Mr. Trump once again addressed the violence that occurred in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend after white nationalists clashed with counterprotesters. Attorney General Jeff Sessions earned cautious praise from critics for his early steps in denouncing white nationalism and opening a civil rights investigation. Some white supremacists and right-wing extremists were making arrangements to appear at future marches, and others were planning to run for office. Protesters with guns make for a volatile situation. But the police can do little more than keep enemies apart and take careful note of their mood. An Arkansas professor 1,100 miles away from the white nationalist gathering in Virginia woke up to find himself wrongly exposed as a racist. Then the online abuse began. White nationalists and counterprotesters blamed each other and the police for the violence that erupted in Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday. Amateur video verified by The New York Times paints a picture of how the events led to one death and multiple injuries. Days after clashes in Charlottesville, Va., protesters toppled a statue of a Confederate soldier that had stood in front of the old Durham County Courthouse in North Carolina for nearly a century. Officials around the country have removed or considered removing Confederate relics. But in North Carolina on Monday, activists took matters into their own hands. The counterprotesters were united against white supremacy, but they advocated a wide array of beliefs, tactics and goals. Read about how the other side thinks: Writers from across the political spectrum reacted to the outpouring of racial tension over the weekend in Charlottesville, Va. Are you just catching up on the weekend’s events in Charlottesville, Va., or overwhelmed by the volume of news? Here is an overview. Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day. The president’s delay in denouncing neo-Nazis in Charlottesville has put new pressure on Stephen K. Bannon, who ran the Breitbart website. Steve Bannon, President Trump’s chief strategist, has been criticized as being emblematic of the far-right nationalism that turned violent in Virginia last weekend. Can he salvage his role in the White House? President Trump used unusually restrained language in opening a trade offensive against China as his military advisers tamped down talk of war with North Korea. Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr. said the priority on North Korea was to support diplomatic and economic measures. China said it would enforce new sanctions. The Sinclair Broadcast Group and the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission see eye to eye on the need to unleash television. Both are reaping big rewards. After a white nationalist protest in Virginia erupted into violence over the weekend, concerns have escalated over what Mr. Trump’s arrival in New York might provoke. Migrants from Somalia and Ethiopia, forced overboard from two boats last week, came ashore in war-torn Yemen. They were hoping to find work in the countries of the Persian Gulf. A man who thought he had built a bomb like the one used by Timothy McVeigh in 1995 was monitored and then detained when he tried to set it off, officials said. On its first day of deliberations, a jury found that a radio host had groped Taylor Swift during a meet-and-greet photo session before a 2013 concert. Some readers have questioned our decision to profile James Alex Fields Jr., the man accused of plowing his car into a crowd in Charlottesville, Va. The attack at Aziz Istanbul, an eatery that is popular with foreigners, was eerily similar to an assault just down the street in 2016. The lawyers and industry colleagues of Marc Henry Johnson have asked for leniency in his sentencing in the case of a doctor who died from an overdose in 2015. 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