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Washington Post:
Conway may have broken key ethics rule by touting Ivanka Trump's products, experts say — President Trump's official counselor, Kellyanne Conway, may have broken a key ethics rule Thursday morning when she told TV audiences to “go buy Ivanka's stuff.” — Federal employees are banned …
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Jordan Libowitz / CREW:
CREW FILES ETHICS COMPLAINTS AGAINST KELLYANNE CONWAY — Washington, DC—Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway's official endorsement of Ivanka Trump's products from the White House this morning was an apparent violation of federal law, ethics regulations and other standards of conduct …
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ThinkProgress, Hit & Run and Mediaite
Fox News Insider:
Kellyanne Conway on Ivanka Trump's Fashion Line: ‘Go Buy It Today!’ — After Nordstrom decided to drop Ivanka Trump's fashion line from its department stores, a number of retailers have recently followed suit. — Neiman Marcus, Belk, Jet, ShopStyle, Home Shopping Network …
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David Edwards / Raw Story:
Ex-ethics czar: Kellyanne Conway faces ‘a range of penalties’ for promoting Ivanka's brand on Fox
Ex-ethics czar: Kellyanne Conway faces ‘a range of penalties’ for promoting Ivanka's brand on Fox
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Joe.My.God.
Laurel Raymond / ThinkProgress:
Kellyanne Conway tells America to 'buy Ivanka's stuff,' may have violated federal law
Kellyanne Conway tells America to 'buy Ivanka's stuff,' may have violated federal law
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Isaac Arnsdorf / Politico:
Kellyanne Conway under fire for promoting Ivanka's brand
Kellyanne Conway under fire for promoting Ivanka's brand
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Reuters:
Exclusive: In call with Putin, Trump denounced Obama-era nuclear arms treaty - sources — In his first call as president with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump denounced a treaty that caps U.S. and Russian deployment of nuclear warheads as a bad deal for the United States …
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David Corn / Mother Jones:
The Mysterious Disappearance of the Biggest Scandal in Washington
The Mysterious Disappearance of the Biggest Scandal in Washington
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Daily Kos
Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
Steve Bannon and Reince Priebus Want You to Know They Are Friends — “We're just finishing,” Steve Bannon told me. “Reince is giving me my daily back massage.” — The two men burst into a fit of conspiratorial laughter. — “Off the record!” Reince Priebus said. — “Off the record!”
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The Week
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Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Trump White House besieged by leaks
Trump White House besieged by leaks
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RedState, The Verge and Daily Wire
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Trump struggling to fill one of the worst jobs in Washington
Trump struggling to fill one of the worst jobs in Washington
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Fernanda Santos / New York Times:
She Showed Up Yearly to Meet Immigration Agents. Now They've Deported Her. — PHOENIX — For eight years, Guadalupe García de Rayos had checked in at the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement office here, a requirement since she was caught using a fake Social Security number during …
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Ryan Devereaux / The Intercept:
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION PREPARES TO EXECUTE “VICIOUS” EXECUTIVE ORDER ON DEPORTATIONS
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION PREPARES TO EXECUTE “VICIOUS” EXECUTIVE ORDER ON DEPORTATIONS
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Raw Story
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Blumenthal: We're careening ‘toward a constitutional crisis’ … (D-Conn.) on Thursday warned that the country is heading toward a “constitutional crisis,” moments after President Trump attacked him for sharing Trump's Supreme Court nominee's concerns with the president's attacks on judges.
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Trump contradicts Gorsuch spokesman, accuses Blumenthal of misrepresenting comments
Trump contradicts Gorsuch spokesman, accuses Blumenthal of misrepresenting comments
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New York Times:
California Farmers Backed Trump, but Now Fear Losing Field Workers — MERCED, Calif. — Jeff Marchini and others in the Central Valley here bet their farms on the election of Donald J. Trump. His message of reducing regulations and taxes appealed to this Republican stronghold …
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Business Insider and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
California Farmers Surprised That Trump Is Anti-Immigrant
California Farmers Surprised That Trump Is Anti-Immigrant
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Los Angeles Times, KTLA and Eschaton
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
John McCain's brutal rejoinder to Sean Spicer — Donald Trump took on Sen. John McCain's status as a war hero and won the GOP nomination anyway. — Sean Spicer took on John McCain's expertise on military matters and got this: … The White House press secretary took an extraordinary position Wednesday …
The White House:
Presidential Executive Order on Enforcing Federal Law with Respect to Transnational Criminal Organizations and Preventing International Trafficking — ENFORCING FEDERAL LAW WITH RESPECT TO TRANSNATIONAL CRIMINAL ORGANIZATIONS AND PREVENTING INTERNATIONAL TRAFFICKING
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Donald J. Trump / The White House:
Presidential Executive Order on a Task Force on Crime Reduction and Public Safety
Presidential Executive Order on a Task Force on Crime Reduction and Public Safety
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The Atlantic and ImmigrationProf Blog
Olivia Marcus / Amino Blog:
The most disproportionately common injury in every state — What can medical codes tell us about getting hurt in America? — Every time you go to the doctor, your diagnosis is recorded as a medical code. They're notoriously complicated—more than 3,000 ICD codes are used just to describe physical injuries.
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Mother Jones and STAT
Gena Wolfson / Hear & Now:
CNN's Chris Cuomo: ‘I see being called fake news as the equivalent of the n-word for journalists’ … Attacks on the press for being ‘fake news’ have become a staple of President Trump's rhetoric, with CNN — hosts/reporters included — often being called out by name.
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Media Matters for America:
“Great News!”: White Nationalists See Sessions' Attorney General Confirmation As Major Step Toward Achieving Their Racist Goals — Jeff Sessions Confirmed By U.S. Senate For Attorney General Post — Sessions Confirmed On “A Near-Party-Line Vote.” Jeff Sessions, who has served …
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New York Times, Outside the Beltway, Gothamist, Refinery29, Occupy Democrats and Hot Air
Josh Zumbrun / Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump's Cabinet Won't Include Chairman of CEA — The White House Council of Economic Advisers is being demoted by the Trump administration, which said in a statement Wednesday that the president's cabinet won't include the chairman of the CEA, an official that President Donald Trump also has yet to name.
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Political Wire
Jacob Sullum / Hit & Run:
Trump Does Not Know What Civil Forfeiture Is, but He Likes It — In a meeting with county sheriffs from around the country on Tuesday, President Trump jokingly (we hope!) threatened to “destroy [the] career” of a Texas legislator who proposed requiring the government to obtain a conviction …
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New York Magazine and Washington Post
Billboard:
STEVE BOOM, 48 — Amazon founder Jeff Bezos would make almost any list of the world's most powerful people. In retail, he's clearly on top, and in tech, he's close to it. In book publishing, he would be the undisputed No. 1 for 10 years running. In addition to a $65 billion stake in Amazon …
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Business Insider, Gizmodo, Mediaite and Axios
Sam Frizell / TIME:
Inside Chuck Schumer's Plan to Take on President Trump — Put Chuck Schumer and Donald Trump in a room together and you can't miss the connection. They are the leaders of rival parties, sharp opponents on Twitter and in the press, but they live by the same words, as big and bold as the city that made them.
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The Daily Caller and The Week
Grabien News RSS:
Trump: ‘Phenomenal’ Tax Cut Package Coming in 2-3 Weeks — 'We're going to be announcing something I would say over the next two or three weeks that will be phenomenal' — President Trump to his conservative critics: I read you loud and clear! — After coming under criticism from many on the right …
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Breitbart and Mediaite
Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Steve Bannon Wanted Mel Gibson for His Movie About Nazis, Abortion, ‘Mutants’ — More than a decade before Stephen K. Bannon became one of President Donald Trump's closest White House aides, he tried to make an epic documentary-style film about the eugenics movement, Adolf Hitler, “blood purity …
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The Week, Business Insider and Gizmodo
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Should House Democrats write off rural congressional districts? — BALTIMORE — Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney has one of the most sensitive jobs in Washington. — The third-term Democrat, representing New York's Hudson Valley, is leading a review into what House Democrats did wrong in 2016.
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Washington Monthly
Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
Can What Worked in 2016 Translate to 2018? — There's been lots of uncertainty and confusion in these first three weeks of the Trump Administration. But one thing is quite clear: Trump is going to run his White House like he ran his campaign. That means a chaotic and conflict driven …
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Democrat moves to force House debate on Trump's alleged business conflicts and Russia ties — BALTIMORE — In an escalation of Democratic efforts to highlight questions about President Trump's potential conflicts of interest and alleged ties to Russia, a senior House Democrat is dusting off …
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Talking Points Memo
Berkeley Lovelace Jr / CNBC:
Twitter shares crater after ugly revenue miss, shockingly weak guidance — Twitter shares sank on Thursday after the social media company reported quarterly revenue that missed Wall Street's expectations, and issued guidance that fell far short of estimates.
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Chuck Modiano / New York Daily News:
Stand up to Trump with your Patriots teammates: An open letter to Chris Long — In September it was time for you to speak up — and you did. And now it is time for you to standup — and you should. — You are receiving this open letter with the hope that you will publicly refuse …
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Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes:
Apple iCloud Hoards ‘Deleted’ Browser History Going Back More Than A Year — If you think clearing your web browsing history on your iPhone or Mac is going to make your online habits permanently disappear, you'd be wrong. Very wrong. According to the CEO of Russian hacking tool creator Elcomsoft …
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The Verge