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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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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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Political Wire
Chris Sommerfeldt / New York Daily News:
Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway allegedly punched a man in the face at President Trump's inaugural ball — Top Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway allegedly punched a tuxedo-clad man at an exclusive inauguration ball just hours after the new commander-in-chief was sworn in, according to a witness.
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Political Wire
Jennifer Calfas / The Hill:
Sales of ‘1984’ surge after Conway talks ‘alternative facts’ — George Orwell's dystopian novel “1984” is surging in popularity in the days since President Trump's inauguration. — The iconic book, published nearly 70 years ago, is the sixth best-selling book on Amazon as of Tuesday morning.
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Political Wire, CNNMoney, The Week and Religion News Service
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Dear media: The Trump White House has total contempt for you. Time to react accordingly. — THE MORNING PLUM: — Here is one thing we learned about the new Trump White House this weekend: It views the institutional role that the news media is supposed to play in our democracy with nothing but total, unbridled contempt.
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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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ABC News, Politico and Political Wire
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Kellyanne Conway gets Secret Service protection
Kellyanne Conway gets Secret Service protection
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Charles Gasparino / Facebook:
re-posting this because there are some erroneous reports …
re-posting this because there are some erroneous reports …
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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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Mother Jones, Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Week, Media Matters for America, Political Wire and The Verge
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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
Without evidence, Trump tells lawmakers 3 million to 5 million illegal ballots cost him the popular vote
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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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New York Times:
Trump Is Said to Keep James Comey as F.B.I. Director — WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, told his top agents from around the country that he had been asked by President Trump to stay on the job running the federal government's top law enforcement agency, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Trump keeping Comey as FBI head: report — President Trump has decided to keep James Comey on as director of the FBI, the New York Times reported Tuesday morning. — Comey faced heavy criticism during the election from both sides of the aisle for his treatment of the investigation into Hillary Clinton
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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
EPA Freezes Grants, Tells Employees Not To Talk About It, Sources Say
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Bloomberg:
Trump Advancing Keystone, Dakota Oil Pipelines Today, Source Says — Pipelines are flashpoints among environmentalists, activists — Dakota Access was stalled by Obama administration in September — President Donald Trump intends to take action today to advance construction of the Keystone XL …
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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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Mike Allen / Axios:
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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ABC News, Washington Post and The Week
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 …
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
FBI found no wrongdoing in Flynn's calls with Russia: report — An FBI review of communications between Russia's ambassador to the U.S. and President Trump's national security advisor did not produce any incriminating evidence, The Washington Post reported Monday night.
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Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
FBI reviewed Flynn's calls with Russian ambassador but found nothing illicit
FBI reviewed Flynn's calls with Russian ambassador but found nothing illicit
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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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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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Politico, ThinkProgress, UN Dispatch, BuzzFeed and CNSNews
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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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
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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Rory Carroll / Reuters:
Court appeal argues California emissions trading plan akin to ‘illegal tax’ — Parties in a four-year-old legal challenge to California's emissions trading program will head to court in Sacramento on Tuesday with a business group arguing the billions the program collected amounts to an “illegal tax” on businesses.
CBO's Publications:
The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2017 to 2027 — If current laws remained generally unchanged, deficits would follow an upward trajectory over the next decade, driving up federal debt. CBO projects moderate economic growth during that period. — View by Chapter
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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:
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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