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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.
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Mediaite and Political Wire, more at Mediagazer »
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
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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Politico, 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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New York Times, NBC News, No More Mister Nice Blog and Outside the Beltway
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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Talking Points Memo, alan.com, CNN, The Week, The Hill, Infowars, Daily Kos, Mother Jones, Mediaite, twitchy.com and Outside the Beltway
CNN:
Flynn on thin ice but still in at the White House after turbulent few days
Flynn on thin ice but still in at the White House after turbulent few days
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Hot Air and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Washington Post:
As Flynn falls under growing pressure over Russia contacts, Trump remains silent
As Flynn falls under growing pressure over Russia contacts, Trump remains silent
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ABC News, Washington Monthly, Outside the Beltway, The Week, Daily Kos, Talking Points Memo, The Guardian and Politico
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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Los Angeles Times, Raw Story, Daily Wire, New York Magazine, CBS Sacramento, Gizmodo, RedState and twitchy.com
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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
Nearly 200K Remain Under Evacuation As Concerns Remain Over Oroville Dam Spillway
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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.
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Mother Jones, CANNONFIRE and Axios
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 …
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, Mashable, alan.com, Business Insider, New York Magazine 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 and Axios
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
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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CNN, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, BizPac Review, Associated Press and CBS New York
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 …
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ERIC POSNER, Just Security and New York Magazine
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.
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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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 …
Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Score One for the Little Guys as W Hotel Drops Its Minimum Wage Surcharge in Seattle — Attorney General Sessions, North Korea, Sean Spicer, the war on Nordstrom; and underlying it all, the idea that that man is the president. Bleak times. So maybe you need a little shot in the arm?
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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Balloon Juice
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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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Washington Post and Mashable