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CNN:
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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Benjamin Wittes / Lawfare:
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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Alexander Mallin / ABC News:
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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David French / National Review:
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 …
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump orders ISIS plan, talks with Putin and gives Bannon national security role … President Trump on Saturday ordered the Joint Chiefs of Staff to devise a strategy to defeat the Islamic State and restructured the National Security Council to include his controversial top political adviser …
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David Ferguson / Raw Story:
Trump boots top officials — but includes Steve Bannon — in reshuffled National Security Council — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — In another series of executive orders on Saturday, Pres. Donald Trump restructured the National Security Council (NSC) and created a position …
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The Hill:
Trump signs three more executive actions — President Trump signed three executive actions on Saturday afternoon focusing on lobbying, a reorganization of the National Security Council and a plan to defeat the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). — The executive action caps off a busy …
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Sfrantzman / Seth J. Frantzman:
Obama's administration made the “Muslim ban” possible and the media won't tell you — I was outraged by the ban on refugees from war-torn countries in the Middle East. I've covered refugees fleeing war in Iraq and Syria over the last two years, meeting families on the road in Greece …
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New York Times:
Donald Trump's Muslim Ban Is Cowardly and Dangerous
Donald Trump's Muslim Ban Is Cowardly and Dangerous
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Tamer El-Ghobashy / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Visa Ban Also Applies to Citizens With Dual Nationality, State Department Says
Trump Visa Ban Also Applies to Citizens With Dual Nationality, State Department Says
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Kelsey Snell / Washington Post:
Facing intense criticism, some Republicans are speaking out against Trump's refugee ban.
Facing intense criticism, some Republicans are speaking out against Trump's refugee ban.
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump's immigration ban sends shockwaves
Trump's immigration ban sends shockwaves
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Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani / ThinkProgress:
Here's your list of all the protests happening against the Muslim Ban
Here's your list of all the protests happening against the Muslim Ban
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Kathianne Boniello / New York Post:
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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Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Federal judge blocks Trump immigration order: report
Federal judge blocks Trump immigration order: report
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Mother Jones:
A Federal Judge Just Issued a Stay Against Donald Trump's “Muslim Ban”
A Federal Judge Just Issued a Stay Against Donald Trump's “Muslim Ban”
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Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Federal court halts Trump's immigration ban
Federal court halts Trump's immigration ban
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Blake Hounshell / Politico:
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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Jim VandeHei / Axios:
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.
Ryan Browne / CNN:
US servicemember killed in raid on al Qaeda in Yemen — Yemenis look at the wreckage of a vehicle on February 9, 2016, in the aftermath of clashes between forces loyal to Saudi-backed President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi and al-Qaeda members in the Mansura suburb of Aden.
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Eric Schmitt / New York Times:
American Commando Killed in Yemen in Trump's First Counterterror Operation
American Commando Killed in Yemen in Trump's First Counterterror Operation
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RedState and Political Wire
Derek Hunter / Townhall.com:
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 …
Zachary Warmbrodt / Politico:
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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Charles Ornstein / ProPublica:
Hours After Landing in U.S., Cleveland Clinic Doctor Forced to Leave by Trump's Order — Dr. Suha Abushamma's flight back to Saudi Arabia took off minutes before a federal judge ordered such forced removals to stop. “She was basically racing against Trump,” a colleague and friend said.
Dylan Matthews / Vox:
Donald Trump, the refugee ban, and the triumph of cruelty — Trump's immigration crackdown is an exercise in government cruelty. — On Friday, Donald Trump made the most plainly indefensible promise of his presidential campaign a reality. He suspended all refugee admissions to the US for 120 days …
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The Moderate Voice, New York Times and Speaker.gov