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German Christmas market ramming is the latest attack to use vehicles as deadly weapons

LONDON — A car-ramming at a Christmas market in Germany, which police are treating as an attack, is the latest in a grim series of events in which vehicles have been used as deadly weapons. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print NEW YORK, Oct. 31, 2017 — Sayfullo Saipov, an Islamic extremist from …

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4 days, 4 hours ago

How a small Brazilian town became an unlikely battleground over Confederate memory

Raw Story

By Jordan Brasher, Visiting Assistant Professor of Geography, Macalester College There were no antebellum hoop skirts at the site of Brazil’s annual “Festa Confederada,” or Confederate Festival, in 2024. Following his private tour of the group’s museum, Eduardo Bolsonaro accused leftist critics of the Confederate Festival of “rewriting memory.” City officials passed the law banning Confederate symbols from public events …

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54 years, 11 months ago

Charlottesville: A Battleground of Divided Voices, 2024 Election

Associated Press

The article explores the complex and divided political landscape of Charlottesville, Virginia, where the upcoming election has sparked intense debate and division among voters. It highlights the site's historical significance as a meeting place for Founding Fathers and the site of the 2017 Unite the Right rally, where white nationalists unleashed racist and antisemitic violence. The article emphasizes the impact …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Los votantes tienen claro el mensaje sobre las elecciones de EEUU: el destino del país está en juego

LA Times

James Galvin, Charlotte Papacosma y Kushaan Soodan registran estudiantes para votar en la Universidad de Virginia, en Charlottesville, el 11 de octubre de 2024. Schmidt dijo que el regreso de Trump a la Casa Blanca representa una amenaza para la democracia, como lo advirtieron los Padres Fundadores. “Creo que el hecho de que tengamos al expresidente Trump y a la …

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4 months ago

Biden DNC speech: Trump’s Charlottesville “very fine people” remarks were not a hoax.

Slate

In his speech on Monday capping off the first night of the Democratic National Convention, President Joe Biden reiterated his long-held explanation that he ran for president because of the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Most of us remember, too, then–President Donald Trump refusing to express a statement of unity, speaking instead of the “hatred, bigotry, and …

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4 months ago

'They lied!' Trump goes off-script at crime speech to gripe about DNC attacks against him

Raw Story

Former President Donald Trump detoured into a rant against the Democratic National Convention in Chicago during a speech on crime delivered in Michigan on Tuesday. "We have a fool for a president," said Trump Tuesday after spending several minutes complaining about the withdrawal from Afghanistan that he helped negotiate. He then addressed multiple criticisms of his administration that were made …

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4 months ago

Quarterback decision is crucial as Virginia and coach Tony Elliott face early tests

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Virginia coach Tony Elliott said at the start of the summer he didn’t want his open quarterback competition to be “a big deal.” His players say they’ve bought in, but the decision is crucial for Elliott, who starts his third season with little …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Vance wrongly claims Trump ‘never said that there were very good people on both sides’

Raw Story

Donald Trump’s vice-presidential running mate JD Vance is falsely claiming as President in 2017, Trump did not make his infamous “very fine people on both sides” remarks after the deadly Charlottesville “Unite the Right” white supremacist neo-Nazi rally. Senator Vance is also blaming the media for, he says, wrongly informing his views, which once included wondering if Trump could be …

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5 months, 1 week ago

'Watch the tape, Karen!': CNN panelists clash over Trump's 'very fine people' comment

Raw Story

Two political strategists sparred Friday on CNN during a discussion over what former President Donald Trump said following a violent rally in Charlottesville that saw white supremacists clash with counter-protesters. The heated discussion unfolded on "The Situation Room" with host Wolf Blitzer, who hosted former Hillary Clinton spokeswoman Karen Finney and David Urban, former senior advisor to Donald Trump. Read …

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

White nationalist groups must pay more than $2 million to victims of ‘Unite the Right’ rally, federal appeals court rules

CNN

CNN — A federal appeals court ruled on Monday that white supremacist and nationalist groups will have to pay a more than $2 million in punitive damages to people who suffered physical or emotional injuries from the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. In Monday’s opinion, Chief Judge Albert Diaz wrote, “… we vacate the district court’s order …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Court orders white nationalists to pay $2M more for Charlottesville Unite the Right violence

Hindustan Times

RICHMOND, Va. — Four years after violence erupted during the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, a jury ordered white nationalist leaders and organizations to pay a total of more than $26 million in damages to people with physical or emotional injuries from the event. Court orders white nationalists to pay $2M more for Charlottesville Unite the Right violence …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Biden falls flat against Trump in first 2024 US presidential debate

Al Jazeera

The current president was perceived as stumbling over his words while the Republican Trump repeated numerous falsehoods. “The fraud and everything else was ridiculous,” he said at one point, casting doubt on President Biden’s win in 2020. Nobody.” Trump, however, fired back at one point: “Joe, our country is being destroyed as you and I sit up here and waste …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

25 Arrested At University Of Virginia As Police Clash With Pro-Palestinian Protesters

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING Twenty-five people were arrested Saturday for trespassing at the University of Virginia after police clashed with pro-Palestinian protesters who refused to remove tents from campus, and demonstrators at the University of Michigan chanted anti-war messages and waved flags during commencement ceremonies. Protesters chanted “Free Palestine,” and university police said on the social platform X that an “unlawful …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

'Charlottesville is peanuts': Trump doubles down on whitewashing neo-Nazi rally

Raw Story

Former President Donald Trump again smeared pro-Palestinian protesters on college campuses by comparing them to a 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. "Well, if the people that know Charlottesville, when you extend the statement, it's a big hoax what they say was said, and they understand that. “Minimizing the antisemitic and white supremacist poison displayed in Charlottesville is repugnant …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

Trump's White House lawyer shocked at ex-President's ‘Charlottesville reference’, calls it a political suicide

Hindustan Times

Former Trump White House lawyer Jim Schultz has criticized Donald Trump for linking the 2017 neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, to the ongoing pro-Palestine protests across US colleges. Donald Trump has compared the Charlottesville rally to pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses Schultz, who was an associate White House counsel at the time of the rally, described Trump's mention of Charlottesville …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

Donald Trump says Charlottesville Nazi rally was ‘nothing’ compared to pro-Palestinian student protests

Hindustan Times

Former United States President Donald Trump has claimed pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses are more hateful than the notorious 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, amid his ongoing hush money trial. Former US President Donald Trump returns from a break during his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments linked to extramarital affairs, at Manhattan Criminal Court in …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

Trump downplays deadly Charlottesville rally by comparing it to campus protests over Gaza war

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump on Thursday claimed the 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, was “nothing” compared to ongoing pro-Palestinian campus protests, the latest instance in which he has downplayed a racist incident that was one of the most criticized moments of his presidency. Biden has recently, as he often does, publicly brought up the Charlottesville rally that sparked …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

'A woman was murdered there': CNN fact-checker grills Trump's 'peanut' protest comparison

Raw Story

Another day in the books for Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial, and it ended with the former president speaking to reporters in the corridor talking about how "breathtaking" Thursday was and then tangentially editorializing on some current events — from the price of gas and pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses to SCOTUS and the economy. CNN's Daniel Dale made …

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7 months, 4 weeks ago

Trump says Charlottesville's white nationalist rally was 'like a peanut' to other protests

Raw Story

Donald Trump on Wednesday brought up what some would call the low-point of his presidency, saying that the violent white nationalist rally in Charlottesville "is like a peanut" compared to what Joe Biden faces today. Trump, who famously suggested people should blame both sides in connection with the Charlottesville event that caused injuries and death, took to Truth Social to …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

A man who attended the Charlottesville Unite the Right rallies will lose his city council seat after his past was revealed

CNN

Enid, Oklahoma CNN — When a public official in a small Oklahoma city faced a censure vote that condemned his recent ties to White nationalism, he was saved – at least temporarily – by a Black man. Several residents in Enid blasted city council commissioner Judd Blevins at a public meeting last fall for participating in the 2017 “Unite the …

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9 months, 1 week ago

He Didn’t Deny Being A White Supremacist. Then He Was Elected To City Council.

Huff Post

ENID, Okla. — On the evening of Nov. 7, 2023, Judson “Judd” Blevins, a city councilman in Enid, Oklahoma, took his seat inside the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Municipal Complex and watched as local constituents took turns at a lectern. “A lot of people want to give you a pass, Mr. Blevins, because you’re an honorably discharged veteran,” said …

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9 months, 3 weeks ago

Virginia basketball has taken Tony Bennett on a roller coaster ride this season

New York Times

It’s a simple question. “It’s the most new team we’ve ever had, probably since … God, I don’t even know,” Bennett says with a chuckle. “Closed mouths,” Minor says, “don’t get fed.” The result was immediate: that eight-game winning streak — albeit with only one of those victories against a projected NCAA Tournament team, Clemson. “But I’m glad we have …

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54 years, 11 months ago

Charlottesville 2017: Unite the Right’s plans were bigger than the statue.

Slate

In August of 2017, alt-right activists, Klansmen, and neo-Nazis marched through Charlottesville, Virginia, claiming the town as their own, partly responding to the town’s battle over the fate of a statue of Robert E. Lee that occupied a central place in a park. Dahlia Lithwick: You argue that in a sense, Selma and Birmingham’s Civil Rights protests of the 1960s …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Statue of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia, melted down to create new art

CNN

CNN — The statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that was once at the center of the deadly 2017 White nationalist “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, has been melted down. Schmidt co-leads “Swords into Plowshares,” a project dedicated to transforming the controversial Lee statue into public art. While other Confederate statues across the South have been removed …

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German Christmas market ramming is the latest attack to use vehicles as deadly weapons

How a small Brazilian town became an unlikely battleground over Confederate memory

Charlottesville: A Battleground of Divided Voices, 2024 Election

Los votantes tienen claro el mensaje sobre las elecciones de EEUU: el destino del país está en juego

Biden DNC speech: Trump’s Charlottesville “very fine people” remarks were not a hoax.

'They lied!' Trump goes off-script at crime speech to gripe about DNC attacks against him

Quarterback decision is crucial as Virginia and coach Tony Elliott face early tests

Vance wrongly claims Trump ‘never said that there were very good people on both sides’

'Watch the tape, Karen!': CNN panelists clash over Trump's 'very fine people' comment

White nationalist groups must pay more than $2 million to victims of ‘Unite the Right’ rally, federal appeals court rules

Court orders white nationalists to pay $2M more for Charlottesville Unite the Right violence

Biden falls flat against Trump in first 2024 US presidential debate

25 Arrested At University Of Virginia As Police Clash With Pro-Palestinian Protesters

'Charlottesville is peanuts': Trump doubles down on whitewashing neo-Nazi rally

Trump's White House lawyer shocked at ex-President's ‘Charlottesville reference’, calls it a political suicide

Donald Trump says Charlottesville Nazi rally was ‘nothing’ compared to pro-Palestinian student protests

Trump downplays deadly Charlottesville rally by comparing it to campus protests over Gaza war

'A woman was murdered there': CNN fact-checker grills Trump's 'peanut' protest comparison

Trump says Charlottesville's white nationalist rally was 'like a peanut' to other protests

A man who attended the Charlottesville Unite the Right rallies will lose his city council seat after his past was revealed

He Didn’t Deny Being A White Supremacist. Then He Was Elected To City Council.

Virginia basketball has taken Tony Bennett on a roller coaster ride this season

Charlottesville 2017: Unite the Right’s plans were bigger than the statue.

Statue of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia, melted down to create new art