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Donald Trump took another stab at talking about white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, which included the car-ramming death of a 32-year-old counter-protester—a killing the U.S. attorney general and national security advisor called “domestic terrorism.” Over the weekend, the president triggered a firestorm when he offered that “many sides” were to blame for the melee, without directly condemning racist groups. In his follow-up statement Monday, he denounced the organizations and called racism “evil.” David E. Rovella

 

Trump called out white supremacists for their role in the deadly events, seeking to counter a backlash against his initial failure to directly hold hate groups accountable. On Monday, he declared racism “evil” and assailed the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, and other racist organizations for promoting bigotry and violence that led to one death and numerous injuries. Alex Fields Jr., 20, was charged with second-degree murder in the death of Heather Heyer, a paralegal who was protesting against the supremacist groups when she was run down in the street by speeding Dodge Charger.

 
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Merck & Co.’s CEO Kenneth Frazier became the latest executive to cross Trump when he quit a business council run by the White House, drawing an immediate rebuke-tweet from the president. Kenneth Frazier, the top executive at the New Jersey-based drugmaker, said “as a matter of personal conscience, I feel a responsibility to take a stand against intolerance and extremism.” Frazier is black, a rarity for CEOs of large U.S. corporations. The president responded on Twitter, saying “Now that Ken Frazier of Merck Pharma has resigned from President's Manufacturing Council,he will have more time to LOWER RIPOFF DRUG PRICES!”

 

Only one thing can stop North Korea, and that’s a lack of oil. But for all the humanitarian and economic pain, new sanctions aren’t likely to deter Kim Jong Un from his ambition of developing an arsenal of nuclear-tipped missiles. Kim has a web of illicit channels to skirt sanctions and the new curbs leave out the vital ingredient of oil.

 

How do you get a perfect credit score? Well you can’t really cheat, but you can game the system. Some credit-rating obsessives gave us tips on how best to get your personal best as close to that golden number as possible. As bad marks from the Great Recession start to fall off credit reports, more Americans than ever find themselves closer to that all-important 850.

 

Bitcoin soared past $4,000 for the first time as markets grew more optimistic that faster transaction times will hasten the spread of the cryptocurrency. The largest digital tender jumped to a peak of $4,298 Monday, a gain of almost 20 percent since Friday, after a plan to quicken trade execution by moving some data off the main network was activated last week.

 

There’s just one American baseball glove maker left, and it’s in Texas. It might be America’s favorite pastime, and few things are more personal to baseball-lovers than their first glove, but most gloves are stitched together thousands of miles away by people who couldn’t afford a ticket at Fenway Park. One company didn’t get the memo.

 
 
 

Whites, rosés, reds, and bubblies

The wine-in-a-can revolution began its ascent in 2004 when Francis Ford Coppola introduced Sofia Blanc de Blanc, a gift to his daughter which also came with an attached straw. As of last summer, sales of canned wine were as much as $14.5 million, more than doubling that of the previous year. Even millennials say they like cans—as long as they have large, bright graphics. We taste-tested 10 canned wines so you wouldn't have to.

 

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