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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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Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Report: Entire State Department Management Team Fired By Trump Admin — The entire senior level management team at the State Department was fired by President Donald Trump's administration this week, CNN reported Thursday. — Senior administration officials told CNN's Elise Labott …
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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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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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Ryan Struyk / ABC News:
The Note: President Trump's First Interview with David Muir — THE BIG STORY: It might be a good thing that congressional Republicans are huddling with President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence in Philadelphia, because official Washington is already drowning.
Daniella Diaz / CNN:
Trump to Mexican president: Better to cancel our meeting — Washington (CNN)Donald Trump hasn't even been president for a week and already the US-Mexico battle over a border wall is turning red hot. — Not giving an inch, Trump bluntly said Thursday that it would be better to cancel …
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Trump: It'd be better to cancel meeting if Mexico won't pay for wall
Trump: It'd be better to cancel meeting if Mexico won't pay for wall
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Mexican president cancels Trump meeting in Washington
Mexican president cancels Trump meeting in Washington
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Michael Isikoff / Yahoo:
CIA head was ‘blindsided’ by waterboarding memo
CIA head was ‘blindsided’ by waterboarding memo
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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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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Mayors vow to fight Trump on sanctuary cities
Mayors vow to fight Trump on sanctuary cities
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The White House:
Executive Order: Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States
Executive Order: Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States
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Aamer Madhani / USA Today:
Big U.S. city mayors vow to defy Trump on sanctuary cities order
Big U.S. city mayors vow to defy Trump on sanctuary cities order
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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.
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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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
Trump White House senior staff have private email accounts: report
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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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Tess Townsend / Recode:
Google has banned 200 publishers since it passed a new policy against fake news
Google has banned 200 publishers since it passed a new policy against fake news
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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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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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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.
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Bill Chappell / NPR:
The Doomsday Clock Is Reset: Closest To Midnight Since The 1950s
The Doomsday Clock Is Reset: Closest To Midnight Since The 1950s
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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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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
WH: Trump will sign directive on voter-fraud probe
WH: Trump will sign directive on voter-fraud probe
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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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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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Max Fisher / New York Times:
British Alignment With Trump Threatens European Order — LONDON — As American allies across Europe and Asia brace for President Donald J. Trump, Britain stands out for the degree to which it is proceeding as if little has changed. — The country, consumed with managing Brexit …
Kevin Cirilli / Bloomberg:
Elon Musk Floated the Idea of a Carbon Tax to Trump, an Official Says — Issue raised at White House meeting this week on manufacturing — Idea has been backed by secretary of state nominee Tillerson — Tesla Motors Inc. founder Elon Musk is pressing the Trump administration to adopt …
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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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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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