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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 Abruptly Steps Down
Report: Entire State Department Management Team Abruptly Steps Down
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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.
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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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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 — 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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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.
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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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Stone recounts Trump's early thoughts on 2016 race: 'I'm better than any of those a—holes'
Stone recounts Trump's early thoughts on 2016 race: 'I'm better than any of those a—holes'
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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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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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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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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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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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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
Read leaked drafts of 4 White House executive orders on Muslim ban, end to DREAMer program, and more
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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:
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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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Maybe Trump isn't ‘lying’
Maybe Trump isn't ‘lying’
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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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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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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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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 …
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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.