Aug 15 Furor over Charlottesville follows Trump home to Manhattan By Jonathan Lemire, Associated Press President Donald Trump is back in the New York skyscraper that bears his name as the furor over his reaction to race-fueled clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend shows few signs of dying down. Continue reading
Aug 14 WATCH: Trump says ‘racism is evil,’ condemns KKK, neo-Nazis and white supremacists By Jonathan Lemire, Associated Press Under pressure all weekend, President Donald Trump named and condemned hate groups as "repugnant" and declared "racism is evil" in an updated, more forceful statement on the deadly, race-fueled clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia. Continue reading
Aug 14 Judge denies bond for suspect in Charlottesville attack at white nationalist rally By Joshua Barajas James Alex Fields Jr., 20, is being held on suspicion of second-degree murder in the death of Heather Heyer, 32, and faces additional charges of malicious wounding and failure to stop in an accident that lead to a death. Continue reading
Aug 14 Merck CEO steps down from presidential council after Charlottesville By Associated Press The CEO of the nation's third largest pharmaceutical company is resigning from the President's American Manufacturing Council citing "a responsibility to take a stand against intolerance and extremism."… Continue reading
Aug 14 Pressure mounts on Trump to condemn white supremacists after Charlottesville attack By Jonathan Lemire, Associated Press The White House defended President Donald Trump's response to deadly, race-fueled clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia, as he came under bipartisan scolding for not clearly condemning white supremacists immediately after the altercations. Continue reading
Aug 13 Watch 3:47 White nationalism is ‘ugly continuation of a brutal tradition’ By PBS News Hour In an opinion piece in The New York Times on Sunday after a violent weekend, Georgetown University sociology professor Michael Eric Dyson wrote, “We cannot pretend that the ugly bigotry unleashed in the streets of Charlottesville, Va., this weekend has… Continue watching
Aug 13 Politicians criticize Trump for not explicitly rebuking white supremacists By Jonathan Lemire, Associated Press Democrats and some Republicans called on him to specifically denounce white supremacy and racially motivated hate by name. Continue reading
Aug 12 Watch 4:54 White nationalist rally brings clashes in Charlottesville By PBS News Hour Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe declared a state of emergency in Charlottesville on Saturday as hundreds of white nationalists and alt-right activists clashed with police and counter-protesters. It was the second rally to protest the city’s plan to remove a statue… Continue watching
Aug 12 Trump blames ‘many sides’ for violent clashes in Virginia By Jonathan Lemire, Associated Press President Donald Trump on Saturday blamed "many sides" for the violent clashes between protesters and white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia. Continue reading
Aug 12 Three dead after white nationalist rally in Charlottesville By Kamala Kelkar A car plowed into a pool of people in the college town of Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday afternoon, killing one person and injuring several others in the aftermath of a white nationalist rally that turned violent before it was scheduled… Continue reading