Today's Headlines: Trump Settles on Afghan Strategy Expected to Raise Troop Levels

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GORDON, ERIC SCHMITT and MAGGIE HABERMAN President Trump will offer "a path forward for America's engagement in Afghanistan and South Asia" in a speech on Monday that is likely to include increasing the American military presence there. [Stephen K. Bannon in the Oval Office earlier this year. He was forced from his job as the president's chief strategist on Friday.]( [Bannon Was Set for a Graceful Exit. Then Came Charlottesville.]( By JEREMY W. PETERS and MAGGIE HABERMAN What was supposed to be an amicable departure for the president's chief strategist became a messy exit after public furor over the president's response to a race-fueled melee. [Relatives of the men who carried out the attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils last week gathered with other Muslims in the main square of Ripoll, Spain, on Saturday in support of the victims.]( [Barcelona Attack Suspects Had Ties to Imam Linked to ISIS]( By ALISSA J. 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That didn't stop her from receiving an Emmy nomination. [Louis Langrée conducting the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, with the soloist Kirill Gerstein at the piano.]( Critic's Notebook [Encouraging Signs of Freshness at the Mostly Mozart Festival]( By ANTHONY TOMMASINI Innovations that have enlivened offshoot programs at the Mostly Mozart festival in recent years infused some of the festival orchestra's concerts. [A statue of the Southern Civil War general Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Va., was the focus of clashes between white nationalists and counterprotesters.]( Critic's Notebook [We Need to Move, Not Destroy, Confederate Monuments]( By HOLLAND COTTER The art historian in a critic wants to preserve Confederate images in museums, not trash them. At a crime scene, you don't destroy evidence. For more arts news, go to [NYTimes.com/Arts »]( [] New York [Swimmers at the Blue Hole in Sundown Wild Forest in Denning, N.Y., on Saturday. 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