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1:20 PM ET, January 26, 2017

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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 his planned trip to Washington, after President Donald Trump moved forward with his plan for a long-promised border wall and needled his southern neighbor about forcing Mexico to pay for it.
Elena Holodny / Business Insider:
The peso is tumbling after Mexico's president says he won't meet with Trump  —  The peso was tumbling Thursday after Mexico's president, Enrique Peña Nieto, announced he had canceled a meeting scheduled for next week with President Donald Trump.  —  The peso was down by 1.2% at 21.3175 per dollar as of 11:57 a.m. ET.
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Trump: It'd be better to cancel meeting if Mexico won't pay for wall
Daniella Diaz / CNN:
Trump to Mexican president: Better to cancel our meeting
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’
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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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Stone recounts Trump's early thoughts on 2016 race: 'I'm better than any of those a—holes'
Discussion: RedState
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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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
WH: Trump will sign directive on voter-fraud probe
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.
Michael Isikoff / Yahoo:
CIA head was ‘blindsided’ by waterboarding memo  —  CIA director Mike Pompeo was “blindsided” by a draft executive order that could open the door for American intelligence agencies to resume waterboarding and other “enhanced interrogation techniques” at newly reopened CIA “black site” …
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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 …
Discussion: Vox, US News, AOL and Raw Story
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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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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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.
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 …
Discussion: ABC News
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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.”
Discussion: Mediaite, Refinery29 and The Week
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 …
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.
Discussion: Political Wire and Politicus USA
Robinson Meyer / The Atlantic:
The Doomsday Clock's Most Dire Warning Since the Cold War  —  The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists announced Thursday that the Doomsday Clock now stands at two-and-a-half minutes to midnight, suggesting that existential threats now pose a greater danger to humanity than they have at any time since the height of the Cold War.
Discussion: The Verge
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:
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 …
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 …
 
 
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Hill Republicans want answers.  On Wednesday, Trump gave them only more questions — and fresh headaches.
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Emily Smith / Page Six:
Melania Trump ready to fight back against left-wing haters
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Tess Townsend / Recode:
Google has banned 200 publishers since it passed a new policy against fake news
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Frustrated Republicans press McConnell to kill the filibuster
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Deutsche Welle / DW.COM:
Berlin abolishing slander law on insulting foreign leaders
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Pence Will Speak at Anti-Abortion Rally
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 Earlier Items: 
Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Trump sets dizzying WH pace in first days
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John Kass / Chicago Tribune:
Trump transforms Emanuel into Mayor Zorro
Dan Levine / Reuters:
In Trump era, Democrats and Republicans switch sides on states' rights
USA Today:
How Donald Trump, Theresa May are the 2017 version of '80s power couple Reagan-Thatcher
John Podhoretz / Commentary Magazine:
The National Elite Nervous Breakdown
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Matthew Keys / The Desk:
DirecTV terminates its Dish acquisition after a group of Dish creditors rejected a modified bond exchange offer

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A growing number of podcasters, including Tim Ferriss, are moving away from interviews to monologues or co-hosts, as some well-known guests can be overexposed

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

 
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