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10 things you need to know today: January 29, 2017
The Week - 29 Jan 2017 15:18
1. A federal judge on Saturday evening issued an emergency stay temporarily and partially preventing the enforcement of President Trump's executive order banning visitors from seven Mideast nations. The ruling specifical...
Trump talks to Putin, other world leaders about security threats
Reuters - 29 Jan 2017 04:45
WASHINGTON
Every First Lady gets $100K to spend on her new digs
New York Post - 29 Jan 2017 05:42
President Donald Trump may be building a wall, but first he had to tear down the drapes. The 45th president has launched his first term by ditching Obama's crimson curtains, replacing a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. wit...
The Koch Brothers Plan to Spend as Much as $400 Million in 2018 Races
Time - 29 Jan 2017 07:38
The groups plan a $400 million budget for the next two years.
Protesters gather at JFK, Dulles airports over immigration action
CBSNews - 29 Jan 2017 06:37
"We Are All Immigrants,"
Read The Court Order Halting Parts Of Trump's Anti-Muslim Ban
The Huffington Post - 29 Jan 2017 05:15
On Saturday, a federal judge temporarily halted parts of President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting entry of Muslims into the United States. The American Civil Liberties Union and refugee relief organizations ha...
Trump Continues Assault On Media, Calls New York Times 'Fake News'
The Huffington Post - 29 Jan 2017 04:18
President Donald Trump continued his“war” on the media Saturday by attacking The New York Times and The Washington Post in a series of typo-ridden tweets. Trump, who has repeatedly lashed out at the Times in the past...
Trump ban could affect green cards, officials say
CBSNews - 29 Jan 2017 03:47
Permanent U.S. residents from 7 affected countries will be allowed into U.S. on "case by case exemption" basis
WATCH: Trump Order Barring Entry From Seven Mostly Muslim Countries Creates Confusion
ABC News - 29 Jan 2017 03:40
Protests are springing up at airports, and there are dozens of people either detained at U.S. airports or sent back to their countries.
Trump's Order on Immigration is Slammed by Many, Welcomed by Others
ABC News - 29 Jan 2017 03:19
Many across the U.S. and world responding to order on immigration, refugees.
How foreign leaders are reacting to Trump's travel ban
CBSNews - 29 Jan 2017 02:51
Iran's foreign minister says Trump's executive order was "great gift to extremists and their supporters"
Report: Children held by Kurdish forces allege torture
Miami Herald - 29 Jan 2017 07:36
An international human rights group says children are alleging they were tortured after being detained by Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government on suspicion that they have connections to the Islamic State …
Attorneys general from 15 U.S. states, DC decry immigration order
Reuters - 29 Jan 2017 22:38
SAN FRANCISCO
U.S. raid in Yemen authorized by Trump: U.S. military official
Reuters - 29 Jan 2017 17:18
WASHINGTON
Theresa May orders ministers to press U.S. counterparts on Trump order
The Week - 29 Jan 2017 18:25
After initially declining to comment on President Trump's executive order suspending U.S. entry from seven majority-Muslim countries as well as all refugee admissions, conservative British Prime Minister Theresa May on S...
BlackBerry Mercury Gets Product Placement On ABC Show Ahead Of MWC 2017
IBTimes - 29 Jan 2017 17:02
BlackBerry is building up the hype over its upcoming flagship smartphone that is internally known as "Mercury." Though the handset already made an appearance at CES 2017 early this year, the details about its official sp...
Trump defends immigration ban, calls the world 'a horrible mess'
New York Post - 29 Jan 2017 16:28
The Commander-in-Tweet once again took to Twitter Sunday -- this time to defend his controversial executive actions on immigration. President Trump was back to his typical morning social media smackdown -- insisting that...
Trump Gives Former Breitbart Chief Stephen Bannon Seat at National Security Council Meetings
ABC News - 29 Jan 2017 16:24
Trump's controversial adviser will have a seat at the table in meetings of the National Security Council.
President Trump's Immigration Ban Upends Families: 'They Can't Treat Us Like This'
Time - 29 Jan 2017 16:16
Long-lost daughters and an active duty military officer fight for loved ones
Nigerian gunmen attack convoy on northeast highway, 7 killed
Miami Herald - 29 Jan 2017 16:06
Gunmen believed to be Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamic extremists attacked a convoy of motorists along a recently secured highway, killing at least seven people and injuring many others, including soldiers …
US commando killed during deadly al Qaeda raid in Yemen
New York Post - 29 Jan 2017 16:01
SANAA, Yemen -- The U.S. military said Sunday that one service member was killed and three others wounded in a raid in Yemen targeting its local al-Qaida branch, marking the first-known combat death of a U.S. soldier und...
Iran will issue a retaliatory travel ban, but Iraq will not
The Week - 29 Jan 2017 15:21
Two of the seven majority-Muslim countries subject to President Trump's temporary travel ban have already announced their responses. After initial rumors that Iraq might react with a denial of entry to U.S. citizens, Bag...