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A North Carolina high school has preemptively removed a piece of art depicting President Abraham Lincoln and Confederate President Jefferson Davis in order to avoid any potential conflict. Camden County High School Principal Billie Berry said he hadn’t received any complaints about the artwork displayed outside the school’s library, but he decided to take it […]

WASHINGTON — Jeff Sessions walked into the White House two weeks ago with a blunt message for his boss: The Obama-era program that keeps hundreds of thousands of people safe from deportation is unconstitutional. And setting aside any sentimentality, the attorney general told the president he would not defend the program in court. That was

The expected departure of President Donald Trump’s longtime bodyguard and aide, Keith Schiller, reportedly may have stemmed from new White House Chief of Staff John Kelly’s personnel and management changes in the West Wing, Bloomberg reported Tuesday, citing people close to Schiller and the president. What’s more, Schiller believes Kelly, a former general, “doesn’t like”

WASHINGTON — Plans for billions of dollars to flow to hurricane-ravaged Texas have already hit a snag in Washington, barely a half a day after Congress returned from a five-week recess Tuesday. The House is expected to vote Wednesday on the first installment of emergency funding for areas hit by Hurricane Harvey, a $7.85 billion

Kenneth Jacobson Anti-Semitism is a form of hatred that shares characteristics with other kinds of prejudice such as racism and homophobia. Included are the fear of the other and the unknown, stereotyping and discrimination. On the other hand, anti-Semitism has a distinct history. What has made it distinctive and what goes a long way in

WASHINGTON: In an interesting twist in the era of software-heavy systems such as the F-35, President Trump has nominated a top cyber expert, Robert Behler, as the Pentagon’s top weapons tester. Behler currently leads the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute, a Federally Funded Research and Development Center. Before that, he was president and COO