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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — When 92-year-old Dr. Fergie Reid was a young man growing up in Richmond, he resented the massive statues of Confederate leaders lining Monument Avenue. But Reid says black people knew better than to speak out. “If you complained, they’d probably put you in jail,” said Reid, who was Virginia’s first black state lawmaker since Reconstruction. Virginia has come a long way since then. Once the home of the capital of the Confederacy and the hub of the segregationist movement known as massive resistance, Virginia has been eager to reinvent itself as a more diverse, tolerant and welcoming place. It’s changed much like the rest of the country: more people living in cities and suburbs, more jobs working behind computers than laboring in the fields, and a growing portion of the population who moved here from somewhere else. But difficult racial issues persist — visible in fights over illegal immigration policy in Northern Virginia or the unofficial segregati...

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Authorities in Spain searched Saturday for a member of an Islamic extremist cell that staged vehicle attacks in Barcelona and a seaside resort, focusing on links with his Moroccan comrades, a missing imam believed to have radicalized them and a house that blew up days ago. Catalan police said the manhunt was centered on Younes Abouyaaquoub, a 22-year-old Moroccan suspected of driving the van that plowed into a Barcelona promenade packed with pedestrians Thursday, killing 13 people and injuring 120. Another attack early Friday killed one person and wounded five in the resort of Cambrils. But the investigation was also focusing on a Moroccan imam who is thought to have radicalized the cell and was believed to have died on the eve of the Barcelona attack, police said. Even with Abouyaaquoub still at large, Spanish Interior Minister Juan Ignacio Zoido declared the cell “broken” after five members were killed by police early Friday in a shootout, four ...

BERLIN (AP) — Left-wing groups and Berlin residents prevented more than 500 far-right extremists from marching Saturday to the place where high-ranking Nazi official Rudolf Hess died 30 years ago. Police in riot gear kept the neo-Nazis and an estimated 1,000 counter-protesters apart as the two sides staged competing rallies in the German capital’s western district of Spandau. Far-right protesters had planned to march to the site of the former Spandau prison, where Hess hanged himself in 1987, but were forced to turn back after about a kilometer (0.6 miles) because of a blockade by counter-protesters. After changing their route, the neo-Nazis, who had come from all over Germany and neighboring European countries, returned to Spandau’s main station for speeches amid jeers and chants of “Nazis go home!” and “You lost the war!” from counter-protesters. Authorities had imposed restrictions on the march to ensure that it passed peacefully. Organizers were told they couldn’t ...

BOSTON (AP) — The Latest on a conservative rally and counter-demonstration in Boston and around the country (all times local): 4 p.m. President Donald Trump is complimenting the Boston police on Twitter for their handling of the rallies minutes before the police department tweeted asking people to stop throwing items at them. Trump tweeted Saturday afternoon, “Looks like many anti-police agitators in Boston. Police are looking tough and smart! Thank you.” Trump also complimented Boston’s Democratic Mayor Marty Walsh. Boston Police Department tweeted shortly after that urine, rocks and bottles were being thrown at officers and were asking people to refrain from doing so. Thousands of demonstrators chanting anti-Nazi slogans converged Saturday morning on downtown Boston, dwarfing a smaller group of conservatives staging their own “free speech rally.” The conservatives left the rally around 1 p.m., shortly after their arrival. The Boston Globe reports about 20 arrests h...

LIHUE — Like the rest of the state, Kauai will not have a decent vantage point to watch the upcoming solar eclipse. “We’re really going to be on fringe of it, about less than 20 percent of the eclipse,” said Kevin Kodama, hydrologist with the National Weather Service in Honolulu. “We’ll see hardly any of it. You have to be on the Mainland.” The first solar eclipse to cross North America since 1918 will grace the U.S. continent Monday, starting in the mid-morning, depending on the time zone. “It’s going to come up really early in the morning here,” Kodama said. In Hawaii, the eclipse will happen about 6:30 a.m., he said. The natural phenomenon, during which the moon passes between the Earth and the sun for about three hours, will be able to be viewed from the Mainland, parts of South America, Africa and Europe, according to the NASA website. While Hawaii may not be privy to the eclipse, the University of Hawaii at Hilo scientists, including Shadia Rifai Habbal will b...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — American Indian tribes nationwide will be observing the eclipse in similar and not-so-similar ways. Some will ignore Monday’s passing of the moon over the sun. Others might watch while praying for an anticipated renewal. Those in prime viewing spots are welcoming visitors with storytelling, food and celebration. Many tribes revere the sun and moon as cultural deities, great sources of power and giver of life. Bobbieann Baldwin, a Navajo citizen, says she’ll be inside her home with the shades drawn. In Navajo culture, an eclipse is an intimate moment in which the sun is reborn and tribal members are urged not to look. She says she and her children will be in their living room meditating and reflecting. The eclipse coincides with the Crow Tribe’s annual parade dance, marking the Montana tribe’s new year. Source: www.apnews.com  By FELICIA FONSECA

BOSTON (AP) — Conservative activists and leftist counterprotesters prepared for a confrontation on Boston Common that could draw thousands a week after a demonstration in Virginia turned deadly. Police Commissioner William Evans said Friday that 500 officers — some in uniform, others undercover — would be deployed to keep the two groups apart on Saturday. Boston’s Democratic mayor, Marty Walsh, and Massachusetts’ Republican governor, Charlie Baker, both warned that extremist unrest wouldn’t be tolerated in this city famed as the cradle of American liberty. Organizers of the midday event, billed as a “Free Speech Rally,” have publicly distanced themselves from the neo-Nazis, white supremacists and others who fomented violence in Charlottesville on Aug. 12. A woman was killed at that Unite the Right rally, and scores of others were injured, when a car plowed into counterdemonstrators. But opponents feared that white nationalists might show up in Boston anyway, raising the spec...