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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Supporters of a plan for California to secede from the union took their first formal step Monday morning, submitting a proposed ballot measure to the state attorney general’s office in the hopes of a statewide vote as soon as 2018. Marcus Ruiz Evans, the vice president and co-founder of Yes California, said

Former Democratic National Committee chair Howard Dean called President-elect Donald Trump’s chief strategist and Breitbart News executive chairman Stephen K. Bannon a “Nazi” during an interview Sunday. Speaking with journalist Evan Solomon of Canada’s CTV, Mr. Dean described Mr. Trump as “a complicated guy.” “He appoints a reasonable person, who’s much more conservative than I

RALEIGH, N.C. — The election of Donald Trump and the people he is choosing as advisers and cabinet members have brought renewed attention to one fan club that the president-elect has tried to distance himself from: The Ku Klux Klan. Within 48 hours of the Trump win, the Loyal White Knights of Pelham posted plans

At gathering of National Policy Institute, white supremacists give Nazi salute, ‘heil’ Trump’s election as a ‘victory of will’ By Alexander Fulbright Richard Spencer, a white supremacist who runs a Washington think tank, the National Policy Institute. (Screenshot from YouTube via JTA) At an event of the alt-right National Policy Institute on Saturday night, attendees

Robert Mercer seemed uncomfortable. It was 2014, and the billionaire had just stepped behind the podium to accept a lifetime achievement award at the annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguists. Dressed in a suit and tie, he warned his audience that speaking to them for the required hour or so was “more than

Hawaii Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard could be joining Donald Trump’s administration only months after she endorsed Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary. Gabbard was scheduled to meet Monday with Trump and his transition team in New York City to discuss a possible top job at the Defense Department, State Department and the United

More than 400 demonstrators clashed with police on a bridge north of a protest encampment near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota on Sunday night. Protesters said they were trying to access what they described as sacred tribal lands, which are under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The protesters

It’s a difficult question for the public – and one fraught with mixed feelings of anger, sadness, schadenfreude, empathy, glee and everything in between. Should Hillary Clinton retire from public life? Consider that she announced her intent to seek the presidency in a two-minute video released on April 12, 2015 – advising the public “everyday