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Frances Robles / New York Times:
Dylann Storm Roof Photos Found on Website — COLUMBIA, S.C. — A website with a white supremacist manifesto features dozens of photos of Dylann Storm Roof, the man accused of killing nine people at a church in Charleston, S.C., posing with weapons, burning an American flag …
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Brendan O'Connor / Gawker:
Here Is What Appears to Be Dylann Roof's Racist Manifesto — Via Twitter users @HenryKrinkle and @EMQuangel, here is what appears to be Charleston shooter Dylann Roof's racist manifesto. “The event that truly awakened me was the Trayvon Martin case,” the author of this document writes.
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
S.C. state lawmaker: I'll introduce bill to take down Confederate flag — South Carolina state Rep. Norman “Doug” Brannon (R) said Friday night he plans on introducing a bill to remove the Confederate flag near his state's capitol building. — The legislation was inspired …
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The Daily Beast:
Alleged Dylann Roof Manifesto Found — A website that appears to have been created by Dylann Roof was found Saturday morning. The “Last Rhodesian” was registered in February 2015. (On his Facebook account, Roof wore a Rhodesian flag in a photo taken before his alleged attack Wednesday on a Charleston black church.)
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Michael Daly / The Daily Beast:
Racist Talk from Dylann Roof's Judge — The judge who called for sympathy for shooter Dylann Roof's family members has a history of racist language in the courtroom. — Charleston County Magistrate James B. Gosnell began Friday's bond hearing for mass-murderer Dylann Roof by declaring …
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Obama: I'm not giving up on guns — ‘I refuse to act as if this is the new normal,’ Obama tells conference of mayors. — SAN FRANCISCO—Wrapping together his frustrations with the country's continuing problems with racism and his own inability to make progress on gun control in the wake …
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Walbert Castillo / CNN:
Lindsey Graham on Charleston shooter: 'It's him ... not the flag' — (CNN)South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham blames 21-year-old Dylann Roof, the man who shot and killed nine African Americans praying in Charleston, for his actions, and the presidential hopeful doesn't want the Confederate flag to be used as an excuse.
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Timothy Egan / New York Times:
Apologize for Slavery — A WEEK of absurdity around a confused racial con artist, and a massacre in a black church brings us to this: Today is the 150th anniversary of Juneteenth, when the last of the American slaves were told they were free. Now, to put it to good use, at a time when a post-racial era seems very much out of reach.
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Hunter / Daily Kos:
The National Review grapples with Confederate flag love — You know things are bad when the pro-segregation rag National Review is locked in their own debate over whether the Confederate flag should or shouldn't come down in places like South Carolina. On the “get rid of it” side is Reihan Salam …
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Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:
An NRA board member blamed the pastor killed in Charleston for the deaths of his members
An NRA board member blamed the pastor killed in Charleston for the deaths of his members
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Scott Eric Kaufman / Salon:
Lindsey Graham: The Confederate flag is “part of who we are” in South Carolina — even if “it's a racist symbol”
Lindsey Graham: The Confederate flag is “part of who we are” in South Carolina — even if “it's a racist symbol”
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama thinks Confederate flag ‘belongs in a museum’
Obama thinks Confederate flag ‘belongs in a museum’
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Bloomberg Business:
Weekend of Fear in Greece as Monday Brings Salvation or Ruin — Dorothea Lambros stood outside an HSBC branch in central Athens on Friday afternoon, an envelope stuffed with cash in one hand and a 38,000 euro ($43,000) cashier's check in the other. — She was a few minutes too late to make her deposit at the London-based bank.
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Tyler Durden / Zero Hedge:
“Bank Holiday” Preparations Begin In Greece, Lines Form At Athens ATMs
“Bank Holiday” Preparations Begin In Greece, Lines Form At Athens ATMs
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Danielle Paquette / Washington Post:
Conservatives frustrated by GOP's drop in working women's votes — The trend that worries conservative thinker Sabrina Schaeffer is this: Three elections ago, nearly half of all working mothers chose George W. Bush. In 2008, the share dropped to 40 percent for Sen. John McCain.
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Orem Owlz News List:
Owlz Cancel Event — You may have read that the Orem Owlz had long ago scheduled Caucasian Heritage Night as one of its 38 promotions. — Minor League Baseball, and the Orem Owlz, is about baseball, togetherness and family fun for all fans of all races, religions, and orientations.
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