Trump Tower Meeting
- Trump Changed His Story Again About His Son’s Trump Tower Russia Meeting by Luke Darby (GQ)
- Trump (Again) Admits His Son Met With Russian Lawyer To Get Dirt On Clinton by Tamara Keith, Emma Bowman (NPR)
- Dem: Optics of Trump Tower meeting ‘absolutely horrifying’ by Emily Birnbaum (The Hill)
- Here Are All The Ways Trump Has Tried To Explain That Infamous Trump Tower Meeting by Michelle Lou (Huffington Post)
Manafort Trial / Russia Hacking / Mueller Investigation
- 4 Insights As Manafort Trial Enters Week 2 by Miles Parks (NPR)
- Manafort’s defense team attempts mission impossible by Josh Gerstein, Darren Samuelsohn (Politico)
- Paul Manafort’s Longtime Partner Rick Gates Testifies In Federal Court by Miles Parks, Ryan Lucas, Carrie Johnson (NPR)
- Star witness Gates testifies he committed crimes with Manafort by Nathan Layne, Sarah N. Lynch, and Karen Freifeld (Reuters)
- Sen. Rand Paul Invites Top Russians to U.S. as They Claim No Election Interference by Griffin Connolly (Roll Call)
- What Rick Gates’s Testimony Means for Manafort—And Trump by David A. Graham (The Atlantic)
- ‘Betrayed’ Paul Manafort stares down ex-partner Rick Gates by Darren Samuelsohn, Theodoric Meyer (Politico)
- Trump allies back fund for aides’ legal defense in Mueller probe by Kyle Cheney, Lorraine Woellert (Politico)
- Rick Gates Testifies That He Committed Crimes With Paul Manafort by Ryan J. Reilly, Lydia O’Connor (Huffington Post)
- Rick Gates Shows Why Trump Is So Worried About Witness Flipping by Tessa Berenson (TIME)
- Rick Gates just testified that he committed crimes with Paul Manafort by Andrew Prokop (Vox)
- Analysis: How the Latest Trump Tower Tweet Damages the President’s Legal Defense by Bob Bauer (Lawfare)
Immigration / Family Separation / ICE / DACA
- How Trump Radicalized ICE by Franklin Foer (The Atlantic)
- Man Detained by ICE Claims He Went Blind in One Eye After Agent Didn’t Believe He Had Diabetes by Molly Olmstead (Slate)
- Sessions rips judge’s decision to restore DACA program by Ted Hesson (Politico)
- Sessions Says DOJ Will Fight Order to Restart DACA by Judge Who Called White House’s Rationale “Illogical” by Elliot Hannon (Slate)
- Trump’s Wall Could Run Up Billions In Unforeseen Costs, Watchdog Report Warns by Igor Bobic (Huffington Post)
California Wildfires
- Trump Accuses California Of Causing Wildfires By ‘Diverting’ Water To Pacific by Mary Papenfuss (Huffington Post)
- Trump wildfire tweets spark bewilderment about California water by Annie Snider, Carla Marinucci and Jeremy B. White (Politico)
- We Asked a California Water Expert to Make Sense of Donald Trump’s Moronic Wildfire Tweets by Rosa Furneaux (Mother Jones)
- President Trump Claims California Doesn’t Have Water to Fight Wildfires. He’s Just Wrong, State Officials Say by Jennifer Calfas (TIME)
Iran
- Trump signs order reimposing sanctions on Iran – a move the EU said it ‘deeply’ regrets by Andrew Buncombe (Independent)
- Trump ups sanctions pressure on Iran despite European dismay by Susannah George and Zeke Miller (AP)
- Renewed U.S. sanctions target Iran’s economy, Tehran cool on talks by Lesley Wroughton, Parisa Hafezi (Reuters)
- Iran’s Rouhani dismisses Trump call for talks on eve of new sanctions by Pariza Hafezi (Reuters)
Other News
- Trump administration and California are on collision course over vehicle emissions rules by Meredith Hankins, Nicholas Bryner (Salon)
- Portland Investigating Police Actions Toward Antifa Protesters at Far-Right Rally by Molly Olmstead (Slate)
- Senator Rand Paul invites Russian lawmakers to Washington (Reuters)
- U.S. judge bars Trump policy restricting transgender troops by Andrew Chung (Reuters)
- City Lawmakers Are Fighting to Remove Trump’s Hollywood Star for Good by Drew Schwartz (VICE)
- The QAnon Conspiracy Theory May Just Be a Giant Prank on Trump-Supporting Baby Boomers by Sarah Mearhoff (Teen Vogue)
- Jared Kushner Demanded These Stories Be Deleted From the New York Observer’s Website by Josh Levin (Slate)
- West Hollywood City Council to vote on removing Trump’s Walk of Fame star by Aris Folley (The Hill)
- EPA is now allowing asbestos back into manufacturing by Sydney Franklin (Architect’s Newspaper)
Analysis
- Historian on comparing Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler: “My resistance … is being overcome” by Chauncey DeVega (Salon)
- There’s no end in sight for Trump’s trade war with China, because ‘both sides are more inclined to elevate tension than blink’ by Bob Bryan (Business Insider)
- 22 former Thomas clerks have landed Trump administration jobs or judicial nominations by Debra Cassens Weiss (ABA Journal)
- ‘Facts develop’: The Trump team’s new ‘alternative facts’-esque ways to explain its falsehoods by Aaron Blake (Washington Post)
- Trump’s Republican Party, explained in one photo by Zack Beauchamp (Vox)
- What Brett Kavanaugh Really Thinks by Jeff Greenfield (Politico)
Opinion
- Why Russian Money Ends Up in U.S. Elections by Bob Bauer (NY Times)
- Only one other president has ever acted this desperate by William D. Ruckleshaus (Washington Post)