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The reporter was asking Conway about Donald Trump’s tweets regarding four Democratic congresswomen.

The US president said his tweets telling four female Democratic politicians to ‘go back’ to the broken countries from which they came were not racist.

Donald Trump continues to justify his cruel comments.

Italian police have evicted migrants and others from an abandoned former school on Rome’s outskirts in the latest operation to empty occupied buildings of migrants and squatters. Residents set fire to mattresses and other rubbish to form a barrier and prevent riot police from entering the building. Squatters set fire to a barricade created outside the abandoned school on the outskirts of Rome (Massimo Percossi/ANSA via AP) But authorities doused the blaze and proceeded with the eviction. Interior minister Matteo...

President Donald Trump has been accused of racism over his attack on four congresswomen, and Theresa May made plain her discontent.

The US president suggested four women of colour in US congress should ‘go back and help fix’ their ‘broken and crime infested countries’.

Whether or not Trump’s inflammatory and racist tweets intend to distract from national immigration raids and a flurry of news reports detailing inhumane conditions in which migrants are being detained, he has been immediately called out for the shocking racist public pronouncements.

Since the Cambridge Analytica debacle erupted more than a year ago and prompted the FTC investigation, Facebook has vowed to do a better job corralling its users’ data. That scandal revealed that a data mining firm affiliated with US President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign may have improperly accessed private information from as many as 87 million Facebook users through a quiz app.

The sweep has sparked outrage and concern among immigrant advocates.