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Clementa Pinckney portrait to be unveiled

COLUMBIA — A dark pin-striped suit adorned with a state Senate tie clip on the lapel. A favorite tie emerging like his beaming eyes behind familiar glasses but as bright as his smile.

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Univision teams with Netflix for 'El Chapo' drama series

NEW YORK — Univision’s parent company is teaming up with Netflix to produce "El Chapo," a drama series based on the life of one of the world’s most notorious criminals. It will air on Univision sister network UniMas in 2017, after which it will be available to Netflix subscribers.

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Sutherland to star in ABC thriller, part of new season

NEW YORK — Kiefer Sutherland will play a low-level Cabinet member who suddenly becomes president on a new ABC drama this fall, and the network plans to add a second night of comedy to its schedule.

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People in Brief for May 21, 2016

NEW YORK— Drake is walking into the BET Awards with nine nominations, nearly doubling Beyonce and Rihanna, who are up for five awards each.

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Golden ring, chain found hidden in Holocaust victim's mug

WARSAW, Poland — A Polish-made golden ring and chain have been found hidden under the false base of an enameled mug that must have belonged to a victim of the Nazis’ Auschwitz death camp, a museum spokesman said Friday.

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In highlights of Cannes, a hush falls over the festival

CANNES, France — Full of booing critics, shouting photographers and interminable standing ovations, the Cannes Film Festival is a non-stop cacophony broken only by the two (or three) -hour reprieve between a movie’s opening and closing credits.

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Virtual reality tours arrive at Kiawah Island

A Kiawah Island agency recently introduced a new way for shoppers to check out houses for sale that haven’t even been built or renovated.

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Carolina One continues support for March of Dimes

In a drive that’s spanned more than two decades, Carolina One again pooled resources to help the local March of Dimes in its work "to prevent premature births and foster stronger, healthier newborn babies."

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Indefinite detention is not the American way

To the state the obvious, I join with the people I represent at home, and the rest of the South Carolina delegation, in being opposed to detainees from Guantanamo Bay being brought to the Navy Brig in Hanahan or elsewhere in the domestic United States.

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Apartment foes lose moral high ground

We have, one hears a lot these days, a polarized nation. But there’s one thing almost all Americans can agree on: We don’t want that developer to put up a big apartment building down the street.

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Overdue restroom progress

Charleston city officials once recognized the need for public restrooms at White Point Garden and the Battery by installing them beneath the bandstand in the park. But they were ultimately declared to be a public safety problem and were closed.

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Party unity an elusive goal

A populist and combative presidential candidate charges that party pros "rigged" the nominating game against him. ... His supporters indulge in troubling outbursts that escalate from rude to scary. ... The party’s bitter divisions run deeply enough to risk defeat in November — and not just in the White House race.

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Veto bill; consult doctors

You don’t have to be pro-choice to have concerns about an abortion bill awaiting Gov. Nikki Haley’s signature. You just have to be pro-science.

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Letter: Gap year benefits

I applaud Jeffrey J. Selingo’s May 16 column on the benefit of "the gap year."

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Letter: Exorbitant medical charges

I am sending this in hopes that I can help prevent others from falling into the MUSC billing trap that I was a victim of. I recently had a 20-minute dermatology appointment in Rutledge Tower, where they did two small biopsies on spots on my face. I also had several spots frozen on my hands.