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Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
ISIS claims responsibility for deadly Barcelona attack — At least 13 people are dead and 100 more are injured after a van slammed into pedestrians in a busy tourist section of Barcelona, Spain, this afternoon. — The attack took place near Catalunya Square in Barcelona's Las Ramblas district.
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CBS News:
Barcelona terror attack: Van crashes into pedestrians in city center
Barcelona terror attack: Van crashes into pedestrians in city center
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Washington Post:
Van swerves into crowds in Barcelona's popular Las Ramblas district; 13 reported dead and more than 50 injured
Van swerves into crowds in Barcelona's popular Las Ramblas district; 13 reported dead and more than 50 injured
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New York Times, Politico, The Atlantic, France 24, Outside the Beltway and Daily Kos
Reuters:
Van mows down crowd in Barcelona, 13 reported killed
Van mows down crowd in Barcelona, 13 reported killed
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BBC:
Melania Trump sends ‘thoughts and prayers’
Melania Trump sends ‘thoughts and prayers’
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Slate:
An open letter from the great-great-grandsons of Stonewall Jackson. — Dear Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney and members of the Monument Avenue Commission, — We are native Richmonders and also the great-great-grandsons of Stonewall Jackson. As two of the closest living relatives to Stonewall …
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
The huge problem with Trump comparing Robert E. Lee to George Washington — We celebrate the good things the founders did. Confederates didn't do anything good. — In fresh tweets Thursday morning, Donald Trump, a life-long New Yorker with no personal or familial connection whatsoever …
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Elana Schor / Politico:
Pelosi, Booker push for removal of Capitol's Confederate statues
Pelosi, Booker push for removal of Capitol's Confederate statues
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Julius Krein / New York Times:
I Voted for Trump. And I Sorely Regret It. — When Donald Trump first announced his presidential campaign, I, like most people, thought it would be a short-lived publicity stunt. A month later, though, I happened to catch one of his political rallies on C-Span. I was riveted.
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Jason Brad Berry / Shareblue:
Steve Bannon's porn and meth house: “You have no idea what kind of evil stuff went on” — When award-winning underwater cinematographer Lawrence Curtis moved into the lush Coconut Grove neighborhood of Miami, he had no idea the house he was renting would become a national story.
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Adrian Carrasquillo / BuzzFeed:
Steve Bannon Detonates His Trump Survival Plan, Worrying Allies
Steve Bannon Detonates His Trump Survival Plan, Worrying Allies
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Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Steve Bannon says controversial interview with liberal magazine was GOOD for the White House …
EXCLUSIVE: Steve Bannon says controversial interview with liberal magazine was GOOD for the White House …
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
Steve Bannon's Fantasy, Donald Trump's Reality
Steve Bannon's Fantasy, Donald Trump's Reality
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Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, The Rush Limbaugh Show, The Resurgent, Business Insider and Politicus USA
Mark Niquette / Bloomberg:
Trump Abandons Plan for Council on Infrastructure — President nixes council after ending two other business groups — Executives had started to quit after Virginia controversy — President Donald Trump will not move forward with a planned Advisory Council on Infrastructure, a person familiar with the matter said Thursday.
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Dave Flessner / timesfreepress.com:
Corker urges ‘radical changes’ in Trump White House [video]
Corker urges ‘radical changes’ in Trump White House [video]
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Axios and The Daily Caller
Jenna McLaughlin / Foreign Policy:
WikiLeaks Turned Down Leaks on Russian Government During U.S. Presidential Campaign — The leak organization ignored damaging information on the Kremlin to focus on Hillary Clinton and election-related hacks. — In the summer of 2016, as WikiLeaks was publishing documents …
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Joanne Kaufman / New York Times:
Bubble Tea Purveyors Continue to Grow Along With Drink's Popularity — Editors' note: An earlier version of this article prompted criticism by readers and we have since revised the article in response. — The Starbucks on Waverly Place in Greenwich Village was all but empty at 8:30 …
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New York Times:
Our Readers Call Us Out Over Bubble Tea. They Are Right. — The Reader Center is a newsroom initiative that is helping The Times build deeper ties with our audience. — Ellen Pollock, our Business editor, has responded to readers who voiced criticism over our recent story on bubble tea.
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CBS News:
Partisan divide over Trump's response to Charlottesville: CBS News poll — Nearly two-thirds of Americans consider the attack that led to loss of life in Charlottesville an act of “domestic terrorism,” a view that spans partisan lines. But President Trump's response to Charlottesville finds more division.
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David Edwards / Raw Story:
Longtime Trump business partner ‘told family he knows he and POTUS are going to prison’: report — Felix Sater, one of Donald Trump's shadiest former business partners, is reportedly preparing for prison time — and he says the president will be joining him behind bars.
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Paul Wood / Spectator:
Forget Charlottesville - Russia is still the true Trump scandal
Forget Charlottesville - Russia is still the true Trump scandal
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New York Times:
How Do Trump's Black Friends Feel? It's Complicated — WASHINGTON — Kara Young, a biracial model who dated Donald J. Trump for two years before he married another model named Melania Knauss, remembers clearly bringing up her race with the real estate tycoon early in their relationship.
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Tarini Parti / BuzzFeed:
Democrats Are Preparing To Run Against Mike Pence In 2020 — A Democratic group has resources and staff dedicated to targeting Pence. The initial research they've pitched to reporters confirms their strategy is to tie him to Trump as much as possible. — Reporting From Washington, DC
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Shawna Thomas / Vice News:
Sen. Scott says Trump's “moral authority is compromised” — For more of this interview with Sen. Scott, watch VICE News Tonight on HBO at 7:30 ET. — CHARLESTON, South Carolina — President Donald Trump has put his fellow Republican politicians in an awkward position after his Tuesday news conference …
Heidi M. Przybyla / USA Today:
Mitch McConnell's secret fury over Charlottesville response highlights GOP's Trump dilemma — WASHINGTON - There was a reason why it took Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell an entire night to respond to President Trump's chaotic news conference equating counter protesters with the Nazis they came to resist.
Michael Silverman / Boston Herald:
John Henry says Red Sox will lead effort to change name of Yawkey Way — The Red Sox have had enough. — At a moment when racial tensions have escalated rapidly and the removal of Confederate statues acts as a flashpoint for violent and racially divisive protests, the Red Sox are ready …
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The Big Lead and CBS Boston
K-Sue Park / New York Times:
The A.C.L.U. Needs to Rethink Free Speech — The American Civil Liberties Union has a long history of defending the First Amendment rights of groups on both the far left and the far right. This commitment led the organization to successfully sue the city of Charlottesville, Va. …
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Outside the Beltway, ACLU and Althouse
Max Boot / New York Daily News:
Donald Trump's lie about John Pershing is not only ignorant; it's dangerous for the fight against radical Islamic terrorism — BAGHDAD — Nothing is quite as bad as the President of the United States equating white supremacists with their enemies and defending statues that glorify the slave-owning Confederacy.
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Dem to introduce impeachment articles over Charlottesville — Rep. Steve Cohen (D), a Tennessee liberal, announced Thursday that he will introduce articles of impeachment against President Trump based on his defense of the white supremacists who participated in a deadly rally in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend.
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Dakin Andone / CNN:
The Southern Poverty Law Center's list of hate groups — Design: Will Mullery, CNN — Dots represent the hate groups operating out of each state, according to the SPLC — (CNN)917. — That's the number of hate groups operating in the US, according to data from the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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Jay Rey / The Buffalo News:
Carl Paladino removed from Buffalo School Board … Carl P. Paladino is out as a member of the Buffalo Board of Education. — That's the ruling today from State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia, according to the board's attorney. — “He is out effective immediately,” said Frank W. Miller, the board's attorney.
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