Gunman shoots two dead, wounds five others at Virginia high school graduation
Reuters A man armed with four handguns killed two people and wounded five others when he fired into a crowd outside a high school graduation ceremony in Richmond, Virginia, on Tuesday, police said. Police said they arrested one suspect, a 19-year-old man who knew one of the victims and shot at him amid the crowd […]
In the US state of Virginia, Richmond removes last public Confederate monument
Reuters A Black-owned construction business on Monday dismantled and removed the last public Confederate statue on display in Richmond, Virginia, the city that served as the capital of the Confederacy during the US Civil War. The memorial to Ambrose Powell Hill, a Confederate general killed in battle days before the war ended in April, 1865, […]
Essay: Removal of Robert E Lee leaves Arthur Ashe as Richmond’s remaining witness
ROBERT P JONES, CEO and founder of Public Religion Research Institute and the author of ‘White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity’, writes about how a statue of the tennis great has outlasted the Confederate generals on Monument Avenue…
US court upholds death sentence for church shooter Dylann Roof
Richmond, Virginia, USAP A US federal appeals court Wednesday upheld Dylann Roof’s conviction and death sentence for the 2015 racist slayings of nine members of a Black South Carolina congregation, saying the legal record cannot even capture the “full horror” of what he did. A unanimous three-judge panel of the 4th US Circuit Court […]
Postcards: California weighs first step in “managed retreat” from rising Pacific
CAREY L BIRON, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on the challenges rising seas are posing in California…
Australian Christian Lobby says Victorian Premier’s proposed safe injecting room in Melbourne breaks election promise
The Australian Christian Lobby has accused Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews of breaking an election promise following the announcement that his government will move to establish a medically supervised drug injecting facility in Melbourne. Dan Flynn, the ACL’s Victorian director, said the government’s priority should be to help rehabilitate addicts, not maintain their addiction. “Monday’s decision […]