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2:50 PM ET, February 4, 2017

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Isaac Arnsdorf / Politico:
Trump officials slow-walked court orders on travel ban  —  Hours after a federal judge ordered customs officers to provide lawyers to travelers detained at Dulles airport last Saturday, senior Trump administration officials instructed the guards to give the travelers phone numbers …
Discussion: Mother Jones
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Yahoo:
Trump fumes, vows to act, after judge lifts travel ban  —  WASHINGTON/DAMASCUS (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday denounced a judge who lifted a travel ban for citizens of seven mainly Muslim countries, vowing that his government would reinstate it as affected travelers scrambled …
CNN:
Federal judge temporarily halts Trump travel ban nationwide  —  Washington (CNN)A federal judge temporarily halted President Donald Trump's immigration executive order effective nationwide Friday, a significant setback for the controversial travel ban.  —  Federal Judge James Robart …
Cyra Master / The Hill:
Report: Customs and Border Protection tells airlines ‘back to business as usual’  —  Customs and Border Protection told major U.S. airlines Friday night they should go “back to business as usual” after a federal judge issued a temporary nationwide restraining order stopping President Trump's …
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Trump lashes out at ‘so-called judge’ who temporarily blocked travel ban  —  President Trump on Saturday morning ripped into a federal judge's decision to temporarily block enforcement of his controversial travel ban.  —  “When a country is no longer able to say who can, and who cannot …
Associated Press:
The Latest: About 140 Somali Refugees Sent Back to Camp
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Anna Giaritelli / Washington Examiner:
DOJ seeking emergency stay of federal judge's ‘outrageous order’
Discussion: IJR
Associated Press:
Trump Lashes out a Federal Judge Over Ruling on Travel Ban
Discussion: Politico and ABC News
Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump's entry order nationwide
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Inside the White House-Cabinet battle over Trump's immigration order  —  On the evening of Saturday, Jan. 28, as airport protests raged over President Trump's executive order on immigration, the man charged with implementing the order, Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly, had a plan.
The Daily Caller:
Look Who Funds The Group Behind The Call To Arms At Milo's Berkeley Event  —  The left-wing group that helped organize the violent shut down of the Milo Yiannopoulos event at the University of California, Berkeley on Wednesday is backed by a progressive charity that is in turn funded by George Soros …
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Austin Wright / Politico:
DeVos opposition snowballs into avalanche  —  Adversaries of Betsy DeVos are mounting a furious last-minute bid to sink her nomination for Education secretary, with tactics that include a “tie-breaker telethon” in Alaska, a flood of emails to U.S. senators and celebrity appeals to millions of Twitter followers.
Discussion: Political Wire
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Maggie Hassan / New York Times:
Why I Won't Vote for Betsy DeVos
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Tristan Lejeune / The Hill:
BuzzFeed sued over unverified Trump dossier  —  BuzzFeed faces a new lawsuit over its publication of an unverified dossier of claims against President Trump and others, McClatchy reported Friday evening.  —  McClatchy says XBT Holdings, a tech firm with Russian ties named in the document …
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Jose Pagliery / CNNMoney:
Russian tech exec sues Buzzfeed for publishing unverified Trump dossier
Katie Bo Williams / The Hill:
Trump's pick for CIA No. 2 prompts fears  —  Senate Democrats and human rights activists are rallying against Donald Trump  —  's selection of an officer linked to the CIA's controversial enhanced interrogation program to take the number-two seat at the agency.
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Michael J. Morell / The Cipher Brief:
Why Haspel Makes Sense as the Deputy CIA Director
Discussion: The Guardian
Sara Reardon / Nature:
US government takes animal-welfare data offline  —  The US Department of Agriculture will no longer make lab inspection results and violations publicly available, citing privacy concerns.  —  Rights & Permissions  —  The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) agency charged with ensuring …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Karin Brulliard / Washington Post:
USDA abruptly purges animal welfare information from its website
Discussion: Gizmodo
Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Documents confirm Trump still benefiting from his business  —  Before taking office, President Trump promised to place his assets in a trust designed to erect a wall between him and the businesses that made him wealthy.  —  But newly released documents show that Trump himself is the sole beneficiary …
Discussion: The Week
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New York Times:
Trust Records Show Trump Is Still Closely Tied to His Empire
Discussion: ThinkProgress and The Guardian
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Donald Trump might be more popular than you think  —  Just how popular is Donald Trump?  Two weeks into the new president's term, it's a matter of some dispute.  —  Traditional phone polls that use live interviewers — including some of the most trusted polls in politics and media …
Leo Shane III / Military Times:
Trump's pick for Army Secretary drops out  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Army abruptly withdrew his name from consideration late Friday night, citing his inability to get around strict Defense Department rules concerning his family businesses.
Wall Street Journal:
Trump's First Weeks Leave Washington— and the White House Staff—Panting  —  President's freewheeling style and a torrent of meetings and executive orders created turmoil, forcing him to clarify staff roles; 'we're cracking some eggs here'  —  President Donald Trump wasn't happy.
Discussion: Axios
Anna Palmer / Politico:
TV networks hiking ad rates for shows Trump watches  —  MSNBC and Fox News are capitalizing on President Donald Trump's TV watching habits, dramatically increasing issue advocacy advertising rates in recent weeks as companies and outside groups try to influence Trump and his top lieutenants.
Discussion: Hot Air
Joel Kotkin / The Daily Beast:
The High Cost of a Home Is Turning American Millennials Into the New Serfs  —  American greatness was long premised on the common assumption was that each generation would do better than previous one.  That is being undermined for the emerging millennial generation.
Discussion: Instapundit
 
 
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Katie Yoder / NewsBusters:
Abortion Sympathizer Katie Couric: Even a ‘Female Fetus’ Can ‘Feel’ Male
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and IJR
Perry Stein / Washington Post:
How protesters plan to get under Trump's skin wherever he goes
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Mike Pence Skipping CNN On Sunday Show Circuit
Rukmini Callimachi / New York Times:
Not ‘Lone Wolves’ After All: How ISIS Is Guiding Terror Plots From Afar
Associated Press:
Trump's Supreme Court Pick Wary of ‘Politicians With Robes’
Discussion: Politico
 Earlier Items: 
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Trump missing top lieutenants across federal government
Discussion: Political Wire
Terence P. Jeffrey / CNSNews:
U.S. Gained 5,000 Manufacturing Jobs in January, Lost 10,000 Government Jobs
Eli Stokols / Politico:
The method to President Trump's madness
Howard Fischer Capitol / Arizona Daily Sun:
GOP lawmakers look to penalize refugee resettlement charities
Discussion: Political Wire and Politicus USA
Joe Coscarelli / New York Times:
Kellyanne Conway Admits ‘Bowling Green Massacre’ Error
Sarah Mervosh / Dallas Morning News:
Damning texts between ex-Baylor coach Briles, other officials revealed in new court records
Discussion: Blogcritics and Mediaite
Barbara Demick / Los Angeles Times:
In an age of ‘alternative facts,’ a massacre of schoolchildren is called a hoax
 

 
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Memo: WaPo's Matt Murray lays out plans for WP Ventures, the “third newsroom”; Krissah Thompson will be editor and Samantha Henig will be general manager

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Stephen Alpher / CoinDesk:
Rumble announces a $775M investment from Tether and plans to use $525M to fund a tender offer for ~70M shares of its common stock; RUM jumped 50%+ after hours

 
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