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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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Trump Says He's Open to Legal Pathway for Undocumented Immigrants — WASHINGTON — President Trump, signaling a potential major shift in policy, told news anchors on Tuesday that he is open to a broad immigration overhaul that would grant legal status to millions of undocumented immigrants who have not committed serious crimes.
Coral Davenport / New York Times:
Trump Plans to Begin E.P.A. Rollback With Order on Clean Water
Trump Plans to Begin E.P.A. Rollback With Order on Clean Water
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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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Abby Phillip / Washington Post:
Trump passes blame for Yemen raid to his generals: ‘They lost Ryan’ — Weeks after a U.S. naval officer was killed in a covert mission in Yemen, Trump has resisted accepting responsibility for authorizing the mission and the subsequent death of Senior Chief Petty Officer William “Ryan” Owens.
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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.
Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg:
In Video, Uber CEO Argues With Driver Over Falling Fares — Travis Kalanick tells a driver to take responsibility for his problems and boasts about a tough culture. — by — When Uber Chief Executive Officer Travis Kalanick takes an Uber, he prefers a black car, the high-end service his company introduced in 2010.
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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, The Daily Caller, Business Insider, Mediaite, Raw Story, The Week and Axios
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump may be hinting that anti-Semitic incidents are false flags. It wouldn't be the first time. — President Trump seemed to suggest Tuesday that the recent bomb threats and vandalism at Jewish community centers and cemeteries across the country might be false flags, according to a Democratic attorney general who met with him.
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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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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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Erik Ortiz / TODAY.com:
House Speaker Paul Ryan on Trump camp's alleged Russia ties: ‘We need to get answers’
House Speaker Paul Ryan on Trump camp's alleged Russia ties: ‘We need to get answers’
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Morning Consult, NBC News, The Resurgent and Talking Points Memo
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Trump won't embrace specific Obamacare replacement plan in speech
Trump won't embrace specific Obamacare replacement plan in speech
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Political Wire and Business Insider
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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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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Politico, Reno Gazette-Journal, ThinkProgress, Raw Story, Mediaite and Hit & Run
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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Mother Jones and New York Times
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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Washington Post, Mediaite, Raw Story, The Daily Caller, ABC News, The Week and Axios
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 …
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Western Journalism and Mediaite
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%
Trump Proposes Cutting State Department Budget by 37%
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The Hill, Mother Jones, The Daily Caller and Axios
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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Laura Meckler / Wall Street Journal:
President plans to issue new executive order restricting travel at White House Wednesday — WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump plans to sign a revised executive order banning travel Wednesday, which is likely to apply only to future visa applicants from seven majority Muslim countries tabbed as terror risks …
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Political Wire and Washington Post
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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Politico, MichelleMalkin.com, TheBlaze and Fox News Insider
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Heather Caygle / Politico:
Pelosi: No ‘You lie!’ moments during Trump's speech
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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Nancyl / Washington Monthly:
Trump Won't Be Filling Hundreds of Agency Jobs
Trump Won't Be Filling Hundreds of Agency Jobs
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Mother Jones, New York Magazine and Washington Examiner
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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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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Daily Kos, Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, The Daily Caller and Hot Air
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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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
Sam Levin / The Guardian:
Female engineer sues Tesla, describing a culture of ‘pervasive harassment’ — Exclusive: AJ Vandermeyden paints picture of a hostile work environment that promoted less-qualified men and retaliated against her for raising concerns — A female engineer at Tesla has accused Elon Musk's car company …
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Neil Irwin / New York Times:
Why the Trump Agenda Is Moving Slowly: The Republicans' Wonk Gap — When Republicans won in November, it looked as if 2017 would reflect a major legislative shift to the right. But two months into the 115th Congress and six weeks into the Trump administration, progress …
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Washington Monthly