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5:30 PM ET, January 21, 2017

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Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Politicians, Activists Rally Crowd at Women's March in Washington  —  Activists and politicians are participating in the Women's March on Washington this morning, the biggest of hundreds of marches taking place today.  —  The rally featured speeches from women's rights activist Gloria Steinem …
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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 …
Chicago Tribune:
Hundreds march through Loop as part of Women's March on Chicago  —  An estimated 250,000 people gathered to rally in downtown Chicago as a sister event to the National Women's March taking place in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 21, 2017.  —  Organizers officially canceled the march portion …
Washington Post:
Women's March on Washington: A sea of pink-hatted protesters vows to resist Donald Trump
Discussion: Political Wire
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
Discussion: Fox News Insider
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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The Independent:
Donald Trump is so unpopular that there are even women marching against him in Antarctica.  —  The day after the inauguration of a president who bragged about grabbing women by their genitals, thousands will be marching in Washington and in more than 60 countries around the world, to …
Steve Rukavina / CBC News:
Montrealers bound for Trump inauguration turned away at border
Discussion: The Guardian
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Breitbart to open bureaus in Berlin and Paris: report  —  Right-wing website Breitbart News is opening up shop in Berlin and Paris, according to an Axios report.  —  The move could broaden the website's political reach at a time of growing nationalist sentiment in Europe and the U.S.
Discussion: RedState
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Michelle Fitzpatrick / Yahoo:
‘Europe will wake up in 2017’, Le Pen tells Germany right-wing congress
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Bloomberg:
Merkel Scours Trump Archive for Clues on How to Read Him
Discussion: Axios and Political Wire
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.
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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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Sarah Wheaton / Politico:
At CIA, Trump sticks to his media-bashing script  —  President Donald Trump declared fresh war on ISIS — and the news media — while trying to forge a new alliance with the intelligence community in a visit to the CIA headquarters, his first to an executive agency as president.
Discussion: ABC News
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.
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Trump's inaugural cake was commissioned to look exactly like Obama's, baker says  —  Amid the glitz of President Trump's inaugural festivities, one item stood out in particular late Friday night: a spectacular nine-tier cake that the new president and Vice President Pence cut into with a sword.
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.
Discussion: RedState
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.
Discussion: Mediaite and Washington Post
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Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Washington Post snipes at Melania Trump's bio
 
 
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Joe Concha / The Hill:
Fox declines to renew contracts for several contributors
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump attends interfaith prayer service in Washington as a huge crowd protests his presidency
Discussion: RedState
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Inaugural Speech Dims G.O.P. Hopes for a More Conservative Trump Agenda
Daily Mail:
The enthusiastic crowd brought instruments as they cheered and chanted during the protest
Discussion: twitchy.com
Ken White / Popehat:
On Punching Nazis
New York Times:
What President Trump Doesn't Get About America
Reuters:
'It's made in Vietnam!' At inauguration, origin of red Trump hats shocks many
Discussion: TheStreet.com
 Earlier Items: 
Associated Press:
FACT CHECK: Trump starts on familiar note: with exaggeration
Joe Concha / The Hill:
ABC reporter: Trump speech carried anti-Semitic ‘overtones’
Discussion: RedState
Andrew Follett / The Daily Caller:
Trump Terminates Obama's Global Warming Website Seconds After Taking Office
Discussion: BizPac Review and RedState
Benjamin Freed / Washingtonian:
Grasping for Metaphor, Reporters Flock to Burning DC Garbage Can
Washington Post:
Trump's America is a rotten place
Discussion: IJR
Sarah Pulliam Bailey / Washington Post:
‘God is not against building walls!’  The sermon Trump heard from Robert Jeffress before his inauguration.
Gabrielle Bluestone / The Slot:
Donald Trump Plagiarized Bane in His Inaugural Speech
Discussion: CANNONFIRE, New York Magazine and Vox
 

 
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