Virginia
Jury selection starts in neo-Nazi's trial
As jury selection began in the murder trial of self-professed neo-Nazi James Fields Jr., one of his lawyers hinted Monday that Fields' defense could include a claim that he believed he was protecting himself when he allegedly killed a woman by ramming his car into another vehicle on a crowded street during a white supremacists rally in Charlottesville 15 months ago. The crash killed counterprotester Heather Heyer, 32, and injured 35 others.
Tennessee
Condemned inmate picks electric chair
A Tennessee inmate set to be put to death next week has requested the electric chair and not the state's preferred method of a lethal injection, becoming the second Tennessee inmate this year to make that choice as an execution date loomed. Lawyers for David Earl Miller have argued that Tennessee's midazolam-based, three-drug injection method causes excruciating pain. Miller, 61, is scheduled to die on Dec. 6.
Britain
Parliament will take up Brexit Dec. 11
Prime Minister Theresa May will put her Brexit deal to Parliament for a decisive vote on Dec. 11, but after her plan was savaged from all sides, the signs are she's on course to lose. The vote will mark the moment when British politicians decide whether to accept the divorce terms May has struck with the European Union — or put the country on course to crash out of the bloc with no agreement in place. May plans a two-week cross-country Brexit campaign.
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