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Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
As Trump ranted and rambled in Phoenix, his crowd slowly thinned  —  PHOENIX — Just before President Trump strolled onto the rally stage on Tuesday evening, four speakers took turns carefully denouncing hate, calling for unity and ever so subtly assuring the audience that the president is not racist.
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Why Ben Carson's appearance in Phoenix was likely a violation of federal law  —  Right before Ben Carson took the stage at President Trump's rally in Phoenix on Tuesday night, the announcer introduced him.  —  “The secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development …
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Trump Holds Steady After Charlottesville; Supporters Think Whites, Christians Face Discrimination  —  PPP's newest national poll finds that Donald Trump's approval rating is pretty steady in the wake of the Charlottesville attack, probably because his supporters think that whites and Christians …
Discussion: Daily Kos, The Week and Politicus USA
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Steven Shepard / Politico:
Poll: Trump hits new low after Charlottesville  —  President Donald Trump's approval rating has hit a new low following a week in which a majority of voters believe he did more to divide the country than unite it, a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll shows.  —  Only 39 percent of voters approve …
Katie Mettler / Washington Post:
The strange story of that ‘Blacks for Trump’ guy standing behind POTUS at his Phoenix rally  —  At a number of political rallies over the year, a character calling himself “Michael the Black Man” has appeared in the crowd directly behind Donald Trump, impossible to miss and possibly planted.
Discussion: The Root and The Gateway Pundit
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Karma Allen / ABC News:
Trump launches fresh attack on ‘crooked media’ at Phoenix rally
Leinz Vales / CNN:
James Clapper calls Trump speech ‘downright scary and disturbing’  —  (CNN)James Clapper, former director of National Intelligence, said Wednesday morning he questioned President Donald Trump's fitness for office.  —  “I really question his ability to be — his fitness to be — in this office …
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Maya Kosoff / Vanity Fair:
Trump Goes Off-Script in Hour-Long Public Meltdown
Discussion: Shakesville, Daily Wire and ABC News
MSNBC:
Exclusive: Hillary Clinton in her own words  —  Hillary Clinton reflects on the 2016 campaign in her new book ‘What Happened.’ Morning Joe has an exclusive first look. ...  more Duration: {{video.duration.momentjs}}
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Mark Murray / NBC News:
12 Days That Stunned a Nation: How Hillary Clinton Lost  —  WASHINGTON — Less than two weeks before Election Day, Hillary Clinton held a clear lead in the polls and it looked like her campaign was trying to run up the score — just as the race was about to turn upside down.
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Clinton says her ‘skin crawled’ from Trump's looming behavior at debate
Discussion: Althouse
CBS News:
West Wing gets new look in Trump White House renovations  —  Chilled air is now circulating through the West Wing via a new HVAC system.  New wallpaper - chosen by the president himself - is up in the Oval Office.  Visitors to the White House can now see the Rose Garden better at night.
Discussion: Axios
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Shutdown threat grows as Trump digs in on wall  —  President Donald Trump's vow Tuesday to close down the government if he doesn't get money for the border wall mirrors private comments he has made to advisers in recent days — and could cause significant rifts within his own party if he follows through.
Robert Anglen / Arizona Republic:
Bundy Ranch standoff trials … A federal jury in Las Vegas did not return any guilty verdicts Tuesday against four men accused of taking up arms against federal agents during the Bundy Ranch standoff in 2014.  —  Jurors dealt government prosecutors a stinging defeat in the case when …
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Los Angeles Times:
Once again, a jury rules in favor of Bundy supporters in their 2014 standoff with federal agents
Discussion: Daily Wire
Ken Ritter / LasVegasSun.com:
Jury refuses to convict in Bundy ranch standoff
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump's ambassador to Israel: Charlottesville response 'wasn't fine'  —  President Trump's ambassador to Israel on Wednesday criticized the president's response to the deadly violence earlier this month at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va.  —  During an interview …
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
State Dept. science envoy resigns with letter that spells out ‘Impeach’
Discussion: Vox, RedState, Mother Jones and ABC News
Arizona Republic:
Fake news?  Trump supporters circulate photo of Phoenix rally crowds ... but it's not … Ah social media is a glorious place.  You see something, it looks cool, and so you retweet it.  —  And sometimes that gets you into trouble.  —  Such was the case Tuesday night …
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Saba Hamedy / CNN:
Police spray tear gas at protesters following Trump's Phoenix rally
Steven Morris / The Guardian:
Firefighters eat sausages made of piglets they saved from blaze  —  Farmer sends gift of sausages to thank Wiltshire firefighters who rescued piglets and two sows from fire in barn  —  A farmer whose piglets were saved from a barn fire has served the animals up as sausages to thank the firefighters who rescued them.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Mediaite
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iopscience.iop.org:
Assessing ExxonMobil's climate change communications (1977-2014)  —  Environmental Research Letters, Volume 12, Number 8  —  Article information  —  Author e-mails  —  Author affiliations  —  Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States of America
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New York Times:   What Exxon Mobil Didn't Say About Climate Change
Clay Travis / Outkick the Coverage:
MSESPN Pulls Asian Announcer Named Robert Lee Off UVa Game To Avoid Offending Idiots  —  UPDATE: ESPN ISSUES OFFICIAL STATEMENT ON MOVING ROBERT LEE FROM VIRGINIA GAME:  —  “We collectively made the decision with Robert to switch games as the tragic events in Charlottesville were unfolding …
Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
White House has paperwork ready for Joe Arpaio pardon  —  (CNN) The White House has prepared the paperwork for President Trump to pardon former sheriff Joe Arpaio when he makes the final decision to do so, CNN has learned.  —  An administration official said the White House …
David Roth / The Baffler:
The President of Blank Sucking Nullity  —  Put a cone on it.  —  W  —  O  —  R  —  D  —  F  —  C  —  T  —  O  —  R  —  Y  —  MY FATHER IS CONVINCED that his dog is embarrassed.  He doesn't mean the rudimentary way that dogs ever show embarrassment …
Discussion: Balloon Juice
David Smith / The Guardian:
'He's anti-left, anti-PC, anti-stupid': Trump supporters in their own words  —  Trump is breath of fresh air.  He's totally not a political person.  He's a businessman: he's anti-left, he's anti-PC, he's anti-stupid.  He just wants to go in and make the best deal for Americans that he can.
Discussion: Shakesville
CNN:
Exclusive: Russian ex-diplomat Kislyak downplays Trump campaign contacts  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  — Sergey Kislyak downplayed his contact with members of the Trump campaign in an interview with CNN on Wednesday  — “It's nonsense,” Kislyak said when asked if he tried to recruit members of the Trump administration.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Axios
Olivia Messer / The Daily Beast:
‘This Is Not Hazing.  This Is Rape’: Inside a Texas Town's Football Nightmare … LA VERNIA, Texas—When Jennifer's* son made varsity—as a freshman, no less—it should have been cause for celebration.  —  Here, football is king.  The town is one of the oldest communities in the Lone Star State …
Discussion: Raw Story
FOX6Now.com:
16-year-old MPS student arrested after punching teacher several times in the head  —  MILWAUKEE — A teacher at South Division High School punched by a student.  The whole thing was captured on camera.  —  The video shows a student punching a teacher several times in the head.
Discussion: The Root and Raw Story
Haroon Siddique / The Guardian:
Charlottesville: United Nations warns US over ‘alarming’ racism  —  UN committee on the elimination of racial discrimination expresses alarm at growth of far-right groups and hate crimes  —  A UN committee charged with tackling racism has issued an “early warning” over conditions in the US …
 
 
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James Freeman / Wall Street Journal:
CNN's Big Secret
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Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
German magazine cover shows Trump doing Nazi salute
Discussion: Raw Story
Emma Brown / Washington Post:
Charlottesville City Council votes to shroud Confederate statues in black
Discussion: DCist
Stuart Leavenworth / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Exclusive: Trump team goes to bat for NRA-backed bill, deleting Park Service concerns
Discussion: New York Magazine
Rafael Bernal / The Hill:
Dems to Trump: We won't yield on wall funding
CBS News:
Some U.S. diplomats in Cuba diagnosed with serious health conditions, medical records show
Discussion: Axios
 Earlier Items: 
Wall Street Journal:
Iowa Seeks Ambitious Waiver to Reshape Health Law Within Its Borders
Andrea Cavallier / New York's PIX11:
Sunnyside building decorated with Nazi propaganda, Jim Crow images terrifies neighbors
Discussion: Shakesville and Raw Story
Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
‘Raised up by God’: Televangelist Paula White compares Trump to Queen Esther
Discussion: AOL and Christian
Ian Schwartz / RealClearPolitics:
James Clapper: I Question Trump's Fitness For Office, Wonder If He Is “Looking For A Way Out”
Discussion: Daily Wire
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Secret Service agrees to stop erasing White House visitor log data
Lucien Greaves / Washington Post:
I'm a founder of the Satanic Temple. Don't blame Satan for white supremacy.
Discussion: Christianity Today and Daily Wire
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Has More Troops in Afghanistan Than Publicly Disclosed
 

 
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Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK
 
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