Tuesday at the State House in Columbia to bring their demand directly to lawmakers.
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| Uniquely Nasty: The U.S. Government's War on Gays Posted: 18 Jun 2015 12:18 PM PDT  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.
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| Republican Presidential Candidates Say They Will Return or Donate Contributions From So-Called White Supremacist Leader Posted: 22 Jun 2015 10:25 AM PDT  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.
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| Hunt for NY escapees focuses on area near burglarized cabin Posted: 22 Jun 2015 10:09 AM PDT  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.
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| War crimes likely by both sides in 2014 Gaza war: UN Posted: 22 Jun 2015 10:41 AM PDT  Both Israel and Palestinian militants may have committed war crimes during last year's Gaza war, a widely anticipated United Nations report said Monday, decrying "unprecedented" devastation and human suffering. The Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza conflict announced it had received "credible allegations" that both sides had committed war crimes during the conflict, which killed more than 2,140 Palestinians, most of them civilians, and 73 people on the Israeli side, mostly soldiers. "The extent of the devastation and human suffering in Gaza was unprecedented and will impact generations to come," said the chair of the commission, New York judge Mary McGowan Davis.
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| Obama in first presidential podcast: U.S. not cured of racism Posted: 22 Jun 2015 05:30 AM PDT  The president uses the N-word to make case that the U.S. hasn't overcome its racist past.
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| Spieth wins a stunner at Chambers Bay for U.S. Open title Posted: 21 Jun 2015 09:20 PM PDT  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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| Obama, on podcast, says of racism: 'We're not cured of it' Posted: 22 Jun 2015 06:43 AM PDT  U.S. President Barack Obama, in a podcast posted online on Monday, used the N word to emphasize his point that the United States has made progress in eliminating racism but there was still more work to do. Obama discussed race and gun control as part of the hour-long podcast interview, in the aftermath of the shooting deaths a week ago of nine black people at a church in South Carolina, allegedly by a 21-year-old white man with racist sentiments. "I always tell young people in particular: 'Do not say that nothing's changed when it comes to race in America unless you lived through being a black man in the 1950s or '60s or '70s,'" Obama told Mark Maron, host of the "WTF" podcast.
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| Graffiti appears on Confederate statue in Charleston Posted: 21 Jun 2015 11:44 AM PDT 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. |
| Coordinated ringing of bells sends message of unity, healing Posted: 21 Jun 2015 06:17 PM PDT  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 Posted:  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 Posted:  Some residents think a monument to a former slave who plotted a rebellion never should have been erected.
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