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Nzlj How Volunteers for India s Ruling Party Are Using WhatsApp to Fuel Fake News Ahead of ElectionsA worker in body armor measures New Orleans Jeffers stanley cup on Davis monument for removalJustin Sullivan鈥擥etty ImagesBy Josh SanburnMay 11, 2017 6:10 AM EDTThe extreme precautions are a measure of just how intense the debate over the removal of Confederate monuments has become in this port city, which prizes both its deep-rooted history and reputation for multiculturalism and social tolerance. The fight began in 2015, when 8211 ix months after a white supremaciststanley cup rampage in a black church in Charleston, S.C.New Orleans ; city council voted to remove Liberty Monument and three other memorials to Confederate leaders. After legal chall stanley cup enges, the statues are starting to fall.The demolition has awakened the ghosts that linger in the South, where some see tributes to the Confederacy as symbols of heritage and others as reminders of hate. We should not be venerating Confederates or bestowing an honor to them, says Malcolm Suber, founder of Take Em Down NOLA, a group advocating the removal of 23 statues in the city.While the Charleston shooting was a catalyst, the push to take down the symbols, including removing the Confederate flag from South Carolina capitol, coincides with changing demographics. The constituency for these monuments has diluted significantly, says David Goldfield, a history professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.Pierre McGraw, president of the Monumental Task Committee, says keeping the me Vjex President Joe Biden Says the U.S. Would Defend Taiwan in the Event of anUnprecedented Attack
Army cadets cheer on their football team Saturday in their annual game against Navy.Rob Carr / Getty ImagesBy Mark ThompsonDecember 14, 2014 6:32 PM ESTThirteen years ago, two mont asics hs after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the U.S. finally had something to celebrate. We believe the Taliban appears to have abandoned Kabul, General Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, declared on Nov. 13, 2001, a scant 38 days after the U.S. launched its invas air max 1 ion of Afghanistan. The Taliban, who had given sanctuary to those who carried out the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, were on the run.Nineteen days later, in the warm afterglow that followed, Army beat Navy, 26-17, in the annual gridiron classic between the nation two oldest military academies. It was the last game they ;d play at Philadelphia now-gone Veterans Stadium.It was al yeezy so the last time Army beat NavyNavy leads the series with 59 wins, 49 losses, and seven ties .History repeated itself again Saturday, as Navy beat Army 17-10 in Baltimore in their 115th clash. The sting hurts even more given Army pregame hype.For more than a decade, as Army loss follows Army loss, it has been distressing to see the Black Knights of West Point, N.Y., lose to the Midshipmen of Annapolis, Md. If the Army can ;t prevail on the gridiron, the thinking goes, how can it beat the Taliban, al-Qaeda and the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater SyriaISIS Football, after all, is a game playe
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