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Wall Street Journal:
Spies Keep Intelligence From Donald Trump — U.S. intelligence officials have withheld sensitive intelligence from President Donald Trump because they are concerned it could be leaked or compromised, according to current and former officials familiar with the matter.
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New York Times:
White House Plans to Have Trump Ally Review Intelligence Agencies — WASHINGTON — President Trump plans to assign a New York billionaire to lead a broad review of American intelligence agencies, according to administration officials, an effort that members of the intelligence community fear …
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Kurt Eichenwald / Newsweek:
U.S. ALLIES CONDUCT INTELLIGENCE OPERATION AGAINST TRUMP STAFF AND ASSOCIATES, INTERCEPTED COMMUNICATIONS — U.S. DONALD TRUMP RUSSIA — As part of intelligence operations being conducted against the United States for the last seven months, at least one Western European ally intercepted …
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CANNONFIRE and Hullabaloo
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Office of Director of National Intelligence: We don't withhold intel from Trump — The Office of the Director of National Intelligence denied on Wednesday reports that intelligence community officials have withheld intelligence from President Donald Trump. — The ODNI statement …
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Washington Monthly, ABC News and Wall Street Journal
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Leaked Emails Show Justice Clarence Thomas's Wife Pushing Travel Ban — Justice Clarence Thomas's wife is organizing in support of President Donald Trump's agenda. And it might make her husband's life a little complicated. — In an email sent to a conservative listserv on Feb. 13 …
Adam Kelsey / ABC News:
Senate Judiciary Committee requests FBI, DOJ briefing on Michael Flynn — The leadership of the Senate Judiciary Committee asked the Department of Justice and FBI Wednesday to brief their committee on the situation regarding former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.
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Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Democrats, ‘Never Trumpers’ Thrilled at Prospect of Harward as National Security Adviser
Democrats, ‘Never Trumpers’ Thrilled at Prospect of Harward as National Security Adviser
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Geller Report, War in Context, RedState, BizPac Review, The Week, Mediaite and Foreign Policy
Philip Elliott / TIME:
Inside Donald Trump's White House Chaos — For two years, Donald Trump mastered the art of disruption. Name a political precept and he probably broke it during his improbable march to the White House. But disruption in government—the rulemaker breaking the rules—turns out to be more costly.
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Mother Jones and Business Insider
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Priebus struggles to control fractious White House — Reince Priebus, facing growing criticism and calls for his ouster, is racing to bring order to a White House that looks to be spiraling out of control. — After weeks of West Wing turmoil and critiques from the president himself …
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Hullabaloo
Jon Schwarz / The Intercept:
Carter Page, at Center of Trump Russian Investigation, Writes Bizarre Letter to DOJ Blaming Hillary Clinton — Carter Page, briefly a foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump's presidential campaign, sent a peculiar, rambling letter this week to the Department of Justice, asking it to review …
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Balloon Juice and The Guardian
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
G.O.P.'s Grand Visions for Congress Now Look Like a Mirage — WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans, who craved unified control of the government to secure their aggressive conservative agenda, have instead found themselves on a legislative elliptical trainer, gliding toward nowhere.
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The Atlantic and The Moderate Voice
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Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
A Rough 24 Hours for Obamacare — The last 24 hours have been one long string of bad news for Obamacare. Tuesday, the insurer Humana announced that it would be pulling out of the exchanges for next year. Then we found out that the IRS had responded to Trump's executive order on Obamacare …
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Los Angeles Times, The Nation, The Week, Business Insider, TheBlaze and The Federalist
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP senators unnerved by Trump-Russia relationship — Senate Republicans are expressing growing concerns about the relationship between the Trump administration and Russia. — While Republicans aren't yet willing to endorse a special investigative committee, GOP senators have indicated that could change.
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Wall Street Journal:
Senate Majority Leader Takes on High-Wire Balancing Act — Mitch McConnell aims to offset his differences with Trump by focusing on shared goals — WASHINGTON—Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, trying to manage an ambitious legislative agenda amid White House turmoil …
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Talking Points Memo and Political Wire
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Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:
Trump Making It ‘Harder’ on Himself Than Necessary, McConnell Says
Trump Making It ‘Harder’ on Himself Than Necessary, McConnell Says
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Mediaite
Perry Stein / Washington Post:
Immigrant workers plan strike Thursday as part of ‘Day Without Immigrants’ protest — Colin McDonough will be working in the kitchen at the restaurant he owns on Thursday while nearly his entire kitchen staff is out for the day. McDonough said that to keep his restaurant open …
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Eric Posner / New York Times:
Judges v. Trump: Be Careful What You Wish For — The opinion of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upholding the temporary restraining order against President Trump's travel ban has received a fair amount of criticism from legal experts.
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Simple Justice
Marty Schladen / El Paso Times:
ICE detains domestic-violence victim in court — AUSTIN - Six federal immigration agents went to the El Paso County Courthouse last week and arrested an undocumented woman who had just received a protective order alleging that she was a victim of domestic violence.
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twitchy.com, Business Insider, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, New York Magazine, The Gateway Pundit and Raw Story
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
After Election, Trump's Professed Love for Leaks Quickly Faded — WASHINGTON — As a candidate for president, Donald J. Trump embraced the hackers who had leaked Hillary Clinton's emails to the press, declaring at a rally in Pennsylvania, “I love WikiLeaks!”
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Politico, Political Wire, RedState, Infowars and Washington Post
Todd Starnes / Townhall.com:
Teacher: I Lost $100 Bet Because Trump Wasn't Shot — Franklin Graham says Todd's new book should be read by every patriot in America. Click here to get your copy! — Jane Germaine said her son's English teacher at Rancho Campana High School told the class that she lost a $100 bet …
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Infowars
Kyle Kondik / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
2018's Initial Senate Ratings — Democrats start on defense but national environment will be key — At first blush, one might think that the Democrats have a decent chance of taking control of the Senate in the 2018 midterm. After all, midterms frequently break against the president's party …
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Washington Times
Richard Pollock / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: How The Nation's Spooks Played The Game ‘Kill Mike Flynn’ — Ted Cruz Tries To Wreck Liz Warren's Legacy With One Sentence — Democrats Announce HUGE Show Of No-Confidence In Crucial Senate Race — Why Did The FBI Just Release Trump Real Estate Records From The 70s? — US |
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Geller Report and Sputnik International
Jim VandeHei / Axios:
The media IS the opposition party — President Trump claims traditional media represent a stronger, more effective opposition party than the Democrats. So far, he's undeniably correct. — This has only a little to do with the Democrats. They have no power in Congress …
Sarah Jones / New Republic:
Trump Has Turned the GOP Into the Party of Eugenics — The long-discredited theory is newly relevant in 2017—but maybe it's always been embedded in the Republican platform. — “What is meant by improvement?” Sir Francis Galton asked the Sociology Society of the University of London in 1904.
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Hit & Run and Instapundit
Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
Gizmodo Ads Target Potential Trump Leakers — Facebook ads steer government agency employees to TellOnTrump.com, which explains how to securely send tips and documents — With the Trump administration proving to be a leaky ship in its early days, one news outlet is launching an ad blitz to find the next Deep Throat.
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump to take breather from White House, hold rally this weekend — President Donald Trump is returning to the trail. — The president will hold a rally Saturday afternoon at a hangar in Melbourne, Florida. It will be his first campaign-style rally since his so-called thank-you tour during …
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RedState, AOL, The Atlantic, ABC News, The Week and Political Wire
Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg:
Trump's F-35 Calls Came With a Surprise: Rival CEO Was Listening — Boeing CEO said to be in room as Trump phoned program chief — Lockheed has faced Trump attacks over cost of F-35 contract — Days before taking office, President-elect Donald Trump made two surprise calls …
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Balloon Juice
Eric Levenson / CNN:
Little Caesars founder quietly paid Rosa Parks' rent for years — (CNN)Those who knew Mike Ilitch, the Little Caesars founder and Detroit Tigers owner who died last Friday, have spent the past few days fondly remembering his impact on friends, on Detroit residents, and on the sports community.
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Mental Floss and The Week
Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
Who Will Watch the Agents Watching Our Borders? — Whom do federal immigration agents despise more: former President Barack Obama, or the immigrants whose lives are in their hands? — That uncomfortable question came to mind as I read articles over the past week of the growing numbers of raids …
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Daily Kos, Washington Post, ImmigrationProf Blog and SCOTUSblog
Harry Enten / FiveThirtyEight:
A Very Early Look At The Battle For The House In 2018 — Heading into the 2010 and 2014 midterm elections, President Obama was not popular. His job approval rating was at or below 45 percent, and most polls showed more people disapproved of his performance than approved of it.
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After Likening Trump to Hitler, Journalists Upset They're Not Getting Called on for Questions — ‘The President of the United States is shutting down the part of the First Amendment’ — Members of the mainstream media were left fuming this afternoon after President Trump refused to call …
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Instapundit
Jason Samenow / Washington Post:
Zooming in on Washington and Baltimore's ‘snow hole’ — Call it snow hole central. In the Mid-Atlantic region and even beyond, the Washington-Baltimore region occupies its own special island of snowless-ness. — Washington's snowfall so far this winter? 1.4 inches (normal winter to date is 11.6 inches).