The South Carolina House voted in the wee hours of Thursday morning to approve a bill removing the Confederate flag from the Statehouse grounds following a contentious debate that lasted more than 13 hours. But it was a fiery 4-minute speech by Rep. Jenny Horne, a Republican state representative and descendant of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, that is being credited with moving her fellow lawmakers to agree to take it
Iran and six world powers were close to an historic nuclear agreement on Thursday that could resolve a more than 12-year dispute over Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.
It’s a stunning reversal in a state that was the first to leave the Union in 1860 and raised the flag again at its Statehouse more than 50 years ago to protest the civil rights movement.
Katie Couric takes a closer look at what many are calling the biggest book event of the decade, the July 14 publication of Harper Lee’s long lost first novel Go Set a Watchman.
CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) – South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley said she will sign a bill at 4 p.m. EDT (2000 GMT) on Thursday to remove permanently the Confederate battle flag from the state capitol grounds.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Federal marriage benefits will be made available to same-sex couples across the United States after last month’s Supreme Court ruling, Attorney General Loretta Lynch said on Thursday.
A Louisiana man convicted of murdering a Bourbon Street dancer and dismembering her body in 2012 will spend the rest of his life in prison, a state court judge said on Thursday. Judge Stephen Grefer imposed the mandatory life sentence on Terry Speaks, 42, after denying Speaks’ motion for a new trial, the judge’s law clerk, Suzanne Ciaccio, said. Speaks, who claims he once tried to kill himself and was
The man accused of killing nine people attending Bible study at a historic black church in Charleston has been indicted on three new charges of attempted murder, prosecutors said Tuesday.
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A Nobel Prize Medal for medicine awarded to German Jewish refugee Hans Krebs is to be auctioned by Sotheby’s to raise money to train scientists, the auction house said on Thursday. Krebs won the medal in 1953 when the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine was divided equally between Krebs, for his discovery of the citric acid cycle, and Fritz Lipmann, for work on enzymes. The proceeds are to be