Today’s edition of quick hits:
* Latest from South Carolina: “As Charleston reels in the aftermath of Wednesday night’s shooting at a historic black church that killed six women and three men — portraits of the victims, ranging in age from 26 to 87-years-old are beginning to emerge.”
* HRC weighs in: “Hillary Clinton called on Thursday for action in response to the ‘horrific massacre’ in Charleston, South Carolina, and labeled the killing of nine worshipers at a black church there a ‘crime of hate.’ … ‘We have to face hard truths about race, violence, guns and division.’”
* Sigh: “Charleston’s Post and Courier apologized Thursday for publishing an ad for a local gun range next to a front-page story about a mass shooting in the city.”
* Really? “The CIA did not know in advance that al-Qaeda’s leader in Yemen was among the suspected militants targeted in a lethal drone strike last week, according to U.S. officials who said that the operation went forward under counterterrorism guidelines that were eased by the Obama administration after the collapse of the U.S.-backed government in Yemen this year.”
* Get ready for a woman’s face on the $10 bill: “Back in July, President Obama called putting a woman’s face on American currency ‘a pretty good idea.’ Soon, that idea will become a reality.”
* Hispaniola: “[F]or the last several months, under so-called Operation Shield, migrant workers [from Haiti] have been routinely seized and expelled [from the Dominican Republic]. Though this particular operation is meant to single out only those illegal migrants who have turned up since late 2011, the process is never clean.”
* The best news Brownback has received in quite a while: “A federal investigation into loans made to the re-election campaign of Gov. Sam Brownback by his lieutenant governor will not result in charges, the United States attorney’s office in Kansas said on Wednesday.”
* Vermont: A group of Franklin County residents is calling for the resignation of a state senator who is facing criminal charges. Police arrested Sen. Norm McAllister, R-Franklin, last month on the steps of the Statehouse. The second term senator pleaded not guilty to three counts of sexual assault.”
* And today, this New York Times op-ed from Monday took on new relevance: “In a survey we conducted with the Police Executive Research Forum last year of 382 law enforcement agencies, 74 percent reported anti-government extremism as one of the top three terrorist threats in their jurisdiction; 39 percent listed extremism connected with Al Qaeda or like-minded terrorist organizations. And only 3 percent identified the threat from Muslim extremists as severe, compared with 7 percent for anti-government and other forms of extremism.”
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Steve Benen is a producer for "The Rachel Maddow Show," the editor of MaddowBlog and an MS NOW political contributor. He's also the bestselling author of "Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past."