Tag: Protests

Updated: White Nationalist Rally Turns Deadly; Trump Condemns ‘Many Sides’

Jenna Lifhits · August 12, 2017 10:39 pm

Rescue personnel help an injured woman after a car ran into a large group of protesters after an white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017. The nationalists were holding the rally to protest plans by the city of Charlottesville to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. There were several hundred protesters marching in a long line when the car drove into a group of them.(AP Photo/Steve Helber)

National Security

2 dead in Virginia State Police helicopter crash near Charlottesville protests

Kyle Feldscher · August 12, 2017 10:26 pm

President Trump "condemned in the strongest possible terms" the violence in Charlottesville, Va. sparked by a white supremacist rally that left at least one person dead when a car rammed into a crowd of people. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

National Security

Trump calls for an end to violence in Charlottesville and blames ‘many sides’

Kyle Feldscher · August 12, 2017 7:53 pm

President Trump denounced the violence in Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday after protests by white supremacists turned violent. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

National Security

Trump denounces Charlottesville protests: ‘There is no place for this kind of violence in America’

Caitlin Yilek · August 12, 2017 5:23 pm

Advocates of a higher minimum wage have scaled back their push for a $15-an-hour rate, holding fewer events this year than they have since the movement began in 2014.

Minimum wage advocates scale back their $15 fight

Sean Higgins · August 10, 2017 11:15 pm

"Yet he wants a military parade in DC. It's all incongruous, and we are here to make fun of him for that."

Giant inflatable Trump chicken stares angrily toward White House

Matthew Trunko · August 9, 2017 9:03 pm

The Fallout Continues at Evergreen

Charlotte Allen · August 8, 2017 4:05 pm

President Donald Trump speaks outside at a podium.

DHS barred staff from speaking with members of Congress during chaotic rollout of Trump’s initial travel ban: Report

Josh Siegel · August 3, 2017 2:07 am

Venezuelan Bolivarian National police move away from the flames after an explosion during clashes against anti-government demonstrators in Venezuela. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Beltway Confidential

What happens if the US must evacuate its diplomats from Venezuela?

Tom Rogan · July 31, 2017 7:17 pm

The burned hulks of heavy trucks sit on Highway 1806 near Cannon Ball, N.D., on Friday, Oct. 28, near the spot where protesters of the Dakota Access pipeline were evicted from private property a day earlier. Authorities say they have received little federal help to calm protests despite repeated requests. (AP Photo/James MacPherson)

Beltway Confidential

The idiocy behind the Dakota Access Pipeline protesters

Tom Rogan · July 28, 2017 6:51 pm

Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, introduced legislation this week that would give the U.S. Capitol Police authority to enforce federal immigration laws, and they need that authority to counteract illegal immigrants who hold protests in Congress. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Steve King: Give Capitol Police authority to crack down on illegal immigrant protesters

Pete Kasperowicz · July 28, 2017 6:48 pm

"Oh is he in trouble ... And I'll bet his mommy voted for us, right?" (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

Trump resurrects the ‘mommy’ taunt to mock rally protester

Daniel Chaitin · July 26, 2017 2:32 am