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Greg Miller / Washington Post:
Trump urged Mexican president to end his public defiance on border wall, transcript reveals  —  President Trump made building a wall along the southern U.S. border and forcing Mexico to pay for it core pledges of his campaign.  —  But in his first White House call with Mexico's president …
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Washington Post:
Highlights … JANUARY 27, 2017, FROM 9:35 TO 10:28 A.M. EST.  —  Hello, good morning.  —  Mr. President, good morning.  —  How are you, Mr. President?  —  I am good.  How are you?  It is good to speak with you.  Let me switch to Spanish so I will be more comfortable.
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Those Calls to Trump?  White House Admits They Didn't Happen  —  WASHINGTON — Has President Trump told you about the time the head of the Boy Scouts called to say his was the best speech ever delivered to the more than century-old organization?  What about when the president of Mexico picked …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
NBC News:
Trump Says U.S.'Losing' Afghan War in Tense Meeting With Generals  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has become increasingly frustrated with his advisers tasked with crafting a new U.S. strategy in Afghanistan and recently suggested firing the war's top military commander during …
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Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
McMaster, On ‘Warpath,’ Purges Key Trump Allies From White House NSC  —  An ongoing staffing purge being conducted by White House National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster has thrown the West Wing into chaos, according to more than half a dozen Trump administration insiders who told …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Haaretz
New York Times:
White House Purging Michael Flynn Allies From National Security Council
Discussion: Axios, The Gateway Pundit and The Week
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Trump stumbles are undercutting executive power, which may be healthy for America long-term
Rosie Gray / The Atlantic:
An NSC Staffer Is Forced Out Over a Controversial Memo
CNN:
Scaramucci to hold online event Friday  — Scaramucci will be hosting an online event on Friday where he will address the American people directly  —  (CNN) Anthony Scaramucci wants to tell his own story.  —  Following his departure from the White House after less than 11 days …
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Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Here Is Anthony Scaramucci's “Communications Plan” From Before He Was Fired  —  “Make it clear that horn tooting and denigrating colleagues is unacceptable,” Scaramucci's memo notes.  —  Recently ousted White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci had big plans for the job …
Tara Palmeri / Politico:
Spicer savors his last days in the White House
Discussion: Raw Story
CNN:
Read the ‘Communications Plan’ Scaramucci wrote to WH staffers
Discussion: RedState and Mediaite
Associated Press:
Trump set to embark on 1st vacation since inauguration
Discussion: Political Wire
Hunter Walker / Yahoo:
Reporter says ‘Russian propaganda outlet’ pushed him to cover conspiracy theory at the center of a White House lawsuit  —  WASHINGTON — Reporter Andrew Feinberg says a Russian state-owned news site he once worked for pressured him to advance a conspiracy theory about the fatal shooting …
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Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
Confusion, anger inside Fox News over lack of answers in network's Seth Rich probe  —  Lawsuit puts Seth Rich conspiracy inside the West Wing  —  It has been more than two months since Fox News retracted its story about the death of Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich …
New York Times:
Oh, Wait.  Maybe It Was Collusion.  —  Did the Trump campaign collude with Russian agents trying to manipulate the course of the 2016 election?  Some analysts have argued that the media has made too much of the collusion narrative; that Jared Kushner and Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Jonathan Lemire / Associated Press:
Trump's New Top Aide Assures Sessions His Job Is Safe  —  New White House chief of staff John Kelly, in one of his first acts in his new post, called Attorney General Jeff Sessions to reassure him that his position was safe despite the recent onslaught of criticism he has taken from President Donald Trump.
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GOLF.com:
PODCAST: The story behind our Trump golf story (and a certain explosive quote)  —  The real Donald Trump is revealed through his golf game  —  Of the 7,424 words in Alan Shipnuck's deep dive into President Trump's ties to golf in this week's issue of Sports Illustrated, seven words have caused a media frenzy:
Associated Press:
Mueller's job would be protected by bipartisan Senate bill  —  WASHINGTON — Two members of the Senate Judiciary Committee are moving to protect Special Counsel Robert Mueller's job, putting forth legislation that aims to ensure the integrity of current and future independent investigations.
Washington Post:
Trump's war on legal immigration would cripple the economy  —  PRESIDENT TRUMP says accelerating the United States' economic growth is one of his administration's most cherished goals.  On Wednesday, he embraced a legislative overhaul to the immigration system that, if enacted, would make that goal unattainable.
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Supports Plan to Cut Legal Immigration by Half
Rebekah Entralg / ThinkProgress:
Stephen Miller attacks Statue of Liberty poem, echoing popular white nationalist talking point
Brandon Cockerham / Judicial Watch:
Judicial Watch: Justice Department Blacks Out Talking Points on Lynch-Clinton Tarmac Meeting  —  (Washington, DC) - Judicial Watch today announced that the Justice Department refuses to disclose the talking points developed by the Obama Justice Department to help it respond to press inquiries …
Discussion: Townhall.com
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Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Attorney Subpoenas Kushner Cos.  Over Investment-For-Visa Program  —  Records sought from development firm owned by family of White House adviser Jared Kushner  —  Kushner Cos., the New York property development business owned by the family of White House senior adviser Jared Kushner …
Nancy Coleman / CNN:
NAACP issues its first statewide travel advisory, for Missouri  —  (CNN)The NAACP is sending a strong message to people of color traveling through Missouri: Go at your own risk.  —  The organization is circulating a travel advisory after the state passed a law that Missouri's NAACP conference says allows for legal discrimination.
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Annie Karni / Politico:
Zuckerberg hires former Clinton pollster Joel Benenson  —  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have hired Democratic pollster Joel Benenson, a former top adviser to President Barack Obama and the chief strategist to Hillary Clinton's failed 2016 presidential campaign …
Jason Horowitz / New York Times:
A Vatican Shot Across the Bow for Hard-Line U.S. Catholics  —  VATICAN CITY — Two close associates of Pope Francis have accused American Catholic ultraconservatives of making an alliance of “hate” with evangelical Christians to back President Trump, further alienating a group already out of the Vatican's good graces.
Discussion: Raw Story
Politico:
Lawyers, lawmakers leave Trump administration in limbo on Obamacare subsidies  —  President Donald Trump has told advisers repeatedly he wants to end Obamacare cost-sharing subsidies that are crucial to the marketplaces continuing to work, and he has publicly said it would make sense to blow up the system …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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Murray Waas / Vox:
Exclusive: Top FBI officials could testify against Trump  —  The acting head of the bureau told top officials to prepare.  —  Shortly after the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller in May, Acting Director of the FBI Andrew McCabe told several of the highest-ranking managers …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
 
 
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Mary Beard / TheTLS:
Roman Britain in Black and White
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Media Matters for America:
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Washington Times:
Iranian general boasts of Quds Force killing U.S. troops in Iraq
Devin Henry / The Hill:
States sue EPA over ozone rule delay
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Splinter
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Trump Keeps His Conservative Movement Allies Closest
Dow Jones Newswires:
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Military Times:
Blackwater founder wants to boost the Afghan air war with his private air force
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Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
Democrats Don't Actually Believe in Democracy
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
GOP clash looms over raising the debt ceiling
Discussion: The Hill
Noga Tarnopolsky / Los Angeles Times:
Relations between Israel and Jordan have become ‘very dangerous’
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Fearless Conservative Firebrand Laura Loomer Has Car Tires Slashed (Updated)
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Border Patrol Ordered To Block Congressmen During Travel Ban
Discussion: Raw Story
Rachel Chason / Washington Post:
He went to ICE to tell agents he had gotten into college.  Now he and his brother have been deported.
Grace Rauh / NY1 News:
Sources: Michael Grimm eyes return to Congress
Discussion: The Hill and Political Wire
Media Matters for America:
Right-wing troll Mike Cernovich says he's doing a “big pivot” away from Trump