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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 …
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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 …
Anna Giaritelli / Washington Examiner:
DOJ seeking emergency stay of federal judge's ‘outrageous order’ — The Justice Department will ask for an emergency stay to honor President Trump's executive action on immigration admissions, the White House's Office of the Press Secretary said in a statement late Friday.
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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 …
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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’
Report: Customs and Border Protection tells airlines ‘back to business as usual’
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Martha Bellisle / Associated Press:
Trump lashes out at travel ban ruling by ‘so-called judge’
Trump lashes out at travel ban ruling by ‘so-called judge’
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Associated Press:
The Latest: About 140 Somali Refugees Sent Back to Camp
The Latest: About 140 Somali Refugees Sent Back to Camp
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Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump's entry order nationwide
Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump's entry order nationwide
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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.
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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
Russian tech exec sues Buzzfeed for publishing unverified Trump dossier
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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.
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Maggie Hassan / New York Times:
Why I Won't Vote for Betsy DeVos
Why I Won't Vote for Betsy DeVos
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Perry Stein / Washington Post:
How protesters plan to get under Trump's skin wherever he goes — WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — The Saturday evening march will begin at Trump Plaza, a high-rise apartment building. President Trump actually hasn't owned the place since 1991. Fine. It still has the name. It's a good place to start.
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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 …
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Political Wire
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Karin Brulliard / Washington Post:
USDA abruptly purges animal welfare information from its website
USDA abruptly purges animal welfare information from its website
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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 …
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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.
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Hot Air
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 …
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New York Daily News:
SEE IT: New Yorkers hold mock vigil at Bowling Green for ‘massacre’ victims as Kellyanne Conway ripped for bogus claim — New Yorkers can be a sentimental — and satirical — bunch. — That's why it was no surprise that an impromptu vigil was held Friday honoring the Bowling Green massacre victims that never were.
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Joe Coscarelli / New York Times:
Kellyanne Conway Admits ‘Bowling Green Massacre’ Error
Kellyanne Conway Admits ‘Bowling Green Massacre’ Error
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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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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.
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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.
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Axios