After Charlottesville Violence, Colleges Brace for More Clashes

By DANA GOLDSTEIN August 16, 2017 After a planned speech in February by the right-wing writer Milo Yiannopoulos attracted demonstrators who started fires and shattered windows, the University of California, Berkeley realized it had a major hole in its event...

Police Brace for More White Nationalist Rallies, but Have Few Options

By TIMOTHY WILLIAMS, FRANCES ROBLES and JESS BIDGOOD August 14, 2017 After events in Charlottesville, Va., last weekend showed how much violence white nationalist rallies could provoke, police chiefs from Richmond, Va., to Boston were taking...

Who Were the Counterprotesters in Charlottesville?

By FARAH STOCKMAN August 14, 2017 The white nationalist demonstrations that led to violence in Charlottesville, Va., last weekend focused attention not just on the far-right groups that organized the rally but also on the professed anti-fascist groups and...

Suspect in Charlottesville Car Attack Is Denied Bail in Court Appearance

By JESS BIDGOOD August 14, 2017 CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — The man suspected of ramming his car into a crowd here, an attack that the authorities said left one person dead and 19 more injured, was denied bail during his first court appearance in a downtown...

Suspect in Charlottesville Attack Had Displayed Troubling Behavior

By ALAN BLINDER August 13, 2017 The carnage — the chaos, the cries and the death of a woman — began to unspool over a few stunning seconds on Saturday: James Alex Fields Jr., the police said, aimed his sleek Dodge Challenger and slammed it into a...

What We Know About James Alex Fields, Driver Charged in Charlottesville Killing

By JONAH ENGEL BROMWICH and ALAN BLINDER August 13, 2017 James Alex Fields Jr. of Ohio was charged with second-degree murder in Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday after the authorities said he smashed a car into a line of cars in an episode...