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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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David Caplan / ABC News:
Melania Trump Appears on Cover of Mexican Vanity Fair Amidst Tensions
Melania Trump Appears on Cover of Mexican Vanity Fair Amidst Tensions
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Azam Ahmed / New York Times:
In a Corner, President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico Punches Back
In a Corner, President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico Punches Back
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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.
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Tara Palmeri / Politico:
Trump won't attend Alfalfa Club dinner — President Donald Trump will not attend the annual Alfalfa Club dinner Saturday night, an exclusive black-tie dinner — and White House roast — that every president since Ronald Reagan has attended. — Instead of the president himself …
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Political Wire
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 M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Trump Strategist Stephen Bannon Says Media Should ‘Keep Its Mouth Shut’
Trump Strategist Stephen Bannon Says Media Should ‘Keep Its Mouth Shut’
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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.
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Sheila Weller / Vanity Fair:
How Author Timothy Tyson Found the Woman at the Center of the Emmett Till Case — With a renewed cultural interest in the 1955 murder that catalyzed the 20th century civil rights movement, an interview with the author of a new book who tracked down the long-hidden woman at its center.
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 …
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
Trump's Still Using His Old Android Phone. That's Very, Very Risky
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Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
GOP chairman to introduce pre-existing conditions bill — The Republican chairman of a key healthcare committee will introduce a bill next week aimed at protecting people with pre-existing conditions in the event that ObamaCare is repealed. — “We want to make sure that people …
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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.
Laura Barron-Lopez / The Huffington Post:
Donald Trump Campaign Staffer Who Posted Racist Comments Joins The Administration — An email shows the staffer is one of 15 joining the Education Department. — Congressional Reporter, The Huffington Post — PHILADELPHIA A staffer on Donald Trump's campaign who posted racist material …
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Democracy Now:
Shailene Woodley on Malia Obama's Presence at Sundance Standing Rock Solidarity Event Against DAPL — This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today. — The Sundance Film Festival has been abuzz this year with sightings of former first daughter Malia Obama.
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AOL and Heat Street
Valerie Strauss / Washington Post:
Sen. Franken: No Democrat will vote for Betsy DeVos as education secretary — and we're seeking Republicans to oppose her … Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) told Rachel Maddow on her MSNBC show Thursday night that no Democrat will vote to confirm Betsy DeVos, the Michigan billionaire tapped by President Trump to be his education secretary.
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Rowan Scarborough / Washington Times:
Trump argument bolstered: Clinton received 800,000 votes from noncitizens, study finds — Hillary Clinton garnered more than 800,000 votes from noncitizens on Nov. 8, an approximation far short of President Trump's estimate of up to 5 million illegal voters but supportive of his charges of fraud.
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Jina Moore / BuzzFeed:
The White House Has Finally Said More About What Its Global Anti-Abortion Rule Means — The clarification opens the door to a vastly different version of the rule than previously thought. — A White House official on Thursday clarified a new policy that renews abortion-related restrictions …
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The Guardian
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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Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Little Mexican War — The President is treating our neighbor like Obama treated Israel.
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
A GOP Regulatory Game Changer — Legal experts say that Congress can overrule Obama regulations going back to 2009.
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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.
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David Tweed / Bloomberg:
Need a Proofreader? Team Trump Spells British PM's Name Wrong — As President Donald Trump looks to create jobs in the U.S., his press office is demonstrating an urgent need to hire a proofreader. — The White House just put out a memo highlighting Trump's meeting on Friday with “United Kingdom Prime Minister, Teresa May.”
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