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Joe Biden Back On Election Campaign Trail As Pressure From Democrats Mounts
Embattled US President Joe Biden sought out safe ground Sunday, courting Black voters at a church as he hit the campaign trail to salvage his reelection bid and silence growing calls to quit.
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16-Year-Old Arrested On Suspicion Of Planning Attack On African-American Church In US
A 16-year-old high school student was arrested on suspicion of planning to attack black people at a predominantly African-American church in the southeastern U.S. state of Georgia, police said on Tuesday.
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"His Dog Doesn't Like Black People", US Priest's Staff Told Housekeeper
The home of a Catholic priest was the last place LaShundra Allen ever would have expected to be denied work because of her skin color, she said. Allen, who is black, arrived with her white co-worker the morning of May 3 for what was supposed to be her first day cleaning the Rev. Jacek Kowal's rectory at the Catholic Church of the Incarnation in Col...
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Months After Fatal US Police Shooting, Young Officer Turns Gun On Himself
On the morning of the funeral, scores of police officers and sheriff's deputies filed toward the front of St. Theresa Catholic Church, silently saluting as they passed a black plaque and a silver urn.
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Good Friday 2017: History And Significance
Good Friday is a Christian holiday commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and his death at Calvary. It is observed during Holy Week as part of the Paschal Triduum on the Friday preceding Easter Sunday, and may coincide with the Jewish observance of Passover. It is also known as Holy Friday, Great Friday, Black Friday, or Easter Friday. It i...
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US Jury Sentences Charleston Church Shooter Dylann Roof To Death
A US jury on Tuesday sentenced Dylann Roof, the self-described white supremacist who gunned down nine black worshippers in a South Carolina church, to death over the June 2015 massacre.
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US Judge Halts South Carolina Church Shooting Jury Selection
A federal judge on Monday postponed jury selection in the US death penalty trial of the 22-year-old white man accused of shooting nine people to death at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, last year.
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FBI Probes Fire And 'Vote Trump' Graffiti At Mississippi Church
A black church in Greenville, Mississippi, caught fire and was spray-painted with the words "Vote Trump" a week before the US presidential election, police said on Wednesday.
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My Worries Are Not The Same As Black Grandmothers, Says Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton told a majority-black church in North Carolina on Sunday that she knows her grandchildren are growing up in a different world than many black youth in the US who are concerned about police shootings and gun violence in their communities.
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Donald Trump Courts Black Voters With Visit To Detroit Church
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump promised African Americans prosperity and jobs Saturday in a tempered speech to black churchgoers in a US city famous as a symbol of economic and urban decline.
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US Prosecutors To Seek Death Penalty For Charleston Church Shooter
US prosecutors will seek the death penalty for the gunman suspected of killing nine black churchgoers in South Carolina last year, Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced Tuesday.
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Charleston Street Renamed to Memorialize US Church Shooting Victims
The nine black victims massacred by a white man in a church in the US city of Charleston were remembered Wednesday in a ceremony renaming the area around the church.
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Alleged South Carolina Church Shooter to Face US Hate Crime Charges: Reports
The man charged in the deaths of nine black churchgoers in a Charleston, South Carolina, shooting last month will face federal hate crime charges, medial outlets reported on Wednesday, citing US law enforcement sources.
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US Probe Sees No Links Among Black Church Fires in South
Federal law enforcement officials have found no links among any of several recent fires at African American churches in the US South and have determined that two were started by natural causes and one was due to an electrical fire.
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US Black Church Fire Stokes Arson Fears
An overnight fire that destroyed a small-town African-American church in South Carolina once torched by Ku Klux Klan members is reviving fears that arsonists are targeting places of worship with black congregations.
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Joe Biden Back On Election Campaign Trail As Pressure From Democrats Mounts
Embattled US President Joe Biden sought out safe ground Sunday, courting Black voters at a church as he hit the campaign trail to salvage his reelection bid and silence growing calls to quit.
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16-Year-Old Arrested On Suspicion Of Planning Attack On African-American Church In US
A 16-year-old high school student was arrested on suspicion of planning to attack black people at a predominantly African-American church in the southeastern U.S. state of Georgia, police said on Tuesday.
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"His Dog Doesn't Like Black People", US Priest's Staff Told Housekeeper
The home of a Catholic priest was the last place LaShundra Allen ever would have expected to be denied work because of her skin color, she said. Allen, who is black, arrived with her white co-worker the morning of May 3 for what was supposed to be her first day cleaning the Rev. Jacek Kowal's rectory at the Catholic Church of the Incarnation in Col...
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Months After Fatal US Police Shooting, Young Officer Turns Gun On Himself
On the morning of the funeral, scores of police officers and sheriff's deputies filed toward the front of St. Theresa Catholic Church, silently saluting as they passed a black plaque and a silver urn.
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Good Friday 2017: History And Significance
Good Friday is a Christian holiday commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and his death at Calvary. It is observed during Holy Week as part of the Paschal Triduum on the Friday preceding Easter Sunday, and may coincide with the Jewish observance of Passover. It is also known as Holy Friday, Great Friday, Black Friday, or Easter Friday. It i...
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US Jury Sentences Charleston Church Shooter Dylann Roof To Death
A US jury on Tuesday sentenced Dylann Roof, the self-described white supremacist who gunned down nine black worshippers in a South Carolina church, to death over the June 2015 massacre.
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US Judge Halts South Carolina Church Shooting Jury Selection
A federal judge on Monday postponed jury selection in the US death penalty trial of the 22-year-old white man accused of shooting nine people to death at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, last year.
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FBI Probes Fire And 'Vote Trump' Graffiti At Mississippi Church
A black church in Greenville, Mississippi, caught fire and was spray-painted with the words "Vote Trump" a week before the US presidential election, police said on Wednesday.
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My Worries Are Not The Same As Black Grandmothers, Says Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton told a majority-black church in North Carolina on Sunday that she knows her grandchildren are growing up in a different world than many black youth in the US who are concerned about police shootings and gun violence in their communities.
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Donald Trump Courts Black Voters With Visit To Detroit Church
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump promised African Americans prosperity and jobs Saturday in a tempered speech to black churchgoers in a US city famous as a symbol of economic and urban decline.
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US Prosecutors To Seek Death Penalty For Charleston Church Shooter
US prosecutors will seek the death penalty for the gunman suspected of killing nine black churchgoers in South Carolina last year, Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced Tuesday.
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Charleston Street Renamed to Memorialize US Church Shooting Victims
The nine black victims massacred by a white man in a church in the US city of Charleston were remembered Wednesday in a ceremony renaming the area around the church.
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Alleged South Carolina Church Shooter to Face US Hate Crime Charges: Reports
The man charged in the deaths of nine black churchgoers in a Charleston, South Carolina, shooting last month will face federal hate crime charges, medial outlets reported on Wednesday, citing US law enforcement sources.
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US Probe Sees No Links Among Black Church Fires in South
Federal law enforcement officials have found no links among any of several recent fires at African American churches in the US South and have determined that two were started by natural causes and one was due to an electrical fire.
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US Black Church Fire Stokes Arson Fears
An overnight fire that destroyed a small-town African-American church in South Carolina once torched by Ku Klux Klan members is reviving fears that arsonists are targeting places of worship with black congregations.
