China
- China-US: Trade talks hope to ease dispute by Adrian Brown (Al Jazeera)
- U.S. Trade Team Leaves China Talks Without Any Big Breakthroughs by Bill Chappell (NPR)
- Trump team demands China slash U.S. trade surplus by $200 billion, cut tariffs by Sue-Lin Wong, David Lawder (Reuters)
Giuliani / Stormy Daniels
- Trump Says He Hasn’t Changed His Story Regarding Payments To Porn Star by Brian Naylor (NPR)
- Trump Now Says Giuliani Doesn’t Have His Facts Straight on Stormy Daniels. What’s Going On? by Ben Mathis-Lilley (Slate)
- Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani: A pair of aging New York goons plot their last big heist by Heather Digby Parton (Salon)
- Rudy Giuliani’s big reality-show reveal: The “billionaire” in the White House is broke by David Cay Johnston (Salon)
- Trump contradicts lawyer Rudy Giuliani over Stormy Daniels (BBC)
- Donald Trump says Rudy Giuliani is new to his legal team and ‘will get his facts straight’ by Mythili Sampathkumar (Independent)
- Timeline: Trump, Cohen, Stormy Daniels and $130,000 by Brett Samuels (The Hill)
- Giuliani tries to clarify comments on Trump’s reimbursement of payment to porn star Stormy Daniels (The Washington Post)
- New Giuliani Statement About Previous Giuliani Statements Is Wishful Gibberish by Ben Mathis-Lilley (Slate)
- Trump and Rudy Giuliani rush to “clarify” their Stormy Daniels mess by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
- Giuliani Attempts to Clean Up Explosive Statements on Trump’s Stormy Daniels Payment by Inae Oh (Mother Jones)
NRA Speech
- Trump Pledged To Take On The NRA; Now He’s Speaking At Group’s Annual Convention by Ayesha Rascoe (NPR)
- Months after Parkland shooting, Trump to embrace NRA in rally-like speech by Jeff Mason (Reuters)
- Renewing bond bond with the N.R.A Trump appeals for help in the midterms by Alexandra Burns (The NY Times)
- Trump Says Second Amendment Rights Are ‘Under Siege.’ But He Vowed to Defend Them in Defiant NRA Speech by Alana Abramson (TIME)
- Trump And Pence Address NRA Amid Tense Gun Debate by Scott Horsley (NPR)
- Trump back in step with NRA after doubts over Parkland shooting by Jeff Mason, Daniel Trotta (Reuters)
Mueller / Russia Investigation
- Trump says he’d ‘override’ lawyers and sit with Mueller if treated fairly by Cristiano Lima (Politico)
- Trump says he can’t talk to Mueller unless it’s ‘fair’ (Reuters)
- Trump to speak with Mueller on guarantee he’ll ‘be treated fairly’ by Jordan Fabian (The Hill)
- Robert Mueller’s team just had a really rough day in court by Andrew Prokop (Vox)
- Judge questions whether Mueller has overstepped his authority on Manafort by Sharon LaFraniere (The NY Times)
- Why a Judge Delivered a Bizarre Tirade Challenging Mueller’s Authority to Charge Paul Manafort by Ben Mathis-Lilley, Mark Joseph Stern (Slate)
- Judge to Mueller: You’re using Manafort to get to Trump by Nicole Karlis (Salon)
Hondurans
- Trump Administration Ends Temporary Protected Status For Hondurans by RIchard Gonzales (NPR)
- Trump administration moves to expel some 57,000 Hondurans by Mica Rosenberg, Gustavo Palencia (Reuters)
- Trump tells 57,000 Hondurans who’ve lived in the US for 20 years to get out by Dara Lind (Vox)
Other News
- Jared Kushner Can’t Fill Out a Form to Save His Life, Part 827,551 by Bess Levin (Vanity Fair)
- Trump set to benefit as Qatar buys $6.5m apartment in New York tower by Jon Swaine, Julian Borger (The Guardian)
- Trump slams NBC News after it corrects Cohen wiretap story by Louis Nelson (Politico)
- Sessions sends more prosecutors, supervisory judges to border to handle immigration cases by Debra Cassens Weiss (ABA Journal)
- As a willing warrior for Trump, Sarah Sanders struggles to maintain credibility by Ashley Parker, Josh Dawsey, and Philip Rucker (The Washington Post)
- Trump’s loyal outsiders elbow Kelly out by Nancy Cook (Politico)
- The Brilliant Egomaniac Who Could Bring Down Donald Trump by Jacob Weisberg (Slate)
- Donald Trump: Time and place set for North Korea meeting (Al Jazeera)