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WASHINGTON—The fight over Confederate statues is coming to the U.S. Capitol. The marbled halls have long been home to memorials for leaders of the Confederacy, and opposition to them has flared from time to time. But now, in the aftermath of deadly violence in Charlottesville, Va., and President Donald Trump’s defense of what many see […]

Following Donald Trump’s equivocating of white supremacists and those who oppose them in the wake of violent clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia, another Democrat has signaled his intention to file articles of impeachment against him in the House of Representatives. Rep. Steve Cohen of Tennessee, a ranking member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution

Abraham Lincoln has joined George Washington on the list of those targeted by Chicagoans in a national debate over Civil War-era monuments. Alderman Raymond Lopez took to Facebook Wednesday night to decry a defaced statue of the nation’s 16th president in the Englewood neighborhood. The giant bust appears to have been damaged after someone in

The future of Steve Bannon’s continued employment in the White House as Donald Trump’s top political strategist has been an open question for months. But the former Breitbart News head Bannon has time and again avoided a dismissal even as calls for it intensified after Trump’s reactions and statements to the protests in Charlottesville, Virginia,

‘This is Nazi fucking America!’ man tells Page Braswell, 44, near town of Mount Holly, but denies he’s a Nazi By Times of Israel staff A Nazi flag outside a home near the North Carolina town of Mount Holly in Gaston County, as captured in a video posted by a woman living in the town

The Illinois Senate has passed a measure that would categorize neo-Nazi groups as terrorist organizations, following the weekend’s violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. Lawmakers said it was important after the recent events to show there was “total opposition” to the groups that were involved in the rally. “It is vital that we stand in total opposition

Three days after Charlottesville, Virginia, erupted into violence and racial unrest, the family of Robert E. Lee is denouncing the white nationalist groups who rallied and marched to preserve a statue of the long-dead Civil War general. “There’s no place for that,” Robert E. Lee V tells Newsweek, referring to the white supremacist protesters who

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