IKEA Monkey

Happy weekend, and welcome back to 3-Ingredient Happy Hour, the weekly drink column featuring super simple yet delicious libations. Today we are featuring a bracing and briny favorite of mine that I have been sipping on for years: the polarizing Pickletini.

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It was the home of landscape designer and photographer Judy Tomkins

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Location: Snedens Landing (Palisades), New York

Price: $1,600,000

Located in the hamlet of Snedens Landing (also known as Palisades) in New York, this enchanting stone house was built in 1780 and was the home of landscape designer and photographer Judy Tomkins for 60 years. It’s also rumored that George Washington used the home as an office when his men were guarding the ferry service from the cliffs of the Palisades.

Surrounded by gorgeous perennial gardens tended to by Tomkins, the 2,417-square-foot house is largely original, with an addition by architect Rex Allen added in the 1930s that brought in underfloor radiant heating, among other updates.

Still, antique charm abounds by way of rough-hewn beamed ceilings, rustic floorboards, deep fireplaces, built-in bookshelves, and stone terraces. There are four bedrooms and two bathrooms—including one with an extraordinary polygonal copper sink—with a screened porch off the master bedroom.

Outside, extensive lawns unfurl on the grounds, where mounds of stone stacked into smooth domes designed by Tomkins dot the lush and wild landscape. There are views onto the Hudson River from the .84-acre site, which has played host to many artists over the years.

Located at 75 Washington Road just north of Manhattan, it’s offered at $1.6 million.

Via: Sotheby’s International Realty

Centuries ago, celestial events such as eclipses evoked deep superstition.

A 25-year-old U.S. citizen has been charged with using a drone to smuggle more than 13 pounds of methamphetamine from Mexico by drone.

Bannon returned as the executive chairman for Breitbart News Friday, a spokesman for the site confirmed to NBC News.

There are all kinds of Good Boys in this world. Some discover how doors work and mount daring escapes from the vet, and others dress up like aliens and octopi for dog Halloween, which—while certainly Good—isn't all that impressive. But the latest young pup to be crowned a Very Good Boy really worked his tail off for the honor, making his backyard safer in the process.

According to ABC affiliate KATU, a golden retriever named Kenyon started digging a regular dog hole in his backyard earlier this month. After days of scraping through the grass and dirt, the 18-month-old unearthed a mysterious package. His owners figured he'd stumbled across a time capsule or something, and decided to film the grand unveiling.

To his owners' surprise—likely caught on a legendary home video—the parcel Kenyon dug up wasn't a buried treasure trove of gold coins or another box of strange notes from famed author Chuck Palahniuk. Kenyon had discovered $85,000 worth of black tar heroin buried underground, hidden in his own backyard.

After the homeowners notified the authorities, the cops identified the murky substance as more than 15 ounces of the highly addictive drug. The police were understandably proud of Kenyon, though, and rewarded him with a Yamhill County K9 citation ribbon. He's also been named an honorary narcotics K9 for life—the closest you can get to the official designation of Very, Very Good Boy.

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Me: “Oh hey, a new fishing game. Most fishing games suck. Might as well see what this is all about.”

MOTHERF***ING FISHING PLANET:

“FISHING PLANET” IS FISHING IN ALL CAPS AND NEEDS TO BE TREATED AS SUCH. THIS IS LIKE IF JASON BOURNE’S LATEST UNDERCOVER PLAN TO BRING DOWN GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACY HAPPENED ON 12 SCENIC WATERWAYS.

HOW DO I KNOW THERE ARE 12 SCENIC WATERWAYS? BECAUSE MOTHERF***ING FISHING PLANET TELLS ME THERE ARE 12 SCENIC WATERWAYS.

I’VE ONLY FISHED A FEW TIMES IN MY LIFE AND FOUND IT ENJOYABLE EXCEPT FOR THE PART WHERE YOU NEED TO UNHOOK FISH WHICH IS ICKY — BUT FISHING PLANET MAKES ME FEEL LIKE I’VE BEEN MISSING OUT ALL THESE YEARS.

70+ FISH SPECIES? I DIDN’T KNOW THAT MANY FISH EXISTED IN THE PLANET AND THEY’RE ALL HERE IN FISHING PLANET.

HONESTLY, I’M REALLY AMPED ABOUT THIS GAME AND WILL BUY IT IMMEDIATELY. I JUST HOPE THERE ARE A LOT OF TACKLE COMBINATIONS TO CHOOSE FROM. ALL I WANT IS LIKE ... 50 DIFFERENT TACKLE COMBINATIONS.

THOUSANDS OF TACKLE COMBINATIONS!!!! WHAT ARE YOU EVEN DOING FISHING PLANET?!?!?!?!

THE ONLY THING THAT COULD REALLY BRING THIS GAME DOWN IS IF THE FISH WERE SUPER DUMB AND EASY TO CATCH. THAT WOULD BE A BIG LETDOWN.

FISHING PLANET HAS GOT YOU!

THE MUSIC IS SO METAL. THAT FISH HAS NO CLUE WHAT’S WAITING ABOUT THE SURFACE FOR THIS FOOL. HAHAHAHA PEA-SIZED BRAIN FISH AIN’T NO MATCH FOR A HUMAN.

I KNOW YOU AREN’T DROPPING THE DOUBLE GOOSEY REEL RIGHT NOW!

THIS VIDEO IS EXHAUSTING. I’M WAY TOO HYPED TO KEEP WATCHING THIS. THANK GOODNESS THERE’S ONLY A FEW SECONDS LEFT. THIS IS THE PART WHERE THINGS START TO WIND DOWN AND I CAN BREATHE AGAIN.

OH MY GOD IT WAS A PHOTO ALL ALONG ON THE DESK OF SOME DOPE EXECUTIVE NEXT TO HIS STOCK REPORTS -- WHICH LOOK LIKE THEY FLUCTUATE TOO MUCH, PROBABLY BECAUSE HE’S FISHING AND NOT OVERSEEING HIS COMPANY BUT I DON’T CARE BECAUSE FISHING PLANET IS TOO GOOD.

THIS GAME COMES OUT LATER THIS MONTH AND I CAN’T WAIT FOR FISHING TO ...

GET REEL.

H/T @alex_navarro ON TWITTER WHO LET EVERYONE KNOW HOW AMAZING FISHING PLANET IS

I’d be swayed.

Some college football teams have a packed student section for every game. Others do not, and they’re always looking for ways to drum up student interest. I went to Maryland, and one time I got a voucher for a free Nathan’s hot dog that was only redeemable after halftime. The hope was that I wouldn’t leave in the second quarter. I stayed and got my hot dog.

The latest installment in “wooing students to football games”: a pool.

Rutgers is doing it for its opener on Friday against Washington. Via NJ Advance Media:

For the season-opener against No. 7 Washington at 8 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 1, Rutgers will install a temporary pool or Jacuzzi atop the student section, the school announced Thursday. Students will have an opportunity to win the premium select seats and cool off in the water.

For the crowd at large, there will be boats in the north end zone with all fans given the opportunity to win a seat and watch the game from field level. The stadium concession stands will also feature Jersey Shore-oriented options.

Here it was before the game:

And here’s when it started to fill in:

Also in the realm of attracting students, that report says the first 2,000 students in attendance will get Rutgers football Adidas tank tops and a pair of sunglasses.

Rutgers will not be the first football team to let fans feel tropical.

College teams to get involved include UCF ...

... and Arkansas State.

In the NFL, Jaguars fans are already doing it.

Reinhold Matay-USA TODAY Sports

And in baseball, the Diamondbacks were true pioneers:

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Pools and sports: a generally good combination.

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What’s better than baseball or dogs? Baseball and dogs. The Rockies held a Bark at the Park event last night, wherein canines barked at their park while the Rockies beat up on the Braves. I’m sure it was a good time for everyone, except maybe the Braves, who lost by 15 runs, but at least they got to hang out next to a…

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This era of console gaming is a strange one, owing partially to the fact that about five years ago, many people in the industry feared consumers would reject bulky $300 consoles in favor of cheaper and nimbler competitors like the iPhone and the iPad. Why pay so much for games you can only play in front of your TV at…

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It was a slave who first taught Jack Daniel how to make whiskey, and Fawn Weaver is making sure his company as it exists today honors that debt.

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The article hangs on a wall in my office. I am actually staring at it as I write this—it is taped, slightly crooked, to the white paint above my desk, positioned between a Chicago Blitz bumper sticker, a picture of my mother’s late Uncle John, and a photograph from the 1987 Mahopac High School freshman class trip to…

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Realtor.com survey says that homeowners are also generally satisfied with their homes

According to a survey from Realtor.com, the U.S. is in the midst of its worst housing inventory shortage in 20 years.

The real estate listing website has attributed this deficiency to two culprits based on data from an online survey of 1,054 randomly selected homeowners from across the country: Boomers are reluctant to sell their homes, and homeowners in general are satisfied with the ways in which their homes meet the needs of their families.

Looking at the surveys, Realtor.com saw generational trends play out in an interesting way between baby boomers and millennials.

Overall, 59 percent of the survey’s respondents revealed that they had no plans to sell their home next year, while 35 percent planned to sell (6 percent were unsure). Of those who planned to sell their homes, 60 percent are millennials looking to move somewhere bigger or nicer. This desire to move indicates that these first-time homebuyers most likely had to settle for less the first go-around due to a limited supply of starter homes.

Although it’s promising for the starter home market that these millennials are considering selling their first homes for an upgrade, whether they are successful or not depends on if they can find another home.

Which brings us to the boomer generation—85 percent of whom were surveyed had no plans to sell their home in the next year. This translates to about 33 million properties staying off the market, many of them city condos and suburban single-family homes—exactly the kinds of homes millennials are looking for.

And according to Realtor.com, boomers don’t have much of an incentive to move, given a strong economy, rising home prices, their satisfaction with the features of their current homes, and low interest rates. Even if they were to downsize, they would be met with the same shortages facing millennials.

One thing is clear: The rate of new construction has to catch up with job growth in order to address not only the general shortage of houses on the market but the dearth of affordable housing across the country.

Disgusted Robert Mueller Eats 2 20-Piece Chicken McNugget Meals In One Sitting In Attempt To Get Into Trump’s Mind

WASHINGTON—Fighting the urge to vomit as he gorged on the deep-fried, processed meat, disgusted special counsel Robert Mueller reportedly ate two McDonald’s 20-piece Chicken McNugget meals in one sitting on Tuesday in an attempt to get into President Trump’s mind. “To understand him, I must become him,” said Mueller, retching as he peeled back the lid of his eighth BBQ sauce container and dipping his 29th consecutive McNugget in the tangy condiment, an ordeal he said was the only way to truly inhabit the psyche of Donald Trump and discover “what makes him tick.” “I just have to keep pushing myself if I’m to have any hope at all of comprehending this man’s thought process. However unpleasant it may be, no matter how nauseated I may feel, I have no choice but to dunk another wad of French fries into this M&M McFlurry.” At press time, a infuriated Mueller was pounding his fists and shouting, “Who are you, dammit!” as he drank down another large KFC gravy.

“LOL Cena wins” didn’t become a meme out of nowhere, but SummerSlam is basically a different universe for Big Match John.

Chances are good you’re no longer bored of John Cena winning. Much of that has to do with how John Cena has evolved as a wrestler late into his career — an inordinate percentage of WWE’s best matches from the last few years involve Cena, and that’s not a criticism of the rest of the roster so much as praise for how good John has become. There is also the matter of John Cena losing matches in high-profile spots, and with a consistency that seemed impossible not all that long ago.

SummerSlam plays the most significant role in that. Can you believe it’s been seven years since Cena single-handedly defeated the upstart stable The Nexus at SummerSlam? Cena didn’t actually defeat an entire stable by himself — he picked up a few eliminations, as did his teammates — but he survived a DDT to the concrete and a 2-on-1 at the end, in the midst of LOL Cena Wins fervor, so it sure felt like he did it by himself.

Chris Jericho and Edge would later talk about this match on Jericho’s podcast, and Cena even admitted to them later that the DDT idea was wrong, but it was too late to fix the finish or the Nexus. Apparently there was a cosmic price to pay for Cena taking down that promising group, however, and it was any future victories at WWE’s major August pay-per-view. That’s right: The last Cena victory at SummerSlam was the one against The Nexus, back in 2010.

Here are Cena’s matchups in the six SummerSlams since:

• 2011: Undisputed WWE Championship match: CM Punk def. John Cena
• 2012: Triple Threat WWE Championship match: CM Punk def. John Cena, Big Show
• 2013: WWE Championship match: Daniel Bryan def. John Cena
• 2014: WWE Championship match: Brock Lesnar basically murdered John Cena on live television
• 2015: WWE Championship/United States Championship match: Seth Rollins def. John Cena
• 2016: AJ Styles def. John Cena

Losing to Punk was huge — both times — but in reality, Cena was still pushed as if he was the main event, title or not. The loss to Daniel Bryan is where things started to change, however, as Cena had chosen Bryan to be his opponent, and it ended up being a referendum on smaller indie guys vs. WWE’s picturesque idea of what a wrestler should be. Bryan won, which helped usher in this new era of WWE where indie wrestlers are treated as equals to the more establishment-esque WWE performers, and Cena stayed out of the title scene until injuries forced him back into it.

And then, Brock Lesnar violently threw Cena back out of said title picture. If there was anyone who remained unconvinced that we were dealing with a different Cena in 2014 than we were in 2010, when he wanted to look like an unstoppable superhero to the detriment of his opponents per the Edge/Jericho story, Lesnar changed their mind. Cena had no chance, from start to finish, and the match only went on as long as it did because Lesnar hadn’t finished sending a message yet.

In consecutive SummerSlam bouts, Cena lost to help set up a new era in WWE with Bryan and future indie guys, and then made Lesnar look literally unstoppable, the exclamation point WWE needed after having Lesnar break Undertaker’s undefeated streak at WrestleMania 30.

This was not enough penance. Seth Rollins was WWE Champion by SummerSlam 2015, thanks to defeating Roman Reigns and Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania 31 by cashing in his Money in the Bank briefcase. John Cena was the United States Champion, and an incredible one at that: Between the defeats at previous SummerSlams and week after week of U.S. Open Challenges each Monday night that were designed to make Cena’s opponents look strong while still having him retain, Cena was in a completely new light that he had been in before. Whereas you could hear the bloodlust in 2014 as Lesnar took Cena apart piece by piece, in 2015, well, the crowd was still cheering hard for Cena’s opponent, but it wasn’t the same as it had been.

Rollins would win (with some help from Ric Flair fan and SummerSlam host, Jon Stewart), and while he’d eventually lose the United States Championship back to Cena, it was still a significant moment with Cena putting over an up-and-coming star at a major event.

AJ Styles was a little different in 2016, as he was new only to most of WWE’s audience, but the result was the same as it had been since 2011. Cena wrestled in a great, memorable match, and Cena lost.

That brings us to 2017, where John Cena might just be picking up a victory for the first time since he cut the legs out from under Wade Barrett and The Nexus. Baron Corbin is his opponent, and Cena just humiliated him on this week’s episode of SmackDown Live by interrupting Corbin’s Money in the Bank cash-in on current champion Jinder Mahal. Corbin looks like a chump, he now has no direct line to the WWE Championship with his briefcase futilely used up, and Cena is going to be in a revenge-seeking mood after Corbin’s sneak attack that prompted his cash-in attempt in the first place.

Corbin could very well win. He’s still an up-and-comer, Cena is now more of a part-timer. But, it doesn’t feel like we’ll see the SummerSlam losing streak continue for John. No, this time it feels like Cena is going to be the one with the huge victory that sets him up for the next major story — in this case, perhaps a chance at the all-time WWE Championship record of 17, as he’s currently tied with Ric Flair with 16 after his Royal Rumble victory over Styles.

That feels about right. Cena has spent his last six Augusts saying Hail Marys and Our Fathers to earn forgiveness for 2010, while crushing it in between nearly the whole time. Let’s find it in our hearts to forgive him and, maybe not even post any “LOL Cena wins” memes when he wins this Sunday.

A woman who was resigned to never seeing her beautiful engagement ring ever again - and had bought a smaller one as a replacement - was shocked when her daughter-in-law found it on a carrot. The family had harvested some carrots from their farm in Alberta, Canada, for dinner, and one had grown around the engagement ring, which was then pulled from the ground. Mary Grams, 84, had lost her beloved ring in 2004 while she was in the garden, and thought she would never see it again. "I recognized it right away," she said. Mary Grams, 84, got her missing ring back when her daughter-in-law found it while harvesting carrots on the family farm in Alberta, Canada. Credit:  CBC News She thinks she lost it while pulling a large weed from the garden. "We looked high and low on our hands and knees," she told CBC news.  "We couldn't find it. I thought for sure either they rototilled it or something happened to it." Mrs Grams has had the ring since 1951, a year before she married her husband, Norman.  Mary, 84, says she didn't know if they were kidding or not, but when her granddaughter brought the carrot over - she knew: "It's mine!" #yegpic.twitter.com/Ft7IMUeSMR— Sarah Kraus Global (@SarahNKraus) August 15, 2017 The ring was found by her daughter-in-law, Colleen Daley. "I knew it had to belong to either grandma or my mother-in-law," she said, "because no other women have lived on that farm. "I asked my husband if he recognized the ring. And he said yeah. His mother had lost her engagement ring years ago in the garden and never found it again. And it turned up on this carrot." A few weeks after losing her engagement ring, Mary bought herself this one, much smaller, to replace it. #Camrosepic.twitter.com/sg9WN4y1Pb— Sarah Kraus Global (@SarahNKraus) August 15, 2017  Mrs Grams said she is pleased the ring was found. "I'm going to wear it because it still fits," she said.

Jack in the Box's H'angry Chicken Hash features chicken nuggets, Frank’s Red Hot Buffalo Sauce, Ranch, and white cheese sauce over hash browns.

An order cost me $3.

Since they were calling it a hash, I figured that there would be torn pieces of hash brown patties or maybe tater tots but they just put two whole hash brown patties as the base of the dish.

There were five chicken nuggets in all. Whether it was the sauces or the holding time since frying, they didn't offer much crispiness on this occasion. They contributed a plump meatiness but little flavor.

The Buffalo sauce was curiously not spicy and bordering on mild. There was the sporadic blip of heat and that's it. I seem to remember Frank's Red Hot being spicier. What did come across was a lot of Buffalo tanginess which the Ranch did little to counteract given that Ranch is generally tangy as well. The white cheese sauce managed to provide some cover with a general creaminess.

The hash browns were crispy and sufficiently flavorful but didn't gel well with the chicken and Buffalo profile.

Overall, Jack in the Box's H'angry Chicken Hash didn't have much to recommend it and I couldn't help feeling that I would have enjoyed it more in its separated components.

Nutritional Info - Jack in the Box H'angry Chicken Hash (283g)
Calories - 850 (from Fat - 580)
Fat - 65g (Saturated Fat - 12g)
Sodium - 2090mg
Carbs - 51g (Sugar - 2g)
Protein - 17g

The Witch launched the careers of both its director Robert Eggers and its star Anya Taylor-Joy, and now the two are re-teaming for Eggers’ next project, another remake of F.W. Murnau’s genre-defining 1922 horror classic Nosferatu. Few details about the remake have been released—including what role Tayler-Joy will play in the film—but with Eggers’ eye for lavish period detail, hopefully it’ll take place sometime in the past. Eggers will have to work around his young star’s schedule, though, as Variety reports she’s currently filming the X-Men movie New Mutants and has also signed on for Glass, the sequel to her other breakout role in M. Night Shyamalan‘s Split. That one’s scheduled for a 2019 release; Nosferatu, meanwhile, doesn’t have a release date as of yet.

Here’s the newest concept from Amazon: A place where customers can quickly pick up a snack or a roll of toilet paper without having to wait in long lines. It’s called “Instant Pickup,” but you might already know it by a more familiar name: “Going to the store.”

Instant Pickup allows Prime and Prime Students members to choose from a curated daily assortment of “essentials” — from the bag of chips and the cold drinks you need to survive a hangover to a new phone charger to replace the one you lost last night — that can then be picked up from self-service lockers.

To use the service, customers shopping on the Amazon app can tap the menu button at the top of the app, then look for Instant Pickup in “Programs and Features.”

Customers then select their items, place the order — or add last-minute items to an online order if they need to — and then pick them up from a designated pickup location. Orders will be ready in as little as five minutes, Amazon says.

There are only five locations offering the service thus far — Los Angeles, Atlanta, Berkeley, CA, Columbus, and College Park, MD — but more locations will be added in the coming months, the company notes.

It’s no secret that Amazon has its eye on the younger set: The company knows that if it wants to get newly minted adults hooked on its service for life, offering them everything they need, when they need it, could be a good way to hook ’em.

To that end, Prime Student only costs half of what the grownup version costs. Amazon currently offers 22 pickup lockers on colleges campuses across the country for members of the service.

President Trump's slow response to the deadly clash in Charlottesville was shocking, but nobody could call it surprising.

The chief executive of one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies has resigned from President Donald Trump’s manufacturing council in protest at his failure to condemn a white supremacist rally. Kenneth Frazier, CEO of Merck, became just the latest business leader to resign in protest against the president’s policies, following announcements earlier this year that the heads of Uber, Disney and Tesla that they could no longer support Mr Trump's administration. Mr Frazier said he was stepping down to take a stand against intolerance and extremism. White supremacists in Charlottesville on Saturday Credit: Getty Images Mr Trump is yet to condemn the white supremacists who organised Saturday’s rally in Charlotteville, in which a car ploughed into a group of protesters, killing Heather Heyer. Two police officers also died in a separate crash. Instead of disassociating himself from the neo-Nazi organisers, Mr Trump said "many sides" were involved, drawing fire from across the political spectrum for not specifically denouncing the far right. "America's leaders must honor our fundamental views by clearly rejecting expressions of hatred, bigotry and group supremacy, which run counter to the American ideal that all people are created equal," said Mr Frazier, in a tweet announcing his resignation on Monday morning.  pic.twitter.com/a1PNQZism5— Merck (@Merck) August 14, 2017 Shortly afterward, Mr Trump responded by saying that in light of the resignation, Frazier will have more time to "LOWER RIPOFF DRUG PRICES!" Now that Ken Frazier of Merck Pharma has resigned from President's Manufacturing Council,he will have more time to LOWER RIPOFF DRUG PRICES!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 14, 2017 The manufacturing council was announced on January 27 as a way of brainstorming the best solutions to America’s manufacturing problems. Mr Frazier, the only African American on the council, appeared at the White House last month to promote an agreement between Merck, Pfizer  and Corning to create 1,000 jobs. At the group's first meeting in January, Mr Trump shook Mr Frazier's hand after the CEO talked up efforts to bring manufacturing jobs back to the US for a cancer drug. "That's very good," said Mr Trump at the time. Ken Frazier listens at the White House on a February 23 meeting of the manufacturing council Credit: AP But business leaders have found themselves facing criticism from employees over any White House role. The CEO of Disney, Bob Iger, left the advisory council in protest at the Paris agreement, and Travis Kalanick, former CEO of Uber, dropped out after customers and employees complained about Mr Trump’s travel ban. Elon Musk, who quit at the same time as Mr Iger, initially resisted pressure to leave the White House Strategy and Policy Forum, saying he planned to express his objections to Mr Trump’s immigration policy, but keep his seat at the table. Donald Trump waves as prepares to board Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport on Monday Credit: AP The Paris decision made him change his mind, however. Mr Trump is expected to speak to the press later on Monday, at which he is likely to address the Charlottesville rally. He has come under pressure from all sides to issue a strong condemnation of white supremacists - following the lead of his daughter, Ivanka, and Mike Pence, the vice president. Senior Republicans including Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush and Lindsey Graham have all urged him to speak out.

The push for Internet businesses to remove hateful speech spread to an influential corner of the tech industry on Monday as Web registration service GoDaddy delisted a prominent neo-Nazi site in the wake of violent clashes over the weekend in Charlottesville.

The move by GoDaddy, which registers...