Mother of Charleston church shooter said “I’m sorry” as she suffered a heart attack while listening to testimony against her son CHARLESTON, S.C. — The mother of accused Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof suffered a heart attack after hearing heart-wrenching testimony in his federal murder trial, a defense lawyer said. Roof’s mother collapsed and said […]
Stockholm (dpa) – Rock legend Bob Dylan said he had never considered winning the Nobel Literature award and was “honoured” to join “giants of literature” like Rudyard Kipling and Thomas Mann in a speech read on his behalf Saturday at the Nobel banquet. “If someone had ever told me that I had the slightest chance
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USABALTIMORE — Army quarterback Ahmad Bradshaw scored the go-ahead touchdown midway through the fourth quarter and the Black Knights ended a 14-game losing streak against Navy with a 21-17 victory in their 117th meeting on Saturday. Fullback Andy Davidson rushed for a pair of touchdowns and the Black Knights (7-5) amassed 316 yards on the
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Sports & Competitions, USABALTIMORE — Nearly two hundred people marched around M&T Bank Stadium Saturday to protest the appearance of President-elect Donald Trump at the Army-Navy football game. Demonstrators denounced the Republican’s positions and rhetoric on immigration and minorities. Trump campaigned on promises to deport millions of undocumented immigrants, build a wall along the Southwest Border and bar
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Sports & Competitions, USAThe notorious Stanford University band will be suspended through next spring after administrators found “a systemic cultural problem” in the student group that has “not been taken seriously by the band or its leadership.” The punishment stops all band activities, both on and off campus. Students who flout the order could be disciplined individually. “Nothing
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USACongress has passed legislation enabling the transfer of the ancient skeleton called Kennewick Man from the federal government to Native American tribes for burial. The bill was sent to President Barack Obama, who is expected to sign it into law. Last year, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., introduced a provision to the Water Infrastructure Improvements for
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USAAfter recent comments from a United States Navy Admiral skewering their son’s position to protest the national anthem, Colin Kaepernick’s parents are coming out to defend their son. During a 75th anniversary remembrance of the attack on Pearl Habor in 1941, U.S. Navy Admiral Harry Harris made a not so subtle dig at Kaepernick. “You
Rival parties are expected to clash over the role Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn will play as acting president. The opposition side insists that Hwang should also step down, taking joint responsibility for the current political turmoil, triggered by the corruption scandal involving President Park Geun-hye and her confidant Choi Soon-sil. However, the ruling party is
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InternationalSouth Korea’s parliament has voted to impeach president Park Guen-hye over a corruption scandal, immediately suspending her powers. 234 out of the national assembly’s 300 lawmakers supported impeachment. The vote, which effectively ends Park’s presidency a year early, will see her authority pass to the Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn. The president’s fate now lies with
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InternationalWASHINGTON/NEW YORK – U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has asked senior Goldman Sachs banker Gary Cohn to coordinate economic policy across his administration, turning to Wall Street for expertise in managing the world’s largest economy, NBC News reported on Friday. Trump’s pick of Cohn, 56, the firm’s president and chief operating officer, to head his White
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USAWashington (dpa) – US president-elect Donald Trump is naming Australian-American Andrew Liveris, chairman and chief executive of Dow Chemical Company, to lead a panel to promote US manufacturing. The “American Manufacturing Council” will be “tasked with finding ways to bring industry back to America,” Trump said at a rally with supporters late Friday in Grand
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International, USASantos collects Nobel Prize in Oslo for deal with FARC Quotes anti-war song by Bob Dylan, 2016 literature winner Hopes Colombian deal can inspire peace talks elsewhere Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said an accord to end a 52-year civil war with Marxist rebels was a “ray of hope” for solving conflicts from Syria to
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International, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsDecember 9 is the anniversary of one of those epochal events that shaped the modern world. The fall of Jerusalem, in 1917, during World War I. A Christian-led army — the British — took charge of the Holy City for the first time since the Crusades. Their defeat of the Ottoman Turks opened up the
Washington (dpa) – US President Barack Obama has ordered an intelligence review of “malicious cyber activity” during the US presidential election, the White House said Friday. US intelligence agencies in October pinned hacking of Democratic Party targets on the Russian government. Since then, concerns about Moscow’s attempts to influence the election have continued to grow.
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