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Trump's Base Turns on Him 
The swiftness and abruptness of Trump's shift from bomb-throwing populist outsider to a more mainstream brand of Republican has taken the president's stalwarts by surprise. (photo: Getty) 
Alex Isenstadt and Madeline Conway, Politico 
Excerpt: "Donald Trump's true believers are losing the faith." 
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Former Trump Adviser Carter Page Held 'Strong Pro-Kremlin Views,' Says Ex-Boss 
Stephanie Kirchgaessner, Spencer Ackerman, Julian Borger and Luke Harding, Guardian UK 
Excerpt: "A former adviser to Donald Trump who is at the centre of an FBI investigation was exhibiting 'strongly pro-Kremlin' ideology almost two decades ago, his former employer has said." 
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The World Is Getting a Taste of the Trump Doctrine 
Robert Dreyfuss, Rolling Stone 
Dreyfuss writes: "What to make of the sudden jump in 'collateral damage' - i.e., the piling up of dead civilians in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Somalia and Afghanistan, thanks to U.S. airstrikes?" 
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DeVos Pick to Head Civil Rights Office Once Said She Faced Discrimination for Being White 
Annie Waldman, ProPublica 
Waldman writes: "The new acting head of the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights once complained that she experienced discrimination because she is white." 
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Trump Administration Won't Release White House Visitor Logs 
Jordan Fabian, The Hill 
Fabian writes: "The Trump administration will not voluntarily disclose logs of visitors to the White House complex, it announced Friday, breaking with the practice started under former President Obama." 
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As Trump Strikes Syria, We Should Revisit the History Lessons of US Intervention in Central America 
Daniel Alvarenga, Remezcla 
Alvarenga writes: "As many try to assuage their fears about Trump's election by suggesting that the US has survived worse - 'we survived Reagan' is a common refrain - we'd do well to remember that hundreds of thousands of people didn't survive Reagan's intervention and proxy wars in Central America." 
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Judge Rules Dakota Access Pipeline Company Can Keep Spill Risks Secret From the Public 
Natasha Geiling, ThinkProgress 
Geiling writes: "A federal judge ruled that Energy Transfer Partners can keep some information about the pipeline secret." 
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