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• Amy Blagojevich's letter to Obama is sad, sensational — and a plea to Trump? - Chicago Tribune

  27-01-2017 22:42 via chicagotribune.com
  
  Chicago Tribune
  Amy Blagojevich's letter to Obama is sad, sensational — and a plea to Trump?
  Chicago Tribune
  "I am shocked at how bitter and full of hate I have become," she wrote to Obama "I've dealt with depression, anxiety, insomnia, and aspects of PTSD. I've had days where I couldn't pry myself from bed, days where I can't stop crying or feeling the pain ...
  Disgraced governor's daughter calls Obama 'spineless' over pardon snubNew York Post
  Your daily 6: Blago's daughter unloads on Ob
  
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• Trump: Defense Secretary Mattis can 'override' me on torture

  27-01-2017 22:28 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump said Friday he will allow his Defense Secretary James Mattis to "override" him on torture, an issue on which the two men disagree.
  
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• Becoming President more than doubled Trump's reach on Twitter

  27-01-2017 22:16 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Trump's Twitter following has grown since he took the oath of office last Friday, as he's added about 2 million followers to his personal account and his administration has taken control of already established official accounts from the Obama administration that now total about 27.8 million followers.
  
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• Pence, Conway cheer on March for Life

  27-01-2017 21:39 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump plans to call into the March for Life Friday to spotlight the large gathering of anti-abortion rights advocates.
  
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• Theresa May: Donald Trump to make state visit to UK

  27-01-2017 21:35 via rss.cnn.com
  
  British Prime Minister Theresa May announced that US President Donald Trump has accepted an invitation from Queen Elizabeth to make a state visit to the UK.
  
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• 'March for Life' in Washington

  27-01-2017 21:22 via rss.cnn.com
  
  See photos from the annual "March for Life," an anti-abortion protest in Washington.
  
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• Who Is Registered to Vote in Two States? Some in Trump’s Inner Circle

  27-01-2017 21:12 via nytimes.com
  They include his son-in-law and adviser, a top aide, his press secretary, a cabinet nominee and one of his daughters, news reports say.
  
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• Trump's desk on display -- clutter and all

  27-01-2017 21:02 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Throughout his time in the public eye, President Donald Trump has often been photographed behind his desk at Trump Tower alongside a mountain of papers, photographs and other trinkets he proudly displayed.
  
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• Trump-cited study author (still) refuses to show proof of voter fraud

  27-01-2017 20:41 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The author of a study that claims to show millions of illegal votes were cast in the presidential election refused to produce evidence support his allegation during a contentious and lengthy interview with CNN.
  
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• How Trump changed the presidency in 7 days

  27-01-2017 20:27 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Forget the first 100 days. It's only been a week and Donald Trump is reinventing the presidency.
  
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• Newt Gingrich: The left should be scared to death after Trump's first week - Fox News

  27-01-2017 20:23 via foxnews.com
  
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  Newt Gingrich: The left should be scared to death after Trump's first week
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  President Trump's order to end Obama's utterly irrational ban on the Keystone XL Pipeline could mean 20,000 jobs that were going to China could instead come here and provide Houston with 30 to 40 years of work. Completing Keystone, and the Dakota ...and more »
  
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• First 100 Days Briefing: Trump Avoids Answering Whether He Will Lift Sanctions on Russia

  27-01-2017 19:59 via nytimes.com
  At a press conference with British Prime Minister Theresa May, President Trump refused to say what he would do on sanctions when he speaks with Vladimir Putin on Saturday.
  
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• Foreign press has trouble entering Trump White House

  27-01-2017 19:58 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Some British reporters said Friday they were unable or delayed in entering the White House to cover their prime minister's visit to the White House.
  
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• President Trump says of Obama, whose legitimacy he questioned for years: 'I think he likes me' - Washington Post

  27-01-2017 19:54 via washingtonpost.com
  
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  President Trump says of Obama, whose legitimacy he questioned for years: 'I think he likes me'
  Washington Post
  President Trump doesn't lack for self-confidence — at least not outwardly. Everything is the best and the greatest, and “everybody” is always talking about how fantastic is that thing Trump did or said. And in a new interview, he may have taken this ...
  Obama, Clintons must make room for new leaders: ColumnUSA TODAY
  Republican hubris? Trump and GOP are
  
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• Trump faces media after Theresa May meeting

  27-01-2017 19:23 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump caps a turbulently productive seven days in office Friday by facing reporters' questions in a news conference for the first time since being sworn in.
  
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• The March Briefing: Pence Tells Anti-Abortion Marchers That ‘Life is Winning’

  27-01-2017 19:19 via nytimes.com
  Abortion opponents are gathering in Washington for their annual march, the highest-ranking official to address the marchers.
  
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• Fillon's French presidential bid may be hurt by probe into wife's work

  27-01-2017 19:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Richard Balmforth PARIS (Reuters) - An investigation into allegations of "fake work" against the wife of French presidential frontrunner Francois Fillon may be harming his popularity, an opinion survey suggested on Friday. The conservative former prime minister was the clear favorite to win a presidential election in three months' time until a satirical weekly said this week his wife had received big salaries from jobs where she did no actual work, including several years as his parliamentary
  
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• Pentagon orders Air Force One, F-35 reviews

  27-01-2017 19:13 via rss.cnn.com
  
  US Secretary of Defense James Mattis has directed Pentagon reviews of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program and the the new Air Force One being ordered, according to a Pentagon statement.
  
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• Trump, Mexican President talk on phone after canceled meeting

  27-01-2017 19:06 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto spoke on the phone Friday, a White House official told CNN.
  
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• Lifting Russian sanctions on the table for Trump-Putin call

  27-01-2017 18:27 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Lifting US sanctions on Russia will be up for discussion when the two country's leader talk Saturday, a top White House adviser said Friday.
  
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• March for Life: What you need to know

  27-01-2017 18:24 via rss.cnn.com
  
  On the heels of President Donald Trump's inauguration and last week's Women's March, the annual March for Life, this year marking the 44th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, is set to take place on Friday.
  
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• Pence says Trump probe to include review of voting rules: Washington Post

  27-01-2017 18:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Trump administration's investigation into what the president has claimed is widespread voting fraud will likely include a "full evaluation of voting rules," Vice President Mike Pence told fellow Republicans this week, the Washington Post reported on Friday.
  
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• Donald Trump could be new Margaret Thatcher says Gingrich - Daily Mail

  27-01-2017 18:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Daily Mail
  Donald Trump could be new Margaret Thatcher says Gingrich
  Daily Mail
  Former House speaker Newt Gingrich has said that President Donald Trump could be the next Margaret Thatcher. While political leaders and commentators alike have compared Trump to former President Ronald Reagan, Gingrich says that the 'real model' for ...and more »
  
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• Vice President Mike Pence is right at home at the March for Life

  27-01-2017 18:06 via rss.cnn.com
  
  In his first major address as Vice President, Mike Pence will champion a cause that he tirelessly spoke about on the campaign trail: his anti-abortion stance.
  
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• Social media battle lines drawn ahead of Turkish vote

  27-01-2017 17:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Ercan Gurses and Ayhan Uyanik ANKARA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Campaigning has not officially started, but a string of video "selfies" by the likes of sports stars, actors and cabinet ministers has already launched a divisive debate on plans that would hand Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan sweeping new powers. In a country where mainstream news channels are saturated by Erdogan's appearances and speeches by government ministers, and where political demonstrations are tightly restricted, the battle
  
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• Cummings: Trump's voting fraud claims 'nonsense'

  27-01-2017 17:51 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Rep. Elijah Cummings said President Donald Trump's plans to investigate the baseless claims of widespread voter fraud are "nonsense."
  
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• 7 wild stories from behind the scenes of Trump's first week

  27-01-2017 17:46 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump's young presidency has been marked by palace intrigue, a wave of public squabbles with government agencies, rogue social media accounts and critical news reports press secretary Sean Spicer called "demoralizing" to the White House.
  
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• US Ambassador Nikki Haley at UN: 'We're taking names'

  27-01-2017 17:44 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Nikki Haley, the new US ambassador to the United Nations, walked into UN headquarters for the first time Friday and promptly said, "For those who don't have our backs, we're taking names."
  
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• Trump won't attend annual elite DC gathering Saturday

  27-01-2017 17:30 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump is skipping out on an annual gathering of DC's most powerful and influential figures in Washington, a White House source told CNN on Firday.
  
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• Trump plans to sign executive action on refugees, 'extreme vetting'

  27-01-2017 17:30 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump is expected to sign up to three executive actions Friday at the Department of Defense, a White House official told CNN, including one limiting the flow of refugees into the United States and instituting what he called "extreme vetting" of immigrants on the campaign trail.
  
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• Google, in Post-Obama Era, Aggressively Woos Republicans - New York Times

  27-01-2017 17:11 via nytimes.com
  New York Times
  Google, in Post-Obama Era, Aggressively Woos Republicans
  New York Times
  The event was emblematic of an about-face by Google. Over the last eight years, the company was closely associated with former President Barack Obama. Google employees overwhelmingly supported Mr. Obama's presidential campaigns and some later ...and more »
  
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• Florida's largest county to comply with Trump's sanctuary crackdown

  27-01-2017 16:49 via rss.cnn.com
  
  South Florida's Miami-Dade County has long been known as a place that welcomes immigrants, but its Republican mayor has ordered jails there to "fully cooperate" with President Donald Trump's crackdown on so-called sanctuary cities.
  
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• Senate Democrats may block Trump's plan to fund border wall

  27-01-2017 16:46 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Senior Democrats privately say that a funding bill to build the border wall will likely be blocked in the Senate -- especially if the plan would add to the deficit or impose a new tax on Mexican imports.
  
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• Trump no longer expected to call into March for Life

  27-01-2017 16:36 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump plans to call into the March for Life Friday to spotlight the large gathering of anti-abortion rights advocates.
  
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• Donald Trump no longer expected to call into 'March for Life' Friday

  27-01-2017 16:36 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump plans to call into the March for Life Friday to spotlight the large gathering of anti-abortion rights advocates.
  
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• Trump to face media after Theresa May meeting

  27-01-2017 16:17 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump caps a turbulently productive seven days in office Friday by facing reporters' questions in a news conference for the first time since being sworn in.
  
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• Putin and Trump likely to discuss Ukraine sanctions: White House aide

  27-01-2017 16:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Susan Heavey and Christian Lowe WASHINGTON/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump are likely to discuss the sanctions that Washington imposed on Russia over the conflict in Ukraine when the two leaders speak by telephone on Saturday, a senior White House aide said. Trump has said in the past that, as part of a rapprochement he is seeking with Russia, he is prepared to review sanctions that his predecessor, Barack Obama, imposed on Russia over its 2
  
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• As Trump muzzles Parks Service, unverified 'alternative' accounts flourish

  27-01-2017 15:21 via rss.cnn.com
  
  It started with one account.
  
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• Probe presses on against France's Fillon as his ratings dip

  27-01-2017 15:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Richard Balmforth PARIS (Reuters) - A financial probe into past employment held by the wife of French presidential frontrunner Francois Fillon pressed ahead on Friday as an opinion poll showed the affair may be hurting his campaign for the Elysee. The affair has dented a wholesome image of honesty that Fillon, 62, a devout Catholic with 30 scandal-free years in political office, has sought to project in his campaign. Fillon made a spirited defense of both himself and his wife, Penelope, on te
  
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• French leader: Trump administration poses challenges for Europe

  27-01-2017 15:01 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The Trump administration poses challenges for Europe, French President François Hollande said Friday at a joint news conference with German leader Angela Merkel in Berlin.
  
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• Donald Trump to call into 'March for Life' Friday

  27-01-2017 14:57 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump plans to call into the March for Life Friday to spotlight the large gathering of anti-abortion rights advocates.
  
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• USA/Mexico: The Dawn of Twitter Diplomacy

  27-01-2017 14:22
  
  The President of Mexico was scheduled to meet with President Trump next week, but the meeting was cancelled after Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto stated he would not be paying for a border wall to be erected between Mexico and the United States. The border wall has been a cornerstone of Trump’s campaign for months, […]
  
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• Obama sought as speaker for UI commencement - Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette

  27-01-2017 14:07 via news-gazette.com
  
  Obama sought as speaker for UI commencement
  Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette
  Students at the University of Illinois have launched a campaign to bring Barack Obama to campus as the 2017 commencement speaker in May, complete with a dedicated Facebook page, Twitter account and hashtag, and a full-court social-media press on the ...and more »
  
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• Trump, Putin likely to discuss terrorism, other issues in call: White House aide

  27-01-2017 14:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will likely discuss a range of issues in a reported call, including efforts to combat terrorism, White House senior aide Kellyanne Conway said in television interviews on Friday. Asked about the planned call for Saturday, Conway told CBS' "This Morning" program: "I assume they will discuss, in the interests of their respective countries, how to come together and work together on issues where you can find comm
  
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• Poll: 36% approve of Trump's job performance

  27-01-2017 13:49 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump enters office facing low job approval ratings and skepticism from voters, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday.
  
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• Trump sticks with tradition for presidential pen choice

  27-01-2017 13:17 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump's John Hancock is getting some attention, but it turns out the President, who made his mark bucking tradition during the election, is sticking with a long-standing White House pen supplier.
  
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• Britain becoming U.S. vassal state, says French presidential hopeful Macron

  27-01-2017 13:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Britain is becoming subservient to a United States that will be extremely difficult to cooperate with judging by President Donald Trump's "serious and worrying" first acts, French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron said on Friday. British Prime Minister Theresa May, who will hold talks with Trump later on Friday, wants a renewal of the "special relationship" between London and Washington at a time her conservative government redraws its relationship with Europe. "Britain lived in an equilibr
  
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• Obama and Black Lives Matter: An epilogue - Aljazeera.com

  27-01-2017 12:32 via aljazeera.com
  
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  Obama and Black Lives Matter: An epilogue
  Aljazeera.com
  I don't like to write about Barack Obama any more. It's become painful. I love him and what he represents. His wife is a national treasure. I admire his daughters and their poise. I held my breath during his farewell address, counting down the moments ...and more »
  
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• How Donald Trump changed the presidency in 7 days

  27-01-2017 12:28 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Forget the first 100 days. It's only been a week and Donald Trump is reinventing the presidency.
  
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• French Socialist Valls keeps door open to backing Macron for presidency

  27-01-2017 12:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  French Socialist presidential hopeful Manuel Valls distanced himself from his main rival for his party's presidential ticket on Friday and left open the door to backing centrist independent Emmanuel Macron instead. The former prime minister, who is from the right wing of his party, made the comment on BFM TV ahead of a head-to-head vote in a primary on Sunday in which his leftwing rival Benoit Hamon is favorite to beat him to become the official Socialist candidate. "I will take a back seat," Va
  
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