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3:50 PM ET, February 11, 2017

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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
CIA freezes out top Flynn aide  —  A top deputy to National Security Adviser Michael Flynn was rejected for a critical security clearance, effectively ending his tenure on the National Security Council and escalating tensions between Flynn and the intelligence community.
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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 …
Discussion: Politicus USA
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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Kristin Salaky / Talking Points Memo:
Chaffetz Said He Believes Town Hall Protestors Were Paid, Not From Utah  —  Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) said that the thousands of protestors who swarmed his town hall on Thursday night were not actually from his state and were “paid” to protest, the Deseret News reported Friday.
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Kelsey Snell / Washington Post:
Swarming crowds and hostile questions are the new normal at GOP town halls
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:
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 …
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 …
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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Diane Bartz / Reuters:   Trump says he will bring down the price of wall on Mexico's border
Scott Johnson / Power Line:
Somebody get me out of here  —  The federal courts of appeals routinely operate in randomly assigned panels of three judges.  Appeals from their decisions may be taken to the United States Supreme Court and are heard mostly as a matter of the Supreme Court's discretion.
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Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
The Vulnerabilities in the Ninth Circuit's Executive-Order Decision
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 …
Discussion: Axios and Political Wire
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 …
Discussion: TheBlaze and Axios
Morgan Winsor / ABC News:
Hopeful of Victory, Anti-Abortion Rights Protests Target Planned Parenthood; Counterprotests Held  —  From Maine to California to Hawaii, hundreds of protests against Planned Parenthood and counterprotests in support of the nonprofit health organization are taking place across the country Saturday.
Discussion: NBC News, TheBlaze, Reuters and The Week
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Lauren Rankin / Cosmopolitan:
Planned Parenthood Asked These Pro-Choice Counterprotesters to Go Away. Here's Why They Should.
Discussion: Vox and Slate
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.
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 …
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 …
Chris Johnson / Washington Blade:
DOJ nixes request to halt order against trans student protections  —  On the day after Jeff Sessions was confirmed as U.S. attorney general, the U.S. Justice Department has withdrawn its request to halt partially an order against Obama administration guidance protecting transgender students …
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:   The Justice Department Is Taking A Step Back From Efforts To Protect Transgender People Under Existing Law
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 …
Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
Ex-spy chief: I don't know of any intel that proves need for travel ban … The former director of national intelligence says he's unaware of any intelligence that proves the need for a travel ban on nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries.  —  “I don't — we in the [intelligence community] …
Discussion: alan.com
NBC News:
Russia Considers Returning Snowden to U.S. to ‘Curry Favor’ With Trump: Official  —  U.S. intelligence has collected information that Russia is considering turning over Edward Snowden as a “gift” to President Donald Trump — who has called the NSA leaker a “spy” and a “traitor” who deserves to be executed.
Aimee Green / Oregonian:
Guilty: Man who pulled gun out at 'Don't Shoot PDX' protest  —  A man who pulled out a gun at a Don't Shoot Portland march and pointed it at a crowd of protesters in downtown Portland was found guilty Friday of 21 felony and misdemeanor crimes.  —  Multnomah County Circuit Judge Thomas Ryan …
Allister Heath / Telegraph:
Fake news is killing people's minds, says Apple boss Tim Cook  —  Tim Cook, the boss of Apple, is calling for governments to launch a public information campaign to fight the scourge of fake news, which is “killing people's minds.”  —  In an impassioned plea, Mr Cook, boss of the world's largest company …
 
 
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Laurel Eckhouse / Washington Post:
Big data may be reinforcing racial bias in the criminal justice system
Jerome Hudson / Breitbart:
Michael Moore: U.S. ‘Sh*ts On Their Own’ People More than Any Other Country
Michael Wines / New York Times:
Illegal Voting Gets Texas Woman 8 Years in Prison, and Certain Deportation
Jack Montgomery / Breitbart:
Merkel Will Pay Migrants Millions To Leave Germany
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Gareth Davies / Daily Mail:
Screaming in pain in front of a cheering crowd before collapsing in agony, a woman is lashed …
Discussion: Daily Wire and The Last Tradition
Gail Collins / New York Times:
Footing the Bill for Trumps
Media Matters for America:
Tucker Carlson: On College Campuses “Everybody Gets A Safe Space Except White Men.  They Are Hated And Despised”
Natasha Korecki / Politico:
States find new ways to troll Trump
Charles E. Schumer / New York Times:
Charles Schumer: Judge Gorsuch, We Won't Be Fooled Again
CNN:
Trump to Dems: ‘Pocahontas is now the face of your party’
 

 
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New York Times:
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