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Trump's Immigration Ban Is Illegal — President Trump signed an executive order on Friday that purports to bar for at least 90 days almost all permanent immigration from seven majority-Muslim countries, including Syria and Iraq, and asserts the power to extend the ban indefinitely.
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Princeton Election Consortium and Telegraph
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Trump Bars Refugees and Citizens of 7 Muslim Countries — WASHINGTON — President Trump on Friday closed the nation's borders to refugees from around the world, ordering that families fleeing Syrian carnage be indefinitely blocked from entering the United States, and temporarily suspending immigration …


Trump signs order temporarily halting admission of refugees, promises priority for Christians — President Trump said Friday that Christians will be given priority to come to the United States as refugees and later signed an order to suspend the admission of refugees for 120 days and increase …


President Trump Signs Executive Order Temporarily Halting All Refugees — President Trump signed an executive order late Friday which temporarily bars refugees from entering the United States. — Trump signed the order on refugees while at the Pentagon, minutes after General James Mattis …


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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NBC News


Trump's latest executive order: Banning people from 7 countries and more
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The Gateway Pundit

Full Executive Order Text: Trump's Action Limiting Refugees Into the U.S.
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Power Line

Brody File Exclusive: President Trump Says Persecuted Christians Will Be Given Priority As Refugees
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The Hill, Vox, The Atlantic, The Guardian, ThinkProgress, Daily Kos, Balloon Juice, The Week, The Daily Caller, IJR and Right Wing Watch

Trump says Syrian Christian refugees will be given priority
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News and The Gateway Pundit

Trump signs executive order to keep out ‘radical Islamic terrorists’
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Media Matters for America, Shareblue and Mother Jones

Trump bars Syrian refugees, halts entry of citizens from some Muslim states
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ABC News, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Los Angeles Times, Axios and IJR

Refugees Detained at U.S. Airports, Prompting Legal Challenges to Trump's Immigration Order — President Trump's executive order closing the nation's borders to refugees was put into immediate effect Friday night. Refugees who were in the air on the way to the United States when the order …
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Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, Business Insider, NPR, The Daily Caller and TheBlaze
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2 Detained at New York Airport and 7 in Cairo in Wake of Trump's Executive Order — Two Iraqis have been detained at Kennedy International Airport in New York City in the wake of President Trump's executive order Friday on the suspending the entry into the United States of immigrants from certain Muslim nations and all refugees.
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Associated Press

U.S. lawyers for Iraqis sue to block Trump immigration order
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The Week


Google Recalls Staff to U.S. After Trump Immigration Order — Memo from CEO Pichai says more than 100 employees impacted — Pichai says President's move caused painful ‘personal costs’ — Alphabet Inc.'s Google delivered a sharp message to staff traveling overseas who may be impacted …
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Following President Trump's executive order green card, visa holders already blocked by airports — Within hours of President Trump's executive order limiting immigration from Muslim countries, green card and visa holders were already being blocked from getting on flights to the U.S.
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alan.com


Advice for Those Weighing Jobs in the Trump Administration — Some 40 people were indicted as a result of the Watergate scandal. Among those sentenced to prison: the attorney general of the United States, the White House counsel, and President Nixon's two most senior White House aides.
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Trump's First Week: Misfires, Crossed Wires and a Satisfied Smile — WASHINGTON — If other new occupants of the White House wanted to be judged by their first 100 days in office, President Trump seems intent to be judged by his first 100 hours. No president in modern times, if ever …
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Washington Monthly, Althouse, Raw Story, No More Mister Nice Blog and Shareblue

Russians Charged With Treason Worked in Office Linked to Election Hacking — WASHINGTON — Ever since American intelligence agencies accused Russia of trying to influence the American election, there have been questions about the proof they had to support the accusation.
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Political Wire


Trump's erratic first week was among the most alarming in history — Week One of the Trump administration was among the most alarming in the history of the American presidency. — There have been scarier weeks for the country, certainly — the Cuban missile crisis and the Sept. 11 attacks.

CBS: Senate Republicans convinced Trump that Pryor is a no-go for SCOTUS — As hundreds of thousands of pro-life activists gather in Washington DC for the March for Life, millions of Americans await Donald Trump's choice to fill the Supreme Court opening left by the passing of Justice Antonin Scalia.
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The Atomic Origins of Climate Science — How arguments about nuclear weapons shaped the debate over global warming. — A nuclear weapon is a certain thing—atomic or hydrogen, fission or fusion, bomb or missile, so many megatons—but nothing could be more uncertain than the consequences of using one.
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Mikhail Gorbachev: ‘It All Looks as if the World Is Preparing for War’
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Common Dreams, AOL, NBC News, The Week and Mediaite


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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Balloon Juice
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