
Bull Connor, George Wallace, Jefferson Davis: Who are these historical villains?
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President Joe Biden's comments about the right and wrong side of history are getting more scrutiny days after his speech about voting rights. Here's what to know about three historical and controversial figures he referenced in his speech.
President Joe Biden's comments about the right and wrong side of history are getting more scrutiny days after he sought, in vain, to convince fellow Democrats like Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema to change Senate rules and pass new voting rights protections.
"At consequential moments in history, they present a choice," Biden said in his speech from Atlanta earlier this week. "Do you want to be the side of Dr. King or George Wallace? Do you want to be on the side of John Lewis or Bull Connor? Do you want to be on the side of Abraham Lincoln or Jefferson Davis?"

Hundreds of Border Patrol officers are mobilizing to bolster the president’s crackdown on immigration in snowy Minneapolis, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Sunday, as tensions between federal law enforcement and local counterparts flare after an ICE-involved shooting last week left a mother of three dead.

Nationwide outcry over the killing of a Minneapolis woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent spilled into the streets of cities across the US on Saturday, with protesters demanding the removal of federal immigration authorities from their communities and justice for the slain Renee Good.

Since early December the US Coast Guard and other military branches have boarded and taken control of five oil ships that had previously been sanctioned, all either accused of being in the process of transporting Venezuelan oil or on their way to take on oil that has been subject to US sanctions since President Donald Trump began a pressure campaign against the leadership of the country during his first term.










