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President Trump is cheering his former chief strategist Steve Bannon's return to leading the influential conservative media outlet Breitbart News after his forced resignation from the White House. Trump tweeted from his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club Saturday that Bannon may be "even better than ever before" in his return to Breitbart. The White House has not said whether President Trump and Bannon have spoken since Bannon was forced to resign from his post Friday as chief strategist. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said the departure, effective Friday, was "mutually agr

BRISTOL, Tenn. — Walk around the sprawling campsites at the Bristol Motor Speedway here in the green hills of Tennessee, and you know you’re deep in Trump country. Cars buzz around this half-mile track, practicing for the night NASCAR races here. National Rifle Association signs are omnipresent, as the track hosts the only race in NAS-CAR’s top circuit with NRA branding. A pop-up city of RVs sprawls outside the speedway, with many displaying spreads of barbecue and booze.

Most popular on BostonGlobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories Many in the crowd at a race said they feel more permission to be outspoken on issues once viewed as sensitive, like race.  The president will speak at 9 tonight at Fort Myer in Arlington, Va.

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Most popular on BostonGlobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories CAPITAL SOURCE The teenagers with the Hyde Square Task Force were the first to discover that TD Garden failed to comply with a 1993 law requiring the arena hold three annual fundraisers.   The prospect set off some angry words from the camp of one of the US Senate candidates.  CAPITAL SOURCE Likely Republican Senate candidate John Kingston has begun staffing up his campaign, adding a former aide to Governor Charlie Baker as a senior adviser.

Most popular on BostonGlobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories Many in the crowd at a race said they feel more permission to be outspoken on issues once viewed as sensitive, like race.  The president will speak at 9 tonight at Fort Myer in Arlington, Va.

Posted at 2:30 pm on August 19, 2017 by Susan Wright Want to dispel the rumor that the original intent of the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville was not to be a gathering of white nationalists and Nazis? This probably isn’t the way. On Friday night, Jason Kessler, the organizer of the Charlottesville rally, tweeted out a disgusting hit on Heather Heyer, the 32-year old woman kille

Posted at 5:59 pm on August 19, 2017 by Jim Jamitis Good grief. Can we stop with all the political personality cult nonsense already? As if turning Barack Obama and Joe Biden into crime fighting heroes weren’t bad enough, the pajama-boy creator also wants to work Neil Degrasse Tyson into the story. Why not Bill Nye the fake scientist guy too?

Posted at 6:53 pm on August 19, 2017 by streiff Image by Brandon Grasley, via Flickr Creative Commons, https://www.flickr.com/photos/brandongrasley/ License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ Apparently, a lot of people woke up last week end and were shocked to discover that there were a handful of people in this land of 300+ million who fantasize about wearing racially superior and dig on Nazi paraphernalia.

Posted at 8:23 pm on August 19, 2017 by streiff Caricature by DonkeyHotey flic.kr/p/Ct4G4K https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The remarks of President Trump following the violence in Charlottesville, VA, last weekend has exposed a lot of very interesting fault lines between what newsrooms think is important and what is perceived as important by voters. Josh Kraushaar of National Journal sets it up this way: I posted earlier in the week on a poll that showed over