10 things you need to know today: February 7, 2017

Trump accuses the media of ignoring terror attacks, the DOJ urges judges to reinstate travel ban, and more

President Trump speaks at U.S. Central Command and Special Operations Command
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1. Trump accuses media of ignoring terrorist attacks

President Trump on Monday accused the media of choosing not to report on terrorist attacks. "It's gotten to a point where it's not even being reported," Trump told senior commanders at the U.S. Central Command, or CENTCOM, in Florida. "And in many cases, the very, very dishonest press doesn't want to report it." Trump, in his first speech to military service members, mentioned a series of attacks by "radical Islamic terrorists." The White House released a list of 78 terror attacks around the world, although it included numerous attacks that received extensive media coverage, such as the Orlando, San Bernardino, and Paris attacks. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer later walked back Trump's remarks, saying that Trump meant the attacks were "under-reported," not that they had not been covered at all.

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Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.