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• The Latest: Young Australian boy missing after van attack

  Top Headlines Aug 18, 2017 | 23:27 pm
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• Amid Trump backlash, his U.N. envoy says stand up, isolate hate

  Reuters: U.S. Aug 18, 2017 | 22:51 pm

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley told staff in an email - seen by Reuters on Friday - that everyone must stand up and condemn hate, as President Donald Trump faces a backlash for his[…]

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• Tucker Carlson skewers the media’s hypocrisy on Stephen Bannon

  TheBlaze Aug 18, 2017 | 22:39 pm

  Tucker Carlson assailed the media for their obsession with race and identity, and the hypocrisy they had in labelling Bannon a bigot and a racist.…

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• Mayor says Lee statue must go as debate over U.S. slave past rages

  Reuters: U.S. Aug 18, 2017 | 22:21 pm

  RICHMOND, Va. (Reuters) - The mayor of Charlottesville called on Friday for a special session of Virginia's legislature to let localities decide the fate of Confederate monuments like the statue at the center of a far-right rally last week that[…]

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• Soothing the nation? Trump struggles like no other president

  Top Headlines Aug 18, 2017 | 21:34 pm
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• Roadblocks, weapons bans as Boston braces for 'Free Speech' rally

  Reuters: U.S. Aug 18, 2017 | 21:25 pm

  BOSTON (Reuters) - Boston officials are planning road blockades and even banning food vendors from the historic Boston Common as they step up security around a "Free Speech" rally on Saturday featuring right-wing speakers, aiming to avoid a repeat of[…]

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• Trump ousts Bannon, his influential, divisive strategist

  Top Headlines Aug 18, 2017 | 21:12 pm
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• ‘This is going to be really a bloody affair’: Krauthammer on Bannon

  TheBlaze Aug 18, 2017 | 20:47 pm

  Conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer said that Stephen Bannon’s dismissal from the White House makes him “immensely” more powerful, and that his next steps at Breitbart…

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• Icahn steps down as unofficial Trump adviser

  Top Headlines Aug 18, 2017 | 20:25 pm
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• Trump-themed store in Arizona is vandalized with outrageous graffiti

  TheBlaze Aug 18, 2017 | 20:15 pm

  A Trump-themed merchandise store in Show Low, Arizona was vandalized Wednesday night. When owners of “The Trumped Store” showed up to work Thursday morning, they…

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• In jarring interview, Bannon declares Trump presidency over, readies for war

  TheBlaze Aug 18, 2017 | 19:49 pm

  Just hours after being fired from his position as White House senior advisor Friday, Stephen Bannon declared the Trump presidency over, and said that he…

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• Spanish plan for carnage started with botched explosion

  Top Headlines Aug 18, 2017 | 19:42 pm
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• Ann Coulter: Trump is manipulable by the media, just look at Bannon firing

  TheBlaze Aug 18, 2017 | 19:25 pm

  Conservative columnist and provocateur Ann Coulter on Friday said the media is to blame for White House strategist Steve Bannon’s firing. Coulter took to Twitter…

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• What's in a name? Virginia school enters Confederate symbols battle

  Reuters: U.S. Aug 18, 2017 | 17:35 pm

  MANASSAS, Va. (Reuters) - In the northern Virginia county where Confederate general Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson earned his famous moniker, a battle has begun to remove his name from the local high school where it appears in large white letters on[…]

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• California mass killer spared death penalty over prosecutor misconduct

  Reuters: U.S. Aug 18, 2017 | 16:37 pm

  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A California man convicted of the worst mass killing in Orange County history was spared the death penalty on Friday after a judge found that serious misconduct by prosecutors had violated his rights to a fair[…]

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