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Claudia Koerner / BuzzFeed:

Here's What We Know About The Man Accused Of Killing A Woman At A White Supremacist Rally — A 20-year-old man was arrested on Saturday after police said he plowed his car into a group of protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia. … Nine pedestrians were injured in the crash, and a 32-year-old woman was killed.

Discussion: Business Insider, The Atlantic and The Federalist

Media Matters for America:

Fox & Friends Sunday defends white supremacist Charlottesville protesters: “There's a reason those people were out there” — PETE HEGSETH (CO-HOST): I think the president nailed it. He condemned in the strongest possible terms hatred and bigotry on all sides as opposed to immediately picking a side out the gate.

Discussion: ThinkProgress

Nicole Hensley / New York Daily News:

Paralegal killed during protest of Charlottesville white supremacist rally: ‘She died doing what was right’ — Counter-protesters and medics rushed to help the lone victim who died during a peaceful Charlottesville protest disrupted by a madman with a sports car on Saturday.

Discussion: Hit & Run, The Guardian, WTVR-TV, The Root, Common Dreams, New York's PIX11 and alicublog

Toledo Blade:

Charlottesville rocked by white nationalist protests; Total of dead reaches 3 — CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — A car with a Lucas County license plate plowed into a crowd of people peacefully protesting a white nationalist rally Saturday in a Virginia college town, killing one person …

Discussion: Washington Post, CNN, Associated Press, NPR, FOX6Now.com, Slate and Gizmodo

Washington Post:

Syria's Assad has become an unexpected icon of the far right in America … BEIRUT — Among the postings on what might have been the Facebook page of James Alex Fields Jr., the driver of the car that killed a counterprotester at the right-wing demonstrations in Charlottesville, Va. on Saturday …

Joe Ruiz / NPR.org:

Ohio Man Charged With Murder In Virginia Car Attack Following White Nationalist Rally — A man who appeared to be marching Saturday with a group of self-proclaimed fascists and had, a day earlier, texted his mother to say he had dropped off his cat for her to watch, is accused of killing …

Discussion: Althouse, The Guardian, CNN, NPR and Washington Free Beacon

WCPO:

Charlottesville car attack suspect James Fields Jr. was ‘infatuated’ with Nazis, ex-teacher says — Fields recently moved from Northern Kentucky — UNION, Ky. — The man police said rammed his car into a crowd of people protesting a white nationalist rally was “very infatuated with the Nazis …

Discussion: Washington Post and The Daily Caller

Julia Manchester / The Hill:

Republican senator: White nationalists can't be part of GOP base … (R-Colo.) on Sunday ramped up his pressure on President Trump to call white supremacists out by name, saying they should not be a part of any political base. — “White nationalists, white supremacists, they're not a part of anybody's base.

Discussion: RedState, Shareblue, Talking Points Memo, israpundit.org, Sputnik International, The Gateway Pundit and AOL

Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Donald Trump's incredibly unpresidential statement on Charlottesville

Discussion: Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, ThinkProgress, IJR, Fox News, New York Times, The Hill, Conservative News Today, Mediaite, Daily Kos, TheBlaze, NBC News, twitchy.com, The Atlantic, Raw Story, The Week, ABC News and Sputnik International

David Caplan / ABC News:
Mother of Charlottesville suspect: ‘I just knew he was going to a rally ... I thought it had something to do with Trump’

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit

New York Times:
Trump Is Criticized for Not Calling Out White Supremacists

Eli Watkins / CNN:
Charlottesville mayor on Trump: ‘Look at the campaign he ran’

Discussion: Mashable

New York Times:
What We Know About James Alex Fields, Driver Charged in Charlottesville Killing

Discussion: Axios

Madeline Conway / Politico:
Charlottesville mayor: There is a ‘direct line’ between Trump campaign and white supremacist rally

Discussion: The Week

BuzzFeed:
Live Updates: The Charlottesville Mayor Blames Trump's Rhetoric For White Supremacist March Violence

Discussion: COED, The Week and twitchy.com

Julia Manchester / The Hill: Charlottesville mayor: We're not seeing leadership from the White House

Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
He's One of Them — As we get underway today, a few thoughts on yesterday.

Discussion: ThinkProgress

Chuck Johnston / CNN:
Charlottesville car crash suspect ID'd as 20-year-old Ohio man

Discussion: twitchy.com, WTVR-TV, RedState and Mediaite

Tampa Bay Times:
Marco Rubio: Donald Trump needs to clearly denounce white supremacists in Charlottesville

Discussion: The Atlantic, Telegraph, Dallas Morning News, Denver Post and ThinkProgress

Dallas Morning News: Amid the violence in Virginia, President Trump failed in a test of leadership

Washington Post:
One dead and 19 injured as car strikes crowds along route of white nationalist rally in Charlottesville

David Caplan / ABC News:
What we know about the violent clashes and car-ramming in Charlottesville

Discussion: MichelleMalkin.com, Raw Story, The Guardian, Vox, Business Insider, Politico, Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, Associated Press and New York Magazine

Meghan Breen / KTVN-TV:

UNR Student Talks After Marching in Charlottesville White Nationalist Rally — Thousands gathered to protest in the streets Charlottesville, Virginia Saturday, among them was 20 year-old Reno resident Peter Cvjetanovic. — Cvjetanovic is an undergraduate at the university studying history and political science.

Discussion: Raw Story and The Root

Meghan Keneally / ABC News:

Scaramucci criticizes Trump's reaction to Charlottesville violence — Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci had harsh words for President Donald Trump's reaction to the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, this weekend. — Scaramucci spoke to ABC News Chief Anchor …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, ThinkProgress, New York Times, The Daily Caller, Political Wire and The Week

Dakshayani Shankar / ABC News:
Any attack to incite fear ‘is terrorism’: Trump's national security adviser on Charlottesville

Discussion: Politico and The Week

Associated Press:

American tourist gives Nazi salute in Germany, is beaten up — https://apnews.com/7038efa32f324d8ea9fa 2ff7eadf8f20 — Link copied! — BERLIN (AP) — Police say a drunken American man was punched by a passer-by as he gave the stiff-armed Nazi salute multiple times in downtown Dresden.

Discussion: The Root

Patricia Mazzei / miamiherald:

Powerful Venezuelan lawmaker may have issued death order against Rubio — One of Venezuela's most powerful leaders may have put out an order to kill Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, a fervent critic of the South American country's government, according to intelligence obtained by the U.S. last month.

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit

David French / National Review:

The Alt-Right's Chickens Come Home to Roost — It is not the responsibility of the president of the United States to make specific statements every time a gang of KKK cretins marches up and down a town square. I fear that we'll never be rid of such people, and in normal times our political leaders …

Discussion: Outside the Beltway

Frank Bruni / New York Times:

I'm a White Man. Hear Me Out. — I'm a white man, so you should listen to absolutely nothing I say, at least on matters of social justice. I have no standing. No way to relate. My color and gender nullify me, and it gets worse: I grew up in the suburbs. Dad made six figures.

Discussion: Simple Justice and JustOneMinute

Josh Delk / The Hill:

Mueller wants to interview Priebus in Russia probe: report — Robert Mueller, the special counsel in charge of the Russia probe, plans to interview current and former senior Trump administration officials as part of his ongoing investigation, according to a new report on Saturday.

Discussion: RedState, Politicus USA and Daily Kos