Whistleblower
- Intelligence Official Turns Whistleblower, Alleging Troubling Trump Communication With Foreign Leader by Elliot Hannon (Slate)
- A whistleblower has filed a complaint about a Trump phone call with a foreign leader by Andrew Prokop (Vox)
- Trump Blasts People “Dumb Enough to Believe” He’d Act Inappropriately With a Foreign Leader by Inae Oh (Mother Jones)
- Trump Calls Intel Whistle-Blower Complaint “Fake News;” Dems Demand Answers by Brian Naylor (NPR)
- Whistleblower: Trump Made an Alarming “Promise” to an Unnamed Foreign Leader by Bess Levin (Vanity Fair)
- Trump denies triggering whistleblower report by Caitlin Oprysko (Politico)
- Analysis: Trump’s purported ‘promise’ to a foreign leader came after the White House scaled back readouts by James Hochman (Washington Post)
- Top Democrat threatens legal action if intelligence chief doesn’t share whistleblower complaint by John Wagner and Karoun Demirjian (Washington Post)
- Administration blocks ‘urgent’ whistleblower disclosure by Mary Clare Jalonick and Lisa Mascaro (AP)
- A Guide to Everyone Involved in the Big Trump Whistleblower Story by Molly Olmstead (Slate)
- Whistleblower Complaint Against Trump Reportedly Involves Ukraine by Lydia O’Connor (Huffington Post)
San Francisco / CA
- Trump Threatens To Sic The EPA On San Francisco Because It’s ‘Going To Hell’ by Nick Visser (Huffington Post)
- Trump Thinks San Francisco Homelessness Is Polluting the Ocean, Threatens EPA Action by Elliot Hannon (Slate)
- Trump Is Going to War with California Because He Thinks Homeless People Are Polluting the Ocean by Emma Ockerman (VICE)
- Trump’s feud with California over emissions standards and homelessness, explained by Aaron Rupar (Vox)
- Trump wants to punish California over homelessness — after denying funds to fight homelessness by Igor Derysh (Salon)
Tax Returns
- Trump sues to stop New York prosecutors from getting his taxes by Darren Samuelsohn (Politico)
- Trump sues to try and block New York prosecutors from getting his tax returns by Chris Riotta (Independent)
- Trump sues in New York to try to block tax return subpoena (Al Jazeera)
Other News
- How the Trump Administration Plans to Open Millions of Acres of Public Land for Drilling by Luke Darby (GQ)
- Trump Wants to Log an Enormous Alaska Forest. These Native Women Traveled 3,000 Miles to Stop It. by Nicole Javorsky (Mother Jones)
- ‘It’s happening’: Trump is getting impeached, former White House ethics chief says by Zamira Rahim (Independent)
- “Ice Cold”: Trump Distances Himself From Netanyahu After Election by Eric Lutz (Vanity Fair)
- House Democrats held the first hearing on DC statehood in 25 years by Tara Golshan (Vox)
- Senate Democrats release list of climate studies buried by Trump administration by Helena Bottemiller Evich (Politico)
- Iran warns U.S. of ‘all-out war’ if attacked by Paul Schemm and Louisa Loveluck (Washington Post)
- An Empty Detention Center for Immigrant Children Is Costing Taxpayers $720,000 a Day by Jay Willis (GQ)
- Trump White House spending $33 million to house ‘imaginary’ migrants at empty detention camp by Chris Riotta (Independent)
- Trump administration threatens to cut funding from university course for ‘positive’ discussion of Islam by Alex Woodward (Independent)
- Trump officials considering plan to divert billions of dollars in additional funds for border barrier by Nick Miroff and Josh Dawsey (Washington Post)
Analysis
- Meet Donald Trump’s Campaign Manager by Andrea Bernstein (ProPublica)
- Trump’s War on Blue America by Ronald Brownstein (The Atlantic)
- Trump team distortions on fuel economy rules by Michael Biesecker and Tom Krisher (AP)
- Drain the swamp? Trump has named more lobbyists to Cabinet than Bush or Obama did in 8 years by Igor Derysh (Salon)
Opinion
- Our deepening economic divide is fertile ground for Trump’s demagoguery by Greg Sargent (Washington Post)
- “It Won’t End Well”: Trump and His Obscure New National-Security Chief by Susan B. Glasser (New Yorker)