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11:00 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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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.
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 …
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.
New York Times:
The Hate He Dares Not Speak Of  —  Let's discard the fiction that President Trump wasn't placating white supremacists by responding so weakly to the neo-Nazi violence that killed Heather Heyer, a 32-year-old counterdemonstrator in Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday.  The neo-Nazis heard his message loud and clear.
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Hurt and Angry, Charlottesville Tries to Regroup From Violence
Discussion: Althouse and Business Insider
Dan Merica / CNN:
Trump silent as aides look to explain his vague Charlottesville statement
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
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
One group loved Trump's remarks about Charlottesville: White supremacists
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
“There was no police presence. …
Discussion: Clayton Cramer
New York Times:
Far-Right Groups Surge Into National View in Charlottesville
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
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
Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
White House Acts to Stem Fallout From Trump's First Charlottesville Remarks
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 …
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 …
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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:
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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Gordon Lubold / Wall Street Journal:   Top U.S. General Readies Military Plan for North Korea, but Pushes for Diplomacy
Eileen Sullivan / New York Times:
Sessions Says ‘Evil Attack’ in Virginia Is Domestic Terrorism  —  WASHINGTON — Attorney General Jeff Sessions said on Monday that the “evil attack” in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend meets the legal definition of an act of domestic terrorism, an early declaration in an investigation after a car plowed into a crowd of protesters.
Discussion: RedState and Talking Points Memo
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Michael Edison Hayden / ABC News:
Sessions defends Trump's comments on Charlottesville, says car-ramming fits definition of domestic terror
Discussion: Politico and The Daily Caller
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
This Is the Bleakest Moment for America in My Lifetime  —  Back in February, before the prion disease that has afflicted conservative politics for four decades reached its current, virulent stage, and when people still thought that the president* had some sort of pivot left in him …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
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
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Reporter: Eric Bolling is trying to intimidate me … Huffington Post contributor Yashar Ali said Sunday that Fox News's Eric Bolling is attempting to intimidate him into silence by filing a $50 million dollar defamation lawsuit against his reporting.  —  “He is trying to intimidate me.
Discussion: RedState, IJR and Mediaite
 
 
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Tegna / KREM-TV:
WSU College Republican President attends ‘Unite The Right’ rally in Charlottesville
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