US NEO-NAZI FOUND GUILTY OF MURDER

An American neo-Nazi was found guilty of murder on Friday (Saturday in Manila) for killing a woman when ramming his car into counter-protesters at a 2017 white supremacist rally that made Charlottesville a byword for racial violence under President Donald Trump. In addition to first-degree murder, which carries a possible life sentence, James Alex Fields Jr. 21, was found guilty of five counts of aggravated malicious wounding, three of malicious wounding, and one hit-and-run count. A jury of seven women and five men reached their verdict near the end of the first day of deliberations of a trial that lasted a little under two weeks. The Aug. 12, 2017 violence, which claimed the life of 32-year-old paralegal Heather Heyer and injured dozens more, turned the bucolic university city in Virginia into a symbol of the growing audacity of the far right under Trump.