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Updated June 18, 2015 1:08 p.m. ET CHARLESTON, S.C.—Dylann Roof—the white man suspected of killing nine people at a historic black church in an alleged hate crime here on Wednesday night—is in custody, authorities said. Mr. Roof was arrested during a traffic stop in Shelby, N.C. shortly after 11 a.m. local time Thursday following a…
President Obama spoke briefly about the church shooting in Charleston that left nine dead, in what the Department of Justice and other authorities are investigating as a hate crime. There’s no official word from the feds on what kind of hate crime, so per Fox News and other rightwing “news” outlets, it’s likely the alleged…
That was fast! It only took a few hours for Fox to toss up an editorial explaining that the best explanation of why six women and three men were shot to death in their church Wednesday night is that nobody in the church was packing heat like they should have been. Professional gunhumper and FoxNews.com columnist…
The latest season finale of Game of Thrones – ironically titled “Mother’s Mercy” (spoiler alert: there is f**k all mercy) – has left me reeling. Because in all seriousness, what’s the point now? Of course the story remains as gripping and thrilling as ever but, you know what? I simply cannot invest any more emotion…
Donald Trump‘s big presidential announcement Tuesday was made a little bigger with help from paid actors — at $50 a pop. New York-based Extra Mile Casting sent an email last Friday to its client list of background actors, seeking extras to beef up attendance at Trump’s event. “We are looking to cast people for the…
In Fairfield, Ohio, police officers were caught on camera roughing up pre-teens and a pregnant woman in bathing suits and macing them on June 9 at a pool. The incident began when Krystal Dixon says she dropped off her kids and nieces at Fairfield Aquatic Center pool but one child didn’t have a bathing suit….
Joe Stack had simply had enough. Every time this fifty-three-year-old independent engineer and software consultant from Austin, Texas, had set aside any money at all for retirement, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) seemed to change the tax laws or whittled away at his earnings with new restrictions. A change in the income-tax regulations in 1986…
Photo Charleston police released a photograph taken from surveillance footage of the man who is believed to be the gunman. Credit Charleston Police Department, via Reuters CHARLESTON, S.C. — An intense manhunt was underway on Thursday for a white gunman who opened fire on Wednesday night at a historic black church in this city’s downtown,…
Rachel Dolezal may have resigned from the NAACP but she is not stepping down from her role as a self-identified black woman. In an interview with the Today show’s Matt Lauer this morning, Dolezal confirmed that she still believes herself to be black. She later denied to MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry that she is a “con…
Over the weekend, MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry appeared to be giving Rachel Dolezal the benefit of the doubt when she asked her panel, “Is it possible that she might actually be black?” and brought up the “transracial” issue as a possible explanation. But on Tuesday, when Harris-Perry got a chance to interview the former NAACP chapter…