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1:20 AM ET, February 5, 2017

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Nicki Rossoll / ABC News:
Pence Defends Trump ‘Speaking His Mind’ About Federal Judge, Promises ‘All Legal Means’ to Challenge Ruling  —  Vice President Mike Pence defended President Donald Trump's criticism of a federal judge who blocked an executive action temporarily barring immigrants and refugees …
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Laura Jarrett / CNN:
DOJ appealing travel ban ruling  — Friday night, federal Judge James Robart, halted the enforcement of Trump's order, effective nationwide  — The Justice Department is expected to file its brief laying out its legal argument later Saturday night  —  Washington (CNN)The Justice Department …
Mark Landler / New York Times:
Trump Officials File Appeal to Overturn Ruling Blocking Immigration Order  —  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — The Trump administration filed an appeal late Saturday night of a Federal District Court ruling that blocked the president's immigration order, setting the stage for a legal showdown …
Avi Selk / Washington Post:
Meet the Bush-nominated federal judge who halted Trump's executive order
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
State Dept. reverses visa revocations, allows barred travelers to enter U.S.
Anna Giaritelli / Washington Examiner:
DOJ seeking emergency stay of federal judge's ‘outrageous order’
Discussion: IJR
Martha Bellisle / Associated Press:
Trump lashes out at travel ban ruling by ‘so-called judge’
Victoria Colliver / Politico:
Republicans face anger over Obamacare repeal during town halls  —  ROSEVILLE, Calif. — Two Republican lawmakers representing reliably conservative districts on opposite ends of the country on Saturday faced down heated questions from Obamacare supporters who flooded town hall events demanding …
Discussion: Oliver Willis
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Angela Hart / Sacramento Bee:
McClintock exits with police escort after raucous town hall meeting in Roseville  —  Facing a packed auditorium and raucous crowd, Republican Rep. Tom McClintock on Saturday defended his party's national agenda and voiced strong support for President Donald Trump's controversial executive actions …
Luke Rosiak / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: House Intelligence, Foreign Affairs Committee Members Compromised By Rogue IT Staff  —  Three brothers who managed office information technology for members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and other lawmakers were abruptly relieved of their duties on suspicion …
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
'We'll do better': Trump's White House tries to gain a sense of order amid missteps  —  Soon after President Trump lifted off from the South Lawn of the White House for a long weekend in Florida, the administration's communications and policy teams convened for what some jokingly called their first “staff mixer.”
Discussion: New Yorker and The Guardian
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump's First Weeks Leave Washington— and the White House Staff—Panting
Discussion: Axios and Politico
Lisa Riley Roche / Deseret News:
Mitt Romney: No regrets about criticizing Trump, but time to recognize his ‘strong start’  —  PARK CITY — Mitt Romney said Friday he has no regrets about criticizing then candidate Donald Trump in a stinging speech last year but now sees the new president as having “obviously gotten off to a very strong start.”
Marc Tracy / New York Times:
Steve Bannon's Book Club  —  On the day after Christmas, I was walking through Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport when I caught sight of a slightly rumpled man waiting for a flight.  He seemed familiar, the way figures in dreams do.  —  It was, I thought, Stephen K. Bannon …
Discussion: Axios
Fox News Insider:
PREVIEW: Trump Tells O'Reilly He ‘Respects’ Putin in Super Bowl Interview  —  On Sunday, Bill O'Reilly will hold a special Super Bowl pre-game interview with President Trump at 4 p.m. ET on your local FOX broadcast station.  —  In a special preview, Trump revealed his plans for dealing with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Fox News:
Conway says she misspoke on Iraqi terrorists, calls some critics ‘haters’  —  Kellyanne Conway admits she made a mistake in talking about a Kentucky massacre that never took place.  But that's not all she has to say about it.  —  In an interview airing Sunday on “Media Buzz,” …
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Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
CNN turns down White House offer of Kellyanne Conway to appear on Sunday shows: report
Discussion: Occupy Democrats
Brian Bennett / Los Angeles Times:
8 million people could be deported under Trump's immigration order  —  Migrants from Guatemala receive instructions from a local law enforcement official after they crossed the Rio Grande near McAllen, Texas, in 2014.  (Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times)
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Schumer's dilemma: Satisfying the base while protecting his minority  —  About every two weeks, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer keeps an important dinner date with five of his colleagues, and they're not the five most senior members of the Senate or even his closest advisers in his new job.
Jane Perlez / New York Times:
China Assails U.S. Pledge to Defend Disputed Islands Controlled by Japan  —  BEIJING — China reacted with strong displeasure on Saturday to a promise by Defense Secretary Jim Mattis that the United States would defend two uninhabited islands in the East China Sea that Japan controls but China also claims as its own.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Karin Brulliard / Washington Post:
USDA abruptly purges animal welfare information from its website  —  The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Friday abruptly removed inspection reports and other information from its website about the treatment of animals at thousands of research laboratories, zoos, dog breeding operations and other facilities.
Discussion: Gizmodo
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Sara Reardon / Nature:
US government takes animal-welfare data offline
Discussion: Political Wire
Associated Press:
Trump's Supreme Court Pick Wary of ‘Politicians With Robes’  —  Judge Neil Gorsuch recalls being blinded by tears in the middle of a ski run after someone rang his cellphone with news of the unexpected death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.  The reaction illustrates not only the depth …
Discussion: Politico
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ABC News:
Trump's Criticism of Judge Shows Limits of Staff's Influence
Discussion: Politico
 
 
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Neil Johnson / GazetteXtra:
Hundreds protest Trump, Ryan in Janesville
Discussion: FOX6Now.com
Benjamin Domenech / New York Times:
The Game Is On. Can You Please Take the Politics Outside?
Discussion: Daily Wire and NPR
Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
Pelosi loses bid to rehang controversial cop painting in Capitol complex
Perry Stein / Washington Post:
How protesters plan to get under Trump's skin wherever he goes
Yahoo:
Trump fumes, vows to act, after judge lifts travel ban
 Earlier Items: 
Joel Kotkin / The Daily Beast:
The High Cost of a Home Is Turning American Millennials Into the New Serfs
Discussion: Instapundit
Katie Bo Williams / The Hill:
Trump's pick for CIA No. 2 prompts fears
Anna Palmer / Politico:
TV networks hiking ad rates for shows Trump watches
Discussion: Hot Air
Austin Wright / Politico:
DeVos opposition snowballs into avalanche
Discussion: Liberal Values and Political Wire
Isaac Arnsdorf / Politico:
Trump officials slow-walked court orders on travel ban
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
 

 
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New York Times:
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