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An Ohio city has offered to take unwanted statues of political figures from other cities. David Lynch, the city manager for Newton Falls, Ohio, declared Newton Falls a “Statuary Sanctuary City” in a proclamation Saturday, obtained by the local media. The proclamation declares “general amnesty” for the statues of George …

President Donald Trump has said removing the statues of Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Jackson in Washington, DC “is not going to happen” while he is around, but the delegate representing the city in Congress is trying to do that. Democrat Eleanor Holmes Norton, who is black, said she will …