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8:05 AM ET, August 15, 2017

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Policy@Intel:
Intel CEO leaves American Manufacturing Council  —  Earlier today, I tendered my resignation from the American Manufacturing Council.  I resigned to call attention to the serious harm our divided political climate is causing to critical issues, including the serious need to address the decline of American manufacturing.
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Ina Fried / Axios:
Intel CEO exits President Trump's manufacturing council  —  Intel said Monday that CEO Brian Krzanich was leaving President Trump's American Manufacturing Council, the latest executive to distance himself from the president following the weekend's events in Virginia.
Roger Yu / USA Today:
Under Armour, Intel CEOs quit Trump's job council over Charlottesville rally response  —  Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank said late Monday he's stepping down from President Trump's manufacturing job council, joining Merck and Intel in distancing his company from the administration following …
Tony Romm / Recode:
Here are the business leaders who are — and aren't — officially advising Trump
Discussion: New York Times
Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:
Outraged in Private, Many C.E.O.s Fear the Wrath of the President
Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
Trump, Saying ‘Racism Is Evil,’ Condemns Violence in Charlottesville
Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Justice demands 1.3M IP addresses related to Trump resistance site  —  The Department of Justice has requested information on visitors to a website used to organize protests against President Trump, the Los Angeles-based Dreamhost said in a blog post published on Monday.
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Ken White / Popehat:
Department of Justice Uses Search Warrant To Get Data On Visitors to Anti-Trump Site
Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Trump Not Planning on Charlottesville Trip; ‘Why The Hell Would We Do That?’  Aides Say … President Donald Trump does not have plans to visit Charlottesville, Virginia in the wake of the the white-supremacist and neo-Nazi gathering that took place in the city over the weekend.
Discussion: ABC News and Politicus USA
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Associated Press:
The Latest: Trump asked to fire 3 White House staffers
Discussion: Politico and ABC News
Scott Whitlock / newsbusters.org/feed/all:
CBS Excludes 9/11 to Claim Three Times as Many ‘Right Wing’ Terror Attacks
Emma Loop / BuzzFeed:
DC Hotels Kept Canceling On Richard Spencer, So He Had To Hold A Press Conference In An Apartment  —  The white nationalist was forced to hold the event at what he called his office and a part-time residence in Alexandria, Virginia, instead.  —  Reporting From Washington, DC
Discussion: Raw Story and The Atlantic
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Alan Feuer / New York Times:   Far Right Plans Its Next Moves With a New Energy
Lesley Henton / Texas A&M Today:
TEXAS A&M CANCELS 9/11 EVENT RESERVATION
Discussion: Washington Post
New York Times:
Bannon in Limbo as Trump Faces Growing Calls for the Strategist's Ouster  —  WASHINGTON — Rupert Murdoch has repeatedly urged President Trump to fire him.  Anthony Scaramucci, the president's former communications director, thrashed him on television as a white nationalist.
Daniel Victor / New York Times:
Amateur Sleuths Aim to Identify Charlottesville Marchers, but Sometimes Misfire  —  After a day of work at the Engineering Research Center at the University of Arkansas, Kyle Quinn had a pleasant Friday night in Bentonville with his wife and a colleague.  They explored an art exhibition …
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Ben Domenech / The Federalist:
The Reality Of Charlottesville  —  Neither the extreme left nor …
Discussion: The Resurgent and The Daily Signal
Siva Vaidhyanathan / New York Times:
Why the Nazis Came to Charlottesville
Discussion: BillMoyers.com
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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Virginia Bridges / Durham Herald-Sun:
Protesters topple Confederate soldier statue in downtown Durham
Discussion: Washington Post
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.”
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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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Fox News host delivers speech arguing America isn't racist—seconds later, he proves himself wrong
Discussion: Mother Jones
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Trump Job Approval Rating Now at 34%, New Low  —  President Donald Trump's job approval rating in Gallup Daily tracking is at 34% for the three-day period from Friday through Sunday — by one point the lowest of his administration so far.  —  It is difficult to pinpoint the precise cause …
Discussion: Mediaite and RedState
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Daniel Strauss / Politico:
5 things to watch in Alabama's special election  —  The Alabama GOP Senate primary on Tuesday will go a long way in answering the overriding question of the race: How much do Mitch McConnell's cash and Donald Trump's endorsement matter?  —  The brutal fight on the Republican side …
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Erica Pandey / Axios:
Trump-backed and Trumpian candidates face off in Alabama
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 …
Emily Smith / CNN:
Holocaust Memorial in Boston vandalized  —  (CNN)A 17-year-old has been charged with willful and malicious destruction of property for allegedly vandalizing the Holocaust Memorial in Boston Monday, according to the Boston Police Department.  —  Photos from the memorial showed shattered glass lying …
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: Viking Pundit and NPR
The Daily Beast:
Paul Manafort Sought $850 Million Deal With Putin Ally and Alleged Gangster … Paul Manafort partnered on an $850 million New York real estate deal with an ally of Vladimir Putin and a Ukrainian moneyman whom the Justice Department recently described as an “organized crime member.”
Discussion: Political Wire
 
 
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Matt Richardson / Fox News:
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Tom Metcalf / Bloomberg:
Gates Makes Largest Donation Since 2000 With $4.6 Billion Pledge
Discussion: The Verge and GeekWire
Washington Post:
‘Very threatening’: Mother of Charlottesville suspect James A. Fields called 911 twice
Discussion: NPR and Common Dreams
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Adam Davidson / New Yorker:
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Nine months after 2016 election, Heller finally says he voted for Trump
Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:
On Twitter, Trump accuses blacks of racism three times as often as whites
Discussion: Raw Story
Ronald A. Klain / Washington Post:
If Trump goes down, Pence will too
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Sheldon Adelson disavows campaign against H.R. McMaster
Discussion: Political Wire
Jana Winter / Foreign Policy:
FBI and DHS Warned of Growing Threat From White Supremacists Months Ago
 

 
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