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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 475

Sarah Rankin

Virginia Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin arrives to speak at an election night party in Chantilly, Virginia, Nov. 3, 2021, after he defeated Democrat Terry McAuliffe. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
November 3, 2021, 8:39 am
Republican Youngkin wins Virginia governor race in vote seen as Biden referendum
In upset, lawmaker attracts Trump’s base while also appealing to suburban voters who were repelled by ex-president
By Will Weissert and Sarah Rankin
Crews remove one of the country's largest remaining monuments to the Confederacy, a towering statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, September 8, 2021. (AP/Steve Helber)
September 9, 2021, 11:01 am
Former Confederate capital removes statue of Gen. Lee after years of protests
In Richmond, Virginia, onlookers cheer as 21-foot-tall bronze figure is dismantled and hauled away under heavy police presence, but no counter-protesters show up
By Sarah Rankin and Denise Lavoie
Workers remove the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee from a park in Charlottesville, Virginia on July 10, 2021.(Ryan M. Kelly / AFP)
July 11, 2021, 2:01 am
‘An incredible day’: Charlottesville relieved as Confederate statues removed
Crowds cheer as artwork carted away; local rabbi hails dragging of statue ‘out of here backwards and back into history where it belongs’
By Sarah Rankin
Workers remove a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee from Market Street Park July 10, 2021 in Charlottesville, Virginia (WIN MCNAMEE / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
July 10, 2021, 6:43 am
Charlottesville removes Confederate Gen. Lee statue that sparked rally
Statue and another Confederate tribute are taken down Saturday, nearly four years after deadly violence erupted at ‘Unite the Right’ rally
By Sarah Rankin
In this Nov. 5, 2020, file photo, medical staff attending to patients with COVID-19 wear protective equipment in a unit dedicated to treatment of the coronavirus at UW Health in Madison, Wis. Conditions inside the nation’s hospitals are deteriorating by the day as the coronavirus rages through the country at an unrelenting pace. (John Hart/Wisconsin State Journal via AP, File)
November 19, 2020, 2:48 am
US coronavirus deaths pass 250,000 as many hospitals overwhelmed with cases
Amid surge, number of hospitalized has doubled in past month; hospitals converting chapels, cafeterias into patient treatment areas, warning patients will be turned away
By Paul J. Weber and Sarah Rankin
US President Donald Trump stands with Liberty University president, Jerry Falwell Jr., right, during commencement ceremonies at the school in Lynchburg, Va., Saturday, May 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
August 25, 2020, 11:42 pm
Falwell says he’s resigned from Liberty University
Exit marks precipitous fall from power for one of US’s most visible evangelical leaders and ardent Trump supporters, amid claims wife had relationship with business partner
By Sarah Rankin and ELANA SCHOR
This Wednesday Nov. 28, 2018 file photo shows Rev. Jerry Falwell Jr., right, and his wife, Becki during after a town hall at a convocation at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
August 25, 2020, 9:00 am
Despite sex scandal, Falwell walks back resignation from Liberty University
Reuters reports that the president of the evangelical institution was aware of, and participated in, his wife’s affair with another man
By Sarah Rankin and ELANA SCHOR
Workers clean graffiti from a statue of Belgium's King Leopold II in Brussels on June 11, 2020, that was targeted by protesters during a Black Lives Matter demonstration (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
June 12, 2020, 12:06 pm
Historical figures face reckoning around the globe after Floyd death
Protests and vandalism have taken place in cities from Boston and New York to Paris, Oxford and Brussels, in an intense reexamination of centuries of racial injustice
By Sarah Rankin and David Crary
Fencing and magnetometers are set up around Capitol Square for the anticipated pro-gun rally Sunday, January 19, 2020, in Richmond, Virginia. (AP/Steve Helber)
January 19, 2020, 10:29 pm
Fears of violence as white supremacists, others to rally for guns in Virginia
Governor declares state of emergency after officials raise alarms over plans for ‘insurrection’ by far-right militias and firearms activists converging on Richmond Monday
By Sarah Rankin
In this August 12, 2017, file photo, people fly into the air as a vehicle is driven into a group of protesters demonstrating against a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, United States. (Ryan M. Kelly/The Daily Progress via AP, File)
July 6, 2018, 2:19 am
Man pleads not guilty in deadly car attack on Charlottesville protesters
James Alex Fields Jr. charged with hate crimes and murder over incident at 2017 white nationalist rally
By Sarah Rankin
In this August 12, 2017, file photo, people fly into the air as a vehicle is driven into a group of protesters demonstrating against a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Ryan M. Kelly/The Daily Progress via AP, File)
June 27, 2018, 10:45 pm
Charlottesville car-rammer hit with federal hate crime charges
James Alex Fields Jr. indicted on 30 counts after killing woman with his vehicle during neo-Nazi rally last summer
By Sarah Rankin
Members of the Ku Klux Klan and others arriving for a rally calling for the protection of Confederate monuments in Charlottesville, Virginia, July 8, 2017. (AFP Photo/Andrew Caballero-Reynolds)
February 28, 2018, 11:47 pm
Virginia shoots down bills stemming from Charlottesville rally
Despite flaws found in handling of white nationalist gathering, Republican assembly buries all bids to restrict militias, extremists
By Sarah Rankin
Workers place a tarp over statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee on August 23, 2017. (Screen capture/Twitter)
August 23, 2017, 11:01 pm
Charlottesville covers Confederate statue with black shroud
Move intended to symbolize city’s mourning for woman killed while protesting white supremacist rally
By Sarah Rankin and STEVE HELBER
Susan Bro, mother to Heather Heyer, at an memorial for her daughter at the Paramount Theater in Charlottesville, Virginia, August 16, 2017. Heyer was killed on August 12, 2017 when a car rammed into a crowd of people protesting a white nationalist rally.(Andrew Shurtleff/The Daily Progress via AP, Pool)
August 17, 2017, 12:48 am
At memorial, Charlottesville victim’s mother urges ‘righteous action’
Heather Heyer’s family members and friends say her death will only inspire them to fight harder for justice
By brian witte and Sarah Rankin
Counter protesters confront Jason Kessler, an organizer of "Unite the Right" rally, after Kessler tried to speak outside the Charlottesville City Hall on August 13, 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)
August 14, 2017, 2:11 am
Charlottesville rally organizer flees news conference
Jason Kessler chased away a day after a woman was killed when a car plowed into counter-protesters after far-right event
By Sarah Rankin and Alan Suderman
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