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WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI Director James Comey says the gunman charged in last month's church massacre in Charleston, South Carolina, should not have been allowed to purchase the gun. Comey attributes the problem to incomplete and inaccurate paperwork related to an arrest of Dylann Roof weeks before last month's shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Officials at Georgia's Stone Mountain Park which features a giant bas relief of Confederate heroes say a Confederate battle flag that had been removed from its pole has been replaced. Officials had noticed it was missing late this morning. Meanwhile, officials in South Carolina today removed a Confederate battle flag and its pole from the Statehouse grounds.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The embattled head of the government's personnel office is out. Katherine Archuleta abruptly stepped down today. It follows an unprecedented breach of private information her agency was entrusted to protect. President Barack Obama has named Beth Cobert, of the Office of Management and Budget, as acting director of the Office of Personnel Management.
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras says he negotiated as hard as he could and admits his government had made mistakes during his barely six-month tenure as he fought to win bailout funds for his debt-ridden country. He spoke at a late-night parliament session at which lawmakers are debating the sweeping reform proposals submitted to creditors.
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Witnesses and officials say the intense airstrikes and ground fighting have come to a halt in Sanaa, Aden, Taiz and other cities in Yemen just minutes before a humanitarian truce was to take effect. The pause announced Thursday by the United Nations is meant to last until the end of the holy month of Ramadan next week.
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