The president, speaking from the White House, condemned the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis by name and vowed to hold the perpetrators of violence at a weekend white supremacist rally in Charlottesville fully accountable. But some rivals said Trump had undercut the effectiveness of his message by waiting so long to deliver it.
James Alex Fields Jr. allegedly threatened or assaulted his wheelchair-bound mother so violently that she called police in 2010 and 2011, records show. The portrait of a violent teen emerged as investigations continue into Saturday’s deadly car attack.
Kenneth Frazier’s decision shows how executives have struggled to balance their desire to engage the White House with growing expectations that they exercise a voice on social issues. Later, the CEOs of Under Armour and Intel said they, too, were resigning from the manufacturing council.
White nationalists and supremacists march Friday as part of a rally at the University of Virginia. (Evelyn Hockstein for The Post)
Members of the Black Lives Matter movement stage a counter-protest at the rally on Saturday (Evelyn Hockstein for The Post)
A car strikes people marching against the white nationalist rally. (Ryan M. Kelly/The Daily Progress via AP)
A vigil is held in McGuffey Park for the victim killed in the car attack in Charlottesville. (Evelyn Hockstein for The Post)
The torchlight parade at the University of Virginia proved to be the catalyst for a series of horrific events in this usually quiet college town. In its wake are questions centered on three groups: the white nationalists and supremacists behind the rally; a fiercely resistant group of counterprotesters; and state and local authorities who seemed caught off guard by both groups.
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A new batch of communications turned over to congressional committees reveals concerns within the campaign about establishing contacts.
In Illinois and elsewhere, budget crises are causing legislators to vote for tax increases, defying GOP orthodoxy and bending in the face of dire financial problems plaguing their states.
Jessica Leveto, chair of Moving Forward Together, a grass-roots group in Ohio, watches people sign petitions. (Maddie McGarvey for The Post)
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But, as is often the case with North Korea, the message was mixed: As he spoke, Kim was inspecting the missile unit tasked with preparing to strike near Guam, and state media photos showed a satellite image of Andersen Air Force Base on Guam on the screen beside the leader.
A House special election has attracted hundreds of thousands of dollars in spending, a big-name outsider candidate and unusually heated political attacks in Utah.
The Justice Department request covers more than 1.3 million IP addresses and includes emails between the site’s organizers and people interested in attending Inauguration Day protests, deleted messages and files, as well as subscriber information and unpublished photos and blog posts stored in the site’s database.
The former White House communications director told Stephen Colbert that “there's no love lost there” between him and the former chief of staff, and he described the president as a compassionate person.
