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Photo President Trump speaking to reporters in the lobby of Trump Tower in Manhattan on Tuesday. Talking about the removal of Confederate monuments, he said, I wonder, is it George Washington next week? Early this morning, the city of Baltimore took down several Confederate monuments. Credit Al Drago for The New York Times

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White supremacists rejoice.

Thank you President Trump for your honesty & courage to tell the truth, David Duke, a former Ku Klux Klan leader, said on Twitter on Tuesday.

Trumps statement was fair and down to earth, tweeted another white nationalist leader who participated in last weekends demonstrations in Charlottesville, Va.

Their remarks came after a wild shouting match of a news conference during which the president again blamed both sides for the deadly violence, equating activists protesting racism with neo-Nazis and white supremacists. (Read and watch Mr. Trumps comments here.)

What about the alt-left? he asked. Heres an answer.

After adopting a unifying tone on Monday, saying that racism is evil, the president reverted to a more familiar Trump approach on Tuesday, our White House correspondents write.

Costs of letting the health law fail.

President Trump has threatened to end some subsidies to insurance companies as part of a strategy to let Obamacare implode. We looked at what would happen if he did.

Premiums for the most popular insurance plans would shoot up 20 percent next year, and the federal budget deficit would increase $194 billion in the coming decade, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said on Tuesday.

G.O.P. runoff in Alabama primary.

Roy Moore, a former chief justice of the State Supreme Court, will face Senator Luther Strange, who was appointed to fill the seat vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions and who is backed by President Trump.

The Republican runoff is Sept. 26.

A city turned to mud.

Rain in Freetown, Sierra Leone, caused mudslides that killed hundreds and left many more missing or homeless.

The Daily, your audio news report.

On todays show, we discuss President Trumps tense news conference on Tuesday.

Listen on a computer, an iOS device or an Android device.

A ceiling-fan manufacturer in Lexington, Ky., offers proof that obituaries for American manufacturing are premature.

But as the Trump administration begins renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement, company executives worry about potential new impediments to trade.

Airlines have a dress code, of sorts. Dressing up could increase your chances of an upgrade.

U.S. stocks were mixed on Tuesday. Heres a snapshot of global markets.

Tips, both new and old, for a more fulfilling life.

Maybe you dont need iodized salt.

Recipe of the day: If you have a pressure cooker, put it to work with this excellent black bean soup.

Can algorithms fly a plane?

In todays 360 video, take to the skies with a glider, built by Microsoft, that is guided by artificial intelligence.

Microsoft is building an autonomous glider guided by artificial intelligence, part of an effort to help machines make decisions when faced with uncertainty.

Bhutan holds its breath.

China and India the worlds two most populous nations have taken their battle for regional dominance to the remote kingdom of Bhutan, evoking memories of their bloody conflict in 1962.

There are fears that ambition and nationalism could lead them to war again, but with more firepower at their disposal.

A whiskey crusade.

When Jack Daniels backed away from a pledge to recognize the Tennessee slave who had taught its founder to distill, a writer came to town and took up the cause.

Roaming horses versus modernity.

Since medieval times, the people of Galicia, in northwestern Spain, have ritually rounded up the horses that roam in the wild.

But like many traditions, the roundup is colliding with modern rules and sensibilities. Animal rights activists say the ritual mistreats horses.

Modern society is losing a way of life that has kept us and animals in harmony, one rancher told our correspondent.

Have you seen this?

Eight little cultural touchstones including a TV scene, a building, a pizza and a painting worth your time.

Best of late-night TV.

Looking to England, Jimmy Kimmel suggested a new title for President Trump: king.

Quotation of the day.

After all, its not what the president thinks or says America is bigger than that, greater than that.

Hani Ali, 35, an accountant from Sudan who was sworn in as an American citizen on Tuesday in Manhattan.

On this day in 1930, a dancing frog set a new standard in animation.

Fiddlesticks, featuring Flip the Frog, was a stand-alone cartoon with synchronized sound. (Watch it here.)

Music was already widely used to accompany animations; some of the more laborious animations were even in color. And there had been steps toward combining the two features.

In Germany, Lotte Reinigers character silhouettes of the 1920s used changing background colors to create atmospheric scenes. In the U.S., King of Jazz in 1930 featured a short color animation with synchronized sound.

In Fiddlesticks, Flip the Frog tap-dances his way through a world of merry animals, but then is moved to tears as he plays the piano alongside a violin-playing rodent that resembles Mickey Mouse.

The animation was released by Ub Iwerks, who had helped produce Mickey Mouse, shortly after he left Walt Disneys growing enterprise. The Flip franchise ended in 1933, and Mr. Iwerks returned to work at Disney.

But he never stopped innovating.

His obituary noted that he invented a panoramic camera arrangement. Imagine his excitement if he could see todays 360-degree cartoons.

Patrick Boehler contributed reporting.

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