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New York Times:
How Trump's Rush to Enact an Immigration Ban Unleashed Global Chaos — WASHINGTON — As President Trump signed a sweeping executive order on Friday, shutting the borders to refugees and others from seven largely Muslim countries, the secretary of homeland security was on a White House conference call getting …
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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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Salon, The Huffington Post, Hullabaloo, New York Times, War on the Rocks and Shakesville
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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No More Mister Nice Blog, The Week, Raw Story, Hot Air and Axios
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Trump signed an executive order Monday morning requiring that for every new federal regulation implemented, two must be rescinded.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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Vox, The Atlantic, ABC News, Eduwonk, Joe.My.God. and The Hill
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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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The Gateway Pundit, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, IJR and Vox Popoli
Donald J. Trump / The White House:
Presidential Executive Order on Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs
Presidential Executive Order on Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs
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The Atlantic, Washington Post, Morning Consult, Business Insider, Discourse.net and STAT
Washington State:
AG Ferguson seeks halt to Trump's immigration Executive Order
AG Ferguson seeks halt to Trump's immigration Executive Order
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Talking Points Memo and Politicus USA
Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
Trump signs executive order aiming to slash regulations
Trump signs executive order aiming to slash regulations
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Lawyers, Guns & Money and Washington Free Beacon
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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The Atlantic, Washington Post, Mother Jones, Washington Monthly, Above the Law, Daily Kos and Axios
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Mike Levine / ABC News:
EXCLUSIVE: US Diplomats Consider Filing Dissent Over Immigration Ban — Dozens of foreign service officers and other career diplomats stationed around the world are so concerned about President Donald Trump's new executive order restricting Syrian refugees and other immigrants from entering …
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Talking Points Memo and Hullabaloo
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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Jonathan S. Tobin / New York Post:
Why the Supreme Court fight is sure to go nuclear
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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ABC News, Political Wire, Axios, Daily Kos, Joe.My.God., Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Fox News Insider and Refinery29
New York Times:
Bannon Is Given Security Role Usually Held for Generals — WASHINGTON — The whirlwind first week of Donald J. Trump's presidency had all the bravura hallmarks of a Stephen K. Bannon production. — It started with the doom-hued inauguration homily to “American carnage” …
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David Ferguson / Raw Story:
Democrats and Republicans can't believe Trump put ‘Nazi’ Steve Bannon on National Security Council
Democrats and Republicans can't believe Trump put ‘Nazi’ Steve Bannon on National Security Council
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New York Daily News
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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alan.com, Infowars, The Gateway Pundit, The Week, The Daily Caller, Shakesville and twitchy.com
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Aaron Short / New York Post:
Chuck Schumer under fire from left-wing activists
Chuck Schumer under fire from left-wing activists
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Power Line
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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ABC News, Political Wire and Daily Kos
Bloomberg:
U.S. Exempts Green Card Holders From Trump's Travel Ban — Trump defends order on immigration after criticism, protests — Republican lawmakers say White House action was too broad — Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said green-card holders from the predominantly Muslim Middle …
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Business Insider and IJR
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Mary Emily O'Hara / NBC News:
Immigration Ban: Democratic Senators to Introduce Bills Overturning Trump
Immigration Ban: Democratic Senators to Introduce Bills Overturning Trump
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CNN, Washington Post, NBC News, Mediaite, Talking Points Memo and Hot Air
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 …
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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Talking Points Memo, Vox, Political Wire, Business Insider and Axios
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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AOL, The Daily Caller, The Last Tradition and Vox Popoli
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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Los Angeles Times, Daily Kos and Axios
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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Axios, Hot Air and East Bay Times
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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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Raw Story, Heat Street and alan.com
Yonatan Zunger:
Trial Balloon for a Coup? — Analyzing the news of the past 24 hours — The theme of this morning's news updates from Washington is additional clarity emerging, rather than meaningful changes in the field. But this clarity is enough to give us a sense of what we just saw happen, and why it happened the way it did.
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Foreign Policy, CNN, Boing Boing, The Week, The Guardian, ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES, New York Times, Mother Jones, Vox and The Hill
CBC News:
Multiple dead, 2 arrested after shooting at Quebec City mosque — Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard calls shooting an act of terrorism — Quebec City Police say several people are dead after shots were fired inside a mosque on Sunday night during evening prayers. — Multiple people are also feared wounded.
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CNN:
How the Trump administration chose the 7 countries in the immigration executive order — (CNN)The seven Muslim-majority countries targeted in President Trump's executive order on immigration were initially identified as “countries of concern” under the Obama administration.
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TheBlaze, Washington Post, The Federalist, Hit & Run, twitchy.com, Mashable and KTLA
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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The Atlantic, Business Insider, Vox Popoli and Axios
Melanie Zanona / The Hill:
Ford criticizes immigration order: ‘Against our values’ — Ford Motor Co. said Monday that it does not support President Trump's 90-day ban on travelers from seven Muslim-majority nations, arguing that the policy goes against a “core value” of the company. — The comments come nearly …
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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Hot Air, IJR, Instapundit, Washington Free Beacon and The Times of Israel