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1:30 AM ET, January 22, 2017

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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.
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Bloomberg:
Women's Marches Flood Cities Worldwide on Trump's First Day  —  Washington march threatens to upstage inaugural weekend  —  Events in New York, Boston and Chicago draw massive crowds  —  Hundreds of thousands of people gathered in cities across the U.S. and around the world on Saturday …
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 …
New York Daily News:   Half a million people show up for Women's March on Washington as others flock to sister marches across globe
Max Kutner / Newsweek:
INAUGURATION AND WOMEN'S MARCH, BY THE NUMBERS
Washington Post:
Women's March on Washington: A sea of pink-hatted protesters vows to resist Donald Trump
Chicago Tribune:
Hundreds march through Loop as part of Women's March on Chicago
Washingtonian:
Photos: Scenes from the Women's March on Washington
Discussion: New York Magazine and AOL
Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Politicians, Activists Rally Crowd at Women's March in Washington
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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Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
Trump Attacks News Media Over Reporting on Crowd Sizes  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump and his staff spent their first full day in the White House waging a bitter war against the news media over depictions of the crowd at the inauguration on Friday.  —  In a pair of angry public appearances …
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Trump's real war isn't with the media.  It's with facts.  —  Trump needs to delegitimize the media because he needs to delegitimize facts.  —  Speaking at the CIA this afternoon, President Donald Trump said, “I have a running war with the media.”  —  Like much that Trump says, this isn't quite true.
Discussion: Nielsen
Bloomberg:
Trump Spokesman Accuses Media of False Inaugural Reporting
Discussion: ABC News
Sarah Wheaton / Politico:
On Day 2, Trump sticks to media bashing and boasting
Discussion: Washington Post and fox8.com
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
President Trump Tells CIA: ‘I Am With You 1,000 Percent’
Discussion: Jamie Dupree and Associated Press
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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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump wages war against the media as demonstrators protest his presidency
Discussion: New York Magazine
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
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution / WPXI-TV:
Jesse Jackson: Trump's inauguration speech was ‘full of hope and inclusion’  —  WASHINGTON - Not long after President Donald Trump was sworn in, we happened to run into the Rev. Jesse Jackson on the street.  He gave a thumbs-up to Trump's inauguration speech but said the new commander in chief …
Discussion: RedState
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.
Bloomberg:
Trump's Inaugural TV Ratings Fall Short of Obama's in 2009  —  Fox News tops cable, broadcast with 8.4 million total viewers  —  Obama's first inauguration in 2009 drew audience of 38 million  —  Nearly 31 million people watched President Donald Trump's inauguration …
Discussion: The Hill, Daily Kos and Financial Times
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 …
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Women's March Organizer Recently Met Ex-Hamas Operative, Has Family Ties To Terror Group  —  Linda Sarsour is organizing women's march  —  GOP Congressman Shakes Hillary's Hand Only To Later Mock Her  —  Melania Trump's Dress Stole The Show At The Inaugural Balls  —  Bill Was Staring — And Hillary Caught Him
 
 
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Brock groups set $40 million budget to fight Trump
Discussion: Washington Post
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump attends interfaith prayer service in Washington as a huge crowd protests his presidency
Discussion: CNN, The Hill and RedState
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Inaugural Speech Dims G.O.P. Hopes for a More Conservative Trump Agenda
Michelle Fitzpatrick / Yahoo:
‘Europe will wake up in 2017’, Le Pen tells Germany right-wing congress
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
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Reuters:
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