US city removes statue of General Robert E Lee and is also taking down Confederate statue of General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson nearly four years after violence erupted at infamous "unite the right" rally.
US city says it will on Saturday remove statue of Confederate General Robert E Lee – that became a rallying point for white supremacists and other racist groups in 2017 leading to killing of a 32-year-old woman, Heather Heyer.
Protests against racist symbols have erupted from the US to Australia.
The president and some of his top advisors have blamed Antifa and groups they call "far-left extremists" for hijacking peaceful protests against police abuses after a black man's death in Minneapolis.
In just one week after the El Paso terror attack, the FBI received more than 38,000 leads about potential right-wing violence - A 70 percent increase.
Authorities and experts expect fatal attacks to continue escalating amid an uptick in white nationalist rhetoric.
President Donald Trump doubles down on his attacks against four minority US congresswomen and dismissed concerns that his comments were racist, prompting outrage from Democrats.
For years US terror warnings have focused on groups like Al Qaeda or Daesh, but the latest warnings from US law enforcement agencies point to homegrown terrorists as the most immediate danger.
James Alex Fields Jr. had pleaded guilty in March to 29 of 30 hate crimes in connection with the 2017 car attack that killed Heather Heyer and wounded more than two dozen others in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Former US vice president Joe Biden says he's contesting from Democrats against President Trump to save "the soul of the US."
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern welcomes the social media giant's ban that comes in the wake of a deadly terrorist attack on two mosques that killed 50 people people and was carried out by a self-confessed white supremacist.
Jury finds James Fields guilty of first-degree murder and nine other crimes by driving his car into a crowd, killing one and wounding of 19 others, in Charlottesville, Virginia last year.
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