Today in Black History: A.M.E. Bishop Daniel Payne, first Black president of a Black college (Wilberforce), is born on this date in 1811 in Charleston, SC.
The New York Times
National
Bannon Urges Unity Amid Concerns Over Trump Agenda
EDITORIAL OBSERVER: Big Tent or Circus Tent?
Fact-Checking Claims About Trump’s Travel Ban
An Alarmed Base Prods Democrats Into an All-Out War
Education Secretary Is Publicly Polite, but a Political Fighter
How Much Can the U.S. Economy Grow?
Justice Department Keeps For-Profit Prisons, Scrapping an Obama Plan
Trump Vowed to Protect the Safety Net. What if His Appointees Disagree?
The Big Question for the U.S. Economy: How Much Room Is There to Grow?
Trump Turns to Manufacturing Executives to Help Develop Jobs Plans
Citing Racist Testimony, Justices Call for New Sentencing in Texas Death Penalty Case
Local
Subway Ridership Declines in New York. Is Uber to Blame?
An Anti-Black Slur on an Interracial Couple’s Garage Stirs Tension in Connecticut
Mayor de Blasio Will Meet With Federal Prosecutors on Friday
Law-Abiding but Illegal, and Fearing the New Trump Rules
The Christian Science Monitor
The logistical case for Trump's deportation plan – and the legal case against it (+video)
CPAC dismisses Richard Spencer: How conservatives are severing alt-right ties (+video)
Jeanette Epps set to become first African-American astronaut on ISS Expedition crew
Behind raucous town halls, a return to messy roots of democracy?
The Star-Ledger
N.J. education groups to Christie: Your new school funding plan would cause chaos
N.J. cops who shot man won't face civil rights charges
Fulop critics cry hypocrisy over double-dipping city attorney
N.J. congressman holds low-key 'telephone town hall'
Safety checks in Newark are not part of immigrant crackdown, cops say
Proposing a Trump Test for Guadagno and Piscopo | Editorial
Philly.com
Kenney on state senator's claim about city students: 'It's racism'
After subway derailment, Council to hold hearing on SEPTA safety
For DA candidate, one step forward, one step back on tax debt
Philly courts bar cellphones, hoping to curb witness intimidation
Covering towns without local police costs Pa. troopers $600M a year, commissioner says
Accused of being anti-business, Council looks to deregulate
The Cleveland Plain Dealer
Proposed limits for medical marijuana supply in Ohio among strictest
Two East Cleveland men cleared in 1995 homicide sue city, prosecutors over two decades in prison
Cleveland Public Power resumes charging hidden fee, despite promise to wait until class action case concludes
Ohio cities could stop paying prevailing wage to construction workers under proposed bill
LeBron's Hard Work Club offers more than 300 Akron students after-school help
Halt Ohio's ESSA plan until state testing is cut, 150 angry educators, officials tell state
The Chicago Tribune
Chicago homicide victim identified as second transgender woman killed in 6 months
Pregnant woman among 7 killed in Chicago's deadliest day this year
Some Chicago gangs turning to rifles for added firepower, police say
Hate crimes rising since Trump's election, activists tell AG Lisa Madigan
Immigrant children who cross border alone find themselves in Chicago shelters
Hundreds of protesters urge Bobby Rush, other Illinois Democrats to fight harder against Trump
The Detroit Free Press
Mayor Duggan: Kevyn Orr hid pension plan details; city may sue firm
Questions & answers on Detroit's pension problem
State pushes back time line for school closures
New Detroit partnership aims kids at skilled trades
Michigan tax cut talk in tatters after defeat in House
The Los Angeles Times
Political spending of AIDS nonprofit comes under fire
Can the Calif. Republican Party bounce back in 2018? Here's the chairman's game plan
Protesters seek out California's Republican members of Congress at their homes
Santa Cruz and federal agents in war of words over whether a gang sweep was really a secret immigration raid
Hugging employees may create a hostile work environment, appeals court rules
The Washington Post
‘We literally live and die by insurance’: Cancer patients fear GOP efforts to dismantle the Affordable Care Act
At town hall, conservative lawmaker calls on Trump to release tax returns
Bannon vows a daily battle for the ‘deconstruction of the administrative state’
Alt-right leader expelled from CPAC after organizer denounces ‘sinister organization’
GOP lawmaker who won’t hold town hall invokes Giffords shooting. She responds: ‘Face your constituents.’
Justice Dept. plans ‘greater enforcement’ of federal laws against marijuana, Spicer says
Law professors file misconduct complaint against Kellyanne Conway
‘Get out of my country,’ Kansan reportedly yelled before shooting 2 men from India, killing one
U.S. agents searching domestic flight for undocumented immigrant ask passengers for IDs before deplaning
How racial bias could be hurting Silicon Valley’s bottom line
With a flying leap, a black activist tried to take down a Confederate flag in Charleston, S.C.
Mayor names Peter Newsham as District’s police chief
Botswana’s interracial love story: On American movie screens and inside its U.S. embassy
Bill to stop Md. municipalities from raising minimum wage will die in committee
Virginia dedicates state office building in honor of civil rights pioneer
USA Today
FBI refused White House request to refute story on Trump-Russia link
NAACP to announce details of N.C. boycott regarding 'bathroom bill'
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