• Bowing to pressure, President Trump denounced the hate groups who incited violent demonstrations in Charlottesville, Va., declaring that “racism is evil.” The statement was meant to halt the growing political threat posed by the situation.

Several world leaders criticized the deadly episode, including Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany. “Racist, far-right violence” must be met with forceful action “regardless of where in the world it happens,” she said.

Earlier in the day, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said that the vehicular assault in Virginia met the legal definition of an act of domestic terrorism.

And the head of Merck, Kenneth Frazier, who is black, resigned from a White House advisory board in protest over the president’s earlier comments blaming the weekend violence on “many sides.”

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