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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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New York Magazine and The Daily Caller
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Julia Jacobo / ABC News:
Counterprotesters swarm Boston after police deem free speech rally over — One week after violent protests rattled Charlottesville, Virginia, a scheduled free speech rally in Boston this afternoon was deemed “officially over” by police ahead of its official end time, but thousands …
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Vox, Newsweek, Mashable and Joe.My.God.
Mark Arsenault / BostonGlobe.com:
In a city with fraught racial past, a day of protest against hatred and bigotry
Wesley Lowery / Washington Post:
Boston ‘free speech’ rally ends early amid flood of counterprotesters; 27 people arrested
Boston ‘free speech’ rally ends early amid flood of counterprotesters; 27 people arrested
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BostonGlobe.com, CBS Boston, Mother Jones, ThinkProgress, The Resurgent, Mediaite and Talking Points Memo
Ray Sanchez / CNN:
Thousands march in Boston in protest of controversial rally
Thousands march in Boston in protest of controversial rally
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Salon, IJR, VICE News, The Daily Caller, Balloon Juice, Gizmodo, Politico, New York Times, FOX2now.com, The Gateway Pundit, Axios, Mediaite and RedState
CBS News:
Boston “free speech” rally ends after counter-protesters take to streets — live updates
Boston “free speech” rally ends after counter-protesters take to streets — live updates
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CBS Boston, CBS New York, twitchy.com, The Gateway Pundit, Conservative News Today and Mother Jones
Doug Stanglin / USA Today:
Thousands march in Boston for protests a week after deadly demonstration
Thousands march in Boston for protests a week after deadly demonstration
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Boston Globe, 10NEWS, JustOneMinute, twitchy.com, Conservative News Today and Boston Free Speech
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.”
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 and Business Insider
Washington Post:
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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Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
The Rise and Fall of Steve Bannon
The Rise and Fall of Steve Bannon
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Hullabaloo, more at Mediagazer »
Justin Sink / Bloomberg:
Bannon Exit Won't End White House Chaos That Comes From the Top
Bannon Exit Won't End White House Chaos That Comes From the Top
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Outside the Beltway and Political Wire
President Vincent E. Price / Duke Today:
Duke Removes Robert E. Lee Statue From Chapel Entrance — Statue will be preserved for students to study university's ‘complex past’ — Editor's Note: — After hearing from and consulting with a number of students, faculty, staff, and alumni, and with the strong support of the Board of Trustees …
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Splinter, twitchy.com, IJR, The Hill, Washington Post, NPR and TheBlaze
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Nathan Fenno / Los Angeles Times:
Traveler, USC's mascot, comes under scrutiny for having a name similar to Robert E. Lee's horse
Traveler, USC's mascot, comes under scrutiny for having a name similar to Robert E. Lee's horse
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Power Line and IJR
Washington Times:
Organizer of Charlottesville white supremacist rally calls slain protester's death ‘payback time’ — Twitter account is now offline following apology, claims of hacking — The Twitter account of Jason Kessler, the alt-right activist and organizer of last weekend's deadly “Unite the Right” …
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Niall Stanage / The Hill:
The Memo: GOP fears damage done by Trump — As a week dominated by President Trump's response to the violence in Charlottesville, Va., draws to a close, many Republicans are worried that serious damage has been done to their party. — Specifically, they argue that Trump may have set …
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Washington Monthly, Raw Story and Liberal Values
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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Dick Gregory, NPR and CBS San Francisco
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
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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CNNMoney and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Tracy Jacim / WOFL:
Sabatini: Eustis will ‘gladly accept’ Confederate monuments — EUSTIS, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) - The City of Eustis has about 20,000 people, and at least three of them, including Mayor Robert Morin, are shocked by a post by City Commissioner Anthony Sabatini. — It reads, “To any cities …
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Raw Story
Politico:
1,503 Confederate symbols are on display across America. Most are in the South. 179 are in majority black counties. … More than 1,500 symbols of the Confederacy dot the U.S. countryside, according to an April 2016 review by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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twitchy.com and The Guardian
Anthony Joseph / Daily Mail:
‘Better get out early than late’: Barcelona's chief rabbi urges Jews to move to Israel as he warns Europe is ‘lost’ because of threat from radical Islam — At least 14 people were killed and some 130 others injured when attackers ploughed into pedestrians on a promenade in the tourist area on Thursday
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