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Pete Williams / NBC News:
AG Sessions Says DOJ to ‘Pull Back’ on Police Department Civil Rights Suits — Donald Trump's attorney general said Tuesday the Justice Department will limit its use of a tactic employed aggressively under President Obama — suing police departments for violating the civil rights of minorities.
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Holder: Obama is ‘ready to roll’ — Barack Obama is getting closer to making his public reappearance in politics, his friend and former Attorney General Eric Holder said on Tuesday. — Holder said he's been talking to the former president about ways — including fundraising and interacting …
The Huffington Post:
Jeff Sessions Issues Ominous Warning On State Marijuana Legalization
Jeff Sessions Issues Ominous Warning On State Marijuana Legalization
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Aruna Viswanatha / Wall Street Journal:
Sessions Says Justice Department to Ease Up on Police Probes
Sessions Says Justice Department to Ease Up on Police Probes
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Sessions pushes tougher line on marijuana
Sessions pushes tougher line on marijuana
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Ben Mathis-Lilley / Slate:
Insane Betsy DeVos Press Release Celebrates Jim Crow Education System as Pioneer of “School Choice” — Donald Trump met Monday at the White House with the leaders of a number of historically black colleges and universities. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos commemorated the meeting …
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Karma Allen / ABC News:
Betsy DeVos statement on black colleges sparks uproar
Betsy DeVos statement on black colleges sparks uproar
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Benjamin Wermund / Politico:
DeVos sparks controversy with comments on black colleges
DeVos sparks controversy with comments on black colleges
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U.S. Department of Education, NBC News, New York Times and Mother Jones
Joshua Green / Bloomberg:
Does Stephen Miller Speak for Trump? Or Vice Versa? — The 31-year-old is a driving force behind the White House's policies. — by — From Subscribe Reprints — Stephen Miller's corner office in the West Wing of the White House is utterly barren—no pictures on the walls …
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CNN:
Source: Trump would like to see compromise immigration bill — Official: Trump eager for immigration bill — The President envisions a bill where those who haven't committed any serious crimes could stay in the US legally — (CNN)President Donald Trump is eager to pass an immigration bill …
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
The White House's Politico slime job, from start to finish — Politico reporter Alex Isenstadt paid a certain price for his Sunday scoop about White House press secretary Sean Spicer's treatment of his underlings in the White House communications office. Under the headline …
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Sylvan Lane / The Hill:
GOP senator: Trump budget ‘dead on arrival’ … Sen. Lindsey Graham — (R-S.C.) said Tuesday that President Trump's first budget was “dead on arrival” and wouldn't make it through Congress. — “It's not going to happen,” said Graham, according to NBC News. “It would be a disaster.”
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Felicia Schwartz / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Proposes Cutting State Department Budget by 37% — Plan would cut aid given by U.S. Agency for International Development — WASHINGTON—The Trump administration is proposing to cut spending by 37% for the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development budget …
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Mother Jones, The Daily Caller and Axios
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
The ‘Kellyanne Conway on the couch’ controversy is so incredibly dumb — On Monday night, this photo began making the rounds on the Internet: — The photo, taken Monday, shows White House counselor Kellyanne Conway perched on a couch in the Oval Office as President Trump stands behind …
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Charles Ventura / USA Today:
Kellyanne Conway puts feet on Oval Office couch; Twitter freaks
Kellyanne Conway puts feet on Oval Office couch; Twitter freaks
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Benjamin Siegel / ABC News:
Senior House Democrat plans to skip Trump's speech to Congress — A liberal House Democrat from California plans to skip President Donald Trump's address to Congress this evening. — Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., the ranking member on the House Financial Services Committee …
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Heather Caygle / Politico:
Pelosi: No ‘You lie!’ moments during Trump's speech
Tom Hamburger / Washington Post:
FBI once planned to pay former British spy who authored controversial Trump dossier — The former British spy who authored a controversial dossier on behalf of Donald Trump's political opponents alleging ties between Trump and Russia reached an agreement with the FBI a few weeks before the election …
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Political Wire and Raw Story
Erik Ortiz / TODAY.com:
House Speaker Paul Ryan on Trump camp's alleged Russia ties: ‘We need to get answers’ — PLAY VIDEO - 8:40 PLAY VIDEO - 8:40 — Does the ghost of a murdered congressman haunt the Capitol? — Trump's address to joint session of Congress: What to expect
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Igor Bobic / The Huffington Post:
Donald Trump Blames SEAL's Death On Military: ‘They Lost Ryan’ — The buck stops with ‘them.’ — President Donald Trump on Tuesday dodged responsibility for a botched mission he ordered in Yemen last month, placing the onus on the military and Barack Obama's administration instead.
Daily Mail:
Oscars sensation ‘Gary from Chicago’ is attempted RAPIST: Stars' homes tourist was released from jail just three days before stunt after 22 years inside and met his fiancee Vickie behind bars after finding God — DailyMail.com can disclose he was convicted of 'attempted rape by force or fear …
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Sandra Sobieraj Westfall / People.com:
George W. Bush Breaks His Silence on the Direction of the Country Under President Trump: 'I Don't Like the Racism and Name-Calling' — For eight years since leaving the White House, George W. Bush has refused to criticize publicly those who succeeded him, saying he didn't want to make an already tough job …
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Republican governors divided on Obamacare replacement
The Daily 202: Republican governors divided on Obamacare replacement
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Veit Medick / Spiegel Online:
Meet Donald Trump's Propagandist — Right-wing radio host Alex Jones is America's top conspiracy theorist. He has millions of listeners, but his most powerful one happens to be the president of the United States. DER SPIEGEL takes you inside his media empire in Austin. — Photos
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Coral Davenport / New York Times:
Trump Plans to Begin E.P.A. Rollback With Order on Clean Water — WASHINGTON — President Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Tuesday aimed at rolling back one of former President Barack Obama's major environmental regulations to protect American waterways, but it will have almost …
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Politico:
New NSC chief pushed Trump to moderate his language on terrorism — What words the president uses from the podium tonight will give a hint about McMaster's clout. — President Donald Trump's new national security adviser, Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, advised him in a closed-door meeting last week …
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Talking Points Memo, Hot Air, Raw Story and The Daily Caller
Rasmussen Reports:
Most Say Democrats Hurt Themselves With Anti-Trump Strategy — Most voters agree that it's bad for America and bad for the Democratic Party if Democrats continue to flat out oppose everything President Trump does. Even Democrats are conflicted about their party's scorched earth policy.
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Mediaite and Washington Times
Naomi Jagoda / The Hill:
House Dem forces GOP to take recorded vote on Trump tax returns — A House Democratic lawmaker attempted Monday to force a House floor vote on a resolution to request President Trump's tax returns, but the effort failed on a party line vote, 229-185, with two Republicans voting “present.”
Yoni Appelbaum / The Atlantic:
A Note About Rumana Ahmed — On Monday, the Weekly Standard published an article by Lee Smith titled “Fake News, Exposed.” It alleged that Rumana Ahmed, a former National Security Council staffer and the author of an Atlantic essay about why she left the Trump administration, had misled readers about the nature of her position.
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The Hill:
GOP leader: Leaked ObamaCare replacement ‘no longer’ viable — A day after House conservatives panned a leaked GOP draft ObamaCare replacement plan, a top Republican leader on Tuesday described the proposed legislation as “no longer even a viable draft that we're working off of.”
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Morning Consult, Raw Story, ThinkProgress and CNN
Kansas City Star:
Trump's silence on deadly Olathe shooting is disquieting — By The Kansas City Star editorial board — At some point, embarrassingly late begins to verge on something more disquieting. — President Donald Trump has silently planted himself in that space.
Michael Kruse / Politico:
'He's a Performance Artist Pretending to be a Great Manager' — More than 27 years before Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, Bruce Nobles, then the president of the Trump Shuttle airline, assessed with some befuddlement the business and managerial practices of his boss.
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MSNBC:
New Commerce Secretary at nexus of lucrative Trump Russian deal — With a line that runs through newly confirmed Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, Rachel Maddow connects the dots between a billionaire Russian oligarch and a Donald Trump deal worth tens of millions of dollars. ...
Charlie Spiering / Breitbart:
Donald Trump Invites Widows of Slain Law Enforcement Officials to Joint Address to Congress — President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have invited two widows of slain police officers killed in the line of duty by an illegal immigrant to watch his first address to a joint session of Congress.
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