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Amid C.E.O. Exodus, Trump Disbands Top Business Panels

  • President Trump’s main council of top corporate leaders disbanded after he equated white nationalist hate groups with the protesters opposing them.
  • Soon after, the president announced on Twitter that “rather than putting pressure” on the members, he would end his executive councils.

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Workers removed the Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson monument in Baltimore. Credit Jerry Jackson/The Baltimore Sun, via Associated Press

Baltimore Swiftly Removes Statues at Night

Mayor Catherine Pugh said that given the political climate, it was important to move “quickly and quietly.”

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Fawn Weaver on a farm in Lynchburg, Tenn., where Nearest Green and Jack Daniel first began distilling whiskey together. Credit Nathan Morgan for The New York Times

When Jack Daniel’s Failed to Honor a Slave, an Author Rewrote History

The whiskey maker backed away from a promise to acknowledge its debt to a black distiller — until Fawn Weaver swooped into town and took up the cause.

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