Bannon Mocks Colleagues and ‘Alt-Right’ in Interview

In an interview he said he believed was private, Stephen K. Bannon described the alt-right as a “collection of clowns” and lashed out at rivals in the Trump administration.

Trump’s Embrace of Racially Charged Past Puts Republicans in Crisis

The president’s response to the Charlottesville violence has drawn starkly different reactions between his core supporters and party leaders who fear political oblivion.

Heather Heyer, Charlottesville Victim, Cannot Be Silenced, Mother Says

By HAWES SPENCER and CAITLIN DICKERSON August 16, 2017 CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Heather D. Heyer, the woman run down during violent clashes here, was remembered on Wednesday for a quality that friends and family described as her most...

Baltimore Removes Confederate Statues; Mayor Cites Public Safety

By NICHOLAS FANDOS, RUSSELL GOLDMAN and JESS BIDGOOD August 16, 2017 BALTIMORE — It was “in the best interest of my city,” Mayor Catherine Pugh said Wednesday, as she explained why she ordered Confederate monuments removed...

Holocaust Memorial in Boston Is Vandalized for Second Time This Summer

By CHRISTINE HAUSER August 15, 2017 A Massachusetts teenager has been charged with vandalizing a Holocaust memorial in Boston, in what the city’s police commissioner called a “senseless and shameful” act, particularly after the neo-Nazi...