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9:40 PM ET, January 21, 2017

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Washington Post:
Metro Inauguration Day trips top 500,000, but still lowest since 2005 … Friday's Metro ridership was the lowest in at least two presidential Inaugurations, and also was lower than that of an average weekday, the agency said Saturday.  —  Metro said 570,557 people took trips in the system between its early 4 a .m.
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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Spicer Assails Media For ‘Misrepresenting’ Inauguration Crowd (VIDEO)  —  White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Saturday accused the media of misrepresenting the crowd at Donald Trump's inauguration in order to dampen enthusiasm for the event, getting some numbers wrong himself in the process.
Max Kutner / Newsweek:
INAUGURATION AND WOMEN'S MARCH, BY THE NUMBERS  —  U.S. INAUGURATION 2017 DONALD TRUMP WASHINGTON D.C. BARACK OBAMA  —  Riders took fewer trips on Washington, D.C.'s Metro on Friday morning during President Donald Trump's inauguration than did during his predecessor's inaugurations, according to the transportation provider.
Z. Byron Wolf / CNN:
Comparing Trump's inauguration crowd to the Women's March  —  This post has been updated to add context.  —  Washington (CNN)It's going to be impossible to gauge how many people exactly attended the inauguration of Donald Trump in 2017 as opposed to Barack Obama in 2009.
Betsy Klein / CNN:
Comparing Donald Trump and Barack Obama's inaugural crowd sizes
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 …
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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 … Hundreds of thousands of people poured into Washington Saturday for the Women's March, a larger-than-expected crowd determined to mount a roaring rejoinder to the inaugural gathering for Donald Trump one day earlier.
Washingtonian:
Photos: Scenes from the Women's March on Washington
Discussion: AOL and New York Magazine
Julie Turkewitz / New York Times:
'We're Not Going Away': Huge Crowds for Women's Marches Against Trump
Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Politicians, Activists Rally Crowd at Women's March in Washington
Daily Mail:
The enthusiastic crowd brought instruments as they cheered and chanted during the protest
Discussion: twitchy.com
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump attacks Time reporter for mistake about MLK bust  —  President Trump on Saturday attacked a Time magazine journalist for mistakenly reporting that a bust of Martin Luther King, Jr. had been removed from the Oval Office.  —  Trump called out the reporter, Zeke Miller …
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Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
At CIA headquarters, Trump boasts about himself, denies feud  —  President Donald Trump, in his first speech in his first full day as commander in chief, visited the Central Intelligence Agency on a mission to reassure the intelligence community that they have his full support …
Lauren Fox / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Makes Bizarre Courtesy Call At CIA Headquarters (VIDEO)
Discussion: The Mahablog
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
President Trump Tells CIA: ‘I Am With You 1,000 Percent’
Discussion: Jamie Dupree
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
White House press secretary attacks media for accurately reporting inauguration crowds  —  “That's what you guys should be writing and covering,” new White House press secretary Sean Spicer angrily lectured reporters on Saturday during his first remarks from the podium of the press briefing room.
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Sarah Wheaton / Politico:
On Day 2, Trump sticks to media bashing and boasting  —  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: Washington Post and ABC News
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: Politico and Fox News Insider
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.
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Fox declines to renew contracts for several contributors  —  Fox News has declined to renew contributor contracts for longtime political commentator George Will, Republican strategist Ed Rollins and actress Stacey Dash, according to a network spokesperson.  —  Will, 75, is a Pulitzer-winning …
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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Steve Rukavina / CBC News:
Montrealers bound for Trump inauguration turned away at border
Discussion: The Guardian
Donald J. Trump / CNN:
Full text: Trump's executive order on Obamacare  —  MINIMIZING THE ECONOMIC BURDEN OF THE PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT PENDING REPEAL  —  By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
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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.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Breitbart to open bureaus in Berlin and Paris: report
Discussion: Axios, RedState and Bloomberg
 
 
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump attends interfaith prayer service in Washington as a huge crowd protests his presidency
Discussion: The Hill, CNN and RedState
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Inaugural Speech Dims G.O.P. Hopes for a More Conservative Trump Agenda
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Reuters:
'It's made in Vietnam!' At inauguration, origin of red Trump hats shocks many
Discussion: TheStreet.com
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Flynn is creating the most military-heavy National Security Council of the modern era
Discussion: RedState
 

 
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