Trump Hotel Starts 'Inaugural Tradition' Amid Ethics Concern and other top stories.

• Trump Hotel Starts 'Inaugural Tradition' Amid Ethics Concern

  

  "I think it's a simple matter of amending the lease," said Patrick Keogh, a real estate investor in Austin, Texas, who has developed projects for the GSA and other federal agencies. He said Ivanka Trump, the president's daughter and chief negotiator on the hotel, should ask the GSA to exempt her father from that provision of the contract. The GSA should make the process public and transparent, Keogh said. Others say Trump must relinquish ownership of the hotel. More broadly, they argue, Trump s..

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• Women's March Los Angeles demonstrates city planning's need for 'radical flatness'

  

  Any big political march is both a test of a city’s spatial limitations and an exercise in seeing and using that city in a new way. This may be especially true in Los Angeles, a city still trying to shake off an outdated reputation as a place without a significant pedestrian culture or vibrant public realm.The Los Angeles edition of Saturday’s women’s march was in that sense another sign of the city’s continuing effort to redefine, or at least recalibrate, its public-ness. What really struck me..

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• Trump accuses media of lying about size of inauguration crowds

  

  LANGLEY, Va. — President Donald Trump moved to mend his tumultuous relationship with America’s spy agencies Saturday, traveling to CIA headquarters on his first full day in office and assuring officials, ‘‘I am so behind you.’’But the president quickly shifted from praise for the CIA to criticism of media coverage of Inauguration Day, in an unscripted address that overstated the size of the crowd that gathered on the National Mall as he took the oath of office. Trump said throngs ‘‘went all the..

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• Sean Spicer delivers on Trump's brand promise

  

  White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer makes a statement to members of the media at the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on Jan. 21. (Alex Wong/Getty Images) If only White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer had stuck with his strong material. In the beginning of his appearance at the White House briefing room on Saturday afternoon, Spicer took aim at Time magazine White House correspondent Zeke Miller. On duty on Inauguration Day as a pool reporter, Miller concluded that th..

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• 4 dead mourned in Mississippi storm as living begin recovery

  

  Liquor store owner Cynthia Holland says she'll repair her liquor store in Petal, Mississippi, following a predawn tornado on Saturday, Jan., 21, 2017. Holland, though, says she's worried about money and what her employees will do while the store is closed.

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• NY to expand access to free abortion, contraception

  

  USA Today Network Joseph Spector, USA TODAY Network Published 5:48 p.m. ET Jan. 21, 2017 | Updated 11 hours agoCLOSE A report by the Guttmacher Institute recorded a rate of 14.6 abortions per 1,000 women of childbearing age in 2014. USA TODAY NETWORKGovernor Andrew Cuomo delivers the State of the State Address in the Mid-Hudson Region at SUNY Purchase Performing Arts Center, Jan. 10, 2017.(Photo: Tania Savayan/The Journal News)ALBANY, N.Y. — New York will strengt..

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• Police officer shot, killed after stopping to offer help during apparent traffic accident

  

  The man whom investigators say shot and killed a Westwego, Louisiana, police officer has died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office said Saturday. Westwego, Louisiana, police officer Michael Louviere, 26, died after being shot when he stopped during his drive home to check on what he thought was a car accident. The officer was shot Friday after he stopped to check on what he thought was a car accident. Officer Michael Louviere, 26, observed the apparent traffic ..

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• Intersectional Feminism: Representation In Saturday's Women's Marches

  Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/. MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: As we've talked about throughout this hour, hundreds of thousands of marchers crowded into cities like Washington, D.C., Chicago, Seattle, Austin and Raleigh and overseas in London, Munich, Cape Town and Paris to press for protection of women's rights, including reproductive health care, LGBTQ issues and equal pay. UNIDENTIFIED PROTESTERS: (Chanting) Rise up. UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: Nasty women. UNIDENTIFIED PROTESTER..

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• DOJ: Hiring Kushner does not violate anti-nepotism law

  

  "In choosing his personal staff, the President enjoys an unusual degree of freedom, which Congress found suitable to the demands of his office," wrote Daniel Koffsky, deputy assistant attorney general in the DOJ Office of Legal Counsel, which serves as interpreter of federal law for the White House. In essence, Koffsky reasoned that the anti-nepotism law covers only appointments in an "executive" agency and that the White House Office is not an executive agency within the law. He cited a separat..

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