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New York Times:
Turmoil at the National Security Council, From the Top Down — WASHINGTON — These are chaotic and anxious days inside the National Security Council, the traditional center of management for a president's dealings with an uncertain world. — Three weeks into the Trump administration …
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CNN:
At Mar-a-Lago, Trump tackles crisis diplomacy at close range — Trump, Abe respond to N. Korea missile test — (CNN)The iceberg wedge salads, dripping with blue cheese dressing, had just been served on the terrace of Mar-a-Lago Saturday when the call to President Donald Trump came in …
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Wall Street Journal:
Mike Flynn's Position Grows Tenuous in White House — The White House is reviewing whether to retain National Security Adviser Mike Flynn amid a furor over his contacts with Russian officials before President Donald Trump took office.
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Japan Times, Infowars and The Week
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump reviews top White House staff after tumultuous start — President Donald Trump, frustrated over his administration's rocky start, is complaining to friends and allies about some of his most senior aides — leading to questions about whether he is mulling an early staff shakeup.
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No More Mister Nice Blog, New York Times, Outside the Beltway and Washington Post
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump friend says Priebus is ‘in way over his head’ — One of President Trump's longtime friends made a striking move on Sunday: After talking privately with the president over drinks late Friday, Christopher Ruddy publicly argued that Trump should replace his White House chief of staff.
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alan.com, The Week, The Hill, Infowars, Daily Kos, Mother Jones, twitchy.com, Outside the Beltway and Mediaite
Mike Allen / Axios:
Priebus, Flynn, others on thin ice
Priebus, Flynn, others on thin ice
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Jon Karl's front-row seat to the Trump White House
Jon Karl's front-row seat to the Trump White House
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ABC News
Ryan Sabalow / Sacramento Bee:
BREAKING: Oroville under immediate evacuation as spillway collapse feared — “It's uncontrolled. It's uncontrolled.” — Fearing a gush from Lake Oroville if the emergency spillway collapses, officials are releasing as much as 100,000 cubic feet per second from the main …
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Paul Rogers / Mercury News:
Oroville Dam: Feds and state officials ignored warnings 12 years ago — More than a decade ago, federal and state officials and some of California's largest water agencies rejected concerns that the massive earthen spillway at Oroville Dam — at risk of collapse Sunday night and prompting …
Brian Chappatta / Bloomberg:
America's Biggest Creditors Dump Treasuries in Warning to Trump — Japanese investors cull U.S. government debt by most since '13 — Currency-hedged returns were worst on record last quarter — In the age of Trump, America's biggest foreign creditors are suddenly having second thoughts about financing the U.S. government.
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Jennifer Calfas / The Hill:
Trump's official inauguration poster has glaring typo — President Trump's official inauguration portrait offered by the Library of Congress had a glaring typo on it, social media users pointed out Sunday evening. — The print of Trump, which was sold on the Library of Congress's website …
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Raw Story, alan.com, New York Magazine, Business Insider and Little Green Footballs
Susan B. Glasser / Politico:
Can a ‘Wrecking Ball’ of a President Evolve? — When Bob Corker went to Trump Tower in late November to interview for secretary of state, the disruptive new president and his team were not just idly talking about a potentially explosive start to the new administration.
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Talking Points Memo
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Trump: Media won't report on ‘enthusiastic supporters’ at Mar-a-Lago — President Trump on Sunday again slammed the media, this time claiming that there were “enthusiastic supporters lining the roads” as he left his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. — “Just leaving Florida.
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Hollywood Reporter:
Grammy Awards: A Pro-Trump Statement on the Red Carpet — Singer Joyce Villa wore a “Make America Great Again” gown. — Scandalous dresses on the Grammys red carpet aren't what they used to be. It wasn't deep cleavage or a thigh-high leg slit that had tongues wagging about singer Joyce Villa on Sunday night.
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Gabriel Snyder / Wired:
The New York Times Claws Its Way Into the Future — Arthur Gregg Sulzberger doesn't remember the first time he visited the family business. He was young, he says, no older than 6, when he shuffled through the brass-plated revolving doors of the old concrete hulk on 43rd Street and boarded …
New York Times:
G.O.P. Lawmakers Like What They See in Trump. They Just Have to Squint. — WASHINGTON — Republican congressional aides have set their iPhones to flutter every time President Trump hurls a thunderbolt on Twitter. Senators nod politely at his false claims of mass voter fraud during private White House meetings.
Julian Zelizer / The Daily Beast:
To Bork or Not to Bork? The Old Fight That Shows Democrats Why, and How, to Stop Gorsuch — Thirty years ago, Democrats gave the Supreme Court confirmation process a bad name. When they killed the nomination of President Ronald Reagan's first nominee to fill a vacancy, a new term was invented: “To Bork.”
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David Tweed / Bloomberg:
These Countries Could Be Trump's Next Trade War Targets — U.S. has trade deficits with most Asian trade partners — Vietnam surplus with U.S. represents 15% of the economy — India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam have largely escaped U.S. President Donald Trump's glare on trade, but he may yet come looking.
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Axios
Rhett Jones / Gizmodo:
Border Agent Demands NASA Scientist Unlock Phone Before Entering the Country — Sidd Bikkannavar is a natural-born US citizen who works at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab. He's also a prolific traveler who found himself reentering the United States right as the controversial immigration ban took effect.
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Loren Grush / The Verge:
A US-born NASA scientist was detained at the border until he unlocked his phone
A US-born NASA scientist was detained at the border until he unlocked his phone
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Mashable
Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Trump undertakes most ambitious regulatory rollback since Reagan — President Trump has embarked on the most aggressive campaign against government regulation in a generation, joining with Republican lawmakers to roll back rules already on the books and limit the ability of federal regulators to impose new ones.
Moriah Balingit / Washington Post:
Why Laverne Cox told you to Google ‘Gavin Grimm’ — A few years ago, Gavin Grimm was an unknown student at a high school in Gloucester, Va., pleading with school officials to be able to use the boys' bathroom. The teen, who came out as transgender his sophomore year, had begun using …
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