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Statement from Secretary Kelly on the President's Appointment of Thomas D. Homan as Acting ICE Director — WASHINGTON - Today, the president appointed Mr. Thomas D. Homan acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). — Since 2013, Mr. Homan has served …
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Hill staffers secretly worked on Trump's immigration order — Senior staffers on the House Judiciary Committee helped Donald Trump's top aides draft the executive order curbing immigration from seven Muslim-majority nations, but the Republican committee chairman and party leadership were not informed …
New York Times:
Trump Fires Acting Attorney General Who Defied Him — WASHINGTON — President Trump fired his acting attorney general on Monday night, removing her as the nation's top law enforcement officer after she defiantly refused to defend his executive order closing the nation's borders to refugees …
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Under fire, Trump weighs new changes to refugee ban
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
GOP panel chairman defends his staff working on Trump immigration order
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Euan McKirdy / CNN:
Jeff Sessions grilled Sally Yates on constitutional duty during 2015 hearing
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Ben Popper / The Verge:
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos: ‘we do not support’ Trump immigration order
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Josh Blackman / Politico:
Why Trump Had to Fire Sally Yates
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Mark Landler / New York Times:
State Dept. Officials Should Quit if They Disagree With Trump, White House Warns
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Watch Sally Yates answer the question that got her fired by President Trump
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Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Trump has fired the acting attorney general who ordered Justice Dept. not to defend president's travel ban
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Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: Who Will Be the Next SCOTUS Nominee?
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CNN:
Democrats consider backing off big battle over Trump's Supreme Court pick — Washington (CNN)Senate Democrats are weighing whether to avoid an all-out war to block President Donald Trump's upcoming Supreme Court pick, instead considering delaying that battle for a future nomination …
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Washington Post:
Democrats shouldn't go scorched-earth on Trump's Supreme Court nominee
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Scott Johnson / Power Line:
What's next? — You have to wonder what comes next …
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Geneva Sands / ABC News:
Meet the 8 Sitting Supreme Court Justices
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MJ Lee / CNN:
In accidental ‘reply all’ to reporter, Collins thanks CEO for defending HHS nominee — (CNN)The head of an Australian pharmaceutical company is forcefully denying to CNN that Rep. Tom Price, President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Department of Human Services, was offered a special discounted rate of the firm's stocks.
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The Huffington Post:
Senate Democrats Boycott Key Votes On 2 Top Trump Nominees — Republicans don't have the quorum needed to move forward. — Senior Political Reporter, The Huffington Post — WASHINGTON Senate Democrats deployed a dramatic eleventh-hour maneuver to deny committee votes …
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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Democrats boycott confirmation hearings for Price and Mnuchin, blocking votes
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NBC News:
SEAL, American Girl Die in First Trump-Era U.S. Military Raid — Two Americans killed in first military raid under President Trump 1:09 — In what an official said was the first military raid carried out under President Donald Trump, two Americans were killed in Yemen on Sunday …
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Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed:
Wall Street Journal Editor: Stop Calling The Travel Ban Countries “Majority Muslim” — Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief Gerry Baker has instructed editors to stop referring to the countries targeted in President Trump's travel and refugee executive order as “seven majority Muslim countries” …
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
DeVos questionnaire appears to include passages from uncited sources — President Trump's nominee for education secretary, in written responses to questions from senators, appears to have used several sentences and phrases from other sources without attribution — including from a top Obama administration civil rights official.
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Team Hillary blames Obama more than Putin — The worst-kept secret inside Democratic circles is how bitter Hillary Clinton's team is at President Obama over her election loss. We have heard from numerous, anguished people in Clinton-land blaming Obama — more than Putin, FBI Director James Comey or …
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David Brooks / New York Times:
The Republican Fausts — Many Republican members of Congress have made a Faustian bargain with Donald Trump. They don't particularly admire him as a man, they don't trust him as an administrator, they don't agree with him on major issues, but they respect the grip he has on their voters …
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Emily Jane Fox / Vanity Fair:
Can Jared and Ivanka Outrun Donald Trump's Scandals? — Less than a fortnight into his new post, Kushner appears unable to control his father-in-law—and is “furious” that his efforts are being undermined. — On Friday afternoon, Donald Trump descended upon the Pentagon's Hall of Heroes flanked …
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Kyle Balluck / The Hill:
White House: Trump will enforce LGBTQ workplace protections — The White House said early Tuesday that President Trump will continue to enforce an Obama-era executive order protecting the rights of the LGBTQ community in the workplace. — “President Donald J. Trump is determined to protect …
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Obama's Protections for L.G.B.T. Workers Will Remain Under Trump
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Kate Brannen / Foreign Policy:
Steve Bannon Is Making Sure There's No White House Paper Trail, Says Intel Source — The Trump administration's chief strategist has already taken control of both policy and process on national security. — If there was any question about who is largely in charge of national security behind …
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Alice Speri / The Intercept:
The FBI Has Quietly Investigated White Supremacist Infiltration of Law Enforcement … White supremacists and other domestic extremists maintain an active presence in U.S. police departments and other law enforcement agencies. A striking reference to that conclusion, notable for its confidence …
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
How Obama will take on Trump — Barack Obama and his aides expected to take on President Donald Trump at some point, but they didn't think it would happen this quickly. — Now they're trying to find the right balance on issues that demand a response, and how to use Obama to deliver the selective pushback.
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Annie Karni / Politico:
White House aide Epshteyn wrote controversial Holocaust memorial statement
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New York Post:
Priest tells anti-Trump protesters to commit suicide — The pastor of a largely immigrant Catholic church in Queens has a suggestion for his anti-Trump parishioners: Go take a flying leap off the nearest building. — “Show your hate for Trump. Do it for social justice.
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Madeline Conway / Politico:
DHS chief promises to carry out Trump's immigration order ‘humanely’ — Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly on Tuesday strongly defended President Donald Trump's sweeping executive order restricting immigration, saying such a measure was “long overdue.” — Speaking at a press conference …
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