Both Sandmann and Phillips later said they were trying to defuse tensions among three separate groups participating in both demonstrations. Video of the encounter showed Sandmann and Phillips standing very close to each other, with Sandmann staring, and at times smiling, at Phillips as Phillips sang and played a drum.
Sandmann later settled lawsuits against CNN and other media outlets.
HERE'S WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING:
A Wisconsin dairy farmer is thanking President Donald Trump for his support and claiming dairy farming is "roaring back," though that's not the case for hundreds of other farmers in the pivotal November swing state.
Cris Peterson said at the Republican National Convention that Trump helped struggling dairy farmers, socked by low milk prices in 2016, in part by "negotiating new trade deals."
However, in 2018 alone, roughly 700 Wisconsin dairy farms went out of business, according to US Department of Agriculture statistics, a trend accompanied by a spate of farmer suicides.
Among the factors was the renegotiated trade pact with Mexico and Canada, which blocked the export of a specific type of milk to Canada integral to cheesemaking. The provision hurt farmers notably in southwest Wisconsin, a region Trump won but where Democrats have posted victories since.
A speaker who had been scheduled to address the second day of the Republican National Convention has been pulled from the lineup after directing her Twitter followers to a series of anti-Semitic, conspiratorial messages.
Trump campaign spokesperson Tim Murtaugh says, "We have removed the scheduled video from the convention lineup and it will no longer run this week."
Mary Ann Mendoza had been scheduled to deliver remarks to highlight the President's fight against illegal immigration. Mendoza's son was killed in 2014 in a head-on collision by a man who was under the influence and living in the US illegally.
She and and other parents whose children have been killed by people in the country illegally have labelled themselves "Angel Moms" and have made frequent appearances at the White House and Trump campaign events.
Mendoza had apologised for the tweet, writing that she "retweeted a very long thread earlier without reading every post within the thread" and said it "does not reflect my feelings or personal thoughts whatsoever."
A Republican familiar with the plans cited controversy as the reason for pulling Mendoza.
An anti-abortion activist speaking during the Republican National Convention previously advocated for something called "household voting," saying wives should defer to their husbands on making decisions related to politics.
Abby Johnson in May wrote on Twitter that she "would support bringing back household voting," later explaining that, if spouses were to disagree, "Then they would have to decide on one vote. In a Godly household, the husband would get the final say."
Johnson previously worked for Planned Parenthood, becoming a vocal abortion opponent after saying she quit years ago following an abortion of a woman who was 13 weeks pregnant.
She founded a ministry that lobbies abortion clinics employees to leave their jobs, and a movie based around her life story was released last year.
President Donald Trump is highlighting the pardon of a Nevada man convicted of bank robbery as part of the second day of programming at the Republican National Convention.
In a video, Trump says that the story of Jon Ponder is a "beautiful testament to the power of redemption."
Ponder now leads a programme in Las Vegas that helps former prisoners re-enter society, called Hope for Prisoners.
Trump has trumpeted criminal justice reform as part of his outreach to Black and evangelical voters.
The White House released a video of the pardon, which shows the President signing the document as Ponder and his wife look on.
The retired FBI agent who had arrested Ponder and went on to become one of his best friends also appears with Trump and Ponder.
A Republican congressional nominee from Georgia who supports the QAnon conspiracy theory and was congratulated by President Donald Trump on her primary victory has been invited to the Republican National Convention.
Marjorie Taylor Greene posted a photo of the invitation to her Twitter account.
She wrote that she was "honoured and thrilled to be invited to attend President Trump's acceptance speech ... at the White House."
A person familiar with Greene's invitation says it is legitimate.
Trump praised Greene as a "future Republican Star" after she won her primary earlier this month.
He has courted the support of QAnon believers, saying, "I heard that these are people that love our country."
Other Republicans, including Vice-President Mike Pence and Republican House leader Kevin McCarthy, have rejected the conspiracy theory, which centres on an alleged anonymous, high-ranking government official known as "Q" who shares information about an anti-Trump "deep state" often tied to satanism and child sex trafficking.
— AP
