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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 …

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 …

Discussion: Washington Post, Mother Jones, ThinkProgress, Political Wire, STAT, Associated Press, The Verge, The Guardian and New York Magazine

Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:

Anti-Nazi movie goes viral after Charlottesville … An anti-Nazi movie from World War II went viral over the weekend after a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., turned violent. — The film, “Don't Be a Sucker,” was produced by the U.S. War Department in 1943 to warn Americans …

Discussion: Politico, RedState, Business Insider, The Guardian and The Atlantic

Sarah Whitten / CNBC:
Trump attacks Merck CEO for stepping down from manufacturing council in protest

Discussion: Weekly Standard, New York Times, New York Magazine, STAT, Mother Jones, Reuters, IJR, The Daily Caller, East Bay Times and Mediaite

Brian Beutler / New Republic:
These Are Donald Trump's Racist Troops

Discussion: ThinkProgress, New York Magazine, Hullabaloo and Talking Points Memo

Yair Rosenberg / Washington Post:
‘Jews will not replace us’: Why white supremacists go after Jews

Discussion: Globe and Mail, New York Times, Talking Points Memo, IJR and The Guardian

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.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, The Gateway Pundit, Political Wire and The Week

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.

Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money, The American Conservative and No More Mister Nice Blog

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.

NBC News:

Pence Defends Trump From Critics of Charlottesville Remarks — Vice President Mike Pence on Monday continued to defend President Donald Trump's response to the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia over the weekend, telling NBC News the president “made it very clear” he condemns “the KKK and white supremacists.”

Rick Hurd / East Bay Times:
Berkeley hot dog chain fires worker seen at Virginia rally

Discussion: Raw Story, AOL, IJR and The Week

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 …

Discussion: Hit & Run, Axios, NPR, NBC News, Pacific Standard, Gizmodo, The Week, Engadget, twitchy.com and Mashable

Kaila White / Arizona Republic:
After months of criticism, GoDaddy kicks out neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer

Discussion: ThinkProgress, RedState, CNN, HuffPost, TechCrunch, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, TheBlaze, The Verge, The Root and New York Magazine, more at Mediagazer »

Jim Finkle / Reuters:
Neo-Nazi site moves to Google after GoDaddy dumps it

Discussion: Talking Points Memo

New York Post:
Trump badly missed the mark on Charlottesville

Discussion: The Daily Caller, Talking Points Memo, New York Times, Sputnik International, AOL and Business Insider

New York Times:
The Hate He Dares Not Speak Of

Discussion: BBC, East Bay Times, Business Insider, The Moderate Voice, The Guardian, The Week, TheBlaze, The Daily Caller, Politico, IJR, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Daily Kos, twitchy.com and Mediaite

Monique Garcia / Chicago Tribune:
Illinois Senate approves resolution asking police to recognize neo-Nazi groups as terrorist organizations

Discussion: The Hill, IJR and Talking Points Memo

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.

Discussion: The Hill, Infowars, The Gateway Pundit, israpundit.org, Mediaite, Power Line, Instapundit, AOL and RedState

Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Why is Trump reluctant to condemn white supremacy? It's his racism — and his megalomania.

Discussion: Politico, The Week, Political Insider blog, The Guardian and New York Times

Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Anti-McMaster campaign is about to get uglier

Discussion: Shareblue, Shakesville, Washington Post, CNN, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Jerusalem Post, The Week, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, Taylor Marsh and RedState

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 …

Discussion: TheBlaze and The Week

Wall Street Journal:
We're Holding Pyongyang to Account

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Associated Press, Reuters, The Daily Caller, Politico, CNBC, AOL, ABC News and Axios

IISS:
The secret to North Korea's ICBM success

Discussion: The Guardian, JustOneMinute and Gizmodo

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: The Atlantic, New York Times, The Daily Caller, Lawfare, BillMoyers.com, The Week and BBC

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.

Discussion: Raw Story, Daily Kos, TheBlaze, The Daily Caller and The Week

Esme Cribb / Talking Points Memo:
Father Denounces Son Identified As Participant In White Supremacist Rally

Discussion: The American Conservative

Agence France-Presse:

Merkel condemns ‘disgusting’ US far-right violence — Recommended — Protests, vigils around US decry white supremacist rally — Trump faulted for not rebuking racists — Police, FBI probe deadly violence at white nationalist rally — Entities — Your feedback is important to us!

Discussion: The Daily Caller and The Week

Patrick Smith / BuzzFeed:
Angela Merkel Just Said Violence By Far-Right Groups In Virginia Was “Absolutely Repulsive”

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Reuters and Daily Kos

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 …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Political Wire, Raw Story, The Week and Shakesville

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.

Discussion: RedState, WTVC-TV, KFOR-TV, Raw Story, Shakesville and The Week

Media Matters for America:

Right-wing media provided home for white supremacist before he organized Charlottesville rally — Before he organized the recent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, VA, Jason Kessler wrote for The Daily Caller and the white nationalist site VDare and appeared as a purported expert on Alex Jones' Infowars network.

Discussion: CNN, Agence France-Presse, FiveThirtyEight and The Week

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.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, Right Wing Watch and YouTube

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: PRI, New York Magazine, Politico and The Daily Caller