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Presidential adviser Jared Kushner met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv to discuss peace negotiations. CNN's Oren Liebermann reports.

Officials in Charlottesville, Virginia, have found black fabric big enough to shroud two controversial Confederate statues -- and the covers could be in place by week's end, the City Council clerk said.

New deregulations and study cancellations are adding to a long list of environmentalist concerns that the Trump administration is putting science on the back burner.

He flouted the Constitution. He disobeyed court orders. And then he bragged about it.

Morning news briefing from CNN on Thursday, August 24.

When President Donald Trump's aides said he wouldn't discuss a pardon of controversial Sheriff Joe Arpaio, he did it anyway. When they warned him against lashing Arizona's Republican senators by name, he made snide allusions to them instead. And when they insisted his statements about white supremacist violence required a re-do, he declared he was right the first time. 

Blame President Trump for his tepid moral response. Call the neo-Nazis and white nationalists thugs. Fill your Facebook and Twitter accounts with moral outrage.

Steven Holmes writes that the relative lack of statues of Longstreet, who favored Reconstruction after the Civil War, shows that Confederate history is seen through a political lens

Following President Donald Trump's speech in Arizona on Tuesday, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper on CNN voiced concerns about Trump's mental stability, particularly in relation to his access to the US nuclear arsenal. "The whole system is built to ensure rapid response if necessary," Clapper said. "So there's very little in the way of controls over exercising a nuclear option, which is pretty damn scary."