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Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
Trump's Voter Fraud Example? A Troubled Tale With Bernhard Langer — WASHINGTON — On Monday, President Trump gathered House and Senate leaders in the State Dining Room for a get-to-know-you reception, served them tiny meatballs and pigs-in-a-blanket, and quickly launched into a story meant …
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Jillian Kay Melchior / Heat Street:
EXCLUSIVE: Tiffany Trump Is Currently Registered to Vote in Two States — Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he would request an investigation into voter fraud, “including those registered to vote in two states.” But the new president's own daughter Tiffany Trump is registered to vote …
Paulina Firozi / The Hill:
Tiffany Trump is registered to vote in two states: report
Tiffany Trump is registered to vote in two states: report
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Jon Swaine / The Guardian:
Steve Bannon registered to vote in two states despite Trump's cries of ‘voter fraud’
Steve Bannon registered to vote in two states despite Trump's cries of ‘voter fraud’
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CNN:
Trump cabinet nominee Steven Mnuchin is also registered to vote in two states
Trump cabinet nominee Steven Mnuchin is also registered to vote in two states
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New York Times:
Mar-a-Lago Doubles Its Initiation Fee as Membership Interest Swells
Mar-a-Lago Doubles Its Initiation Fee as Membership Interest Swells
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Max Fisher / New York Times:
Trump Prepares Orders Aiming at Global Funding and Treaties — WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is preparing executive orders that would clear the way to drastically reduce the United States' role in the United Nations and other international organizations, as well as begin a process …
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The White House:
Executive Order: Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States — ENHANCING PUBLIC SAFETY IN THE INTERIOR OF THE — By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Immigration and Nationality Act …
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Read leaked drafts of 4 White House executive orders on Muslim ban, end to DREAMer program, and more — Apparent Trump administration drafts suggest a harsh crackdown on immigrants. — On Tuesday, Vox was given six documents that purported to be draft executive orders under consideration by the Trump administration.
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Alan Gomez / USA Today:
How Trump can defund ‘sanctuary cities’ protecting undocumented immigrants
How Trump can defund ‘sanctuary cities’ protecting undocumented immigrants
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Rafael Bernal / The Hill:
Dems: Wall is ‘opposite of what America stands for’
Dems: Wall is ‘opposite of what America stands for’
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Arlette Saenz / ABC News:
President Trump Tells ABC News' David Muir: Construction of Border Wall Will Begin in ‘Months’ — In his first one-on-one television interview since being sworn in as the 45th president of the United States, President Donald Trump told ABC News anchor David Muir that Mexico would be paying …
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Azam Ahmed / New York Times:
As Trump Orders Wall, Mexico's President Considers Canceling U.S. Trip
As Trump Orders Wall, Mexico's President Considers Canceling U.S. Trip
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Fox News:
Trump orders construction of border wall, targets sanctuary cities
Trump orders construction of border wall, targets sanctuary cities
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Trump Blocks Syrian Refugees and Orders Mexican Border Wall to Be Built
Trump Blocks Syrian Refugees and Orders Mexican Border Wall to Be Built
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Trump Poised to Lift Ban on C.I.A. ‘Black Site’ Prisons — WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is preparing a sweeping executive order that would clear the way for the Central Intelligence Agency to reopen overseas “black site” prisons, like those where it detained and tortured terrorism suspects …
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Austin Wright / Politico:
Mattis, Pompeo stunned by CIA ‘black sites’ report — Two of the officials who will be in charge of carrying out President Donald Trump's terrorism detainee policies, Defense Secretary James Mattis and CIA Director Mike Pompeo, were “blindsided” by reports of a draft executive order …
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
It's No Trump Tower, but White House Has ‘Beautiful’ Phones — President Trump, who flew across the country on hundreds of nights during the 2016 campaign to sleep in his own bed, has now spent five straight days in the unfamiliar surroundings of the White House.
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Nina Burleigh / Newsweek:
Trump White House senior staff have private RNC email accounts — U.S. DONALD TRUMP RNC — Senior Trump administration staffers including Kellyanne Conway, Jared Kushner, Sean Spicer and Steve Bannon have active accounts on a Republican National Committee email system, Newsweek has learned.
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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Is Donald Trump's War With CNN Personal?
Is Donald Trump's War With CNN Personal?
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Michelle Ye Hee Lee / Washington Post:
Trump's absurd claim the 2012 Pew report researcher was ‘groveling’ — “Then he's groveling again. You know I always talk about the reporters that grovel when they want to write something that you want to hear but not necessarily millions of people want to hear or have to hear.”
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Robert Frank / CNBC:
Mar-a-Lago membership fee doubles to $200,000 — Mar-a-Lago, the Palm Beach resort owned by the Trump Organization, doubled its initiation fee to $200,000 following the election of Donald Trump as president. — People close to the Florida resort said the increase took effect Jan. 1.
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Hui-Yong Yu / Bloomberg:
Trump Hotels CEO Plots U.S. Expansion With Foreign Plans Shelved — Luxury hotels targeted for big cities, resort destinations — First of new lower-priced Scion hotels to debut this year — President Donald Trump's hotel-management company wants to expand its namesake luxury hotels across …
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Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
A white Trump voter explains why he left a black waitress a $450 tip with an uplifting note — When Jason White walked into Busboys and Poets Monday morning, a Washington restaurant that promotes social justice, he looked around and told his friend he might want to remove his red “Make America Great Again” cap.
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Guy Benson / Townhall.com:
Awesome: Trump Fans Leave Huge Tip, Kind Note for Stunned Anti-Trump Waitress
Awesome: Trump Fans Leave Huge Tip, Kind Note for Stunned Anti-Trump Waitress
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Maybe Trump isn't ‘lying’ — CNN's Jake Tapper provided the best evisceration of President Trump's claim that massive voter fraud, namely millions of illegal immigrants casting votes, threw the popular vote to Hillary Clinton: — The media, understandably, try to understand why Trump would tell such an easily debunked falsehood.
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John Podhoretz / Commentary Magazine:
The National Elite Nervous Breakdown — It cannot go on like this. It's been five days since the inaugural and the adrenalized, hypercaffeinated, speed-freak affect of the entire chattering class is beginning to seem like we're living through Bob Woodward's classic depiction in his book Wired …
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Virginia Heffernan / New York Times:
Mary Tyler Moore, Who Incarnated the Modern Woman on TV, Dies at 80 — Mary Tyler Moore, whose witty and graceful performances on two top-rated television shows in the 1960s and '70s helped define a new vision of American womanhood, died on Wednesday in Greenwich, Conn. She was 80.