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Nicki Rossoll / ABC News:
Pence Defends Trump ‘Speaking His Mind’ About Federal Judge, Promises ‘All Legal Means’ to Challenge Ruling — Vice President Mike Pence defended President Donald Trump's criticism of a federal judge who blocked an executive action temporarily barring immigrants and refugees …
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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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The Hill
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
State Dept. reverses visa revocations, allows barred travelers to enter U.S. — The State Department says previously barred travelers will be allowed to enter the United States after a federal judge in Washington state on Friday temporarily blocked enforcement of President Trump's controversial immigration ban.
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Avi Selk / Washington Post:
Meet the Bush-nominated federal judge who halted Trump's executive order
Meet the Bush-nominated federal judge who halted Trump's executive order
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New York Times, Q13 FOX News, Daily Kos, Politicus USA, IJR, Balloon Juice and ABC News
Yahoo:
Trump fumes, vows to act, after judge lifts travel ban
Trump fumes, vows to act, after judge lifts travel ban
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The Hill, Politicus USA and The Geller Report
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Trump lashes out at ‘so-called judge’ who temporarily blocked travel ban
Trump lashes out at ‘so-called judge’ who temporarily blocked travel ban
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Anna Giaritelli / Washington Examiner:
DOJ seeking emergency stay of federal judge's ‘outrageous order’
DOJ seeking emergency stay of federal judge's ‘outrageous order’
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IJR
Associated Press:
The Latest: Pence Defends Trump's Comments About Judge
The Latest: Pence Defends Trump's Comments About Judge
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ABC News, Talking Points Memo and Associated Press
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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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
'We'll do better': Trump's White House tries to gain a sense of order amid missteps — Soon after President Trump lifted off from the South Lawn of the White House for a long weekend in Florida, the administration's communications and policy teams convened for what some jokingly called their first “staff mixer.”
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New Yorker, The Guardian, Raw Story and New York Times
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Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
CNN turns down White House offer of Kellyanne Conway to appear on Sunday shows: report — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — Pushing back at President Donald Trump's attacks on the network, CNN has said “no thanks” to a White House offer of Kellyanne Conway to speak for the president …
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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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Luke Rosiak / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: House Intelligence, Foreign Affairs Committee Members Compromised By Rogue IT Staff — Three brothers who managed office information technology for members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and other lawmakers were abruptly relieved of their duties on suspicion …
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The Last Refuge, The Gateway Pundit, TheBlaze and Liberty Unyielding
Brian Bennett / Los Angeles Times:
8 million people could be deported under Trump's immigration order — Migrants from Guatemala receive instructions from a local law enforcement official after they crossed the Rio Grande near McAllen, Texas, in 2014. (Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times)
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Pew Research Center, American Power, Hullabaloo and Oliver Willis
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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Victoria Colliver / Politico:
Republicans face anger over Obamacare repeal during town halls — ROSEVILLE, CA — Two Republican lawmakers representing reliably conservative districts on opposite ends of the country on Saturday faced down heated questions from Obamacare supporters who flooded town hall events demanding …
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Oliver Willis
Lisa Riley Roche / Deseret News:
Mitt Romney: No regrets about criticizing Trump, but time to recognize his ‘strong start’ — PARK CITY — Mitt Romney said Friday he has no regrets about criticizing then candidate Donald Trump in a stinging speech last year but now sees the new president as having “obviously gotten off to a very strong start.”
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RedState, Washington Examiner and Mediaite
ABC News:
Trump's Criticism of Judge Shows Limits of Staff's Influence — Late Friday night, some of President Donald Trump's top advisers huddled on the phone to craft a response to a court ruling that blocked the White House's refugee and immigration ban. — The White House statement slammed the order as “outrageous.”
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Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Hundreds plan to moon Trump Tower in protest — Hundreds have responded to a Facebook “Chicago moons Trump Tower” event, during which protesters plan to drop their trousers in front of Trump Tower Chicago. — According to the Facebook page for the event titled “Operation “Kiss Our Asses …
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Rukmini Callimachi / New York Times:
Not ‘Lone Wolves’ After All: How ISIS Guides World's Terror Plots From Afar — HYDERABAD, India — When the Islamic State identified a promising young recruit willing to carry out an attack in one of India's major tech hubs, the group made sure to arrange everything down to the bullets he needed to kill victims.
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Hot Air, TheBlaze, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and RedState
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
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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Political Wire
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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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PhillyVoice and ThinkProgress
Bozorgmehr Sharafedin / Reuters:
Iran vows ‘roaring missiles’ if threatened, defies new sanctions — A Revolutionary Guards commander said Iran would use its missiles if its security is under threat, as the elite force defied new U.S. sanctions on its missile programme by holding a military exercise on Saturday.
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Fox News, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, TheBlaze, RedState, The White House, IJR, New York Post, The Week and Politico