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Biden repeats same story word-for-word just minutes apart, raising fresh concerns about age, fitness for office
President Biden repeated statements at a Manhattan campaign reception about the 2017 Charlottesville riot and his decision to run for president in 2020 minutes apart and nearly word-for-word.
Man seen with tiki torch at Charlottesville rally killed himself before drug trial: report
After Von Nukem was a no-show at his federal trial, the judge issued an arrest warrant, but when it was discovered he was dead, the case was dismissed, the Daily...
Charlottesville to take down Robert E. Lee statue that was focus of deadly rally
Four years after the "Unite the Right" rally, two of the main figures are coming down. Statues of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson in Charlottesville will be removed this...
Biden's 1993 remark about female Confederacy group may come back to bite him
A newly unearthed clip of Joe Biden shows the then-senator referring to members of a female Confederacy group as "fine people" during a 1993 Senate hearing. During the Senate confirmation...
Mom of Charlottesville rally victim Heather Heyer issues warning ahead of Virginia gun rally
The mother of protester Heather Heyer, who was killed in the 2017 Charlottesville white supremacist rally, has a message for attendees of an upcoming pro-gun demonstration: "To anybody planning violence,...
White supremacist James Fields sentenced to life for Virginia car attack
The neo-Nazi fanatic who rammed his car into a group of counter-protesters, killing one, at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017 was sentenced to life in federal...
Charlottesville's Confederate statues are war monuments: judge
Statues in Charlottesville of Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson are war monuments protected by state law, a Virginia judge has ruled.
Trump defends ‘very fine people’ remark about Charlottesville
He was referring only to people who wanted to preserve a statue of General Robert E. Lee when he declared that there were “very fine people on both sides” of...
Joe Biden blasts Trump for 'both sides' response to deadly Charlottesville rally
Joe Biden on Friday doubled down on his criticism of President Trump for saying there were “very fine people on both sides” in the deadly 2017 neo-Nazi riot in Charlottesville,...
James Fields pleads guilty to federal hate crime charges
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., March 27 — Self-described neo-Nazi James Fields, who was convicted of killing Heather Heyer by ramming his car into a crowd protesting a white supremacist rally in Virginia...
Charlottesville schools closed for a second day after violent racist threats
Schools in Charlottesville, Virginia, remained closed for a second consecutive day on Friday as police investigated a threat of racist violence against non-white students that had been posted online, officials...
Neo-Nazi gets life, plus 419 years, for killing protester at Charlottesville rally
The Nazi sympathizer who drove into a crowd of protesters, killing one, last year in Virginia was sentenced to life in prison plus 419 years Tuesday. A jury recommended the...
Man charged with running over protester in Charlottesville assaulted in jail
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — A man in custody at a Virginia jail assaulted fellow inmate James Alex Fields Jr., the man accused of driving a car into counterprotesters at a white...
Several arrested over white nationalist rally in Charlottesville
Four members of a white supremacist group were slapped Tuesday with federal conspiracy charges for allegedly traveling from California “with intent to incite a riot” at last year’s white nationalist...
Charlottesville jury fines man $1 for punching white nationalist
Jeffrey Winder was found guilty of misdemeanor assault in February for punching white nationalist organizer Jason Kessler in August 2017. On Tuesday, a jury ruled that his punishment will be...
KKK member gets 4 years in prison for gunshot at rally
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — A Ku Klux Klan member from Maryland who pleaded no contest to firing a gun at a white nationalist rally last summer in Virginia has been sentenced...
Unite The Right organizer admits to living with parents, gets yelled at by dad during live stream
Apparently, the “fatherland” is not as sympathetic as he expected. A notorious neo-Nazi rally’s organizer was caught on tape being scolded by his daddy for using his parents’ bedroom to...
White nationalists fail to draw crowds on anniversary of deadly rally
WASHINGTON, DC — The “Unite the Right 2” rally in the nation’s capital Sunday was a complete washout — and the rain had nothing to do with it. The planned...
Charlottesville victim's mother: 'So much healing to do'
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — The mother of a woman killed when a car plowed into a crowd of counterprotesters at a white nationalist rally last summer said Sunday there's much healing...
Counterprotesters expected to dwarf white supremacists in DC
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — A day after tensions between police and community activists nearly boiled over on the University of Virginia's campus, the city of Charlottesville marked Sunday's anniversary of a...