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Mark Murray / NBC News:
Trump's Approval Rating Stands Below 40 Percent in Three Key Midwest States — WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's job approval rating in three key states that helped propel him to the White House — Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — stands below 40 percent, according to a trio of NBC News/Marist polls.
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Marist Poll:
8/20: Return to the Rust Belt: Dismal Job Approval Ratings for Trump in Michigan, Pennsylvania, & Wisconsin — In the 2016 presidential election, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin accounted for a combined 46 electoral votes which helped propel Donald Trump into the White House.
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New York Times:
The Failing Trump Presidency — With each day, President Trump offers fresh proof that he is failing the office that Americans entrusted to him. The rolling disaster of his presidency accelerated downhill last week with a news conference on Tuesday at which he seemed determined …
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Joe.My.God.
Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
The Trump administration just disbanded a federal advisory committee on climate change — The Trump administration has decided to disband the federal advisory panel for the National Climate Assessment, a group aimed at helping policymakers and private-sector officials incorporate …
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Trump disbands federal advisory panel on climate change: report
Mike Allen / Axios:
Why top White House officials won't quit Trump — There's lots of punditry about why people like Gary Cohn, Rex Tillerson, Dina Powell, Steve Mnuchin and many others don't quit the Trump White House in protest over Charlottesville. — New Yorker Editor David Remnick writes “The Divider …
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John Bowden / The Hill:
Evangelical students returning university diplomas to protest Trump — Former students at Liberty University are preparing to return their diplomas in a group protest of university president Jerry Falwell, Jr.'s, support for President Trump's agenda. — In a group letter first reported by NPR …
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Sarah McCammon / NPR:
Some Liberty University Grads Are Returning Their Diplomas To Protest Trump
Some Liberty University Grads Are Returning Their Diplomas To Protest Trump
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Stan Collender / Forbes:
Congress Can't Do Tax Reform Without A Functioning President — The Trump-related events of the past week very likely kill any chance of comprehensive reform or even just tax cuts happening this year. — Tax reform — the kind of wholesale change to the existing system that was enacted …
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David Remnick / New Yorker:
Donald Trump's True Allegiances — Who could have predicted the President's latest outrage? Barack Obama and anyone, really. — Early last November, just before Election Day, Barack Obama was driven through the crisp late-night gloom of the outskirts of Charlotte, as he barnstormed North Carolina on behalf of Hillary Clinton.
Alex Pareene / Splinter:
Charlottesville Was a Preview of the Future of the Republican Party — I hope you appreciated your recent introduction to the future leadership of the Republican Party this past week. It happened in Charlottesville, Virginia, where hundreds of neo-Nazis and white nationalists marched under the banner of “uniting the right.”
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Washington Monthly
Benjamin Brown / Fox News:
Kaepernick supporters call for NFL boycott — Controversial quarterback Colin Kaepernick deserves a chance to continue his NFL career, his supporters said Saturday. — Those backers include the NAACP and current and former members of the New York City Police Department, including famed corruption fighter Frank Serpico.
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John Kass / Chicago Tribune:
Column: While we're toppling offensive symbols, what about the Democratic Party? — A statue of Sen. Robert Byrd — a Democrat and former leader of the KKK — is on display in a rotunda inside the West Virginia State Capitol. — Al Sharpton just may be right about the need to remove offensive statues from the American public way.
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Kasich: No plans to challenge Trump in 2020 — Ohio Gov. John Kasich sidestepped questions Sunday about whether he thinks President Donald Trump should face a primary challenge in 2020. — “I don't have any plans to do anything like that. I'm rooting for him to get it together,” …
Clyde Haberman / New York Times:
Dick Gregory, 84, Dies; Found Humor in the Civil Rights Struggle — Dick Gregory, the pioneering black satirist who transformed cool humor into a barbed force for civil rights in the 1960s, then veered from his craft for a life devoted to protest and fasting in the name of assorted social causes …
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T. Rees Shapiro / Washington Post:
Dick Gregory, cutting-edge satirist and uncompromising activist, dies at 84
Dick Gregory, cutting-edge satirist and uncompromising activist, dies at 84
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Mnuchin defends Trump's comments on Charlottesville, rebuffs calls to resign — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who faced calls from his Yale University classmates to resign in the wake of President Trump's controversial comments about last weekend's violence in Charlottesville …
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Yale Daily News, Balloon Juice and Business Insider
Dustin Racioppi / NorthJersey.com:
Christie drops out of contention for WFAN job — Gov. Chris Christie has pulled himself out of contention for a post-gubernatorial job as a sports radio host on WFAN, he said Sunday. — In response to a Daily News report that he had been informed he was no longer in the mix for a job …
NBC News:
Democrats Could Win 50 House Seats. Here's How — DUBUQUE, Iowa — If Democrats are planning to ride an anti-Trump wave to a takeover of the House in 2018, they can't just rely on seats where voters resisted Donald Trump in 2016. They also face the major task of winning back those rural …
Associated Press:
The Latest: Police push protesters out of Dallas cemetery — https://apnews.com/27ca56339a7b4e0195b6 cf4e32de5aff — Link copied! — DALLAS (AP) — The Latest on a conservative rally and counterdemonstration in Boston and around the country (all times local):
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