'Unite the Right' trial jurors hear closings in Virginia
Lawyers for nine people hurt during the โUnite The Rightโ rally in Charlottesville have told a jury that white nationalists โplanned, executed and then celebratedโ racially motivated violence that left one counterprotester dead and dozens more injured.
Bruised and haunted, US holds tight as 2020 campaigns close
But by the final, frenetic sprint of the 2020 race, the world had long peered into the country's darkest corners and seen a battered and haunted image staring back. The presidency and control of the Senate are in the balance, but for many, there was something even more urgent. โTuesday is our big deal as a country!โ Trump said on Sunday, as he braved flurries and a stiff wind chill in Michigan. In Texas, Trump supporters in cars and trucks swarmed around a Biden campaign bus at high speed on a highway. ___Associated Press writers Alex Jaffe traveling with Biden, Zeke Miller with Trump, and Kathleen Ronayne with Harris contributed to this report.
White supremacist sentenced to life in prison for Charlottesville car attack
(CNN) - A white supremacist who killed a woman and injured dozens of other people when he rammed his car into a crowd of counterprotesters at a 2017 rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, was sentenced Friday to life in prison. US Judge Michael F. Urbanski sentenced Fields following testimony from prosecution witnesses and the defense. Prosecutors -- seeking a sentence of life in prison -- went over details of the attack, including playing video of the car going into the crowd. In a memorandum to the court, Fields pleaded for mercy and asked for a lesser sentence. Heyer's mother, Susan Bro, asked the judge to issue a Fields a life sentence.
Residents of Ohio town horrified by connection to car attack at Charlottesville rally
MAUMEE, Ohio โ The Ohio man who rammed his car into a group of counterprotestors in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing a woman, is being held Monday night without bond. James Alex Fields Jr., who is currently living in Maumee, Ohio, has given the people in that small town a scare, and they took to the streets to denounce his actions and his beliefs. WATCH: President Trump's second statement on Charlottesville attack condemns hate groupsNobody in the crowd said they knew Fields, but they said they can't believe Maumee has a connection to what happened over the weekend in Charlottesville. "Then when I discovered that the car that did it was registered in this very county, I blew a gasket." Maumee, Ohio?'