A trial has begun for a man charged with using a flaming torch to intimidate counterprotesters during a gathering of white nationalists in Charlottesville, Virginia, seven years ago.

Nine people who sued white nationalist leaders and organizations over the violence at a deadly rally in Charlottesville in 2017 won a $26 million judgment for the injuries and trauma they endured.

A jury has ordered 17 white nationalist leaders and organizations to pay $26 million in damages over violence that erupted during the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville.

A jury has completed the first day of deliberations in a civil trial of white nationalists accused of conspiring to commit racially motivated violence at the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville in 2017.

Lawyers for nine people hurt during the “Unite The Right” rally in Charlottesville have told a jury that white nationalists “planned, executed and then celebrated” racially motivated violence that left one counterprotester dead and dozens more injured.

A woman who was pushed to safety as a car slammed into counterprotesters at a 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville has recounted a scene of “complete terror."

Jurors have heard opening statements in a civil lawsuit that accuses white nationalists of conspiring to commit violence at the “Unite the Right” demonstrations in Charlottesville in 2017.

Jury selection has begun at a civil trial in Charlottesville, Virginia to determine whether white nationalists who planned the so-called “Unite the Right” rally will be held responsible for the violence that erupted.

But by the final, frenetic sprint of the 2020 race, the world had long peered into the country's darkest corners and seen a battered and haunted image staring back. The presidency and control of the Senate are in the balance, but for many, there was something even more urgent. “Tuesday is our big deal as a country!” Trump said on Sunday, as he braved flurries and a stiff wind chill in Michigan. In Texas, Trump supporters in cars and trucks swarmed around a Biden campaign bus at high speed on a highway. ___Associated Press writers Alex Jaffe traveling with Biden, Zeke Miller with Trump, and Kathleen Ronayne with Harris contributed to this report.

(CNN) - A white supremacist who killed a woman and injured dozens of other people when he rammed his car into a crowd of counterprotesters at a 2017 rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, was sentenced Friday to life in prison. US Judge Michael F. Urbanski sentenced Fields following testimony from prosecution witnesses and the defense. Prosecutors -- seeking a sentence of life in prison -- went over details of the attack, including playing video of the car going into the crowd. In a memorandum to the court, Fields pleaded for mercy and asked for a lesser sentence. Heyer's mother, Susan Bro, asked the judge to issue a Fields a life sentence.