THE WEEK

1. South Carolina governor calls for removing Confederate flag

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R), joined by a bipartisan group of political leaders, on Monday called for removing the Confederate battle flag from the State Capitol grounds. The move came days after white suspect Dylann Roof, shown holding a pistol and the rebel flag in photos posted online, was charged with murdering nine people at a black church in Charleston. Haley said the flag was integral to the state’s past, but not its future. She can’t take it down, though. It will take a two-thirds majority of both state houses to do that.

Source: The New York Times, The Associated Press

2. Airstrike in Iraq kills ISIS militant suspected in Benghazi attack

A U.S. airstrike in Iraq has killed an Islamic State operative suspected of involvement in the 2012 Benghazi, Libya, attacks that killed…

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