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Citing Trump remarks, most of president’s arts council quits

By Associated Press

Actor Kal Penn, artist Chuck Close and virtually the entire membership of the President's Committee On the Arts and Humanities have announced their resignation.

Charlottesville violence prompts ACLU to change policy on hate groups protesting with guns

By Joshua Barajas

After the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, turned deadly, ACLU executive director Anthony Romero told The Wall Street Journal that the group will review legal requests from white supremacist groups on a case-by-case basis, assessing more closely whether…

WATCH: Tillerson condemns hate speech, says bigotry is un-American

By Matthew Lee, Associated Press

Speaking to interns and young minority staffers at the State Department, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson also pledged to diversify the overwhelmingly white ranks of the senior diplomatic corps.

After Charlottesville, colleges brace for more hate attacks

By Collin Binkley and Michael Kunzelman, Associated Press

For many schools, the rally in Virginia served as a warning that these right-wing extremist groups will no longer limit their efforts to social media or to flyers furtively posted around campus.

Under fire from GOP, Trump won’t back down on Confederate monuments

By Jonathan Lemire and Darlene Superville, Associated Press

With prominent Republicans openly questioning his competence and moral leadership, President Donald Trump burrowed deeper into the racially charged debate over Confederate memorials and lashed out at members of his own party.

Why these Democratic lawmakers want to censure Trump

By Jessica Yarvin

Three Democratic House members plan to introduce a resolution Friday to censure the president over his “inadequate” remarks concerning the “Unite the Right” rally last weekend in Charlottesville.

Republican leaders dance around President Trump’s Charlottesville remarks

By Steve Peoples and Thomas Beaumont, Associated Press

One after another, the nation's most powerful Republicans responded to President Donald Trump's extraordinary remarks about white supremacists. Yet few mentioned the president.

Alabama attorney general sues Birmingham for partially covering Confederate monument

By Joshua Barajas

Attorney General Steve Marshall said in a statement that the move violated a new law that prohibits local officials from removing historical structures, including Confederate monuments, that are more than 40 years old.

Photo of ‘Antifa’ man assaulting officer was doctored, analysis shows

By Joshua Barajas

An image that appeared to capture a member of an anti-fascist group beating a U.S. police officer with a club during a “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, is fake.