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Former Virginia senator Jim Webb announced that he will run for the Democratic presidential nomination, adding "a decidedly more conservative option for Democratic voters" (WaPo). http://www.infobitt.com/b/13632 Anonymous donors have given more than $3 million to fund college scholarships for the community around the historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina where nine people were slain last month. http://www.infobitt.com/b/13628 A previously undetected measles infection was found by an autopsy to be the underlying cause of a Washington state woman's death, marking the first known U.S. fatality from the disease in 12 years. http://www.infobitt.com/b/13630 BP has agreed to pay a record environmental fine of $18.7bn to settle legal actions brought by the US and several states over the fatal 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. http://www.infobitt.com/b/13626 More than 5,000 residents of the US state of Tennessee have been evacuated after a freight train carrying toxic chemicals derailed and caught fire.