International

WASHINGTON — The nation’s top military officers issued public statements condemning racial bigotry and extremism, a rare foray into domestic politics that indicated deep unease in the Pentagon with President Donald Trump’s views on race and underscored his growing isolation Wednesday. The social media posts from the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff — the commanders […]

LOS ANGELES — The Hollywood Forever Cemetery removed a monument commemorating Confederate veterans early Wednesday after hundreds of activists requested its removal and some threatened vandalism. The move comes days after violence erupted at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., over the city’s ordered removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

Three congressional Democrats have asked a psychiatrist at Yale School of Medicine to consult with them about forming an expert panel to offer the legislators advice on assessing President Trump’s mental health. Yale’s Dr. Bandy Lee told STAT that over the last few weeks members of Congress or their staff have asked her to discuss

Amazon.com’s prowess as a hiring machine isn’t impressing President Donald Trump, who in an early Wednesday tweet called the company a destroyer of retail jobs. “Amazon is doing great damage to tax paying retailers. Towns, cities and states throughout the U.S. are being hurt — many jobs being lost!,” the president wrote on Twitter. It’s

WASHINGTON — House Democrats are introducing a formal resolution to denounce President Donald Trump for saying that “both sides” are to blame for a violent encounter between white supremacists and neo-Nazis and the activists who showed up to protest them. While the censure is unlikely to see traction in the GOP-led House, it serves as

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell did not name President Donald Trump in a statement on Wednesday, but clearly sought to distance the Republican Party from the White House’s position on white supremacists. “We can have no tolerance for an ideology of racial hatred,” McConnell said in statement. “There are no good neo-Nazis, and

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that the White House’s economic advisory council and manufacturing council have been dissolved — panels that consisted of business leaders from firms such as BlackRock, JPMorgan Chase, IBM and PepsiCo. The decision came as a wave of the manufacturing council’s members chose to resign. “Rather than putting pressure

WASHINGTON — The last two Republican presidents — George W. Bush and his father, George H.W. Bush — issued an implicit rebuke of the current president Wednesday, as party elders scrambled to limit the fallout from Donald Trump’s stance on neo-Nazis. “America must always reject racial bigotry, anti-Semitism, and hatred in all forms,” read the

The Durham, N.C., woman who said she climbed a ladder to the top of a Confederate statue and put a rope around its neck so the gathered crowd could pull it down it has been arrested. Takiyah Thompson, 22, who admitted she was the one who climbed the ladder — and she said she’d do

In a surprise move, the web services company Cloudflare appears to have ended its relationship with The Daily Stormer, taking the leading neo-Nazi site off the internet for the second time this week. Cloudflare protects websites against common forms of attack, including denial of service, which is known as DDOS. “I have effectively been banned

BALTIMORE — Confederate statues in Baltimore were removed from their bases overnight, as crews using heavy machinery loaded them onto flat bed trucks and hauled them away, an end to more than a year of indecision surrounding what to do with the memorials. The action comes after Mayor Catherine Pugh pledged to remove four statues

President Trump’s question to reporters on Tuesday about the possibility of tearing down historical monuments has been answered by a Chicago pastor: “It’s time.” Bishop James E. Dukes of Chicago’s Liberation Christian Center made headlines in the Windy City on Wednesday for calling on Mayor Rahm Emanuel to rename Washington Park and remove a statue

The Jewish community in Charlottesville hired armed security to protect its synagogue for the first time after local police declined to provide a guard for the site despite hundreds of white supremacists congregating on the town over the weekend for a rally that resulted in the murder of counter-protester Heather Heyer. Alan Zimmerman, president of