‘Vindictive & cruel’: US revokes visas of Palestinian envoy’s family after mission shutdown

The Palestinian Liberation Organization has accused US of a new level of pressure and of being ‘spiteful’ after the family of its envoy had their visas annulled following the closure of the PLO office. Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the PLO’s executive committee, said on Sunday that the US “has taken its attempts to pressure […]

Old South Confederate monument backers cite 1929 book claiming Lincoln, ‘vindictive’ anti-slavery movement caused Civil War

Reuters/Cheryl Gerber BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Sometimes it seems like the impassioned people who want to preserve Confederate monuments across the South are reading a different history book than the rest of the nation. In fact, they are. A decades-old booklet called the “Confederate Catechism” lays out core beliefs of Southern heritage groups including the […]