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The decision comes nearly a month after Dylann Roof allegedly shot and killed nine people at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston.

The Republican governor has called for the flag’s removal. That design lasted only until 2003, when Barnes lost re-election and his Republican successor signed a bill into law restoring the stars and bars-inspired design. The flag resembles the Southern Cross design but is...

Other Chicagoans watched the flag come down while eating breakfast at the iconic Valois Restaurant. Governor Nikki Haley said the flag will be put in its rightful place in a museum.

The Confederate flag, a symbol of America’s battlefield history, but for many, a symbol of a bitter and deeply rooted racism, has been removed from South Carolina’s state Capitol.

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley signed the measure Thursday ordering the flag flying over the state Capitol, which has been there since 1961, to be lowered by Friday.

The flag will be displayed at the Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum roughly a mile down Gervais Street.

Ms Haley said the flag will be brought “down with dignity and put it in its rightful place”. Then, photos surfaced of the suspect, Dylann Roof, posing with Confederate flags and other Civil War symbols, and burning an American flag. They agreed then to move it to a...

State Chamber of Commerce president and CEO Ted Pitts says there’s no way to know how much money South Carolina has lost because of the economic sanctions over the flag, but says, “South Carolina needs to recruit the top workforce, the talent from around the country,...

(Tim Dominick/The State via AP, File).

The station reported the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources was at the scene searching for the F-16 pilot, who reportedly ejected from jet.

Singh had earlier alleged complicity of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan in the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board (MPPEB) scam, also called the Vyapam scam. “The Congress party still maintains its original stand that the issue needs a Supreme Court-monitored...

A recent CNN/ORC poll found that 57% of Americans see the flag more as a symbol of Southern pride than of racism.

Multiple sources say an F-16 and a small plane were involved in the crash and Berkeley County Fire has confirmed the crash involved an F-16 and a Cessna.

The flag debate is the center of the state’s political focus because of the June 17 church shooting at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston that left nine people dead, including the pastor of the church, Clementa Pinckney, who was also a state senator.

WASHINGTON, D.C.: An overnight fire that destroyed a small-town African-American church in South Carolina once torched by Ku Klux Klan members is reviving fears that arsonists are targeting places of worship with black congregations.