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ATLANTA — The head of the VA’s national health care enrollment office in Atlanta exchanged a series of unprofessional and racially charged instant messages with another VA employee — raising new doubts about the leadership of the enrollment system that serves millions of veterans nationwide. The exchanges between Angel Lawrence, the director of the VA’s […]

RALEIGH, N.C.—The Raleigh man behind the Twitter account @YesYoureRacist said Monday that since publishing photos of torch-carrying white supremacist protesters in Charlottesville Saturday, he has received remarkable support �� but also death threats. Logan Smith, who is communications director for Progress NC Action, says the account had about 65,000 followers Saturday morning. On Monday afternoon,

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — In the wake of a violent white supremacist rally in neighboring Virginia, Maryland House Speaker Michael E. Busch said Monday it’s time to take down his state’s most prominent Confederate-era monument. Busch said the statue of former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Roger B. Taney — author of the infamous 1857 Dred Scott

President Trump belatedly denounced violence specifically by white supremacist groups Monday, singling out the KKK and neo-Nazis by name after a weekend of violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. “Racism is evil,” Mr. Trump said at the White House. “Those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — A Virginia judge on Monday declined to set bail for James Alex Fields Jr., the 20-year-old Ohio man accused of second-degree murder and other charges after authorities said he plowed his car into a crowd of counter-protesters near the scene of a white supremacist rally that erupted into violence. That means Fields,

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Monday that the race-based clashes in Virginia this weekend should lead to White House chief strategist Steve Bannon’s firing, blaming the former media executive for what she said was President Trump’s weak initial response. Mr. Trump delivered a forceful denunciation of racists on Monday, but his critics continued to