Mueller Report
- McConnell Claims “Case Closed” on Mueller Report. He’s Wrong. by Inae Oh, Dan Friedman (Mother Jones)
- McConnell Tried to Slam the Door on the Mueller Report. Warren Called to Impeach Trump Instead. by Inae Oh (Mother Jones)
- White House ‘Directed’ Ex-Counsel McGahn Not To Comply With Congressional Subpoena by Brian Naylor (NPR)
- Don McGahn won’t comply with House Democrats’ subpoena by Andrew Desidero, Kyle Cheney (Politico)
- READ: The White House letter ordering McGahn to defy House subpoena (The Hill)
- Congress Should Be Ready to Arrest Attorney General Barr if He Defies Subpoena by Robert Reich (The American Prospect)
- Trump Is Terrified Mueller Will Become the Next Michael Cohen by Eric Lutz (Vanity Fair)
- McConnell just lied about the Mueller report from the Senate floor by Melanie Schmitz (ThinkProgress)
- McConnell is using the Mueller report to blame Obama for Russian meddling by Aaron Rupar (Vox)
- Ex-White House lawyer defies House subpoena for Mueller docs by Mary Clare Jalonick and Lisa Mascaro (AP)
- McConnell already raising money after declaring ‘case closed’ on Mueller report by Niels Lesniewski (Roll Call)
- White House invokes executive privilege to bar former counsel from turning over documents to Congress by Rachael Bade, Carol D. Leonnig, and Josh Dawsey (Washington Post)
Michael Behenna
- Trump Pardons Michael Behenna, Former Soldier Convicted Of Killing Iraqi Prisoner by Bill Chappell (NPR)
- Trump Pardons Soldier Convicted of Killing Iraqi Prisoner by Molly Olmstead (Slate)
- Trump pardons ex-soldier convicted of killing Iraqi prisoner (BBC)
- ACLU slams Trump for Behenna pardon: He ‘should prevent war crimes, not endorse’ them by John Bowden (The Hill)
- Trump pardons former US soldier who killed Iraqi prisoner (Al Jazeera)
- Trump’s Pardon of a Soldier is an “Endorsement of a Murder” by Luke Darby (GQ)
Trump Taxes / Business Losses
- Steven Mnuchin misses third deadline to turn over President Trump’s tax returns to Congress by Shira Tarlo (Salon)
- Can Congress force Trump to hand over his tax returns? I asked 11 legal experts. by Sean Illing (Vox)
- Decade in the Red: Trump Tax Figures Show Over $1 Billion in Business Losses by Russ Beutner and Suzanne Craig (NY Times)
- N.Y. Lawmakers Move Closer to Allowing Release of Trump’s State Tax Returns by Jesse McKinley (NY Times)
- New York Senate On Verge Of Passing Bill Allowing Release Of Trump Tax Returns by Sanjana Karanth (Huffington Post)
- 5 Takeaways From 10 Years of Trump Tax Figures by Susanne Craig and Russ Beuttner (NY Times)
- The New York Times Has 10 Years of Gnarly Tax Documents Showing Trump to Be a Mirage of a Man by Elliot Hannon (Slate)
China / Trade
- Wall Street extends fall as U.S-China trade worries mount by Amy Caren Daniel (Reuters)
- Trump’s threat of new tariffs on China might send his trade deal into a tailspin by D. Parvaz (ThinkProgress)
- Stocks are plunging as trade-war worries rattle investors by Theron Mohamed (Business Insider)
- The U.S.-China Trade Talks Have Already Changed the World by Matt Peterson (The Atlantic)
Immigration / Border
- The White House Is Planning a Backdoor Travel Ban on Trump’s “S—thole Countries” by Doug Rand (Slate)
- GOP senators to be briefed on Kushner’s immigration plan by Jill Colvin and Darlene Superville (AP)
- Appeals court: Trump can make asylum seekers wait in Mexico by Brian Melley and Elliot Spagat (AP)
- 3 things to watch when Trump, GOP senators discuss immigration by John T. Bennett (Roll Call)
Other News
- Trump awards medal of freedom to business partner Tiger Woods, who designed golf course for president’s Dubai hotel by Chris Baynes (Independent)
- Trump obstruction: More than 500 former prosecutors say president should face ‘multiple felony charges’ by Peter Stubley (Independent)
- Trump is literally asking courts to hold that the Constitution doesn’t apply to liberals by Ian Millhiser (ThinkProgress)
- Trump’s secretary of state argues that it’s actually good the Arctic is rapidly melting by Joe Romm (ThinkProgress)
- Mike Pompeo Omits Climate Change and Says Melting Ice Creates ‘New Opportunities’ for Trade at Arctic Summit by Matthew Lee (TIME)
- Trump to host far-right and anti-immigrant Hungarian leader Viktor Orban by Samuel Osborne (Independent)
- The thorn in Trump’s side: New York attorney general leads barrage of investigations by Erin Durkin (Guardian)
- FBI director tells Congress he has no evidence of ‘spying’ on Trump campaign by Devlin Barrett (Washington Post)
- Trump fixer Cohen says he helped Falwell handle racy photos by Adam Roston (Reuters)
- Secretary of State Pompeo Makes Surprise Trip to Iraq Amid Increasing Tensions With Iran by Matthew Lee (TIME)
- Food Fight: Trump Administration Levels Tariffs On Mexican Tomatoes by Scott Horsley (NPR)
- The Trump Administration Wants to Muck With the Poverty Line, Making It Harder for Poor People to Get Food Stamps by Jordan Weissman (Slate)
- Jared Kushner, Donald Trump Broke The Law By Meeting Saudis, Putin, Kim Off The Record: Watchdogs by Jessica Kwong (Newsweek)
Analysis
- Will Trump’s Latest Lawsuits Keep Congress From Investigating Future Presidents? by Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux (FiveThirtyEight)
- What Happened to All the Jobs Trump Promised? by Daniela Porat, Lena Groeger and Isaac Arnsdorf (Pro Publica)
- Lock her up’ vs. ‘Case closed’: McConnell and the Trump team’s self-serving view of criminal procedure by Aaron Blake (Washington Post)
Opinion
- The implications of a Trump war on political Islam by Marwan Bishara (Al Jazeera)
- How Trump’s rhetoric fuels anti-Semitic violence: Tim Wise on “radical Christian terrorism” by Chauncey DeVega (Salon)
- It’s time to start impeachment hearings. Today. by Brian Klaas (Washington Post)
- First hold them in contempt, then impeach by Jennifer Rubin (Washington Post)