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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.
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Outside the Beltway, ABC News, Politico and Politicus USA
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Associated Press:
The Latest: Trump asked to fire 3 White House staffers — The Latest on President Trump and the Charlottesville, Virginia violence (all times local): — The leaders of four minority House caucus groups have written a letter to President Donald Trump calling for the removal …
Ellen Mitchell / The Hill:
Pentagon may propose changes to Trump transgender ban
Pentagon may propose changes to Trump transgender ban
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RedState and Washington Post
Elliot Kaufman / National Review:
Campus Conservatives Gave the Alt-Right a Platform — They deserve their fair share of the blame for the entirely predictable consequences of that choice. — Why did so many otherwise respectable conservative groups host Milo Yiannopoulos, an apologist for the alt-right, on college campuses across America?
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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.
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Associated Press, Breitbart, Betsy's Page, Talking Points Memo, Infowars, Weekly Standard, Axios, CNNMoney, Political Wire, Raw Story, Mediaite, TheBlaze and The Week
David French / National Review:
Fire Steve Bannon — There is no room for an alt-right apologist in the White House. — For those who've forgotten one of the worst elements of the 2016 election, a short refresher is in order. Almost from the moment that Donald Trump descended on the lobby of Trump Tower …
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The Bridgehead, Real Clear Politics, The Guardian and Chicago's Morning Answer
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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Tony Romm / Recode:
Here are the business leaders who are — and aren't — officially advising Trump
Here are the business leaders who are — and aren't — officially advising Trump
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Shareblue, New York Times, Business Insider, Politico and STAT
CNNMoney:
Three CEOs walk away from Trump after Charlottesville
Three CEOs walk away from Trump after Charlottesville
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TheStreet, Daily Kos, The Ring of Fire Network, Business Insider and Mercury News
Ina Fried / Axios:
Intel CEO exits President Trump's manufacturing council
Intel CEO exits President Trump's manufacturing council
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Politico, Talking Points Memo, CNBC, Mashable, Conservative News Today, Politicus USA, Raw Story, The Week, TheBlaze and Mediaite, more at Techmeme »
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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Washington Post, AOL and The Gateway Pundit
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Mark Rumold / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
In J20 Investigation, DOJ Overreaches Again. And Gets Taken to Court Again.
The Daily Beast:
Trump Retweets Cartoon of Train Killing CNN Reporter — President Trump has retweeted a cartoon of a train bearing the Trump logo killing a CNN reporter, just days after a protester at a white-nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, was fatally run down by a driver who participated in that rally.
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Balloon Juice and Political Wire
Alex Schiffer / Washington Post:
Teen tackled by bystanders after vandalizing Boston Holocaust memorial — The New England Holocaust Memorial in downtown Boston was vandalized Monday night by a 17-year-old who was immediately tackled by bystanders and held until police arrived, police said.
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bpdnews.com, Talking Points Memo, The Hill, Sputnik International and CBS Boston
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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 …
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IJR
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Trump, Obama and the Politics of Evasion — Regarding last week's events in Charlottesville, Va., consider the following propositions: — (1) James Alex Fields Jr., the young man who on Saturday, police say, rammed his Dodge Challenger into a crowd in Charlottesville …
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Max Boot / Weekly Standard:
Why Won't Trump Use the ‘T’ Word to Describe Charlottesville?
Why Won't Trump Use the ‘T’ Word to Describe Charlottesville?
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Business Insider, RedState and ThinkProgress
Jessica Schulberg / HuffPost:
Controversial Trump Aide Katharine Gorka Helped End Funding For Group That Fights White Supremacy — Life After Hate works to de-radicalize neo-Nazis. The Trump administration decided it wasn't a priority. — WASHINGTON Weeks before a violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville …
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Daily Kos, The Guardian, Vox, ThinkProgress, Politicus USA, Hullabaloo, Raw Story and The Week
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
Protesters topple Confederate soldier statue in downtown Durham
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Washington Post, The FADER and Althouse
McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
From Trump Aide to Single Mom — A.J. Delgado and Jason Miller stood in the New York Hilton ballroom on the night of the 2016 election, watching the man they helped elect president deliver the unlikeliest of victory speeches. It was a heady moment for the small band of aides and operatives …
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
The Obama-Trump Voters Are Real. Here's What They Think. — The story of the 2016 presidential election is simple. Donald J. Trump made huge gains among white voters without a college degree. His gains were large enough to cancel out considerable losses among well-educated white voters and a decade of demographic shifts.
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Hunter Woodall / Kansas City Star:
Kansas Democrat Paul Davis announces congressional bid, says he won't vote for Pelosi — The man who many thought would make another run for Kansas governor is officially running for Congress instead. — Democrat Paul Davis announced his entrance into the race for the 2nd District congressional seat Tuesday morning.
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Political Wire
Julian Quinones / CBS News:
“What kind of society do you want to live in?”: Inside the country where Down syndrome is disappearing — “CBSN: On Assignment” airs Mondays at 10 p.m. ET/PT on CBS and on our streaming network, CBSN. Explore more on this topic in our “Behind the Lens” report.
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Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Far Right Plans Its Next Moves With a New Energy — The white supremacists and right-wing extremists who came together over the weekend in Charlottesville, Va., are now headed home, many of them ready and energized, they said, to set their sights on bigger prizes. — Some were making arrangements to appear at future marches.
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Washington Post, Shakesville and Associated Press
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Trump acts like the president of the Red States of America — THE BIG IDEA: Donald Trump often behaves as if he's first and foremost the president of the states and the people who voted for him. — That's at odds with the American tradition, and it's problematic as a governing philosophy …
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Bloomberg, Washington Times, Wall Street Journal, Mediaite, New York Times, CNBC, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Washington Free Beacon, STAT and Axios
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Trump retweets Twitter user calling him a fascist — President Trump on Tuesday appeared to retweet someone referring to him as a “fascist.” He has since deleted the tweet. — The retweet came after Trump shared a story from “Fox & Friends” which said the president was “seriously considering” pardoning Joe Arpaio.
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Robin Wright / New Yorker:
Is America Headed for a New Kind of Civil War? — A day after the brawling and racist brutality and deaths in Virginia, Governor Terry McAuliffe asked, “How did we get to this place?” The more relevant question after Charlottesville—and other deadly episodes in Ferguson, Charleston …
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