Sen. Scott says Trump's “moral authority is compromised”  —  For more of this interview with Sen. Scott, watch VICE News Tonight on HBO at 7:30 ET.  —  CHARLESTON, South Carolina — President Donald Trump has put his fellow Republican politicians in an awkward position after his Tuesday news conference …

Taney statue removed from Md. state house grounds overnight  —  Workers dismantled a 145-year-old statue of Supreme Court Justice Roger B. Taney outside the Maryland State House shortly after midnight Friday, the latest ripple effect from last weekend's deadly violence at a rally of white supremacists in Charlottesville.

Steve Bannon Detonates His Trump Survival Plan, Worrying Allies  —  “He's saying, 'I'm going to force you to fire me in a public way or we're going to follow the agenda we were elected for,'” an ally said.  —  Allies who spend too long in Donald Trump's doghouse usually get sent away for good.

James Murdoch, Rebuking Trump, Pledges $1 Million to Anti-Defamation League  —  BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — James Murdoch, the chief executive of 21st Century Fox and the son of a frequent ally of President Trump's, condemned the president's performance after the violence in Charlottesville, Va. …

ACLU Will No Longer Defend Hate Groups Protesting With Firearms  —  Executive director says violence and guns at Charlottesville rally spurred new stance  —  The American Civil Liberties Union, taking a tougher stance on armed protests, will no longer defend hate groups seeking to march with firearms …

‘Antifa’ Grows as Left-Wing Faction Set to, Literally, Fight the Far Right  —  OAKLAND, Calif. — Last weekend, when a 27-year-old bike messenger showed up at the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va., he came ready for battle.  He joined a human chain that stretched in front …

Donald Trump's lie about John Pershing is not only ignorant; it's dangerous for the fight against radical Islamic terrorism  —  BAGHDAD — Nothing is quite as bad as the President of the United States equating white supremacists with their enemies and defending statues that glorify the slave-owning Confederacy.

The agonizing, 8-page memo on how to chauffeur a congressman  —  Empty his trash.  Always have hand sanitizer and gum at the ready.  And don't bother with “unnecessary conversation” — the congressman doesn't have time for your chit-chat.  —  Demanding, high-maintenance bosses are notorious on Capitol Hill.

Spanish police stop second attack after 13 killed in Barcelona  —  Spanish police say they have killed five people in the town of Cambrils to stop a second attempted van attack after an earlier one in Barcelona.  —  The attackers were wearing explosive belts, police said.

I Voted for Trump.  And I Sorely Regret It.  —  When Donald Trump first announced his presidential campaign, I, like most people, thought it would be a short-lived publicity stunt.  A month later, though, I happened to catch one of his political rallies on C-Span.  I was riveted.

Three fundraising giants cancel plans for galas at Mar-a-Lago  —  Three fundraising giants decided to pull events from President Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach on Thursday, signaling a direct blowback to his business empire from his comments on Charlottesville's racial unrest.

WikiLeaks Turned Down Leaks on Russian Government During U.S. Presidential Campaign  —  The leak organization ignored damaging information on the Kremlin to focus on Hillary Clinton and election-related hacks.  —  In the summer of 2016, as WikiLeaks was publishing documents …

How to Make Fun of Nazis  —  For decades, Wunsiedel, a German town near the Czech border, has struggled with a parade of unwanted visitors.  It is the birthplace of one of Adolf Hitler's deputies, a man named Rudolf Hess.  And every year, to residents' chagrin, neo-Nazis marched to his grave site there.

Abraham Lincoln monument torched in Chicago: ‘An absolute disgraceful act’  —  Abraham Lincoln has joined George Washington on the list of those targeted by Chicagoans in a national debate over Civil War-era monuments.  —  Alderman Raymond Lopez took to Facebook Wednesday night to decry …

Trump Abandons Plan for Council on Infrastructure  —  President nixes council after ending two other business groups  —  Executives had started to quit after Virginia controversy  —  President Donald Trump will not move forward with a planned Advisory Council on Infrastructure, a person familiar with the matter said Thursday.

White House aides squirm at Trump's rhetoric but stay put  —  National security adviser H.R. McMaster and his deputy, Dina Powell, have been unhappy with Trump's rhetoric on race over the past week, according to a White House official.  But neither of them is considering resigning …

McCaskill, Clay and others call for Mo. senator to resign after post hoping for Trump's assassination  —  With five written words Thursday morning, one of Missouri's most controversial state lawmakers spawned a U.S. Secret Service investigation, potentially endangered her own political career …

Circling the Square of President Trump's Relationship With Race  —  WASHINGTON — Kara Young, a model who dated Donald J. Trump for two years before he married another model named Melania Knauss, remembers clearly bringing up her race with the real estate tycoon early in their relationship.

David Plunkert's “Blowhard”  —  “President Trump's weak pushback to hate groups—as if he was trying not to alienate them as voters—compelled me to take up my pen,” David Plunkert, the artist behind next week's issue, said.  Plunkert seldom takes on political subject matter …