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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

WASHINGTON — Republicans in Utah overwhelmingly chose Ted Cruz in their presidential caucus 17 months ago. This week, the Texas senator will find out how much political influence he still has among them. Cruz endorsed and campaigned on behalf of Republican Chris Herrod, his presidential campaign coordinator, who is on the ballot for a special

Donald Trump attacked the “far-left” during a Tuesday press conference regarding their actions at the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Trump likened President George Washington to Confederate General Robert E. Lee and questioned whether liberal protestors will next fight for the removal of a statue of Washington because he was a slave owner.

President Donald Trump gave a rare press conference Tuesday at Trump Tower in Manhattan and perhaps unintentionally revealed why he and his administration have been so reluctant to answer questions from the media since he entered the White House. In what was supposed to be a discussion about infrastructure, Trump went dramatically off-script regarding violent