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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Tells Aides He Has Decided to Remove Stephen Bannon  —  President Trump has told senior aides that he has decided to remove Stephen K. Bannon, the embattled White House chief strategist who helped Mr. Trump win the 2016 election, according to two administration officials briefed on the discussion.
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Bannon, backed by billionaire, prepares to go to war  —  Steve Bannon's next moves will be all about the billionaire Mercer family.  I'm told Bannon, who visited New York this week, met with Bob Mercer and together they will be a well-funded force on the outside.
Ben Shapiro / Daily Wire:
BANNON OUT: PREPARE FOR WAR  —  On Friday, Drudge Report scooped The New York Times and reported that White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, who also served as Trump's chief campaign strategist in the latter months of the campaign, is out at the White House.
Rosie Gray / The Atlantic:
Bannon Is ‘Going Nuclear’  —  In firing Steve Bannon, President Trump has lost his chief ideologue, the man who channeled his base and advocated for the populist-nationalist policies that helped propel Trump to victory.  —  But he has gained an unpredictable and potentially troublesome outside ally …
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Members of White House presidential arts commission resigning to protest Trump's comments  —  The remaining members of a presidential arts and humanities panel resigned on Friday in yet another sign of growing national protest of President Trump's recent comments on the violence in Charlottesville.
Bloomberg:
Bannon Says He's ‘Going to War for Trump’ After White House Exit  —  Aide left amid furor over Trump remarks on Virginia violence  —  Bannon was architect of Trump's 2016 election victory  —  Stephen Bannon said in his first public remarks since his ouster from White House role …
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Washington Post:
Trump gets rid of White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon … President Trump on Friday dismissed his embattled chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon, an architect of his 2016 general election victory, in a major White House shake-up that follows a week of racial unrest, according to multiple administration officials.
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
White House review nears end: Officials expect Bannon firing  —  A decision is imminent from White House chief of staff John Kelly on whether Steve Bannon will keep his job, according to administration officials with knowledge of the situation:  — Bannon, who has run afoul of Trump in the past …
Andrew Prokop / Vox:
The chaos of the Trump administration, in one picture  —  With Steve Bannon's ouster, four of these five Trump advisers are now gone.  —  Eight days after being sworn in as president, Donald Trump spoke on the phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin while surrounded by five of his top advisers, as you can see in the above photo.
Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:
With Steve Bannon Gone, Donald Trump Risks Becoming Arnold Schwarzenegger 2.0  —  President Donald Trump's decision to part ways with Steve Bannon can be understood as an effort to save his presidency after Charlottesville.  It may turn out to be the beginning of the end for the Trump administration …
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Conservatives react with fury to Bannon's departure  —  A number of conservatives expressed fury and dismay on Friday after news broke that President Trump has parted ways with his chief strategist, Stephen Bannon.  —  Bannon is a hero on the right and credited with harnessing Trump's message of economic populism during the campaign.
Discussion: RedState
Adrian Carrasquillo / BuzzFeed:
Bannon's Next Move: A Return To Breitbart And Possible War With Drudge  —  Sources say Bannon will return to Breitbart, and an ally says he has his eye on one person who he thinks helped accelerate his exit: Matt Drudge.  —  Steve Bannon is only just out of the White House, but he's already got plans for his next phase.
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Get ready for ‘Bannon da barbarian’
Discussion: Politicus USA and Raw Story
Donald Trump / ABC News:
Bannon resigns as White House chief strategist
Mitt Romney:
I will dispense for now from discussion of the moral character of the president's Charlottesville statements.  Whether he intended to or not, what he communicated caused racists to rejoice, minorities to weep, and the vast heart of America to mourn.  His apologists strain to explain that he didn't mean what we heard.
Aram Roston / BuzzFeed:
Trump's Son In Crosshairs Of Special Counsel Mueller  —  Prosecutors investigating possible collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign are bearing down on the president's son, attempting to figure out his intent when he attended a meeting in which he was promised dirt on Hillary Clinton …
Discussion: Daily Kos
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Karen Freifeld / Reuters:
White House lawyer Cobb predicts quick end to Mueller probe
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
CNN:
Key developments  — Four people have been arrested: one of them in Alcanar and three in Ripoll.  Three were Moroccan citizens and another was Spanish; they ranged in age from 21 to 34.  None was on the radar for terrorism.  — People from at least 34 countries are among the injured in the attacks, Catalan authorities said.
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New York Times:
‘Antifa’ Grows as Left-Wing Faction Set to, Literally, Fight the Far Right  —  OAKLAND, Calif. — Last weekend, when a 27-year-old bike messenger showed up at the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va., he came ready for battle.  He joined a human chain that stretched in front …
Robin Eberhardt / The Hill:
Gingrich: Trump presidency at risk without ‘serious changes’  —  Former Speaker Newt Gingrich said President Trump needs to make “serious changes” if he wants to have a stable presidency.  —  The Trump ally said in a Fox News interview with Bill Hemmer on Friday that Trump has taken a …
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Pence, McMaster team up to push more troops in Afghanistan  —  Cabinet members in favor of sending more troops to Afghanistan teamed up ahead of a high-level meeting on Friday to persuade President Donald Trump to step up American military involvement in the 16-year-old war, two sources told POLITICO.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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Rosie Gray / The Atlantic:
Erik Prince's Plan to Privatize the War in Afghanistan
Discussion: Foreign Policy and Narativ
Carl C. Icahn / Carl Icahn:
Carl Icahn Issues Statement  —  1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.  —  Washington, DC 20500  —  Dear Mr. President:  —  This will confirm our conversation today in which we agreed that I would cease to act as special advisor to the President on issues relating to regulatory reform.
Discussion: Politico, Raw Story and Mediaite
Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
The Party of Trump  —  Column: America's new, combustible four-party system  —  On July 18, 2015, about a month into his long-shot campaign for president, Donald Trump famously attacked John McCain.  “He's not a war hero,” he said.  “He was a war hero because he was captured.
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Washington Times:
The Democrats search for another Lost Cause
Sabina Ghebremedhin / ABC News:
Charlottesville victim's mother says, 'I'm not talking to the president now after what he said'  —  The mother of Heather Heyer, the woman killed Saturday when a car rammed into a crowd of counterprotesters at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, said she “will not” …
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Brett Cihon / Q13 FOX News:
Seattle's mayor: Lenin statue needs to come down … SEATTLE — Seattle's mayor wants Fremont's privately owned Lenin statue taken down, likening it to Confederate monuments as a symbol of “hate, racism and violence.”  —  A day after a small group led by conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec called …
Discussion: MyNorthwest.com, Eschaton and TheBlaze
WNYW-TV:
Confederate flag ‘looking’ tiles to be changed in subway  —  NEW YORK (FOX5NY) - The MTA says it is going to “modify” tiles in a Manhattan subway station that people have complained look like Confederate Flags.  —  The pattern of tiles have been in the Times Square station for almost 100 years.
Megan R. Wilson / The Hill:
Federal court can't force IRS to release Trump's tax returns  —  A federal judge on Friday said that the court could not compel the IRS to turn over President Trump's tax returns.  —  The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) launched a suit against the IRS earlier this year …
Discussion: Washington Times
Ari Natter / Bloomberg:
Manchin Says He Won't Join Trump's Cabinet as Energy Secretary  —  White House said to have considered West Virginia Democrat  —  Democrat faces tough re-election in state won by Trump  —  Democratic Senator Joe Manchin said he has no plans to become Donald Trump's Energy Secretary …
David French / National Review:
In One Tweet, Donald Trump Just Spread Fake History, Libeled a Hero, and Admired an Alleged War Crime  —  Just minutes ago the president of the United States - the man who just yesterday said, “When I make a statement, I like to be correct.  I want the facts” - fired out a tweet apparently …
 
 
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Rachel Roubein / The Hill:
Dems ask Trump officials for briefing on ObamaCare
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Turns out, New York is named after a horrendous slave trader
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Pelosi endorses censure of Trump over Charlottesville response
Discussion: The Hill and Daily Kos
Tae Kim / CNBC:
Goldman: There is a ‘50% chance’ of a government shutdown
Discussion: Axios
Jeff McLane / Philly.com:
Eagles' Chris Long wraps arm around Malcolm Jenkins during national anthem: 'Good time for people …
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Justin Wolfers / New York Times:
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Joe DePaolo / Mediaite:
Art of the Deal Writer Says Trump Will Resign Before Year's End: Reminds Me of ‘Last Days of Nixon’
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Joe Otterson / Variety:
MSNBC Ranks as No. 1 Cable Network in Total Viewers for First Time Ever
Richard L. Hasen / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed Speech in America is fast, cheap and out of control
Jeffrey Sullivan / Rivard Report:
Armed Group Appears at Council to Oppose Statue's Removal
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