Las Vegas Shooting / Gun Debate
- How Donald Trump’s Favorite Media Sources Spread Fake News After the Las Vegas Shooting by Ben Schreckinger (GQ)
- Trump: ‘What happened in Las Vegas is in many ways a miracle’ by Mallory Shelbourne (The Hill)
- McConnell: ‘Premature’ to discuss gun control legislation by Jordain Carney (The Hill)
- Steve Bannon warns it will be ‘the end of everything’ if Trump supports gun control by Tom Emburry-Dennis (Independent)
- Opinion: No More Shootings That Follow the Rules by Roxanne Gay (NY Times)
- Trump and Las Vegas: With no Muslims to blame, Twitter troll falls silent by Heather Digby Parton (Salon)
- New details emerge about Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock and girlfriend Marilou Danley by (The Washington Post)
Puerto Rico
- Oxfam slams US response in Puerto Rico as ‘slow, inadequate’ by Avery Anapol (The Hill)
- Trump leaves San Juan’s mayor out of praise for Puerto Rico leaders by Jordan Fabian (The Hill)
- FEMA has yet to authorize full disaster help for Puerto Rico by Alexia Fernández Campbell (Vox)
- Trump: Puerto Rico has ‘thrown our budget a little out of whack’ by Jonathan Easley (The Hill)
- Opinion: An Unfit President Fails Puerto Rico by Michelle Goldberg (NY Times)
- CNN’s John King: Trump turned Puerto Rico visit into ‘a love fest for him’ by Joe Concha (The Hill)
- Trump tosses paper towels into crowd at Puerto Rican church by Jacqueline Thompson (The Hill)
- Donald Trump Is Down in Puerto Rico Embarrassing All of Us by Jay Willis (GQ)
- Puerto Rico: Trump compares Maria and Katrina deaths (BBC)
- Trump says Puerto Rico should be ‘proud’ of hurricane death toll: ‘Look at a real catastrophe like Katrina’ by Emily Shugerman (Independent)
- Trump to Puerto Rico: your hurricane isn’t a “real catastrophe” like Katrina by Alexia Fernández Campbell (Vox)
- Trump lobs praise, and paper towels, to Puerto Rico storm victims by Mark Landler (The NY Times)
News
- US Cuba row: Washington expels 15 Cuban diplomats (BBC)
- The press, branded the ‘enemy’ by Trump, increasingly trusted by the public: Reuters/Ipsos poll by Chris Kahn (Reuters)
- Jared and Ivanka Had a Third Personal E-mail Account They Used for Government Business by Jack Moore (GQ)
- Lapse In Federal Funding Imperils Children’s Health Coverage by Phil Galewitz (NPR)
- Scott Pruitt Is Turning the E.P.A. Into a Polluter’s Paradise by Tina Nguyen (Vanity Fair)
- Justice releases anti-nepotism White House memos by Max Greenwood (The Hill)
- US votes against UN resolution condemning gay sex death penalty, joining Iraq and Saudi Arabia by Tom Embery-Dennis (Independent)
- U.S. votes against U.N. resolution condemning death penalty for LGBT people; is this who we are? by Charlie May (Salon)
- US defense secretary breaks with Trump in backing Iran nuclear deal by Julian Borger (Guardian)
- Mueller looks for ways to pardon-proof his case against Trump by Mark Sumner (Daily Kos)
- Trump administration backpedals on citizenship for ‘Dreamers’ by Yeganeh Torbati, Richard Cowan (Reuters)
- Mattis contradicts Trump on Iran deal ahead of crucial deadline by Thomas Gibbons-Neff and David E. Sanger (The NY Times)
- Kennedy’s vote is in play on voting maps warped by politics by Adam Liptak and Michael D. Shear (The NY Times)
- Kushner’s personal email moved to Trump organization computers amid public scrutiny by Josh Delk (The Hill)
- John McCain urges Supreme Court to ‘return control of our elections to the people’ by Jennifer Calfas (Time)
- Warren Buffett, Larry Fink criticize Trump tax plan by David Morgan (Reuters)
Analysis
- Trump and Las Vegas: With no Muslims to blame, Twitter troll falls silent by Heather Digby Parton (Salon)
- Did Trump’s White House staff break the law by using private email? I asked 7 legal experts. by Sean Illing (Vox)
- Noam Chomsky Diagnoses the Trump Era by Noam Chomsky & David Barsamian (The Nation)
- Fake news comes to the Supreme Court by Dana Milbank (Washington Post)
- Are Republican Senators justified in being worried about the NRA? by Philip Bump (The Washington Post)