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Violence only mars a tiny percentage of houses of worship. But the increased threat has prompted religious leaders to up security in recent years.
Talking about the deadly church shooting, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley says, "We woke up today and the heart and soul of South Carolin was broken."
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a group can not force Texas to put the Confederate flag on car license plates.
President Obama says that mass violence happens with too much frequency in America and that the issue needs to be addressed.
Charleston Police Chief Gregory Mullen announces that Dylann Roof was arrested about 245 miles north in Shelby, North Carolina.
President Obama reacts to Wednesday's mass shooting at a church in Charleston, South Carolina.
The New Jersey State AFL-CIO is outraged that the New Jersey State Supreme Court ruled against 800,000 current and retired members of the New Jersey public pension system by overturning a Superior Court decision that Gov. Chris Christie (R) violated his own law when he withheld state pension payments.
President Obama delivered remarks on the church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, that killed nine people.
The deadline has now passed for hundreds of thousands of workers and families in the Dominican Republic to register with the government and they now face the threat of becoming stateless and being deported. There is a long legacy of discrimination against Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent in the Dominican Republic. However, since a September 2013 Supreme Court ruling that revoked the citizenship of those born in the country since 1929 who could not prove their parents’ migration status, they have been facing increasing levels of violence and discrimination and reports indicate that law enforcement authorities have been “cleansing” neighborhoods of so-called undesirable elements—mainly by detaining Dominicans with Haitian features. Now, these workers and families could be deported to the Haitian border, though many may not have any ties to Haiti, speak little or no Creole, and lack eligibility for Haitian citizenship.
The government charged 243 people for Medicare fraud totaling $712 million in false billings.
