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Gregg Jarrett / Fox News:
Trump ‘seriously considering’ a pardon for ex-Sheriff Joe Arpaio — EXCLUSIVE: President Trump may soon issue a pardon for Joe Arpaio, the colorful former Arizona sheriff who was found guilty two weeks ago of criminal contempt for defying a state judge's order to stop traffic patrols targeting suspected undocumented immigrants.
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Jana Winter / Foreign Policy:
FBI and DHS Warned of Growing Threat From White Supremacists Months Ago — Trump doesn't want to call out white supremacists. The FBI already did. — The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security in May warned that white supremacist groups had already carried out more attacks …
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Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
Trump, Saying ‘Racism Is Evil,’ Condemns Violence in Charlottesville — WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump bowed to overwhelming pressure that he personally condemn white supremacists who incited bloody demonstrations in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend — labeling their racist views …
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Robin Eberhardt / The Hill:
Trump approval falls to lowest level ever in Gallup poll
Trump approval falls to lowest level ever in Gallup poll
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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Fox News host delivers speech arguing America isn't racist—seconds later, he proves himself wrong
Fox News host delivers speech arguing America isn't racist—seconds later, he proves himself wrong
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Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:
Merck's C.E.O. Took a Stand. What About Other Executives?
Merck's C.E.O. Took a Stand. What About Other Executives?
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Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
CNN: Trump wanted economic remarks at top of Charlottesville statement
CNN: Trump wanted economic remarks at top of Charlottesville statement
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New York Times:
Bannon in Limbo as Trump Faces Growing Calls for the Strategist's Ouster — WASHINGTON — Rupert Murdoch has repeatedly urged President Trump to fire him. Anthony Scaramucci, the president's former communications director, thrashed him on television as a white nationalist.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Why is Trump reluctant to condemn white supremacy? It's his racism — and his megalomania.
Why is Trump reluctant to condemn white supremacy? It's his racism — and his megalomania.
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Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:
On Twitter, Trump accuses blacks of racism three times as often as whites
On Twitter, Trump accuses blacks of racism three times as often as whites
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Tom Hamburger / Washington Post:
Trump campaign emails show aide's repeated efforts to set up Russia meetings … Three days after Donald Trump named his campaign foreign policy team in March 2016, the youngest of the new advisers sent an email to seven campaign officials with the subject line: “Meeting with Russian Leadership - Including Putin.”
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DreamHost.blog:
We Fight for the Users — For the past several months, DreamHost has been working with the Department of Justice to comply with legal process, including a Search Warrant (PDF) seeking information about one of our customers' websites. — At the center of the requests is disruptj20.org …
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Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Justice demands 1.3M IP addresses related to Trump resistance site — The Department of Justice has requested information on visitors to a website used to organize protests against President Trump, the Los Angeles-based Dreamhost said in a blog post published on Monday.
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Derrick Lewis / WNCN:
Protesters pull down Confederate statue at old Durham County courthouse — DURHAM, N.C. (WNCN) - A crowd of protesters gathered outside the old Durham County courthouse on Main Street Monday evening in opposition to a Confederate monument in front of the government building.
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Matt Ferner / HuffPost:
Demonstrators Pull Down Confederate Monument In Durham
Demonstrators Pull Down Confederate Monument In Durham
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Pearce Tefft / INFORUM:
Letter: Family denounces Tefft's racist rhetoric and actions — My name is Pearce Tefft, and I am writing to all, with regards to my youngest son, Peter Tefft, an avowed white nationalist who has been featured in a number of local news stories over the last several months.
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Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
‘You will have to shovel our bodies into the oven, too’: Father of Charlottesville neo-Nazi disowns him
‘You will have to shovel our bodies into the oven, too’: Father of Charlottesville neo-Nazi disowns him
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Daniel Victor / New York Times:
Amateur Sleuths Aim to Identify Charlottesville Marchers, but Sometimes Misfire
Amateur Sleuths Aim to Identify Charlottesville Marchers, but Sometimes Misfire
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Associated Press:
Charlottesville Car Crash Suspect's Mother Accused Him Of Violent Attacks — CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The driver charged with killing a woman at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville was previously accused of beating his mother and threatening her with a knife, according to police records released Monday.
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Petula Dvorak / Washington Post:
Trump lit the torches of white supremacy in Charlottesville. We must extinguish them.
Trump lit the torches of white supremacy in Charlottesville. We must extinguish them.
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Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Anti-Nazi movie goes viral after Charlottesville
Anti-Nazi movie goes viral after Charlottesville
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John Podhoretz / Commentary Magazine:
Explaining Trump's Charlottesville Behavior — The nucleolus of Trump. — You can choose to have whatever opinion you have on the president's statement today condemning white supremacists, but it's hard to believe he would have read it out if he'd had his druthers.
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Maura Judkis / Washington Post:
Charlottesville white nationalist demonstrator loses job at libertarian hot dog shop — A white nationalist who participated in the torch-lit march through the University of Virginia's campus this weekend has lost his job at a Berkeley, Calif., hot dog restaurant after Twitter users posted his photo and place of employment.
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Natalie Orenstein / Berkeleyside:
Worker resigned after white nationalist rally, Top Dog says
Worker resigned after white nationalist rally, Top Dog says
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Siva Vaidhyanathan / New York Times:
Why the Nazis Came to Charlottesville
Why the Nazis Came to Charlottesville
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Steve Kovach / Business Insider:
Google cancels domain registration for Daily Stormer — Google has canceled the domain registration for The Daily Stormer, a company spokesperson confirmed Monday. — “We are cancelling Daily Stormer's registration with Google Domains for violating our terms of service,” the spokesperson told Business Insider.
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Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Oklahoma man charged in anti-government bomb plot — The FBI has arrested an Oklahoma man on charges that he tried to detonate what he thought was a 1,000-pound bomb outside a bank, acting out of a hatred for the U.S. government and an admiration for Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, according to court papers.
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Jonathan Cheng / Wall Street Journal:
North Korea Backs Off Guam Missile-Attack Threat — Kim Jong Un warns he could change his mind if the U.S. persists in ‘extremely dangerous reckless actions’ — SEOUL—North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has decided not to launch a threatened missile attack on Guam, Pyongyang's state media reported …
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John Bolton / The Hill:
OPINION | Bolton: China is our last diplomatic hope for North Korea
OPINION | Bolton: China is our last diplomatic hope for North Korea
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Ronald A. Klain / Washington Post:
If Trump goes down, Pence will too — When Al Gore became vice president, legendary scholar Richard Neustadt — one of Gore's former professors — sent him a memo with advice. One sentence stuck with me: “The White House staff lives in the present, the VP's staff in the future.”
The Daily Beast:
Paul Manafort Sought $850 Million Deal With Putin Ally and Alleged Gangster … Paul Manafort partnered on an $850 million New York real estate deal with an ally of Vladimir Putin and a Ukrainian moneyman whom the Justice Department recently described as an “organized crime member.”
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Media Matters for America:
Alex Jones: A lot of KKK protesters are “Jewish actors” who look like the “cast of Seinfeld” with their hoods off — ALEX JONES (HOST): Here's a little bit of audio of me like 18 years ago protesting the KKK. There's no big crowd of Antifa there supporting me, and them threatening to kill me, everything else.
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Sheldon Adelson disavows campaign against H.R. McMaster — Las Vegas billionaire Sheldon Adelson has disavowed a campaign against National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, which is being pushed by a group Adelson funds, the Zionist Organization of America.
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