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A protester kicks the toppled statue of a Confederate soldier after it was pulled down in Durham, N.C., on Monday, Aug. 14, 2017.

America’s far-right stole the spotlight. Now comes the backlash

August 22, 2019 at 12:30 a.m.

By their nature, fringe movements usually don't find the scalding-hot center of the national spotlight. Last weekend's "Unite the Right" rally in Virginia was an extreme — and informative —...

Chanting ‘blood and soil!’ white nationalists with torches march on University of Virginia

August 22, 2019 at 12:27 a.m.

Chanting "blood and soil," "white lives matter" and "you will not replace us," scores of white nationalists holding torches marched across the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville on Friday...

Squeezed out by Silicon Valley, the far-right is creating its own corporate world

August 22, 2019 at 12:27 a.m.

Over and over again, America's far-right has learned that the 1st Amendment doesn't protect them from Silicon Valley tech companies. For weeks, neo-Nazis, white nationalists and other far-right figures have...

Who is new White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci?

August 22, 2019 at 12:12 a.m.

They call him the Mooch. Anthony Scaramucci (pronounced scare-uh-MOOCH-ee), a New York financier, TV personality and GOP donor, is the latest addition to the Trump administration's top ranks. Hours after...

Copies of the New York Post with an illustration of President Trump as a professional wrestler are displayed at a newsstand in New York City on July 3, 2017.

Once again, Trump tweets a meme linked to a brazen racist

August 22, 2019 at 12:00 a.m.

Lots of people tweet memes without checking who made them. The president of the United States — or someone close to him who manages his social media account — seems...

Bodyguard for well-known alt-right figure stabbed several times

August 21, 2019 at 11:50 p.m.

A man who works as a bodyguard for a nationally known figure popular among the alt-right was stabbed multiple times in Santa Monica on Saturday night following a dispute in...

Montana GOP candidate cited for assault after reporter says he was slammed to the ground

August 21, 2019 at 11:29 p.m.

The Republican candidate for Montana's open congressional seat was cited for misdemeanor assault Wednesday after a political reporter for the Guardian newspaper complained he was grabbed and slammed to the...

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What’s the ‘greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history’? We asked the experts.

May 14, 2019 at 7:01 a.m.

Who is the most unfairly investigated U.S. politician of all time? According to President Trump, he is. In response to the news that a former FBI director, Robert S. Mueller...

President Nixon, left, speaks during a White House news briefing in Washington, D.C., on April 17, 1973. President Trump, right, shown during an Oval Office meeting with former top Nixon administration official Henry Kissinger in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday.

The last time a president admitted he secretly taped conversations…

August 21, 2019 at 11:19 p.m.

You could say that it was with great interest Friday morning that Ken Hughes, a presidential historian with the University of Virginia's Miller Center, saw what the current president was...

After another racist incident at Fenway Park, Boston confronts an ugly reputation

August 21, 2019 at 11:13 p.m.

It happened again, in Boston, where it has happened so many times over the years: another racist incident at Fenway Park. The beloved hometown Red Sox and the visiting Baltimore...

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