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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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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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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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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Trump team narrowing search for State Department's No. 2 official
Trump team narrowing search for State Department's No. 2 official
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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.
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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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Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
Bannon: Media should ‘keep its mouth shut’ — President Trump's chief strategist is lashing out at the media, calling the press the true “opposition party” in a combative interview with The New York Times. — “The media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut …
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Justin Baragona / Mediaite:
Steve Bannon: The Media Should ‘Keep Its Mouth Shut and Just Listen For Awhile’
Steve Bannon: The Media Should ‘Keep Its Mouth Shut and Just Listen For Awhile’
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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.
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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 …
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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Bob Bryan / Business Insider:
Trump press secretary says the administration is considering a 20% border tax on Mexican imports …
Trump press secretary says the administration is considering a 20% border tax on Mexican imports …
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Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump wants 20% tax on imports from Mexico to pay for wall
Trump wants 20% tax on imports from Mexico to pay for wall
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Elena Holodny / Business Insider:
The peso is tumbling after Mexico's president said he wouldn't meet with Trump
The peso is tumbling after Mexico's president said he wouldn't meet with Trump
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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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Lachlan Markay / Washington Free Beacon:
Media Matters Says It IsSecretly Working with Facebook to Fight ‘Fake News’
Media Matters Says It IsSecretly Working with Facebook to Fight ‘Fake News’
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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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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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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
White House denies offering Infowars credentials
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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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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.
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Julia Edwards Ainsley / Reuters:
U.S. Border Patrol Chief Morgan asked to leave agency
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.
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 …
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Christine Rousselle / Townhall.com:
Dallas High School Teacher Posts Video “Shooting” Trump With Squirt Gun In Classroom
Dallas High School Teacher Posts Video “Shooting” Trump With Squirt Gun In Classroom
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Joe Heim / Washington Post:
‘They never saw this coming’: A Q&A with Kellyanne Conway — When Kellyanne Conway took over as Donald Trump's presidential campaign manager in August — his third in under a year — there were few signs that Trump would emerge victorious on election night just three months later.
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Henry Grabar / Slate:
The Siege of Sanctuary Cities Has Begun — President Trump wants to turn local police into deportation agents and punish cities that don't comply. What happens when they fight back? — After months of demonizing undocumented immigrants on the campaign trail, President Donald Trump signed …
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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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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.
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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