The president’s predecessors, going back to George Washington, have all tried, with varying degrees of success, to summon Americans to a higher moral purpose. When President Trump refused to unequivocally denounce white supremacists on Tuesday, he stepped away from what U.S. presidents have seen as crucial to their job: setting a moral course for the nation. State and local officials are grappling, again, with the fates of Confederate monuments, reviving the outrage that followed the church massacre in 2015 in Charleston, S.C. African-Americans contemplate race in the aftermath of the violence in Charlottesville, Va. At a memorial service, Ms. Heyer was remembered for a quality described as her most frustrating, and most admired — a passion for fighting injustice. The email, forwarded to journalists, cites “no difference” between Robert E. Lee and George Washington. It claims Black Lives Matter is infiltrated by terrorists. The president’s response to the Charlottesville violence has drawn starkly different reactions between his core supporters and party leaders who fear political oblivion. Eboni K. Williams, a Fox host, strongly criticized the president’s remarks. She said the network expressed no concern. Gary D. Cohn, Steven Mnuchin and Jared Kushner have not commented publicly, though Mr. Cohn was described by those close to him as disgusted with the remarks. The president announced that he would dissolve two councils of business leaders after a decision by the members of his Strategic and Policy Forum to disband. A growing chorus of executives on the President Trump’s business advisory councils have distanced themselves from the president. Here’s what they had to say. Doug McMillon, Walmart’s chief executive, rebuked Mr. Trump over his response to the Charlottesville violence. Walmart shoppers were split over whether that was right. For the first time, an actual witness has emerged in the election hacking, and he has been interviewed by the F.B.I. Steve Bannon once said it was the platform for the alt-right. Its current editors disagree. Is the incendiary media company at the nerve center of Donald Trump’s America simply provocative — or dangerous? A Texas version of a North Carolina-style bill to restrict transgender bathroom use failed to pass the Legislature during a contentious special session. With an eye to the next elections, the former aides want to find and register “disaffected” rural and working-class Americans to vote. A growing number of officials see a need to adjust the central bank’s assumptions on the economy, according to an account of the latest policy meeting. The president had said he fired the F.B.I. director in part because agents had lost confidence in him, but agents gave him high marks for leadership. Microsoft is building an autonomous glider guided by artificial intelligence, part of an effort to help machines make decisions when faced with uncertainty. Microsoft is building gliders that adapt to surprises. The goal is to teach autonomous vehicles of all sorts to deal with uncertainty the way humans do. In “Wolf Warrior 2,” China’s top-grossing movie yet, a red-tinged Rambo named Leng Feng takes on a swaggering American soldier of fortune. Mayor de Blasio ran on a platform of ending income inequality, and had no natural kinship to Wall Street. Four years later, little has changed. Ruminating on a storied German opera festival’s troubled past, only to learn at intermission that Nazi sympathizers were on the march back home. A comedian filed a defamation lawsuit against the white supremacist website, which briefly returned from exile with a Russian domain name. Dr. Diamond, a neuroscientist, challenged the long-held assumption that the brain is a static and unchangeable entity and examined Albert Einstein’s. The Trump administration opened talks with Canada and Mexico on the North American Free Trade Agreement by asserting that the current deal had failed. The woman, who was identified only as Robin, said that the film director “sexually victimized” her in 1973, when she was 16. The tweet paired a quote from Nelson Mandela’s autobiography with a picture of Mr. Obama smiling up at a diverse group of children. The longtime aide will temporarily fill the spot left by Anthony Scaramucci and help the president find a replacement, an administration official said. Research that studied semen samples from nearly 43,000 men from 50 countries detected a sharp downward trend that is provoking broad health concerns. Mr. Moore has made President Trump the target of his ire in a Broadway show. On Tuesday, he bused his audience to Mr. Trump’s door. 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