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5:15 PM ET, January 25, 2017

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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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Jon Swaine / The Guardian:
Steve Bannon registered to vote in two states despite Trump's cries of ‘voter fraud’  —  President's senior adviser is registered in both New York and Florida, as president falsely claims in tweet that such an arrangement amounts to fraud  —  A senior White House adviser to Donald …
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Trump's voter fraud claims undermine the democratic process and his presidency  —  There is no benign explanation for President Trump's false assertion that millions of people voted illegally in the last election.  It is either a deliberate attempt to undermine faith in the democratic process …
New York Times:
Mar-A-Lago Doubles Its Initiation Fee as Membership Interest Swells  —  The Mar-a-Lago resort doubles its initiation fee — to $200,000 — leading to charges that the Trump Organization is cashing in on its founder's power.  —  By President Trump's definition of voter fraud, his senior adviser …
Peter Baker / New York Times:
After His Claim of Voter Fraud, Trump Vows ‘Major Investigation’
Susan Page / USA Today:
Sen. Chuck Schumer ‘worries’ when it comes to Trump and facts
Matea Gold / Washington Post:
Stephen Bannon was registered to vote in two states - despite his efforts to take himself off the rolls in Florida
Discussion: ThinkProgress
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Jerry Markon / Washington Post:
Trump to sign executive orders enabling construction of proposed border wall and targeting sanctuary cities  —  President Trump is planning to sign executive orders on Wednesday enabling construction of his proposed border wall, and targeting cities where local leaders refuse to hand …
Rafael Bernal / The Hill:
Trump signs orders on border wall, immigration enforcement  —  President Trump on Wednesday signed two executive orders on immigration, including one that directs federal agencies to begin construction of a wall on the border with Mexico, his signature campaign promise.
New York Times:
Trump to Order Mexican Border Wall and Curtail Immigration  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump on Wednesday will order the construction of a Mexican border wall — the first in a series of actions this week to crack down on immigrants, including slashing the number of refugees who can resettle …
CNN:
Trump orders construction of border wall, moves to increase deportations
Discussion: The Week
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Trump Orders Mexican Border Wall to Be Built and Is Expected to Block Syrian Refugees
Discussion: Gothamist
CNN:
Trump to direct federal resources toward building a border wall on Wednesday
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.
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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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.
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TMZ.com:
Mary Tyler Moore — In Grave Condition
Discussion: Mashable, Mediaite and Hollywood Life
Timothy Cama / The Hill:
EPA spokesman: No plan to take down climate webpages  —  An Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) spokesman said the Trump administration is not currently planning to take down website content regarding climate change.  —  Doug Ericksen, spokesman for the so-called beachhead team working …
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Valerie Volcovici / Reuters:
Trump administration tells EPA to cut climate page from website: sources
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 …
Jake Sherman / Politico:
Poll: Voters liked Trump's inaugural address  —  Dark.  Negative.  Divisive.  That's was the immediate narrative about President Donald Trump's inaugural address.  —  But many Americans liked it.  —  A new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll shows that the new president's message is resonating with voters …
Discussion: Power Line, The Daily Caller and IJR
U.S. House of Representatives Permanent Selection …:
Joint Statement on Progress of Bipartisan HPSCI Inquiry into Russian Active Measures  —  f t # e  —  Washington, D.C. - Today, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes and Ranking Member Adam Schiff released the following statement:
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 …
Discussion: Political Wire
CNN:
Secret Service looking at agent who suggested she wouldn't defend Trump from bullet  —  Washington (CNN)The Secret Service said Tuesday it is taking “appropriate action” after one of its agents suggested on Facebook that she would not defend President Donald Trump should someone try to shoot him.
Adele M. Stan / American Prospect:
Hold the Mansplaining: The Resistance Is Being Led by Women  —  (Photo: Sipa USA via AP/Albin Lohr-Jones)  —  Hundreds of thousands marched in the streets of Washington, D.C., on January 21, 2017.  —  The contrast couldn't have been greater: a soulless inauguration ceremony …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
 
 
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Borys Kit / Hollywood Reporter:
Universal Wins Bidding War for Michael Bay-Produced Script About Trump-Like Dystopia (Exclusive)
Discussion: Hot Air, Gizmodo and The Guardian
Elizabeth Llorente / Fox News:
Pardon me: Navy sailor in jail for submarine photos pleads for mercy from Trump
Discussion: Hot Air
Aimee Lewis / CNN:
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Associated Press:
Germany will abolish law against insulting foreign heads of state
Discussion: Mother Jones
Russ Choma / Mother Jones:
Donald Trump's Foreign Business Partners Got VIP Treatment During the Inauguration
Discussion: Raw Story
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