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Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was forced to leave a trendy Mexican restaurant in Washington, DC, Tuesday night when protesters descended on the eatery shouting “Shame!” Demonstrators occupied DXDC Cocina Mexicana at around 8 p.m. as Nielsen was attempting to have a meal with an unidentified man, according to a video posted on Facebook.

Second of three parts American writer and social historian Studs Terkel memorably called World War II "the good war." Terkel interviewed hundreds of GIs and their families many years after the war. They recalled that the struggle lifted them above their personal lives to fight on behalf of something they believed was greater than themselves. World War II was good, despite the millions of deaths, the limitations on daily lives, the encroachment on peacetime liberties and the arduousness of wartime life. The war was good because the sacrifice was for a noble cause, for the perpetuation of America and the...

Americans celebrate Columbus Day Monday to commemorate what is known as the discovery of the "New World" by Italian explorer Christopher Columbus. As Italian Americans mark the holiday, New York's Italian American Museum has opened an exhibit. The display explores a painful time when 600,000 Italians living in the United States were designated "enemy aliens" during World War II. After Japan attacked U.S. forces at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt implemented what was called the "Alien Enemy Act." Unnaturalized immigrants, or aliens from Japan, Italy and Germany living in the United States, were to be...