News
- Sessions asks 46 Obama-era U.S. attorneys to resign by Joel Schecyman & Mark Hosenball (Reuters)
- Donald Trump’s new travel ban suffers first legal setback by Adam Lusher (Independent)
- Donald Trump’s Labour secretary nominee Acosta to be questioned over plea deal for billionaire sex offender by Curt Anderson, Laurie Kellman (Independent)
- Sean Spicer says US jobs figures have been ‘phoney’ in the past but are ‘real’ under Donald Trump by Rachel Roberts (Independent)
- Ryan becomes face of GOP health plan by Cristina Marcos (The Hill)
- President Trump’s Voter Fraud Investigation Is Off To a Slow Start by Pam Fessler (NPR)
- One in 10 firms bidding for Trump’s Mexico wall project are Hispanic-owned by Julie Carrie Wong (The Guardian)
- Power struggle over ObamaCare repeal by Peter Sullivan (The Hill)
- Preet Bharara Is Said to Refuse Order to Step Down as U.S. Attorney by Maggie haberman (NY Times)
- Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney in New York, says he is fired by the Trump administration by Josh Dawsey and Tara Palmeri (Politico)
- Federal court finds Texas gerrymandered maps on racial lines (Politico)
- Conservatives cheer EPA cuts that activists fear ‘will be born by lungs’ by Oliver Milman (The Guardian)
- 134 foreign policy experts condemn Trump travel ban by Brooke Seipel (The Hill)
- Court says Texas congressional districts gerrymandered to hurt minorities by Robert Barnes (Washington Post)
- Barack Obama-appointed US attorney fired after refusing calls from Donald Trump’s administration to resign by Harriet Agerholm & Chris Stevenson (Independent)
- Donald Trump is a pathological liar working to undermine US democracy, says Bernie Sanders by Niamh McIntyre (Independent)
- Mike Flynn Disclosed Working as a Foreign Agent to Trump Team. Twice. by Elliot Hannon (Slate)
- Trump Adviser Had Twitter Contact With Figure Tied to Russians by Matthew Rosenberg and Maggie Haberman (NY Times)
- Maryland to join other states in court challenge to Trump’s travel ban by David Alexander and Mica Rosenberg (Reuters)
- Employees who decline genetic testing could face penalties under proposed bill by Lena H. Sun (Washington Post)
Analysis
- A Nixon biographer explains how Trump compares by John A. Farrell (Vox)
- ACLU: Warrant violates First and Fourth Amendment by Staff (Native News Online)
- J. D. Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy” are already being used to gut the working poor by Jared Yates Sexton (Salon)
- During his political rise, Stephen K. Bannon was a man with no fixed address by Robert O’Harrow Jr. & Shawn Boburg (Washington Post)
Opinion
- Trump’s ‘honour crimes’ order is a racist distraction by Alex Shams (Al Jazeera)
- The Trump Era: The Politics of Race and Class by Nell Irvin Painter (Princeton Alumni Weekly)