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Evan Perez / CNN:
First on CNN: Justice Dept. will not defend executive order on travel restrictions — Federal lawsuit filed against travel ban — Washington (CNN)The acting Attorney General Sally Yates has told Justice Department lawyers not to make legal arguments defending President Donald Trump's executive order …
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New York Times:
Acting Attorney General Orders Justice Dept. Not to Defend Refugee Ban — WASHINGTON — Acting Attorney General Sally Q. Yates, a holdover from the Obama administration, ordered the Justice Department on Monday not to defend President Trump's executive order on immigration in court.
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Jon Finer / Foreign Policy:
Sorry, Mr. President: The Obama Administration Did Nothing Similar to Your Immigration Ban — There are so many reasons to detest the Donald Trump administration's executive order on “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States,” that it's hard to know where to start.
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Senate Dems will filibuster Trump's Supreme Court nominee — Senate Democrats are going to try to bring down President Donald Trump's Supreme Court pick no matter who the president chooses to fill the current vacancy. — With Trump prepared to announce his nominee on Tuesday evening …
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Bwittes / Lawfare:
BREAKING NEWS: Full Text of Draft Dissent Channel Memo on Trump Refugee and Visa Order — Consider this a major bureaucratic uprising on the part of career foreign service officers against the President on his executive order on refugees. … Numerous Foreign Service officers and other diplomats …
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Mike Levine / ABC News:
EXCLUSIVE: US Diplomats Consider Filing Dissent Over Immigration Ban
EXCLUSIVE: US Diplomats Consider Filing Dissent Over Immigration Ban
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The Intercept:
Suspect in Quebec Mosque Attack Quickly Depicted as a Moroccan Muslim. He's a White Nationalist. — A mass shooting at a Quebec City mosque last night left six people dead and eight wounded. The targeted mosque, the Cultural Islamic Center of Quebec, was the same one at which a severed pig's head was left during Ramadan last June.
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Globe and Mail:
Quebec City mosque attack suspect known for right-wing online posts — The suspect in the deadly attack on a Quebec City mosque was known in the city's activist circles as a right-wing troll who frequently took anti-foreigner and anti-feminist positions and stood up for U.S. President Donald Trump.
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CBC News:
Multiple dead, 2 arrested after shooting at Quebec City mosque
Multiple dead, 2 arrested after shooting at Quebec City mosque
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Scarborough singles out Trump aide Stephen Miller for ‘power trip’ … MSNBC's Joe Scarborough on Monday singled out Stephen Miller, saying President Trump's senior adviser had gone on a “power trip.” — “Why did Stephen Miller fight so hard to put out this order on Friday without talking to any of the other agencies?”
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Obama supports protests: ‘American values are at stake’ — Barack Obama spoke out Monday afternoon against his successor — and in support of the protests opposing President Donald Trump — with a spokesman saying the former president thinks they're “citizens exercising their Constitutional right …
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Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Obama rejects comparison between Trump's immigration policy and his own, encourages protests
Obama rejects comparison between Trump's immigration policy and his own, encourages protests
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Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Trump signs executive order requiring that for every one new regulation, two must be revoked — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday morning requiring that for every new federal regulation implemented, two must be rescinded. — “This will be the biggest such act …
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Ayesha Rascoe / Yahoo:
Trump signs executive order to slash regulations
Trump signs executive order to slash regulations
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Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
Samantha Bee to Roast Trump on Same Night as Correspondents' Dinner — The annual custom of the White House Correspondents' Association dinner suddenly seems uncomfortable if not untenable: Journalists mingling with Trump administration aides who loathe them, celebrities decrying Trump White House policies …
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New York Times:
Republicans Have One Big Incentive to Stick With Trump — Despite the growing protests against President Trump's executive action on refugees and other people from seven predominantly Muslim countries, relatively few members of his party have spoken out against the policy — a familiar pattern since the election.
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James V. Grimaldi / Wall Street Journal:
Rep. Tom Price Got Privileged, Discounted Offer on Biomedical Stock, Company Says — Rep. Tom Price got a privileged offer to buy a biomedical stock at a discount, the company's officials said, contrary to his congressional testimony this month.
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Page Six:
Billy Bush's wife is furious about that Donald Trump tape — Media insiders are buzzing that Andy Lack wants NBC to become “the next Fox News” after he poached cable stars Greta Van Susteren and Megyn Kelly from the network. — “He believes he's building MSNBC and NBC into the next Fox.
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Washington Post:
Trump's hard-line actions have an intellectual godfather: Jeff Sessions — In jagged black strokes, President Trump's signature was scribbled onto a catalogue of executive orders over the past 10 days that translated the hard-line promises of his campaign into the policies of his government.
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Matea Gold / Washington Post:
Koch network could serve as potent resistance in Trump era — INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — The weekend gathering of wealthy donors who help finance the conservative Koch network was supposed to serve as a celebration of the policy victories within reach now that Republicans control Washington …
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Tarini Parti / BuzzFeed:
Koch Network Focuses On Understanding Trump Voters
Koch Network Focuses On Understanding Trump Voters
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Donald J. Trump / The White House:
Presidential Executive Order on Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs — REDUCING REGULATION AND CONTROLLING REGULATORY COSTS — By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 …
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump accuses Schumer of shedding ‘fake tears’ over refugees … President Trump on Monday accused Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer — (D-N.Y.) of shedding “fake tears” over his ban on refugees and individuals from a certain Muslim-majority nations from entering the U.S.
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Madeline Conway / Politico:
Trump on Schumer's tears: Who is his acting coach?
Trump on Schumer's tears: Who is his acting coach?
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Benjamin Wallace-Wells / New Yorker:
A Dangerously Isolated President — The Presidential order that Donald Trump signed on Friday barring all refugees and citizens from seven Muslim countries from travel to the United States was reviewed by virtually no one. The State Department did not help craft it, nor the Defense Department, nor Justice.
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Eliza Mackintosh / CNN:
Trump ban is boon for ISIS recruitment, former jihadists and experts say — Trump's refugee ban and the war on ISIS — (CNN)President Donald Trump's travel ban on seven Muslim-majority nations will be used by ISIS as a recruitment tool, giving the militant group a major propaganda boost, former jihadists have told CNN.
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Rasmussen Reports:
Most Support Temporary Ban on Newcomers from Terrorist Havens — Most voters approve of President Trump's temporary halt to refugees and visitors from several Middle Eastern and African countries until the government can do a better job of keeping out individuals who are terrorist threats.
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Fox News:
Iran tests ballistic missile in defiance of UN resolution, US officials say — Iran conducted its first ballistic missile test under Donald Trump's presidency, in yet another apparent violation of a United Nations resolution, U.S. officials told Fox News on Monday.
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Bloomberg:
Trump's Next Move on Immigration to Hit Closer to Home for Tech — President Donald Trump's clash with Silicon Valley over immigration is about to become even more contentious. — After the new president banned refugees and travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries, Google …
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