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A white supremacist was found guilty of murder for plowing his car through a crowd of anti-racist protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer.
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James Alex Fields Jr. was also found guilty of five counts of malicious wounding, three counts of aggravated malicious wounding, and one count of failing to stop at the scene of an accident involving a death buzzfeednews.com/article/blakem…
Fields' sentencing hearing is scheduled to start Monday morning buzzfeednews.com/article/blakem…
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The Libya conflict, which started in 2011, was the first major war that took place entirely during the social media era. Militants and civilians documented the conflict in real time.

This has fundamentally shifted how war crimes are prosecuted. A thread: buzzfeednews.com/article/meghar…
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🚨 It's official: The US government has partially shut down because Congress couldn’t reach an agreement on Trump's demand for border wall money.

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Trump has been threatening for weeks to shut down the government over funding for his wall.

"I will shut down the government. And I am proud to shut down the government for border security," he said in a tense meeting with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer.
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