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President Donald Trump is threatening to veto a defense policy bill unless it ends protections for internet companies that shield them from being held liable for material posted by their users.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says members of her party are trying to figure out a legal way to remove Confederate statues from the US Capitol building.

The State Institutions of Higher Learning Board of Trustees approved a plan by the University of Mississippi to move a statue in the center of campus to another location.

The rebel emblem has come under intensifying criticism in recent weeks amid nationwide protests against racial injustice.

NEW YORK (AP) — Tyler Perry and Bill and Hillary Clinton were among the attendees of a private memorial service for Cicely Tyson at Harlem’s famed Abyssinian Baptist Church. Gospel singer Bebe Winans sang “Stand” — a request from Tyson before her death — and a letter was read by rocker Lenny Kravitz, who was […]

Sources tell News 2’s Chris Bundgaard that the Capitol’s bust of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest will be on the agenda.

Congress will be returning to the nation’s capital, in the middle of what was supposed to be their holiday break, to consider whether to override President Donald Trump’s veto of the $740 billion defense bill.

Just a week after the late Congressman John Lewis left Capitol Hill for the last time, his Georgia colleagues are working on a way to preserve his memory in the halls of Congress.

If Trump does veto the bill, Congress could cut short its Christmas recess to hold a vote on overriding it.

University coaches and Christian ministers filled the Mississippi Capitol on Thursday, urging legislators to seize the moment and remove the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A city park that is the resting place for a Confederate general and early KKK leader now has a new message. Overnight at Health Sciences Park in the Medical District — formerly known as Forrest Park — activists painted the sidewalk surrounding the graves of Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife with […]