Immigration / Border / ICE
- U.S. races to meet migrant reunification deadline by Tom Hals (Reuters)
- Under Deadline, Government Scrambles To Reunite Migrant Families by John Burnett (NPR)
- Is Trump Facing Any Political Fallout For The Family Separation Crisis? by Janie Velencia (FiveThirtyEight)
- US border crisis: What is happening to separated migrant families now and why is this happening? by Clark Mindock (Independent)
- The Clock Is Ticking on the Deadline for Reuniting Families Separated at the Border by Astrid Galvan, Elliot Spagat (TIME)
- A Single Trump Appointee Was Responsible For Keeping Hundreds Of Kids Locked Up Longer by Roque Planas (Huffington Post)
- The Trump Administration Had Until Thursday to Reunite Separated Families. But Hundreds Will Remain Apart. by Noah Lanard (Mother Jones)
- Immigrants lost in ‘black hole’ of U.S. family reunification: advocates by Tom Hals (Reuters)
- Trump administration won’t reunite all separated families by deadline by Rebekah Entralgo, Amanda Michelle Gomez, Melanie Schmitz (ThinkProgress)
- 700 Kids Still Separated From Their Families After Government Misses Reunification Deadline by AP (TIME)
Russia / Mueller Investigation / Russian Influence / Maria Butina
- Senate Democrats Probe NRA-Linked Trip to Russia That Involved an Alleged Russian Spy by Russ Choma (Mother Jones)
- Alleged Russian Spy Maria Butina Has Offered to Cooperate in Fraud Case by Dan Friedman (Mother Jones)
- Mueller Russia investigation examining Trump’s tweets about James Comey as possible obstruction of justice, says report by Andrew Buncombe (Independent)
- Mueller reviewing Trump’s tweets as part of obstruction investigation: report by Brett Samuels (The Hill)
- House Speaker rejects Rosenstein impeachment effort by Daphne Psaledakis, Nate Raymond (Reuters)
- Maria Butina: ties emerge between NRA, alleged spy and Russian billionaire by Jon Swaine (The Guardian)
- We have the first documented case of Russian hacking in the 2018 election by Zack Beauchamp (Vox)
- Russians Unsuccessfully Tried To Hack Computers Of Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill by Jessica Taylor (NPR)
Michael Cohen
- Why Michael Cohen Is a Triple Threat for Donald Trump by David Corn (Mother Jones)
- Feds Reportedly Seized More Than 100 Tapes Related To Trump From Michael Cohen by Marina Fang (Huffington Post)
- Report: federal authorities have seized more than 100 Michael Cohen tapes by Li Zhou (Vox)
- Trump Organization finance chief called to testify before jury in Cohen probe: report by Emily Birnbaum (The Hill)
- Trump Exposes the Holes in Campaign-Finance Laws by Bob Bauer (The Atlantic)
- Bombshell Report: Michael Cohen Claims Trump Knew About Infamous Trump Tower Meeting by Ben Dreyfuss (Mother Jones)
Trade / Tariffs
- Farm groups go on anti-tariff blitz after Trump offers trade aid by Adam Behsudi (Politico)
- Trump mounts vigorous defense of his trade policy by Rebecca Morin (Politico)
Other News
- Jeff Sessions Has Been Targeting Asylum-Seekers Fleeing Domestic Violence. It’s Been “Devastating.” by Noah Lanard (Mother Jones)
- Thanks to Trump, Pesticide Companies Are Now Free to Kill All the Endangered Species They Want by Susie Neilson (Mother Jones)
- Photos Emerge of Trump 2020 Campaign Materials Being Made in China by Jen Hayden (AlterNet)
- Multi-State Lawsuit Against Census Citizenship Question To Move Ahead by Hansi Lo Wang (NPR)
- Rosenstein Impeachment Sputters On Capitol Hill, But Political War Likely Will Rage On by Philip Ewing (NPR)
- Iran special forces chief tells Trump Tehran will respond to any hostile action by Parisa Hafezi (Reuters)
- Trump accuses Twitter of stifling Republicans, offers no evidence by Doina Chiacu (Reuters)
- Federal Judge Says Trump Administration May Have Added Citizenship Question to Census out of Racial Animus by Mark Joseph Stern (Slate)
- Republicans’ ‘Tax Reform 2.0’ Would Be (Another) Giveaway to the Rich by Manuel Madrid (The American Prospect)
- Trump threatens ‘large’ sanctions on Turkey unless US pastor released by Reuters (The Guardian)
- Republicans Voted to Block Jeff Sessions’ Attacks on Asylum-Seekers Fleeing Domestic Violence by Noah Lanard (Mother Jones)
- White House Ethics Lawyer Finally Reaches His Breaking Point by Bess Levin (Vanity Fair)
- Trump says his administration will look into Twitter ‘shadow banning’ Republicans by Louis Nelson (Politico)
- Time Running Out for Violence Against Women Act by Katherine Tully-McManus (Roll Call)
- White House bars CNN correspondent from open press event by Jill Colvin (AP)
- The Doomed Republican Attempt to Impeach Rod Rosenstein by David A. Graham (The Atlantic)
- A Judge Just Ruled the Trump Administration Has Failed in Protecting the World’s Rarest Marine Mammal by Jackie Flynn Mogensen (Mother Jones)
- GOP Politician Switches Parties Over Trump Administration’s ‘Racism’ And ‘Misogyny’ by Alanna Vagianos (Huffington Post)
- Vandals set education secretary Betsy DeVos’s $40m yacht free by Luke O’Neil (The Guardian)
- Trump says new health plans, not available until September, already doing ‘record business’ by Brett Samuels (The Hill)
- Trump’s poor grasp of health care policy was on full display in Iowa by Aaron Rupar (ThinkProgress)
- North Korea returns remains of US soldiers (Al Jazeera)
- Trump thanks Kim as North Korea transfers remains of missing U.S. soldiers by Joyce Lee, Eric Beech (Reuters)
- DeVos to Eliminate Rules Aimed at Abuses by For-Profit Colleges by Erica L. Green (NY Times)
- Trump uses taxpayer-funded trip to campaign for GOP candidates by Seung Min Kim (Washington Post)
- Democrats Propose Making It Illegal To Spread False Election Information by Sam Levine (Huffington Post)
Analysis
- ‘Weird’ and ‘purposefully ambiguous’: Here’s what analysts are saying about Trump’s trade agreement with the EU by Will Martin (Business Insider)
- The articles of impeachment against Rod Rosenstein, annotated by Amber Philips (Washington Post)
- Once again, ‘fake news’ decried by Trump turns out to be true by Glenn Kessler and Mag Kelly (Washington Post)
- Trump moves to punt three political problems until after the midterms by James Hohman (Washington Post)
- Why Trump’s attacks on preexisting conditions are an attack on women by Dylan Scott (Vox)
Opinion
- The White House smears a CNN correspondent by Eric Wemple (Washington Post)