Trump's White House: Five takeaways from Tuesday

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Trump's White House: Five takeaways from Tuesday

President Donald Trump on Tuesday won a victory in Congress with the confirmation of his fiercely-contested education secretary -- and earned tongue-in-cheek praise from Iran's supreme leader for his travel ban. Meanwhile, the Justice Department rolled out its legal arguments in a push for the controversial immigration order to be reinstated by the courts. The Justice Department faced tough questioning as it urged a federal court of appeals in San Francisco to reinstate Trump's travel ban targeting citizens of seven predominantly Muslim countries -- put on hold by the courts last week.

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The Trump presidency on Feb. 7 at 9:47 EST

(Reuters) - Highlights of the day for U.S. President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday: IMMIGRATION Trump's order temporarily banning U.S. entry to people from seven Muslim-majority countries comes under intense scrutiny from a federal appeals court that questions whether the ban unfairly targets people over their religion. Homeland Security chief John Kelly tells a congressional panel he should have delayed Trump's travel ban on people from seven Muslim-majority countries and on all refugees so he could brief Congress on the executive order. "CONFLICT MINERALS" Trump is planning to issue an executive order targeting a controversial Dodd-Frank rule that requires companies to disclose whether their products contain "conflict minerals" from a war-torn part of Africa, according to sources familiar with the administration's thinking.

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