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The appeals court said Trump isn’t immune from lawsuits
A US appeals court has ruled that actions taken by US President Donald Trump during the 2018 riots in Charlottesville, Virginia, are not official acts of the presidency. Trump has argued that he had immunity from civil lawsuits as President, but an unofficial acting of the president, the court added. “He’s acting as an officer-seeker,…
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The New York Times reported on the statue of Robert E. Lee being surrendered to the furnace
A statue of Robert E Lee is being melted down in Charlottesville, Virginia, to make way for a new art form that aims to “deconstruct” Lee’s myth and remove it from the public imagination. The monument, which was built in 1885, has been vandalised over the past few years, sparking protests across the US. Lee…