This is an emotional time and we all need to think through these issues with a care that recognizes the need for change but also respects the complicated history of the Civil War.  The Confederate Battle Flag has wrongly been used for racist and other purposes in recent decades.

A Special Announcement From Bobby Jindal  —  My name is Bobby Jindal, and I am running for President of the United States of America.  There were three people I think you would agree my wife Supriya and I had to tell first. … Puppy  —  My daughter Selia cut to the chase: she wanted a puppy.

Obama Tosses Heckler From LGBT Event: 'You're In My House' … President Obama had a heckler tossed from a White House reception in celebration of LGBT pride month after the woman refused to stop interrupting the president.  —  “Listen, you're in my house,” Obama said, to the applause of the crowd …

Chilling letters from ‘The Watcher’ force NJ family to flee $1.3M dream home  —  WESTFIELD, N.J. - It was a million-dollar dream home for one New Jersey family, located in picturesque Westfield, New Jersey — until the letters started showing up.  —  The threatening notes were signed …

Harvard professor who covered up Ben Affleck's slave roots could be dropped from PBS after he is slammed by broadcaster for ‘breaching standards’  —  The Harvard professor who covered up Ben Affleck's slave-owning ancestors has been condemned for breaching a broadcaster's standards and his future with PBS thrown into doubt.

Sarah Palin is the REO Speedwagon of Politics  —  Sarah Palin in a few short years has gone from a telegenic and slightly charismatic speaker (when reading from a tight script), to a TV commentator who never meets a run-on sentence she can't out-run.  —  So it's perhaps no surprise …

Federal judge issues stay on BLM fracking rule  —  • Benjamin Storrow 307-335-5344, Benjamin.Storrow@trib.com  —  A federal judge issued a stay Tuesday of a U.S. Bureau of Land Management fracking rule, temporarily halting an Obama administration effort to regulate oil and gas operations on public land nationwide.

‘Gone with the Wind’ should go the way of the Confederate flag  —  If the Confederate flag is finally going to be consigned to museums as an ugly symbol of racism, what about the beloved film offering the most iconic glimpse of that flag in American culture?

Small Ohio Town Is Focus of FBI Probe After Strange Deaths and Disappearances … The FBI is now helping to investigate a string of disappearances and murders that have taken place in a small Ohio town over the past 13 months.  —  Six women have vanished in the town of Chillicothe since …

Story highlights  —  Cadyville, New York (CNN)Investigators are examining items recovered from a cabin where two escaped murderers are believed to have hidden, and have found a bloody sock, New York law enforcement officials said Wednesday.  —  But that could mean anything.

Supreme Court Guide: Six Big Decisions Remain  —  The Supreme Court is scheduled to issue decisions Thursday, with six major cases remaining on the docket, and is expected to release opinions again on Friday and perhaps next week.  Still to be decided are the health-law subsidies and gay-marriage cases …

Statement By Secretary Jeh C. Johnson On Family Residential Centers  —  ICE Director Saldaña and I understand the sensitive and unique nature of detaining families, and we are committed to continually evaluating it.  We have concluded that we must make substantial changes to our detention practices when it comes to families.

Hagan's Decision Leaves Democrats With Few Options in North Carolina  —  With the former senator passing on a chance to run again, Democrats' list of potential candidates looks dangerously thin.  —  Kay Hagan wasn't necessarily the best possible candidate Democrats could have run for Senate in North Carolina next year.

Fox News Poll: Bush, Trump score post-announcement bumps  —  There's been a lineup change in the race for the GOP nomination, as businessman Donald Trump moves up after declaring his candidacy.  He's now second in the order after former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who also got an uptick in support after his formal announcement.

State Rep.: Charleston victims ‘waited to be shot’ - CNN Video  —  CNN's Drew Griffin interviews State Representative William Chumley about taking down the Confederate flag and the Charleston church shootings.