News
- White House begins its government reorganization by Josh Boah (AP)
- Senate Votes To Limit Trump’s Power To Lift Russia Sanctions by Michele Keleman (NPR)
- Donald Trump sells Qatar $12bn of weapons days after accusing it of funding terrorism by Lucy Pasha-Robinson (Independent)
- Vladimir Putin offers fired FBI director James Comey asylum in Russia by Ben Kentish (Independent)
- Future of Dakota Access Pipeline in question again after judge orders review of permits by Emily Shugerman (Independent)
- Judge Delivers Blow To Trump Administration In Dakota Access Fight by Merrit Kennedy (NPR)
- Trump Confirms He Is Being Investigated for Obstruction by Isobel Thomson (Vanity Fair)
- Trump Administration Quietly Rolls Back Civil Rights Efforts Across Federal Government by Jessica Huseman & Annie Waldman (Propublica)
- Trump thinks “they” created his legal problems. He created his legal problems. by Ezra Klein (Vox)
- Secrecy Surrounding Senate Health Bill Raises Alarms in Both Parties by Thomas Kaplan and Robert Pear (NY Times)
- Pence Hires Criminal Defense Lawyer to Aid Him in Investigations by Rebecca R. Ruiz (NY Times)
- Trump to clamp down on Cuba travel and trade by Marc Caputo and Daniel Ducassi (Politico)
- Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, hires his own lawyer in Russia probe by Philip Rucker and Rosalind S. Helderman (The Washington Post)
- Trump announced revisions to parts of Obama’s Cuba policy by Karen DeYoung and John Wagner (The Washington Post)
- Trump Adopts Harder Line On Cuba by Scott Horsley (NPR)
- U.S. Senate votes near unanimously for Russia, Iran sanctions by Patricia Zengerle (Reuters)
- Donald Trump attacks Hillary Clinton for ‘destroying phones with a hammer’ and ‘bleaching’ emails by Emily Shugerman (Independent)
Analysis
- What Would A Real GOP Break From Trump Look Like? (FiveThirtyEight)
- The Republican response to reports of an investigation into Trump, annotated by Philip Bump (Washington Post)
- Trump keeps creating his own personal hell by Amber Phillips (Washington Post)
- Here’s how long investigations like the one into Trump and Russia usually last by Bob Bryan (Business Insider)
- The key questions raised by one 111-character Trump tweet by Philip Bump (The Washington Post)
- Trump’s outburst of rage just sent the Russia scandal hurtling forward by Paul Waldman (The Washington Post)
- How the Russia investigation entangled a Manafort protege by Nicholas Confessore and Barry Meier (The NY Times)
- Will Rod Rodstein recuse himself from the Russia probe? by Matt Ford (The Atlantic)
- Pence’s balancing act as Trump’s no. 2 shows signs of strain amid WH turmoil by Ashley Parker (The Washington Post)
Opinion
- High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case for Impeaching Trump by Start Making Sense & Jon Wiener (The Nation)
- Noam Chomsky on Trump: The worst is yet to come by Alexandra Rosenmann (Salon)
- Explaining Executive Privilege and Sessions’s Refusal to Answer Questions by Charlie Savage (NY Times)
- Groveling before the mad king: Donald Trump’s Cabinet of sycophants by Chauncey DeVega (Salon)
- Ivanka Trump has noticed a ‘new level of viciousness’. Its sources are clear. by Dana Milbank (The Washington Post)