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11:50 AM ET, January 15, 2017

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Peter J. Boyer / Esquire:
Exclusive: The Trump Administration May Evict the Press from the White House  —  “They are the opposition party,” a senior official says.  —  The upset to the existing order caused by the presidential election has been acutely felt by no one, perhaps, so much it has by the national press.
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Trump team considers evicting press from White House: report  —  's team is reportedly considering evicting the press corps from the White House.  —  Instead, the press corps may work out of the White House Conference Center, near Lafayette Square, or in the Old Executive Office Building …
Daily Mail:
Opera star Andrea Bocelli backs out of singing at Trump's inauguration after receiving death threats  —  Opera star Andrea Bocelli backed out of singing at Donald Trump's inauguration after receiving death threats, The Mail on Sunday has learnt.  —  The revelation came as another singer …
Kyle Smith / New York Post:
It's time to face facts: Obama's presidency was a failure  —  MORE FROM:  —  The closing arguments for the Obama years are arriving, and they aren't helping the outgoing president.  A case in point is a new book published this week, one that acknowledges “Obama's supporters have experienced …
Washington Post:
Trump transition team says it asked D.C. National Guard general to stay  —  The transition team for President-elect Donald Trump asked the head of the D.C. National Guard to remain in command throughout Inauguration Day after media reports that he would leave in the middle of the ceremony created controversy, the Guard said.
Discussion: Balloon Juice and The Daily Caller
Dana Schuster / New York Post:
SEE ALL 323 STORIES  —  Donald Trump may be the future president, but that doesn't mean he's above choosing the place settings and tablecloth fabrics for this week's inaugural festivities.  —  “He's into every detail of everything,” Presidential Inaugural Committee Chair Tom Barrack told The Post.
Discussion: Political Wire and BizPac Review
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
The AP Spins Lewis vs. Trump  —  The biggest news story of the day, apparently, is the dustup between Rep. John Lewis and Donald Trump, about which I wrote this morning.  Although the story has little real significance, the Associated Press, the most influential news source in the U.S. …
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Abby Phillip / Washington Post:
Trump-Lewis feud could be harbinger of new round of hyper-partisanship
David Smith / The Guardian:
Donald Trump starts MLK weekend by attacking civil rights hero John Lewis
Zack Stanton / Politico:
How Betsy DeVos Used God and Amway to Take Over Michigan Politics  —  On election night 2006, Dick DeVos, the bronzed, starched 51-year-old scion of Michigan's wealthiest family, paced to a lectern in the dim ballroom of the Sheraton Hotel in Lansing to deliver the speech that every candidate dreads.
Discussion: PoliPundit.com
Nicki Rossoll / ABC News:
Sanders: ‘Would Not Be Bad Thing for the American People’ if FBI Director Comey Steps Down  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders said it “would not be a bad thing for the American people” if FBI Director James Comey steps down.  —  Asked by ABC News' George Stephanopoulos in an exclusive interview on …
Discussion: Politico and Business Insider
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Judd Apatow Freaking Out Over Donald Trump  —  Santa Monica, Calif. — Donald Trump: freak or geek?  —  Who better to answer that question than Judd Apatow, the executive producer of “Freaks and Geeks” and the comedian, producer, director and writer who has been in a spiral over the ascent of his fellow TV big shot and Twitter addict?
Victor Davis Hanson / City Journal:
Trump and the American Divide  —  How a lifelong New Yorker became tribune of the rustics and deplorables  —  At 7 AM in California's rural Central Valley, not long before the recent presidential election, I stopped to talk with an elderly irrigator on the shared border alleyway of my farm.
Haaretz:
U.S. Intelligence Officials Reportedly Warn Israeli Counterparts Against Sharing Info With Trump Administration  —  Israeli intelligence officials are concerned that the exposure of classified information to their American counterparts under a Trump administration could lead to their being leaked …
Discussion: NO QUARTER USA NET and alan.com
Cameron Zeigler / New York Times:
Without Obamacare, I Will Get Sicker, Faster, Until I Die  —  ROANOKE, Va. — On March 18, 1991, my life changed.  I was an 18-year-old student at a community college in southwestern Virginia, working out at the gym, when I got a headache.  A thunderous pain shot through my head and I thought, “I am going to die now.”
 
 
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Alex Pfeiffer / The Daily Caller:
Inauguration Protesters Plan To Destroy Property And Disrupt Balls
New York Times:
Scott Pruitt, Trump's E.P.A. Pick, Backed Industry Donors Over Regulators
Fox Business:
Bikers for Trump Ready to Stand up to Protesters
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Clinton Global Initiative to be discontinued
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Donald Trump: Kremlin Employee of the Month?
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Susan Chira / New York Times:
‘You Focus on the Good’: Women Who Voted for Trump, in Their Own Words
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Matt Baume / Slate:
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Discussion: RedState
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Peter Thiel considering bid for California governor
Discussion: New York Times
Edwin D. Williamson / Weekly Standard:
Trump's Conflicts  —  He's done enough.  —  President-elect …
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