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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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CBS News:
Steve Bannon's job has never been in more jeopardy, sources say — The next White House staff shake-up could leave Steve Bannon on the outside. — Sources told CBS News President Trump's chief political strategist may soon be gone. — The former executive chairman of Breitbart News helped …
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Raw Story, CBS New York, The Root and The Daily Caller
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 …
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, Betsy's Page, Infowars, BillMoyers.com, Talking Points Memo, Weekly Standard, Axios, Political Wire, CNNMoney, Raw Story, The Week, Mediaite and TheBlaze
Daily Mail:
Bannon could be gone ‘by the end of the week’: New claim of a Friday massacre in the cards …
Bannon could be gone ‘by the end of the week’: New claim of a Friday massacre in the cards …
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Associated Press and Talking Points Memo
Penny Starr / Breitbart:
Fire Bannon 3.0: Pelosi Calls for Trump to Ax Chief Strategist
Fire Bannon 3.0: Pelosi Calls for Trump to Ax Chief Strategist
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New York Magazine, IJR, Washington Free Beacon and ABC News
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
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
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Washington Post:
After Charlottesville, Trump retweets — then deletes — image of train running over CNN reporter
After Charlottesville, Trump retweets — then deletes — image of train running over CNN reporter
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ThinkProgress, The Guardian, Talking Points Memo, Mother Jones, Gizmodo, Sputnik International, Politico, IJR, The Daily Caller, Mediaite and Daily Kos, more at Mediagazer »
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Trump retweets cartoon appearing to show train hitting CNN reporter
Trump retweets cartoon appearing to show train hitting CNN reporter
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RedState, The Federalist, New York Times and The Week
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Trump retweets Twitter user calling him a fascist
Trump retweets Twitter user calling him a fascist
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Mashable, IJR, Washington Free Beacon, Business Insider, twitchy.com, The Week and Infowars
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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ThinkProgress, The Atlantic, Talking Points Memo, RedState, Axios, Raw Story, Washington Post, CNBC, Investor's Business Daily, Business Insider, AOL, New York Times, New York Magazine, CNNMoney, USA Today, FOX6Now.com, Towleroad, Gizmodo, The Daily Caller, ABC News, Mediaite, Politicus USA, The Hill, Engadget, GeekWire, The Week, Reuters, NBC News and Wall Street Journal
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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, Business Insider, The Ring of Fire Network 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, CNBC, Mashable, Talking Points Memo, Conservative News Today, Politicus USA, Raw Story, The Week, TheBlaze and Mediaite, more at Techmeme »
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
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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David French / National Review:
Fire Steve Bannon
Fire Steve Bannon
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The Bridgehead, Real Clear Politics, The Guardian and Chicago's Morning Answer
The Guardian:
US government demands details on all visitors to anti-Trump protest website — Privacy advocates call warrant for IP addresses of 1.3 million people who visited inauguration protest website an unconstitutional ‘fishing expedition’ … The US government is seeking to unmask every person …
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Washington Post, Towleroad, BuzzFeed, New York Magazine and The Verge
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Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Justice demands 1.3M IP addresses related to Trump resistance site
Justice demands 1.3M IP addresses related to Trump resistance site
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Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, Hit & Run, DreamHost.blog, IJR, Engadget, The Week, AOL, Popehat, The Gateway Pundit, Gizmodo and Mashable, more at Techmeme »
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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MichelleMalkin.com, RedState, TheBlaze, Washington Free Beacon, IJR, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Daily Caller and twitchy.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
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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Mother Jones
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
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 …
Reuters:
Iran could quit nuclear deal in ‘hours’ if new U.S. sanctions imposed: Rouhani — DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran could abandon its nuclear agreement with world powers “within hours” if the United States imposes any more new sanctions, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday.
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Weekly Standard, Sputnik International, Al Jazeera English, The Daily Beast and The Week
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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 …
Max Boot / Weekly Standard:
Why Won't Trump Use the ‘T’ Word to Describe Charlottesville? — There is no need to pick and choose among different varieties of terrorism. — President Trump gave a much better statement Monday on the dismaying events in Charlottesville than he did on Saturday.
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AOL, New Republic, Business Insider and RedState
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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Business Insider