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9:15 AM ET, August 14, 2017

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Blake Montgomery / BuzzFeed:
Here's What Really Happened In Charlottesville  —  Who came ready for violence?  Was it on “many sides”?  The answers are clearer on the ground.  —  Reporting From  —  Yes, you can blame the Nazis.  —  The race-fueled chaos that wracked Charlottesville, Virginia, finally came to rest on Sunday night.
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Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
White House Acts to Stem Fallout From Trump's First Charlottesville Remarks  —  BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — The White House, under siege over President Trump's equivocal response to this weekend's bloody white nationalist rallies in Charlottesville, Va., on Sunday condemned “white supremacists” for inciting the violence that led to one death.
Katie Mettler / Washington Post:
GoDaddy bans neo-Nazi site Daily Stormer for disparaging woman killed at Charlottesville rally  —  After months of criticism that GoDaddy was providing a platform for hate speech, the Web hosting company announced late Sunday that it will no longer house the Daily Stormer …
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
One group loved Trump's remarks about Charlottesville: White supremacists  —  President Trump's public remarks on the violence in Charlottesville have been criticized by many, including members of his own political party, for being insufficient and vague.  —  But Trump's choice of words …
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Hurt and Angry, Charlottesville Tries to Regroup From Violence  —  CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Brittany Caine-Conley, a minister in training at Sojourners United Church of Christ, arrived in downtown Charlottesville on Saturday morning expecting that there might be violence.
ProPublica:
Police Stood By As Mayhem Mounted in Charlottesville  —  State police and National Guardsmen watched passively for hours as self-proclaimed Nazis engaged in street battles with counter-protesters.  ProPublica reporter A.C. Thompson was on the scene and reports that the authorities turned …
Wall Street Journal:
The Poison of Identity Politics  —  The return of white nationalism is part of a deeper ailment.  —  As ever in this age of Donald Trump, politicians and journalists are reducing the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday to a debate over Mr. Trump's words and intentions.
Monique Garcia / Chicago Tribune:
Illinois Senate approves resolution asking police to recognize neo-Nazi groups as terrorist organizations  —  White nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the “alt-right” clashed with counterprotesters in Charlottesville, Va., on the morning of Aug. 12, 2017, during a “Unite the Right” rally.
Discussion: The Hill
New York Times:
Far-Right Groups Surge Into National View in Charlottesville
Rod Dreher / The American Conservative:
The Curse Of Identity Politics
Discussion: Instapundit
Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
White House says Trump ‘condemns’ white supremacists, KKK, neo-Nazi and all extremist groups
Washington Post:
Charlottesville victim: ‘She was there standing up for what was right’
Discussion: CBS Boston and Talking Points Memo
CNN:
Father: Heather Heyer was a champion for others
Discussion: FOX2now.com and FOX6Now.com
WCPO:
Charlottesville car attack suspect James Fields Jr. was ‘infatuated’ with Nazis, ex-teacher says
Alex Pfeiffer / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Former Trump Adviser Says He Will ‘Blow’ McMaster, Drudge ‘The F**k Out’ If Bannon Is Ousted  —  Sam Nunberg, a former political adviser to Donald Trump, warned Sunday of dire consequences for National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster and Matt Drudge if White House chief strategist Steve Bannon is pushed out of the West Wing.
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Anti-McMaster campaign is about to get uglier  —  The bare-knuckle campaign to remove National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster from the White House is about to get much uglier.  —  Outside forces opposed to McMaster are going to allege he has a drinking problem, according to sources outside …
CNN:
Trump advisers signal the knives are out for Bannon
Discussion: Political Wire
Jerusalem Post:
Comment: US National Security Adviser McMaster is a friend to Israel
ABC News:
Analysis: Why won't Donald Trump condemn white nationalism?
Discussion: Politico and Associated Press
Wall Street Journal:
We're Holding Pyongyang to Account  —  The U.S., its allies and the world are united in our pursuit of a denuclearized Korean Peninsula.  —  In the past few months, multiple illegal North Korean ballistic-missile and ICBM tests—coupled with the most recent bellicose language from Pyongyang …
Discussion: ABC News, Politico and Axios
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New York Times:
North Korea's Missile Success Is Linked to Ukrainian Plant, Investigators Say  —  North Korea's success in testing an intercontinental ballistic missile that appears able to reach the United States was made possible by black-market purchases of powerful rocket engines probably from a Ukrainian factory …
Gordon Lubold / Wall Street Journal:   Top U.S. General Readies Military Plan for North Korea, but Pushes for Diplomacy
Rosie Gray / The Atlantic:
The Alt-Right's Rebranding Effort Has Failed  —  The alt-right movement has sought over the past two years to rebrand white nationalism, lifting it out of the obscure corners of the website Stormfront and elevating it into the mainstream political discussion.  —  In some ways the effort succeeded.
Discussion: Daily Kos
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David Frum / The Atlantic:
Time for Republicans to Leap From the Boat
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
Conservatives Must Regulate Google And All of Silicon Valley Into Submission  —  Google's fascist witch-burning of an honest engineer for refusing to bow down at the altar of politically correct lies was the final straw, an unequivocal warning to conservatives that there's a new set of rules, and that we need to play by them.
 
 
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Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
The Misguided Attacks on ACLU for Defending Neo-Nazis' Free Speech Rights in Charlottesville
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Michael Calderone / HuffPost:
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New York Times:
Despite Trump's Support, Alabama Senator Struggles to a Primary Finish
Discussion: Mediaite, NPR and Political Wire
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Chips Away at Postcrisis Wall Street Rules
Jacob B. / twitchy.com:
SHAMEFUL: Markos Moulitsas spreads ‘dangerous lie’ about ‘NRA and American conservatives’
Discussion: IJR and Instapundit
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
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Discussion: Washington Post
Matthew Watkins / The Texas Tribune:
White nationalist rally, counter protest planned at Texas A&M on Sept. 11
Discussion: The Root
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