Trump Tower Meeting
- Here’s What Donald Trump Jr. Told Lawmakers About His Trump Tower Meeting With a Kremlin Emissary by Inae Oh (Mother Jones)
- Senate Committee Releases 2,500 Pages About 2016 Trump Tower Meeting by Philip Ewing (NPR)
- Trump Jr.’s team wanted stories straight on Russian lawyer meeting by Elana Schor, Kyle Cheney, Eli Okun (Politico)
- Senate Panel Releases Details From Its Trump Tower Meeting Probe (Huffington Post)
- Trump attorney fed statement to publicist for Russians about Trump Tower meeting by Jon Swaine (The Guardian)
- Senate panel releases details from its Trump Tower meeting probe (Reuters)
- Documents show promise, and letdown, around Trump tower meeting by Nicholas Fandos and Sharon LaFraniere (The NY Times)
- 7 big things we just learned from the Trump tower meeting testimony by Aaron Blake (The Washington Post)
- What Paul Manafort’s Trump tower notes mean by Philip Bump (The Washington Post)
Mueller / Russia Investigation / Michael Cohen
- “He’s Looking for Quid Pro Quos”: Is Andrii Artemenko the Key to the Trump-Russia Case? by Abigail Tracy (Vanity Fair)
- Robert Mueller’s Most Important Accomplishment by Matt Ford (The New Republic)
- Senate intelligence panel: Russians schemed to help Trump (Politico)
- Rudy Giuliani Wants the Mueller Probe Wrapped Up Tomorrow by Bess Levin (Vanity Fair)
- On Anniversary of Mueller’s Appointment, Trump Calls the Probe a “Witch Hunt” by Inae Oh (Mother Jones)
- How Mueller’s First Year Compares To Watergate, Iran-Contra And Whitewater by Amelia Thomson-DeVeaus (FiveThirtyEight)
- Trump discloses Cohen payment, raising questions about previous omission by Steve Eder, Eric Lipton, and Ben Protess (The NY Times)
- Trump voters warn him not to fire Mueller: ‘People would be suspicious’ by Philip Rucker (The Washington Post)
- In new financial disclosure, Trump reports apparent payment through his personal attorney to adult film star by David Fahrentholt and Jonathan O’Connell (The Washington Post)
- Analysis: Code Name Crossfire Hurricane: The Secret Origins of the Trump Investigation by Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman and Nicholas Fandos (NY Times)
- Mueller told Trump team he would not indict Trump: Giuliani told CNN by Staff (Reuters)
- Missing Files Motivated the Leak of Michael Cohen’s Financial Records by Ronan Farrow (New Yorker)
- Trump Finally Fesses Up to Reimbursing Michael Cohen by David A. Graham (The Atlantic)
- Mueller sends subpoenas to consultant for Roger Stone super PAC by Darren Samuelsohn (Politico)
Gina Haspel
- Trump CIA pick Gina Haspel heads for confirmation amid resistance (Al Jazeera)
- Senate panel votes in favor of Haspel’s nomination for CIA director by Burgess Everett (Politico)
- Senate Intelligence Committee Backs Gina Haspel To Lead The CIA by Igor Bobic (Huffington Post)
- Senate panel advances Trump nominee to lead CIA by Patricia Zengerle (Reuters)
North Korea
- North Korea summit: US hopeful Trump-Kim meet will go ahead (BBC)
- Kim Jong Un Turns the Art of the Deal on Donald Trump by Abigail Tracy (Vanity Fair)
- North Korea threatens to cancel Trump summit, reminds world it really loves its nukes by Alex Ward (Vox)
- White House brushes aside North Korea’s threat to cancel summit with Trump by Mark Landler, Choe Sang-Hun, and Jane Perlez (The NY Times)
- On North Korea, Trump is getting played by both sides by Philip Waldman (The Washington Post)
- White House Brushes Aside North Korea’s Threats to Cancel Summit With Trump by Mark Landler, Choe Sang-Hun and Jane Perlez (NY Times)
- Analysis: It Sure Looks Like John Bolton Is Trying to Sabotage the North Korea Talks by Jonathan Keating (Slate)
Other News
- Trump’s ‘ultimate deal’ for Middle East peace overseen by Kushner by Shihab Rattansi (Al Jazeera)
- The Trump Administration Doesn’t Care About What Happens to Detained Immigrant Children by Luke Darby (GQ)
- Trump denies he’s been too generous with China in trade talks by Quint Forgey (Politico)
- Trump Picks Mitch McConnell’s Brother-In-Law, Gordon Hartogensis, To Lead Pension Agency by Dominique Mosbergen (Huffington Post)
- EU president tears into Donald Trump, warning US president is bad friend who acts with ‘capricious assertiveness’ by Jon Stone (Independent)
- Net neutrality bill clears procedural hurdle in Senate by Harper Neidig (The Hill)
- Democrats Force Vote To Keep Net Neutrality Rules by Igor Bobic (Huffington Post)
- Scott Pruitt admits top aide helped him search for housing but only ‘on personal time’ by Brady Denis and Juliet Eilperin (The Washington Post)
- In rebuke of Trump, Tillerson says lies are a threat to democracy by Gardiner Harris (The NY Times)
- Trump Refers To Immigrants As ‘Animals.’ Again. by Elise Foley (Huffington Post)
- Donald Trump’s Business Empire Is No Longer Growing by Russ Choma (Mother Jones)
- Trump asks Sessions to consider prosecuting Oakland mayor over ICE raid by Quint Forgey, Carla Marinucci (Politico)
- FBI chief ‘deeply concerned’ about companies like ZTE by Eli Okun (Politico)
Analysis
- The Dangers of Withdrawing From the Iran Nuke Agreement: A Q&A With Richard Falk by Daniel Falcone (The Nation)
- Did Democrats Just Have Their First Tea Party Moment Of The 2018 Primaries? by Nathaniel Rakick (FiveThirtyEight)
- Trump’s bizarre ZTE tweets: Payback for a huge real estate deal in Indonesia? by Heather Digby Parton (Salon)