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President Donald Trump’s press conference Tuesday afternoon, originally scheduled to focus on U.S.

He may not be the president anymore, but Barack Obama is still influential enough to break the Internet. The tweet Obama wrote in response to Saturday's white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virignia, became the most-liked tweet ever, as of 10:07 p.m. on Tuesday, according to Twitter.

John Curtis, the mayor of Provo, Utah, won the Republican primary in his state's third congressional district Tuesday, capping a campaign that will see him advance to November's general election after he collected over 15,000 signatures from party members simply to make the primary ballot. The Associated Press projected Curtis to be the winner at 11:45 p.m. ET with 77 percent of precincts reporting. Curtis' victory comes in the course of the district's special election to replace Rep.

President Donald Trump lashed out today over criticism of his initial statement about the Charlottesville, Virginia, violence over the weekend in a confrontational press conference at Trump Tower. Asked about his immediate response Saturday, Trump quickly went on to blame both sides of protestors for the conflict, adding that there were “very fine people” in both the group of white supremacists and white nationalists as well as among the counter-protesters. “I think there is blame on both sides. You look at both sides.

Most popular on BostonGlobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories NEW YORK — President Trump reverted Tuesday to blaming both sides for the deadly violence in Charlottesville, Va., and at one point questioned whether the movement to pull down Confederate statues would lead to the desecration of memorials to George Washington. In a combative exchange with reporters at Trump Tower in Manhattan, the president repeatedly rejected bipartisan criticism for waiting several days before naming the right-wing groups and for placing blame on both th

Most popular on BostonGlobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories “You had a group on the other side that came charging in without a permit and they were very, very violent,” President Trump said of the counterprotesters.   Reaction was swift to President Trump’s newest remarks on the violence in Charlottesville, Va.

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Most popular on BostonGlobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories CAPITAL SOURCE Likely Republican Senate candidate John Kingston has begun staffing up his campaign, adding a former aide to Governor Charlie Baker as a senior adviser.   CAPITAL SOURCE Just a year ago, Meehan, trying to shed his image as a politician, washed his hands of his bulging $4.35 million campaign account.

Most popular on BostonGlobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories “You had a group on the other side that came charging in without a permit and they were very, very violent,” President Trump said of the counterprotesters.   Reaction was swift to President Trump’s newest remarks on the violence in Charlottesville, Va.

Posted at 6:15 pm on August 14, 2017 by Teri Christoph As is all too often the case these days, the media takes the most sensational piece of an important news story and runs with it. And runs. And runs. And runs. Much to the detriment of the truth. Here’s some of the truth out of Charlottesville: A military reject with extremist views callously, and without regard for life, plowed his Dodge Charger into a group of counter-protestors gathered in the streets. He killed one protestor, Heather Heyer, and injured scores more.