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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 …
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump ran a campaign based on intelligence security. That's not how he's governing. — Close observers of the 2016 election will remember that, on occasion, President Trump liked to draw attention to his opponent's security practices as a way of criticism. There was, you may recall, something about an email server.
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Priebus, Flynn, others on thin ice — Imagine you're Reince Priebus. Every day, you hear speculation that your days as White House chief of staff are numbered. You wake up on a Sunday and read that colleague Kellyanne Conway's dream job is, well, yours.
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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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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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ThinkProgress, Japan Times, Politico, Infowars and The Week
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump friend says Priebus is ‘in way over his head’
Trump friend says Priebus is ‘in way over his head’
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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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Raw Story, Los Angeles Times, Associated Press, Daily Wire, New York Magazine, CBS Sacramento, twitchy.com and Scared Monkeys
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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 …
Anna M. Phillips / Los Angeles Times:
Evacuations ordered below Oroville Dam; failure of emergency spillway ‘expected’
Evacuations ordered below Oroville Dam; failure of emergency spillway ‘expected’
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ThinkProgress, Butte County Sheriff, CityLab, Associated Press, FiveThirtyEight, Gizmodo, RedState, naked capitalism and KTLA
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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Mother Jones, CANNONFIRE and Axios
Wall Street Journal:
Commerce Nominee Wilbur Ross Will Keep His Stake in Chinese-Government-Backed Company — Wilbur Ross Jr. plans to keep millions of dollars invested in offshore entities whose values could be affected by policies that he implements as commerce secretary.
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Political Wire
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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Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, Mashable, Business Insider, New York Magazine, Little Green Footballs and alan.com
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
Elon Musk: Humans must merge with machines or become irrelevant in AI age — Billionaire Elon Musk is known for his futuristic ideas and his latest suggestion might just save us from being irrelevant as artificial intelligence (AI) grows more prominent. — The Tesla and SpaceX CEO …
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
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 and Axios
Ryan Beene / Bloomberg:
Auto CEOs Ask Trump to Revisit Obama-era Fuel Efficiency Rules — Appeal aims to resume review that carmakers say was cut short — Environmental group calls it ‘first step’ to weaker standards — The chief executives of 18 automakers asked President Donald Trump to reinstate …
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Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Trump undertakes most ambitious regulatory rollback since Reagan
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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Raw Story, New York Times and The Talking Dog
New York Times:
Immigration Agents Arrest 600 People Across U.S. in One Week — Federal immigration officials arrested more than 600 people across at least 11 states last week, detaining 40 people in the New York City area, law enforcement officials said on Sunday. — It remained unclear whether the actions …
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ThinkProgress, CNN, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, BizPac Review, Associated Press and CBS New York
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
Shoving Alinsky's Rules for Radicals Right Back in the Left's Ugly Face — The Left is getting massively out-Alinskyed, and the hilarious thing is that this band of withered hippies, unemployable millennial safe-space cases, and unlovable + unshaven libfeminists don't even know it.
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Former Rep. David Jolly / The Hill:
Weak congressional Republicans are not standing up to Trump as they should — won the election. He's our President. — But his election does nothing to change the Article I Constitutional Authority of the Congress, nor does it change the responsibility of Republican Members of Congress …
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Raw Story
Dana Nuccitelli / The Guardian:
Debunked David Rose doubles down, goes full Trump — On February 5th, Rose ran a story alleging scandalous behavior by NOAA scientists in a 2015 paper. The story was based on an interview with retired NOAA scientist John Bates, who was not involved in the study.
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Daily Mail and Daily Wire
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.
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Paul Schwartzman / Washington Post:
After angry demonstration in Utah, Chaffetz returns to more wrath in D.C. — Rep. Jason Chaffetz is not yielding. — When he gavels in his House committee Monday night, the Utah Republican will begin the rare act of dismantling a D.C. law — one that allows for assisted suicide …
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