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This image, made from a video provided by Audra D. Bridges, shows a passenger who was removed from a United Airlines flight in Chicago on Sunday.

No, the media did not identify the wrong David Dao as United’s passenger

June 1, 2019 at 6:28 a.m.

No, the news media did not get the wrong David Dao. Angry allegations have been flying across social media on Wednesday, charging that local and national news outlets misidentified Dao,...

IRS strips tax-exempt status from Richard Spencer’s white nationalist nonprofit

August 21, 2019 at 10:33 p.m.

The nonprofit run by one of America's most prominent white nationalists, Richard Spencer, has lost its tax-exempt status for failing to file tax returns with the federal government, according to...

Protesters with the Los Angeles chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America protest outside the election party for Mayor Eric Garcetti on Tuesday.

Seeing red: Membership triples for the Democratic Socialists of America

August 21, 2019 at 10:32 p.m.

Holding red and white signs, they protested outside Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti's election party on Tuesday, demanding the city take a tougher stand against deportation. The next day, they...

Reporters surround white nationalist Richard Spencer at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md.

White nationalist leader Richard Spencer booted from CPAC after getting credentials

August 21, 2019 at 10:19 p.m.

One of the country's most prominent white nationalists, Richard Spencer, was kicked out of the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday after conference organizers gave him credentials to attend and...

Protesters greet international arrivals at San Francisco International Airport as they gather to denounce Trump's immigration order on Jan 29.

‘We’ll see you in court.’ ACLU takes its place on front lines of the anti-Trump resistance

August 21, 2019 at 10:01 p.m.

Lawyers aren't usually this popular, but these weren't your usual lawyers. Outside the federal courthouse in Brooklyn last weekend, a crowd of hundreds throbbed with jittery energy, chanting like soccer...

Police check on a protester after he was pepper sprayed during a demonstration on the day of President Donald Trump's inauguration on Washington, Friday, Jan. 20, 2017.

Protests already underway in Washington ahead of Trump’s inauguration

August 21, 2019 at 9:48 p.m.

As the nation's capital prepares to welcome Donald Trump into the White House on Friday, protests here that may ultimately include tens of thousands of people — or more —...

On Nov. 25, 2014, police officers watch protesters as smoke fills the streets in Ferguson, Mo.

Trump gets the facts wrong, but homicides in some cities are up after a long decline

August 21, 2019 at 9:34 p.m.

They are falsehoods President-elect Donald Trump has repeated over and over again: "Inner-city crime is reaching record levels." "The murder rate in the United States, it's the worst, the highest...

A no-trespassing sign stands at the entrance to the road leading to a Russian diplomatic compound outside Centreville, Md.

Not a Cold War spy novel: Russian mansions accused of housing spies in the U.S.

August 21, 2019 at 9:31 p.m.

It wouldn't be a bad opening for a Tom Clancy novel about the Cold War: Without warning, American agents descended on a Russian-owned compound in rural Maryland. A similar surprise...

Stephen K. Bannon talks with callers on his SiriusXM radio show in July.

Stephen Bannon found inspiration in ancient thinkers, Ronald Reagan and Nazi propaganda

August 21, 2019 at 9:18 p.m.

In the 1990s, long before Stephen K. Bannon became the chairman of Breitbart News and one of Donald Trump's top advisors, he was just another guy in Beverly Hills who...

Richard Spencer at a white nationalist conference in Washington this month. He coined the term "alternative right."

The ‘alt-right’ splinters as supporters and critics agree it was white supremacy all along

August 21, 2019 at 9:08 p.m.

When people start throwing Nazi salutes in public, it has a way of clarifying where everybody stands. The loosely defined "alt-right" movement — made up of social-media-savvy white supremacists, neo-Nazis,...

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