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.

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 …

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

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.

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 …

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.

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. …

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.

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.

Dozens of Activists Turn Selves in Spartacus-Style for “Crime” of Toppling Durham Confederate Statue  —  Activists in Durham County, North Carolina attemped to surrender en masse at a courthouse on Thursday morning in an act of solidarity with those charged for the act of pulling down a statue …

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.

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.

'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.

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.

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.

Southwest Rises as 2018 Senate Battleground  —  PHOENIX — Even before President Trump's rise, a pair of Western states foreshadowed some of the consuming clashes of his presidency: the tug of war between traditional conservatives and border-hawk nationalists, and the struggle for power between diverse …