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The US navy is ordering a “wide investigation” of its Pacific fleet after the second collision in as many months. In the latest, a search is still under way for 10 US navy sailors missing after their destroyer crashed into an oil tanker near Singapore. The USS John McCain was on its way for a…

It was a network of safe houses that helped slaves in America escape the brutality of the south, but in the author Colson Whitehead’s latest novel, the underground railroad takes on physical form: a steam train delivering runaways through secret tunnels to the safety of the north. His magical realist take on one girl’s struggle…

US-backed Iraqi forces have launched a major operation to retake the city of Tal Afar – one of the last cities still held by the Islamic State group in Iraq. The Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has told IS fighters still in the city west of Mosul – they have a choice – ‘surrender or…

President Donald Trump’s top strategist Steve Bannon has wasted no time in getting back to his old job at conservative website Breitbart News – chairing an editorial meeting last night shortly after confirming his departure from the White House. In an interview with The Weekly Standard he said he has got his “hands back on…

The president has waded back into the debate about America’s confederate past yet again – with a series of tweets declaring the “history and culture of our great country is being ripped apart.”

A time when America was riven by racial violence, when civic abuse of the black community boiled over into riots, when the army was deployed to a city where the fires of rebellion burned in the streets. Not today, but Detroit in 1967. Fifty years later the Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow has made a new…

Professor Michael Eric Dyson, sociology professor at Georgetown University and author of ‘Tears Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America’, and conservative commentator and journalist, Scottie Nell Hughes, discuss President Trump’s response to the Virginia clashes.  

“They tried to kill my child to shut her up. Well guess what, you just magnified her” – the mother of Heather Heyer, the woman killed during the Charlottesville protest against white supremacists speaking at her memorial service today. By contrast, Donald Trump has faced near universal condemnation over his attempt to draw a moral…

Joining us from New York is Casey Michel a journalist who covers the far-right and from Charlotte in North Carolina is the artist and civil rights activist – Bree Newsome – who, in 2015, climbed the flagpole in front of the South Carolina Capitol building and lowered the confederate battle flag. The flag was originally…

Kylie Morris talks about Trump’s statement on Charlottesville.

“Racism is evil”: the words of President Trump as he attempted to silence the critics who accused him of a “moral failure” by not explicitly condemning white supremacists and neo-Nazis after a deadly weekend of protests in Charlottesville. Heather Heyer was killed and 19 others were injured after a car ploughed into a crowd of…

A Charlottesville eyewitness describes the violence ‘as a deliberate act of domestic terrorism’. This report contains some graphic scenes.

Trump supporter Neil McCabe, the Armed American Radio Washington editor, says ‘the left are having a field day grandstanding and virtue signalling’ over the Charlottesville violence.

Former Virginia congressman Tom Perriello, who’s a Democrat, says the violence in Charlottesville is indicative of a ‘national problem’.

One woman has died and 19 people are injured after a car ploughed into a group of counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia.