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The white gunman who shot nine black parishioners at a South Carolina church said he’d rather die than allow his lawyers to publicize his autism diagnosis.

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The gunman convicted of killing nine black parishioners at a Charleston church two years ago will not get a new trial, a federal judge ruled last week.

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The New York Senate passed a bill this week that would make crimes committed against police and firefighters hate crimes.

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The men are accused of using a gay dating app to target victims before restraining them and stealing their cars.

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Solicitor Scarlett Wilson said the decision is part of a plea agreement with state prosecutors to take the death penalty off the table. Roof is scheduled to enter the plea next month.

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The sentencing phase is under way this week for the man found guilty of shooting and killing nine parishioners during a Bible study at a South Carolina church in June 2015.

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As people of color buy more guns, they face more risk -- that's what Boston Globe columnist Renee Graham wrote in a piece published Sunday.

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The FBI’s annual report on hate crimes shows fewer incidents in 2015 but more victims than the year before, according to Monday’s announcement.

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The study will look at social media posts as an indicator for hate crimes that are about to occur and may introduce a new era of predictive policing.

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“A majority of the violent threats we have seen over the past few days are (the) result of how Arabs and Muslims are depicted” in the film, Samer Khalaf, president of ADC, wrote in the letter.

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Hate Crime Statistics showed a total of 5,928 hate crimes in 2013, effecting a total of 7,242 victims, down from 6,573 the preceding year.

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