Iran
- Iran renews nuclear pact ultimatum amid tensions with U.S. (Reuters)
- US focus on building consensus after oil tanker attacks: Pentagon (Al Jazeera)
- Iran renews ultimatum over nuclear deal amid tanker tensions (Al Jazeera)
- Pompeo Blames Iran For Taliban Attack As Administration ‘Itches For War,’ Says Expert by Mary Papenfuss (Huffington Post)
- Trump’s consistent criticism of Iran pushes U.S. to point of potential conflict by Anne Gearan and Karen Morello (Washington Post)
Mexico Deal
- Mexico Releases Full Text of “Secret” Deal Trump Waved in Front of Reporters by Daniel Politi (Slate)
- Mexico releases the full text of Trump’s immigration “deal” by Rachel Withers (Vox)
- Remember When Trump Waved a Paper at Reporters and Said It Was a Secret Deal with Mexico? Here It Is. by Jackie Flynn Mogensen (Mother Jones)
NYT Report / Russia – Cyberattacks
- NYT: U.S. Steps Up Attacks on Russian Electrical Grid, but Trump May Be in the Dark by Daniel Politi (Slate)
- Trump slams NYT report on U.S. cyberattacks against Russia by Matthew Choi (Politico)
Census
- Top Trump Census Official Communicated With GOP Operative About Citizenship Question by Mark Joseph Stern (Slate)
- GOP strategist and census official discussed citizenship question, new documents filed by lawyers suggest by Tara Bahrampour (Washington Post)
UFOs
- Trump weighs in on UFOs in Stephanopoulos interview by Morgan Gstalter (The Hill)
- Trump Says He Doesn’t Really Believe in UFOs, but Admits He Has Been Briefed on Sightings by Daniel Politi (Slate)
- Trump says he was briefed on Navy sightings of UFOs by Matthew Choi (Politico)
Other News
- The Trump Administration Is Trying to Use the Scott Warren Case to Scare Activists. It’s Not Working. by Justin Agrelo (Mother Jones)
- Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner made up to $135m last year while working in the White House by Abby Young-Powell (Independent)
- Trump campaign zeroes in on a new threat: Elizabeth Warren by Alex Isenstadt (Politico)
- New York City to become first city ever to directly fund abortion by Amanda Michelle Gomez (ThinkProgress)
- Trump administration cannot block abortions for undocumented teenagers, court rules by Ann E Marimow (Independent)
- President Trump Aims to Slash Number of Federal Advisory Committees by Jill Colvin (TIME)
- India to impose retaliatory tariffs on 28 U.S. goods from Sunday by Nidhi Verma, Neha Dasgupta (Reuters)
Analysis
- What Nancy Pelosi Learned From the Clinton Impeachment by Todd S. Purdum (The Atlantic)
- Sarah Sanders’ job was to be the female face of a misogynistic administration by Arwa Mahdawi (The Guardian)
Opinion
- Trump isn’t a president, he’s a gangster by Lucian V. Truscott IV (Salon)