Sunday's Headlines: Three dead in wake of clashes at white nationalist gathering in Virginia

Trump blames 'many sides' for Charlottesville violence rather than singling out white nationalists; Police criticized for response to Charlottesville unrest; What will North Korean...

Democracy Dies in Darkness     The morning's most important stories, selected by Post editors   Top Stories Three dead in wake of clashes at white nationalist gathering in Virginia • One woman died and others were hurt when a car hit a crowd in Charlottesville, where white nationalists, neo-Nazis and Klansmen clashed with counterprotesters. The car's driver, James Alex Fields Jr., of Ohio, was arrested and charged with one count of second-degree murder and other crimes. Later, two state troopers assisting with the unrest died in a helicopter crash. • The FBI field office in Richmond and the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Western District of Virginia said late Saturday that they have opened a civil rights investigation into the deadly car crash. By Joe Heim, Ellie Silverman, T. Rees Shapiro and Emma Brown  •  Read more » Trump blames 'many sides' for Charlottesville violence rather than singling out white nationalists The president has often been quick to respond to terrorizing acts but was silent for hours on Saturday's clashes before tweeting that there is "no place for this kind of violence in America." By Jenna Johnson and John Wagner  •   Read more »   Police criticized for response to Charlottesville unrest Anger over how the police in Charlottesville dealt with Saturday's violent demonstrations came from all directions, with experts saying law enforcement personnel appeared outnumbered, ill-prepared and inexperienced. By Peter Hermann, Joe Heim and Ellie Silverman  •   Read more »   What will North Korean leader Kim Jong Un do? Even the experts don't know. If North Korea goes ahead with its threat to fire ballistic missiles toward the American territory of Guam, the order will come from none other than Kim Jong Un himself. The regime has a history of making bellicose threats that it cannot or does not make good on. This may well be one of those cases. Or it might not. By Anna Fifield  •   Read more »   PowerPost • Analysis Democrats now have an opening to put up barriers between Trump, Russia probe The president's recent attacks on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Attorney General Jeff Sessions could give Democrats the opportunity to define boundaries between Trump, the Justice Department and the special counsel. By Paul Kane  •   Read more »   Politics • Analysis The Take: Think things will be rosy for Democrats in 2018? Not so fast. Democrats see evidence in polls and focus groups of an electorate receptive to moving in their direction. But other factors could frustrate the party, including the peculiar ways in which President Trump confounds some traditional measures of public opinion. 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