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The Latest Breaking News from Dylann Roof

The desperate terrorist

A new book attempts to make sense of why the March 15 terrorist did what he did

Newsroom.co.nz

‘Indecency has become a new hallmark’: writer and historian Jelani Cobb on race in Donald Trump’s America

In a new essay collection, the dean of Columbia University’s graduate school of journalism makes a compelling argument that everything is connected and nothing is inevitable about racial justice or democracy

The Guardian - US

Supreme Court Declines To Address Section 230 in Two Cases for This Term

Weakening or removing Section 230 would not fix the problems of social media, and in fact it could make things worse.

Reason

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Pastor linked to Lutheran church group also linked to neo-Confederate movement

John Eidsmoe, associated with Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, has history with public defenses of Confederacy

The Guardian - US

The term ‘lone gunman’ ignores the structures that enable violence

When shots rang out in Minnesota, targeting state Democratic politicians, the headlines quickly followed a familiar script: a mentally unstable suspect and the well-worn label “lone gunman.”

The Conversation

Trump vows to pursue death penalty ‘vigorously’ after Biden commutations

Trump can’t reverse commutations of 37 people but says US will be ‘Nation of Law and Order’ when he is inaugurated

The Guardian - US

Trump has Christmas Eve meltdown over Biden’s commutation of nearly every federal death row prisoner’s sentence

Less than a month before Trump takes office, Biden removed 37 people from death row who were all convicted of murder charges

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The three federal death row inmates Biden chose not to save

Outgoing president decided to spare 37 condemned prisoners from the death chamber – but not three others

The Independent UK

Victims and families react as Biden spares the lives of 37 federal death row inmates

Victims’ families and others affected by crimes that resulted in federal death row convictions are sharing a range of emotions, from relief to anger, after President Joe Biden commuted dozens of the sentences

The Independent UK

Joe Biden Left Three Killers Off His Lengthy Death Row Commute List

Robert Bowers, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, and Dylann Roof remain in death row

Latin Times

Why Biden should empty federal death row

Biden should not leave anyone on federal death row when Donald Trump takes office

Salon

Terrorism Charge Against Suspected UnitedHealthcare CEO Killer Luigi Mangione Sparks Social Media Outrage: 'Absolutely F--king Ridiculous'

Social media users banded together again to support the alleged CEO killer after it was announced he faces life in prison without parole if convicted for terrorism.

Latin Times

Assassination attempt or domestic terrorism? Why Trump’s shooting poses a problem for the FBI

Experts weigh in as the FBI investigates Thomas Crooks’ assassination attempt

The Independent UK

2024 is a battle over white supremacy

There is a reason why Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis pander to racists with false histories of the Civil War

Salon

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Roll Call

Biden to take campaign against Trump to church where white gunman killed nine - Roll Call

President Joe Biden will take his message targeting Donald Trump to South Carolina on Monday as 2024 race heats up.

The Guardian - US

Nikki Haley’s comment on the US civil war was no gaffe

When asked about the cause of the civil war, she failed to mention slavery once. That is no surprise

Al Jazeera

US presidential hopeful Haley fails to say slavery caused Civil War

The GOP presidential contender later amended her response to a question from an attendee at a campaign event.

The Conversation

Today's white working-class young men who turn to racist violence are part of a long, sad American history

In recent years, the United States has seen a surge of white supremacist mass shootings against racial minorities. While not always the case, mass shooters tend to be young white men.

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Salon

Tree of Life and the death penalty

"Vengeance is mine, says the Lord": When people are murdered in a house of worship, we should remember that

Tribune News Service

Francis Wilkinson: Tennessee politics and US gun policies are both warped by racism

The removal of two Black lawmakers from the Tennessee legislature last week, for disrupting proceedings in the state House of Representatives during protests of inaction on gun violence, dispensed with racial symbolism and dog whistles. It was a raw racial drama, an overt and aggressive complement to the racial realities…

The Independent UK

Biden's Justice Dept. keeps hard line in death row cases

An Associated Press review of dozens of legal filings shows that President Joe Biden’s Justice Department is fighting just as vigorously as Donald Trump's did to uphold death row inmates' sentences, despite Biden's opposition to capital punishment

Salon

Nikki Haley's diet-MAGA problem

The race politics of the GOP have only become rawer and more aggressive with each election

WEKU

How the politics of race will play a key role in Nikki Haley's 2024 campaign

Haley is a woman of color who led South Carolina in taking down the Confederate flag from its state capitol. That makes campaigning complex in the party of Trump.

Daily Mirror

Donald Trump first challenger announces Republican candidacy for US president in 2024

Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor, is the first Republican to put herself forward to take on Donald Trump in the competition to lead the Republican Party into the 2024 elections

The Independent UK

Joe Biden called for an end to executions. So why is his DoJ seeking it in the case of Sayfullo Saipov?

Biden administration has offered mixed signals on capital punishment

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