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Patrick Semansky / AP Baltimore Takes Down Its Confederate Monuments
The city removed them less than a week after violent protests broke out in Charlottesville, Virginia, over a statue of Robert E. Lee.
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AP Photo/Brynn Anderson Strange and Moore Advance to Runoff In Alabama Special Election
The Republican race tested the power of President Trump’s endorsement.
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David A. Graham / The Atlantic Arrests Begin Following Durham Confederate Statue Toppling
Moments after a press conference demanding amnesty for protesters, sheriff’s deputies arrested Takiyah Thompson, who placed a rope around a Confederate monument Monday night.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters After Charlottesville, Business Leaders Are Dumping the Trump Administration
Several prominent executives have resigned their positions on the president's manufacturing council and issued statements decrying racism.
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Stringer / Reuters 'Alt-Right' Leaders Won't Condemn Ramming Suspect
Two prominent white nationalist leaders held a press conference Monday in which they responded to the fallout from Saturday’s “Unite the Right” rally in Virginia.
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Alex Brandon / AP A Pharmaceutical CEO Breaks With Trump
Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier resigned this morning, citing “a responsibility to take a stand against intolerance and extremism.” The president quickly attacked him.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The Alt-Right’s Rebranding Effort Has Failed
Some members attempted to pivot away from overt racism. Charlottesville shows that they were always white nationalists.
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Steve Helber / AP Why Charlottesville?
The university town was once named “the happiest city in America.” More and more, though, it’s the setting for hatred.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters 'We Must Reject Hate'
Democratic and Republican leaders broadly rejected the violence at a major white-nationalist gathering in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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Steve Helber / AP A State of Emergency in Charlottesville
University of Virginia students are being instructed to shelter in place amid protests, a professor says.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Is Snapchat Doomed?
It was supposed to be the future of social media and video. It’s looking like just another Facebook victim.
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Charles Platiau / Reuters Emmanuel Macron: Monsieur Unpopular
The French president’s approval rating has taken a nosedive.
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Jonathan Ernest / Reuters Trump Doubles Down on North Korea
The president said his earlier remarks about “fire and fury” were not “tough enough.”
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Carolyn Kaster / AP Why Is Trump Turning on the Ally He Needs Most?
The president is on a sustained campaign against the Senate majority leader, despite his great control over Trump’s political fate.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump Informally Declares the Opioid Crisis a National Emergency
Once the proper paperwork is drawn up, the president’s unexpected and off-the-cuff announcement will free up disaster funding for cities and states dealing with the epidemic.
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China Stringer Network / Reuters 2016 Was Hot, Weird, and Unprecedented, Says NOAA
Five lessons from the agency’s report on the year’s record-breaking weather
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Mueller Closes In on Manafort
The special counsel’s team executed a search warrant on the former Trump campaign chair’s home.
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KCNA / Reuters Why North Korea Is Threatening Guam
The U.S. territory is home to large military bases, and occupies a strategic place between the Korean Peninsula and the South China Sea.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters Meet Patagotitan, the Biggest Dinosaur Ever Found
It weighed 69 tons.
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Reuters Did North Korea Just Inch Closer to the 'Red Line'?
A new intelligence estimate reportedly says Pyongyang has a miniaturized nuclear warhead. President Trump said any threat to the U.S. “will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen.”
