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9:05 AM ET, February 13, 2017

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New York Times:
Turmoil at the National Security Council, From the Top Down  —  WASHINGTON — These are chaotic and anxious days inside the National Security Council, the traditional center of management for a president's dealings with an uncertain world.  —  Three weeks into the Trump administration …
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CNN:
At Mar-a-Lago, Trump tackles crisis diplomacy at close range  —  Trump, Abe respond to N. Korea missile test  —  (CNN)The iceberg wedge salads, dripping with blue cheese dressing, had just been served on the terrace of Mar-a-Lago Saturday when the call to President Donald Trump came in …
Wall Street Journal:
Mike Flynn's Position Grows Tenuous in White House  —  The White House is reviewing whether to retain National Security Adviser Mike Flynn amid a furor over his contacts with Russian officials before President Donald Trump took office.
Discussion: Japan Times, Infowars and The Week
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump reviews top White House staff after tumultuous start  —  President Donald Trump, frustrated over his administration's rocky start, is complaining to friends and allies about some of his most senior aides — leading to questions about whether he is mulling an early staff shakeup.
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump friend says Priebus is ‘in way over his head’  —  One of President Trump's longtime friends made a striking move on Sunday: After talking privately with the president over drinks late Friday, Christopher Ruddy publicly argued that Trump should replace his White House chief of staff.
Mike Allen / Axios:
Priebus, Flynn, others on thin ice
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Jon Karl's front-row seat to the Trump White House
Discussion: ABC News
CNN:
Flynn on thin ice but still in at the White House after turbulent few days
Ryan Sabalow / Sacramento Bee:
BREAKING: Oroville under immediate evacuation as spillway collapse feared  —  “It's uncontrolled.  It's uncontrolled.”  —  Fearing a gush from Lake Oroville if the emergency spillway collapses, officials are releasing as much as 100,000 cubic feet per second from the main …
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Paul Rogers / Mercury News:
Oroville Dam: Feds and state officials ignored warnings 12 years ago  —  More than a decade ago, federal and state officials and some of California's largest water agencies rejected concerns that the massive earthen spillway at Oroville Dam — at risk of collapse Sunday night and prompting …
Brian Chappatta / Bloomberg:
America's Biggest Creditors Dump Treasuries in Warning to Trump  —  Japanese investors cull U.S. government debt by most since '13  —  Currency-hedged returns were worst on record last quarter  —  In the age of Trump, America's biggest foreign creditors are suddenly having second thoughts about financing the U.S. government.
Discussion: Mother Jones and CANNONFIRE
Jennifer Calfas / The Hill:
Trump's official inauguration poster has glaring typo  —  President Trump's official inauguration portrait offered by the Library of Congress had a glaring typo on it, social media users pointed out Sunday evening.  —  The print of Trump, which was sold on the Library of Congress's website …
Susan B. Glasser / Politico:
Can a ‘Wrecking Ball’ of a President Evolve?  —  When Bob Corker went to Trump Tower in late November to interview for secretary of state, the disruptive new president and his team were not just idly talking about a potentially explosive start to the new administration.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Trump: Media won't report on ‘enthusiastic supporters’ at Mar-a-Lago  —  President Trump on Sunday again slammed the media, this time claiming that there were “enthusiastic supporters lining the roads” as he left his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.  —  “Just leaving Florida.
Discussion: New York Times and Raw Story
Hollywood Reporter:
Grammy Awards: A Pro-Trump Statement on the Red Carpet  —  Singer Joyce Villa wore a “Make America Great Again” gown.  —  Scandalous dresses on the Grammys red carpet aren't what they used to be.  It wasn't deep cleavage or a thigh-high leg slit that had tongues wagging about singer Joyce Villa on Sunday night.
Discussion: Daily Wire, IJR and AOL
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Joy Villa / Breitbart:   Photos: Joy Villa Unveils Donald Trump Dress at Grammys
Gabriel Snyder / Wired:
The New York Times Claws Its Way Into the Future  —  Arthur Gregg Sulzberger doesn't remember the first time he visited the family business.  He was young, he says, no older than 6, when he shuffled through the brass-plated revolving doors of the old concrete hulk on 43rd Street and boarded …
New York Times:
G.O.P. Lawmakers Like What They See in Trump.  They Just Have to Squint.  —  WASHINGTON — Republican congressional aides have set their iPhones to flutter every time President Trump hurls a thunderbolt on Twitter.  Senators nod politely at his false claims of mass voter fraud during private White House meetings.
Julian Zelizer / The Daily Beast:
To Bork or Not to Bork?  The Old Fight That Shows Democrats Why, and How, to Stop Gorsuch  —  Thirty years ago, Democrats gave the Supreme Court confirmation process a bad name.  When they killed the nomination of President Ronald Reagan's first nominee to fill a vacancy, a new term was invented: “To Bork.”
Discussion: Instapundit
David Tweed / Bloomberg:
These Countries Could Be Trump's Next Trade War Targets  —  U.S. has trade deficits with most Asian trade partners  —  Vietnam surplus with U.S. represents 15% of the economy  —  India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam have largely escaped U.S. President Donald Trump's glare on trade, but he may yet come looking.
Discussion: Axios
Rhett Jones / Gizmodo:
Border Agent Demands NASA Scientist Unlock Phone Before Entering the Country  —  Sidd Bikkannavar is a natural-born US citizen who works at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab.  He's also a prolific traveler who found himself reentering the United States right as the controversial immigration ban took effect.
Discussion: Balloon Juice
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Loren Grush / The Verge:
A US-born NASA scientist was detained at the border until he unlocked his phone
Discussion: Mashable
Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Trump undertakes most ambitious regulatory rollback since Reagan  —  President Trump has embarked on the most aggressive campaign against government regulation in a generation, joining with Republican lawmakers to roll back rules already on the books and limit the ability of federal regulators to impose new ones.
Moriah Balingit / Washington Post:
Why Laverne Cox told you to Google ‘Gavin Grimm’  —  A few years ago, Gavin Grimm was an unknown student at a high school in Gloucester, Va., pleading with school officials to be able to use the boys' bathroom.  The teen, who came out as transgender his sophomore year, had begun using …
Discussion: Towleroad
 
 
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Toronto Sun:
Black Lives Matter co-founder appears to label white people ‘defects’
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Jason Silverstein / New York Daily News:
Department of Education spells W.E.B. Du Bois' name wrong in tweet honoring him for Black History Month …
Associated Press:
Senate nears confirmation of Trump's pick to head Treasury
Discussion: Politico
CBS News:
Face the Nation transcript February 12, 2017: Schumer, Flake, Miller
Discussion: Informed Comment and Mother Jones
Mike Hale / New York Times:
Review: ‘S.N.L.’ Targets Trump Again, With a Hint of Exhaustion
Discussion: Hot Air and Daily Wire
New York Times:
Trump Sons Forge Ahead Without Father, Expanding and Navigating Conflicts
Discussion: The Week and Axios
Kyle Balluck / The Hill:
Franken: GOP colleagues question Trump's mental health
Discussion: The Talking Dog, Raw Story and alan.com
Erin McCann / New York Times:
Trump Criticized Obama for Golfing. Now He Spends Weekends on the Links.
 Earlier Items: 
The Hill:
Trump aide sees sexism in Tapper's Conway interview
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
Matt Schudel / Washington Post:
Al Jarreau, seven-time Grammy-winning singer, dies at 76
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Stephen Miller's bushels of Pinocchios for false voter-fraud claims
Discussion: Power Line, IJR and Talking Points Memo
Sean McElwee / Salon:
Trump's supporters believe a false narrative of white victimhood — and the data proves it
Discussion: alan.com
New York Post:
$325K wedding nixed after brawl erupts at rehearsal dinner, suit says
Stan Collender / Forbes:
GOP Grand Scheme On Obamacare Repeal & Tax Reform Quickly Going South
Discussion: Political Wire
Cynthia Littleton / Page Six:
Grammys producer wants stars to be political during speeches
Discussion: Breitbart, TheBlaze, RedState and NBC News