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WASHINGTON, DC — President Trump, under mounting pressure from the left and right to deliver a more forceful response to the race-fueled riots in Virginia this weekend, called out white supremacists and said “racism is evil.” Trump was widely criticized over the weekend for not denouncing by name the white supremacist groups that planned the…
Tiki Brand said it’s “not associated” with torch-bearing protestors who chanted “white lives matter” at a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Aug. 11. Tiki Brand is distancing itself from white nationalists who used tiki torches in a protest march in Charlottesville, Virginia. “Tiki Brand is not associated in any way with the events that took…
From the August 13 edition of Fox News’ Fox & Friends: Loading the player reg… PETE HEGSETH (CO-HOST): I think the president nailed it. He condemned in the strongest possible terms hatred and bigotry on all sides as opposed to immediately picking a side out the gate. He saluted the police specifically for what they did….
Ku Klux Klan members march in cemetery funeral rites in Chesapeake, Virginia, in 1966.AP The “Unite the Right” gathering wasn’t a Klan rally at all. It was a pride march. In July 2017, the Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society invited members of the press to a private conference to discuss a sensitive pair of items from…
When James Alex Fields Jr.’s mug shot was released after he drove his Dodge Challenger through a counterprotest in Charlottesville on Saturday, no one was surprised by what the image revealed: a young, white man with a neo-fascist undercut. “Alt-right” figures like Richard Spencer absorb nearly all the media glare on white nationalism, creating the impression that…
In Charlottesville on Saturday, I witnessed a brutal, calculated act of terror. A young man fueled by hatred drove into a crowd of people peacefully protesting the white supremacist groups that marched through our streets carrying lit torches and armed with assault weapons. As one life has been taken, and many more injured, I am…
Saturday’s terrorist attack in Charlottesville, Virginia that left 32-year-old Heather Heyer dead and 19 people wounded was committed using a car. Almost immediately, Charlottesville police spread speculation (with the help of a reporter at The Hill, whose tweets about it have now been deleted) that the driver was “scared” when he plowed into a group…
Journalists covering the racial violence in Charlottesville, Virginia face challenges as they choose words, images and sounds. This is not a time to sanitize the cost of hate, and it is not a time to glorify hate groups by giving them the notoriety they seek. We have both covered hate groups including the Ku Klux…
“You can be sure we will charge and advance the investigation toward the most serious charges that can be brought because this is unequivocally an unacceptable evil attack,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions, shown in April, said on “Good Morning America.” Credit Chang W. Lee/The New York Times WASHINGTON — Attorney General Jeff Sessions said on…
Twitter GoDaddy no longer wants to host the Daily Stormer on its servers. The known white supremacist site angered the hosting company after it posted a defamatory post mocking the death and appearance of Heather Heyer, the woman killed at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday. On Sunday, GoDaddy posted on…