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| Good evening. Here's the latest. |
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| 1. Steve Bannon is out at the White House. |
| As President Trump's chief strategist, Mr. Bannon, above right, helped craft the hard-right populist message that won the 2016 election. But he had clashed for months with other senior advisers. After the violence in Charlottesville, Va., his many critics bore down. |
| Mr. Bannon's dismissal also followed an interview on Wednesday in which he mockingly played down the U.S. military threat to North Korea and criticized his colleagues. The White House press secretary said his departure was "mutually agreed." |
| Mr. Bannon has already returned to Breitbart News, the right-wing website that propelled him to national fame. Here are the top officials who have left the Trump White House. |
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| 2. The terrorist attacks that killed at least 14 people in Spain appear to be a sophisticated and far-reaching plot that could have been much worse. |
| The Spanish police said the attacks, the first in Barcelona and a second episode in which five men in a car hit people in the seaside resort town of Cambrils, may have been hatched in a house that the plotters were using as a bomb factory. At least four suspects were arrested, and the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the Barcelona assault. |
| Here's what we know about the attacks, and our Interpreter column examines the effects on society if anything — even something as ubiquitous as a car — can be used as a weapon. |
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| 3. "Whether he intended to or not, what he communicated caused racists to rejoice, minorities to weep, and the vast heart of America to mourn." |
| That was Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential nominee in 2012, using some of the strongest language yet from a Republican to criticize President Trump for his response to the violence in Charlottesville, Va. |
| And the mother of the woman who was killed by a car during the clashes there, Susan Bro, above, said that after seeing Mr. Trump's comments, she does not wish to speak with him. |
| The events of last weekend brought scrutiny to a controversial force known as antifa — a contraction of "anti-fascist." These are the loosely affiliated activists who have surfaced around the U.S. to scuffle with white supremacists, right-wing extremists and, in some cases, ordinary Trump supporters. |
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| 4. James Murdoch, the chief executive of 21st Century Fox, became the latest executive to condemn President Trump's performance after the violence in Charlottesville. Mr. Murdoch, above, also pledged to donate $1 million to the Anti-Defamation League. |
| Mr. Murdoch's father is Rupert Murdoch, the conservative media mogul behind Fox News who has become an informal adviser to Mr. Trump. |
| And our media columnist writes that Charlottesville forced the ever-expanding media universe to face a question it has been evading for years: Where's the line? |
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| 5. Meet George Guidall, the undisputed king of audiobooks. |
| Mr. Guidall's rich baritone has been called the voice of choice for more than 1,300 pieces of literature, including "Crime and Punishment," "The Corrections" and plenty of Stephen King novels. |
| Sometimes a book has a half-dozen characters on the same page, and he must give each a distinctive vocal identity, including the women. |
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| 6. We profiled two exciting innovators, each from a starkly different cultural arena. |
| Jinder Mahal, a Canadian, is the first World Wrestling Entertainment champion of Indian descent. He's now helping the W.W.E. pin down India's massive market potential, even if he has to portray a pro-immigration "bad guy" to do it. |
| And our T Magazine goes inside the strange, beautiful world of Jun Takahashi, the theatrical designer who we call the sorcerer of fashion. |
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| 7. When news broke that North Korea was considering an attack on Guam, media outlets broke out maps and explainers on the Pacific Island's basic details. |
| The island is 30 miles long, with a population of about 160,000, and has been a U.S. territory since 1898. |
| Our Travel team has more: Travelers should consider a visit to Guam, above, for its history, its beauty and its barbecue. |
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| 8. The new release "Lucky Logan" is Steven Soderbergh's first feature film in over four years. Our movie critic called it a "gravity-defying, ridiculously entertaining" modern-day Robin Hood tale. |
| Before his hiatus, Mr. Soderbergh was one of cinema's most versatile filmmakers. Here are 10 of his films to stream this weekend, including "Ocean's Eleven," above. |
| If there's more time to watch TV, we have some recommendations: a crazy reality game show, a really good stand-up special, and a Canadian drama titled "Mary Kills People." |
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| 9. If you want a break from TV, here are 10 books we recommend. |
| And rediscover the thrill of children's books with "Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children's Literature as an Adult" by Bruce Handy. His chapter about Theodor Geisel — a.k.a. Dr. Seuss — describes the author's books as a blend of "imagination, humor, rhyme, rigor, silliness, aggression and chaos theory." |
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| 10. Finally, a total solar eclipse will span the continental U.S. on Monday for the first time in nearly a century. Even for the most jaded skygazers, these events can provoke a visceral sense of wonder. |
| Here's everything you need to know, including how to be safe and how ancient civilizations understood eclipses. The Lacandón people of Mexico, for example, expected that the earth would split and that jaguars would emerge "and eat most of the people." |
| Have a great weekend. |
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