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Alan Gomez / USA Today:
Homeland Security unveils sweeping plan to deport undocumented immigrants — The Department of Homeland Security issued a sweeping set of orders Tuesday that implement President Trump's plan to increase immigration enforcement, placing the vast majority of the nation's 11 million undocumented immigrants at risk of deportation.
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Laura Meckler / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Administration Tightens Deportation, Detention Rules
Trump Administration Tightens Deportation, Detention Rules
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New York Times
Dara Lind / Vox:
The government just put out the blueprint for President Trump's immigration crackdown
The government just put out the blueprint for President Trump's immigration crackdown
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Towleroad
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump calls anti-Semitism ‘horrible’ — President Donald Trump on Tuesday decried anti-Semitism, calling recent threats against Jewish community centers “horrible” and a “reminder of the work that still must be done to root out hate and prejudice and evil.”
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New York Times, The Week, twitchy.com, Hit & Run and Hot Air
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Samantha Kupferman / JCC Association:
JCCs Respond to New Wave of Bomb Threats Quickly, Effectively With Practiced Security Protocols to Keep Communities Safe
JCCs Respond to New Wave of Bomb Threats Quickly, Effectively With Practiced Security Protocols to Keep Communities Safe
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ThinkProgress, Politicus USA, NPR, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and New York Magazine
Elizabeth Landers / CNN:
White House denounces threats to Jewish centers
White House denounces threats to Jewish centers
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RedState and Talking Points Memo
Washington Post:
Jewish cemetery vandalized. Jewish centers threatened. ADL calls on Trump to ‘step forward’.
Jewish cemetery vandalized. Jewish centers threatened. ADL calls on Trump to ‘step forward’.
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Emily Shapiro / ABC News:
More than 60 threats to Jewish Centers across the US, authorities investigating
More than 60 threats to Jewish Centers across the US, authorities investigating
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RedState, BuzzFeed, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Talking Points Memo
Fox News:
Rioting erupts in immigrant-dominated Swedish suburb — Riots erupted in a heavily immigrant Stockholm suburb Monday night, as masked looters set cars ablaze and threw rocks at cops, injuring one police officer, Swedish officials said. — The violence in Rinkeby began around 8 p.m. …
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The Local, BizPac Review and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
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Max Bearak / Washington Post:
Riots erupt in Sweden's capital just days after Trump comments — Just two days after President Trump provoked widespread consternation by seeming to imply, incorrectly, that immigrants had perpetrated a recent spate of violence in Sweden, riots broke out in a predominantly immigrant neighborhood …
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Virginia Hale / Breitbart:
Sweden: Looting, Cars Torched, Police Attacked as Riots Break out in Migrant Suburb
Sweden: Looting, Cars Torched, Police Attacked as Riots Break out in Migrant Suburb
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Geller Report
Roxane Gay is Spelled With One “N”:
All I really need to say: — In canceling Milo's book contract, Simon & Schuster made a business decision the same way they made a business decision when they decided to publish that man in the first place. When his comments about pedophilia/pederasty came to light, Simon & Schuster realized …
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Jim Milliot / Publishers Weekly:
Simon & Schuster Cancels Milo Yiannopoulos's Book
Simon & Schuster Cancels Milo Yiannopoulos's Book
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The Guardian, American Power and Milo Yiannopoulos, more at Mediagazer »
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Breitbart employees threaten to leave over Yiannopoulos
Breitbart employees threaten to leave over Yiannopoulos
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Noah Barkin / Reuters:
Exclusive: White House delivered EU-skeptic message before Pence visit - sources — In the week before U.S. Vice President Mike Pence visited Brussels and pledged America's “steadfast and enduring” commitment to the European Union, White House chief strategist Steve Bannon met with a German diplomat …
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The Hill, Political Wire and New York Post
Michael Brendan Dougherty / The Week:
The arrogant thinking of liberal sports writers — “Today, sports writing is basically a liberal profession, practiced by liberals who enforce an unapologetically liberal code,” writes Bryan Curtis at The Ringer. He's right. — You can see it in the way sportswriters police a consensus …
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Progress Pond
David Brooks / New York Times:
This Century Is Broken — Most of us came of age in the last half of the 20th century and had our perceptions of “normal” formed in that era. It was, all things considered, an unusually happy period. No world wars, no Great Depressions, fewer civil wars, fewer plagues.
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Axios and US Macmillan
Simon Carraud / Reuters:
France's Le Pen cancels meet with Lebanon grand mufti over headscarf — French far-right National Front presidential candidate Marine Le Pen canceled a meeting on Tuesday with Lebanon's grand mufti, its top cleric for Sunni Muslims, after refusing to wear a headscarf for the encounter.
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The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller and Infowars
Christina Dugan / People.com:
David Cassidy Reveals He Is Battling Dementia: ‘A Part of Me Always Knew This Was Coming’ — David Cassidy is battling dementia. — The 66-year-old actor, widely known for his starring role as Keith Partridge on the 1970s series The Partridge Family, reveals to PEOPLE that he is fighting the memory loss disease.
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Edward Price / Washington Post:
I didn't think I'd ever leave the CIA. But because of Trump, I quit. — Edward Price worked at the CIA from 2006 until this month, most recently as the spokesman for the National Security Council. — Nearly 15 years ago, I informed my skeptical father that I was pursuing a job with the Central Intelligence Agency.
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Politicus USA, Business Insider and TalkLeft
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Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
WATCH: CIA veteran and NSC spokesperson scalds ‘deceitful, delusional’ Trump as he quits agency
WATCH: CIA veteran and NSC spokesperson scalds ‘deceitful, delusional’ Trump as he quits agency
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New York Daily News:
TSA allows Kennedy Airport passengers to walk through security checkpoint without being screened — No lines. No waiting. And no TSA screeners. — Eleven passengers strolled through a security lane without being screened at Kennedy Airport early Monday after Transportation Security …
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The Week, Infowars, The Gateway Pundit and The Daily Caller
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Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Trump's nominees gripe the White House isn't protecting them — Candidates for top jobs in President Donald Trump's administration are getting spooked after Andrew Puzder's nomination was scuttled, and they fear the White House isn't doing enough to protect them from grueling confirmations …
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Daily Kos and Political Wire
Jennifer Calfas / The Hill:
Michael Moore launches ‘Resistance Calendar’ to track anti-Trump events — Michael Moore, the liberal filmmaker and vocal opponent of President Trump, has launched an online calendar to track anti-Trump events around the world. — The “Resistance Calendar” allows anyone to add an event happening at any location to the calendar.
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MichelleMalkin.com, Breitbart, AOL and Need To Know Network
Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
For a Trump adviser, an odyssey from the fringes of Washington to the center of power — Sebastian Gorka at the International Special Training Center's Military Assistance Course in Germany. For him, the terror threat is rooted in Islam and “martial” parts of the Koran that he says predispose some Muslims to acts of terror.
Michael S. Rosenwald / Washington Post:
Mar-a-Lago 3, Camp David 0. With Trump as president, is the rustic Md. retreat doomed? — THURMONT, Md. — Dwayne Snurr, a janitor and lifelong resident of this rural, working-class town 60 miles from the White House, was eating chicken wings in a cafe off Main Street last week …
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Ex-Swedish PM: Trump needs sources ‘beyond Fox News’ — A former prime minister of Sweden is hitting back at President Trump for referencing a nonexistent incident of terrorism in Sweden and then citing a Fox News story to explain the claim. — “That he blames it on Fox News, well …
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RedState
David Weigel / Washington Post:
In Ohio's Trump country, a House conservative gets an earful — MARION, Ohio — It was Rep. Jim Jordan's second Presidents' Day visit to the home of Warren G. Harding, but it was the first to be surrounded by protesters. Nearly 200 people had swarmed the building, their signs accusing …
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Power Line, Talking Points Memo, Toledo Blade and CNN
Lena H. Sun / Washington Post:
Trump energizes the anti-vaccine movement in Texas — AUSTIN — The group of 40 people gathered at a popular burger and fish taco restaurant in San Antonio listened eagerly to the latest news about the anti-vaccine fight taking place in the Texas legislature.
Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:
The Trump presidency exists in a bubble — Sign up for the Today's WorldView newsletter. — President Trump's speech over the weekend along Florida's Space Coast — effectively a campaign rally staged just one month into his term — served, more than anything else, as an illustration …
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Jodi Enda / CNN:
These Republicans didn't like Trump at first. They do now. — (CNN)In the beginning, they didn't care for Donald Trump. — “Trump's a buffoon,” David Searles said before casting a vote for Marco Rubio in the New Hampshire primary. — “He scares me,” Rebecca Meyer said before settling on Ben Carson in South Carolina's primary.
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