Hostage situation unfolding in Barcelona after van hits pedestrians in busy tourist area  —  At least one person is dead and 32 are injured after a van slammed into pedestrians in a busy tourist area in Barcelona, Spain, this afternoon.  —  The attack took place near Catalunya Square in Barcelona's Las Ramblas district.

I Voted for Trump.  And I Sorely Regret It.  —  When Donald Trump first announced his presidential campaign, I, like most people, thought it would be a short-lived publicity stunt.  A month later, though, I happened to catch one of his political rallies on C-Span.  I was riveted.

EXCLUSIVE: Steve Bannon says controversial interview with liberal magazine was GOOD for the White House because it ‘drew fire away’ from Trump  — White House's chief strategist called a liberal magazine writer on Wednesday and spoke casually about North Korea, China and race politics

WikiLeaks Turned Down Leaks on Russian Government During U.S. Presidential Campaign  —  The leak organization ignored damaging information on the Kremlin to focus on Hillary Clinton and election-related hacks.  —  In the summer of 2016, as WikiLeaks was publishing documents …

Trump Abandons Plan for Council on Infrastructure  —  President nixes council after ending two other business groups  —  Executives had started to quit after Virginia controversy  —  President Donald Trump will not move forward with a planned Advisory Council on Infrastructure, a person familiar with the matter said Thursday.

An open letter from the great-great-grandsons of Stonewall Jackson.  —  Dear Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney and members of the Monument Avenue Commission,  —  We are native Richmonders and also the great-great-grandsons of Stonewall Jackson.  As two of the closest living relatives to Stonewall …

Partisan divide over Trump's response to Charlottesville: CBS News poll  —  Nearly two-thirds of Americans consider the attack that led to loss of life in Charlottesville an act of “domestic terrorism,” a view that spans partisan lines.  But President Trump's response to Charlottesville finds more division.

Longtime Trump business partner ‘told family he knows he and POTUS are going to prison’: report  —  Felix Sater, one of Donald Trump's shadiest former business partners, is reportedly preparing for prison time — and he says the president will be joining him behind bars.

Bubble Tea Purveyors Continue to Grow Along With Drink's Popularity  —  Editors' note: An earlier version of this article prompted criticism by readers and we have since revised the article in response.  —  The Starbucks on Waverly Place in Greenwich Village was all but empty at 8:30 …

The huge problem with Trump comparing Robert E. Lee to George Washington  —  We celebrate the good things the founders did.  Confederates didn't do anything good.  —  In fresh tweets Thursday morning, Donald Trump, a life-long New Yorker with no personal or familial connection whatsoever …

How Do Trump's Black Friends Feel?  It's Complicated  —  WASHINGTON — Kara Young, a biracial model who dated Donald J. Trump for two years before he married another model named Melania Knauss, remembers clearly bringing up her race with the real estate tycoon early in their relationship.

Mitch McConnell's secret fury over Charlottesville response highlights GOP's Trump dilemma  —  WASHINGTON - There was a reason why it took Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell an entire night to respond to President Trump's chaotic news conference equating counter protesters with the Nazis they came to resist.

McCaskill, others call for state senator to resign after post hoping for Trump's assassination  —  U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., and the chairman of the Missouri Democratic Party both called Thursday for the resignation of Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal, for posting a Facebook comment stating: “I hope Trump is assassinated!”

The A.C.L.U. Needs to Rethink Free Speech  —  The American Civil Liberties Union has a long history of defending the First Amendment rights of groups on both the far left and the far right.  This commitment led the organization to successfully sue the city of Charlottesville, Va. …

Cleveland Clinic, American Cancer Society cancel plans for galas at Mar-a-Lago  —  Two leading charities said they were pulling their business from President Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach on Thursday amid blowback over Trump's comments on Charlottesville's bloody unrest.

Pelosi, Booker push for removal of Capitol's Confederate statues  —  The nationwide debate over the removal of monuments to the Confederacy is coming to the U.S. Capitol.  —  While President Donald Trump on Thursday urged the preservation of “our beautiful statues and monuments” …

The Southern Poverty Law Center's list of hate groups  —  Design: Will Mullery, CNN  —  Dots represent the hate groups operating out of each state, according to the SPLC  —  (CNN)917.  —  That's the number of hate groups operating in the US, according to data from the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Carl Paladino removed from Buffalo School Board … Carl P. Paladino is out as a member of the Buffalo Board of Education.  —  That's the ruling today from State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia, according to the board's attorney.  —  “He is out effective immediately,” said Frank W. Miller, the board's attorney.

Neil Gorsuch Speech at Trump Hotel Raises Ethical Questions  —  WASHINGTON — Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, President Trump's Supreme Court appointee, is scheduled to address a conservative group at the Trump International Hotel in Washington next month, less than two weeks before the court is set to hear arguments on Mr. Trump's travel ban.