Domestic Glance
Merck & Co Inc Chief Executive Kenneth Frazier resigned from U.S. President Donald Trump's American Manufacturing Council on Monday, saying he was taking a stand against intolerance and extremism.
Frazier, who is African-American, is the only CEO so far to leave one of Trump's advisory councils because of his reaction to the violence in Virginia. Prominent Democrats and Republicans criticized Trump's response to the violence over the weekend.
Merck CEO resigns from Trump council over Charlottesville
Charlottesville: man charged with murder was pictured at neo-Nazi rally
The man accused of murdering a woman by deliberately driving into her during protests against a far-right rally was photographed earlier in the day standing with the white supremacist, neo-Nazi group Vanguard America.
James Fields, 20, of Maumee, Ohio, allegedly killed Heather Heyer, aged 32, and injured 19 others when he rammed his car into a group peacefully protesting on Saturday in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Lexington Mayor Announces Plans To Relocate Confederate Statues Amid Charlottesville Violence
The mayor of Lexington, Kentucky, announced plans Saturday to relocate his city’s Confederate statues, following violent white supremacist protests in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Jim Gray, a Democrat, tweeted as groups clashed in Virginia: I am taking action to relocate the Confederate statues. We have thoroughly examined this issue, and heard from many of our citizens.
“The tragic events in Charlottesville today have accelerated the announcement I intended to make next week,” Gray said in a statement. “On Tuesday I will ask the Council to support Lexington’s petition to the Kentucky Military Heritage Commission, a required next step. Details to come.”
The Latest: Chopper crash linked to white nationalist rally
Officials say the deaths of two people in a helicopter crash near Charlottesville, Virginia, have been linked to a violent white nationalist rally earlier in the day.
It was not immediately clear how the crash was connected to the rally. Corinne Geller, a Virignia State Police spokeswoman, says the pilot and a passenger were killed in the crash Saturday afternoon.
The crash happened just a few hours after a car plowed into a crowd of people peacefully protesting against the white nationalist rally. One person was killed and at least two dozen were hurt.
Border wall protests planned in South Texas
Hundreds may turn out in South Texas this weekend to push back against construction of President Trump’s proposed border wall.
Two demonstrations against the wall’s construction are planned in Hidalgo County near the Rio Grande, where residents and activists say the potential path of a wall would impact local landmarks and natural areas, including a wildlife refuge that includes among its inhabitants the endangered ocelot.
Critics are concerned about federal maps that show possible locations of a border wall constructed on existing levees.
White nationalist march at University of Virginia ends in violence
Hundreds of torch-bearing white nationalists marched on the campus of the University of Virginia ahead of Saturday's Unite the Right rally.
Police ultimately declared the Friday night march an unlawful assembly, as marchers who chanted "white lives matter," "you will not replace us" and "blood and soil," swung their torches in skirmishes with counterprotesters, the Daily Progress reported.
As many as 160 Applebee's and IHOP locations to close
The parent company of Applebee's and IHOP plans to close up to 160 restaurants, vastly boosting the number of eateries from the two comfort-food chains that it plans to shutter.
Some 105 to 135 Applebee's restaurants will close, up from the 40 to 60 that parent DineEquity said would close in the first quarter. Also on the chopping block are an estimated 20 to 25 IHOP sites, up from about 18.
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