US to pay $88M to families, victims of SC church massacre
Families of nine victims killed in a racist attack at a Black South Carolina church have reached a settlement with the Justice Department over a faulty background check that allowed Dylann Roof to purchase the gun he used in the 2015 massacre.
Obama speechwriter's memoir 'Grace' to come out in 2022
FILE - President Barack Obama speaks at a service honoring the life of Rev. Clementa Pinckney, one of nine people killed in the shooting at Emanuel AME Church, in Charleston, S.C. on June 26, 2015. Cody Keenan, the White House speechwriter who helped Obama work on his response to the Charleston church massacre, has a book deal. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)NEW YORK โ The White House speechwriter who helped President Barack Obama work on his response to the Charleston church massacre in June 2015 has a book deal. โGrace: A President, His Speechwriter, and Ten Days in the Battle for Americaโ will be published in Fall 2022, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books & Media announced Tuesday.