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Man who organized torch-lit Charlottesville rally held on 3 counts connected to the march

Christopher Cantwell, a white supremacist organizer known for a Vice video about a torch-lit Charlottesville, Virginia march, has turned himself in, University of Virginia Police said Wednesday.

Subject of Vice documentary posts tearful video after backlash

Christopher Cantwell, one of the white supremacist organizers featured in Vice's documentary about Charlottesville, Virginia, appears fearful in another video posted the same weekend as the attack.

How ordinary people made Charlottesville possible

Blame President Trump for his tepid moral response. Call the neo-Nazis and white nationalists thugs. Fill your Facebook and Twitter accounts with moral outrage.

New Confederate monuments are going up

Since 2007, John Culpepper had been anticipating this moment: the unveiling of a statue to the common Confederate soldier in his hometown of Chickamauga, Georgia. In November of last year, three days before Donald Trump won the presidency, it became a reality.

Anderson Cooper: Trump played the victim in speech

CNN's Anderson Cooper examines some of the claims President Trump made during his campaign rally in Phoenix and if he's lived up to those statements.

Opinion: Why there's no statue for this general

So where are Longstreet's statues?

Top Trump aide's email draws new scrutiny in Russia inquiry

Congressional investigators have unearthed an email from a top Trump aide that referenced a previously unreported effort to arrange a meeting last year between Trump campaign officials and Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to sources with direct knowledge of the matter.

Ryan warns Trump not to shut down government over wall

Speaker Paul Ryan Wednesday rejected a threat by President Donald Trump to shut down the government to force Congress to approve funding for a border wall with Mexico.

White House to issue guidance on transgender military ban, WSJ reports

The White House will send guidance to the Pentagon on President Donald Trump's transgender military ban -- including instructions to reject reject transgender applicants -- "in coming days," The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday night, citing unnamed US officials familiar with the matter.

The story behind 'Blacks for Trump' man

A man who calls himself "Michael the Black Man" has garnered attention after holding a sign that reads "Blacks for Trump" directly behind President Trump at multiple rallies.