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9:30 AM ET, January 25, 2017

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New York Times:
Trump to Order Mexican Border Wall and Curtail Immigration  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump on Wednesday will order the construction of a Mexican border wall — the first in a series of actions this week to crack down on immigrants, including slashing the number of refugees who can resettle …
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Julia Edwards Ainsley / Reuters:
Trump expected to order temporary ban on refugees  —  President Donald Trump is expected to sign executive orders starting on Wednesday that include a temporary ban on most refugees and a suspension of visas for citizens of Syria and six other Middle Eastern and African countries …
Jerry Markon / Washington Post:
Trump to sign executive orders enabling construction of proposed border wall and targeting sanctuary cities  —  President Trump is planning to sign executive orders on Wednesday enabling construction of his proposed border wall, and targeting cities where local leaders refuse to hand …
Discussion: Vox
Paulina Firozi / The Hill:
Trump expected to sign order funding border wall
Discussion: RedState, NPR, The Week and TheBlaze
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Trump's voter fraud claims undermine the democratic process and his presidency  —  There is no benign explanation for President Trump's false assertion that millions of people voted illegally in the last election.  It is either a deliberate attempt to undermine faith in the democratic process …
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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Trump Won't Back Down From His Voting Fraud Lie. Here Are the Facts.
The Huffington Post:
Trump Spokesman Confirms Trump Is A Conspiracy Theorist
Claudia Koerner / BuzzFeed:
A National Park Deleted Tweets On Climate Change After Trump Silenced Federal Scientists  —  Badlands National Park on Tuesday posted several facts about climate change on its official Twitter account, then deleted them.  —  Before being deleted, the tweets were retweeted thousands of times …
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Nancy Cook / Politico:
Information lockdown hits Trump's federal agencies
Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Trump's Chicago tweet is another response to cable news  —  Sean Spicer's defense  —  When President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Tuesday night and said he would send federal agents into Chicago if the city failed to address its growing violence, the threat seemed to emanate from nowhere.
Discussion: Axios
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Cristiano Lima / Politico:
Trump threatens to ‘send in the Feds’ to Chicago  —  President Donald Trump tweeted Tuesday that he would dispatch federal authorities to Chicago if they don't address violence in the city, which he described as “horrible ‘carnage.’”  —  “If Chicago doesn't fix the horrible “carnage” …
Jon Swaine / The Guardian:
Four more journalists get felony charges after covering inauguration unrest  —  A documentary producer, a photojournalist, a live-streamer and a freelance reporter facing up to 10 years in prison and a $25,000 fine if convicted  —  Four more journalists have been charged with felonies …
Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
Robby Mook And Corey Lewandowski Team Up For Paid Speeches  —  Rival campaign managers from Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump's respective presidential bids are set to join forces on the lucrative paid speaking circuit.  —  In joint appearances across the country, Robby Mook and Corey Lewandowski …
Discussion: The Week and Eschaton
Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
ABC News Apologizes After Editing Former Bush Spox's Praise of Sean Spicer to Sound Like Attack  —  ABC News apologized Tuesday after the Monday night edition of Nightline edited a quote from former George W. Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer in a way that made it appear that he was more critical …
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Immigration hard-liners angered by Trump's softer tone on ‘Dreamers’  —  Donald Trump promised during the campaign that he'd “immediately” kill Barack Obama's unilateral actions to shield hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants from deportation.
Discussion: Bloomberg, Hot Air and National Review
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NumbersUSA Education & Research Foundation:   We've started Twitter campaign urging Trump Administration to fulfill DACA promise
PJ Huffstutter / Reuters:
USDA disavows gag-order emailed to scientific research unit  —  The U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Tuesday that an internal email sent to staff at its Agricultural Research Service unit this week calling for a suspension of “public-facing documents,” including news releases and photos …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Federal agencies ordered to restrict their communications
Discussion: ABC News and ThinkProgress
Ashley Feinberg / Deadspin:
Send Us Proof Of Ted Cruz Playing Basketball  —  Here at Deadspin.com, there's nothing we love more than sport.  So we were delighted to learn that perpetual failed candidate for president Ted Cruz started a weekly Senate basketball game in hopes of making his colleagues hate him less.
Susan Crabtree / Washington Examiner:
Senior Secret Service agent suggests she wouldn't take ‘a bullet’ for Trump  —  A senior U.S. Secret Service agent posted Facebook condemnations of President Trump during the past seven months, including one in which she said she wouldn't want to “take a bullet” for him.
Nancy Gibbs / TIME:
A Note to Our Readers  —  On the evening of January 20, TIME White House correspondent Zeke Miller incorrectly reported that the bust of Martin Luther King Jr. had been removed from the Oval Office.  Zeke quickly issued a correction.  In the hours that followed, he sent multiple emails …
Michelle Goldberg / Slate:
Trump Didn't Just Reinstate the Global Gag Rule.  He Massively Expanded It.  —  It's the global gag rule “on steroids.”  —  On Monday morning, Donald Trump, surrounded by a group of smiling white men, signed an executive order banning foreign nongovernmental organizations that receive certain kinds …
Conrad Black / New York Sun:
Straggle on in Defeat  —  It was a brilliant inauguration, and the continued scrapping and strafing between the administration and the bedraggled, sodden mass of the press continues the execution of a new demarcation of power in the federal government that will prove benign.
 
 
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Zach Dorfman / Politico:
Why Did Obama Free This Terrorist?
Discussion: The Week and Hot Air
Julie Pace / Associated Press:
Trump to sign orders advancing Keystone, Dakota pipelines
Discussion: Reuters, The Atlantic and Power Line
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Hannity lands first cable news interview with Trump
Discussion: RedState
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Cruz introduces bill letting states bar refugees
Discussion: RedState and Balloon Juice
Micaiah Bilger / LifeNews.com:
Planned Parenthood Caught Denying Women Prenatal Care: 92 of 97 Abortion Clinics Turned Them Away
 Earlier Items: 
Fox News:
Gold Star family members say they were assaulted during inaugural ball festivities
Discussion: IJR, TheBlaze and Fox News Insider
Paul Blumenthal / The Huffington Post:
Donald Trump's HHS Nominee Failed To Properly Disclose Purchase Of Discounted Stock
Discussion: Daily Kos
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Fox's Tucker Carlson nearly doubling Kelly's prime-time ratings
Rasmussen Reports:
in Politics  —  The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll …
Discussion: Breitbart
The Huffington Post:
Federal Workers Told To Halt External Communication In First Week Under Trump
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple has renewed discussions with OpenAI about using its technology to power some features in iOS 18; talks with Google on using Gemini remain ongoing

William Brown / Firstyear's blog-a-log:
Google and Apple use passkeys to capture users by locking credentials into their platforms and have made the UX of passkeys worse than that of password managers

Karen Weise / New York Times:
Microsoft, Meta, and Alphabet disclosed that they had spent $32B+ combined on data centers and other capital expenses in Q1, as they accelerate AI spending

 
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