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5:00 PM ET, February 7, 2017

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Chris Massie / CNN:
WH official: We'll say ‘fake news’ until media realizes attitude of attacking the President is wrong  —  (CNN)Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to President Donald Trump, said Monday that the administration will continue using the term “fake news” until the media understands that their …
Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post:
GOP Congressman Insists White Terrorist Attacks Are Totally Different  —  Rep. Sean Duffy (R-Wis.) also pointed to “the good things” that came from the shooting of black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina.  —  Rep. Sean Duffy (R-Wis.) vehemently defended President Donald Trump's ban …
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Washington Post:
Here are the 78 terrorist attacks the White House says were largely under-reported  —  The White House on Monday night released a list of 78 terrorist attacks in response to an assertion earlier in the day by President Trump that the “very dishonest press” often doesn't report on them.
BBC:
Trump says terror attacks ‘under-reported’: Is that true?
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Washington Post:
What's largely and glaringly missing from Trump's list of terrorist attacks: Non-Western victims
Discussion: The Guardian and Common Dreams
Washington Post:
Trump's loose talk about Muslims gets weaponized in court against travel ban  —  Throughout Donald Trump's campaign and now into the first weeks of his presidency, critics suggested that he cool his incendiary rhetoric, that his words matter.  His defenders responded that, as Corey Lewandowski said, he was being taken too “literally.”
Discussion: New York Times
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Associated Press:
Gorsuch Paid $3.28 Million by Former Firm, Under 2005 Deal
Discussion: Politico
Michael McConnell / Hoover Institution:
Neil Gorsuch: An Eloquent Intellectual
Discussion: Washington Post
cbsnews.cbs.com:
Ruth Bader Ginsburg says Electoral College needs to be changed
Discussion: TheBlaze
Madeline Conway / Politico:
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: I'd like to change the Electoral College
Discussion: Vox
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Ginsburg: I would back changing the Electoral College
Discussion: CNN and RedState
Emmarie Huetteman / New York Times:
Betsy DeVos Confirmed as Education Secretary; Pence Breaks Tie  —  WASHINGTON — The Senate confirmed Betsy DeVos on Tuesday as education secretary, approving the embattled nominee only with the help of a historic tiebreaking vote from Vice President Mike Pence.
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Mark Bauerlein / Vox:
The job of the education secretary isn't to defend public schools. It's to help kids learn.
Discussion: Hit & Run and Mother Jones
Virgin:
Richard vs Barack - kiteboard and foilboard challenge  —  It was a huge honour to be able to invite President Barack and Michelle Obama down to the British Virgin Islands for a complete break after Barack finished his second term as President and the family left the White House.
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Republicans fear for their safety as Obamacare protests grow  —  House Republicans during a closed-door meeting Tuesday discussed how to protect themselves and their staff from protesters storming town halls and offices in opposition to repealing Obamacare, sources in the room told POLITICO.
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Republican lawmakers face rising anger at town halls
Discussion: Vox Popoli and Infowars
The Independent:
Donald Trump's staff get him to agree to policies by saying 'Obama wouldn't have done it'  —  Military officials got Donald Trump to agree to the botched Yemen raid by suggesting Barack Obama would never have had the courage to do it, it has been reported.  The raid, which had been planned …
Todd J. Gillman / Dallas Morning News:
Texas mystery: Who's the senator Trump offered to help Rockwall sheriff ‘destroy?’  —  WASHINGTON — There's a Texas state senator with a new target on his back, courtesy of President Donald Trump and the Rockwall County sheriff.  —  At a meeting Tuesday morning with sheriffs from around the country …
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New York Times:
One-Third Don't Know Obamacare and Affordable Care Act Are the Same  —  A sizable minority of Americans don't understand that Obamacare is just another name for the Affordable Care Act.  —  These findings, from a poll by Morning Consult, illustrate the extent of public confusion over a health law …
Ari Berman / The Nation:
House Republicans Just Voted to Eliminate the Only Federal Agency That Makes Sure Voting Machines Can't Be Hacked  —  Republicans made it easier to steal an election by killing the Election Assistance Commission.  —  By ,  —  In a little-noticed 6-3 vote today, the House Administration …
Chris Edelson / Baltimore Sun:
Ordinary Americans carried out inhumane acts for Trump  —  (Video by Ken Lam) … A week ago, men and women went to work at airports around the United States as they always do.  They showered, got dressed, ate breakfast, perhaps dropped off their kids at school.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Dan Zak / Washington Post:
Rosie O'Donnell as Steve Bannon?  SNL could really make Trump angry if it wanted to.  —  Rosie O'Donnell, perhaps President Trump's ultimate nemesis, answered the call within one minute.  Twitter had decided that she should play White House strategist Steve Bannon on “Saturday Night Live,” and O'Donnell saw the idea almost instantly.
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Tara Palmeri / Politico:
White House rattled by McCarthy's spoof of Spicer
Dan Morse / Washington Post:
Melania Trump reaches settlement in libel lawsuit against Maryland blogger  —  First lady Melania Trump has settled her defamation lawsuit against a Maryland blogger, who agreed to apologize to the Trump family and pay her a “substantial sum,” her lawyers said in a statement they released Tuesday morning.
Discussion: Daily Wire, Hot Air and The Week
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Tom Hamburger / Washington Post:
Melania Trump missed out on ‘once-in-a-lifetime opportunity’ to make millions, lawsuit says
Tim Murphy / Mother Jones:
Keith Ellison Is Everything Republicans Thought Obama Was.  Maybe He's Just What Democrats Need. … Last May, as Donald Trump was locking up the Republican nomination, a prophetic clip began circulating among portions of the left.  It was a nearly one-year-old segment of ABC's Sunday show This Week …
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Mike Pence, a man of the House, becomes Trump's eyes and ears in the Senate  —  Just two and a half weeks into his tenure, Vice President Pence will do something that Joe Biden never did in eight years: cast a tiebreaking vote in the Senate.  —  The Constitution only assigns two real responsibilities …
Discussion: RedState and Joe.My.God.
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CNN:
Betsy DeVos confirmed as education secretary; vice president casts historic tie-breaking vote
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Cotton and Trump plot crackdown on legal immigration  —  Overlooked in Donald Trump's campaign crusade against illegal immigration was his vow to crack down on legal immigration, too.  —  Now, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), a reliable Trump ally, is taking steps to execute that part …
Brian Beutler / New Republic:
Donald Trump's Dangerous End Game  —  Why the president is accusing journalists and judges of enabling terrorists.  —  The term “fake news” outlived its usefulness almost as soon as it became common parlance, and is perhaps only valuable now as a marker for whether journalism …
Tom Jackman / Washington Post:
Trump makes false statement about U.S. murder rate to sheriffs' group  —  President Trump met Tuesday morning with a group of sheriffs from the National Sheriffs Association, a group which consists of more than 3,000 sheriffs from around the country.  And to this sworn group of law enforcement veterans …
Evelyn Turner / USA Today:
Sessions tried to jail me for helping people vote: Voices  —  It would be a great step backwards if he got the job others used to expand voting rights.  —  While my husband and I were trying to help black people vote in Alabama, Jeff Sessions was trying to put us in jail.
John Whitesides / Reuters:
From disputes to a breakup: wounds still raw after U.S. election  —  Burning passions over Donald Trump's presidency are taking a personal toll on both sides of the political divide.  For Gayle McCormick, it is particularly wrenching: she has separated from her husband of 22 years.
Discussion: The American Mirror and TheBlaze
Ben Riley-Smith / Telegraph:
Exclusive: How Theresa May poked fun at the size of Donald Trump's hands  —  Theresa May has joked about the size of Donald Trump's hands at a private fundraiser as she made light of a photograph of the pair at the White House.  —  The Prime Minister's tongue-in-cheek remarks came after her visit …
Discussion: The Week and twitchy.com
 
 
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Kyle Olson / The American Mirror:
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Discussion: Daily Wire and The Gateway Pundit
Ted Hesson / Politico:
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Discussion: ABC News
Kim Janssen / Chicago Tribune:
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 Earlier Items: 
Josh Barro / Business Insider:
Democrats are lost on immigration — and they'd better rethink their ideas to beat Trump
Discussion: National Review
JoAnn Wise / Washington Post:
Andrew Puzder will be a disaster for workers. I know: He was for me.
Richard Rubin / Wall Street Journal:
GOP Plan to Overhaul Tax Code Gets Held Up at the Border
Media Matters for America:
Conway's Bowling Green Massacre Claim Wasn't An “Honest Mistake”; It's Part Of A Pattern
Ezra Klein / Vox:
How to stop an autocracy  —  The danger isn't that Trump will build an autocracy.
Discussion: Politico and twitchy.com
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
'He'll never be back': CNN's Alisyn Camerota mocks GOP lawmaker after disastrous appearance