Interior Department chief Joaquim Forn says the death toll could increase since at least 15 of the 100 people thought to have been injured in the attack were hurt badly.
Senior police official Josep Lluis Trapero says the vand driving up onto a sidewalk and swerving among pedestrians in a crowded area was "clearly a terror attack intended to kill as many people as possible."
At least 13 dead, 100 injured in Barcelona van attack claimed by ISIS
Steve Bannon Contradicts Trump, Calls White Supremacists "Clowns" in Unusual Interview
Contradicting a boss already under pressure to fire him, President Donald Trump's chief strategist Steve Bannon says there's no military solution to the threat posed by North Korea and its nuclear ambitions. Just last week, Trump pledged to answer North Korean aggression with "fire and fury."
In an interview with The American Prospect posted online Wednesday, Bannon tells the liberal publication that the U.S. is losing the economic race against China and talks about purging his rivals from the Defense and State departments.
Trump Lawyer Forwards Email Echoing Secessionist Rhetoric
President Trump’s personal lawyer on Wednesday forwarded an email to conservative journalists, government officials and friends that echoed secessionist Civil War propaganda and declared that the group Black Lives Matter “has been totally infiltrated by terrorist groups.”
The email forwarded by John Dowd, who is leading the president’s legal team, painted the Confederate general Robert E. Lee in glowing terms and equated the South’s rebellion to that of the American Revolution against England. Its subject line — “The Information that Validates President Trump on Charlottesville” — was a reference to comments Mr. Trump made earlier this week in the aftermath of protests in the Virginia college town.
DOJ warrant of Trump resistance site triggers alarm
A brewing fight between the Justice Department (DOJ) and a technology firm over visitors to an anti-Trump website is stirring alarm among privacy and civil liberties advocates.
DreamHost, a Los Angeles-based web hosting provider, is challenging a federal request for records, files and other information on a website that was used to organize protests against President Trump on Inauguration Day.
Why Nebraska prisons cause heart attacks, blindness and mental illness
A prison holding more than three times as many people as it was designed to house. Another prison repeatedly wracked by deadly riots. Prisoners suffering injury, disability, and death because they are denied basic medical care. These conditions exist not in the distant past or in some impoverished or totalitarian nation, but in the US state of Nebraska in 2017.
On Wednesday, the American Civil Liberties Union and our partners are filing suit to halt the human rights crisis in Nebraska’s prisons. The lawsuit is a horrifying account of a profoundly broken system. One prisoner died of a heart attack, ignored for weeks despite his obvious symptoms.
'Most bizarre dinosaur ever found' is missing evolutionary link – study
An unusual vegetarian dinosaur with the silhouette of a flesh-ripping velociraptor, whose fossilised remains were unearthed in southern Chile 13 years ago, is a missing link in dinosaur evolution, researchers have said.
A revised assessment of the kangaroo-sized Chilesaurus diegosuarezi , reported in the journal Biology Letters, bolsters a theory unveiled earlier this year that threatens to upend a long-standing classification of all dinosaurs.
Trump disbands CEO councils as business leaders desert
Faced with a stampede of CEO defections, President Donald Trump tweeted early this afternoon that he was disbanding both of his advisory groups of business leaders.
"Rather than putting pressure on the businesspeople of the Manufacturing Council & Strategy & Policy Forum, I am ending both. Thank you all!" Trump tweeted shortly after 1:15 p.m.
Michael Moore marches his Broadway audience to Trump Tower
Michael Moore led the audience from his anti-Trump Broadway show straight to the entrance of Trump Tower to protest the president’s controversial Tuesday remarks about a deadly white nationalist rally.
The star of the one-man “Terms of my Surrender,” joined by “Spotlight” actor Mark Ruffalo, took to the streets of Manhattan after Tuesday night’s performance.
Heather Heyer remembered at Charlottesville memorial
Family, friends and officials in Virginia gathered in Charlottesville on Wednesday to remember Heather Heyer, the woman killed in a car attack at the white supremacist rally there last weekend.
Virginia officials including Gov. Terry McAuliffe attended the memorial service at Paramount Theater in Charlottesville, where white supremacists and neo-Nazis gathered on Saturday for a rally that turned violent.
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