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• Obama 12th best president, Lincoln first, Clinton 15th: Historians - Chicago Tribune

  17-02-2017 23:50 via chicagotribune.com
  
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  Obama 12th best president, Lincoln first, Clinton 15th: Historians
  Chicago Tribune
  In 10 total categories of presidential characteristics, Obama, the former community organizer and Nobel Peace Prize winner came in at third for the category "Pursued Equal Justice for All," and seventh in "Moral Authority," but only at 39 for ...
  These Historians Say Obama Ranks 12th in the History of Presidential LeadershipNBCNews.com
  Survey: Historians rank Obama 12th best presidentPolitico
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• Utah county GOP official apologizes after criticizing equal pay bill

  17-02-2017 23:31 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A Utah county Republican Party official has apologized after receiving blowback for criticizing a bill in the state legislature designed to create equal pay criteria.
  
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• House Overturns Obama-Era Law to Protect Alaskan Bears and Wolves - NBCNews.com

  17-02-2017 22:57 via nbcnews.com
  
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  House Overturns Obama-Era Law to Protect Alaskan Bears and Wolves
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  Hunters could once again go after bears, wolves and other predators in national wildlife refuges across Alaska if an Obama-era federal law is overturned by Congress and gets the president's approval. Supporters of repealing the rule, which was issued ...
  Resolution to Overturn Obama Attack on Wildlife Management Passes HouseNRA ILA
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• Comey talks Russia with senators in closed-door briefing

  17-02-2017 22:44 via rss.cnn.com
  
  FBI Director James Comey discussed Russia with members of the Senate Intelligence Committee Friday afternoon, as questions swirl about how expansive lawmakers will make their investigations into Russia's influence in last year's election.
  
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• New FCC Chairman Moves Quickly To Reverse Obama Policies - NPR

  17-02-2017 22:34 via npr.org
  
  New FCC Chairman Moves Quickly To Reverse Obama Policies
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  The new Federal Communications Commission chairman has moved quickly to reverse some Obama administration moves. The changes could affect consumers who use cable TV or the Internet. KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: The Federal Communications ...
  
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• 11 Times Barack Obama Abused Press Freedom - Breitbart News

  17-02-2017 22:21 via breitbart.com
  
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  11 Times Barack Obama Abused Press Freedom
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  Beltway journalists are still reeling from President Donald Trump's first solo press conference at the White House on Thursday. They are complaining, almost in unison, that it was “unhinged” — and, worse, that Trump's combative style, and practice of ...
  Obama lectured. Trump declares. The big difference between a Trump and Obama news conference.Washington Postall 240 news articles »
  
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• Did Donald Trump inherit 'a mess' from Barack Obama? - PolitiFact

  17-02-2017 22:20 via politifact.com
  
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  Did Donald Trump inherit 'a mess' from Barack Obama?
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  Yet Obama handed Trump the reins of an economy with a 4.7 percent unemployment rate; 75 consecutive months of job growth; rising stock prices, home values, corporate profits and consumer confidence; low inflation; and, following several years of ...
  11 Times Barack Obama Abused Press FreedomBreitbart News
  The big difference between Donald Trump's and Barack Obama's presidential press conferencesThe indy100
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• Trump's Boeing speech shows differences with Obama - ABC News

  17-02-2017 22:11 via abcnews.go.com
  
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  Trump's Boeing speech shows differences with Obama
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  He toured the South Carolina facility and hailed it as a sign of steps toward generating more U.S factory jobs. Nearly five years ago, President Barack Obama made a similar visit to the facility in Everett, Washington. His message: America needs to ...
  Voting closes for Boeing union election in North CharlestonCharleston Post Courierall 490 news articles »
  
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• Is Russia's obsession with Donald Trump waning?

  17-02-2017 22:09 via rss.cnn.com
  
  When President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin shared a phone call the weekend after Trump's inauguration, Russian news media delighted in covering every detail in near wall-to-wall coverage.
  
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• McConnell urges GOP: Don't fear protesters

  17-02-2017 21:52 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Friday he's not afraid of protesters, delivering an implicit message to his Republican colleagues, even as the House of Representatives' chief security officer warned representatives to be extra cautious next week.
  
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• Obama EPA chief: Pruitt must uphold 'law and science' - The Hill

  17-02-2017 21:40 via thehill.com
  
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  Obama EPA chief: Pruitt must uphold 'law and science'
  The Hill
  The last Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator under President Obama on Friday warned her Republican successor against undoing the agency's climate and environmental work. In a statement after the Senate confirmed Scott Pruitt to lead ...
  How Trump is planning to dismantle Obama-era policies on carbon emissions and water pollutionChicago Tribune
  Obama EPA chief Gina McCarthy says she'll keep close tabs on
  
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• President Trump's approval rating is at Barack Obama's all-time low - Washington Post

  17-02-2017 21:34 via washingtonpost.com
  
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  President Trump's approval rating is at Barack Obama's all-time low
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  That didn't matter, thanks in part to Hillary Clinton also being seen more negatively than positively by the time the election rolled around. And it doesn't really matter now, because the metric on which Trump is now judged is not favorability but job ...
  Military transport brings former President Obama's things to Chicago for his libraryTwitchy
  Unlike Obama, Trump 'Respectfully Declined' Filling
  
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• Cruz to Trump: Name John Bolton as national security adviser

  17-02-2017 21:34 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is urging President Donald Trump to name John Bolton as his national security adviser, a move that would win conservative support but would anger other Republicans over the former United Nations ambassador's role during the Iraq War.
  
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• Trump pivots to economic message in Boeing visit

  17-02-2017 21:26 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump credited his young presidency Friday with creating a business climate that is incentivizing American companies to keep their businesses in the US and invest in American manufacturing.
  
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• Trump, Battered in Washington, Is Buoyed at Boeing Rally

  17-02-2017 21:17 via nytimes.com
  The president, visiting South Carolina en route to Florida, seemed thrilled to escape the marble political prison that is his new home.
  
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• Liberal group threatens to challenge Democrats with primary fights

  17-02-2017 21:16 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The progressive coalition solidified by Bernie Sanders' insurgent campaign and energized by the broad liberal backlash to President Donald Trump is preparing to launch primary challenges against elected Democrats they see going wobbly in the fight against the new administration.
  
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• Tillerson presides over abrupt shakeup at State Department

  17-02-2017 21:12 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has reassigned a majority of the staff meant to work most closely with the top US diplomat in what career officials at the State Department fear is the start of a major reorganization.
  
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• HUD official fired for criticizing Trump

  17-02-2017 21:01 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A political appointee at the Department of Housing and Urban Development was fired for an op-ed he wrote before the election that criticized then-candidate Donald Trump, a source with knowledge of the situation told CNN.
  
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• Senate confirms Scott Pruitt to lead Environmental Protection Agency

  17-02-2017 19:47 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The Senate confirmed Scott Pruitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency, an agency Republicans desperately want to rein in after what they charge was eight years of dangerous activism under the Obama administration that hurt businesses, jobs and the economy.
  
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• Senate set to confirm EPA nominee Scott Pruitt over Democratic objections

  17-02-2017 19:17 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The Senate is set Friday to confirm Scott Pruitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency, an agency Republicans desperately want to rein after what they charge was eight years of dangerous activism under the Obama administration that hurt businesses, jobs and the economy.
  
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• Will “Indivisible” Movement Fall to Pieces?

  17-02-2017 19:16
  
  There’s a lot of talk about progressives forming an actual, functional movement. Ordinarily, progressives blow off steam, with silliness, like the Occupy Movement, which was big on symbolism and had zero effect on the real world. They risk doing that again, calling themselves “the Resistance,” but some are also talking about forming a left-wing movement […]
  
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• Senate Confirms Scott Pruitt as E.P.A. Head

  17-02-2017 19:16 via nytimes.com
  The agency will now be led by an official who built a career suing to block environmental rules and has called for weakening the E.P.A.’s authority.
  
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• Sen. Claire McCaskill says she may face 2018 primary, compares Democratic base to Tea Party

  17-02-2017 18:42 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill said on Thursday that she may face a primary before the 2018 mid-term elections, comparing calls for ideological purity from the Democratic base to the conservative Tea Party movement of the Obama era.
  
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• Who Is Sebastian Gorka? A Trump Adviser Comes Out of the Shadows

  17-02-2017 18:35 via nytimes.com
  The author of “Defeating Jihad: The Winnable War,” he was not well known until his appointment as a deputy assistant to President Trump.
  
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• Group making anti-Trump robocalls is closely tied to a pro-Trump PAC

  17-02-2017 17:40 via rss.cnn.com
  
  During the 2016 election, a political action group called Liberty Action Group raised nearly $3 million through radio advertisements and robocalls by asking for contributions to help elect Donald Trump.
  
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• Americans Are Still Stressed About the Election - TIME

  17-02-2017 17:24 via time.com
  
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  Americans Are Still Stressed About the Election
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  Details of the new administration are prolific on news and social media, and Americans say it's stressing them out. A new report released Wednesday by the American Psychological Association (APA) reveals that 57% of Americans say the current political ...
  US stress levels highest in 10 years following Donald Trump's election victoryThe Independent
  Stress in America™: Coping with Change - American Psychological Assoc
  
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• Michael Dubke to Be White House Communications Director

  17-02-2017 17:13 via nytimes.com
  Mr. Dubke, a veteran Republican strategist, is taking on a role that the Trump administration has struggled to fill.
  
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• Ex-Obama aide to Conway, Spicer: 'Stop lying' - The Hill

  17-02-2017 16:54 via thehill.com
  
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  Ex-Obama aide to Conway, Spicer: 'Stop lying'
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  Psaki, who was also a spokeswoman at Obama's State Department, added Conway and Spicer face an uphill battle due to Trump's unpredictability. Conway and Spicer have found themselves in tight corners trying to defend many of Trump's statements.
  Kellyanne Conway Claims She Doesn't Know Who Retweeted A White Nationalist From Her Twitter AccountBuzzFeed News
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• Trump mounts bid to find leakers, as speculation surrounds Obama officials - Fox News

  17-02-2017 16:34 via foxnews.com
  
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  Trump mounts bid to find leakers, as speculation surrounds Obama officials
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  President Trump is setting out to uncover the saboteurs leaking damaging details about his administration, as speculation intensifies over whether current officials or a cabal of Obama lieutenants – or both – are turning the faucets. One former senior ...
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  Spies Keep Intelligence From Donald Trump on Leak ConcernsWall Street Journal
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• Trump calls treatment of first lady unfair

  17-02-2017 15:42 via rss.cnn.com
  
  More than an hour into a raucous White House news conference, President Donald Trump was asked a personal question about his wife, Melania Trump.
  
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• Priebus: Russia reports are 'grossly overstated and inaccurate'

  17-02-2017 15:37 via rss.cnn.com
  
  White House chief of staff Reince Priebus issued a firm denunciation of reports that revealed contacts between high-level Trump campaign aides and Russian officials, saying top intelligence officials "have greenlighted me to say" that the reports are "grossly overstated and inaccurate."
  
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• Obama comms director: My unsolicited advice for Sean Spicer, Kellyanne Conway

  17-02-2017 14:48 via rss.cnn.com
  
  During my eight years in the Obama administration, there was an offhand comment uttered from time to time in the hallway after something went off the rails, "It's a communications problem."
  
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• Survey of historians: Lincoln still best president

  17-02-2017 13:27 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt are still considered the four best presidents in American history, according to a survey of presidential historians released Friday by C-SPAN.
  
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• Russian lawmaker: Trump and top advisers differ on Russia

  17-02-2017 13:03 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Outspoken Russian Senator Alexey Pushkov claimed Friday on Twitter that US President Donald Trump and senior figures in his administration are not on the same page on Russia.
  
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• Republicans hang on for Trump's wild ride

  17-02-2017 12:23 via rss.cnn.com
  
  After almost one month of the wild, raucous White House of President Donald Trump, Republicans in Congress are still certain they will get the many policies he promised -- even if they are a little worn out from the rollercoaster ride.
  
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• Jeff Sessions' team takes over Washington

  17-02-2017 12:16 via rss.cnn.com
  
  With the ascension of former Sen. Jeff Sessions to attorney general and several of his former staff installed at the White House and federal agencies, immigration policy experts are sensing a sea change in Washington.
  
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• How Trump's 'Make America Great Again' hat became an icon

  17-02-2017 12:06 via rss.cnn.com
  
  They were everywhere on Inauguration Day.
  
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• How the Trump hat became an icon

  17-02-2017 12:06 via rss.cnn.com
  
  They were everywhere on Inauguration Day.
  
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• Under fire, Trump returns to the campaign

  17-02-2017 12:02 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump is taking his fate into his own hands.
  
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• Trump -- under fire -- returns to the campaign

  17-02-2017 12:02 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump is taking his fate into his own hands.
  
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• Today’s Senator John Kennedy Is From Louisiana

  17-02-2017 11:00 via nytimes.com
  Mr. Kennedy, who won his Senate seat in a runoff in December, spoke with The Times about what his and President Trump’s victories say about a disillusioned middle class.
  
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• A Jewish Reporter Got to Ask Trump a Question. It Didn’t Go Well.

  17-02-2017 10:12 via nytimes.com
  After a berating by President Trump, a correspondent from Ami Magazine, an Orthodox Jewish weekly, said, “Regretfully, today was a day I wish we could have done over.”
  
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• Officials: Mike Dubke to be named as White House communications director

  17-02-2017 07:31 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Crossroads Media founder expected to be named as White House Communications Director, two administration officials tell CNN.
  
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• White House turmoil on Russia likely to follow Pence abroad

  17-02-2017 06:01 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Vice President Mike Pence will try to leave behind a White House in tumult when he arrives in Europe Friday, but he's likely to be dogged by the recent events that have thrown the Trump administration into disarray.
  
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• Trump promises new immigration order as DOJ holds off appeals court

  17-02-2017 05:38 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump vowed Thursday to roll out a new immigration executive order next week that will be tailored to the federal court decision that paused his travel ban.
  
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• Trump’s Pick to Replace Flynn Turns Down the Job

  17-02-2017 03:57 via nytimes.com
  Robert Harward’s decision reflected the continuing upheaval in the White House, which has been rocked by controversy and personnel troubles.
  
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• White House Memo: Did Trump Drop 2-State Policy? Mideast Experts Say Don’t Be So Sure

  17-02-2017 03:28 via nytimes.com
  The president challenged the ‘one China’ policy, then backed down. Seasoned peacemakers predicted a similar cycle for his stand on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
  
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• Hispanic Caucus members rejected from meeting with ICE

  17-02-2017 03:16 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A meeting with Immigration and Customs Enforcement intended to mollify lawmakers who are concerned one week after a round-up of nearly 700 undocumented immigrants had the opposite effect Thursday, as organizers expelled rank-and-file members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
  
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• In 77 Chaotic Minutes, Trump Defends ‘Fine-Tuned Machine’

  17-02-2017 03:10 via nytimes.com
  In a free-for-all news conference, the president took aim at enemies old and new: journalists, judges and secret-sharing Judases.
  
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• Cummings: Trump made up a story about me

  17-02-2017 03:05 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump claimed earlier Thursday that Rep. Elijah Cummings canceled a meeting with him because it would be "bad politically."
  
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