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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 Daily Caller and The Root
Daily Mail:
Bannon could be gone ‘by the end of the week’: New claim of a Friday massacre in the cards for Trump's chief strategist - and ally Sebastian Gorka could be next — Trump administration is silent on the question but New York Times and CBS News paint a bleak picture for former Breitbart News executive chairman
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Associated Press and Talking Points Memo
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
Bannon in Limbo as Trump Faces Growing Calls for the Strategist's Ouster
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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
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, Politicus USA, ThinkProgress, Hullabaloo, Raw Story and The Week
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, Axios, RedState, Raw Story, CNBC, Washington Post, Investor's Business Daily, Business Insider, AOL, New York Magazine, CNNMoney, USA Today, New York Times, FOX6Now.com, Towleroad, Gizmodo, The Daily Caller, ABC News, Mediaite, The Hill, Politicus USA, Engadget, GeekWire, The Week, Reuters, NBC News and Wall Street Journal, more at Techmeme »
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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
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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Talking Points Memo, New York Times, Washington Post, Hit & Run, IJR, Engadget, The Week, DreamHost.blog, AOL, The Gateway Pundit, Gizmodo, Popehat and Mashable, more at Techmeme »
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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
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
Washington Post:
After Charlottesville, Trump retweets — then deletes — image of train running over CNN reporter … President Trump's war with CNN went off the rails Tuesday morning after he retweeted an image of a Trump train running over a CNN reporter, then quickly deleted it after the meme sparked criticism …
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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
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 …
Danielle Ryan / Salon:
What if the DNC Russian “hack” was really a leak after all? A new report raises questions media and Democrats would rather ignore — A group of intelligence pros and forensic investigators tell The Nation there was no hack— the media ignores it — Last week the respected left-liberal magazine …
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Power Line and The American Conservative
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, Business Insider, New Republic 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
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 …