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11:00 AM ET, February 13, 2017

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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 …
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.
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.
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.
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump ran a campaign based on intelligence security. That's not how he's governing.
Discussion: The Week
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Jon Karl's front-row seat to the Trump White House
Discussion: ABC News
CNN:
Flynn on thin ice but still in at the White House after turbulent few days
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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 …
CBS Sacramento:
Nearly 200K Remain Under Evacuation As Concerns Remain Over Oroville Dam Spillway
Discussion: FOX40
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.
Discussion: 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.
Discussion: 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 …
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 …
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.
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.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Axios
Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:
Beyond Flynn, other ties bind the White House to the Kremlin  —  Sign up for the Today's WorldView newsletter.  —  President Trump's national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, had a pretty wretched week.  The Post's reporting revealed that Flynn, contrary to his and the White House's earlier assertions …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
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.
Discussion: Daily Kos
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.
Discussion: Instapundit
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 …
 
 
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Ryan Beene / Bloomberg:
Auto CEOs Ask Trump to Revisit Obama-era Fuel Efficiency Rules
Discussion: Business Insider
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Webb: Democratic Party has moved ‘very far to the left’
Discussion: Hot Air and twitchy.com
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
The next GOP assault on voting rights
Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Score One for the Little Guys as W Hotel Drops Its Minimum Wage Surcharge in Seattle
Anna Fifield / Washington Post:
North Korea fires ballistic missile, first since Trump elected in U.S.
palmbeachdailynews:
Patrick Park may get to realize dream as Austrian ambassador
Discussion: The Week
Adam Wren / Politico:
'I'm Still All Trumped Up'  —  TERRE HAUTE, Indiana …
Richard Stengel / New York Times:
Why Saying ‘Radical Islamic Terrorism’ Isn't Enough
Discussion: Daily Kos
 Earlier Items: 
Moriah Balingit / Washington Post:
Why Laverne Cox told you to Google ‘Gavin Grimm’
Discussion: Towleroad
Toronto Sun:
Black Lives Matter co-founder appears to label white people ‘defects’
Julian Zelizer / The Daily Beast:
To Bork or Not to Bork? The Old Fight That Shows Democrats Why, and How, to Stop Gorsuch
Discussion: Instapundit
David Tweed / Bloomberg:
These Countries Could Be Trump's Next Trade War Targets
Discussion: Axios
Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Trump undertakes most ambitious regulatory rollback since Reagan
Hollywood Reporter:
Grammy Awards: A Pro-Trump Statement on the Red Carpet
Discussion: Daily Wire, IJR and AOL