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Barcelona terror attack: Van crashes into pedestrians in city center — BARCELONA, Spain — Police in the northern Spanish city of Barcelona say a white van has jumped the sidewalk in the city's historic Las Ramblas district, killing at least 13 people and injuring more than 50.
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Van swerves into crowds in Barcelona's popular Las Ramblas district; 13 reported dead and more than 50 injured … LONDON — A driver swerved a van onto a pedestrian area Thursday in Barcelona's historic Las Ramblas district, ramming into crowds and leaving at least 13 people dead …
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Van mows down crowd in Barcelona, 13 reported killed — BARCELONA (Reuters) - A van plowed into crowds in the heart of Barcelona on Thursday and Spanish media reported at least 13 people were killed, in what police said they were treating as a terrorist attack.
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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.
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Melania Trump sends ‘thoughts and prayers’
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BREAKING NEWS: At least 13 dead and dozens injured in Barcelona terror attack after van crashes …
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Las Ramblas attack: van hits crowd in tourist area of Barcelona
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Attacker drives van into Barcelona crowd; 1 dead, 32 hurt
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13 killed, 50 wounded in Barcelona van attack
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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
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Steve Bannon's Fantasy, Donald Trump's Reality
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Steve Bannon thought he wasn't giving an interview
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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 …
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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.
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Poll: 40 Percent Now Support Trump Impeachment
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Trump Lawyer Forwards Email Echoing Secessionist Rhetoric — WASHINGTON — President Trump's personal lawyer on Wednesday forwarded an email to conservative journalists, government officials and friends that echoed secessionist Civil War propaganda and declared that the group Black Lives Matter …
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Statue at Duke Chapel Defaced
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Navy official: Ship name honoring Confederate victory unlikely to change
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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.
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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” …
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Maine Gov. LePage: Removing Confederate statues like losing 9/11 memorial
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Trump: America's culture being ‘ripped apart’ by removal of Confederate statues
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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.
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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. …
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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.
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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 …


Dem to introduce impeachment articles over Charlottesville — Rep. Steve Cohen (D), a Tennessee liberal, announced Thursday that he will introduce articles of impeachment against President Trump based on his defense of the white supremacists who participated in a deadly rally in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend.
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Dem lawmaker: Trump showing signs of ‘mental instability,’ must be removed
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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.
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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.

The ‘Flight 93 Election’ Moment Is Now … The most important intellectual case for Donald Trump's candidacy, to the extent that such a thing could even exist, was an essay published last September by the Claremont Review of Books titled The Flight 93 Election.
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'He is stubborn and doesn't realize how bad this is getting' — President Donald Trump's decision to double down on his argument that “both sides” were to blame for the violent clashes at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, was driven in part by his own anger — and his disdain for being told what to do.
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A message from the children of Johnny Cash: — We were alerted to a video of a young man in Charlottesville, a self-proclaimed neo-Nazi, spewing hatred and bile. He was wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with the name of Johnny Cash, our father. We were sickened by the association.
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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.
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Donald Trump has no grasp of what it means to be president — U-turns, self-regard and equivocation are not what it takes — DEFENDERS of President Donald Trump offer two arguments in his favour—that he is a businessman who will curb the excesses of the state; and that he will help America …
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