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The 21 year-old Charleston killer Dylann Roof who confessed to killing nine African-Americans in a church of Charleston, South Carolina was apparently originally planning to assault a college.

NBC News and the Washington Post claim that Roof told an African-American neighbor of his recently, on a night when they were out drinking, that he wanted to shoot up a school.

A 430,000-year-old case may be the world's oldest murder mystery, NBC news has reported. 

He is one of Hollywood’s most talented actors and a real silver screen legend. It was natural that he’d become the subject of media across the world for being drunk on a show and slipping horrendously.

He appeared to have had one too many drinks as he plopped down on the bar-stool-like seat… and promptly fell over with a grimace.

The king of late-night American television, David Letterman, broadcasts his final show on May 20, ending a 33-year run of unpredictable, caustic comedy that set him apart.

The longest-serving nighttime talk show host on U.S. television with more than 6,000 shows to his name, 68-year-old Letterman has been honored with tributes in the U.S. media, and by a host of celebrities.

A man who recorded chilling video of a white police officer gunning down a black man said April 7 that the shooting followed a struggle in which the cop had gained control of the situation.
      
The now widely-distributed video of South Carolina officer Michael Slager shooting Walter Scott repeatedly in the back was recorded by 23-year-old Feidin Santana.
      

Iran's defence minister has lambasted his US counterpart's comments about military options against Tehran still being on the table despite ongoing nuclear talks, saying they showed America cannot be trusted.
 

Monday's shootout outside the headquarters of the US National Security Agency appears to be a 'local criminal matter' and not a terrorist attack, according to a senior US official, NBC News reported.

Guards shot one man dead and seriously wounded a second when the men tried to ram a vehicle into the entrance gate at the Fort Meade, Maryland, headquarters of the National Security Agency, on March 30, CNN reported.

The network cited law enforcement sources.

Two men tried to ram a vehicle through the main gate to the United States National Security Agency headquarters building on Monday, the CNN reported.

NSA police shot one of the men dead and seriously injured the second. Their identities aren't available yet.

Whether it's the earnest Josiah Bartlet from "The West Wing" or the manipulative Frank Underwood in "House of Cards," Americans prefer television presidents to their real-life POTUS, President Barack "No Drama" Obama.