This is an emotional time and we all need to think through these issues with a care that recognizes the need for change but also respects the complicated history of the Civil War.  The Confederate Battle Flag has wrongly been used for racist and other purposes in recent decades.

Undocumented Transgender Woman Who Interrupted President at White House Pride Event Calls to End Deportation  —  There is no Pride as long as LGBTQ Immigrants are being imprisoned, she says.  —  WASHINGTON, DC — Just moments ago, Jennicet Gutiérrez interrupted the President during …

Bobby Jindal's Plan To Stop Being A Punchline And Actually Win  —  NEW ORLEANS — The most viral headline this year with the Louisiana governor's name in it was published in The Onion: “Bobby Jindal Not Sure He Willing To Put Family Through 2-Month Presidential Campaign.”

Chilling letters from ‘The Watcher’ force NJ family to flee $1.3M dream home  —  WESTFIELD, N.J. - It was a million-dollar dream home for one New Jersey family, located in picturesque Westfield, New Jersey — until the letters started showing up.  —  The threatening notes were signed …

‘Gone with the Wind’ should go the way of the Confederate flag  —  If the Confederate flag is finally going to be consigned to museums as an ugly symbol of racism, what about the beloved film offering the most iconic glimpse of that flag in American culture?

Harvard professor who covered up Ben Affleck's slave roots could be dropped from PBS after he is slammed by broadcaster for ‘breaching standards’  —  The Harvard professor who covered up Ben Affleck's slave-owning ancestors has been condemned for breaching a broadcaster's standards and his future with PBS thrown into doubt.

Anti-Obamacare senator braces for court ruling  —  The Supreme Court may give Wisconsin Republican Ron Johnson more than he bargained for.  —  Ron Johnson won his Senate seat in 2010 on an anti-Obamacare campaign, railing against the law as “the greatest assault on our freedoms in my lifetime.”

Federal judge issues stay on BLM fracking rule  —  • Benjamin Storrow 307-335-5344, Benjamin.Storrow@trib.com  —  A federal judge issued a stay Tuesday of a U.S. Bureau of Land Management fracking rule, temporarily halting an Obama administration effort to regulate oil and gas operations on public land nationwide.

Bernie Sanders Gains on Hillary Clinton in Bloomberg Early-State Polling  —  Bernie Sanders is gaining on Hillary Clinton in Iowa and New Hampshire, with an appeal as an issue-oriented protest vehicle potentially capable of slowing any coronation of the popular front-runner.

Small Ohio Town Is Focus of FBI Probe After Strange Deaths and Disappearances … The FBI is now helping to investigate a string of disappearances and murders that have taken place in a small Ohio town over the past 13 months.  —  Six women have vanished in the town of Chillicothe since …

Sarah Palin is the REO Speedwagon of Politics  —  Sarah Palin in a few short years has gone from a telegenic and slightly charismatic speaker (when reading from a tight script), to a TV commentator who never meets a run-on sentence she can't out-run.  —  So it's perhaps no surprise …

Fox News Poll: Bush, Trump score post-announcement bumps  —  There's been a lineup change in the race for the GOP nomination, as businessman Donald Trump moves up after declaring his candidacy.  He's now second in the order after former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who also got an uptick in support after his formal announcement.

Statement By Secretary Jeh C. Johnson On Family Residential Centers  —  ICE Director Saldaña and I understand the sensitive and unique nature of detaining families, and we are committed to continually evaluating it.  We have concluded that we must make substantial changes to our detention practices when it comes to families.