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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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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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CBS News:
Steve Bannon's job has never been in more jeopardy, sources say
Steve Bannon's job has never been in more jeopardy, sources say
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Raw Story, CBS New York, The Root, The Daily Caller and New York Times
Justin Fishel / ABC News:
Trump ad-libbed ‘many sides’ remark in response to Charlottesville violence
Trump ad-libbed ‘many sides’ remark in response to Charlottesville violence
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RedState, Washington Examiner and Politico
Associated Press:
The Latest: Trump asked to fire 3 White House staffers
The Latest: Trump asked to fire 3 White House staffers
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ABC News, Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal and Politico
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, The Stranger …, Breitbart, Fox News Insider, Shareblue, IJR and Raw Story
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Today in Trumpworld — August 15
Today in Trumpworld — August 15
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Associated Press, STAT, Mediaite, Infowars and IJR
Robin Eberhardt / The Hill:
Fifth leader resigns from Trump's manufacturing council — The president of the Alliance for American Manufacturing has resigned from President Trump's American Manufacturing Council, making him the fifth business leader to do so. — “I'm resigning from the Manufacturing Jobs Initiative …
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New York Times:
Walmart's C.E.O. Joins Group to Rebuke Trump Over Charlottesville — Walmart's chief executive issued a strong rebuke of President Trump's response to the protests that turned violent in Charlottesville, Va., saying the president “missed a critical opportunity to help bring our country together.”
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Lawrence H. Summers / Washington Post:
Summers to CEOs: If you won't quit Trump's advisory councils now, then when?
Summers to CEOs: If you won't quit Trump's advisory councils now, then when?
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The Atlantic, The Guardian, CNBC, Business Insider and The Hill
CBO's Publications:
The Effects of Terminating Payments for Cost-Sharing Reductions — CBO and the Joint Committee on Taxation estimated the effects on the federal budget, health insurance coverage, market stability, and premiums if payments for cost-sharing reductions would end after December 2017. — 430.71 KB
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New York Times:
Trump Threat to Obamacare Would Send Premiums and Deficit Skyward — WASHINGTON — Premiums for the most popular health insurance plans would shoot up 20 percent next year, and federal budget deficits would increase by $194 billion in the coming decade if President Trump carries out his threat …
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New York Times:
A Combative Trump Criticizes ‘Alt-Left’ Groups in Charlottesville — President Trump angrily defended himself on Tuesday against criticism that he did not specifically condemn Nazi and white supremacist groups following the weekend's deadly racial unrest in Virginia, and at one point questioned whether …
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Political Wire and Pacific Standard
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Robin Wright / New Yorker:
Is America Headed for a New Kind of Civil War?
Is America Headed for a New Kind of Civil War?
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Business Insider
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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Alex Schiffer / Washington Post:
Teen tackled by bystanders after vandalizing Boston Holocaust memorial
Teen tackled by bystanders after vandalizing Boston Holocaust memorial
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Boston Police / bpdnews.com:
BPD Officers Arrest Juvenile in Connection to Vandalism Done …
BPD Officers Arrest Juvenile in Connection to Vandalism Done …
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New York Times, The Daily Caller, IJR and Talking Points Memo
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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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.
Henry Grabar / Slate:
In January, Fox News Posted a Video of Cars Mowing Down Protesters That Urged Viewers to “Study the Technique” — Conservatives are rightfully aghast at the terror attack on Saturday that left one woman dead and more than a dozen injured in Charlottesville, Virginia. — Henry Grabar is a staff writer for Slate's Moneybox.
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Mother Jones, Talking Points Memo, ThinkProgress, Mashable and Mediaite
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 …
Heather Mac Donald / Wall Street Journal:
Don't Even Think About Being Evil — Corporate America has managed to make higher education look like an open marketplace of ideas. — 'Just wait till those campus snowflakes enter the real world—that'll shape 'em up! " So goes a typical response to totalitarian hysteria at colleges.
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Mehdi Hasan / The Intercept:
Donald Trump Has Been a Racist All His Life — And He Isn't Going to Change After Charlottesville — “Racism is evil,” declared Donald Trump on Monday, “and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups …
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
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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Daily Kos
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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The Daily Caller, Washington Free Beacon and Political Wire
Fr. Mark Hodges / LifeSiteNews:
BREAKING: Texas permanently bans taxpayer funding of abortion … Advertisement … MUST-READS — BREAKING: Texas permanently bans taxpayer funding of abortion BREAKING: Texas permanently bans taxpayer funding of abortion News By Fr. Mark Hodges — LifeSite is hiring!
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Monmouth University:
Monmouth University Polling Institute — Trump Temperament Consequences … - Donald Trump making Washington politicians uncomfortable may be a good thing according to half of the American public. But his behavior is seen as making it more difficult to get anything done according to the latest Monmouth University Poll.
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Washington Post
Dominique Mosbergen / HuffPost:
White Supremacist In Charlottesville Wearing 82nd Airborne Hat Gets Called Out... By 82nd Airborne — The elite paratrooper unit continues to battle fascism — but now on American soil. — The 82nd Airborne Division fought several campaigns against Nazi Germany during World War II.
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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
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
An ugly pattern is taking shape. Trump exaggerates certain threats. He plays down other ones. — THE MORNING PLUM: — President Trump's reluctance to issue a direct, full-throated condemnation of the white supremacist violence in Charlottesville continues to be scrutinized for clues …
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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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Dianne Feinstein / USA Today:
Sen. Dianne Feinstein: Keep Iran nuclear deal and apply lessons to North Korea
Sen. Dianne Feinstein: Keep Iran nuclear deal and apply lessons to North Korea
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New York Times