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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
What Steve Bannon thinks about Charlottesville  —  On Tuesday night, while Gary Cohn was fuming about President Trump's latest comments, Steve Bannon was excitedly telling friends and associates that the “globalists” were in mass freakout mode.  — Today, Bannon reveled in the disbanding …
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Robert Tracinski / The Federalist:
Donald Trump Needs To Not Be President Yesterday  —  We're done with the “Well, maybe it won't be so bad and we should take what we can get” phase of this administration.  It's time for the “He's a disaster and needs to go” phase.  For everybody's good, Donald Trump needs to not be president …
The Times of Israel:
Yair Netanyahu says leftists more dangerous than neo-Nazis  —  Echoing Trump, PM's son claims ‘thugs of Antifa and Black Lives Matter are getting stronger’ while Nazis are a thing of the past  —  The son of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday said American left-wing groups are more dangerous than neo-Nazis.
David Ferguson / Raw Story:
'I'm terrified': Neo-Nazi blubbers like a baby in video reporting he's wanted for arrest in Charlottesville  —  Neo-Nazi Christopher Cantwell — who was one of the “Unite the Right” Charlottesville marchers interviewed by Vice.com — released a weepy, rambling video of himself discussing …
Sarah Jones / New Republic:
Liberals Helped Create Trump's New Bogeyman, the “Alt-Left”  —  The term was coined by the right-wing as a slur.  Then it was adopted by the left's would-be allies.  —  President Donald Trump on Tuesday introduced a new nemesis to join the “fake news” media, Crooked Hillary, and Mexican rapists: the alt-left.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump's Aides Tried to Conceal His Crazy, Racist Beliefs From the Country  —  Donald Trump's aides have been angry with him frequently — indeed, usually — since the beginning of his presidential campaign.  But they have rarely registered their dismay as nakedly as they did Tuesday night …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Vice News:
Trump still hasn't called the Charlottesville mayor
Molly Ball / The Atlantic:
‘The President Was Entirely Correct’
Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Steve Bannon's Ideological Allies Inside the White House Are Souring on Him
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
Trump Gives White Supremacists an Unequivocal Boost
German Lopez / Vox:
It sure looks like Trump's Charlottesville talking points came straight from Fox News
Discussion: ABC News and Wired
Faith Gates / Mediaite:   Shep Smith: We Haven't Yet Found ‘The Very Fine People Protesting With the White Supremacists’
Matt Latimer / Politico:
Time for My Fellow Republicans to Stand Up and Be Counted
Discussion: Washington Post and The Week
New York Times:
Trump Ends C.E.O. Advisory Councils as Main Group Acts to Disband  —  President Trump's main council of top corporate leaders disbanded on Wednesday following the president's controversial remarks in which he equated white nationalist hate groups with the protesters opposing them.
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CNBC:
Top CEOs jump from Trump, disband strategic council of corporate giants  —  Members of President Donald Trump's Strategic and Policy Forum have agreed to disband the group, sources told CNBC, as corporate backlash mounts against the president.  —  The business advisory council …
Kira Lerner / ThinkProgress:   Members of Trump's remaining commissions say they have no plans to resign
Mike Allen / Axios:
Top Trump business group to disband amid Charlottesville tumult
Discussion: Raw Story
CJ Hunt / GQ:
A Charlottesville White Supremacist Stripped Down to Escape Protesters and We Got It on Video  —  I arrived in Charlottesville at sundown on Friday, where I'd come looking for an ending to the documentary I'm making on Confederate monuments.  In two years of covering the debate in New Orleans …
Discussion: The Root
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Baltimore Sun:
Confederate monuments taken down in Baltimore overnight  —  Confederate statues in Baltimore were removed from their bases overnight, as crews using heavy machinery loaded them onto flat bed trucks and hauled them away, an end to more than a year of indecision surrounding what to do with the memorials.
New York Times:
Baltimore Mayor Had Statues Removed in ‘Best Interest of My City’  —  BALTIMORE — It was “in the best interest of my city,” Mayor Catherine Pugh said Wednesday, as she explained why she ordered Confederate monuments removed under the cover of darkness, days after violence broke out during …
Emily Shapiro / ABC News:
Confederate monuments taken down in Baltimore overnight
Discussion: CANNONFIRE and Power Line
Mike Levine / ABC News:
Special counsel's Russia probe loses top FBI investigator  —  One of the FBI's top investigators, tapped by special counsel Robert Mueller just weeks ago to help lead the probe of Russian meddling in last year's presidential election, has left Mueller's team, sources tell ABC News.
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Joe Uchill / The Hill:
High-ranking FBI official leaves Russia probe
Discussion: Raw Story
Courtney Kube / NBC News:
Right-Winger Jack Posobiec, Retweeted by Trump, Is Navy Intel Officer  —  WASHINGTON — A right-wing activist who brought attention to debunked conspiracy theories — and who gained new prominence when he was retweeted by President Donald Trump this week — is a U.S. naval intelligence officer detailed …
Discussion: Raw Story and Politicus USA
CNN:
Trump defiant after outburst and GOP picks up pieces  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)Republican lawmakers and administration aides found themselves again Wednesday weighing the costs and benefits of remaining loyal to President Donald Trump, whose equivocal statements about neo-Nazis …
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Bloomberg:
Trump Drags GOP Onto Dangerous Ground, This Time Over Race
Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
Angry White Boys  —  What do the white nationalists actually want?  —  W  —  hat is it these white boys are so angry about?  —  You don't go to a protest because you're happy.  You go to a protest because you are mad about something or, in my case, because it is your job.
Discussion: Weekly Standard and The Week
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Fox's Abby Huntsman Humiliates Herself as Guests Weep Over ‘Morally Bankrupt’ Trump … What's a Fox & Friends host to do when they desperately want to push President Donald Trump's narrative the “both sides” are to blame for Charlottesville, but their guests want to talk about what's really going on in America right now?
Marist Poll:
8/16: Trump at Lowest Point With 35% Job Approval Rating... Crack at the Base  —  President Donald Trump's job approval rating is at its lowest point since taking office with only 35% of Americans giving him a positive score.  —  President Donald Trump's job approval rating …
Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
Poll: Majority Believes Trump's Response To Charlottesville Hasn't Been Strong Enough  —  A majority of Americans thinks President Trump's response to the violence in Charlottesville was “not strong enough,” according to a NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll.  —  Fifty-two percent of respondents said so …
 
 
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Fox's Shep Smith: We couldn't find a Republican willing to come on and defend Trump
Discussion: The Week
Travis Fedschun / Fox News:
13 accused ‘Columbus Clique’ MS-13 gang members arrested in Ohio, Indiana
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The World's Highest-Paid Actresses 2017: Emma Stone Leads With $26 Million
Discussion: The Guardian, AOL, NBC News and Refinery29
Ben Gray / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
KKK's request to burn cross on Stone Mountain denied
Discussion: The Guardian
Josh Delk / The Hill:
Pence ends international trip early amid Trump controversy
Discussion: ABC News, The Daily Caller and TheBlaze
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Jeff Sessions goes after Chicago in sanctuary cities speech
Discussion: Politico and Shakesville
Amber Randall / The Daily Caller:
Antifa Protesters Crash Heather Heyer's Funeral
 Earlier Items: 
Fox News:
FBI has ‘reopened’ case on search for Lynch-Clinton tarmac meeting records
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
THE FALLOUT: Republicans line up against Trump …
Discussion: The Atlantic
Burlington Free Press:
Pizza chain fires VT worker who joined Charlottesville rally
New York Times:
In Ukraine, a Malware Expert Who Could Blow the Whistle on Russian Hacking