Comey
- Justice Department Releases Comey Memos To Congress by Dominique Mosbergen (Huffington Post)
- Justice Department Gives Congress Comey’s Memos on Trump by Nicholas Fandos (NY Times)
- Here Are The Redacted Copies Of The Comey Memos by Nick Visser (Huffington Post)
- The Associated Press Just Published the Memos James Comey Wrote Detailing His Interactions With Donald Trump (Mother Jones)
- James Comey Memos: Trump Acknowledged Flynn Had ‘Judgment Issues’ by Philip Ewing (NPR)
- Comey Memos: Trump Talked About Russia’s “Beautiful Hookers,” Couldn’t Keep Middle Eastern Countries Straight by Joshua Keating (Slate)
Cohen
- Michael Cohen Abandons Lawsuits He Filed Arguing the Steel Dossier is False by Hannah Levintova (Mother Jones)
- Trump Allies Worry Michael Cohen Is a Ticking Time Bomb by Tina Nguyen (Vanity Fair)
- Cohen drops libel suits against BuzzFeed, Fusion GPS by Josh Gerstein (Politico)
- Michael Cohen has many alleged links to organized crime: Does that mean he won’t flip on Trump? by Heather Digby Parton (Salon)
- Trump lawyer drops libel suits against Fusion GPS, BuzzFeed by Jacqueline Thomsen (The Hill)
- What the FBI Raid on Michael Cohen Means for the Russia Investigation by Bob Dreyfuss (The Nation)
- “Michael Cohen Is Going to Be Indicted”: Stormy Daniels’s Attorney Is Now Cooperating with the Feds by Joe Hagan (Vanity Fair)
- The first domino just fell after the Michael Cohen raid by Aaron Blake (The Washington Post)
Mueller / Russia Investigation
- Republicans Push Bill To Protect Mueller, Without McConnell’s Support by Kelsey Snell (NPR)
- U.S. Senate committee to vote on bill to protect Mueller next week (Reuters)
- Ex-Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort in court asking to have criminal case dropped by Spencer S. Hsu (Washington Post)
- Rudy Giuliani Is Joining Trump’s Legal Team to End the Mueller Investigation by Oita Nwanevu (Slate)
- Rudy Giuliani just joined Trump’s legal team by Andrew Prokop (Vox)
- Trump hires Giuliani, two other attorneys amid mounting legal turmoil over Russia by Robert Costa, Josh Dawsey, and Rosalind S. Helderman (The Washington Post)
News
- The Head of Trump’s Voter Fraud Commission Just Showed How Low He’d Go to Keep Citizens from Voting by Luke Darby (GQ)
- Ex-‘Playboy’ Model Settles Suit With ‘National Enquirer’ Over Alleged Trump Affair by Scott Neuman (NPR)
- Trump launches effort to boost U.S. weapons sales abroad by Mike Stone (Reuters)
- Canada, Mexico Hope to Knock Some Sense into Trump by Bess Levin (Vanity Fair)
- LGBT rights group takes aim at Pence as Trump woes deepen by Matthew Nussbaum (Politico)
- Trump threatens to cut funding from California troop deployment by Cristiano Lima (Politico)
- Trump Judicial Nominee Appears to Have Called Undocumented Immigrants “Maggots” by Mark Joseph-Stern (Slate)
- Senate committee sets Monday vote even as Pompeo appears to lack support by Jordain Carney (The Hill)
- New York attorney general attempts to circumvent Trump pardon power by Ben Doherty (Guardian)
- An Appeals Court Just Thwarted Trump’s Efforts to Punish Sanctuary Cities by Brandon E. Patterson (Mother Jones)
- Senate Confirms Climate Change Denier To Lead NASA by Chris D’Angelo (Huffington Post)
- NASA Finally Gets a New Leader by Marina Koren (The Atlantic)
- Democrats crush House Republicans in fundraising by Elena Schneider (Politico)
- North Korea drops troop demand, but U.S. reacts wearily by Mark Landler and Choe Sang-Hun (The NY Times)
- Pompeo nears confirmation but faces historic rebuke from committee by Nicholas Fandos and Gardiner Harris (The NY Times)
- Trump just took the first step of an aggressive effort to drill in the Arctic by Darryl Fears (Washington Post)
Analysis
- How Trump Could Be Reelected—and How Democrats Can Stop Him by Start Making Sense, Jon Wiener (The Nation)
- The GOP’s Problems Are Bigger Than Trump by Conor Friedersdorf (The Atlantic)
- Why Stormy Daniels Poses a Problem for Democrats by Ronald Brownstein (The Atlantic)
- How Drug Cops And Small Counties Became The Victims Of Jeff Sessions’ War On Sanctuary Cities by Dominic Holden (Buzzfeed)
- The State Department’s collapse, as explained by Rex Tillerson by Zack Beauchamp (Vox)
- A marriage used to prevent deportation. Not anymore. by Vivian Yee (The NY Times)
Opinion
- Republicans are actively interfering in the Mueller probe to protect Trump by Greg Sargent (Washington Post)
- A Rebuke to Trump, a Century in the Making by Editorial Board (NY Times)