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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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Skirmishes, arrests mar mostly peaceful protests to ‘free speech’ rally — Follow along with live updates from the Boston Common rallies — After a largely peaceful day, with pockets of small, short confrontations between crowds and police at Boylston and Tremont streets and on the Boston Common …
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Trump cites “anti-police agitators,” in Boston, then thanks crowds for protesting “hate” — President Trump decried “anti-police agitators” in Boston Saturday, after thousands of demonstrators with anti-Nazi and anti-racism signs and chants drowned out a small group of white nationalists holding a “free speech” rally.
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Counterprotesters swarm Boston after police deem free speech rally over
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Thousands march in Boston in protest of controversial rally
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Boston ‘free speech’ rally ends early amid flood of counterprotesters; 27 people arrested
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Thousands march in Boston for protests a week after deadly demonstration
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Bannon's departure is unlikely to calm the turmoil in Trump's White House … President Trump's most unconventional senior adviser, Stephen K. Bannon, may have left the White House but the political turbulence that has characterized the first seven months of Trump's presidency doesn't appear to be going anywhere.
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The Memo: GOP fears damage done by Trump
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Bannon Exit Won't End White House Chaos That Comes From the Top
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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.”

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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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.


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.


North Korea warns of ‘merciless strike’ ahead of US-South Korea drills — (CNN)North Korea warned Sunday that the upcoming US-South Korea military exercises are “reckless behavior driving the situation into the uncontrollable phase of a nuclear war.” — Pyongyang also declared that its army …
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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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The road to hate: For six young men, Charlottesville is only the beginning — William Fears speaks with protesters at Texas A&M University in 2016 prior to a speech by white nationalist leader Richard Spencer, which he said solidified his alt-right leanings.


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 …

How a dozen young men from a small town secretly plotted the deadliest terrorist attack in Spain in more than a decade … RIPOLL, Spain — The Spanish interior minister boasted Saturday that the terrorist cell that had carried out attacks in Barcelona and a nearby seaside village has been “completely dismantled.”
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New York Times and John Hawkins' Right Wing News

Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club loses its ninth big charity event this week — Another Palm Beach charity announced Saturday that it was canceling plans to hold a gala at President Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club — the ninth to cancel a big-ticket charity event at the club this week.
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