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The House voted Monday evening to override President Donald Trump’s veto of the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act, in a 322-87 vote.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) stated Tuesday that he is “okay” with removing the names of Confederate leaders from U.S. military bases, breaking with President Donald Trump on the issue.

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) on Thursday expressed support for removing the names of Confederate figures from at least some U.S. military bases.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday rejected the idea of renaming U.S. military bases named after Confederate leaders, declaring: “Our history as the Greatest Nation in the World will not be tampered with.”

Police in Richmond, VA, are looking for a woman who was caught on cameras last week defacing a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.

Protesters in North Carolina defaced a statue to a WWII general because they thought it was a Confederate statue, according to a report.

A conservative black lawmaker in Florida has filed a bill that would prevent local governments from tearing down Confederate monuments and statues.

A Confederate statue that has stood for more than 100 years in a cemetery in Rome, Georgia, was vandalized, causing up to $200,000 in damage, authorities say.

The board of trustees of a North Texas school district voted unanimously last week to replace the Confederate namesake of an elementary campus to instead honor a revered educator, but the decision raised questions over the way they handled the matter — behind closed doors.

Charges have now been dropped against three of the protesters charged with destroying a Confederate statue that stood in downtown Durham, North Carolina, since 1924, reports say.

The Anaheim School Board met Monday afternoon to decide whether to remove Savanna High’s “Johnny Rebel” mascot from the school grounds due to its confederate history.

One Texas school board ousted its high school’s Confederate namesake, General Robert E. Lee, on Monday night, unveiling its replacement name: LEE High.

A Texas middle school abruptly dropped its mascot, “Rebel,” and did so without any formal discussion with parents or taxpayers. They said their decision stemmed from community “concerns” surrounding the national conversation on Confederate iconography in the public forum.

A late afternoon restraining order temporarily blocked the City of Dallas from removing a bronze statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee on Wednesday.

Despite the media and their Democratic counterparts working full speed to spin the lie that threats of political violence are on the rise in a polarized Trump era – with the Confederate monuments, they claim, serving as an “obvious flashpoint” – the events that took place in Charlottesville on August 12, and what President Trump said or didn’t say in the days after, did not lead to this.

The Rev. Robert Wright Lee IV, a descendant of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, took centerstage at the MTV Video Music Awards Sunday and urged viewers to find “inspiration” to fight racism in the left-wing Black Lives Matter and Women’s March movements.

A Texas principal announced Thursday that the high school band can no longer play “Dixie,” the Confederate era song later popularized in the post-Civil War South, because of “safety” concerns.

A slew of online petitions surfaced this week, fueling the politicized narrative to re-brand Texas public schools named for historical figures linked to the Confederacy.

Inner-city blacks are rejecting calls from a Chicago pastor to tear down a local George Washington monument and change the name of Washington Park. For one community organizer, the attacks against our nation’s historical monuments are an attempt to manufacture a race war that won’t help anyone in the black community.

Earlier this week, Birmingham, AL Mayor William Bell ordered a Confederate monument situated a block from city hall covered up, out of view of the public.

Veteran rocker Ryan Adams went on a Twitter tirade late Thursday night against Chelsea Clinton after the former first daughter appeared to compare Confederate statues and monuments to Lucifer.

A new poll by NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist says 62 percent of those polled said Confederate statues honoring leaders should remain.

An Arizona mom used a homemade banner to turn a monument honoring Arizona Confederate dead into a “2nd-place participant trophy.”

Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe called for United States citizens to tear down all of their Confederate memorials and monuments.

The monument that was attacked in Atlanta by protesters was to advance reconciliation, not honor the Confederate cause.

The battle over America’s history reignited following the weekend’s deadly events in Charlottesville, Virginia. The protest against the scheduled removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee led leftist organizations and politicians to step up their long-running war on Confederate monuments.

In a stealth purging of history, the city of Baltimore removed four Confederate statues from city property under cover of night early Tuesday morning.

The Hollywood Forever Cemetery will remove a memorial to Confederate veterans buried at the site, thanks in part to threats of vandalism, as well as requests from activists, according to a Tuesday report in the Los Angeles Times.

HBO is standing by its controversial alternative history drama Confederate following the deadly white supremacist protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday.

Durham County Sheriff Mike Andrews says his office is working to identify individuals who pulled down the Confederate statue on Durham County property Monday night.