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Adrian Carrasquillo / BuzzFeed:
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.
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Jason Brad Berry / Shareblue:
Steve Bannon's porn and meth house: “You have no idea what kind of evil stuff went on”  —  When award-winning underwater cinematographer Lawrence Curtis moved into the lush Coconut Grove neighborhood of Miami, he had no idea the house he was renting would become a national story.
Discussion: CANNONFIRE and Raw Story

BBC:
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.
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Now you can see what Donald Trump sees every time he opens Twitter  —  For all of the work John Kelly has put into his new role as White House chief of staff, instituting new limits on whom President Trump speaks with and what information he sees, Trump has an escape hatch: his phone.
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Jeremy Herb / CNN:
Corker: Trump hasn't demonstrated the stability or competence to be successful  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)Sen. Bob Corker slammed President Donald Trump's handling of the racially motivated protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, charging that the President “has not demonstrated he understands the character of this nation.”

Shawna Thomas / Vice News:
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 …
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New York Times:
Defiant, Trump Laments Assault on Culture and Revives a Bogus Pershing Story  —  WASHINGTON — Despite ongoing rebukes over his defense of white supremacists, President Trump defiantly returned to his campaign's nativist themes on Thursday.  He lamented an assault on American “culture,” …

Mark Niquette / Bloomberg:
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.
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Julius Krein / New York Times:
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.
Jenna McLaughlin / Foreign Policy:
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 …

Kevin McDermott / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
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 …
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New York Times:
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.
Discussion: The Root

Joanne Kaufman / New York Times:
Bubble Tea Purveyors Continue to Grow Along With Drink's Popularity  —  Editors' note: An earlier version of this article prompted criticism by readers and we have since revised the article in response.  We have discussed the concerns in further detail here.
Discussion: Eater NY - All and Refinery29
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
James Murdoch Pledges $1 Million to Anti-Defamation League as Trump Protest  —  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. …
Fox News:
Wasserman Schultz' ex-IT aide indicted on 4 counts  —  Imran Awan, a former IT aide for Democratic Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, was indicted Thursday on four counts including bank fraud and making false statements.  —  The indictment also includes his wife Hina Alvi.

Faith Gates / Mediaite:
CNN's Angela Rye: Statues of Washington, Jefferson and Lee ‘All Need to Come Down’  —  It's happening just as Donald Trump predicted.  He said in a press conference Monday that if a confederate statue of Robert E. Lee comes down, what's next?  Statues of George Washington because he was a slave owner?
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Washington Times:
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 …

Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump's Confederacy fight threatens GOP agenda in Congress  —  Senior Republicans on Capitol Hill fear President Donald Trump's eagerness to fight a Confederate-tinged culture war and his attacks on fellow Republicans are squandering precious political capital and imperiling their agenda in Congress.
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Michael Silverman / Boston Herald:
John Henry says Red Sox will lead effort to change name of Yawkey Way  —  The Red Sox have had enough.  —  At a moment when racial tensions have escalated rapidly and the removal of Confederate statues acts as a flashpoint for violent and racially divisive protests, the Red Sox are ready …
Discussion: The Big Lead, CBS Boston and TheBlaze
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Longtime Trump business partner ‘told family he knows he and POTUS are going to prison’: report  —  Felix Sater, one of Donald Trump's shadiest former business partners, is reportedly preparing for prison time — and he says the president will be joining him behind bars.
Discussion: Washington Journal and Spectator
Tarini Parti / BuzzFeed:
Democrats Are Preparing To Run Against Mike Pence In 2020  —  A Democratic group has resources and staff dedicated to targeting Pence.  The initial research they've pitched to reporters confirms their strategy is to tie him to Trump as much as possible.  —  Reporting From Washington, DC
Discussion: Washington Free Beacon and AOL
Economist:
Donald Trump has no grasp of what it means to be president  —  U-turns, self-regard and equivocation are not what it takes  —  DEFENDERS of President Donald Trump offer two arguments in his favour—that he is a businessman who will curb the excesses of the state; and that he will help America …
Matthew Chapman / Shareblue:
GOP senator accuses mom worried about her kids' insurance of being a paid fake activist  —  The Republican Party is still reeling from the backlash of their disastrous plan to strip low-income people of health insurance, which came under fire for being written behind closed doors with no input from constituents.
Discussion: IJR
Max Boot / New York Daily News:
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.
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Neil Gorsuch Speech at Trump Hotel Raises Ethical Questions  —  WASHINGTON — Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, President Trump's Supreme Court appointee, is scheduled to address a conservative group at the Trump International Hotel in Washington next month, less than two weeks before the court is set to hear arguments on Mr. Trump's travel ban.
Discussion: Daily Kos and IJR
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