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William Turton / Gizmodo:
National Park Service Banned From Tweeting After Anti-Trump Retweets — The National Park service retweeted some sick Donald Trump burns, noting how, uh, lightly attended his inauguration was compared to Barack Obama's in 2009. But now, the NPS has been ordered by its Washington support office to …
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Lisa Rein / Washington Post:
Interior Department reactivates Twitter accounts after shutdown following inauguration … The Interior Department reactivated its official Twitter accounts early Saturday after an abrupt shutdown following two shares of tweets that were unsympathetic to President Trump during his inauguration.
Forrest Wickman / Slate:
Donald Trump's First Twitter Background as President Was a Photo From the Inauguration of Barack Obama
Donald Trump's First Twitter Background as President Was a Photo From the Inauguration of Barack Obama
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Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Trump's executive order on Obamacare, explained by two health policy experts — Shortly after the end of his inaugural parade, President Donald Trump issued his first executive order: instructions for the federal government to dismantle the Affordable Care Act “to the maximum extent permitted by law.”
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Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Trump signs executive order that could effectively gut Affordable Care Act's individual mandate
Trump signs executive order that could effectively gut Affordable Care Act's individual mandate
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump signs ObamaCare executive order
Trump signs ObamaCare executive order
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CNN:
Trump issues executive order to start rolling back Obamacare
Trump issues executive order to start rolling back Obamacare
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Vivian Yee / New York Times:
Andrew Cuomo to Widen Access to Free Abortion and Contraception
Andrew Cuomo to Widen Access to Free Abortion and Contraception
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Justice Department blesses White House post for Kushner — In a reversal of legal advice given to prior presidents, the Justice Department has concluded that it is lawful for President Donald Trump to appoint his son-in-law Jared Kushner to a White House post.
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Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Justice Department opinion backs Trump on hiring of son-in-law
Justice Department opinion backs Trump on hiring of son-in-law
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Ashifa Kassam / The Guardian:
Canadians traveling to Women's March denied US entry after sharing their plans — After telling border agents their plans to march, group's cars were searched and phones examined, and each person was fingerprinted and had their photo taken — Would-be protesters heading to the Women's March …
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
NYT's Dean Baquet rips ‘fairly ridiculous conclusion’ in public editor's column on Russia coverage … Executive editors at the New York Times routinely differ with the public editors who deliver less-than-flattering judgments on the work of their colleagues. Less routinely do they express their misgivings afterwards.
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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Flynn is creating the most military-heavy National Security Council of the modern era — President Trump is filling the government's national security leadership with former military officials and businessmen, rejecting the policy and academic types both parties have traditionally relied on.
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CNN:
White House site updated to remove Melania Trump QVC reference — Washington (CNN)The White House edited First Lady Melania Trump's biography on WhiteHouse.gov Friday “out of an abundance of caution” that a reference to her clothing line on QVC could be seen as an endorsement, a spokesperson for Trump told CNN.
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Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Washington Post snipes at Melania Trump's bio
Washington Post snipes at Melania Trump's bio
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German Lopez / Vox:
DC's metro system keeps trolling Trump for his poor inauguration attendance — It keeps pointing out on Twitter how bad attendance was for Trump's event — and how good it is for the Women's March on Washington. — Washington, DC's metro system, WMATA, just keeps throwing shade …
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Reuters:
'It's made in Vietnam!' At inauguration, origin of red Trump hats shocks many — One of the biggest cheers President Donald Trump received from supporters watching his inaugural address on Friday was his call to “buy American and hire American.” — It was a moment rich in irony.
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Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump Strikes Nationalistic Tone in Inaugural Speech — Donald Trump delivered what historians and speechwriters said was one of the most ominous inaugural addresses ever, reinforcing campaign themes of American decline while positioning himself as the protector of the country's ‘forgotten men and women.’
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Daily Mail:
The enthusiastic crowd brought instruments as they cheered and chanted during the protest — 'We are linked, we are not ranked. This is a day that will change us forever because we are together, each of us individually and collectively will never be the same again.
Michelle Fitzpatrick / Yahoo:
‘Europe will wake up in 2017’, Le Pen tells Germany right-wing congress — Koblenz (Germany) (AFP) - French presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen on Saturday told a European gathering of rightwing populists in Germany that a string of high-stakes elections in 2017 would blow a wind of change across the region.
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Joe Concha / The Hill:
ABC reporter: Trump speech carried anti-Semitic ‘overtones’ — ABC journalist Terry Moran on Friday said President Trump's inaugural address used a “loaded term” that carried “overtones from the 1930s, when an anti-Semitic movement” blamed Jews for global problems.
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Washington Post:
Trump's America is a rotten place — President Trump delivered a campaign speech, not an inaugural address today. That he and his staff do not understand the difference goes to the heart of his insufficiency as a leader. Addressing a shockingly sparse crowd, he painted a picture …
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Washington Post:
A most dreadful inaugural address — Twenty minutes into his presidency, Donald Trump, who is always claiming to have made, or to be about to make, astonishing history, had done so. Living down to expectations, he had delivered the most dreadful inaugural address in history.
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