RT America -- July 20, 2015

Cuban embassy opens doors in America for first time in 54 years

American and Cuban relations are returning to normalization, with the Cuban embassy being revived in Washington, DC for the first time since 1961. RT has full coverage of the event, with Anya Parampil reporting from the reopened embassy while Nicholas O’Donovan talks to people in Miami, where a large Cuban-American population lives, and gets their thoughts on the changing relationship.

Confederate flag standoff: KKK, anti-racism protester hold opposing rallies in South Carolina

Members of the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist groups, including neo-Nazis, rallied outside of the South Carolina State House over the removal of the Confederate battle flag, while those who supported the removal of the flag protested nearby, with small skirmished breaking out. Manuel Rapalo has the full report from the protests.