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• U.S. likely to file hate crime charges in Charleston shooting: New York Times
• New York prison escapees may have guns from cabin hideaway: police
• Live updates: Boston Marathon bomber sentencing
• At rural South Carolina flag factory, sadness and pride
• Former Facebook president Sean Parker says ‘The Social Network’ got him all wrong
• In new hostage policy, U.S. will not prosecute families for paying ransom
• White nationalists condemn church killings, identify with shooter
• A big, dark Chicago room will get a view when it goes on the market
• Boston Marathon bomber gets his chance to speak
• What went wrong for Bobby Jindal
• Boston bomber to face victims as judge orders him sentenced to death
• France summons US ambassador after spying revelations
• Lawmakers move from Confederate flag debate to grieving
• Big retailers feel pressure on Confederate flag merchandise
• Thunderstorms lash U.S. Mid-Atlantic, disrupt travel, cut power
• Arrest video reveals officers’ emotions after capturing Dylann Roof
• California can refuse anti-gay ballot initiative, judge rules
• Charleston church gunman bought pistol near home: NBC
• Autopsy shows Freddie Gray died of 'high-energy injury': Baltimore newspaper
• New York City to pay $6.25 million to man wrongly jailed for murder
• Battered, orange pick-up sought in northern Colorado shootings

U.S. likely to file hate crime charges in Charleston shooting: New York Times Posted: 24 Jun 2015 12:36 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department likely will file federal hate crime charges against the suspect in the recent South Carolina church shooting, the New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing law enforcement officials.

New York prison escapees may have guns from cabin hideaway: police Posted: 24 Jun 2015 11:31 AM PDT Two prison escapees may have at least one gun from a cache of weapons in an upstate New York cabin where they hid about 20 miles from a maximum security facility, police said on Wednesday. As the manhunt entered its 19th day, convicted killers David Sweat and Richard Matt were believed to have been last seen entering woods near the cabin in Owls Head, New York, on Saturday morning, Major Charles Guess of the New York State Police said at a press conference. More than 1,000 law enforcement officers scoured 75 square miles in rugged Franklin County, east of Clinton Correctional Facility, where the breakout was discovered on June 6.

Live updates: Boston Marathon bomber sentencing Posted: 24 Jun 2015 10:58 AM PDT Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is expected to speak for the first time about the 2013 attack.

At rural South Carolina flag factory, sadness and pride Posted: 24 Jun 2015 10:25 AM PDT When Margaree Mitchum sees the stars and stripes waving atop a flagpole, she feels more than ordinary patriotism. "I look at a flag differently now," she said Tuesday at the Valley Forge Flag factory in Lane, South Carolina, where she has worked for 14 years. Mitchum, 60, is one of more than 100 employees at Valley Forge's South Carolina factory, located about 65 miles north of Charleston on a rural back road among cotton and corn fields.

Former Facebook president Sean Parker says ‘The Social Network’ got him all wrong Posted: 24 Jun 2015 09:54 AM PDT In the Social Network, Justin Timberlake portrays former Facebook president Sean Parker as a cocky opportunist. Parker sits down with Global News Anchor Katie Couric to reflect on who the real Sean Parker is, and how he has changed since he made billions in Silicon Valley.

In new hostage policy, U.S. will not prosecute families for paying ransom Posted: 24 Jun 2015 09:03 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Wednesday released a new policy aimed at becoming more sensitive to the needs of families of U.S. hostages held abroad.

White nationalists condemn church killings, identify with shooter Posted: 24 Jun 2015 08:45 AM PDT By Tom Polansek ABBEVILLE, South Carolina (Reuters) - Leaders of America's core white supremacist groups have a laundry list of perceived grievances. Interviews with half-a-dozen prominent white nationalists reveal a movement that they say has been re-energized by such things as the election of America's first black president and, more recently, what movement leaders describe as "a siege" against white police officers. "A lot of the whites in the U.S. are starting to wake up," Robert Jones, grand dragon of the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina, said in an interview.

A big, dark Chicago room will get a view when it goes on the market Posted: 24 Jun 2015 07:37 AM PDT When CME Group Inc's futures pits in the cavernous trading floor at the Chicago Board of Trade building fall quiet next month, real estate broker Holly Duran will be working overtime to find a tenant to occupy a storied piece of America's financial history. Prospective candidates could include big trading companies like BP Plc, whose hundreds of Chicago-based traders now occupy another former CME trading floor two blocks away, or tech firms like CoCo, an incubator that brought tents and beanbags onto the floor of the former grain exchange in Minneapolis. "There's not a lot of high-ceiling unique office space in Chicago," said Duran, who has advised CME Group on its property holdings since 1980.

Boston Marathon bomber gets his chance to speak Posted: 24 Jun 2015 06:03 AM PDT A federal judge will formally sentence Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death for his role in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing on Wednesday. But first, he'll give victims and the convicted bomber a chance to speak.

What went wrong for Bobby Jindal Posted: 24 Jun 2015 05:03 AM PDT The Louisiana governor was supposed to be 'the next Ronald Reagan' - but now he barely registers in 2016 polls.

Boston bomber to face victims as judge orders him sentenced to death Posted: 24 Jun 2015 04:28 AM PDT By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Wednesday will face about 20 people who lost limbs or loved ones in the deadly 2013 attack as a federal judge sentences him to death for his crimes. The same federal jury that earlier this year found Tsarnaev guilty of killing four people and injuring 264 in the bombing and its aftermath voted in May to sentence him to death by lethal injection. The trial of Tsarnaev, 21, stirred some of Boston's darkest living memories.

France summons US ambassador after spying revelations Posted: 24 Jun 2015 02:51 AM PDT Leaked documents appear to show that the U.S. spied on the past three French presidents.

Lawmakers move from Confederate flag debate to grieving Posted: 24 Jun 2015 02:01 AM PDT COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Having agreed to consider removing the Confederate flag from South Carolina's Statehouse, lawmakers are now saying goodbye to a beloved black colleague whose slaying in a mass church shooting has reignited debate about Civil War symbols in the South.

Big retailers feel pressure on Confederate flag merchandise Posted: 24 Jun 2015 12:38 AM PDT Even as national retailers pull Confederate flags from shelves and websites after the shooting deaths of nine black church members in South Carolina, manufacturers that produce the divisive symbol say that sales are now surging.

Thunderstorms lash U.S. Mid-Atlantic, disrupt travel, cut power Posted: 23 Jun 2015 08:21 PM PDT By Ian Simpson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Powerful thunderstorms packing heavy rain and high winds lashed the U.S. Middle Atlantic area late on Tuesday, snarling travel and cutting off power to hundreds of thousands of customers. The fast-moving band of storms stretching from Virginia to southern New Jersey dumped up to an inch (2.5 cm) of rain in less than an hour in some places, said Jim Hayes, a National Weather Service meteorologist in College Park, Maryland. Private forecaster AccuWeather said the storms would reach into northern New England through the evening as a cold front intersected with hot and humid air.

Arrest video reveals officers’ emotions after capturing Dylann Roof Posted: 23 Jun 2015 06:46 PM PDT

California can refuse anti-gay ballot initiative, judge rules Posted: 23 Jun 2015 04:22 PM PDT The author of a proposed California ballot initiative advocating the murder of gays and lesbians should not be authorized to gather signatures to place it before voters, a judge in the state capital of Sacramento has ruled. "The proposed initiative titled the "Sodomite Suppression Act" ... is patently unconstitutional on its face," Superior Court Judge Raymond Cadei wrote in an order released to the public on Tuesday. California Attorney General Kamala Harris had filed a complaint against the author of the measure, which she called unconstitutional and bigoted.

Charleston church gunman bought pistol near home: NBC Posted: 23 Jun 2015 03:18 PM PDT The accused Charleston gunman, Dylann Roof, bought the semiautomatic pistol used in last week's church massacre at a South Carolina gun store about 25 miles from his home, according to NBC News, citing officials familiar with the sale. The purchase was legal despite Roof's arrest in February for illegal possession of prescription painkillers, officials told NBC. Roof's father gave him a .45-caliber Glock pistol for his birthday this year, his uncle told Reuters.

Autopsy shows Freddie Gray died of 'high-energy injury': Baltimore newspaper Posted: 23 Jun 2015 03:01 PM PDT The spinal injury to Freddie Gray, whose death in April triggered protests and rioting, was most likely caused when the police van in which he was riding suddenly decelerated, the newspaper said, citing a copy of the autopsy report. The state medical examiner's office concluded that Gray's death fit the medical and legal definition of an accident. Gray, 25, was arrested on April 12 following a foot chase by officers and suffered a severe spinal injury while in police custody.

New York City to pay $6.25 million to man wrongly jailed for murder Posted: 23 Jun 2015 02:45 PM PDT Jonathan Fleming, 53, spent about half of his life in prison for the 1989 killing of his friend Darryl Rush, which prosecutors maintained stemmed from an argument over money. After years of appeals and an internal review by the Brooklyn district attorney's office, Fleming was exonerated last year by a judge who cited telephone records, photos and witness accounts placing him in Florida at the time of the murder. New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer said in a statement the city would pay $6.25 million to settle a $162 million lawsuit filed last year.

Battered, orange pick-up sought in northern Colorado shootings Posted: 23 Jun 2015 01:39 PM PDT Federal investigators said on Tuesday a faded orange pick-up truck could be linked to a recent string of shootings that has mystified and worried residents in northern Colorado. Information on the incidents is thin, and ties between the shootings difficult to establish, but a multi-agency task force was able to release a rendering of an orange Chevrolet or GMC 1970s single-cab truck with circular headlights and black patches on the driver's side which it said was of interest in the cases. The picture was based on several interviews and the canvassing of witnesses, said David Moore, spokesman for the task force, which includes local police, county sheriffs and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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