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Greg Miller / Washington Post:
No 'G'day, mate': On call with Australian prime minister, Trump badgers and brags — It should have been one of the most congenial calls for the new commander in chief — a conversation with the leader of Australia, one of America's staunchest allies, at the end of a triumphant week.
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Vivian Salama / Associated Press:
TRUMP TO MEXICO: TAKE CARE OF ‘BAD HOMBRES’ OR US MIGHT — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump threatened in a phone call with his Mexican counterpart to send U.S. troops to stop “bad hombres down there” unless the Mexican military does more to control them, according to an excerpt …
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Christopher Woody / Business Insider:
Report: In a ‘humiliating’ and ‘threatening’ tone, Trump lambasted Mexico's president during a phone call — During a phone call with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto on Friday, US President Donald Trump disparaged Mexico and threatened to use military force against the drug trade …
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CBS San Francisco:
Riot Forces Cancellation Of Yiannopoulos Talk At UC Berkeley — BERKELEY, Calif. (CBS SF/AP) — Protesters armed with bricks and fireworks mounted an assault on the building hosting a speech by polarizing Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos Wednesday night, forcing the event's cancellation.
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Public Affairs / Berkeley News:
Milo Yiannopoulos event canceled — Amid an apparently organized violent attack and destruction of property at UC Berkeley's Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union, the UC Police Department determined it was necessary to evacuate controversial speaker Milo Yiannopoulos from campus and to cancel his scheduled 8 p.m. performance.
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New York Times:
Questions Cloud U.S. Raid on Qaeda Branch in Yemen — WASHINGTON — Just five days after taking office, over dinner with his newly installed secretary of defense and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, President Trump was presented with the first of what will be many life-or-death decisions …
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Ayesha Rascoe / Reuters:
U.S. military probing more possible civilian deaths in Yemen raid — The U.S. military said on Wednesday it was looking into whether more civilians were killed in a raid on al Qaeda in Yemen on the weekend, in the first operation authorized by President Donald Trump as commander in chief.
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Politico:
What Could Gorsuch Mean for the Supreme Court? — On Tuesday, Donald Trump nominated conservative federal appeals court judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. After 11 days packed full of executive actions—on everything from immigration to military spending to trade …
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Chris McDaniel / BuzzFeed:
Trump's Supreme Court Pick Determined That A Badly Botched Execution Was An “Innocent Misadventure”
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Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
Neil Gorsuch Is Not a Villain
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Sarah Posner / The Nation:
Leaked Draft of Trump's Religious Freedom Order Reveals Sweeping Plans to Legalize Discrimination — If signed, the order would create wholesale exemptions for people and organizations who claim religious objections to same-sex marriage, premarital sex, abortion, and trans identity. — By ,
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Rick Klein / ABC News:
Trump Executive Order Draft Could Curtail LGBT Rights — A draft of an executive order on “religious freedom” is circulating inside the Trump administration, outlining a potential weakening of protections designed to shield LGBT individuals from discrimination, according to a copy of the proposed order obtained by ABC News.
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Lawrence K. Altman, M.D. / New York Times:
Donald Trump's Longtime Doctor Says President Takes Hair-Growth Drug — WASHINGTON — President Trump takes medication for three ailments, including a prostate-related drug to promote hair growth, Mr. Trump's longtime physician, Dr. Harold N. Bornstein, said in a series of recent interviews.
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Two GOP senators to vote ‘no’ on Betsy DeVos — in back-to-back speeches on the Senate floor announced Wednesday that they would oppose Betsy DeVos's nomination to be Education secretary. — They are the first two Republicans to break with Trump on any of his Cabinet picks …
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Bill McMorris / Washington Free Beacon:
GOP Defectors Have Received Thousands From Teachers Union
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Kimberly Hefling / Politico:
DeVos nomination stands at 50-50
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Bloomberg:
Republicans Rebrand Obamacare Strategy From ‘Repeal’ to ‘Repair’ — Lawmakers advised to shift to friendlier Obamacare messaging — Some try out ‘repair’ as others stick with stronger words — Some Republicans in Congress are starting to talk more about trying to “repair” Obamacare …
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Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
GOP talk shifts from replacing ObamaCare to repairing it
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Nik DeCosta-Klipa / Boston Globe:
Read the full transcript of President Trump's unusual Black History Month remarks here — President Donald Trump raised more than a few eyebrows with his remarks Wednesday — the first day of Black History Month — during an “African American History Month Listening Session” at the White House.
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David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
Donald Trump's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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Hamilton Nolan / The Concourse:
A Full Transcript Of Donald Trump's Black History Month Remarks
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Joel Rubin / Los Angeles Times:
L.A. federal judge orders a temporary halt to Trump's travel ban — U.S. District Judge Andre Birotte Jr., in his prior job as the U.S. attorney for the Central District of California. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times) — A federal judge in Los Angeles has added another legal challenge …
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Reuters:
Exclusive: Trump to focus counter-extremism program solely on Islam - sources — The Trump administration wants to revamp and rename a U.S. government program designed to counter all violent ideologies so that it focuses solely on Islamist extremism, five people briefed on the matter told Reuters.
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WJBK-TV:
Man who claimed mom died in Iraq after Trump's ban lied, Imam confirms — DETROIT (WJBK) - The leader of a mosque in Dearborn has confirmed to FOX 2 that a man who claimed his mother died in Iraq after being barred from returning to the United States under a ban instituted by President Trump this weekend …
Matt Stevens / Los Angeles Times:
Witnesses describe chaotic, terrifying scene of stabbing rampage in Hollywood — A stabbing and police shooting were reported in Hollywood on Tuesday afternoon. By Luis Sinco and Brain van der Brug / Los Angeles Times — Witnesses described a chaotic scene Tuesday when a knife-wielding man went …
Julian Borger / The Guardian:
Trump administration ‘officially putting Iran on notice’, says Michael Flynn — National security adviser issues statement in response to recent Iranian actions as expert warns the White House ‘could stumble into war’ — The Trump administration has said it was “officially putting Iran on notice” …
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Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
White House puts Iran ‘on notice,’ won't rule out military force
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Gardiner Harris / New York Times:
Rex Tillerson Is Confirmed as Secretary of State Amid Record Opposition — WASHINGTON — Rex W. Tillerson, the former chairman and chief executive of Exxon Mobil, was confirmed by the Senate on Wednesday in a 56-to-43 vote to become the nation's 69th secretary of state just as serious strains …
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New York Times:
How Senators Voted on Rex Tillerson
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Reuters:
Covering Trump the Reuters Way — In a message to staff today, Reuters Editor-in-Chief Steve Adler wrote about covering President Trump the Reuters way: — The first 12 days of the Trump presidency (yes, that's all it's been!) have been memorable for all - and especially challenging for us in the news business.
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Anthony Scaramucci Won't Join White House, Official Says — WASHINGTON — Anthony Scaramucci, an investment firm founder and a Republican donor, will not be taking a senior job at the White House as previously announced, a senior administration official said Wednesday.
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