NAACP L.A. president resigns

The NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; an African-American civil rights organization

in the United States, formed in 1909) has accepted the resignation of the Los Angeles chapter president after questions surfaced as to why his branch honored L.A.

Clippers owner Donald Sterling. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver banned Sterling for life Tuesday after revelations

surfaced regarding Sterling making numerous statements denigrating black Americans. In a letter of resignation

yesterday, L.A. chapter President Leon Jenkins wrote, "Please be advised that the legacy, history and reputation of the

NAACP is more important to me than the presidency. In order to separate the Los Angeles NAACP and the NAACP from the negative exposure I have caused the NAACP, I respectfully

resign my position as president of the Los Angeles NAACP."Jenkins has come under fire from the public in recent

days after it was made public that the chapter honored Sterling with a lifetime achievement award in 2009 and planned to do so again this month. Published reports

indicated that Sterling had donated $45,000 to the chapter since 2007.

In Other NewsIn Other News According to authorities in Waseca, Minnesota, a 17-year-old student was going to kill his family,

start a diversionary fire, set off bombs at an area school, kill the resource officer there and then shoot students. Police were tipped off to the case two days earlier. Someone called about a suspicious person at a storage facility. When officers arrived, they saw what looked like bomb-making materials in a locker -- a pressure cooker, pyrotechnic chemicals, steel ball bearings and gunpowder. The teen went with officers to the police station for an interview. There, police say, he told authorities of his plan to kill his mother, father and sister, start a fire in rural Waseca to distract first responders, go to the Waseca Junior and Senior High School, where he planned to set off various bombs during lunch, kill the school resource officer, set fires, and then open fire on students. A journal recovered from his home detailed his plan and preparations, said police, who believe he meant to carry out the attack in the next week or two. The teenager has been charged with four counts of attempted murder in the first degree, two counts of attempted criminal damage to property in the first degree and six counts possession of an explosive or incendiary device.

A train rammed into the back of another one in Seoul, South Korea on Friday, leaving 117 people injured.

CONMEBOL and CONCACAF—the governing bodies for international football in South America and North and Central America and the Caribbean, respectively—have announced a plan to create a special tournament in 2016 called Copa America Centenario, to be held on the 100th anniversary of the first Copa America tournament back in 1916. The event will take place from June 3 to June 26, 2016, coinciding with the Euro '16 tournament across the Atlantic. The new tournament will essentially combine the CONCACAF Gold Cup with the existing Copa America tournament. The field will feature CONMEBOL's 10 nations—Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela— as well as the United States and Mexico, along with four other teams from the CONCACAF region.

New data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development shows that Belgians, Germans and Danes have the highest tax burdens, while South Koreans, Mexicans and Chileans have the lowest. Americans are about in the middle. Americans pay (on average) 24.6% of their salary in income taxes and social security, allowing them to take home about 75% of their gross pay.