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10:05 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.
Discussion: New York Times and The Week
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Matt Egan / CNNMoney:
Merck CEO quits Trump council over Charlottesville  —  Trump addresses Charlottesville clashes (full)  —  One of America's most prominent black CEOs quit President Trump's manufacturing council on Monday over Trump's failure to condemn white supremacists.  —  Kenneth Frazier of Merck …
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Merck CEO resigns from presidential council over Trump remarks  —  An African-American CEO of a major pharmaceutical company has resigned from a presidential council in a direct response to President Trump's remarks about “many sides” being to blame for violence over the weekend in Charlottesville.
New York Times:
Far-Right Groups Surge Into National View in Charlottesville
Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
White House Acts to Stem Fallout From Trump's First Charlottesville Remarks
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Hurt and Angry, Charlottesville Tries to Regroup From Violence
Discussion: Althouse and Business Insider
ABC News:
Analysis: Why won't Donald Trump condemn white nationalism?
Discussion: NBC News, Politico and Washington Post
Rosie Gray / The Atlantic:
The Alt-Right's Rebranding Effort Has Failed
Discussion: Daily Kos
Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
White House says Trump ‘condemns’ white supremacists, KKK, neo-Nazi and all extremist groups
Jacey Fortin / New York Times:
The Statue at the Center of Charlottesville's Storm
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 …
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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.
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.
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 …
Monique Garcia / Chicago Tribune:
Illinois Senate approves resolution asking police to recognize neo-Nazi groups as terrorist organizations
Discussion: The Hill and Talking Points Memo
Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
The Misguided Attacks on ACLU for Defending Neo-Nazis' Free Speech Rights in Charlottesville
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
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 …
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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
Gordon Lubold / Wall Street Journal:   Top U.S. General Readies Military Plan for North Korea, but Pushes for Diplomacy
Ali Watkins / Politico:
Obama team was warned in 2014 about Russian interference  —  WASHINGTON — The Obama administration received multiple warnings from national security officials between 2014 and 2016 that the Kremlin was ramping up its intelligence operations and building disinformation networks it could use …
Discussion: Raw Story, Scared Monkeys and The Week
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CNN:
Father: Heather Heyer was a champion for others
Discussion: FOX2now.com and FOX6Now.com
Michael Edison Hayden / ABC News:
Sessions defends Trump's comments on Charlottesville, says car-ramming fits definition of domestic terror  —  Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the incident of a driver ramming a car into a crowd of demonstrators in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday, which killed a young woman and sent 19 …
Discussion: Politico and The Daily Caller
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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Tegna / KREM-TV:
WSU College Republican President attends ‘Unite The Right’ rally in Charlottesville
Discussion: The Root and Raw Story
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Reporter: Eric Bolling is trying to intimidate me
Discussion: RedState, IJR and Mediaite
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
This Is the Bleakest Moment for America in My Lifetime
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Orange County Register:
California's coming youth deficit
Michael Calderone / HuffPost:
Pulitzer-Winner James Risen Joins The Intercept And First Look Media
New York Times:
Despite Trump's Support, Alabama Senator Struggles to a Primary Finish
Discussion: NBC News, Mediaite, NPR and Political Wire
 Earlier Items: 
Rod Dreher / The American Conservative:
The Curse Of Identity Politics
Discussion: Instapundit
Jacob B. / twitchy.com:
SHAMEFUL: Markos Moulitsas spreads ‘dangerous lie’ about ‘NRA and American conservatives’
Discussion: IJR and Instapundit
Matthew Watkins / The Texas Tribune:
White nationalist rally, counter protest planned at Texas A&M on Sept. 11
Discussion: The Root
David Frum / The Atlantic:
Time for Republicans to Leap From the Boat
 

 
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