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Trump: boycott of Equinox and SoulCycle only makes owner Stephen Ross ‘hotter’ – live

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President speaks amid protests against two fitness companies over Ross’s involvement with Trump campaign

Walmart has sent a memo to its stores asking them to take “immediate action” to remove signing and displays that “contain violent themes or aggressive behavior.”

“We’ve taken this action out of respect for the incidents of the past week, and this action does not reflect a long-term change in our video game assortment,” a Walmart spokesperson said in a statement.

Apparently Walmart is telling its employees to take down displays that show violent video games, specifically shooters, as well as movies and hunting videos. pic.twitter.com/2N3t4B86tf

Twitter has unlocked an account connected to Mitch McConnell’s campaign, which was frozen after it tweeted a video of a protest outside the Senate majority leader’s Kentucky home.

Twitter initially said the video violated its rules about violent threats, but the social media giant said in a statement that it has reviewed the case further.

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Trump arrives in El Paso as hundreds of people protest his visit – live updates

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Beto O’Rourke has said that Donald Trump is a white supremacist.

The former El Paso representative earlier spoke at a rally protesting the president’s visit.

Donald Trump has been very clear about who he wants to keep out of this country — with walls and cages and militarization and torture and cruelty. We in El Paso have borne the brunt of that, but we in El Paso are standing up to that. https://t.co/nEdgJvfwwy

Trump just posted photos from his visit to a hospital in Dayton, where the press pool was not allowed because it was “not a photo op”

White House @presssec says reporters were not included in Dayton hospital visit "because the visit was not 'a photo opp’" https://t.co/LKkI3bOkm5

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Trump says he is concerned by ‘white supremacy and antifa’ – video

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Speaking to reporters at the White House, Donald Trump said he was 'concerned about the rise of any group of hate' and referred to white supremacists and anti-fascist activists. The US president was leaving to travel to Dayton and El Paso to meet with first responders, families and victims of the recent shootings when he said: 'Whether it’s any group or kind of hate ... I am concerned about it and I’ll do something about it'

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‘He’s not welcome here’: Trump faces backlash over Ohio and Texas visits – video report

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Donald Trump will receive a frosty reception when he arrives in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, on Wednesday afternoon, three days after the cities were struck by mass shootings. A gunman who invoked the language of white supremacy killed 22 people when he attacked an El Paso Walmart. Local politicians have linked the shooting to Trump's rhetoric about immigrants. The president could also face protests in Dayton, where another gunman killed nine, over his failure to change gun control legislation.

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Trump to visit El Paso and Dayton despite backlash from local officials

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El Paso congresswoman warns Trump is not welcome as Dayton mayor encourages protests

Donald Trump is likely to receive a cool reception, at best, when he touches down in El Paso, Texas, on Wednesday, three days after a 21-year-old gunman who invoked the language of white supremacy killed 22 people and wounded 24 more in a suburban Walmart superstore there.

The president could also face protests in Dayton, Ohio, the location of the second of two mass shootings at the weekend, where nine were killed by a man who investigators said on Tuesday explored violent ideologies.

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FBI says Dayton gunman who killed nine explored ‘violent ideologies’ – live

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Venezuela’s U.N. ambassador is accusing the Trump administration of trying to start a war by sabotaging talks between president Nicholas Maduro and his opposition, as the Trump administration’s national security adviser John Bolton doubled down on his view that “Maduro has to go,” according to the Associated Press.

Addressing a summit on Venezuela’s crisis in Peru’s capital, Lima, Bolton pronounced Maduro’s “dying regime” doomed – even though a seven-month US-backed campaign has so far failed to topple Hugo Chávez’s authoritarian successor.

Bolton claimed Donald Trump’s latest moves – which will also see those who do business with Maduro’s government sanctioned – would help end “Maduro’s tyrannical reign”.

Related: 'It will not work': experts question Venezuela sanctions as Bolton touts them

Two members of Congress have sent a letter to the National Archives seeking records related to the supreme court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

“In the coming year, the supreme court will again address important matters regarding civil rights, criminal justice, and immigration,” reads the letter, authored by the New York congressman and House judiciary committee chairman Jerrold Nadler and the Georgia congressman Hank Johnson.

Related: Judicial council tosses misconduct claims against Brett Kavanaugh

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New York Times changes front-page Trump headline after backlash

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Original headline read ‘Trump urges unity vs racism’ – prompting accusations that newspaper was feeding president’s narrative

The New York Times was forced to change its front-page headline for Tuesday’s newspaper amid an intense backlash over its portrayal of Donald Trump’s statement on the twin mass shootings that left 31 people dead.

The original headline read “TRUMP URGES UNITY VS RACISM”. Many people complained that the wording fed Trump’s claims that those who criticised his persistent anti-immigrant rhetoric – some of which was parroted in the El Paso gunman’s alleged manifesto – were playing politics.

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Republican who blamed shootings on gay marriage urged to resign

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Ohio state representative’s screed against cannabis and liberal ‘snowflakes’ goes too far even for her own party

A Republican state representative in Ohio who blamed “homosexual marriage” and “recreational marijuana” – along with many of Donald Trump’s favourite targets – for gun massacres is facing calls from her own party to resign.

In a Facebook post, Candice Keller, who represents a conservative district near Dayton, where nine people were killed early on Sunday, mused about the causes of mass shootings including: family breakdown and same sex marriage, open borders, sportsmen who disrespect the flag and national anthem, the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives, a godless culture, and liberal “snowflakes”.

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‘Invasion’ and ‘fake news’: El Paso manifesto echoes Trump language

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A hate-filled document believed to have been written by the gunman bears striking similarities to the words we hear from Trump

Authorities are investigating a white nationalist “manifesto” posted on the far-right message board 8chan in connection with the suspect in Saturday’s mass shooting in the Texas border city of El Paso, which left 22 people dead.

Related: Trump blames 'violent' video games as El Paso death toll rises to 22 – live

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Americans mourn victims of mass shootings – in pictures

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Thousands of El Paso residents went to a baseball diamond in Ponder Park to pay tribute to the victims of Saturday’s mass shooting in Texas. And less than 24 hours after a masked gunman opened fire in Dayton, Ohio, hundreds of people gathered to pay their respects to the nine people who were killed and 27 injured there

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Two mass shootings in US leave 29 dead as Trump faces barrage of criticism

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  • 20 killed in El Paso, Texas, and nine killed in Dayton, Ohio
  • US reels from killings as Trump faces criticism over immigration

Donald Trump faced a barrage of criticism on Sunday as the US reeled from a brutal mass shooting in the border city of El Paso, Texas, on Saturday, linked to white nationalism and anti-immigrant hate rhetoric.

A total of 20 people were killed in the majority Latino city, nestled in western Texas on the US-Mexico border, as federal authorities investigated a potential hate crime and local prosecutors charged a 21-year-old white man, Patrick Crusius, with murder and said they would pursue the death penalty.

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175 people killed worldwide in last eight years in white nationalist-linked attacks

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At least 16 high-profile attacks have been motivated by white nationalist conspiracy theories

In the past eight years, more than 175 people around the world have been killed in at least 16 high-profile attacks motivated, or apparently motivated, by white nationalist conspiracy theories, including the far right racist belief that nonwhite immigrants and refugees are “invaders” who pose an existential threat to the white race.

Related: Two mass shootings in US leave at least 29 dead as Trump faces criticism

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The United States reels as two mass shootings in 13 hours leave 29 dead – video report

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Two mass shootings just 13 hours apart left 20 killed in El Paso, Texas, and nine killed in Dayton, Ohio. Many more were wounded in the two incidents, which have prompted a wave of criticism against Donald Trump's handling of shootings in the US

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Ohio shooting: gunman killed nine in less than one minute, says mayor – video

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The mayor of Dayton, Ohio, Nan Whaley, has revealed that police got to the scene of the mass shooting in Dayton and killed the gunman in less than one minute. The attacker killed nine people and injured at least 26 in that time. 'Hundreds of people in the Oregon district [of Dayton] could be dead today,' Whaley said. 'The question has to be raised: why does Dayton have to be the 250th mass shooting in America … this year?' 

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Dayton shooting: police confirm nine dead in second US mass shooting in 24 hours – video

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Nine people in Ohio have been killed in the second mass shooting in the US in less than 24 hours, and the suspected shooter also died, police have said. Dayton police tweeted that an active shooter situation began in the Oregon district at 1am on Sunday, but that officers nearby were able to 'put an end to it quickly'.

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