Boston-8/19/17 A Free Speech rally was held on Boston Common as counter protesters marched down Tremont Street to Boston Common. John Tlumacki/Globe Staff(metro)
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FILE - In this Sept. 4, 2012 file photo, Actor Kal Penn addresses the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. Penn, artist Chuck Close and virtually the entire membership of the President’s Committee On the Arts and Humanities have announced their resignation. In a letter released this week, Aug. 18, 2017, 17 committee members cited the “false equivalence” of President Donald Trump’s comments about last weekend’s “Unite the Right” gathering in Charlottesville, Va. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Boston, MA -- 8/14/2017 - Governor Baker and Mayor Walsh arrive at a press conference held to address a controversial rally planned Saturday for Boston Common. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)
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Children hit by car in New Bedford while playing in box near driveway August 18, 2017 | 8:06 AM
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FILE - In this Aug. 14, 2017 file photo, President Donald Trump speaks in front of a portrait of George Washington, in the Diplomatic Room of the White House in Washington. Both were great generals. Both Virginians. Both came from slave-owning plantation families. Is it really so far-fetched to put Robert E. Lee in the same category as George Washington, as President Donald Trump suggested Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017? (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
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Under fire―from GOP―Trump digs in on Confederate icons August 17, 2017 | 11:58 PM
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NH Republican headquarters tagged with Nazi vandalism August 17, 2017 | 6:48 PM
Boston, MA -- 8/14/2017 - Boston Police Commissioner Bill Evans speaks at a press conference held to address a controversial rally planned Saturday for Boston Common. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff) Topic: 15rally
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These items are banned on Boston Common today August 17, 2017 | 5:46 PM
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Republican Gov. Charlie Baker signs a proclamation, in response to the events at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., last week, while joined by Democratic leaders at the Statehouse in Boston, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017. Baker criticized comments made by President Donald Trump in the wake of the rally in which he appeared to equate the protesters, which included neo-Nazis, skinheads and Ku Klux Klan members, with counter-protesters. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
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Charlie Baker signs resolution denouncing white nationalism August 17, 2017 | 1:10 PM
Police officers stand next to the van involved on an attack in Las Ramblas in Barcelona, Spain, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017. A white van jumped up onto a sidewalk and sped down a pedestrian zone Thursday in Barcelona's historic Las Ramblas district, swerving from side to side as it plowed into tourists and residents. Police said 13 people were killed and more than 50 wounded in what they called a terror attack. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
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Barcelona van attack kills 13 in agonizing repeat for Europe August 17, 2017 | 12:08 PM
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In this Aug. 14, 2017, photo, President Donald Trump pauses while speaking in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House in Washington. Is it really so far-fetched to put Robert E. Lee in the same category as George Washington, as President Donald Trump suggested Tuesday? Many historians say yes.
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