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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
The State Department's entire senior management team just resigned — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's job running the State Department just got considerably more difficult. The entire senior level of management officials resigned Wednesday, part of an ongoing mass exodus …
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Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Report: Entire State Department Management Team Abruptly Steps Down — The entire senior level management team at the State Department collectively resigned on Wednesday, according to the Washington Post. — Undersecretary for management Patrick Kennedy unexpectedly stepped down after nine years …
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Margaret Hartmann / New York Magazine:
Paul Ryan: U.S. Will ‘Front Money’ for Border Wall, Devise Plan to Make Mexico Pay Later — President Trump just fulfilled his biggest campaign promise, signing an executive order on Wednesday that orders the “immediate construction of a physical wall” between the United States and Mexico.
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Elena Holodny / Business Insider:
The peso is tumbling after Mexico's president says he won't meet with Trump — The peso was tumbling Thursday after Mexico's president, Enrique Peña Nieto, announced he had canceled a meeting scheduled for next week with President Donald Trump. — The peso was down by 1.2% at 21.3175 per dollar as of 11:57 a.m. ET.
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Mexican president cancels Trump meeting in Washington
Mexican president cancels Trump meeting in Washington
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Trump: It'd be better to cancel meeting if Mexico won't pay for wall
Trump: It'd be better to cancel meeting if Mexico won't pay for wall
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Daniella Diaz / CNN:
Trump to Mexican president: Better to cancel our meeting
Trump to Mexican president: Better to cancel our meeting
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ABC News:
TRANSCRIPT: ABC News Anchor David Muir Interviews President Trump — ABC News “World News Tonight” anchor David Muir interviewed President Donald Trump in the White House. The following is a transcript of the interview: — DAVID MUIR: Mr. President, it's an honor to be here at the White House.
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Michelle Ye Hee Lee / Washington Post:
Trump's absurd claim the 2012 Pew report researcher was ‘groveling’
Trump's absurd claim the 2012 Pew report researcher was ‘groveling’
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Media Matters for America:
Alex Jones Says Infowars Has Been Invited To Trump's White House Press Briefings — ALEX JONES: He keeps saying CNN is fake, and I'm not going to any of your fake news. What's CNN doing in the front row, when [White House press secretary Sean] Spicer keeps going to them?
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Trump White House senior staff have private email accounts: report
Trump White House senior staff have private email accounts: report
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Stone recounts Trump's early thoughts on 2016 race: 'I'm better than any of those a—holes'
Stone recounts Trump's early thoughts on 2016 race: 'I'm better than any of those a—holes'
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Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
Trump's Voter Fraud Example? A Troubled Tale With Bernhard Langer — WASHINGTON — On Monday, President Trump gathered House and Senate leaders in the State Dining Room for a get-to-know-you reception, served them tiny meatballs and pigs-in-a-blanket, and quickly launched into a story meant …
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
WH: Trump will sign directive on voter-fraud probe
WH: Trump will sign directive on voter-fraud probe
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Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Dems to David Brock: Stop Helping, You Are Killing Us — As David Brock attempts to position himself as a leader in rebuilding a demoralized Democratic Party in the age of Trump, many leading Democratic organizers and operatives are wishing the man would simply disappear.
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Amie Gordon / Daily Mail:
Shia LaBeouf is ARRESTED live on camera during anti-Trump livestream after ‘getting in a fight with a passing protester’ — Shia LaBeouf was led away in handcuffs after a spat during an anti-Trump protest. — The Hollywood actor was arrested by NYPD officers during his ‘He will not divide us’ live stream …
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Michael Isikoff / Yahoo:
CIA head was ‘blindsided’ by waterboarding memo — CIA director Mike Pompeo was “blindsided” by a draft executive order that could open the door for American intelligence agencies to resume waterboarding and other “enhanced interrogation techniques” at newly reopened CIA “black site” …
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Chelsea E Manning / The Guardian:
Compromise doesn't work with our political opponents. When will we learn? — In Chelsea Manning's first column since her commutation, she writes that Barack Obama's legacy is a warning against not being bold enough — Barack Obama left behind hints of a progressive legacy.
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
GOP leaders won't say how border wall will be paid for — PHILADELPHIA — Republican leaders are vowing to pass a spending bill to build President Donald Trump's border wall. What they won't say is how they plan to cover the costs. — House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin said Thursday …
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Frustrated Republicans press McConnell to kill the filibuster
Frustrated Republicans press McConnell to kill the filibuster
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Executive Order: Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States — ENHANCING PUBLIC SAFETY IN THE INTERIOR OF THE — By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Immigration and Nationality Act …
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Read leaked drafts of 4 White House executive orders on Muslim ban, end to DREAMer program, and more
Read leaked drafts of 4 White House executive orders on Muslim ban, end to DREAMer program, and more
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
A Lie by Any Other Name — This is not a presentation of “alternative facts,” whatever that may mean, as Kellyanne Conway, President Trump's mistress of misdirection, posited over the weekend. — These are lies; good old-fashioned lies, baldfaced and flat-out lies.
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Michael Wolff / Hollywood Reporter:
A Conversation With Kellyanne Conway: “I'm the Face of Trump's Movement” — The president's counselor — now the most powerful (and ridiculed) woman in America — talks ‘SNL,’ “alternative facts,” the “public cesspool” of Twitter and the apoplectic, outraged media: “I can go on any show at any time.”
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TMZ.com:
Drew Carey — That Was His Kid Fueling the Fire At D.C. Trump Protest — Drew Carey's son is the mystery kid from the Trump protest who claimed he started a bonfire and yelled, “Screw our president” ... TMZ has learned. — News footage of the boy went viral after the inauguration eve protest …
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Robinson Meyer / The Atlantic:
The Doomsday Clock's Most Dire Warning Since the Cold War — The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists announced Thursday that the Doomsday Clock now stands at two-and-a-half minutes to midnight, suggesting that existential threats now pose a greater danger to humanity than they have at any time since the height of the Cold War.
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Democrats hold lessons on how to talk to real people — Senate Democrats geared up for battle with President Donald Trump by preparing to talk to people who voted for him — and by hearing from one of his arch-nemeses. — Gathering in Sheperdstown, W.Va., Democrats were scheduled to hear …
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Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
In his first major TV interview as president, Trump is endlessly obsessed with his popularity — The lengthy interview revealed a man fixated on his following and eager to provide evidence of his likability, even if that information doesn't match reality.
John Kass / Chicago Tribune:
Trump transforms Emanuel into Mayor Zorro — Mayor Rahm Emanuel, in silhouette, presides over the meeting of the Chicago City Council on Jan. 25, 2017. — Depending on your politics, President Donald Trump is either a miracle worker saving America or an evil wizard bent on ruining the nation.
CNN:
Donald Trump's doublethink: How to undermine your own election — Trump believes fraud cost him popular vote — (CNN)Doublethink is, of course, a construct made famous by George Orwell's classic and newly popular novel, “1984.” It is the ability — for all who engage …