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EXPAND When the whole country is sad AF, even Emo Nite is a welcome escape. Shane Lopes It was Thursday night, less than a week after a "Unite the Right" protest, ostensibly to protect Confederate statues , turned deadly. Earlier in the day, the normally loser-hating president of the United States tweeted that he was "sad" over the removal of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson statues . The country is still mourning the tragic death of Heather Heyer, still frightened with images of neo-Nazis burned into our minds. The country is now at a crossroads: What do we do next? Yet the president is still going on about those damn statues of people who fought a lost cause to secede from the United States — statues that, as many have pointed out, were used to intimidate and remind people that racism persists, even if the Confederacy doesn't. I scrolled through social media feeds , read news stories and opinion pieces, tried to make sense of a country that's startin...

Affordable housing activists are calling out Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto , saying he hasn't done enough to help low- income residents evicted from East Liberty's Penn Plaza Apartments . But Peduto responded, saying his administration has gone "overboard" to help relocate the displaced residents. "To say that the city didn't do enough is an insult," Peduto said.  "Even when we did [find new housing], they said no, and now they're holding protests saying we didn't do enough." In the summer of 2015, approximately 200 residents of the Penn Plaza Apartments were served 90- day eviction notices by developers LG Realty Advisors . This was a shock to the mostly low-income residents, who found out their homes would be razed to support an upscale Whole Foods grocery store , a plan that has since been cancelled. Although the city stepped in to give residents more time to move, activist groups like Homes for All and the Penn Plaza Support ...

BARCELONA, Spain The Latest on the Spain attacks (all times local): 11:30 p.m. Police in the southern French city of Nimes have arrested a man unlawfully carrying a pistol into a train station, but say he is not linked to the attacks in Barcelona. After an evacuation and police operation at the train station Saturday night , the historic city quickly returned to normal, with police returning to their posts. A national police spokesman said the operation began when a passenger alerted police to a man with a weapon. Police quickly found and arrested him, said the spokesman, who was not authorized to be publicly named. The spokesman said the man has no apparent connection to Thursday's attacks around Barcelona, about 380 kilometers southwest of Nimes. French authorities increased checks of its border with Spain after the attacks, and one suspect is believed at large. 10:50 p.m. Catalan regional police say they are mounting major road blocks throughout the northeastern regio...

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The Latest on the Spain attacks (all times local): 5:15 a.m. Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has asked people to pray for a young Australian boy who is missing after a vehicle attack on a popular Barcelona promenade that killed 13 people. Turnbull said Saturday that the boy's mother was badly injured and is in a hospital following Friday's attack at the Las Ramblas promenade . Turnbull says the boy's family is searching for him. He did not release the boy's name. Turnbull says: "All of us as parents know the anguish his father is going through, and his whole family is going through, as they rush to seek to find him in Barcelona." Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says four Australians were injured in the attack. ___ 2:35 a.m. Police in Catalonia say they have searched two buses in their hunt for violent extremists believed responsible for a pair of deadly attacks in the northwestern region of Spain. Police say o...