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Vice President Pence Stays Aligned With Trump Despite Other Republicans Distancing Themselves

4:32pm August 16, 2017

by Scott Horsley

Republican lawmakers are quickly trying to distance themselves from President Trump's latest comments on Charlottesville after he seemed to back away from his earlier criticism of white supremacists and neo-Nazis.

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Trump's Comments On White Supremacists Raise Questions

4:32pm August 16, 2017

by Mara Liasson

What did President Trump's return to blaming "both sides" for the violence in Charlottesville, Va., reveal about him and how he approaches the presidency?

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Dreamhost Challenges Department Of Justice Anti-Trump Records Request

4:32pm August 16, 2017

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Dallas Kashuba, co-founder of DreamHost. The company challenged the Department of Justice's demand that DreamHost hand over 1.3 million IP addresses for people who visited an anti-trump protest site.

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Trump Announces End To Manufacturing Council After Multiple CEOs Resign

4:32pm August 16, 2017

by Jim Zarroli

President Trump has ended both his manufacturing council and Strategic and Policy Forum, following the resignations of many CEOs who had served on them. Trump, who had promised to run government like a business, finds himself at odds with business leaders.

Does Trump's Slippery Slope Argument About Confederate Statues Have Merit?

4:32pm August 16, 2017

NPR's Robert Siegal talks with Ilya Somin, a professor of George Mason University, about President Trump's warning that pulling down Confederate statues may lead to a slippery slope in which monuments to the Founding Fathers are torn down.

A woman cleans a Stolperstein, or "stumbling stone," placed in the sidewalk in front of houses where victims of the Holocaust lived before they were deported and killed by the Nazis.

How Charlottesville Looks From Berlin

2:50pm August 16, 2017

by Maggie Penman

An American in Germany writes about the very different way that nation preserves and remembers the shameful parts of its history.

People attend the memorial service for Heather Heyer in Charlottesville, Va., on Wednesday. Heyer was killed on Saturday when a man, identified by police as a neo-Nazi supporter, drove his car into a crowd of people protesting against a white supremacist

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'This Is Just The Beginning Of Heather's Legacy': Mourning And A Call To Action

2:18pm August 16, 2017

by Camila Domonoske

Friends and family remembered the passion of Charlottesville victim Heather Heyer. "Carry Heather's spark," her mother told listeners and mourners. "Find a way to make a difference in the world."

White nationalist Richard Spencer speaks to journalists Monday in Alexandria, Va., just days after three people died amid violence at rallies Spencer attended in Charlottesville, Va.

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University Of Florida Denies Richard Spencer Event, Citing 'Likelihood Of Violence'

1:49pm August 16, 2017

by Colin Dwyer

The school's president said Wednesday it supports free speech. But after the violence in Charlottesville, Va., he said the white nationalist's request to speak prompted "serious concerns for safety."

U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and other female senators were excluded from the Senate leadership health task force this summer.

Often Missing From The Current Health Care Debate: Women's Voices

1:33pm August 16, 2017

When leaders in Washington discuss the future of American health care, women are not always in the room. Here, eight women from around the country share their personal stories, fears and hopes.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announces a special session of the Texas Legislature on June 6. This Tuesday, that special session closed, without the passage of a so-called bathroom bill that Abbott had sought.

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Texas Bathroom Bill Stymied Again As Legislature Ends Special Session

1:32pm August 16, 2017

by Camila Domonoske

Powerful business interests and some Republicans joined Democrats and LGBT activists in opposing an effort to pass a law restricting bathroom access for transgender people.