Here’s how headlines across the U.S. reported the South Carolina shooting

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Following a racially motivated mass shooting at a church in Charleston, S.C., which claimed the lives of nine people, newsrooms everywhere rushed to make sense of the deadly event.

However, because the event unfolded late at night, many newspapers in the United States were slow to catch up, with many running front-page stories instead on Pope Francis’ newly released environmental encyclical “Laudato Sii.”

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