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5:10 PM ET, January 26, 2017

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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Trump Strategist Steve Bannon Says Media Should ‘Keep Its Mouth Shut’  —  WASHINGTON — Stephen K. Bannon, President Trump's chief White House strategist, laced into the American press during an interview on Wednesday evening, arguing that news organizations had been “humiliated” …
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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.
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.
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 …
Washington Post:
Mexican president cancels visit to Washington as tensions with Trump administration intensify
Discussion: Political Wire
Elena Holodny / Business Insider:
The peso is tumbling after Mexico's president said he wouldn't meet with Trump
Yahoo:
Mexico president cancels Trump summit as wall taunt deepens spat
Discussion: Vox Popoli
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 …
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 …
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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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
WH: Trump will sign directive on voter-fraud probe
Fox News:
John Fund and Hans von Spakovsky: Why Trump's probe of voter fraud is long overdue
Daniella Silva / NBC News:
Kellyanne Conway Defends Trump on Border Wall and Unsubstantiated Voter Fraud Claims
Discussion: AOL and Political Wire
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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Joe Concha / The Hill:
White House denies offering Infowars credentials
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.
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.
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: Hullabaloo and The Verge
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Associated Press:
Official: Border Patrol Chief Tells Agents He Was Forced Out  —  The Border Patrol chief has been forced out a day after President Donald Trump announced an ambitious plan to build a wall at the Mexican border and hire 5,000 Border Patrol agents, a U.S. official told The Associated Press on Thursday.
Discussion: Politico and CBS Baltimore
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Julia Edwards Ainsley / Reuters:   U.S. Border Patrol Chief Morgan asked to leave agency
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.
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.
Discussion: Hot Air, Daily Kos and Raw Story
Tess Townsend / Recode:
Google has banned 200 publishers since it passed a new policy against fake news  —  The company routinely weeds out “bad ads.”  Now it weeds out more bad ad publishers, too.  —  Google kicked 200 publishers off one of its ad networks in the fourth quarter, partly in response to the proliferation of fake news sites.
Discussion: Boing Boing
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Dallas Morning News:
Dallas ISD teacher in hot water over faux-assassination of Trump with toy gun  —  UPDATED: Dallas ISD has placed Payal Modi, an art teacher at Adamson, on administrative leave Thursday afternoon.  —  A Dallas ISD teacher has been placed on administrative leave by the district for posting …
Discussion: TheBlaze and The Gateway Pundit
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Christine Rousselle / Townhall.com:
Dallas High School Teacher Posts Video “Shooting” Trump With Squirt Gun In Classroom
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.”
Richard Stengel / The Atlantic:
The End of the American Century  —  In 1941, a year before America entered World War II, Henry Luce, the founder and publisher of Time, wrote an essay called “The American Century.”  It was an argument not just against isolationism but for America as a global moral beacon.
 
 
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump: I have settled on my Supreme Court pick. Probably.
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Max Fisher / New York Times:
British Alignment With Trump Threatens European Order
Kevin Cirilli / Bloomberg:
Elon Musk Floated the Idea of a Carbon Tax to Trump, an Official Says
Discussion: Gizmodo, Axios and Business Insider
Hannah Levintova / Mother Jones:
This Insider Trading Case Raises Troubling Questions About Trump's Commerce Secretary Nominee
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
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John Kass / Chicago Tribune:
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