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12:05 PM ET, January 15, 2017

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Peter J. Boyer / Esquire:
Exclusive: The Trump Administration May Evict the Press from the White House  —  “They are the opposition party,” a senior official says.  —  The upset to the existing order caused by the presidential election has been acutely felt by no one, perhaps, so much it has by the national press.
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Trump team considers evicting press from White House: report  —  's team is reportedly considering evicting the press corps from the White House.  —  Instead, the press corps may work out of the White House Conference Center, near Lafayette Square, or in the Old Executive Office Building …
Abby Phillip / Washington Post:
Trump-Lewis feud could be harbinger of new round of hyper-partisanship  —  A public feud between Donald Trump and Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) seemed to jettison any lingering hopes that the inauguration would temporarily ease partisanship in Washington and instead threatened to widen the rift between the two parties.
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Daily Mail:
Opera star Andrea Bocelli backs out of singing at Trump's inauguration after receiving death threats  —  Opera star Andrea Bocelli backed out of singing at Donald Trump's inauguration after receiving death threats, The Mail on Sunday has learnt.  —  The revelation came as another singer …
Kyle Smith / New York Post:
It's time to face facts: Obama's presidency was a failure  —  MORE FROM:  —  The closing arguments for the Obama years are arriving, and they aren't helping the outgoing president.  A case in point is a new book published this week, one that acknowledges “Obama's supporters have experienced …
Dana Schuster / New York Post:
SEE ALL 323 STORIES  —  Donald Trump may be the future president, but that doesn't mean he's above choosing the place settings and tablecloth fabrics for this week's inaugural festivities.  —  “He's into every detail of everything,” Presidential Inaugural Committee Chair Tom Barrack told The Post.
Discussion: Political Wire and BizPac Review
Washington Post:
Trump transition team says it asked D.C. National Guard general to stay  —  The transition team for President-elect Donald Trump asked the head of the D.C. National Guard to remain in command throughout Inauguration Day after media reports that he would leave in the middle of the ceremony created controversy, the Guard said.
Discussion: Balloon Juice and The Daily Caller
Zack Stanton / Politico:
How Betsy DeVos Used God and Amway to Take Over Michigan Politics  —  On election night 2006, Dick DeVos, the bronzed, starched 51-year-old scion of Michigan's wealthiest family, paced to a lectern in the dim ballroom of the Sheraton Hotel in Lansing to deliver the speech that every candidate dreads.
Discussion: PoliPundit.com
Nicki Rossoll / ABC News:
Sanders: ‘Would Not Be Bad Thing for the American People’ if FBI Director Comey Steps Down  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders said it “would not be a bad thing for the American people” if FBI Director James Comey steps down.  —  Asked by ABC News' George Stephanopoulos in an exclusive interview on …
Discussion: Politico and Business Insider
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Judd Apatow Freaking Out Over Donald Trump  —  Santa Monica, Calif. — Donald Trump: freak or geek?  —  Who better to answer that question than Judd Apatow, the executive producer of “Freaks and Geeks” and the comedian, producer, director and writer who has been in a spiral over the ascent of his fellow TV big shot and Twitter addict?
Victor Davis Hanson / City Journal:
Trump and the American Divide  —  How a lifelong New Yorker became tribune of the rustics and deplorables  —  At 7 AM in California's rural Central Valley, not long before the recent presidential election, I stopped to talk with an elderly irrigator on the shared border alleyway of my farm.
Cameron Zeigler / New York Times:
Without Obamacare, I Will Get Sicker, Faster, Until I Die  —  ROANOKE, Va. — On March 18, 1991, my life changed.  I was an 18-year-old student at a community college in southwestern Virginia, working out at the gym, when I got a headache.  A thunderous pain shot through my head and I thought, “I am going to die now.”
Christopher Mele / New York Times:
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus to End Its 146-Year Run  —  Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus announced on Saturday night that after 146 years of performances, it was folding its big tent forever.  —  In a statement on the company's website, Kenneth Feld …
 
 
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Alex Pfeiffer / The Daily Caller:
Inauguration Protesters Plan To Destroy Property And Disrupt Balls
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Scott Pruitt, Trump's E.P.A. Pick, Backed Industry Donors Over Regulators
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Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Clinton Global Initiative to be discontinued
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Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Donald Trump: Kremlin Employee of the Month?
Discussion: Observer and Business Insider
Susan Chira / New York Times:
‘You Focus on the Good’: Women Who Voted for Trump, in Their Own Words
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Matt Baume / Slate:
How Can Literature Resist Islamophobia? One Writer Answers: Gay Muslim Furry Romance.
Discussion: RedState
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Peter Thiel considering bid for California governor
Discussion: New York Times
Edwin D. Williamson / Weekly Standard:
Trump's Conflicts  —  He's done enough.  —  President-elect …
 

 
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