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David Brody / CBN.com:
Brody File Exclusive: President Trump Says Persecuted Christians Will Be Given Priority As Refugees — In an exclusive interview with The Brody File, President Donald Trump says persecuted Christians will be given priority when it comes to applying for refugee status in the United States.
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Declan Walsh / New York Times:
Fears That Trump's Visa Ban Betrays Friends and Bolsters Enemies — CAIRO — Across the Muslim world, the refrain was resounding: President Trump's freeze on refugee arrivals and visa requests from seven predominantly Muslim countries will have major diplomatic repercussions …
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Dan Merica / CNN:
Trump signs executive order to keep out ‘radical Islamic terrorists’
Trump signs executive order to keep out ‘radical Islamic terrorists’
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CBN.com:
President Trump Sat Down with CBN News for an Exclusive Interview
President Trump Sat Down with CBN News for an Exclusive Interview
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Mashable, Politico, Washington Post, IJR, The Week, TheBlaze, FOX News Radio and The Local
Eric Beech / Reuters:
Trump says Syrian Christian refugees will be given priority
Trump says Syrian Christian refugees will be given priority
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Mike Debonis / Washington Post:
Behind closed doors, Republican lawmakers fret about how to repeal Obamacare — PHILADELPHIA — Republican lawmakers aired sharp concerns about their party's quick push to repeal the Affordable Care Act inside a closed-door meeting Thursday, according to a recording of the session obtained by The Washington Post.
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Jonathan Cohn / The Huffington Post:
Another Bogus Obamacare Argument From Donald Trump And Paul Ryan
Another Bogus Obamacare Argument From Donald Trump And Paul Ryan
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump's First Week: Governing Without a Script — The new president seems to be running his administration much like he ran his company and campaign, eager to weigh in on every issue and willing to make last-minute calls — A directive to revive two controversial oil pipelines awaited …
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Austin Wright / Politico:
McConnell to Trump: Do not lift sanctions on Russia
McConnell to Trump: Do not lift sanctions on Russia
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The Hill, Hot Air, ABC News, Washington Free Beacon and The Atlantic
Justin Fishel / ABC News:
Trump Orders Suspension of All Refugees, Immigrants From Some Muslim Nations — President Donald Trump made good on his campaign promises for “extreme vetting” Friday afternoon, signing an executive memorandum that makes sweeping changes to U.S. refugee and immigration policy the White House …
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David Gibson / USA Today:
Trump fails to mention Jews in Holocaust remembrance statement — In a departure from predecessors on both sides of the political aisle, President Trump's statement Friday marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day did not mention the deaths of six million Jews — a lapse the head …
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Statement by the President on International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Statement by the President on International Holocaust Remembrance Day
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Religion News Service, Washington Post, The Gateway Pundit and ImmigrationProf Blog
Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
No Mention Of Jews In Trump Holocaust Statement Breaks With Tradition
No Mention Of Jews In Trump Holocaust Statement Breaks With Tradition
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Raw Story, Washington Free Beacon, ThinkProgress, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Washington Monthly, Politicus USA and Politico
Paul Demko / Politico:
Reversing course, Trump administration will continue Obamacare outreach — The Trump administration has reversed plans to scrap all Obamacare outreach in the finals days of the law's enrollment period, a day after the move sparked outcry from the law's supporters and health insurers.
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Steve Barnes / Reuters:
Arkansas governor signs abortion law banning common procedure — Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson signed into law on Thursday a bill banning the most common abortion procedure employed in the second trimester of a pregnancy, among the most restrictive abortion legislation in the United States.
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Charlie Nash / Breitbart:
YouTube Disables MILO Livestream Hours Before Immigration Speech in New Mexico — YouTube disabled Breitbart News Senior Editor MILO's livestreaming ability on Friday, just hours before his speech on immigration at the University of New Mexico. — MILO's ability to host livestreams …
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Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
Donald Trump Blows Up the U.S.-Mexico Relationship — Since Ronald Reagan was first elected, in 1980, every new American President has met with his Mexican counterpart shortly after winning the White House. Reagan travelled to Mexico before his swearing in and welcomed Mexican President …
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Madeline Conway / Politico:
Mexico's Vicente Fox to Trump: We are ‘ready for the trade war’
Mexico's Vicente Fox to Trump: We are ‘ready for the trade war’
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
No, the White House didn't Photoshop an image of the president's hand — Dana Schwartz, a writer for the New York Observer, claimed to have noticed something interesting about one of the photos displayed during President Trump's interview with ABC News that aired this week.
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The Verge, Mediaite, Hot Air and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Trump's authoritarian tendencies are revealed once again — Throughout the presidential campaign, Donald Trump attacked the media in personal, vicious terms. He threatened to “open up” libel laws. From time to time, he chose to ban one or another outlet from the press gaggle because he objected to its reporting.
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Adam Gopnik / New Yorker:
Orwell's “1984” and Trump's America — I have, I'm afraid, a terrible confession to make: I have never been a huge fan of George Orwell's “1984.” It always seemed, in its extrapolations from present to future, too pat, a little lacking in the imaginative extrapolations we want from dystopian literature.
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Washington Monthly, Gothamist and New York Times
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.
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Melania Trump wins round in libel suit over blogger's ‘escort’ claims — First lady Melania Trump prevailed Friday in the first round of a $150 million libel suit she filed against a Maryland blogger over a report he published last summer about claims that Trump worked as a “high-end escort.”
Jim Miller / Sacramento Bee:
Calexit backers can begin collecting signatures to qualify for 2018 ballot — Backers of a proposed constitutional amendment seeking California's secession from the U.S. can begin collecting voter signatures to qualify for the 2018 ballot, the secretary of state's office said Thursday.
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Carlos Greer / Page Six:
Huge shakeup at ‘Today’ to make way for Megyn Kelly — More On: — NBC is canceling the third hour of “Today” to make way for new star Megyn Kelly, sources exclusively confirm to Page Six. — We're told Kelly will take over either the 9 a.m. hour from Tamron Hall and Al Roker or will replace Hoda Kotb and Kathie Lee Gifford.
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