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Good evening. Here’s the latest.
1. President Trump defended his weekend remarks over the protests in Charlottesville, laying “blame on both sides” for the violence that ended in the death of a woman after a car crashed into a crowd.
In a long and combative exchange with reporters at Trump Tower in New York, Mr. Trump criticized “alt-left” groups for being “very, very violent” in confronting Nazi groups in the small Virginia town. Protests over the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue brought white nationalists from around the country.
“This week, it is Robert E. Lee and this week, Stonewall Jackson. Is it George Washington next? You have to ask yourself, where does it stop?” Mr. Trump said during a news conference on his infrastructure plan.
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2. The president “missed a critical opportunity to help bring our country together.”
That was Walmart’s chief executive, Doug McMillon, above, who joined other corporate leaders who have come forward to rebuke President Trump for blaming “many sides” for the violence in Virginia.
A seat on the presidential advisory council is normally a coveted position. But as Mr. Trump continues to lash out at critics, the chief executives are facing questions about standing by the marred administration.
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3. If President Trump makes good on his promise to “let Obamacare implode, ” premiums would rise by as much as 20 percent, the Congressional Budget Office said.
Mr. Trump’s threat to cut subsidies, which are paid to insurance companies for the benefit of low-income people, would also increase the deficit by $194 billion in the coming decade.
“About 5 percent of people live in areas that would have no insurers” in the individual insurance market in 2018, according to the budget office.
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4. President Moon Jae-in of South Korea issued a blunt rebuke to the United States, the latest sign that President Trump’s “fire-and-fury” approach to North Korea was putting new strain on the longstanding alliance.
“No one should be allowed to decide on a military action on the Korean Peninsula without South Korean agreement, ” Mr.
