Remember the statue wars? In the summer of 2020, sparked by the Black Lives Movement, protestors defaced and tore down monuments to slave traders and other Confederate statues. That led some cities to question whether they were memorializing the wrong figures and removed statues.

Well, now we’re back but this time, the battle is to restore them. The Wall Street Journal reports that people are suing and lobbying local governments to resurrect memorials to Confederate generals, Founding Fathers and European explorers. Many of the statues disappeared from town squares and other public places.

For instance, Ohio’s capital, named for Christopher Columbus, took down a 22-foot-high, 3-ton statue of its namesake from City Hall that year. Officials declared the 1955 gift from sister city Genoa, Italy, had come to represent “patriarchy, oppression and divisiveness.” The statue (for now) lies on its back inside a fenced storage facility. But now a lawsuit is demanding its return.

The Trump administration is helping lead the charge ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary next month. Back in March, the administration erected a Columbus statue near the White House, a replica of one that protesters sank in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor in 2020.

Artnet says the reappearance of these tributes reflects a wider rollback of 2020-era actions, underscoring shifting political currents and reviving debate over whether removing such symbols confronts oppression or “erases” history.

The House on Wednesday passed a resolution to rein in President Trump’s military campaign in Iran. For those you following along, this was Congress’ first successful rebuke of the president’s war effort after multiple Democratic-led war powers attempts failed. The largely symbolic war powers resolution was opposed by Republican leaders who said it would “weaken the president’s hand” in negotiations.

Wednesday’s vote gives momentum for the resolution in the Senate, which had already advanced its own war powers resolution on the floor last month but had not yet held a final vote. The Senate version has teeth, however, and it would require Trump to end the war without congressional approval. But it would need to pass the House, and then Trump could veto it.

Republicans have largely backed Trump’s military campaign, but unease within the GOP has grown as the conflict has dragged on without congressional authorization and has sent U.S. gas prices rising. Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, who has spearheaded the effort to force war powers votes, told the Washington Post, “the Administration has offered no explanation to the American people about what our objectives are, whether we can achieve them through military force alone, what the legal rationale is, or what the financial and human costs are for our country. He added “today’s House vote is more evidence that this Administration is focused on the wrong things.”

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It’s never easy buying or selling a house in America. And it seems like it just keeps getting more difficult. Now, more and more frustrated home sellers are giving up, right in the midst of the all-important spring market, according to new data.

Redfin, the real estate brokerage, found that nationwide, nearly 6% of all home listings were pulled off the market in April. That ties with December for the highest share of homes delisted since March 2020, when the pandemic hit and the housing market froze. And delistings were up, too. CNBC reports that the increase comes as higher mortgage rates, elevated gas prices and weaker consumer confidence take their toll on housing demand. Sellers are no longer in the driver’s seat and aren’t getting the prices they want.

Does this mean we should look out for a crash? Yahoo Finance says for the housing market to crash, supply and demand must be drastically out of balance, favoring supply. While supply is tight, the discrepancy isn't as drastic as it was in 2008. In fact, the experts they spoke with says that a greater sense of normalcy could soon be coming. Fingers crossed.