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President Donald Trump announced on Monday night his administration’s plans to continue the engagement of the United States military in Afghanistan, a strategy meant to combat the influence of the Taliban and the ISIS affiliate in the country that will forgo a formal timetable and instead rely upon "conditions on the ground" to guide U.S.

BRISTOL, Tenn. — Walk around the sprawling campsites at the Bristol Motor Speedway here in the green hills of Tennessee, and you know you’re deep in Trump country. Cars buzz around this half-mile track, practicing for the night NASCAR races here. National Rifle Association signs are omnipresent, as the track hosts the only race in NASCAR’s top circuit with NRA branding. A pop-up city of RVs sprawls outside the speedway, with many displaying spreads of barbecue and booze.

Most popular on BostonGlobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories Many in the crowd at a race said they feel more permission to be outspoken on issues once viewed as sensitive, like race.   The president will speak at 9 tonight at Fort Myer in Arlington, Va.

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Most popular on BostonGlobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories CAPITAL SOURCE The teenagers with the Hyde Square Task Force were the first to discover that TD Garden failed to comply with a 1993 law requiring the arena hold three annual fundraisers.   The prospect set off some angry words from the camp of one of the US Senate candidates.  CAPITAL SOURCE Likely Republican Senate candidate John Kingston has begun staffing up his campaign, adding a former aide to Governor Charlie Baker as a senior adviser.

Most popular on BostonGlobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories Many in the crowd at a race said they feel more permission to be outspoken on issues once viewed as sensitive, like race.   The president will speak at 9 tonight at Fort Myer in Arlington, Va.

Posted at 8:30 pm on August 20, 2017 by Andrea Ruth

Posted at 9:00 pm on August 20, 2017 by Susan Wright “Unite the Right” was billed as a march to protest the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue.

Posted at 9:30 pm on August 20, 2017 by streiff The left has developed an entire public relations campaign in the last week to convince everyone that the lackwit anarcho-marxists of the ‘antifa’ (correctly pronounce an-TEE-fa, I’m told) movement is actually not violent.

Posted at 10:54 pm on August 20, 2017 by Kira Davis   Whenever the issue of racism pops up it’s ugly head in our public discourse, I get tons of messages from genuinely concerned Americans asking me what the solution is to our race problems.