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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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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 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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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 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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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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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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Donald Trump's Muslim Ban Is Cowardly and Dangerous — First, reflect on the cruelty of President Trump's decision on Friday to indefinitely suspend the resettlement of Syrian refugees and temporarily ban people from seven predominantly Muslim nations from entering the United States.
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Obama's administration made the “Muslim ban” possible and the media won't tell you

White House Official, in Reversal, Says Green Card Holders Won't Be Barred
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Trump Visa Ban Also Applies to Citizens With Dual Nationality, State Department Says
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Here's your list of all the protests happening against the Muslim Ban
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Trump's immigration ban sends shockwaves
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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 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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Federal court halts Trump's immigration ban
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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 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.


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 …


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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American Commando Killed in Yemen in Trump's First Counterterror Operation
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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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Political Wire, AOL and Joe.My.God.


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.


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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