| This is what Charlottesville is now, to so many Americans | | Charlottesville. Two days later, the name of the sleepy Virginia university town has already become shorthand for Saturday's horrific events — an alt-right rally, counter-protests and escalating violence that culminated with a car ramming into a crowd. Two days later, America is mourning activist Heather Heyer, who was killed by that car. Two days later, the suspect in the car attack, James Alex Fields Jr., a 20-year-old from Ohio, was denied bail. And two days later, President Trump called out the KKK, neo-Nazis and white supremacists as "criminals and thugs " after widespread criticism for his comments Saturday saying "many sides" were responsible for the violence. He declared Monday that "racism is evil" and said the Justice Department will open a civil rights investigation into the attack. But many Americans are still worried, disheartened and angry. "The nation has slipped into a far darker era, and Charlottesville is likely just the beginning," wrote the Detroit Free Press' Stephen Henderson. | | Also on Monday: | | | | The Women's March takes its next steps | | What happened in Charlottesville "shows why we are resisting and why we are marching," said Bob Bland, co-president of the Women's March. "This isn't just because we didn't win an election." The group, which was behind the enormous protest in Washington the day after President Trump's inauguration, helped organize hundreds of vigils across the country this weekend in response to the attacks in Virginia that left Heather Heyer dead. "Heather is exactly the type of woman, the type of activist, the type of human being that I see every day in our Women's March organizing. Heather is us," Bland said. The group is fired up about a number of things, especially the 2018 midterm elections, which will be the focus of their convention in October as they look to shift from march to movement. | | Antarctica: A land of ice and fire | | Are they still active? The ice sheets in west Antarctica are already unstable. Active volcanoes certainly wouldn't help (think: melting ice, rising sea levels). Scientists have counted 91 new volcanoes hiding underneath the ice sheets, joining a few dozen they already knew about. Should we get our waders ready? It's too soon to tell if the volcanoes are active. But for those keeping score, the discovery may make this area the densest region of volcanoes in the world, rivaling even the East African area home to Mount Kilimanjaro. | | Speaking of ice: Not many can say they've had an ice cream social in space | | There will be six happy astronauts in space this week after an unmanned SpaceX rocket drops off 6,400 pounds of cargo, including ice cream. We're not talking about the freeze-dried ice cream sandwiches you can buy from NASA, but the real heaven-on-earth dessert found on a cone. Thirty small ice creams were packed aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which launched on Monday. NASA said the astronauts will have a month to eat the sweet treats before the freezers need to be sent back. | |
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