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Last updated on January 19, 2016Jan 18, 2016: Speaking at a campaign event at Liberty University, Donald Trump said: If you look at what's going on throughout the world...Christianity is under siege. We're going to … Continue reading 2016 United States Presidential Candidate Donald Trump
Jul 10, 2015: The Confederate flag was taken down at the South Carolina capital grounds. Era Ends as South Carolina Lowers Confederate Flag | The New York Times Jul 9, 2015: By a vote of … Continue reading The Removal of the Confederate Flag from U.S. Government Grounds
Last updated on June 18, 2016On September 21, 1996, H.R.3396 - Defense of Marriage Act was signed into law by President Bill Clinton. The law states: Defense of Marriage Act - Amends the Federal judicial … Continue reading Defense of Marriage Act
In 2003, in the case of Lawrence v. Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court decided by a vote of 7-2 that state laws banning homosexual sodomy are unconstitutional and that they violate right to privacy and … Continue reading Sodomy and the Supreme Court Case of Lawrence v. Texas
Last updated on October 12, 2022Oct 11, 2022: https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/3682559-supreme-court-denies-appeal-by-charleston-church-shooter Oct 28, 2021: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/578942-families-in-south-carolina-church-massacre-settle-with-doj-over-faulty Sep 23, 2021: https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/573877-appeals-court-declines-to-take-up-dylann-roofs-death-sentence Sep 8, 2021: https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/571324-dylann-roof-challenges-death-sentence-after-appeals-court-ruling Aug 25, 2021: https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/569357-appeals-court-upholds-death-sentence-in-charleston-church-shooting Apr 10, 2017: In Charleston, South Carolina Dylann Roof pleaded … Continue reading Nine People Shot and Killed at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston South Carolina
Last updated on September 14, 2017Sep 13, 2017: Freddie Gray's family 'devastated and disappointed' by DOJ decision not to charge officers, attorney says | The Baltimore Sun Sep 12, 2017: Citing "insufficient evidence", the U.S. … Continue reading Freddie Gray Dies of Spinal Cord Injury After Arrest by Baltimore Police
Last updated on May 13, 2015May 12, 2015: A 7.3 magnitude earthquake hit Nepal, the second major earthquake in that region in less than three weeks. Fresh earthquake kills scores in Nepal and India | … Continue reading Powerful Magnitude 7.8 Earthquake Hits Nepal
Last updated on December 8, 2017Dec 7, 2017: U.S. District Judge David Norton sentenced Michael Slager to 20 years in prison, deciding that Slager had in fact committed second-degree murder in the shooting death of … Continue reading South Carolina Police Officer Charged with Murder in Shooting of Black Man
Last updated on July 14, 2018Jul 13, 2018: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-44824619 Oct 17, 2017: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/17/world/middleeast/isis-syria-raqqa.html Aug 17, 2017: http://www.healthandwellnessresource.com/terrorist-attack-barcelona-spain-thirteen-people-killed/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/isis-suspects/ http://www.newsweek.com/end-isis-middle-east-more-attacks-barcelona-us-europe-652247 Jul 11, 2017: Syrian Observatory says it has 'confirmed information' that Islamic State chief is dead … Continue reading The Islamic State | ISIS | ISIL | Daesh
Last updated on June 14, 2015Jan 27, 2015: About 300 Holocaust survivors, along with French President François Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and Polish President Bronisław Komorowski gathered for a memorial at the former Auschwitz … Continue reading The 70th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz | International Holocaust Remembrance Day