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Barcelona terror attack: Van crashes into pedestrians in city center — BARCELONA, Spain — Police in the northern Spanish city of Barcelona say a white van has jumped the sidewalk in the city's historic Las Ramblas district, killing at least 13 people and injuring more than 50.
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Politico:
13 killed, 50 wounded in Barcelona van attack — Police arrest one man and say they are treating the incident as terrorism. — A van plowed into pedestrians on Barcelona's las Ramblas on Thursday, killing 13 people and injuring more than 50, in what police said they were treating as a terrorist attack.
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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 … LONDON — A driver swerved a van onto a pedestrian area Thursday in Barcelona's historic Las Ramblas district, ramming into crowds and leaving at least 13 people dead …
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Reuters:
Van mows down crowd in Barcelona, 13 reported killed — BARCELONA (Reuters) - A van plowed into crowds in the heart of Barcelona on Thursday and Spanish media reported at least 13 people were killed, in what police said they were treating as a terrorist attack.
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Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Hostage situation unfolding in Barcelona after van hits pedestrians in busy tourist area — At least one person is dead and 32 are injured after a van slammed into pedestrians in a busy tourist area in Barcelona, Spain, this afternoon. — The attack took place near Catalunya Square in Barcelona's Las Ramblas district.
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Associated Press:
Attacker drives van into Barcelona crowd; 1 dead, 32 hurt
Attacker drives van into Barcelona crowd; 1 dead, 32 hurt
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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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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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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump: America's culture being ‘ripped apart’ by removal of Confederate statues
Trump: America's culture being ‘ripped apart’ by removal of Confederate statues
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Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Steve Bannon says controversial interview with liberal magazine was GOOD for the White House because it ‘drew fire away’ from Trump — White House's chief strategist called a liberal magazine writer on Wednesday and spoke casually about North Korea, China and race politics
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Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
Steve Bannon's Fantasy, Donald Trump's Reality
Steve Bannon's Fantasy, Donald Trump's Reality
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Steve Bannon thought he wasn't giving an interview
Steve Bannon thought he wasn't giving an interview
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
THE BANNON intvw intrigue: what was he doing? …
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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Carrie Dann / NBC News:
Poll: 40 Percent Now Support Trump Impeachment
Poll: 40 Percent Now Support Trump Impeachment
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New York Magazine
New York Times:
Trump Lawyer Forwards Email Echoing Secessionist Rhetoric — WASHINGTON — President Trump's personal lawyer on Wednesday forwarded an email to conservative journalists, government officials and friends that echoed secessionist Civil War propaganda and declared that the group Black Lives Matter …
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Duke Today:
Statue at Duke Chapel Defaced
Statue at Duke Chapel Defaced
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Geoff Ziezulewicz / Navy Times:
Navy official: Ship name honoring Confederate victory unlikely to change
Navy official: Ship name honoring Confederate victory unlikely to change
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IJR, The Daily Caller, Althouse and Army Times
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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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.
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
'He is stubborn and doesn't realize how bad this is getting' — President Donald Trump's decision to double down on his argument that “both sides” were to blame for the violent clashes at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, was driven in part by his own anger — and his disdain for being told what to do.
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Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Trump's lack of discipline leaves new chief of staff frustrated and dismayed
Trump's lack of discipline leaves new chief of staff frustrated and dismayed
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Ben Mathis-Lilley / Slate:
Dozens of Activists Turn Selves in Spartacus-Style for “Crime” of Toppling Durham Confederate Statue — Activists in Durham County, North Carolina attemped to surrender en masse at a courthouse on Thursday morning in an act of solidarity with those charged for the act of pulling down a statue …
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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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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Neil Gorsuch Speech at Trump Hotel Raises Ethical Questions — WASHINGTON — Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, President Trump's Supreme Court appointee, is scheduled to address a conservative group at the Trump International Hotel in Washington next month, less than two weeks before the court is set to hear arguments on Mr. Trump's travel ban.
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Southwest Rises as 2018 Senate Battleground — PHOENIX — Even before President Trump's rise, a pair of Western states foreshadowed some of the consuming clashes of his presidency: the tug of war between traditional conservatives and border-hawk nationalists, and the struggle for power between diverse …
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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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James Kirchick / The Daily Beast:
The ‘Flight 93 Election’ Moment Is Now … The most important intellectual case for Donald Trump's candidacy, to the extent that such a thing could even exist, was an essay published last September by the Claremont Review of Books titled The Flight 93 Election.
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Rosanne Cash:
A message from the children of Johnny Cash: — We were alerted to a video of a young man in Charlottesville, a self-proclaimed neo-Nazi, spewing hatred and bile. He was wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with the name of Johnny Cash, our father. We were sickened by the association.
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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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Ed Mazza / HuffPost:
‘Art Of The Deal’ Co-Author Tony Schwartz Predicts Trump's About To Resign — “Trump's presidency is effectively over.” — Donald Trump's Art of the Deal co-author Tony Schwartz is predicting that the president is getting ready to call it quits and that the resignation will happen soon.
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