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Wall Street Journal:
Gary Cohn Has Emerged as an Economic-Policy Powerhouse in Trump Administration — Gary Cohn, a former Goldman Sachs executive and commodities trader, is emerging as President Donald Trump's most powerful economic policy maker during the early days of the administration, capitalizing on a vacuum created while other top posts sit vacant.
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Kate Kelly / New York Times:
Trump's Economic Cabinet Is Mostly Bare. This Man Fills the Void.
Trump's Economic Cabinet Is Mostly Bare. This Man Fills the Void.
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Axios
New York Times:
Reports of Raids Have Immigrants Bracing for Enforcement Surge — In Austin, Tex., undocumented women working in a laundromat cowered in the back of the room, petrified after seeing a video and a photograph of apprehensions outside a local grocery store and burger joint.
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Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Protests erupt in NYC over immigration enforcement raids
Protests erupt in NYC over immigration enforcement raids
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LAist, TheBlaze, neo-neocon, Los Angeles Times, Fox News, BizPac Review, The Week, ThinkProgress and RedState
Lisa Riley Roche / Deseret News:
Chaffetz says town hall crowd tried ‘bullying and intimidation’ — SALT LAKE CITY — Rep. Jason Chaffetz said the raucous reception he received at Thursday evening's town hall meeting was “bullying and an attempt at intimidation” from a crowd opposed to President Donald Trump's election.
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ThinkProgress, Mediaite, Daily Kos, The Verge, Hit & Run, Grist and The Atlantic
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Kristin Salaky / Talking Points Memo:
Chaffetz Said He Believes Town Hall Protestors Were Paid, Not From Utah
Chaffetz Said He Believes Town Hall Protestors Were Paid, Not From Utah
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Joe.My.God.
Kelsey Snell / Washington Post:
Swarming crowds and hostile questions are the new normal at GOP town halls
Swarming crowds and hostile questions are the new normal at GOP town halls
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Infowars, the daily howler and Outside the Beltway
Wall Street Journal:
Internal Nordstrom Data Show Sales Decline for Ivanka Trump Brand — Brand's 32% tumble occurred even as the chain's overall sales rose — Dueling social-media movements are urging people to boycott and buy brands based on their affiliation with President Donald Trump …
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Axios and Political Wire
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Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
Sales of Ivanka Trump's brand dropped sharply at Nordstrom: report — Ivanka Trump's fashion brand faced declining sales at Nordstrom in the last fiscal year, the Wall Street Journal reported Saturday, citing internal store data. — The brand's sales dropped 32 percent overall for the year, the report said.
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RedState, The Nation, New York Times and theGrio
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Top Flynn aide rejected for key security clearance: report — A top aide to national security adviser Michael Flynn was denied security clearance to serve on the National Security Council (NSC), Politico reported late Friday. — Robin Townley, the senior Africa director on the NSC …
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Politicus USA
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
CIA freezes out top Flynn aide
CIA freezes out top Flynn aide
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New York Daily News, Politicus USA, alan.com, TheBlaze, BizPac Review, NO QUARTER USA NET, Towleroad, Informed Comment, Mother Jones and Republic Report
Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Newspaper uses photo of Alec Baldwin on ‘SNL’ instead of Trump — Dominican newspaper El Nacional on Friday printed a photo of Alec Baldwin doing his impression of President Trump on “Saturday Night Live” in an article about Trump and Israel. — The photo was used side-by-side with a photo …
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Talking Points Memo, Gizmodo, BizPac Review, RedState, Mediaite and The Week
Larry Celona / New York Post:
Woman falls to her death at World Trade Center's Oculus — A woman trying to grab a hat dropped by her twin sister fell to her death from an escalator at the World Trade Center's soaring Oculus transit hub on Saturday. — The 29-year-old Kearny, NJ resident, identified by law enforcement sources …
Helaine Olen / Slate:
Meet the Teacher Whose Powerful, Christian Defense of Obamacare Made a GOP Town Hall Go Viral — Jessi Bohon was more than a bit tired when I called her Friday. The 35-year-old high-school French teacher who lives in Cookeville, Tennessee, didn't expect her first real moment of political activism to go national.
Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
The Vulnerabilities in the Ninth Circuit's Executive-Order Decision — The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals delivered an extraordinary rebuke to President Trump yesterday. The politically diverse panel (two Democratic appointees, one Republican) rejected just about every argument put forth …
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The Last Refuge, Lawfare and Washington Post
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Scott Johnson / Power Line:
Somebody get me out of here — The federal courts …
Somebody get me out of here — The federal courts …
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Sense of Events, BuzzFeed, Washington Post and Althouse
Elliot Smilowitz / The Hill:
Trump: Border wall price ‘will come WAY DOWN’ when I negotiate — President Trump on Saturday responded to reports that the cost of his proposed border wall is much higher than expected, insisting that it will be much cheaper after he gets involved in negotiations.
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Matt Novak / Gizmodo:
These Pathetic Tweets Are Just How Our Government Works Now — Do you ever feel like President Trump isn't listening to you? Well, even sitting Republican Senators now feel the same way. But they've found a solution. Senator Chuck Grassley from Iowa now just starts his tweets with …
Morgan Winsor / ABC News:
Hopeful of Victory, Anti-Abortion Rights Protests Target Planned Parenthood, Are Met By Counterprotests — From Pennsylvania to Tennessee to California, hundreds of protests of varying size against Planned Parenthood and counterprotests in support of the nonprofit health organization took place across the country Saturday.
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Santiago Pérez / Wall Street Journal:
Mexicans Vow to Fight Trump by Jamming U.S. Courts — Group says it will urge compatriots targeted for extradition to fight in court; government allocates funds — MEXICO CITY—Influential Mexicans are pushing an aggressive and perhaps risky strategy to fight a likely increase in deportations …
Raw Story:
Trump's surprise cost-cutting target: The first lady's staff — WASHINGTON — As President Donald Trump searches for ways to cut costs at the White House, he has set his sights on the first lady's office. Trump is considering reducing the number of jobs in that office …
New York Times:
‘A Sense of Dread’ for Civil Servants Shaken by Trump Transition — WASHINGTON — Across the vast federal bureaucracy, Donald J. Trump's arrival in the White House has spread anxiety, frustration, fear and resistance among many of the two million nonpolitical civil servants who say they work for the public, not a particular president.
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MichelleMalkin.com and twitchy.com
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Al Franken to Maher: GOP senators privately express ‘great concern’ about Trump's temperament — Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) said Friday night that his Republican Senate colleagues privately express “great concern” about President Trump's temperament, and he joked about the GOP eventually impeaching Trump.
Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Stephen Miller: A key engineer for Trump's ‘America first’ agenda — As a young conservative in liberal Santa Monica, Calif., Stephen Miller clashed frequently with his high school, often calling in to a national radio show to lambaste administrators for promoting multiculturalism …
Joel Connelly / seattlepi.com:
Website for disabled kids disappears as DeVos takes office — Washington senators Murray, Cantwell demand Trump education chief restore site — A U.S. Department of Education website, empowering families of students with disabilities, has disappeared — and already embattled Trump education chief Betsy DeVos may be to blame.
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Raw Story, Politicus USA and United States Senator …