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CBS News:
Americans sharply divided along partisan lines over travel ban, Trump: CBS News poll — Two weeks into Donald Trump's presidency, the country remains sharply divided along partisan lines. A large majority of Republicans approves of President Trump and his recent executive order temporarily restricting entry …
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Senate Democrats' misleading language on a 60-vote ‘standard’ for Supreme Court nominees
Senate Democrats' misleading language on a 60-vote ‘standard’ for Supreme Court nominees
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Power Line, The Daily Caller, The Daily Signal, RedState, Hot Air and The Lid
Michael O'Loughlin / americamagazine.org:
No, Neil Gorsuch did not start a ‘Fascism Forever’ club at his Jesuit high school
No, Neil Gorsuch did not start a ‘Fascism Forever’ club at his Jesuit high school
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Hot Air, TheBlaze, New Urban Legends, The Daily Caller, WTOP, Common Dreams and Politicus USA
CNN:
Trump adviser cites non-existent ‘massacre’ defending ban — (CNN)Senior Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway made a statement during a TV interview Thursday that pricked the ears of fact-checkers everywhere. — She told MSNBC's Chris Matthews: — “I bet it's brand new information to people …
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Kim Hjelmgaard / USA Today:
Kellyanne Conway invents ‘Bowling Green massacre’ to defend refugee ban — Kellyanne Conway, President Trump's former campaign manager and now an adviser in his administration, defended the White House's refugee ban with an assertion that appears to be factually indefensible: She made up a “massacre.”
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New York Times, The Guardian, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Week, Raw Story and AOL
Samantha Schmidt / Washington Post:
Kellyanne Conway cites ‘Bowling Green massacre’ that never happened to defend travel ban — Kellyanne Conway has taken “alternative facts” to a new level. — During a Thursday interview with MSNBC's Chris Matthews, the counselor to the president defended President Trump's travel ban related to seven majority-Muslim countries.
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Talking Points Memo, Media Matters for America, Mother Jones, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Joe.My.God. and Gothamist
Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump Plans to Undo Dodd-Frank Law, Fiduciary Rule — President Donald Trump on Friday plans to sign an executive action to scale back the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial-overhaul law, in a sweeping plan to dismantle much of the regulatory system put in place after the financial crisis.
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Washington Post, Daily Kos, Business Insider, Axios and The Week
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New York Times:
New Yorker and Vanity Fair Pull Out of Correspondents Dinner Parties — NEW YORK — The White House Correspondents Dinner has gone from a hoary ritual to the apex of Washington's social calendar, replete with Hollywood A-listers, tuxedoed television stars and live coverage on the major news networks.
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Senate advances DeVos's nomination, setting her up for final vote — Betsy DeVos, Trump's pick to lead the Department of Education, overcame a key Senate hurdle early Friday morning, clearing the path for her expected confirmation. — Senators voted 52-48 to advance DeVos's nomination.
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Hot Air and Instapundit
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Dana Goldstein / New York Times:
Betsy DeVos, Pick for Secretary of Education, Is the Most Jeered
Betsy DeVos, Pick for Secretary of Education, Is the Most Jeered
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The Week and Los Angeles Times
Jerusalem Post:
Trump warns Israel: Stop announcing new settlements — White House official tells ‘Post’ all parties should cease ‘unilateral actions,’ affirms two-state solution. — WASHINGTON - The White House warned Israel on Thursday - in a surprising statement - to cease settlement announcements that are …
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Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
White House: Israeli settlement construction ‘may not be helpful’ for peace
White House: Israeli settlement construction ‘may not be helpful’ for peace
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ABC News, Washington Post, The Week, The Daily Caller, NPR and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
Warren drags Tillerson into fight over SEC rule — (D-Mass.) blasted Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Thursday, criticizing his past lobbying efforts to exclude Exxon Mobil from a rule that would require it to disclose payments to foreign governments. — “[A] handful of powerful oil …
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Washington Post, Politicus USA, TheStreet.com and Politico
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Tom Roussey / WJLA-TV:
Former Norwegian Prime Minister held for questioning at Dulles Airport — A former prime minister of Norway tells ABC7 he was questioned and prevented from leaving Dulles Airport for about an hour Tuesday, apparently because he had visited Iran in 2014. — Kjell Magne Bondevik served …
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The Week, WTOP, The Guardian and The Last Refuge
Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
Ben Shapiro Crushes Clock Boy in Court — On Thursday afternoon a Texas Judge dismissed a lawsuit filed against Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro by Mohammed Mohammed, the father of “clock boy” Ahmed Mohammed. — Claiming defamation, Mohammed filed the lawsuit in October 2015 …
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Dave Burke / Daily Mail:
Machete-wielding man slumps to the ground after being shot in the stomach at the Louvre museum as he attacked French soldiers while screaming ‘Allahu Akbar’ — A man armed with a machete was shot five times in the stomach after attempting to storm the museum
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Fox News, Althouse, The Other McCain, The Last Tradition and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
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Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Trump's Mar-a-Lago getaway could cost taxpayers more than $3 million — President Donald Trump's trip to his luxury resort in Mar-a-Lago this weekend could saddle taxpayers with a bill upwards of $3 million and is already drawing the type of scrutiny Trump and other Republicans regularly heaped upon former President Barack Obama.
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The Week
Michael Crowley / Politico:
White House nixed Holocaust statement naming Jews — The State Department drafted its own statement last month marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day that explicitly included a mention of Jewish victims, according to people familiar with the matter, but President Donald Trump's White House blocked its release.
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Raw Story, Democracy Now, The Times of Israel, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Mediaite, Politicus USA and Balloon Juice
Andrew Kaczynski / CNNMoney:
Howard Stern: Trump wants to be loved, presidency will be ‘detrimental’ to his mental health — Donald Trump's crude talk on The Howard Stern Show — Howard Stern said on his program Wednesday that Trump will hate being president and the role will be detrimental to his mental health.
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New York Post:
Protesters storm NYU over conservative speaker's seminar — The NYPD was out in full-force at NYU on Thursday night as protesters gathered to voice their disgust with conservative actor and Vice Media co-founder Gavin McInnes, who was inside holding a seminar for the school's College Republicans.
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twitchy.com, Breitbart, BizPac Review, VDARE, The Last Tradition and The Gateway Pundit
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
US created 227,000 jobs in January, vs 175,000 jobs expected — Jobs report delivers upside surprise of 227,000 nonfarm payrolls — Nonfarm payrolls grew by 227,000 in January while the unemployment rate edged higher to 4.8 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday.
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Politico, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and The Gateway Pundit
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Donald Trump Thinks He Can Endure More Controversy And Pain Than You — The fear, for Democrats, is that he's absolutely right. — Just two weeks into his administration, Donald Trump's presidency is off to a rapid pace. But even by his standards, Monday was especially frenzied.
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NBC News, The Week, Hot Air, Washington Post and The Atlantic
Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
US threatens North Korea with ‘overwhelming’ retaliation if it uses nuclear arms — U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis on Thursday threatened North Korea with an “effective and overwhelming” retaliation if the country decided to utilize its nuclear arsenal.
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RedState, Reuters and Defense One
Julia Belluz / Vox:
A drug company hiked the price of a lifesaving opioid overdose antidote by 500 percent — Where's the outrage? — In 1971, the Food and Drug Administration approved the first drug that could reverse a heroin or opioid overdose. More than 40 years later, makers of this drug, called naloxone …
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Axios