Fifty years ago today Martin Luther King was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis.

Latest: One person has died and another was seriously injured after a chartered train carrying Republican members of Congress to a retreat struck a refuse truck in Virginia, the White House has confirmed.

A man accused of driving into a crowd protesting against a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville has been indicted on 10 felony counts including first-degree murder.

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SPORT is political, sometimes deeply so. It is a conduit to our higher ambitions. It gives voice to our better angels and, unless corrupted, can distil principle more powerfully than any policy document drowning in caveats or derogations.

United States president Donald Trump followed up his scathing comments about protesting NFL players by withdrawing an invitation to NBA champions the Golden State Warriors to attend the White House.

Germany has the confidence and capacity to lead Europe, but, ahead of Angela Merkel’s expected re-election, that doesn’t mean its partners have to like it, writes John Lloyd.    

AT this remove it is always impossible to be certain that our understanding of a conflict is accurate.

We owe it to all of those who suffered under past authoritarian regimes to stand up now, writes Guy Verhofstadt

With the EU unyielding in its Brexit demands, and with the third round of talks failing, the UK will become ever more dependent on its largest trading partner says John Lloyd

Every American president faces a moment that defines their presidency. That moment came and went for Donald Trump after Charlottesville, writes Bette Browne.

Donald Trump’s yearning for authoritarian rule is clear for all to see, writes James Q Whitman.

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"(The media) don't want to report that I spoke out forecefully against bigotry, hatred and violence."

When he agreed to appear as a racist cop in the tale of 1967 in Detroit,

A Catholic priest who was a "wizard" in the Ku Klux Klan before becoming a clergyman has urged white supremacists to turn their back on hate by revealing his own personal journey from extremism.

I am very familiar with Charlottesville having lived there for almost a year in the early 1980s. 

The University of Texas has quickly removed statues of Robert E Lee and other prominent Confederate figures from the main area of its Austin campus, just hours after the school's president ordered they be taken down.

“Nineteen hyenas and a broken vacuum cleaner control the White House.”

When Susan Bro spoke at a memorial for her daughter, Heather Heyer, who was murdered by a right-wing extremist in Charlottesville just over a week ago, her powerful response resonated with families on this island who had lost a loved-one to bewildered extremism.

Around 500 far-right extremists have marched in Berlin in honour of the 30th anniversary of the death of Nazi Rudolf Hess.

If you remove the vestige and emblems of the past, do you erase the memory of what they represented too? asks Clodagh Finn

AMERICA has embarked on a great festival of denial.

Police in Berlin have given far-right extremists permission to hold a rally commemorating the death of Adolf Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess in the city's western district of Spandau.

The mother of a woman who was killed while demonstrating against a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, has said she will not speak to President Donald Trump because of comments he made after her daughter's death.

Donald Trump has lashed out at members of his own party as his controversial response to white supremacist violence threatens to engulf his presidency.

US president Donald Trump dug in defiantly in his response to racial violence in Virginia, echoing the position of white nationalists by intensifying his opposition to the removal of monuments to the pro-slavery Civil War Confederacy.

Even against the backdrop of US president Donald Trump’s sinister and shockingly inept implosion over events in Charlottesville, the news that people in 22 countries trust Russia’s president Vladimir Putin more than they trust Mr Trump seems to cross a Rubicon most democrats in the West never imagined even existed. 

US stocks have plunged as losses for Cisco Systems hurt technology companies while Wal-Mart declined after its latest quarterly report.

A Confederate flag is on sale on Amazon advertised as an "Ireland South Cross Flag".

Former US presidents George HW Bush and George W Bush have said "America must always reject racial bigotry, anti-Semitism and hatred in all forms".

British Prime Minister Theresa May has criticised Donald Trump for not singling out white supremacists for criticism.

The IDA and business group Ibec reaffirmed Ireland’s importance to the US after President Donald Trump again questioned the reasons so many American companies have bases outside the US, and mentioned Ireland by name.

The IDA has said it has no reason to believe that US companies will pull out of Ireland following Donald Trump's latest comments.

Donald Trump has been criticised by a British Cabinet minister and a junior colleague for not singling out white supremacist groups for criticism following deadly unrest in Virginia.

A combative President Donald Trump has again insisted "there is blame on both sides" for the deadly weekend violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Theresa May is facing renewed calls to cancel a state visit for Donald Trump over his response to deadly unrest in Virginia.

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In President Donald Trump, they have a surrogate. It is unclear how far they may go, writes Gerard Howlin

LAST weekend’s riots in Charlottesville may have been encouraged, if only tacitly, by US president Donald Trump’s earlier ambivalence on the fascism alive in some American hearts, but they were made inevitable by the way our digital world eases communication and connects communities, no matter how hateful, by making geography redundant.

Catch up on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com this morning.

President Donald Trump has again waded into the row over the race-fuelled clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia, insisting there was "blame on both sides".

A fourth business leader has resigned from US President Donald Trump's White House jobs council.

US President Donald Trump's condemnation of hate groups has disappointed and angered some white nationalists who had supported him.