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Authorities said Saturday that the man accused of killing nine African Americans in a venerable Charleston, S.C., church left a racist manifesto targeting blacks, Jews and Hispanics on his Web site, a white supremacist broadside that also appears to offer a rationale for the shootings.Read full article >>

Authorities said Saturday that the man accused of killing nine African Americans in a venerable Charleston, S.C. church left a racist manifesto targeting blacks, Jews and Hispanics on his web site, a denunciation that appears to offer a rationale for the shootings. Read full article >>

MAJDAL SHAMS, Golan Heights — From their hilltop cherry orchards, members of Israel’s minority Druze population come to watch and worry about their cousins in Syria, whose towns just a few miles away are now surrounded by jihadist rebels.Read full article >>

This post has been updated.Mitt Romney, the Republican Party's 2012 presidential nominee, strongly condemned the flying of the Confederate flag on the grounds of the South Carolina state capitol on Saturday, prompting current GOP candidates to weigh in on a subject controversial across the "First in the South" primary state.Read full article >>

This post has been updated.Mitt Romney, the Republican Party's 2012 presidential nominee, strongly condemned the flying of the Confederate flag on the grounds of the South Carolina state capitol on Saturday, putting pressure on current GOP candidates to weigh in on a controversial subject in the "First in the South" primary state.Read full article >>

Summer officially begins Sunday, but the days will begin to shorten.

The Rev. James Coleman still wonders about the white man who came to church.The unfamiliar face showed up one Sunday at All Nations Baptist Church on Washington’s North Capitol Street, a once-working-class neighborhood fast filling up with condominiums. The stranger walked into the early-morning Sunday school class and stayed all through the service — but he kept to himself and never said a word. Finally, the pastor asked the man what had brought him there that day.Read full article >>

The Rev. James Coleman still wonders about the white man who came to church.The unfamiliar face showed up one Sunday at All Nations Baptist Church on Washington’s North Capitol Street, a once-working-class neighborhood fast filling up with condominiums. The stranger walked into the early-morning Sunday school class and stayed all through the service — but he kept to himself and never said a word. Finally, the pastor asked the man what had brought him there that day. Read full article >>

At least three people are dead after an SUV crashed into a crowd gathered in a town square for a Formula 1 event in Graz, Austria, multiple sources report. At least 34 more were injured.#graz@Austria_UK#crazydriver scene today at #hauptplatz pic.twitter.com/UMY73ybB54Read full article >>

When, as now appears likely, Greece financially separates from Europe, it will at one level be no one’s fault. The Greek leaders will rightly explain that having imposed more austerity on themselves than any industrial country has suffered since the Depression, they could not do more without light at the end of tunnel in the form of a clear commitment to debt relief. European leaders will rightly explain that they adjusted their positions repeatedly to accommodate the Greeks. They will stress that... Читать дальше...

A clearer portrait has begun to emerge of Dylann Roof, the 21-year-old high school dropout accused of gunning down nine parishioners in a historic African American church in Charleston, S.C.Roof, whose alleged actions are also being investigated as a hate crime, has been charged with nine counts of murder.Read full article >>

Greece's government doesn't have enough money to pay back what it owes, but the bigger problem is that Greece's banks might not either. And that's the real reason Greece might be forced out of the euro.Read full article >>

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Church is a sanctuary.“Is something missing from your life?” Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church asked on its Web site, inviting one and all to its weekly Bible study. “Are you doing all you can to have a closer relationship with God? . . . Join us on Wednesdays at 6:00 p.m. in the lower level. . . .”Read full article >>

The nation’s surveillance court this month faced for the first time the issue of whether the newly minted USA Freedom Act requires that a technical expert be appointed in a case involving a novel or significant issue, and the court ruled that it doesn’t.Read full article >>

CHARLESTON, S.C. — President Obama challenged the nation Friday to confront the “terrible toll of gun violence” a day after a white man opened fire in a historic black church, killing nine people whose mourning relatives addressed the alleged killer for the first time with a message of despair and forgiveness.Read full article >>

UNIVERSITY PLACE, WASH. — Jordan Spieth is the only 21-year-old who should be carded just to make sure he isn’t a whole lot older. When you’re 21, in the lead at the U.S. Open and you make a double-bogey on a hole that you think is “dumb,” it’s supposed to frazzle your young golfing mind.Read full article >>

Now come Greeks bearing the gift of confirmation that Margaret Thatcher was right about socialist governments: “They always run out of other people’s money.” Greece, from whose ancient playwrights Western drama descends, is in an absurdist melodrama about securing yet another cash infusion from international creditors. This would add another boulder to a mountain of debt almost twice the size of Greece’s gross domestic product. This protracted dispute will result in desirable carnage if Greece defaults... Читать дальше...

The horrific murders of nine African Americans as they prayed in a Charleston, S.C., church, allegedly shot by a hate-filled racist on a genocidal purge, have left me searching for words. How does one comment upon an event that is beyond comprehension? How could the shooter sit for an hour of Bible study and prayer with the very people he intended to kill? Suspect Dylann Roof, now in custody, made his mission clear when 26-year-old Tywanza Sanders tried to talk him out of shooting his aunt, Susie Jackson. Читать дальше...

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Joseph P. Riley Jr. has spent nearly 40 years as mayor of this mecca of Southern culture, an era defined by vibrant growth, his steady grip on power and his courtly, bespectacled presence. The serenity of his final chapter in office ended Wednesday.Read full article >>

IN 1920, for the first time in history, women across the United States made their way into the voting booth. One hundred years later, a woman may make her way onto the country’s paper money. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew announced Wednesday that Treasury’s 2020 redesign of the $10 bill will feature a female portrait. Though the news of Alexander Hamilton’s possible ousting is unwelcome, including women on United States paper currency is a first step forward and should not be the last. As Treasury alters its bills... Читать дальше...

The Korean math prodigy at one of the nation’s top high schools had Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg on the phone, personally encouraging the teenager to attend Harvard University. She received letters from Harvard professors, encouraging her to bring her brilliant abilities to Cambridge next fall instead of accepting her admission to Stanford University on the opposite coast.Read full article >>

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. By 2012, only about a third backed Mitt Romney.Read full article >>

The Obama administration will seek tougher fuel-economy standards for the nation’s heavy trucks and buses as part of its expanded effort to cut down on pollutants blamed for the warming of the planet, officials said Friday.Read full article >>

KABUL — As he listened, Wali Mohammad Darwazi’s worst fears came true. His 23-year-old son, Mohammad Rafi, had vanished two months before with several former classmates from Kabul University. Now, Darwazi was on the phone with one of the classmates, whom he had reached in Syria. Read full article >>