North Korea
- Trump Confirms North Korean Official Is Headed To New York To Discuss Nuclear Summit by Willa Frej (Huffington Post)
- North Korean official heads to U.S. as White House continues to ‘actively prepare’ for summit by Louis Nelson (Politico)
- Most senior North Korean envoy to hold official talks in U.S. in 18 years by Josh Smith, Hyonhee Shin (Reuters)
- North Korean envoy to meet US secretary of state Pompeo (Al Jazeera)
China / Trade
- White House Announces Tariffs, Trade Restrictions To Be Placed On China by Camila Domonoske (NPR)
- Trump hits China with $50B tariffs, investment restrictions by Megan Cassella (Politico)
Mueller / Russia Investigation
- Trump Finally Tweets Some Good Advice for Himself on Russia Probe by Inae Oh (Mother Jones)
- Offering No Evidence, Trump Says Mueller’s Investigators ‘Will Be Meddling’ In Midterms by Hayley Miller (Huffington Post)
- Trump Continues Campaign to Discredit Mueller Probe, Saying It “Will Be Meddling” With Midterms by Daniel Politi (Slate)
- Trump says Mueller probe will meddle in midterms by Louis Nelson (Politico)
- How Donald Trump weaponizes confusion: Now he wants to blame Russia scandal on Obama by Bob Cesca (Salon)
- Bob Mueller’s White Hot Summer by Nelson W. Cunningham (Politico)
- Trump steps up attacks on Mueller by Jordan Fabian (The Hill)
- 5 latest twists in the Russia story by Marshall Cohen (CNN)
- Trump says, without proof, that Mueller team will meddle in midterm elections by Maegan Vazquez (CNN)
- Analysis: Here’s the game Kellyanne Conway and the Trump team are playing on ‘collusion’ by Aaron Blake (Washington Post)
- Mueller team moves another case toward sentencing by Josh Gerstein (Politico)
Puerto Rico
- The True Scope of the Disaster in Puerto Rico by Vann R. Newkirk II (The Atlantic)
- New Study Finds Hurricane Maria’s Death Toll in Puerto Rico Likely More Than 4,600 by Molly Olmstead (Slate)
- Trump underestimated Hurricane Maria death toll by over 4,000: Harvard study by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
Other News
- Romney: Trump not a ‘role model for my grandkids’ by Cristiano Lima (Politico)
- Trump lashes out as Obama-era photos of immigrant children in steel cages linked to current administration by Maya Oppenheim (Independent)
- Delays and ‘poison pills’: team Trump runs out of road in NAFTA talks by David Lawder, David Ljunggren (Reuters)
- White House’s Miller blames Democrats for border crisis by Ted Hesson (Politico)
- White House dodges ‘Roseanne’ questions by Jordan Fabian (The Hill)
- Former Trump staffer joins Sinclair Broadcasting by John Bowden (The Hill)
- Trump Tests Midterm Message On Immigration, MS-13 ‘Animals’ During Tenn. Rally by Jesica Taylor (NPR)
Analysis
- Why Europeans Turned Against Trump by Richard Wike (Atlantic)
- IRS overhaul throws divorce calculations into turmoil by Kate Rockwood (ABA Journal)
- Donald Trump Is No Longer Hiding His Impeachment Strategy by Abigail Tracy (Vanity Fair)
Opinion
- ‘Roseanne’ Is Gone, but the Culture That Gave Her a Show Isn’t by Roxanne Gay (NY Times)