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Steve Bannon Called 'American Prospect' To Talk About Politics
NPR
The White House chief strategist rarely talks to the media, but he called a co-founder of the progressive website The American Prospect. Rachel Martin talks to Robert Kuttner about the discussion. Facebook; Twitter; Google+; Email ...

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Tim Cook announces $2 million in donations after Charlottesville: report
The Hill
Apple CEO Tim Cook condemned racism in a letter to Apple employees Wednesday, announcing donations to civil rights advocacy organizations and pushing back on President Trump's “both sides” argument on the Charlottesville rally. “Hate is a cancer, and ...
Apple CEO Tim Cook blasts Trump's response to Charlottesville, pledges $2 million to anti-hate organizationsWashington Post
Apple's Cook says he disagrees with Trump, vows donations to rights groupsBusiness Insider
Apple CEO Tim Cook Shares Tech Giant's Plan to Fight Racism after Trump's Charlottesville RemarksNewsweek
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South Korea's Moon pledges there will be 'no war on Korean peninsula'
CNN
(CNN) South Korean President Moon Jae-in has said US and South Korean policies are aligned on North Korea and promised there "will be no war on the Korean peninsula ever again." Moon, who took office in May, held a news conference Thursday to mark ...
US: War would be 'horrific' but NKorea nukes 'unimaginable'ABC News
US General Says Trump Has Final Say on Unilateral Korea StrikeBloomberg
S.Korea's Moon says N.Korean nuclear-tipped ICBM is a "red line"Reuters
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Trump's crisis spurs talk of White House departures
Reuters
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's turnabout on the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia has rocked his administration, leading to rising speculation that some top officials may be looking for a way out. A parade of business ...
It is indefensible for Republicans to stick with TrumpWashington Post
White House aides wrestle with Trump's race commentsPolitico

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Trump Lawyer Forwards Email Echoing Secessionist Rhetoric
New York Times
WASHINGTON — President Trump's personal lawyer on Wednesday forwarded an email to conservative journalists, government officials and friends that echoed secessionist Civil War propaganda and declared that the group Black Lives Matter “has been ...
President's lawyer jumps into racial controversy by forwarding inflammatory emailWashington Post
Report: Trump lawyer sends email touting Robert E. Lee, warning of 'terrorist' infiltration of Black Lives MatterCNN
Trump Lawyer Forwards Email Comparing Robert E. Lee to George WashingtonU.S. News & World Report
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CEOs Long Avoided Politics. Trump Is Changing the Calculus.
New York Times
President Trump's business councils have disbanded over his remarks on white supremacists. Credit Stephen Crowley/The New York Times. The bar for a chief executive of a public corporation to repudiate a United States president is extraordinarily high.

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OnPolitics Today: American CEOs dump Trump after Charlottesville defense
USA TODAY
Apparently defending allies of white supremacists is bad for business? After President Trump claimed that "very fine" people sided with neo-Nazis amid Charlottesville's deadly clash, the CEOs who once pledged to help continued jumping ship. Campbell ...

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Stone Mountain and the bargaining behind Southern history
MyAJC
An empty pedestal remains where a statue of Roger B. Taney, former Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and majority author of the Dred Scott decision, once was before city workers removed the statue on Wednesday in Baltimore, Md. Mark Wilson/Getty ...
KKK's request to burn cross on Stone Mountain deniedKIRO Seattle
Application to hold cross burning atop Stone Mountain deniedClay Center Dispatch

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An off-the-cuff remark by Trump may have helped Venezuela's slide 'into dictatorship'
Business Insider
Donald Trump President Donald Trump boards Air Force One for travel to New Jersey from Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, August 4, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst. Within hours of President Donald Trump's assertion the US had a "military option" in ...
What to Do With Venezuela?The Atlantic
Florida bans future investments in Maduro's VenezuelaWashington Post
There will be no Florida investment in Venezuela, governor and Cabinet affirmMiami Herald
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