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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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Margaret Hartmann / New York Magazine:
Paul Ryan: U.S. Will ‘Front Money’ for Border Wall, Devise Plan to Make Mexico Pay Later — President Trump just fulfilled his biggest campaign promise, signing an executive order on Wednesday that orders the “immediate construction of a physical wall” between the United States and Mexico.
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Mexican president cancels Trump meeting in Washington — Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto on Thursday called off a meeting with President Donald Trump that had been scheduled for next week, after tensions rose between the two countries over Trump's executive actions on a border wall and a sweeping immigration crackdown.
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Trump: It'd be better to cancel meeting if Mexico won't pay for wall — President Trump on Thursday said it may be better to cancel his upcoming meeting with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto if Mexico refuses to pay for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Daniella Diaz / CNN:
Trump to Mexican president: Better to cancel our meeting
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ABC News:
TRANSCRIPT: ABC News Anchor David Muir Interviews President Trump — ABC News “World News Tonight” anchor David Muir interviewed President Donald Trump in the White House. The following is a transcript of the interview: — DAVID MUIR: Mr. President, it's an honor to be here at the White House.
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Michelle Ye Hee Lee / Washington Post:
Trump's absurd claim the 2012 Pew report researcher was ‘groveling’
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Media Matters for America:
Alex Jones Says Infowars Has Been Invited To Trump's White House Press Briefings — ALEX JONES: He keeps saying CNN is fake, and I'm not going to any of your fake news. What's CNN doing in the front row, when [White House press secretary Sean] Spicer keeps going to them?
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Trump White House senior staff have private email accounts: report
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Stone recounts Trump's early thoughts on 2016 race: 'I'm better than any of those a—holes'
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Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Dems to David Brock: Stop Helping, You Are Killing Us — As David Brock attempts to position himself as a leader in rebuilding a demoralized Democratic Party in the age of Trump, many leading Democratic organizers and operatives are wishing the man would simply disappear.
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Trump's flashy executive actions could run aground — President Donald Trump's team made little effort to consult with federal agency lawyers or lawmakers as they churned out executive actions this week, stoking fears the White House is creating the appearance of real momentum with flawed orders …
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Austin Wright / Politico:
Mattis, Pompeo stunned by CIA ‘black sites’ report
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Amie Gordon / Daily Mail:
Shia LaBeouf is ARRESTED live on camera during anti-Trump livestream after ‘getting in a fight with a passing protester’ — Shia LaBeouf was led away in handcuffs after a spat during an anti-Trump protest. — The Hollywood actor was arrested by NYPD officers during his ‘He will not divide us’ live stream …
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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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Chelsea E Manning / The Guardian:
Compromise doesn't work with our political opponents. When will we learn? — In Chelsea Manning's first column since her commutation, she writes that Barack Obama's legacy is a warning against not being bold enough — Barack Obama left behind hints of a progressive legacy.
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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
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John Kass / Chicago Tribune:
Trump transforms Emanuel into Mayor Zorro — Mayor Rahm Emanuel, in silhouette, presides over the meeting of the Chicago City Council on Jan. 25, 2017. — Depending on your politics, President Donald Trump is either a miracle worker saving America or an evil wizard bent on ruining the nation.
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Liz Robbins / New York Times:
‘Sanctuary City’ Mayors Vow to Defy Trump's Immigration Order
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Michael Wolff / Hollywood Reporter:
A Conversation With Kellyanne Conway: “I'm the Face of Trump's Movement” — The president's counselor — now the most powerful (and ridiculed) woman in America — talks ‘SNL,’ “alternative facts,” the “public cesspool” of Twitter and the apoplectic, outraged media: “I can go on any show at any time.”
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
A Lie by Any Other Name — This is not a presentation of “alternative facts,” whatever that may mean, as Kellyanne Conway, President Trump's mistress of misdirection, posited over the weekend. — These are lies; good old-fashioned lies, baldfaced and flat-out lies.
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Democrats hold lessons on how to talk to real people — Senate Democrats geared up for battle with President Donald Trump by preparing to talk to people who voted for him — and by hearing from one of his arch-nemeses. — Gathering in Sheperdstown, W.Va., Democrats were scheduled to hear …
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Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
In his first major TV interview as president, Trump is endlessly obsessed with his popularity — The lengthy interview revealed a man fixated on his following and eager to provide evidence of his likability, even if that information doesn't match reality.
Burgess Everett / Politico:
GOP leaders won't say how border wall will be paid for — PHILADELPHIA — Republican leaders are vowing to pass a spending bill to build President Donald Trump's border wall. What they won't say is how they plan to cover the costs. — House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin said Thursday …
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Pence Will Speak at Anti-Abortion Rally — WASHINGTON — Vice President Mike Pence will speak on Friday to a gathering of anti-abortion activists on the National Mall, a sign of the movement's new and growing authority in a government now dominated by Republicans.
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CNN:
Donald Trump's doublethink: How to undermine your own election — Trump believes fraud cost him popular vote — (CNN)Doublethink is, of course, a construct made famous by George Orwell's classic and newly popular novel, “1984.” It is the ability — for all who engage …
Nathan Bomey / USA Today:
Elon Musk may actually be serious about tunneling under L.A. — One of the few people who is just rich, powerful and inventive enough to actually do something about the legendary traffic congestion in Los Angeles is finally fed up. And he has a plan. — Billionaire innovator Elon Musk …
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Dan Levine / Reuters:
In Trump era, Democrats and Republicans switch sides on states' rights — Five years ago, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, now President Donald Trump's nominee for administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, sat in the front row as the U.S. Supreme Court debated the contentious Affordable Care Act.
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