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• Trump’s Travel Ban, Aimed at Terrorists, Has Blocked Doctors

  06-02-2017 23:39 via nytimes.com
  Across the United States, over 15,000 physicians are from the seven affected countries. Many work in small towns, poor urban neighborhoods and V.A. hospitals.
  
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• Trump's tweets against judges worry legal community

  06-02-2017 23:35 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump turned to his favorite outlet for outrage over the weekend when he blasted out tweets to his 23.9 million followers lambasting the federal judge who temporarily suspended the President's executive orders on immigration.
  
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• 'A day without a woman' -- Women's March organizers plan general strike

  06-02-2017 23:06 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The organizers of last month's Women's March announced Monday their intention to hold a general strike at a date to be determined.
  
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• Trump Says He Plans ‘Historic’ Investment in Armed Forces

  06-02-2017 23:00 via nytimes.com
  In a speech to service members, the president said that “radical Islamic terrorists are determined to strike our homeland” and exulted in his election victory.
  
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• Trump salutes NATO with vow of strong support

  06-02-2017 21:29 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump vowed stout support for NATO on Monday, even as he insisted again that member countries scale up their defense spending on the alliance.
  
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• Senate Democrats to hold floor over DeVos nomination vote

  06-02-2017 21:05 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Senate Democrats said they plan to hold the floor of the chamber for the next 24 hours, leading up to the vote to confirm President Donald Trump's choice to be education secretary, in hopes of drawing enough attention to the issue to derail Betsy DeVos' nomination.
  
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• Kanye West deletes all tweets defending Trump meeting

  06-02-2017 20:40 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Kanye West deleted all of his tweets defending his meeting with President Donald Trump sometime between Sunday night and Monday morning.
  
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• Trump White House press briefings short? Only compared to Obama

  06-02-2017 20:37 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump's new press secretary, Sean Spicer, greeted reporters on Thursday with a "Happy Groundhog Day," and followed it with a White House briefing that clocked in at just 25 minutes. The next day, he ended his briefing after 30 minutes.
  
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• Bush DOJ official: Trump's 'executive power run amok'

  06-02-2017 20:36 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A conservative former Justice Department official who argued a President's executive authority includes the use of torture during George W. Bush's administration said that he has "grave concerns" about how President Donald Trump is approaching his new job.
  
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• A story Trump might call "fake news" -- if it weren't his Facebook page sharing it

  06-02-2017 20:32 via rss.cnn.com
  
  "Smart!" That's what President Trump or one of his aides wrote on Facebook a few days ago, linking to a story by a Middle Eastern blogging site. But the anonymously-sourced story is unproven. Multiple governments have denied it. It's the kind of story that the president might decry as "fake news," were it not beneficial to him.
  
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• First on CNN: Pro-Trump group hacked, website taken down in Cabinet fight

  06-02-2017 20:29 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A prolific Republican super PAC pushing President Donald Trump's Cabinet took down its website temporarily Monday after hackers got in and retitled sections "Make America S****y Again" and scrawled "Black Lives Matter" across the video section.
  
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• Facebook, Google join drive against fake news in France

  06-02-2017 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Giant Internet firms Facebook and Google joined forces with news organizations on Monday to launch new fact-checking tools designed to root out "fake news" stories in France ahead of the country's presidential election. Social networks and news aggregators came under fire during the U.S. presidential vote when it became clear they had inadvertently fanned false news reports. Facebook , said it would work with eight French news organizations, including news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP), news
  
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• Tech Opposition to Trump Propelled by Employees, Not Executives

  06-02-2017 20:24 via nytimes.com
  In a court filing, nearly 100 technology companies cited the “tremendous impact” of immigrants on the United States in opposing the Trump immigration ban.
  
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• Next steps in the travel ban legal fight

  06-02-2017 20:13 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Legal briefs and court rulings are flying in the battle over President Donald Trump's travel ban, but the war is just getting started.
  
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• White House turmoil rankles Washington more than Trump

  06-02-2017 19:52 via rss.cnn.com
  
  As President Donald Trump's White House attempts to embark on a period of order and discipline, many in Washington are greeting the news with a collective eye roll.
  
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• Scandal-hit Fillon sorry, but staying in French presidency race

  06-02-2017 19:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Brian Love and Emmanuel Jarry PARIS (Reuters) - French conservative presidential candidate Francois Fillon on Monday vowed to fight on for the presidency despite a damaging scandal involving taxpayer-funded payments to his wife for work that a newspaper alleges she did not do. At a news conference in Paris, Fillon, 62, apologized for what he said was his error of judgment regarding the employment of family members - though he said his wife's work as parliamentary assistant over 15 years had b
  
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• Steve Bannon in 2010: Democrats have a 'plantation mentality' towards African-Americans

  06-02-2017 19:33 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump's chief strategist, Steve Bannon, said during a 2010 webinar for Tea Party activists that liberal Democrats have a "plantation mentality" towards African Americans to keep them under government control.
  
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• Place your French election bets - Hollande for a comeback?

  06-02-2017 19:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Alistair Smout and Matthias Blamont LONDON/PARIS (Reuters) - France's presidential elections has become so unpredictable that gamblers are betting on a second term for the sitting president, even though he bowed out of the contest last year and his party has since picked another candidate. British bookmakers reopened the market for bets on the deeply unpopular Socialist President Francois Hollande due to demand from customers. "People are much more willing to put a few pounds on the outsider
  
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• Pence's role: Batting 'clean up' for Trump

  06-02-2017 18:40 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Mike Pence: Former Indiana governor; Vice President of the United States; and President Donald Trump's rhetoric translator.
  
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• Der Spiegel's Trump cover sparks controversy

  06-02-2017 18:38 via rss.cnn.com
  
  German magazine Der Spiegel has sparked fierce debate after depicting US President Donald Trump beheading the Statue of Liberty on its front cover.
  
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• Rep. Waters: Trump's actions 'leading himself' to impeachment

  06-02-2017 18:33 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Rep. Maxine Waters said Monday that President Donald Trump's actions are "leading himself" to possible impeachment.
  
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• Hearing ‘America First,’ European Nations Jockey to Be Second

  06-02-2017 18:17 via nytimes.com
  It’s a tight race for runner-up when America is first, and the contenders are going all out to prove their superiority to Donald Trump with video pitches.
  
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• France's Macron seen beating Le Pen, Hamon losing momentum: poll

  06-02-2017 18:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PARIS (Reuters) - French far-right leader Marine Le Pen and independent centrist Emmanuel Macron are set to make it through to the presidential election's second round in May, according to an opinion poll published on Monday, with Macron comfortably winning the runoff. The IFOP rolling poll of voting intentions showed Le Pen garnering 25.5 percent of the vote in the April 23 first round, up 1.5 percent since Feb. 1, while Macron would get 20.5 percent, up 0.5 percent over the same period. Conser
  
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• The Economic Growth That Experts Can’t Count

  06-02-2017 18:12 via nytimes.com
  A fixation on standard (and lately sluggish) measures of growth may obscure more profound advances in the nation’s innovation and well-being.
  
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• Scandal-hit Fillon stays in race for French presidency

  06-02-2017 17:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  French conservative presidential candidate Francois Fillon on Monday vowed to fight on for the presidency despite a damaging scandal involving taxpayer-funded payments to his wife for work a newspaper alleges she did not do. At a news conference in Paris, Fillon, 62, apologized to France for what he said was an error of judgment regarding the employment of family members, though he said his wife's work as parliamentary assistant over 15 years had been genuine and legal. Fillon, a former prime mi
  
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• Sasse rebukes Trump: 'We don't have so-called judges'

  06-02-2017 17:17 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Republican Sen. Ben Sasse took issue with President Donald Trump's characterization of a "so-called judge," who is temporarily thwarting his immigration and refugee ban.
  
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• Binding the Nation in Its Love of Meatloaf

  06-02-2017 17:03 via nytimes.com
  Two New York Times writers have collaborated on a decidedly bipartisan book of recipes and lore.
  
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• Abrams, a Trump critic, considered for key State Department post

  06-02-2017 17:03 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Elliott Abrams, a neoconservative Republican insider, is emerging as President Donald Trump's choice be Deputy Secretary of State -- a pick that could test Trump's willingness to work with members of a foreign policy establishment that didn't back him during the campaign, according to sources familiar with the situation.
  
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• Martellus Bennett skipping White House visit: 'I'm not going to go'

  06-02-2017 16:08 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Martellus Bennett told reporters following the New England Patriots' historic Super Bowl win Sunday that he will not accompany his teammates to the White House, where they are set to be honored by President Donald Trump later this year.
  
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• Obama Donated Over $1 Million To Charity As President. Here's Where The Money Went - Forbes

  06-02-2017 16:01 via forbes.com
  
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  Obama Donated Over $1 Million To Charity As President. Here's Where The Money Went
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  That money appears to have come from sales of Obama's children's book Of Thee I Sing. Just before entering the White House, Obama finished a manuscript for the book, which he published with Random House. Obama pledged to donate all of his post-tax ...
  
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• Senator: Trump's SCOTUS nominee is 'far extreme right'

  06-02-2017 15:53 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley says President Trump Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch is on the "far extreme right" and slammed congressional Republicans for what he said was the "theft" of a Supreme Court seat.
  
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• Netanyahu calls on 'responsible nations' to sanction Iran

  06-02-2017 15:31 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has welcomed new sanctions imposed by the Trump administration on Iran, saying its continued nuclear weapons program posed to a threat to the world.
  
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• Congressman blames media over Trump's 'killers' comment

  06-02-2017 15:09 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Republican Rep. Chris Collins has distanced himself from comments made by President Donald Trump that seemed to equate the US and Russian governments morally, telling CNN'sAlisyn Camerota that he "would not have used those words."
  
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• No, President Trump, negative polls are not 'fake news'

  06-02-2017 14:50 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Trump is encouraging his 24 million Twitter followers to ignore accurate polls.
  
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• Poll shows Macron-Le Pen French presidency runoff, Macron winning

  06-02-2017 14:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  French pollster Opinionway published a survey on Monday that showed independent Emannual Macron resoundingly winning a presidential election runoff against far-right leader Marine Le Pen. The poll showed those two qualifying for the second, runoff round where Macron was seen winning with 65 percent of votes versus Le Pen on 35 percent. Le Pen would win the first round on 26 percent, with Macron on 23 percent, while the erstwhile favorite Francois Fillon would come third with 20 percent but be el
  
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• Patriots Super Bowl comeback echoes 2016 race: 'Hillary lost all over again'

  06-02-2017 14:12 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Football fans compared the New England Patriots' historic comeback against the Atlanta Falcons to President Donald Trump's unexpected win against Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in the 2016 general election.
  
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• Legal battle over Trump travel ban

  06-02-2017 13:57 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump has only been in office for 17 days, but his Justice Department is already embroiled in a high-stakes legal battle over his executive order on immigration that could have monumental implications.
  
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• France's Fillon to launch campaign fight back against scandal

  06-02-2017 13:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Richard Balmforth and Emmanuel Jarry PARIS (Reuters) - French conservative presidential candidate Francois Fillon will fight back on Monday against the fake job scandal that threatens his campaign, a source close to him said. Fillon "plans to tell the truth to the French people", when he speaks at his campaign headquarters at 4 pm (1500 GMT). Fillon has come under pressure to quit the race since a newspaper, Le Canard enchaine, published a report on Jan. 25 alleging that his wife Penelope was
  
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• Trump gives America's 'poorest white town' hope

  06-02-2017 13:48 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump is already a hero to many in eastern Kentucky.
  
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• Republicans begin to grumble: Why haven't we repealed Obamacare yet?

  06-02-2017 13:32 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump vowed as a candidate to kill Obamacare in short order. But more than two weeks into his presidency, some Republicans are starting to ask: What happened to repealing the law quickly?
  
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• DeVos, Sessions expected to be confirmed in tight votes

  06-02-2017 12:36 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Senate Democrats may not be able to block any of President Donald Trump's Cabinet picks, but this week they will continue to lean on every procedural maneuver available to delay and debate some of the President's more controversial nominations.
  
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• Trump shakes his fist, but is US foreign policy actually changing?

  06-02-2017 12:31 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump has made one thing clear, there's a strong man now in the Oval Office.
  
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• Matt Bai: Distrust of the media allows Trump to flourish

  06-02-2017 12:11 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Growing mistrust of traditional news outlets has emboldened President Donald Trump and his aides to challenge journalists and promote the administration's own version of facts and events, a veteran journalist warns.
  
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• Democratic base leading the way for would-be party leaders

  06-02-2017 12:09 via rss.cnn.com
  
  As their progressive base rages against President Donald Trump, the candidates vying to lead the Democratic Party are all abiding by a simple rule: First, do no harm.
  
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• How Trump's 'Muslim ban' comments can hurt his travel ban case

  06-02-2017 12:05 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump and his surrogates have embraced a style that eschews what they deride as political correctness, making for a long record of unguarded public statements.
  
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• Trump's travel ban hits legal hurdles: Get up to speed

  06-02-2017 11:53 via rss.cnn.com
  
  US President Donald Trump's on-again, off-again travel ban is back with the courts after a tumultuous weekend, when an appeals court opted to keep the suspension ordered by a federal judge until a final ruling can be made.
  
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• France's Fillon to launch fightback against scandal

  06-02-2017 11:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Richard Balmforth and Emmanuel Jarry PARIS (Reuters) - French conservative presidential candidate Francois Fillon will launch a fightback on Monday against the fake-job scandal that threatens his campaign, a source close to him said. Fillon "plans to tell the truth to the French people", when he speaks at his campaign headquarters at 4 pm (1500 GMT). Fillon has come under mounting pressure to quit the race over the past fortnight since a newspaper alleged his wife was paid hundreds of thousan
  
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• What to Watch in Congress: Confirmation Votes, Regulation Rollbacks

  06-02-2017 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Emboldened by weeks of protests, congressional Democrats are digging in as Republicans try to swiftly remake the government.
  
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• Sidebar: Reading Between the Lines for Gorsuch’s Views on Abortion

  06-02-2017 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Human life is “inherently valuable,” Judge Neil Gorsuch, President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, wrote in a book on assisted suicide and euthanasia.
  
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• As Trump Vows Building Splurge, Famed Traffic Choke Point Offers Warning

  06-02-2017 11:00 via nytimes.com
  President Trump wants to spend a trillion dollars on infrastructure. Breezewood, Pa., offers a vivid case study in why such projects may not be easy.
  
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