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12:40 PM ET, August 13, 2017

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Claudia Koerner / BuzzFeed:
Here's What We Know About The Man Accused Of Killing A Woman At A White Supremacist Rally  —  A 20-year-old man was arrested on Saturday after police said he plowed his car into a group of protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia. … Nine pedestrians were injured in the crash, and a 32-year-old woman was killed.
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David Caplan / ABC News:
Mother of Charlottesville suspect: ‘I just knew he was going to a rally ... I thought it had something to do with Trump’  —  The mother of the man who allegedly plowed into a group of people protesting a white nationalist rally Saturday in Virginia said she knew her son was attending a rally …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Trump babbles in the face of tragedy  —  President Trump speaks about events in Charlottesville on Saturday in Bedminster, N.J. (Jim Watson/Agence France-Presse via Getty Images)  —  One of the difficult but primary duties of the modern presidency is to speak for the nation in times of tragedy.
Discussion: Vox, Raw Story and The Daily Caller
Toledo Blade:
Charlottesville rocked by white nationalist protests; Total of dead reaches 3  —  CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — A car with a Lucas County license plate plowed into a crowd of people peacefully protesting a white nationalist rally Saturday in a Virginia college town, killing one person …
New York Times:
Trump Is Criticized for Not Calling Out White Supremacists  —  BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — President Trump is rarely reluctant to express his opinion, but he is often seized by caution when addressing the violence and vitriol of white nationalists, neo-Nazis and alt-right activists, some of whom are his supporters.
Chuck Johnston / CNN:
Charlottesville car crash suspect ID'd as 20-year-old Ohio man  —  (CNN)The suspect being held in a Virginia jail in connection with a deadly crash near a scheduled rally of white nationalists has been identified as James Alex Fields Jr., 20, of Maumee, Ohio, according to Superintendent Martin Kumer …
Discussion: COED, WTVR-TV, twitchy.com, RedState and Mediaite
Eli Watkins / CNN:
Charlottesville mayor on Trump: ‘Look at the campaign he ran’  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Washington (CNN)Charlottesville Democratic mayor Michael Signer said Sunday that President Donald Trump had emboldened organized racists who caused the racially charged violence in his city over the weekend.
Media Matters for America:
Fox & Friends Sunday defends white supremacist Charlottesville protesters: “There's a reason those people were out there”  —  PETE HEGSETH (CO-HOST): I think the president nailed it.  He condemned in the strongest possible terms hatred and bigotry on all sides as opposed to immediately picking a side out the gate.
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Charlottesville mayor: We're not seeing leadership from the White House
Discussion: Politico
Dallas Morning News:   Amid the violence in Virginia, President Trump failed in a test of leadership
Washington Post:
One dead and 19 injured as car strikes crowds along route of white nationalist rally in Charlottesville
Tampa Bay Times:
Marco Rubio: Donald Trump needs to clearly denounce white supremacists in Charlottesville
Discussion: The Atlantic and Denver Post
Matt Pearce / Los Angeles Times:
Three dead, dozens hurt after Virginia white nationalist rally is dispersed; Trump blames ‘many sides’
Discussion: Raw Story
Michael Edison Hayden / ABC News:
Man charged with murder for allegedly plowing into crowd in Charlottesville following white nationalist rally
Nancy Cook / Politico:
Trump fails to condemn white supremacists in statement on Charlottesville violence
Fox News:
Injuries reported after car plows into protesters during clashes at ‘Unite the Right’ rally
Joshua Eaton / ThinkProgress:
Violence erupts at Klan-like rally through the University of Virginia campus
Discussion: UVA Today, Shareblue and Hullabaloo
Michael Edison Hayden / ABC News:
Driver in custody after car rams into crowd following Virginia white nationalist rally
Daily Mail:
Woman is killed and 19 hurt as car plows into anti-fascists at white nationalist rally …
Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Scaramucci criticizes Trump's reaction to Charlottesville violence  —  Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci had harsh words for President Donald Trump's reaction to the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, this weekend.  —  Scaramucci spoke to ABC News Chief Anchor …
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Dakshayani Shankar / ABC News:
Any attack to incite fear ‘is terrorism’: Trump's national security adviser on Charlottesville
Discussion: Politico
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
I'm a White Man.  Hear Me Out.  —  I'm a white man, so you should listen to absolutely nothing I say, at least on matters of social justice.  I have no standing.  No way to relate.  My color and gender nullify me, and it gets worse: I grew up in the suburbs.  Dad made six figures.
Discussion: JustOneMinute and Simple Justice
Nicole Hensley / New York Daily News:
Paralegal killed during protest of Charlottesville white supremacist rally: ‘She died doing what was right’  —  Counter-protesters and medics rushed to help the lone victim who died during a peaceful Charlottesville protest disrupted by a madman with a sports car on Saturday.
Bernie Becker / Politico:
Think Obamacare repeal was hard?  Wait for tax reform  —  Congressional Republicans need to think again if they're hoping tax reform will offer them an easy victory after their bungled Obamacare repeal effort.  —  Rewriting the tax code will be just as difficult as health care — maybe even more so.
Chris Coons / The Atlantic:
Progressive Values Can't Be Just Secular Values  —  For a generation, the Democratic Party of which I'm a member has steadily moved away from communities of faith.  Today, according to a recent Pew study, more than one-third of Democrats—including 44 percent of self-described liberal Democrats …
Madeline Conway / Politico:
McMaster declines to rule out military response to North Korea threats  —  National security adviser H.R. McMaster said Sunday that the U.S. is “taking all possible actions” to resolve the nuclear threat from North Korea without resorting to military action, but he declined to rule out responding …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Yes, Trump is a Threat to Liberal Democracy. And You Should be Worried.
Beth Musgrave / Lexington Herald-Leader:
Lexington mayor says Confederate statues at courthouse will be moved
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Elizabeth Warren Takes Aim at Moderates and Generates Chants of ‘Warren 2020’
Discussion: IJR
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