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Virginia Dems pledge to let locals move Confederate statues

by Associated Press
| January 9, 2020 1:55 PM

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Newly empowered Democratic leaders in Virginia pledged Thursday to let local governments remove Confederate monuments, but Gov. Ralph Northam said he's still weighing what to do with one of the state's most prominent ones — a towering statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee.

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