Police in Spain's Catalonia region have arrested one suspect in the attack. In addition to those killed, more than 50 people were injured when the van swerved on to the pedestrian area in Barcelona's historic Las Ramblas district, which authorities described as a terrorist attack.
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Hours after an apparent terrorist attack in Barcelona, a tweet from President Trump cited a story involving Gen. John J. Pershing, who supposedly had his soldiers dip bullets in pigs' blood to execute Islamic terrorists. But numerous fact-checkers in the media have found the story to be unsubstantiated.
In three tweets, the president said the history and culture of the country was being "ripped apart" and said efforts to remove statues of Confederate generals Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee could escalate to taking down monuments to George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.
In an unusual interview with progressive magazine The American Prospect, the White House chief strategist seemed to take issue with Trump on North Korea, attacked white supremacists as "clowns" and detailed how he would oust some of his opponents at the State and Defense departments.
Trump's reaction to the violence in Charlottesville has created deep uncertainty among officials about whether he can effectively lead his party and focus on urgent tasks looming in the fall.
John Dowd forwarded an email advocating protection of some Confederate monuments and claiming that the protest group Black Lives Matter had been infiltrated by terrorists.
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This isn't the first time the Tennessee Republican has critiqued the president, and a new poll suggests he's not alone in his party in seeing his view of Trump shift.
The new @trumps_feed account checks whom the president follows every five minutes and then retweets any new tweets from them. And what do they tweet about? A word cloud shows a lot of tweets about Trump.
The online activist group published the information in a bid to push for Trump's impeachment, reigniting the use of hacked information in U.S. political battles.
By Todd C. Frankel and Craig Timberg • Read more »
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