NBC
- Donald Trump threatens to shut down NBC and other TV news networks that criticise him by Clark Mindock (Independent)
- Trump: ‘Fake NBC News’ nuke story ‘pure fiction’ by Jordan Fabian (The Hill)
- Trump suggests challenging NBC’s broadcast license by Louis Nelson, Margaret Harding McGill (Politico)
- Trump threatens to cancel NBC’s broadcast license over critical reporting by Matthew Yglesias (Vox)
- Trump Threatens to Pull NBC Off the Air Over Scathing Story by Maya Kosoff (Vanity Fair)
- Trump escalates threats against press, calls news coverage ‘frankly disgusting’ by David Nakamura (The Washington Post)
North Korea
- Sen. Chris Murphy: it’s time to take Trump’s threat of war against North Korea seriously by Ezra Klein (Vox)
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US Bombers Are Now Flying Over the Korean Peninsula at Night by David Gilbert (VICE)
- AP-NORC Poll: Most say Trump making NKorea situation worse by Matthew Pennington, Emily Swanson (AP)
Eminem
- Eminem Unleashes Blistering Anti-Trump Rap—and Disowns Pro-Trump Fans by Yohana Desta (Vanity Fair)
- Eminem takes on Trump in emotional, 4-minute-long freestyle by Taylor Link (Salon)
- Eminem Delivers a Critique as Vulgar as the President by Conor Friedersdorf (The Atlantic)
- Before Eminem Gets to Lead #TheResistance, He Has a Hell of a Lot of Explaining to Do by Jay Willis (GQ)
Puerto Rico
- 4 things Congress and the White House could do to stop Puerto Rico’s crisis from getting worse by Alexia Fernández Campbell, Jeff Stein (Vox)
- White House requests $5B to ease Puerto Rico fiscal crisis by Andrew Taylor (AP)
News
- General Kelly and General Mattis Have Apparently Talked About Tackling Trump If He Goes for the Nuclear Football by Jack Moore (GQ)
- ICE’s Captive Immigrant Labor Force by Michelle Chen (The Nation)
- Donald Trump has state visit to UK downgraded ‘and will not be guest of the Queen’ by Jon Sharman (Independent)
- Inspector general launches second investigation into Mnuchin travel habits by Avery Anapol (The Hill)
- Ivanka Trump calls for ‘long-term fix’ for DACA recipients by Julia Manchester (The Hill)
- Trump wanted massive expansion of US nuclear arsenal: report by Avery Anapol (The Hill)
- Trump taps Eric Hargan as acting HHS secretary by Dan Diamond (Politico)
- Trump says could envision trade deal with Canada without Mexico by Roberta Rampton and David Ljunggran (Reuters)
- Democrats officially unveil articles of impeachment against Donald Trump by Andrew Buncombe (Independent)
- Democrat stops just short of forcing House vote on Trump’s impeachment by Mike DeBonis (Washington Post)
- House Democrat unveils articles of impeachment against Trump, but misses chance to force vote by Cristina Marcos (The Hill)
- President Trump Will Nominate White House Aide Kirstjen Nielsen as Secretary of Homeland Security by AP (TIME)
- President Trump Is Sending $1 Million to Las Vegas to Support Police After the Shooting by AP (TIME)
- President Trump Claims His Tax Plan Would Give Most Americans ‘a $4,000 Pay Raise’ by Catherine Lucey, Josh Boak (TIME)
- Trump wages war on the First Amendment by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
- Trump: “It’s frankly disgusting the press is able to write whatever they want” by Andrew Prokop (Vox)
- Trump campaign data firm cooperating with House on Russia inquiry by Elana Schor (Politico)
Analysis
- The GOP Had One Big Divide On Health Care. It Has Three On Taxes. by Perry Bacon Jr. (FiveThirtyEight)
- Trump Challenges Cabinet Member’s IQ, Fights Senator He Needs. What Is Going On? by Mara Liasson, Domenico Montanaro (NPR)
- US demands raise fears that leaving NAFTA could hurt economy by Paul Wiseman (AP)
- Trump does not value or understand how a free press works by Callum Borchers (Washington Post)
- The Infantilization of the President by David A. Graham (The Atlantic)
- How Republicans Got Trump Catastrophically Wrong by Mckay Coppins (The Atlantic)
- “I Hate Everyone in the White House!”: Trump Seethes as Advisers Fear the President Is “Unraveling” by Gabriel Sherman (Vanity Fair)
- The GOP Is Now the White Nationalist Party, and That Isn’t Changing Anytime Soon by Adele M. Stan (The American Prospect)
- ‘He threw a fit’: Trump’s anger over Iran deal forced aides to scramble for a compromise by Anne Gearan (The Washington Post)