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New York Times:
Donald Trump's Mexico Tantrum — Less than a week into the job, President Trump on Thursday raised the specter of a trade war with America's third-largest partner, Mexico, as the White House warned that the United States could impose a 20 percent tariff on Mexican imports.
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Michael Waldman / New York Times:
Voting Fraud Inquiry? The Investigators Got Burned Last Time — For days President Trump has promoted the absurd notion that three million to five million people voted illegally in the presidential election. — On Wednesday morning, Mr. Trump went further.
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Associated Press:
Questions Swirl After Trump Admin Says Tax Will Pay for Wall
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Trump Plans 20% Tax on Mexican Imports to Pay for Border Wall
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Azam Ahmed / New York Times:
In a Corner, President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico Punches Back
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Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
GOP congressional leaders: The border wall will cost $12 billion to $15 billion
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Dallas Morning News:
White House floats tax on Mexican imports that would force Americans to pay for wall
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Bob Bryan / Business Insider:
Trump press secretary says the administration is considering a 20% border tax on Mexican imports …
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Trump Strategist Stephen Bannon Says Media Should ‘Keep Its Mouth Shut’ — WASHINGTON — Just days after President Trump spoke of a “running war” with the media, his chief White House strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, ratcheted up the attacks, arguing that news organizations had been “humiliated” …
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Mike Allen / Axios:
The Bannon coup — White House and Hill GOP leaders are astonished by the unambiguous, far-reaching power of Steve Bannon and policy guru Stephen Miller over, well, just about everything. — They wrote the Inaugural speech and set in fast motion a series of moves to cement Trump as an America-first Nationalist.
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Michael Wolff / Newsweek:
Why the media keeps losing to Donald Trump — Donald Trump is obsessed with the media. And the media is obsessed with Trump. Let's take it as a given that this obsession is unhealthy. The last time there was such a level of neurotic fixation and overwhelming distrust between a president …
Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Steve Bannon: Media should ‘keep its mouth shut’
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Nicholas Weaver / Lawfare:
President Trump's Insecure Android — Lost amid the swirling insanity of the Trump administration's first week, are the reports of the President's continued insistence on using his Android phone (a Galaxy S3 or perhaps S4). This is, to put it bluntly, asking for a disaster.
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Lily Hay Newman / Wired:
Trump's Still Using His Old Android Phone. That's Very, Very Risky — As part of a broader look at President Donald Trump's acclimation to the White House, the New York Times noted on Wednesday that Trump still uses his personal, consumer-grade Android smartphone in the White House. That's worrying.
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Washington Post:
Trump pressured Park Service to find proof for his claims about inauguration crowd — On the morning after Donald Trump's inauguration, acting National Park Service director Michael T. Reynolds received an extraordinary summons: The new president wanted to talk to him.
Fortune:
Mexico's Richest Man Carlos Slim Just Called a Rare Press Conference — Mexican mogul Carlos Slim, who was attacked by President Donald Trump during his election campaign but who later met with the U.S. leader in Florida, on Thursday called a press conference for Friday amid growing tensions between the two nations.
Patricia Mazzei / miamiherald:
Miami-Dade mayor orders jails to comply with Trump crackdown on ‘sanctuary’ counties — Fearing a loss of millions of dollars for defying immigration authorities, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez on Thursday ordered county jails to comply with federal immigration detention requests …
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Henry Grabar / Slate:
The Siege of Sanctuary Cities Has Begun
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Associated Press:
In Need of Allies, Trump and Britain's Theresa May to Meet — President Donald Trump is set to meet his first world leader since taking office — British Prime Minister Theresa May, a friendly ally who hopes to nudge the populist president toward the political mainstream.
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Politico and The Republic
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David Tweed / Bloomberg:
Need a Proofreader? Team Trump Spells British PM's Name Wrong
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Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Republicans Now Marching With Trump on Ideas They Had Opposed — PHILADELPHIA — From the time he became their candidate until he took the oath of office, congressional Republicans treated President Trump's policy pronouncements — largely out of step with Republican dogma — as essentially a distraction.
Paul Demko / Politico:
Trump White House abruptly halts Obamacare ads — The Trump administration has pulled the plug on all Obamacare outreach and advertising in the crucial final days of the 2017 enrollment season, according to sources at Health and Human Services and on Capitol Hill.
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New York Times:
Trump Will Call for a Pentagon Plan to Hit ISIS Harder, Officials Say — WASHINGTON — The White House is drafting a presidential directive that calls on Defense Secretary James N. Mattis to devise plans to more aggressively strike the Islamic State, which could include American artillery …
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Bloomberg:
Trump Will Keep Vow on Jerusalem Embassy Move, Giuliani Says — Ex-New York mayor delivers message from Trump to Netanyahu — Devising new approach to Mideast peace efforts may take months — President Donald Trump will keep his pledge to move the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem …
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Trump is playing with the press: Glenn Reynolds — He's gaslighting them and they fall for it every time. — Why are the relations between Donald Trump and the press so bad? There are two reasons. One is that Trump is a Republican, and the press consists overwhelmingly of Democrats.
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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Facebook wants you to watch longer videos, so it's going to show you longer videos — Because that's what's on TV. — You know how mobile + social is supposed to = short attention span? — No more, says Facebook: It says it is going to start rewarding video makers who create longer clips.
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
The Trump Administration's Day One Moves Were Copied From Mitt Romney's Playbook — WASHINGTON — When White House press secretary Sean Spicer was asked Wednesday about a potential executive order that would revive Bush-era detention and interrogation policies, he flatly denied any knowledge of its existence.
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Kaveh Waddell / The Atlantic:
‘Look, a Bird!’ Trolling by Distraction — In April 2014, an attack at the main railway station in Urumqi, a city in the northwest Chinese province of Xinjiang, killed three people and injured dozens more. The incident—an explosion followed by a knife attack—came at the end …
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Defense One
Kim Janssen / Chicago Tribune:
Rod Blagojevich's 20-year-old daughter Amy unloads on Barack Obama — Patti Blagojevich with her daughters Annie, center, and Amy on Aug. 9, 2016, at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago after former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's resentencing. — Scratch the Obamas off Amy Blagojevich's Christmas card list.
Nico Savidge / madison.com:
UW-Madison student trying to start ‘alt-right’ group was convicted of arson at black churches — A UW-Madison student seeking to start what he calls a “pro-white student club” was convicted in 2005 of setting fires at predominantly black churches in a racially motivated arson attack, officials confirmed Thursday.
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Peter Hasson / The Daily Caller:
Women's March Featured Speaker Who Kidnapped And Tortured A Man — The Women's March on Washington last week featured as a speaker convicted felon Donna Hylton who, along with several others, kidnapped a man and then tortured him to death. — Hylton's name is listed on the Women's March …
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Noah Rothman / Commentary Magazine:
Obama Era Precedents Haunt Media — As John Podhoretz wrote, these are days of promise and opportunity for America's political media professionals. So far, they're squandering their shot. By indulging in ill-considered hysteria and posturing before like-minded colleagues …
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