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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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Van mows down crowd in Barcelona, 13 reported killed
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Van swerves into crowds in Barcelona's popular Las Ramblas district; 13 reported dead and more than 50 injured
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Barcelona terror attack: Live updates
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Melania Trump sends ‘thoughts and prayers’
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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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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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Corker urges ‘radical changes’ in Trump White House [video]
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Axios and The Daily Caller


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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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

Steve Bannon's Fantasy, Donald Trump's Reality
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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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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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Washington Post, Politico and New York Times


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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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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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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Forget Charlottesville - Russia is still the true Trump scandal
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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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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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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


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.


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 …

Cleveland Clinic, American Cancer Society cancel plans for galas at Mar-a-Lago — Two leading charities said they were pulling their business from President Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach on Thursday amid blowback over Trump's comments on Charlottesville's bloody unrest.
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Cleveland Clinic pulls gala from Trump's Mar-a-Lago
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Trump aides worry he hurt hopes of defeating Flake — President Donald Trump upended the Arizona Senate race on Thursday by signaling support for an underdog primary challenger — a move that went against the wishes of his advisers and potentially undercut their efforts to unseat GOP Sen. Jeff Flake.
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Southwest Rises as 2018 Senate Battleground
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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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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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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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