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BEIJING — In a diplomatic gamble, President Trump is seeking to enlist North Korea at the very moment he plans to ratchet up conflict with Beijing over trade issues that have animated his political rise. Mr. Trump spoke late Friday with his counterpart, President nuclear weapons that could reach the United States. Mr. Xi sought to lower the temperature after Mr.

If you are just catching up on the weekend’s events in Charlottesville, Va., or overwhelmed by the volume of news, here is an overview of The New York Times’s coverage. White nationalists gathered on Saturday for a “Unite the Right” march in Charlottesville, where they were met by counterprotesters. Taunting led to shoving, which escalated into brawling.

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 crowd in Charlottesville, Va. Although the crash was a grisly coda to a day of clashes between white nationalists and their opponents, family members, acquaintances and internet posts suggested that Mr.

Heather D. Heyer died standing up for what she believed in. Friends described her as a passionate advocate for the disenfranchised who was often moved to tears by the world’s injustices. That sense of conviction led her to join demonstrators protesting a rally of white nationalists in Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday. “We were just marching around, spreading love — and then the accident happened,” a friend, Marissa Blair, said. “In a split second you see a car, and you see bodies flying.” The authorities said Ms.

A reporter working for The New York Times in Charlottesville, Va., recounts what he saw on Saturday. Charlottesville is the place where Thomas Jefferson and James Madison talked about freedom of speech. But this was a day of shouting, not listening. Assigned to cover the “Unite the Right” rally of white nationalists, I stood in Emancipation Park at 9:15 a.m. Saturday and looked out at the gathering in front of me. Initially, the mood was calm.

It was a deadly weekend of rage-fueled street battles. And after the violent demonstrations in Charlottesville, Va., leaders of white nationalist groups claimed success.

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Brittany Caine-Conley, a minister in training at Sojourners United Church of Christ, arrived in downtown Charlottesville on Saturday morning expecting that there might be violence. She did not expect things to get out of hand so quickly. But what began as a rally of white nationalists in a city park soon spun out of control, resulting in melees in the streets and the death of a 32-year-old woman after a car rammed a group of counterprotesters.

Former White House communications director Steve Bannon. Scaramucci today said that “for the record, I thought that was off the record.” He called Lizza’s decision to record the call “a very deceitful thing that he did.” "He wrote the article like I was unhinged and overly emotional and bombastic," Scaramucci said of Lizza. Scaramucci said that "the words were mischaracterized in the original article," before noting "he's not misquoting me but he is mischaracterizing me." “Obviously I paid t

Former White House communications director for President Donald Trump's reaction to the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, this weekend. Scaramucci spoke to ABC News Chief Anchor the bombastic phone call that he had with New Yorker reporter Reince Priebus and Bannon.