News
- Army veterans return to Standing Rock to form a human shield against police by Sam Levin (The Guardian)
- CIA freezes out top Flynn aide by Kenneth P. Vogel & Josh Dawsey (Politico)
- Activists on both sides of abortion issue to protest across U.S. by Daniel Trotta (Reuters)
- Fake news is ‘killing people’s minds’ claims Apple boss Tim Cook by Rachel Roberts (Independent)
- Russia could handover Edward Snowden to US to ‘curry favour’ with Donald Trump, report suggests by Chloe Farand (Independent)
- State G.O.P. leaders move swiftly as party bickers in Congress by Alexander Burns and Mitch Smith (The NY Times)
- Trump insists he can bring the cost of $21.6 million border wall ‘way down’ by Philip Rucker (The Washington Post)
- Palm Beach businesses stung by cost of hosting Trump’s weekend retreat by Richard Luscombe (The Guardian)
- Donald Trump considering ‘brand new’ immigration order by David Smith and Ben Jacobs (The Guardian)
- Donald Trump considers issuing new travel ban (BBC)
- Trump drops defense of Obama guidelines on transgender students by Liam Stack (The NY Times)
- Trump assures Abe over disputed East China Sea islands (Al Jazeera)
- Protests over detention of immigrants across US by Creede Newton (Al Jazeera)
- Trump’s desperate search for a ‘Reichstag Fire’ by Hamid Dabashi (Al Jazeera)
- Data shows a downward demographic spiral for Republicans by Ken Miller (TechCrunch)
- Defections by Sears, Kmart cap week of controversy for Trump brands (Reuters)
- Sales of Ivanka Trump apparel slumped at Nordstrom: WSJ report (Reuters)
- Trump says he will bring down the price of wall on Mexico’s border (Reuters)
- Protesters face off as U.S. abortion debate heats up (Reuters)
- Hundreds of immigrants arrested in ‘routine’ U.S. enforcement surge by Sharon Bernstein and Kristina Cooke (Reuters)
- ‘Trump has taken a mother from her children’ (BBC)
- Watch Constituents Flip Out On GOP Official For Claiming Obamacare Has Death Panels by Sam Levine (Huffington Post)
- Nancy Pelosi Demands The Suspension Of Mike Flynn Over Russia Ties by Mary Papenfuss (Huffington Post)
- Yale Drops ‘White Supremacist’ Name From College, Honors Female Scientist Instead by Carla Herreria (Huffington Post)
- Newspaper Runs Photo Of Alec Baldwin Instead Of Donald Trump by Sebastian Murdock (Huffington Post)
- North Korea missile test: Donald Trump and Japanese PM respond to ‘intolerable’ launch by Jon Sharman (Independent)
- Donald Trump says he will ‘design or negotiate’ border wall construction to make it cheaper by Harriet Agerholm (Independent)
- Donald Trump ‘won’t challenge Muslim travel ban’ in Supreme Court by Andrew Buncombe, Feliks Garcia (Independent)
- Veterans raise more than $200,000 for Dakota pipeline protests by Rachael Revesz (Independent)
- Hispanic Caucus leaders ask to meet with ICE director over raids by Rebecca Morin (Politico)
- Trump: ‘Legal system is broken’ by Rebecca Morin (Politico)
- Trump: ‘America stands behind Japan’ after North Korea missile test by Annie Karni (Politico)
- Gorsuch questionnaire reveals selection process details for SCOTUS nominee by Seung Min Kim (Politico)
- DNC candidate torches ‘draft-dodging chickenhawk president’ by Mallory Shelbourne (The Hill)
- AP FACT CHECK: Improv week at the White House (AP)
- These Conservative Christians Are Opposed to Trump—and Suffering the Consequences by Emma Green (The Atlantic)
- Nationwide protests are happening today over Planned Parenthood’s funding by Emily Crockett (Vox)
- A top Putin critic on how to oppose Trump: “making him look like a loser is crucial” by Alexander Bisley (Vox)
Analysis
- A ‘sense of dread’ for civil servants shaken by Trump transition by Michael D. Shear and Eric Lichtblau (The NY Times)
- Stephen Miller is a ‘True Believer’ behind core Trump policies by Glenn Thrush and Jennifer Steinhauer (The NY Times)
- A presidential gold outing, with a twist: Trump owns the place by Julie Hirschfeld Davis (The NY Times)
- Trump has been sued more than 60 times since becoming president: A partial survey by Matt Pearce (LA Times)
- The timeline of Trump’s ties with Russia lines up with allegations of conspiracy and misconduct by Natasha Bertrand (Business Insider)
- A lesson from America’s Japanese internment camps by Ashlyn Nelson (Al Jazeera)
- The Trump Deportation Regime Has Begun by Ian Gordon (Mother Jones)
- Health care’s new majority by Sophie Quinton (Politico)
Opinion
- Will we lose the doctor who would stop the next Flint? by Mona Hanna-Attisha (The NY Times)
- Trump’s two-year presidency by Kathleen Parker (The Washington Post)
- Punching Nazis: A Great American Tradition? by Amy Ongiri (LARB)