INTERNATIONAL NEWS - Two more chief executives have resigned from Donald Trump's American Manufacturing Council over the president's response to violence in Charlottesville at the weekend.
Intel's Brian Krzanich and Under Armour head Kevin Plank have followed Merck's Ken Frazier in leaving the council.
Mr Trump was criticised for failing to denounce white supremacist groups that held a rally, which ended in bloodshed.
A woman was killed when a car rammed into a crowd protesting over the march.
Mr Trump was widely rebuked for his initial response for not specifically denouncing the far right, and instead ascribing blame to "both sides".
Bowing to pressure, the president issued a statement on Monday calling the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis and white supremacists "repugnant" to everything Americans held dear.
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