By Paul Ingrassia ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) – It was two minutes before midnight when Russian President Vladimir Putin finally entered the meeting room in the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library, more than three hours late, to be interviewed by a dozen exhausted journalists. “We won in a free fight and we are going to host the World Cup,” he declared, slapping away suggestions that Russia cheated with scandal-plagued FIFA to
A black drinking buddy of Dylann Roof says he told him a week earlier of his plan to shoot up a college campus.
Relatives of the Charleston church shooting victims gave emotional statements during Dylann Roof’s initial court appearance Friday, telling the accused murder suspect they forgive him.
Dylann Roof hoped that he would spark a “race war” by murdering nine African-American people in South Carolina, according to reports.
By Edward McAllister CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) – Mourners arrived in Charleston from around the United States on Saturday to pay their respects to nine black churchgoers killed in an attack this week, with services planned throughout the day ahead of a rally in the state capital later in the evening. Crowds began to gather at the Emanuel African Methodist Church, the site of Wednesday’s killings in downtown Charleston, early on
A New York state corrections officer was suspended on Friday in connection with the prison escape of two convicted murderers who have evaded capture for nearly two weeks, officials said. Authorities did not say whether they believed the corrections officer, whose name was not released, would face charges or if he was believed to have assisted in the breakout at the maximum security Clinton Correctional Facility in the upstate New
The Washington Post reported 22-year-old Christon Scriven, a black neighbor of gunman Dylann Roof, said that during a recent night of drinking, Roof said he wanted to open fire on a school. “My reaction at the time was, ‘You’re just talking crazy,’” Scriven told the Post.
Charleston County’s high-profile murder suspects Dylann Roof and Michael Slager are now cellblock neighbors.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — President Barack Obama said Friday he refuses to accept the idea that regular mass shooting are “the new normal” in America but doesn’t expect Congress to respond because of the influence of the National Rifle Association.
What do you do to lift your spirits when you’re down in the dumps? Watch TV? Listen to music? Cry and eat a pint of ice-cream? Perhaps a better solution is to simply sit outside.A connection with nature may actually help to make us happier and healthier individuals. Henry David Thoreau once wrote, “an early morning walk is a blessing for…