Senators pressed Rex Tillerson Wednesday over his ties to Russia and to Exxon. But their greater concern seemed to be over whether President-elect Donald Trump would actually undermine the former ExxonMobil CEO he nominated to be his secretary of state
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One by one, family members of nine slain black parishioners confronted Dylann Roof for the last time Wednesday, shouting at him, offering forgiveness and even offering to visit him in prison as he awaits execution for the slaughter. Scott, an aunt of 26-year-old Tywanza Sanders, the youngest victim killed in the massacre, demanded that Roof look at her as she talked about her nephew's "great big heart," which could not be donated because of the police investigation. The final statements came a day after jurors sentenced an unrepentant Roof to death.
Japan rescued 26 North Koreans after they abandoned their sinking cargo vessel in the East China Sea, the coast guard said Thursday. Japan Coast Guard patrol boats plucked the ship's entire crew out of the water in the early hours of the morning after they had abandoned the vessel and taken to life boats. The coast guard cited the crew as saying the ship was transporting rice from North Korea's port of Nampo on its west coast to the east coast city of Wonsan.
Seattle Seahawks fans' enthusiastic stomping and cheering at CenturyLink Field during the NFL playoff season is so powerful it can be felt by sensitive earthquake-detection equipment. The Pacific Northwest Seismic Network (PNSN) installed an array of seismometers (equipment that visualizes shaking as waves) at several stations throughout the stadium, in anticipation of the tremors that Seahawks followers have become famous for generating. Preliminary analysis of the Jan. 7 data revealed that the largest recorded seismic signal emerged shortly after 8 p.m. local time during a play toward the end of the game, when Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson threw a touchdown pass to wide receiver Doug Baldwin.

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The first U.S. execution of 2017 was held on Wednesday when Texas lethally injected a man convicted of killing two men in a revenge plot after one had tricked him in a $20 drug deal. Christopher Wilkins, 48, was pronounced dead at 6:29 p.m. local time (0029 GMT Thursday) after the injection at the state's death chamber in Huntsville, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said in a press release. The execution was the 539th in Texas since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, the most of any state.
The Latest on the search for wreckage of corporate jet that crashed into Lake Erie. Officials say they have recovered more human remains in their search for wreckage of a corporate jet carrying six people that crashed in Lake Erie two weeks ago. Searchers on Thursday found more debris believed to be from the plane.

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Few things are more valuable than a boy's baseball card collection, but when this Massachusetts 10-year-old heard two of his friends had cancer, he was more than happy to donate them to raise money for their treatment. "When I found out my friends were diagnosed with cancer, I had a lot of baseball cards so I decided to start selling them to raise money for [them]," Brady Kahle, 10, told InsideEdition.com. "I can't imagine ever having to deal with that as a mom," Brady's mom, Jessie Kahle, told InsideEdition.com.
Rival Cypriot leaders meeting in Switzerland are facing "the very last chance" to end the four-decades-old division of Cyprus, European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker said Wednesday. Juncker urged the two sides to take risks for peace as Turkish and Greek Cypriots held a third round of talks in Geneva after two earlier inconclusive sessions since November. "I really think that, without overdramatising what is happening in Geneva, that this is the very last chance to see (a solution for) the island being imposed in a normal way," Juncker told reporters in Valletta at the start of Malta's six-month EU presidency.
Trump's pick for secretary of state says the U.S. has stumbled and that "leadership must be asserted." But come before you at a pivotal time in both the history of our nation and our world. Its recent act duties have disregarded America's interest. As we confront these realities how should America respond.

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