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24.11.2021 / 00:29

'Unite the Right' civil trial verdict: Jury awards victims $25M in damages

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - A jury ordered white nationalist leaders and organizations to pay more than $25 million in damages Tuesday over violence that erupted during the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville.After a nearly monthlong civil trial, the jury in U.S. District Court deadlocked on two key claims but found the white nationalists liable on four other counts in the lawsuit filed by nine people who suffered physical or emotional injuries during the two days of demonstrations.Attorney Roberta Kaplan said the plaintiffs' lawyers plan to refile the suit so a new jury can decide the two claims this jury could not reach a verdict on.

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Civil trial witness recalls 'terror' of car attack at Charlottesville rally

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - A woman who was pushed out of the way as a car slammed into counterprotesters at a 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville described a scene of "complete terror" as she testified Monday to seeing her fiance bleeding on the sidewalk and later learning a friend was killed.Marissa Blair took the stand in the third week of a civil trial in a lawsuit that seeks to hold the white national organizers of the "Unite the Right" rally accountable for the violence that erupted. Nine people who were physically injured or emotionally scarred, including Blair, are suing the organizers of the rally, alleging they conspired to commit violence during two days of demonstrations in Charlottesville."I was confused.

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Civil trial underway for Charlottesville 'Unite the Right' rally planners

RICHMOND, Va. - The violence at the white nationalist "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville shocked the nation, with people beaten to the ground, lighted torches thrown at counterdemonstrators and a self-proclaimed Hitler admirer ramming his car into a crowd, killing a woman and injuring dozens more.The driver of that car is serving life in prison for murder and hate crimes. Now, more than four years later, a civil trial will determine whether the neo-Nazis and white supremacists who organized the demonstrations should be held accountable as well.Jury selection began Monday for the trial in U.S.

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Charlottesville takes down Lewis, Clark and Sacagawea statue after Confederate removals

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - A statue depicting Sacagawea and explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark was removed on Saturday in Charlottesville, the last of the Virginia city’s controversial monuments taken down over the weekend.Charlottesville City Council voted unanimously to remove the statue from its pedestal during a special meeting held after the removal of two statues of Confederate generals earlier in the day. The statue of Lewis, Clark and Sacagawea had been criticized for a depiction of the Native American guide and interpreter that some viewed as subservient and weak.

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Confederate Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson statues in Charlottesville officially removed

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Convictions of 2 white supremacist group members upheld, SCOTUS says

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court is leaving in place the convictions of two men who as members of a white supremacist group participated in a white nationalist rally in Virginia in 2017 that turned violent.The high court said Monday that it would not take the case of Michael Miselis or Benjamin Daley, who participated in the rally as members of the "Rise Above Movement," or "RAM." Both pleaded guilty to federal rioting charges in connection with the Virginia rally.As is typical, the high court didn't comment in turning away their cases.Miselis and Daley admitted they punched and kicked demonstrators who showed up to protest against white nationalists during the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville in August 2017.

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Trump Proud Boys remark echoes Charlottesville

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Wednesday tried to walk back his refusal to outright condemn a far right facist group during his debate with Democrat Joe Biden, but the inflammatory moment was far from the first time the president has failed to denounce white supremacists or has advanced racist ideas.Trump's initial refusal to criticize the Proud Boys — instead saying the group should “stand back and stand by” — drew fierce blowback before he altered his message in a day-later effort to quell the firestorm. “I don’t know who Proud Boys are.

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Immune system may trigger anxiety in response to infection

a study involving a mouse model of psoriasis found that IL-17a caused depression-like symptoms. In humans, researchers have also linked the molecule to treatment resistant depression.Research in mice has even implicated IL-17a in the development of autism.

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Spike Lee: “My path in life is to speak the truth – I’m not gonna run from it”

For a long time, Spike Lee has had his finger on the pulse of America. In 1992, he screened Malcolm X for studio execs on the same day that four white cops who brutally beat unarmed Black construction worker Rodney King were acquitted of assault.

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Lafayette Square could decide Trump's legacy — and election

NEW YORK – Charlottesville. Helsinki.

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Jennifer Carroll Foy: I Was One of the First Black Women to Attend the Virginia Military Institute. This Is What I Know About Patriotism

Jennifer Carroll Foy in the Virginia House of Delegates since 2018. In April 2020, she announced her decision to run for governor.

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Marine Corps bans display of Confederate flag

Marine Corps (USMC) banned display of the Confederate flag at its military installations Friday, on everything from bumper stickers to coffee mugs."The Confederate battle flag has all too often been co-opted by violent extremist and racist groups whose divisive beliefs have no place in our Corps," the service branch said in a statement.

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Top N.Y.C. doctor on coronavirus ‘front lines’ dies by suicide

A top New York City doctor died by suicide on Sunday after weeks of caring for coronavirus patients.

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Critic's Notebook: 'The Good Fight' Leaves the #Resistance Behind in Signature Bonkers Style

This article contains spoilers for the Season 4 premiere of The Good Fight. Is the #Resistance still relevant in 2020? I don't mean opposition to Donald Trump, which seems to have intensified in recent weeks with the White House's bungled response to the coronavirus pandemic.

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Alyssa Milano Urges Donald Trump To Turn His Hotels Into Hospitals During Coronavirus Crisis

Alyssa Milano is calling for Donald Trump to convert some of his U.S hotels into hospitals amid the ongoing coronavirus crisis.

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