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North Carolina man charged in plot to kill Americans for Islamic State

A North Carolina man has been charged with an alleged plot to buy a semiautomatic rifle which he planned to use to kill Americans to show his support for the Islamic State militant group, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Monday. Justin Nojan Sullivan, 19, of Morganton, North Carolina, who was arrested Friday, is due to appear in federal court in Charlotte at noon (1600 GMT), said a spokeswoman

Mourning shooting victims, Charleston anguishes over 'freshness of death'

Hundreds of people packed a sweltering Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston for an emotional memorial service on Sunday just days after a gunman, identified by authorities as a 21-year-old white man, shot dead nine black church members. “We are reminded this morning about the freshness of death that comes like a thief in the night,” the Reverend Norvel Goff told a mostly black congregation that swelled to about

North Carolina man charged in plot to kill Americans for Islamic State

A North Carolina man has been charged with an alleged plot to buy a semiautomatic rifle which he planned to use to kill Americans to show his support for the Islamic State militant group, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Monday. Justin Nojan Sullivan, 19, of Morganton, North Carolina, who was arrested Friday, is due to appear in federal court in Charlotte at noon (1600 GMT), said a spokeswoman

Vitamin D deficiency not the cause of heart disease: study

The belief that Vitamin D deficiency caused by lack of sunshine provokes heart disease and winter deaths has been challenged by researchers in Scotland. Vitamin D levels, says the research team hailing from the University of Dundee, are not a key factor in cardiovascular disease and winter deaths. In 1981 the Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit in Ninewells Hospital in Dundee was founded to uncover what causes the excess of heart disease