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Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
The first days inside Trump's White House: Fury, tumult and a reboot — President Trump had just returned to the White House on Saturday from his final inauguration event, a tranquil interfaith prayer service, when the flashes of anger began to build. — Trump turned on the television …
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Mike Allen / Axios:
The Trump show: a new drama — This West Wing is a tough neighborhood. Even after Sean Spicer's successful get-back-on-the-horse presser yesterday, we were told that a top White House official was discussing his possible replacement. On Day 4! With 1,457 to go in this term.
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Nancy Cook / Politico:
Trump assembles a shadow Cabinet — The White House is installing senior aides atop major federal agencies to shadow the administration's Cabinet secretaries, creating a direct line with loyalists who can monitor and shape White House goals across the federal bureaucracy.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Dear media: The Trump White House has total contempt for you. Time to react accordingly.
Dear media: The Trump White House has total contempt for you. Time to react accordingly.
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New York Times:
Trump Repeats Lie About Popular Vote in Meeting With Lawmakers — WASHINGTON — President Trump used his first official meeting with congressional leaders on Monday to falsely claim that millions of unauthorized immigrants had robbed him of a popular vote majority, a return to his obsession …
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Abby Phillip / Washington Post:
Without evidence, Trump tells lawmakers 3 million to 5 million illegal ballots cost him the popular vote — Days after being sworn in, President Trump insisted to congressional leaders invited to a reception at the White House that he would have won the popular vote had it not been for millions …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump repeats debunked voter fraud claim at meeting with Hill leaders
Trump repeats debunked voter fraud claim at meeting with Hill leaders
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ProPublica:
Trump Administration Imposes Freeze On EPA Grants and Contracts — The Trump administration has imposed a freeze on grants and contracts by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, a move that could affect a significant part of the agency's budget allocations and even threaten …
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Kate Sheppard / The Huffington Post:
EPA Freezes Grants, Tells Employees Not To Talk About It, Sources Say — It's unclear whether the freeze is temporary or indefinite. — WASHINGTON The Environmental Protection Agency has frozen its grant programs, according to sources there. — EPA staff has been instructed to freeze …
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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Senate Democrats set to unveil a Trump-size infrastructure plan — A group of senior Senate Democrats on Tuesday plan to unveil their own $1 trillion plan to revamp the nation's airports, bridges, roads and seaports, urging President Trump to back their proposal, which they say would create 15 million jobs over 10 years.
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Matthew Dessem / Slate:
Oh, Saturday Night Live, Honey, No — Oh jeez, Saturday Night Live. You didn't have to do this. Really, you didn't. You got away with the Hillary-Clinton-singing-"Hallelujah" thing, but that was a uniquely terrible week (and long before it was apparent that Hillary Clinton had, in fact, given up).
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Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
‘Saturday Night Live’ Writer Katie Rich Suspended Over Barron Trump Tweet, Issues Apology
‘Saturday Night Live’ Writer Katie Rich Suspended Over Barron Trump Tweet, Issues Apology
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Federal Register:
Special Observances: National Day of Patriotic Devotion (Proc. 9570) — An unpublished Presidential Document by the Executive Office of the President on 01/24/2017 — This document is unpublished. It is scheduled to be published on 01/24/2017. — Once it is published it will be available on this page in an official form.
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Abby Phillip / Washington Post:
Trump names his Inauguration Day a ‘National Day of Patriotic Devotion’
Trump names his Inauguration Day a ‘National Day of Patriotic Devotion’
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Sean Langille / Washington Examiner:
Limo torched in DC protests belongs to Muslim immigrant, may cost $70,000 in damages — The limousine that was set on fire during the anti-Trump anarchist protest in downtown Washington on Inauguration Day is owned by a Muslim immigrant who says the damage could cost his company $70,000.
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Siraj Hashmi / Red Alert Politics:
Limo torched in DC protests belongs to Muslim immigrant - EXCLUSIVE
Limo torched in DC protests belongs to Muslim immigrant - EXCLUSIVE
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Dara Lind / Vox:
Trump's flurry of day one policies had some surprising omissions — Donald Trump made a lot of promises on the campaign trail about what he'd do on day one of his presidency. Now, day one is over — and after the first full weekday of the Trump administration, what Trump hasn't done is just as notable as what he has.
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Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post:
Donald Trump Signs Anti-Abortion Executive Order Surrounded By Men
Donald Trump Signs Anti-Abortion Executive Order Surrounded By Men
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Henry Farrell / Washington Post:
This is how Donald Trump engineers applause — When Donald Trump visited the CIA over the weekend to make a speech, many commentators noted that his audience clapped and cheered enthusiastically. Now, according to CBS News, intelligence sources are pushing back:
Ricardo Lopez / Star Tribune:
Dayton's message cut short by collapse during State of State address — Before fainting briefly and recovering, governor laid out new spending goals. — Video (01:26) : Gov. Mark Dayton collapsed while delivering his State of the State speech on Monday, striking his head on a lectern.
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David Montgomery / Twin Cities:
Gov. Mark Dayton collapses in the middle of his State of the State address
Gov. Mark Dayton collapses in the middle of his State of the State address
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Trump's latest hire alarms allies of Ryan — and bolsters Bannon — When House Speaker Paul D. Ryan's red-brick Georgian revival in Janesville, Wis., was surrounded last July by women whose children were murdered by undocumented immigrants, conservative writer Julia Hahn published a scathing report …
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Michael Grunwald / Politico:
How Trump Could Shrink the Government (While Still Keeping the Good Stuff) — Donald Trump's political brand is about fighting and winning, and he has promised to fight and win a war on big government. As a candidate, he often attacked the federal bureaucracy as a bloated monstrosity teeming with …
David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times:
Conservative Colorado judge emerges as a top contender to fill Scalia's Supreme Court seat — Neil Gorsuch, 49, was among 21 potential high court candidates circulated by Trump's team during the campaign (Lauren Victoria Burke / For the Denver Post) — Judge Neil M. Gorsuch …
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DNC Chair Candidates Bash White People in Racially-Charged Forum — ‘My job is to shut other white people down’ — Candidates aspiring to take over as chairman of the Democratic National Committee met Monday night to discuss what went wrong in 2016 and how to get the party back on track.
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Tyler Cowen / Bloomberg:
Why Trump's Staff Is Lying — One of the most striking features of the early Trump administration has been its political uses of lying. The big weekend story was the obviously false claim of Donald Trump's press secretary, Sean Spicer, that Trump pulled in the largest inauguration crowds in American history.
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Ashley Feinberg / The Slot:
Melania Trump Definitely Loves Her Husband and Is Very Happy to Be Here — Remember the inauguration? That was fun, wasn't it? We all had a very nice and good time welcoming in our new president, Donald J. Trump. But of all the many, many happy people in attendance …
BBC:
Brexit: Supreme Court says Parliament must give Article 50 go-ahead — Parliament must vote on whether the government can start the Brexit process, the Supreme Court has ruled. — The judgement means Theresa May cannot begin talks with the EU until MPs and peers give their backing …
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Associated Press:
Trump's Pick for Health Secretary Faces New Senate Hearing — A second Senate committee is ready to interrogate President Donald Trump's pick for health secretary, a nominee who's backed by Republicans but under fire from Democrats for his support for tearing down President Barack Obama's health care overhaul and his past stock trades.
Rebecca Traister / New York Magazine:
The Future of the Left Is Female — Women's rights are human rights, and women leaders are progressive leaders. — A lot of people predicted that women were going to change America's political history in January of 2017. But pretty much no one anticipated that they'd be doing it as leaders of the resistance.
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