CHARLESTON SHOOTING-CONFEDERATE FLAG

COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) — Crowds of protesters and two prominent Republicans call for removing the Confederate flag from the grounds of South Carolina Statehouse following a massacre by a white gunman at a historically black church. 

CHARLESTON SHOOTING

CHARLESTON, South Carolina (AP) — Parishioners are let into the bullet-scarred Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal church, getting a first-hand glimpse of the room where nine people from their congregation were slain. 

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC-DRUG SEIZURE

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — Authorities in the Dominican Republic say they have arrested 10 people and seized 320 kilograms (700 pounds) of cocaine.

OBAMA

RANCHO MIRAGE, California — President Barack Obama is spending this Father's Day golfing in California with his high school buddies, while his wife and daughters are on a European tour. 

MEXICO-RUSSIANS SLAIN

TIJUANA, Mexico — State authorities in Mexico say they have arrested a 19-year-old woman who confessed to killing and mutilating her sister and her Russian-born mother.

PRESIDENTIAL RACE-CLINTON

WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton issues an emotional plea following the South Carolina church shooting, calling for "common-sense" gun control reforms and a national reckoning with the persistent problem of "institutional racism."

HAITI-ELECTIONS

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haiti's electoral council has eliminated two more people from the list of presidential candidates, but voters will still have lots of choices: 56 people tentatively remain on the ballot.