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Rep. Chellie Pingree cleared up "a couple of things" with Greene after the Republican said Democrats were trying to "erase our history."
The military is in the process of replacing a number of names and monuments honoring Confederate leaders such as Robert E. Lee.
Thenow-removedstatue at the center ofthe 2017 Unite the Right rallyin Charlottesville, Virginia, will be transformed by the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center.
And then turn it into art. The Confederate monument, removed from a city park earlier this year, was at the center of a deadly white supremacist rally in 2017.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
The search for this moldy Confederate box is over. Were moving on.
Workers have so far not been able to find the capsule, which supposedly contains a photograph of a deceased President Lincoln.
Twitter users pounced on Trump's strange comment about the Civil War loser.
Crowds gathered to celebrate the moment, chanting, "Hey, hey, hey, goodbye."
The bronze likeness of Robert E. Lee on a horse will be hoisted off its pedestal in Richmond, 131 years after its placement.
The city has removedmore than a dozen other pieces of Confederate statuary on city land since the death of George Floyd in 2020.