NEWS OF THE DAY
From Across the Nation
_1 FBI agent out: Peter Strzok, an FBI agent removed from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team because of anti-Donald Trump text messages, has been escorted out of the FBI building in Washington “as part of the ongoing internal proceedings,” his attorney, Aitan Goelman, said Tuesday. Strzok, a seasoned counterintelligence agent, was a lead agent on the investigation into whether Hillary Clinton illegally mishandled classified information through her use of a private email server while secretary of state. He later joined Mueller’s team investigating Russian election interference but was reassigned last summer after the discovery of anti-Trump text messages he had traded with an FBI lawyer.
_2 Slavery apology: The City Council in Charleston, S.C., which was once a key seaport for slave trade, adopted a resolution Tuesday apologizing for slavery. By voice vote, the council approved the resolution offering a denouncement of slavery, a promise of tolerance in the future and a proposal for an office of racial reconciliation. The vote came after an hour of public comment followed by nearly two hours of comments from council members, one of whom drew heckling that led Mayor John Tecklenburg to have the chamber cleared. The vote coincided with “Juneteenth,” a celebration of the end of slavery, and came two days after the third anniversary of the racist attack that killed nine black church members in Charleston.
_3 Obama school: When students at J.E.B. Stuart Elementary School in Richmond, Va., return from their summer break, they will no longer be studying at a school named after a Confederate general who fought for the rights of slave owners in the Civil War. Instead, members of the 400-strong student body, about 90 percent of whom are black, will be attending Barack Obama Elementary School.
_4 Nina Simone home: The dilapidated wooden cottage in Tryon, N.C., that was the birthplace of singer and civil rights activist Nina Simone now has the protection of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The trust said in a news release Tuesday that it will develop and find a new use for the house where Simone was born in 1933. Simone’s original name was Eunice Waymon. She died in 2003 at the age of 70.
_5 Rapper’s death: The lawyer for slain rapper XXXTentacion said Tuesday that detectives believe he was fatally shot in a random robbery while likely planning to buy a motorcycle at an upscale shop near a residential neighborhood in South Florida. Attorney David Bogenschutz said investigators also told him the 20-year-old rapper had visited a bank shortly before the shooting and possibly withdrew cash for the purchase. No arrests have been made in Monday’s shooting at Riva Motorsports in Deerfield Beach. XXXTentacion, whose real name was Jahseh Dwayne Onfroy, was exiting the shop’s parking lot in his luxury BMW electric car when he was shot. The Broward Sheriff ’s Office says deputies are searching for two suspects who fled in a dark SUV.