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1:35 PM ET, August 15, 2017

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Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Trump Not Planning on Charlottesville Trip; ‘Why The Hell Would We Do That?’  Aides Say … President Donald Trump does not have plans to visit Charlottesville, Virginia in the wake of the the white-supremacist and neo-Nazi gathering that took place in the city over the weekend.
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New York Times:
Bannon in Limbo as Trump Faces Growing Calls for the Strategist's Ouster  —  WASHINGTON — Rupert Murdoch has repeatedly urged President Trump to fire him.  Anthony Scaramucci, the president's former communications director, thrashed him on television as a white nationalist.
CBS News:
Steve Bannon's job has never been in more jeopardy, sources say  —  The next White House staff shake-up could leave Steve Bannon on the outside.  —  Sources told CBS News President Trump's chief political strategist may soon be gone.  —  The former executive chairman of Breitbart News helped …
Associated Press:
The Latest: Trump asked to fire 3 White House staffers  —  The Latest on President Trump and the Charlottesville, Virginia violence (all times local):  —  The leaders of four minority House caucus groups have written a letter to President Donald Trump calling for the removal …
Discussion: ABC News and Politico
The Daily Beast:
Trump Retweets Cartoon of Train Killing CNN Reporter  —  President Trump has retweeted a cartoon of a train bearing the Trump logo killing a CNN reporter, just days after a protester at a white-nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, was fatally run down by a driver who participated in that rally.
Discussion: Balloon Juice and Political Wire
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Washington Post:
After Charlottesville, Trump retweets — then deletes — image of train running over CNN reporter
Policy@Intel:
Intel CEO leaves American Manufacturing Council  —  Earlier today, I tendered my resignation from the American Manufacturing Council.  I resigned to call attention to the serious harm our divided political climate is causing to critical issues, including the serious need to address the decline of American manufacturing.
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Ina Fried / Axios:
Intel CEO exits President Trump's manufacturing council
Elliot Kaufman / National Review:
Campus Conservatives Gave the Alt-Right a Platform  —  They deserve their fair share of the blame for the entirely predictable consequences of that choice.  —  Why did so many otherwise respectable conservative groups host Milo Yiannopoulos, an apologist for the alt-right, on college campuses across America?
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David French / National Review:
Fire Steve Bannon
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Trump, Obama and the Politics of Evasion  —  Regarding last week's events in Charlottesville, Va., consider the following propositions:  —  (1) James Alex Fields Jr., the young man who on Saturday, police say, rammed his Dodge Challenger into a crowd in Charlottesville …
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Alex Schiffer / Washington Post:
Teen tackled by bystanders after vandalizing Boston Holocaust memorial  —  The New England Holocaust Memorial in downtown Boston was vandalized Monday night by a 17-year-old who was immediately tackled by bystanders and held until police arrived, police said.
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Emily Smith / CNN:
Holocaust Memorial in Boston vandalized  —  (CNN)A 17-year-old has been charged with willful and malicious destruction of property for allegedly vandalizing the Holocaust Memorial in Boston Monday, according to the Boston Police Department.  —  Photos from the memorial showed shattered glass lying …
Discussion: IJR
Robin Wright / New Yorker:
Is America Headed for a New Kind of Civil War?  —  A day after the brawling and racist brutality and deaths in Virginia, Governor Terry McAuliffe asked, “How did we get to this place?”  The more relevant question after Charlottesville—and other deadly episodes in Ferguson, Charleston …
Discussion: Business Insider
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Derrick Lewis / WNCN:
Protesters pull down Confederate statue at old Durham County courthouse
Chris Kenning / Reuters:   Undeterred, U.S. cities ramp up removal of Confederate statues
Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Justice demands 1.3M IP addresses related to Trump resistance site  —  The Department of Justice has requested information on visitors to a website used to organize protests against President Trump, the Los Angeles-based Dreamhost said in a blog post published on Monday.
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McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
From Trump Aide to Single Mom  —  A.J. Delgado and Jason Miller stood in the New York Hilton ballroom on the night of the 2016 election, watching the man they helped elect president deliver the unlikeliest of victory speeches.  It was a heady moment for the small band of aides and operatives …
Discussion: The Slot, Mediaite and The Week
Hunter Woodall / Kansas City Star:
Kansas Democrat Paul Davis announces congressional bid, says he won't vote for Pelosi  —  The man who many thought would make another run for Kansas governor is officially running for Congress instead.  —  Democrat Paul Davis announced his entrance into the race for the 2nd District congressional seat Tuesday morning.
Discussion: Political Wire
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
The Obama-Trump Voters Are Real.  Here's What They Think.  —  The story of the 2016 presidential election is simple.  Donald J. Trump made huge gains among white voters without a college degree.  His gains were large enough to cancel out considerable losses among well-educated white voters and a decade of demographic shifts.
Discussion: Mother Jones
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Trump acts like the president of the Red States of America  —  THE BIG IDEA: Donald Trump often behaves as if he's first and foremost the president of the states and the people who voted for him.  —  That's at odds with the American tradition, and it's problematic as a governing philosophy …
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Heather Mac Donald / Wall Street Journal:
Don't Even Think About Being Evil
Discussion: Instapundit and USA Today
Taylor Cromwell / Bloomberg:
Americans Love Ordering Pizza on Facebook
Discussion: The Daily Caller and AOL
Richard Winton / Los Angeles Times:
Homicide detectives probe man's overdose death at the home of prominent L.A. Democratic donor Ed Buck
USA Today:
Case for climate change grows ever stronger
Discussion: Climate Depot
Ellen Mitchell / The Hill:
Pentagon may propose changes to Trump transgender ban
Discussion: RedState and Washington Post
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
The GOP's nastiest primary
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Sophia Crabbe-Field / Democracy Journal:
Single Payer Is Not a Principle
 Earlier Items: 
Tom Metcalf / Bloomberg:
Gates Makes Largest Donation Since 2000 With $4.6 Billion Pledge
Discussion: The Verge and GeekWire
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Trump Job Approval Rating Now at 34%, New Low
Discussion: Mediaite and RedState
Ronald A. Klain / Washington Post:
If Trump goes down, Pence will too
Discussion: Shareblue
Tom Hamburger / Washington Post:
Trump campaign emails show aide's repeated efforts to set up Russia meetings