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12:45 PM 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 …
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.
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 shake-up.
Brent Johnson / New Jersey Online:
Christie gets called to D.C. for lunch Tuesday with Trump, sources reveal
Anna M. Phillips / Los Angeles Times:
Evacuations ordered below Oroville Dam; failure of emergency spillway ‘expected’  —  Millions of gallons of rushing water continued to pound and erode the massive Lake Oroville Dam spillway.  —  Residents of Oroville and nearby towns were ordered to immediately evacuate on Sunday afternoon …
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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 …
Discussion: The Atlantic, ABC News and NPR
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 …
CBS Sacramento:
Nearly 200K Remain Under Evacuation As Concerns Remain Over Oroville Dam Spillway
Discussion: FOX40
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Mar-a-Lago guest takes picture with nuclear ‘football’ briefcase  —  A visitor to President Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida posted a Facebook photo with a person he says is responsible for carrying the black bag that contains the nuclear launch codes for the president of the United States.
Discussion: RedState and Political Wire
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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 …
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 …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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 …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Ignorance Is Strength  —  When I travel to Asia, I'm fairly often met at the airport by someone holding a sign reading “Mr. Paul.”  Why?  In much of Asia, names are given family first, personal second — at home, the prime minister of Japan is referred to as Abe Shinzo.
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 …
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
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.
Discussion: Daily Mail and Daily Wire
Jennifer G. Hickey / Fox News:
Libertarians split with Trump over controversial police tactic  —  The White House has riled the country's civil libertarian wing after President Trump enthusiastically voiced support for a controversial law enforcement tool that allows an individual's property or assets to be seized without a guilty verdict.
Discussion: Instapundit
Pat Rynard / Iowa Starting Line:
Police Officers: “We Didn't Vote Republican To Get Stabbed In The Back”  —  In the highly contentious battle to extinguish public worker rights, Iowa Republicans have attempted a divide-and-conquer approach to pit unions against each other.  Their legislation splits public workers into two groups …
Sputnik International:
Danish Teen Converts to Islam, Becomes Denmark's First Female Terrorist  —  10:47 13.02.2017February 13, 2017Get short URL  —  For the first time in its history, Denmark has charged a woman with terrorism.  The morbid debut involves a 16-year-old Danish girl, who converted to Islam and intended to blow up a historic Jewish school.
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
The Power of Disruption  —  The Trump resistance movement is stretching its wings, engaging its muscles and feeling its power.  It is large and strong and tough.  It has moved past debilitating grief and into righteous anger, assiduous organization and pressing activism.
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
How Trump can be held accountable for violating the Constitution, even if Congress doesn't care  —  A legal breakthrough  —  Among legal scholars, there isn't much debate: President Trump is violating the Constitution.  —  Since Trump decided to retain full ownership of his business empire …
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
Adam Wren / Politico:
'I'm Still All Trumped Up'  —  TERRE HAUTE, Indiana—On the first Saturday of Donald Trump's presidency, as protesters and marchers stormed the nation's capital and cities around the country, Dick and Jane Ames threw a party.  Four days earlier, they visited a Party Mania store and purchased …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
 
 
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Ingrid Burrington / The Atlantic:
A Surreal Trip to a Domain-Names Conference
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Focus, People  —  There's a side conversation occurring among …
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New York Post:
‘Neo-Nazis’ beat up brothers over ‘anti-fascist’ sticker: cops
Discussion: Raw Story
Catherine Lucey / Associated Press:
Trump, Trudeau to discuss women in workforce
Discussion: RedState, Associated Press and IJR
Mark Serrano / Washington Examiner:
Senate Democrats: Be afraid when Trump comes to town
Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Score One for the Little Guys as W Hotel Drops Its Minimum Wage Surcharge in Seattle
Former Rep. David Jolly / The Hill:
Weak congressional Republicans are not standing up to Trump as they should
Discussion: Raw Story
 Earlier Items: 
Richard Stengel / New York Times:
Why Saying ‘Radical Islamic Terrorism’ Isn't Enough
Discussion: Daily Kos
Moriah Balingit / Washington Post:
Why Laverne Cox told you to Google ‘Gavin Grimm’
Discussion: Towleroad
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
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Jon Karl's front-row seat to the Trump White House
Discussion: Mediaite and ABC News
Gabriel Snyder / Wired:
The New York Times Claws Its Way Into the Future
New York Times:
G.O.P. Lawmakers Like What They See in Trump. They Just Have to Squint.