Obama Goes to Prison, Gunman Kills in Chattanooga, Greece Offered Emergency Aid: P.M. Links
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Getty A gunman has killed four people in Chattanooga, Tennessee, at a Naval reserve center and a military recruiting office. The gunman has also been killed. Some sources are identifying the shooter as Muhammad Youssef Abdulzeez.
- President Barack Obama became a first sitting president to visit a federal prison today to talk about criminal justice reform and to encourage us to maybe not incarcerate so many people for so long.
- The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has halted the planned execution of Clifton Lamar Williams to handle questions about testimony at his trial for killing a 93-year-old woman during a home robbery a decade ago.
- Greece is now being offered the possibility of some emergency financial aid now that its leaders have relented and voted for belt-tightening measures.
- Dylann Roof's trial for killing nine people at a black church in Charleston, South Carolina, has been scheduled for a year from now. A gag order prohibiting the police from releasing 911 calls and images from the crime scene to the press has been extended for at least another week.
- The Federal Aviation Administration is probing reports of lasers being shined into the cockpits of at least 11 commercial planes flying over New Jersey Wednesday night.
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