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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 …
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 …
Robin Eberhardt / The Hill:
Trump approval falls to lowest level ever in Gallup poll  —  President Trump's approval rating has dropped to its lowest level ever in a Gallup tracking poll.  —  The president's approval rating is only 34 percent in the latest Gallup average released Monday, while 61 percent of adults disapprove …
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.
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Fox News host delivers speech arguing America isn't racist—seconds later, he proves himself wrong  —  Bad timing.  —  Over the weekend, hundreds of white supremacists and neo-Nazis descended on Charlottesville, Virginia.  The “Unite the Right” rally quickly erupted in violence and ended when …
Discussion: Mother Jones
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
CNN: Trump wanted economic remarks at top of Charlottesville statement
Discussion: RedState and HuffPost
Rachael Bade / Politico:   Democrats press GOP to scrutinize rise in white supremacy
Dan Merica / CNN:
Trump calls KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists ‘repugnant’
Sarah Whitten / CNBC:
Trump attacks Merck CEO for stepping down from manufacturing council in protest
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Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:
On Twitter, Trump accuses blacks of racism three times as often as whites
Discussion: Raw Story
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.”
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
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 …
Discussion: Engadget, Mashable, Gizmodo and The Verge
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Ken White / Popehat:
Department of Justice Uses Search Warrant To Get Data On Visitors to Anti-Trump Site
Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:   Justice demands 1.3M IP addresses related to Trump resistance site
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
John Harwood / CNBC:
GOP is more likely to vent ‘personal disgust’ for Trump after Charlottesville  — Accusations that Trump is racist have never made Republican politicians abandon him in large numbers.  — The killing of an anti-supremacist protester in Charlottesville, Virginia, has generated rage toward white nationalists.
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Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Anti-Nazi movie goes viral after Charlottesville
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.
Discussion: NPR and Viking Pundit
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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Kaila White / Arizona Republic:
After months of criticism, GoDaddy kicks out neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer
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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The Texas Tribune:
White nationalist rally at Texas A&M University has been canceled  —  The white nationalist rally planned on the campus of Texas A&M University has been canceled, officials confirmed Monday.  —  Editor's note: This story has been updated throughout.  —  Saying they're concerned about student safety …
Discussion: The College Fix, RedState and The Week
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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 …
Discussion: Axios and Political Wire
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John Bolton / The Hill:
OPINION | Bolton: China is our last diplomatic hope for North Korea
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.”
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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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.
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.
Discussion: Political Wire
 
 
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The Daily Beast:
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Julian Assange, a Man Without a Country
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Jordyn Phelps / ABC News:
Trump to return to Trump Tower for 1st time as president
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Germany slams American Nazis as American president remains silent
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