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The Independent reports: A woman has been shot during the chaos inside the Capitol in Washington, DC after pro-Trump rioters stormed the building. Multiple reports emerged of a person being shot before a video was posted to Twitter showing the incident. In the footage a shot is heard before people scatter and the victim is seen lying on the floor. …

The Washington Post reports: A black man brutally beaten at last year’s “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville — and who was later charged with assaulting a white nationalist — was acquitted Friday. DeAndre Harris, 20, a former special education instructional assistant, was found not guilty by Charlottesville General District Judge Robert Downer Jr. on a misdemeanor charge of assault …

The SPLC reports: Richard Spencer — a figurehead for the white nationalist “alt-right” — praised Trump’s senior policy advisor Stephen Miller for pushing the president further to the right on immigration. Speaking on his “Alt-Right” podcast on January 24, Spencer stated, “Stephen Miller is singularly responsible for the fact that A: DACA isn’t just some heartwarming bill that he signs …

CNN reports: Richard Wilson Preston, 52, was arrested following the release of a video, filmed by the ACLU of Virginia, that allegedly shows him in a verbal altercation on August 12 with counter-protestors near the Southwest corner of Emancipation Park. In the video, counter-protesters appear to throw objects at right-wing marchers. After several seconds, the man in the video, who …

The Hill reports: Richard Spencer, a prominent white nationalist, said Tuesday that he was “proud” of President Trump after he placed blame on both white supremacists and counterprotesters for inciting violence in Charlottesville, Va. “I’m proud of him for speaking the truth,” Spencer wrote on Twitter. Trump faced bipartisan criticism in the wake of the demonstrations for not specifically condemning …

The Washington Post reports: The FBI has arrested an Oklahoma man on charges that he tried to detonate what he thought was a 1,000-pound bomb, acting out of a hatred for the U.S. government and an admiration for Oklahoma City bomber Timothy Mc­Veigh, according to court papers. Jerry Drake Varnell was arrested shortly after an early Saturday morning attempt to …

The New York Daily News reports: First Daughter Ivanka Trump denounced white nationalists following the deadly clashes in Charlottesville, Va., something her father has failed to do. “There should be no place in society for racism, white supremacy and neo-nazis,” Trump wrote in a two-part tweet Sunday morning. Trump’s condemnation comes one day after her father refused to shame the …

After hours of demands on social media and yes, even on Fox News, minutes ago Trump issued a condemnation of the Nazi rally held in Virginia today, where white supremacists interspersed vile chants against gays, blacks, and Jews with chants of “Trump! Trump! Trump!” Few will be satisfied with a vague tweeted condemnation of today’s hate rally and some have …