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10:10 AM ET, August 14, 2017

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Blake Montgomery / BuzzFeed:

Here's What Really Happened In Charlottesville — Who came ready for violence? Was it on “many sides”? The answers are clearer on the ground. — Reporting From — Yes, you can blame the Nazis. — The race-fueled chaos that wracked Charlottesville, Virginia, finally came to rest on Sunday night.

Discussion: New York Times and The Week

Matt Egan / CNNMoney:

Merck CEO quits Trump council over Charlottesville — Trump addresses Charlottesville clashes (full) — One of America's most prominent black CEOs quit President Trump's manufacturing council on Monday over Trump's failure to condemn white supremacists. — Kenneth Frazier of Merck …

Discussion: STAT, ThinkProgress, Political Wire, CNBC, Politicus USA, Washington Times, The Daily Caller, Raw Story, Business Insider, The Week, East Bay Times and Reuters

Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:

Merck CEO resigns from presidential council over Trump remarks — An African-American CEO of a major pharmaceutical company has resigned from a presidential council in a direct response to President Trump's remarks about “many sides” being to blame for violence over the weekend in Charlottesville.

Discussion: Reuters, Talking Points Memo, New York Times and Politico

New York Times:
Far-Right Groups Surge Into National View in Charlottesville

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Washington Post

ProPublica:
Police Stood By As Mayhem Mounted in Charlottesville

Discussion: Shakesville, The Guardian, Outside the Beltway, Business Insider, The Daily Caller and Washington Post

Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
White House Acts to Stem Fallout From Trump's First Charlottesville Remarks

Discussion: The Atlantic, The Week, Washington Post, Political Insider blog, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, ThinkProgress, HuffPost, The Guardian, TheBlaze, The Daily Caller, Daily Kos, Politico, Business Insider, Washington Monthly, AOL, Media Matters for America, Affinity Magazine and Shareblue

Dan Merica / CNN:
Trump silent as aides look to explain his vague Charlottesville statement

Discussion: The Week and Washington Free Beacon

Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Hurt and Angry, Charlottesville Tries to Regroup From Violence

Discussion: Althouse and Business Insider

New York Times:
The Hate He Dares Not Speak Of

Discussion: New York Post, The Moderate Voice, The Week, Sputnik International, IJR, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, twitchy.com, ThinkProgress and Mediaite

ABC News:
Analysis: Why won't Donald Trump condemn white nationalism?

Discussion: NBC News, Politico and Washington Post

Rosie Gray / The Atlantic:
The Alt-Right's Rebranding Effort Has Failed

Discussion: Daily Kos

Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
White House says Trump ‘condemns’ white supremacists, KKK, neo-Nazi and all extremist groups

Discussion: Politico, Talking Points Memo, Power Line, CBS Boston, TheBlaze, Telegraph, The Gateway Pundit, IJR, Associated Press, Conservative News Today, Daily Progress and The Guardian

Jacey Fortin / New York Times:
The Statue at the Center of Charlottesville's Storm

Discussion: Detroit Free Press, The Guardian, FiveThirtyEight and Power Line

Meghan Breen / KTVN-TV:
UNR Student Talks After Marching in Charlottesville White Nationalist Rally

Discussion: Raw Story, The Week, Gizmodo, The Root and Lawyers, Guns & Money

Wall Street Journal:

The Poison of Identity Politics — The return of white nationalism is part of a deeper ailment. — As ever in this age of Donald Trump, politicians and journalists are reducing the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday to a debate over Mr. Trump's words and intentions.

Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog

Katie Mettler / Washington Post:

GoDaddy bans neo-Nazi site Daily Stormer for disparaging woman killed at Charlottesville rally — After months of criticism that GoDaddy was providing a platform for hate speech, the Web hosting company announced late Sunday that it will no longer house the Daily Stormer …

Discussion: Arizona Republic, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, NPR, The Verge and Mashable

John Harwood / CNBC:

GOP is more likely to vent ‘personal disgust’ for Trump after Charlottesville — Accusations that Trump is racist have never made Republican politicians abandon him in large numbers. — The killing of an anti-supremacist protester in Charlottesville, Virginia, has generated rage toward white nationalists.

Kristine Phillips / Washington Post:

‘Look at the campaign he ran’: Charlottesville mayor is becoming one of Trump's strongest critics — A white nationalist site calls him “anti-white.” — An article it published in May outlines some highlights of Michael Signer's term as the mayor of Charlottesville: his endorsement …

Discussion: CBS News, Bloomberg, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Times, Talking Points Memo and Media Matters for America

Amy B Wang / Washington Post:

One group loved Trump's remarks about Charlottesville: White supremacists — President Trump's public remarks on the violence in Charlottesville have been criticized by many, including members of his own political party, for being insufficient and vague. — But Trump's choice of words …

Discussion: HuffPost, Agence France-Presse, kylewingfield.blog.myajc.com, The Guardian, Taylor Marsh, The Week, Affinity Magazine, Vox, TheBlaze, Politicus USA, Weekly Standard, Daily Stormer, FiveThirtyEight, Balloon Juice, mccain.senate.gov, RedState and Gizmodo

Monique Garcia / Chicago Tribune:
Illinois Senate approves resolution asking police to recognize neo-Nazi groups as terrorist organizations

Discussion: The Hill and Talking Points Memo

Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
The Misguided Attacks on ACLU for Defending Neo-Nazis' Free Speech Rights in Charlottesville

Discussion: Hit & Run, Instapundit, Vox and Damian J. Penny

Alex Pfeiffer / The Daily Caller:

EXCLUSIVE: Former Trump Adviser Says He Will ‘Blow’ McMaster, Drudge ‘The F**k Out’ If Bannon Is Ousted — Sam Nunberg, a former political adviser to Donald Trump, warned Sunday of dire consequences for National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster and Matt Drudge if White House chief strategist Steve Bannon is pushed out of the West Wing.

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, Mediaite, israpundit.org, Power Line, RedState, AOL, Axios, Politico and Business Insider

Jonathan Swan / Axios:

Anti-McMaster campaign is about to get uglier — The bare-knuckle campaign to remove National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster from the White House is about to get much uglier. — Outside forces opposed to McMaster are going to allege he has a drinking problem, according to sources outside …

Discussion: The Week, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, RedState and ABC News

CNN:
Trump advisers signal the knives are out for Bannon

Discussion: Political Wire

Jerusalem Post:
Comment: US National Security Adviser McMaster is a friend to Israel

Discussion: Jewish Telegraphic Agency

New York Times:

North Korea's Missile Success Is Linked to Ukrainian Plant, Investigators Say — North Korea's success in testing an intercontinental ballistic missile that appears able to reach the United States was made possible by black-market purchases of powerful rocket engines probably from a Ukrainian factory …

Wall Street Journal:

We're Holding Pyongyang to Account — The U.S., its allies and the world are united in our pursuit of a denuclearized Korean Peninsula. — In the past few months, multiple illegal North Korean ballistic-missile and ICBM tests—coupled with the most recent bellicose language from Pyongyang …

Discussion: ABC News, Politico and Axios

Gordon Lubold / Wall Street Journal: Top U.S. General Readies Military Plan for North Korea, but Pushes for Diplomacy

Ali Watkins / Politico:

Obama team was warned in 2014 about Russian interference — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration received multiple warnings from national security officials between 2014 and 2016 that the Kremlin was ramping up its intelligence operations and building disinformation networks it could use …

Discussion: Raw Story, Scared Monkeys and The Week

Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:

Conservatives Must Regulate Google And All of Silicon Valley Into Submission — Google's fascist witch-burning of an honest engineer for refusing to bow down at the altar of politically correct lies was the final straw, an unequivocal warning to conservatives that there's a new set of rules, and that we need to play by them.

Michael Edison Hayden / ABC News:

Sessions defends Trump's comments on Charlottesville, says car-ramming fits definition of domestic terror — Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the incident of a driver ramming a car into a crowd of demonstrators in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday, which killed a young woman and sent 19 …

Discussion: Politico and The Daily Caller

HuffPost:

Heather Heyer ‘Murdered While Protesting Against Hate’ In Charlottesville, Friends Say — “If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention,” read Heyer's last public post on Facebook. — RUCKERSVILLE, Va. The woman who was killed in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday when a car plowed …