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CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The sentencing phase begins today in Charleston, South Carolina, for Dylann Roof, the 22-year-old convicted in the slayings of nine black worshippers at a Charleston church. The jury that convicted Roof now will decide whether he'll get the death penalty or life in prison. Roof is representing himself but has said he plans to call no witnesses or introduce any evidence.
NEW YORK (AP) — President-election Donald Trump is close to filling his Cabinet with his picks. Yesterday, Trump also worked to fill several hundred high-level administration posts. Omarosa Manigault, a contestant from the first season of "The Apprentice," is expected to focus on public engagement in the White House. Trump also hired Rick Dearborn as a deputy chief of staff and Marc Short as the White House legislative director. Both previously served in chief of staff positions on Capitol Hill.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The head of the national NAACP and five others were arrested after staging a sit-in Tuesday at the Mobile, Alabama, office of Sen. Jeff Sessions. Sessions is President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for U.S. attorney general. The civil rights group says it opposes Sessions' record and views on civil rights, immigration, criminal justice reform, and voting rights enforcement. The all-day protest ended in handcuffs but without confrontation.
ISTANBUL (AP) — Police in Turkey are continuing to round up possible suspects in the deadly attack on New Year's Eve revelers at an Istanbul nightclub. The State-run news agency Anadolu reports that police took five people into custody today during a police operation in the port city of Izmir. The private Dogan news agency says police have been targeting three families that had been in a central Turkish city where the gunman is thought to have been based before carrying out the nightclub attack.
BERLIN (AP) — A man in western Germany got a shock earlier this week when he opened his front door. Someone had built a wall in his doorway. The man was heading out of his house near Frankfurt Monday morning, when he opened the door, only to be met with a wall that apparently had been built overnight. Police say they don't know if it was a prank or an act of revenge.
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