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9:05 AM ET, January 27, 2017

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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.
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’
Esme Cribb / Talking Points Memo:
Steve Bannon Tells NY Times The Media Should ‘Keep Its Mouth Shut’
Discussion: Raw Story
Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
Bannon: Media should ‘keep its mouth shut’
Discussion: RedState
Justin Baragona / Mediaite:
Steve Bannon: The Media Should ‘Keep Its Mouth Shut and Just Listen For Awhile’
Discussion: New Republic
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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Azam Ahmed / New York Times:
In a Corner, President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico Punches Back  —  MEXICO CITY — Hunkered down in the presidential palace, Enrique Peña Nieto, the unpopular leader of Mexico, was besieged on both sides.  —  The new American president, Donald J. Trump, had just ordered …
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.
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
GOP congressional leaders: The border wall will cost $12 billion to $15 billion
Discussion: Politico, ABC News and Political Wire
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.
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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.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
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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.
Discussion: Politico and The Republic
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David Tweed / Bloomberg:
Need a Proofreader? Team Trump Spells British PM's Name Wrong
Discussion: The Week
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.
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 …
Discussion: Political Wire
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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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 …
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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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.
Discussion: Hot Air
Jerry Mitchell / The Clarion Ledger:
Voter fraud probe traced back to ex-MS welfare head  —  The former Mississippi official whose tweet may have inspired President Trump to order a “major investigation” into voter fraud in the 2016 presidential election says he has been receiving death threats.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Patrick Knox / The Sun:
GANG RAPE ARRESTS Two Afghan migrants revealed as those arrested over horrific three-hour rape streamed on Facebook Live in Sweden  —  Victim had clothes pulled off by armed men and was sexually assaulted before cops arrived and turned off the camera  —  TWO migrants from Afghanistan …
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.
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.
USA Today:
Doomsday Clock ticks closer to apocalypse and 1 person is to blame … Scientists moved the hands of the Doomsday Clock closer to midnight on Thursday amid increasing worries over nuclear weapons and climate change.  —  Each year, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a nonprofit that sets the clock …
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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Nico Savidge / madison.com:
UW-Madison student trying to start ‘alt-right’ group was convicted of arson at black churches
Discussion: Badger Pundit and Raw Story
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Republicans Now Marching With Trump on Ideas They Had Opposed
Noah Rothman / Commentary Magazine:
Obama Era Precedents Haunt Media
Discussion: Shot in the Dark and Instapundit
Kaveh Waddell / The Atlantic:
‘Look, a Bird!’ Trolling by Distraction
Discussion: Defense One
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
The Trump Administration's Day One Moves Were Copied From Mitt Romney's Playbook
Michael Barone / Washington Examiner:
‘America First’ is not a threat but a promise
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Stephen Gruber-Miller / Iowa City Press-Citizen:
Flag burning protest sets off clash in ped mall
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The Independent:
Donald Trump has ordered his new administration to publish a weekly list of crimes committed by immigrants.
Discussion: RedState
Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Al Gore will host canceled climate change summit
Discussion: Raw Story, The Week and The Verge
Donald J. Trump / The White House:
President Trump Releases National School Choice Week Proclamation
Discussion: Hit & Run
Geoff Pender / The Clarion Ledger:
Senate likely to kill early voting, online registration
 

 
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