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Trump’s Second Try: The White House has released a new version of its controversial travel ban, this time with major concessions: The ban won’t affect people with existing visas, it no longer affects travel from Iraq, and gone is the permanent ban on Syrian refugees. The order caps off another controversial weekend for the president on Twitter: On Saturday, Trump made an unsubstantiated, unexplained that Barack Obama had tapped his phones ahead of the election. There’s no evidence for the claim, but given Trump’s history of birtherism, —and it hints at worrying prospects for an ever-growing

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