5 Things To Know For Your New Day-Monday August 13th

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White nationalists dwarfed by crowds of counterprotesters in Washington:

Approximately two dozen white nationalists rallied in the nation’s capital on Sunday, one year after clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia, left one person dead and elevated racial tensions in America.

But they were vastly outnumbered by throngs of counterprotesters.

The showing from “Unite the Right 2” participants fell far short of the hundreds that organizer Jason Kessler was expecting, based on his event permit application.

Immigration lawyer of Melania Trump’s parents pushes back against Trump immigration proposal:

The immigration lawyer representing first lady Melania Trump’s parents pushed back against President Donald Trump’s hardline stance on a category of family visa that paved the way for his in-laws’ citizenship, calling the President’s rhetoric “unconscionable.”

“It’s unconscionable to scare people into believing that,” the attorney, Michael Wildes, said Friday in an interview on CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront” after listening to a replay of Trump calling so-called chain migration “a disaster for this country.”

“This whole notion of chain migration actually is a beautiful bedrock of immigration law and policy called family reunification,” Wildes said, noting he was speaking about his personal beliefs and not on behalf of the first lady or her family as their lawyer.

Spike Lee connects past to urgent present in ‘BlacKkKlansman:

Spike Lee films can be guilty of feeling didactic, but the material suits the message — and the director’s passion — in “BlacKkKlansman,” a fiery, wild true story infused by an overt cautionary warning that the past could be prologue. Tense, provocative and entertaining, it’s not clear how well the movie will age, but Lee’s latest joint feels tailor-made for the current moment.

As the title (a nightmare for copy editors) would suggest, “BlacKkKlansman” tells the remarkable story of Ron Stallworth (John David Washington, Denzel’s son), an African-American police officer in Colorado Springs, who got the rather audacious idea in the 1970s of infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan. Ron, obviously, couldn’t show up at the meetings, but he won the organizers’ trust over the phone, sending his colleague Flip Zimmerman (Adam Driver) as the undercover version of himself.

Isaiah Thomas Apologizes for Calling Cleveland a ‘S–thole’ in Instagram Rant:

Denver Nuggets point guard Isaiah Thomas was blunt with his feelings toward the city of Cleveland.

During a live video on Instagram, Thomas had mostly complimentary things to say about his previous stops in the NBA but described Cleveland as a “s–thole” and that he can “see why [LeBron James] left.

Florida candidate’s diploma photo doesn’t appear to be accurate, university says:

A Florida state house candidate’s college degree has been called into question — by the very university that she claimed to have graduated from.

Melissa Howard, a Republican who is running for the Florida House of Representatives District 73, claimed to have graduated from Miami University, in Oxford, Ohio.

But last week, FLA News reported that Howard didn’t have a college degree from Miami University.

In a statement responding to FLA News, Howard’s campaign said the story was an attempt by her opponent in the primary to “hurt Melissa or her reputation within the community,” and that she graduated with a degree in marketing.

The 46-year-old candidate later posted what FLA News described as a partial college transcript, as well as pictures of her posing with a diploma on her Facebook page. The images were no longer available on Sunday.

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