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No free speech for them: The group Boston Free Speech is hoping to hold a rally next weekend, but Walsh said police are investigating that group, and said he's already decided the event should be called off. "Our police intelligence unit is doing information gathering right now to see who they are," he said.
Sen. Dean Heller says he's glad President Donald Trump has sharpened his criticism of the white supremacists who incited violence at a rally that turned deadly in Virginia over the weekend. The Nevada Republican told reporters in Reno on Monday it was important for the president to more strongly denounce the racism and bigotry espoused by the white nationalists before a car plowed into a crowd in Charlottesville.
Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski was in Ketchikan on Monday, continuing her visits to Southeast communities. She sat down with local media to talk about some of the current issues facing the nation.
Texas A&M University late Monday abruptly canceled a planned white supremacist rally on its campus next month, amid bipartisan pressure from state lawmakers who said hatred should be rejected in all forms - despite First Amendment protections. An announcement on the House floor by Republican Rep. John Raney said A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp had opted to scuttle the event set for Sept.
Twenty to 25 percent of registered Alabama voters are expected to turn out Tuesday for the U.S. Senate primary election, Alabama's secretary of state said Monday. Voters go to the polls Tuesday to cast their first vote on a replacement for former Sen. Jeff Sessions, the Republican who vacated one of Alabama's Senate seats when he was appointed U.S. attorney general.
Three days after Donald Trump named his campaign foreign policy team in March 2016, the youngest of the new advisers sent an email to seven campaign officials with the subject line: "Meeting with Russian Leadership - Including Putin." The adviser, George Papadopoulos, offered to set up "a meeting between us and the Russian leadership to discuss US-Russia ties under President Trump," telling them his Russian contacts welcomed the opportunity,according to internal campaign emails read to The Washington Post.
During violent protests, when it was made clear to Americans who the "enemy" is, President Trump's 2020 reelection campaign released a new TV ad " Let President Trump Do His Job ," targeting a different enemy: the mainstream press and Democrats. Despite the terrorist attack in Charlottesville, Virginia, when President Trump refused to call out the violent white supremacists, KKK and neo-Nazis, the tone deaf ad was still released.
Emboldened and proclaiming victory after a bloody weekend in Virginia, white nationalists are planning more demonstrations to promote their agenda following the violence that left a woman dead and dozens injured. The University of Florida said white provocateur Richard Spencer, whose appearances sometimes stoke unrest, is seeking permission to speak there next month.
In this Aug. 6, 2017 photo, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, accompanied by Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson, left, and U.S. Rep. Danny Davis, right, announces a lawsuit against the Trump Justice Department over withholding funding for sanctuary cities at City Hall in Chicago. At least six so-called sanctuary cities are suing the U.S. government, over immigration-related policies to avoid losing millions in public safety dollars the Trump administration has threatened to withhold.
U.S. Senate candidate Judge Roy Moore at Republican Women of Huntsville luncheon Tuesday June 6, 2017. U.S. Senate candidate Judge Roy Moore at Republican Women of Huntsville luncheon Tuesday June 6, 2017.
In his carefully worded statement Monday, Trump condemned members of the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis and white supremacists as “repugnant.” He vowed that his administration would crack down on those who perpetrate “racist violence.” He called for national unity. It was the type of statement Americans have come to expect from their presidents after racially charged incidents, like the deadly violence that erupted Saturday in Charlottesville, Virginia.
The state of California and city of San Francisco are suing the U.S. Department of Justice over President Donald Trump's sanctuary city restrictions on public safety grants. In a news conference Monday, Attorney General Xavier Becerra and City Attorney Dennis Herrera, both Democrats, announced the lawsuit, which makes California the first state to challenge the administration on its sanctuary city policy of denying funds to cities that limit cooperation with enforcement of U.S. immigration laws.
Health care workers and other community members are rallying at noon Monday in front of Highland Hospital to demand that U.S. immigration officials halt the imminent deportation of registered nurse Maria Sanchez and her husband on Tuesday. The couple, who moved to the Bay Area in the early 1990s from a small town in Mexico, are undocumented immigrants.
On the other hand, Flake's vocal opposition to Trump has landed him in hot water with the party base, which still adores Trump in Arizona. This hostility to the party's current leader culminated with Flake secretly writing a book where he lambasted the party for making a deal with the devil and abandoning the movement-conservative principles of those like former Arizona Here you can find useful examples and description about searching the news archive.
President Trump is returning to Washington today as both Democrats and Republicans push him to take a stronger stand against white nationalist violence. President Trump waves as he walks from Marine One to board Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, N.J., on his way back to Washington on Monday morning, Aug. 14, 2017.
Donald Trump says that Luther Strange is the best choice to replace Jeff Sessions in the Senate. Are Alabama Republicans listening to him or defying his preference? Last week, in the first poll since the Trump endorsement, Trafalgar Group asked Alabama Republicans who their pick was in the Senate primary.
The departure of Kenneth Frazier from the president's American Manufacturing Council added to a storm of criticism of Trump over his handling of Saturday's violence in Charlottesville, in which a woman was killed when a man drove his car into a group of counter-protesters. Democrats and Republicans have attacked the Republican president for waiting too long to address the violence, and for saying "many sides" were involved rather than explicitly condemning white-supremacist marchers widely seen as sparking the melee.