Dylann Roof has been convicted over the attack on nine black church members who were shot to death during a Bible study session in South Carolina last year.

Federal prosecutors will seek the death penalty for a white man accused of killing nine black parishioners in a racially motivated attack at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, last June, the US Justice Department said.

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Days after a deadly shooting in Oregon, Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton unveiled gun control measures aimed at strengthening background checks on gun buyers and eliminating legal immunity for sellers.

With calls last week for Cork GAA fans to stop displaying Confederate flags at matches, American author Barbara Kingsolver says it’s time to let the flag go in her homeland too

In a time when racial tensions are higher than ever in South Carolina this picture shows that humanity can see through hatred.

An African-American singer who has lived in Cork for more than 17 years has urged the Rebel County’s GAA fans to stop flying the Confederate flag at football and hurling matches.

To the isolated, unhappy young mind, white supremacists can seem like welcoming self-help groups, with a ready assurance that others are to blame for all their troubles, writes Stephen L Carter

South Carolina politicians planned to introduce a resolution last night to begin a debate on removing the Confederate flag from the State House grounds following the killings last week of nine black churchgoers allegedly by a white gunman.

The head of a white supremacist group, cited by the suspected gunman who killed nine people at a black South Carolina church last week, has given thousands of dollars to several 2016 Republican presidential candidates.

Hundreds of people packed a sweltering Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston yesterday as it re-opened to worshippers just days after a 21-year-old white gunman shot dead nine black church members.

At Dooley’s Bait shop in Lexington, South Carolina, the talk around the worm bins and minnow tanks was dominated by one subject: Dylann Roof, a previously unremarkable local young man now accused of one of most shocking murders in state history.

A 21-year-old white man has been charged with nine counts of murder for an attack on a historic black South Carolina church, with media reporting that he had hoped his actions would incite a race war in the US.

FOR the last century or more America has been the world’s great and largely benign superpower. The country has afforded opportunity and protection to tens of millions of people, millions of them Irish, millions more destitute European economic or war refugees.

America has to face “hard truths” about guns and race in the wake of the shooting at a historic black church in South Carolina that left nine dead, US presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has said.

A childhood friend of the man accused of shooting dead nine people inside a black church in South Carolina said he told him a few weeks ago he had “a plan”.

A white man suspected of killing nine people in a Bible study group at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, was arrested yesterday. Officials are investigating the attack as a hate crime.

A white man suspected of killing nine people inside an historic black church has been captured in North Carolina.

An intense manhunt is under way for a young white man who joined a prayer meeting and then opened fire inside a church, killing nine people.