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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Trump Strategist Stephen Bannon Says Media Should ‘Keep Its Mouth Shut’ — WASHINGTON — Just days after President Trump spoke of a “running war” with the media, his chief White House strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, ratcheted up the attacks, arguing that news organizations had been “humiliated” …
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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Steve Bannon: Media should ‘keep its mouth shut’
Steve Bannon: Media should ‘keep its mouth shut’
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Justin Baragona / Mediaite:
Steve Bannon: The Media Should ‘Keep Its Mouth Shut and Just Listen For Awhile’
Esme Cribb / Talking Points Memo:
Steve Bannon Tells NY Times The Media Should ‘Keep Its Mouth Shut’
Steve Bannon Tells NY Times The Media Should ‘Keep Its Mouth Shut’
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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
The State Department's entire senior management team just resigned — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's job running the State Department just got considerably more difficult. The entire senior level of management officials resigned Wednesday, part of an ongoing mass exodus …
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Elise Labott / CNN:
Trump administration asks top State Department officials to leave — Rex Tillerson grilled on foreign policy — Washington (CNN)Two senior administration officials said Thursday that the Trump administration told four top State Department management officials that their services …
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Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Report: Entire State Department Management Team Fired By Trump Admin
Report: Entire State Department Management Team Fired By Trump Admin
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Trump Plans 20% Tax on Mexican Imports to Pay for Border Wall — PHILADELPHIA — President Trump plans to make Mexico pay for his border wall by imposing a 20 percent tax on all imports into the United States from Mexico, raising billions of dollars that would cover the cost of the new barrier.
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Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
GOP congressional leaders: The border wall will cost $12 billion to $15 billion — PHILADELPHIA — Congressional Republican leaders said Thursday that they plan to move forward with legislation to provide $12 billion to $15 billion to pay for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border …
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Ryan Struyk / ABC News:
The Note: President Trump's First Interview with David Muir
The Note: President Trump's First Interview with David Muir
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Dallas Morning News:
White House floats tax on Mexican imports that would force Americans to pay for wall
White House floats tax on Mexican imports that would force Americans to pay for wall
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Jay Caruso / RedState:
BREAKING: Trump Proposes Tax On Imports From Mexico To Pay For The Wall
BREAKING: Trump Proposes Tax On Imports From Mexico To Pay For The Wall
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Bob Bryan / Business Insider:
Trump press secretary says the administration is considering a 20% border tax on Mexican imports …
Trump press secretary says the administration is considering a 20% border tax on Mexican imports …
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Washington Post:
Trump pressured Park Service to find proof for his claims about inauguration crowd — On the morning after Donald Trump's inauguration, acting National Park Service director Michael T. Reynolds received an extraordinary summons: The new president wanted to talk to him.
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Paul Demko / Politico:
Trump White House abruptly halts Obamacare ads — The Trump administration has pulled the plug on all Obamacare outreach and advertising in the crucial final days of the 2017 enrollment season, according to sources at Health and Human Services and on Capitol Hill.
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Kevin Cirilli / Bloomberg:
Elon Musk Floated the Idea of a Carbon Tax to Trump, an Official Says
Elon Musk Floated the Idea of a Carbon Tax to Trump, an Official Says
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Joe Heim / Washington Post:
‘They never saw this coming’: A Q&A with Kellyanne Conway — When Kellyanne Conway took over as Donald Trump's presidential campaign manager in August — his third in under a year — there were few signs that Trump would emerge victorious on election night just three months later.
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Lachlan Markay / Washington Free Beacon:
Media Matters Says It IsSecretly Working with Facebook to Fight ‘Fake News’ — Left-wing advocacy group Media Matters for America has been quietly working with social media giant Facebook to combat what the group describes as “propaganda” and “fake news,” internal documents reveal.
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Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Dems to David Brock: Stop Helping, You Are Killing Us
Dems to David Brock: Stop Helping, You Are Killing Us
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Edward Klein / Author:
Hillary: “I'll Be Back!” — The other day, Hillary Clinton assembled …
Hillary: “I'll Be Back!” — The other day, Hillary Clinton assembled …
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Azam Ahmed / New York Times:
In a Corner, President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico Punches Back — MEXICO CITY — Hunkered down in the presidential palace, Enrique Peña Nieto, the unpopular leader of Mexico, was besieged on both sides. — The new American president, Donald J. Trump, had just ordered …
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Elena Holodny / Business Insider:
The peso is tumbling after Mexico's president said he wouldn't meet with Trump
The peso is tumbling after Mexico's president said he wouldn't meet with Trump
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Andrew Revkin / ProPublica:
Trump's Team at EPA Vetting ‘Controversial’ Public Meetings and Presentations — President Donald Trump long ago announced his provocative intentions for the Environmental Protection Agency, pledging during the campaign to get rid of the agency “in almost every form,” with only “little tidbits left.”
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Washington Post:
It turns out Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner is also registered to vote in two states — Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law and one of his closest White House advisers, is registered to vote in both New Jersey and New York, according to elections officials and voting registration records …
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Americans Think Trump Will Be Worst President Since Nixon — PPP's newest national poll finds Donald Trump continuing to fare poorly with the public in his first week in office. Voters split evenly in their appraisals of his job performance with 44% approving and 44% disapproving of him.
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Patricia Mazzei / miamiherald:
Miami-Dade mayor orders jails to comply with Trump crackdown on ‘sanctuary’ counties — Fearing a loss of millions of dollars for defying immigration authorities, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez on Thursday ordered county jails to comply with federal immigration detention requests …
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Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Trump is playing with the press: Glenn Reynolds — He's gaslighting them and they fall for it every time. — Why are the relations between Donald Trump and the press so bad? There are two reasons. One is that Trump is a Republican, and the press consists overwhelmingly of Democrats.
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Jerry Mitchell / The Clarion Ledger:
Voter fraud probe traced back to ex-MS welfare head — The former Mississippi official whose tweet may have inspired President Trump to order a “major investigation” into voter fraud in the 2016 presidential election says he has been receiving death threats.
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The Independent:
Donald Trump has ordered his new administration to publish a weekly list of crimes committed by immigrants. — The US President's sweeping new executive order on immigration, which he signed on the fifth day of his presidency, includes a paragraph mandating the Secretary for Homeland Security to …
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Democrats launch scorched-earth strategy against Trump — What began as a high-minded discussion about how to position the Democratic Party against President Donald Trump appears to be nearing its conclusion. The bulk of the party has settled on a scorched-earth, not-now-not-ever model of opposition.
TMZ.com:
Drew Carey — That Was His Kid Fueling the Fire At D.C. Trump Protest — Drew Carey's son is the mystery kid from the Trump protest who claimed he started a bonfire and yelled, “Screw our president” ... TMZ has learned. — News footage of the boy went viral after the inauguration eve protest …
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Michael Barone / Washington Examiner:
‘America First’ is not a threat but a promise — “From this day forward, it's going to be only America first, America first,” President Trump proclaimed in his inaugural address. As has been his habit, he added to the prepared text the word “only” and employed the rhetorical device of repetition by repeating “America first.”
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