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Inside the confusion of the Trump executive order and travel ban — Trump's unilateral moves reflect the President's desire to quickly make good on his campaign promises — But they also encapsulate the pitfalls of an administration largely operated by officials with scant federal experience
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White House Official, in Reversal, Says Green Card Holders Won't Be Barred — WASHINGTON — A top White House official appeared to reverse a key part of President Trump's immigration order on Sunday, saying that people from the affected countries who hold green cards will not be prevented from returning to the United States.
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Malevolence Tempered by Incompetence: Trump's Horrifying Executive Order on Refugees and Visas — The malevolence of President Trump's Executive Order on visas and refugees is mitigated chiefly—and perhaps only—by the astonishing incompetence of its drafting and construction.
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Trump's Executive Order on Refugees — Separating Fact from Hysteria — The hysterical rhetoric about President Trump's executive order on refugees is out of control. Let's slow down and take a look at the facts. — To read the online commentary, one would think that President …

Trump doubles down on refugee ban — President Donald Trump on Sunday doubled down on his executive order to severely curb the entry of refugees and legal immigrants — insisting on Twitter that America needs “extreme vetting” to avoid the “horrible mess” elsewhere, and suggesting it was Christians who deserved priority in admissions.
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Christian Leaders Denounce Trump's Plan to Favor Christian Immigrants
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Obama's administration made the “Muslim ban” possible and the media won't tell you
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Trump Gives Controversial Adviser Stephen Bannon Seat at National Security Council Meetings — President Donald Trump has tapped his controversial senior adviser and chief strategist Stephen Bannon for a permanent seat at National Security Council meetings in what some experts are calling an …
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Organization of the National Security Council and the Homeland Security Council
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Trump signs three more executive actions
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Presidential Memorandum Plan to Defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
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Trump orders ISIS plan, talks with Putin and gives Bannon national security role
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Trump boots top officials — but includes Steve Bannon — in reshuffled National Security Council
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Customs agents ignore judge, enforce Trump's travel ban: ACLU — SEE ALSO — Federal judge grants stay for those detained under Trump's travel ban — :0 — A Brooklyn federal judge took on President Trump Saturday night,... The ACLU is getting “multiple reports” …
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Federal court halts Trump's immigration ban
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Federal judge blocks Trump immigration order: report
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A Federal Judge Just Issued a Stay Against Donald Trump's “Muslim Ban”
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The Trump bulldozer — We can't stress this enough: Watch closely the specific, substantive moves of the Trump White House. Try to block out the white noise of outlandish statements and unforced errors, and the hyperventilating they provoke. — Otherwise, you miss the big — and in some cases, radical — changes coming our way.

A Clarifying Moment in American History — There should be nothing surprising about what the Donald Trump has done in his first week—but he had underestimated the resilience of Americans and their institutions. — {{#existing_user}} — Your newsletter subscription preferences have been updated.

American Commando Killed in Yemen in Trump's First Counterterror Operation — WASHINGTON — One American commando was killed and three others injured in a fierce firefight overnight with Qaeda militants in central Yemen, a senior American official said Sunday morning.
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Trump's Border Patrol Defies Judge, U.S. Senator at Dulles Airport as His First Constitutional Crisis Unfolds — Late Saturday night, in the jam-packed baggage terminal for international arrivals at Washington Dulles International Airport, dozens of lawyers and hundreds of protesters watched …
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President Trump's First Defeat — “It's working out very nicely,” President Donald Trump said on Saturday afternoon as he signed his latest batch of executive actions. “You see it in the airports.” — It was the usual confident swagger from a man accustomed to getting his way.
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The Media Honestly Doesn't Get It — In 1968, if you'd railed endlessly about how the United States would never, ever send men to the moon, you would've had some crow to eat the following year. — If you made your declarations not in your local pub, but on television and in the newspaper …

Dems would honor killer, not victim — Matthew Denice was a 23-year-old taxpaying U.S. citizen when he was run over and dragged to his death by a drunken illegal immigrant on welfare back in 2011. — It was not an isolated incident. Denice was the third American killed by illegal immigrants …
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Conway: Travel chaos ‘small price to pay’ for security — White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said Sunday that international travel disruptions in the wake of President Donald Trump's executive order restricting immigration from predominantly Muslim nations was a “small price to pay” for greater security.
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