Nikki Haley became the first woman and first minority chosen by Donald Trump for his Cabinet. COLUMBIA: Government Nikki Haley has developed a national reputation as a racial conciliator who led the charge to bring down the Confederate flag at the Statehouse and guided South Carolina through one of its darkest moments, the massacre at a black church. Now the 44-year-old American-born daughter of Indian immigrants is about to take her role as the state’s...