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A full solar eclipse will appear over America on Monday for the fist time in close to a century, and various religious groups have hailed it as a sign of great spiritual significance. The eclipse , which will be sighted first in Salem, Ore., just after 10 a.m. PT and will enter the final stage of visibility from land right before 3 p.m. EST over Charleston, S.C., is the first total solar eclipse to be visible over North America in 99 years.
In a series of tweets on Thursday, Trump called the Lost Cause statues under consideration for removal "beautiful" and expressed his disappointment "to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart." He also reiterated his warning that George Washington and Thomas Jefferson may be the next targets of the anti-statue Left.
Reporters for The Daily Caller News Foundation were covered with white powder by protesters calling for the removal of a Confederate statue in downtown Washington, D.C., Friday evening. "White flour! White flour! Make America white again!" a woman carrying a bag of what appeared to by flour said as she threw the white powder in protest.
Duke University took down a monument to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee Saturday, which had been vandalized Wednesday with gashes to its nose, forehead and cheek.
One of the attorneys general who has sought probes against the Trump administration has accepted large individual campaign donations from an energy tycoon with connections to Russian President Vladimir Putin. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has accepted more than $60,000 in small donations from Leonard Blavatnik, a Ukrainian-born energy billionaire with ties to Russian oligarchs, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation examination of the Democrat's financial disclosure reports .
The White House announced Saturday that President Donald Trump and Melania Trump have decided to skip the annual weekend celebrations of the Kennedy Center honors. "The President and First Lady have decided not to participate in this year's activities to allow the honorees to celebrate without any political distraction," a statement from the White House read.
Justin Sink at Bloomberg pushes back against the idea that Stephen Bannon's departure is likely to lead to a calmer, less chaotic, White House: In any other White House, Bannon's departure as chief strategist on Friday would serve as a reset for the administration following a disastrous week dominated by the president's combative insistence that "both sides" were to blame for the violence at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. It's the boldest stroke in Chief of Staff John Kelly's attempt to impose order on a White House divided into warring camps.
I was honored to be invited to speak, along with several other members of my little city, at a community-wide candlelight Vigil for Charlottesville. Here is what I said: Our ideals can shape who we are today by allowing us to envision who we can be tomorrow.
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It turns out media figures are much keener on Mitt Romney when he is criticizing Donald Trump than when he is running for president. CNN and MSNBC spent much of the day Friday touting the 2012 Republican nominee's long-winded Facebook post urging President Trump to apologize for his "both sides" comments about Charlottesville, Va.
It is understandable that Democrats would be agitating to remove Confederate-honoring statues. After all, it is their history that they need to make go away.
The Mississippi state flag, top, shares space with the bicentennial banner designed by the Mississippi Economic Council to recognize the state's bicentennial anniversary, outside the Governor's Mansion in Jackson, Miss., Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017. Mississippi lawmakers are renewing calls to change the state flag, which prominently features the Confederate emblem, after violence erupted during a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., last weekend.
The Trump Justice Department is ending an Obama-era program that had attempted to cut off credit to shady businesses but came under fire from Republicans for unfairly targeting gun dealers and other legitimate operations. Just days after top House Republicans had pressed Attorney General Jeff Sessions to shutter Operation Choke Point, the department confirmed in a response letter that the program is dead.
ACLU Will No Longer Defend Hate Groups Protesting With Firearms - Executive director says violence and guns at Charlottesville rally spurred new stance - The American Civil Liberties Union, taking a tougher stance on armed protests, will no longer defend hate groups seeking to march with firearms
James Murdoch Pledges $1 Million to Anti-Defamation League as Trump Protest - BRIDGEWATER, N.J. - James Murdoch, the chief executive of 21st Century Fox and the son of a frequent ally of President Trump's, condemned the president's performance after the violence in Charlottesville, Va.
Steve Bannon Detonates His Trump Survival Plan, Worrying Allies - "He's saying, 'I'm going to force you to fire me in a public way or we're going to follow the agenda we were elected for,'" an ally said. - Allies who spend too long in Donald Trump's doghouse usually get sent away for good.
Or just CLICK THIS LINK to start shopping for anything. Don't worry - anything you buy through it will pay Daily Pundit a commission! Thanks! That was how one veteran Washington correspondent began a conversation with me following reports Thursday morning of White House counselor Steve Bannon's sensational interview with the liberal American Prospect magazine.
Almost ten years ago, not long after Al Gore's first entry into the slasher/horror film genre , I had occasion to ask a straight-shooting "mainstream" climate scientist I know slightly what he thought of Gore's film. I was fishing to see whether he'd comment on some of the more obvious howlers that Gore included in the film, but instead after a long pause he said, "I wish he'd made the film with John McCain."
Read Apple CEO Tim Cook's Email To Employees About Charlottesville - On Wednesday evening Apple CEO Tim Cook sent an email to all global employees condemning racism and bigotry as well as President Trump's response to the tragedy in Charlottesville, according to an email obtained by BuzzFeed News.
President of the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Javier Palomarez said Trump administration advisers Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller would "love to have one less hispanic with free access to the White House." "If I walk away, if I give up in frustration the only people who win are the Steve Bannons and the Stephen Millers of the world," he said on "Morning Joe" Wednesday.