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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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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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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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Dear media: The Trump White House has total contempt for you. Time to react accordingly.
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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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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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Trump repeats debunked voter fraud claim at meeting with Hill leaders
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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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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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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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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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‘Saturday Night Live’ Writer Katie Rich Suspended Over Barron Trump Tweet, Issues Apology
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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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Trump names his Inauguration Day a ‘National Day of Patriotic Devotion’
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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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Limo torched in DC protests belongs to Muslim immigrant - EXCLUSIVE
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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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Donald Trump Signs Anti-Abortion Executive Order Surrounded By Men
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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:


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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Gov. Mark Dayton collapses in the middle of his State of the State address
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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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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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Vox Popoli, Instapundit and The Last Tradition


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 …


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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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 …


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 …


White House Shuts Down Phone Comment Line, Tells Callers to Use Non-Existent Facebook Messenger Account Instead — The White House has shut down its public comment line, instead telling callers, with an automated message, that they should contact the new administration via Facebook Messenger instead.
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Trump 101: What he reads and watches — President Trump spends substantial time and energy ridiculing the media. He spends even more time consuming —and obsessing about — it. — Print copies of three newspapers. When Billy Bush was on, “Access Hollywood” every night.
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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.