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The despicable white supremacist event “Unite the Right” in Charlottesville, Virginia, has the nation in an uproar after things turned violent and one innocent person was left dead. Across the country, intense discussions about race have dominated the media landscape and flooded Twitter and Facebook as people try to heal and understand this weekend's violent events. Things were no different on CNN. Host Chris Cuomo welcomed contributor Symone Sanders and former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to discuss the white nationalist march and President Donald Trump's response. Things got off the rail almost instantly. Cuccinelli insisted that the statue of Robert E. Lee was an excuse to bring various racist groups together but kept getting interrupted by Sanders. He finally snapped: “Can I finish, Symone? Can you just shut up for a moment?” Screenshot/CNN Never one to back down, she shot back furiously: “You don’t get to tell me to shut up on national television. I’m s...

People who listened to President Donald Trump’s remarks after North Korea threatened to launch nuclear missiles at the US in the event of an American strike — in which Trump threatened that North Korean aggression would “be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen” — might be forgiven for thinking that the president’s language sounded a little biblical. A short time after Trump spoke Tuesday afternoon, one of his closest religious advisers made that link explicit. In a statement emailed to journalists Tuesday afternoon, pastor Robert Jeffress praised Trump’s aggressive statement as a function of divine will. "When it comes to how we should deal with evil doers, the Bible, in the book of Romans, is very clear: God has endowed rulers full power to use whatever means necessary — including war — to stop evil. In the case of North Korea, God has given Trump authority to take out Kim Jong-Un.” Jeffress has long been one of Trump’s political allies, one central to Trump an...

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has condemned a song he said wished the people of Igbo ethnic group dead, warning that the country should not be allowed to slide into genocide like Rwanda. Mr. Atiku said the song currently circulating in some parts of Nigeria could trigger a major crisis as happened in Rwanda. Hundreds of thousands of Rwandans were killed in an inter-ethnic conflict between the Hutus and Tutsis, two major groups in the East African country in 1984, following the death of that country’s president in a plane crash. In a statement released by his media office, which he personally signed and titled, “Nigeria Does Not Need a Rwandan Deja vu”, Mr. Atiku urged all Nigerians to condemn what he said was “reminiscent of the beginning of the Rwandan Genocide.” The former president called on the security agencies to fish out and bring to trial those responsible for the song. He did not give further details of the song he was referring to. “It has come to my attention th...