Immigration / Border
- Trump Administration Faces 2 Legal Challenges For Asylum Restrictions by Richard Gonzales (NPR)
- Shouting ‘Mexico First,’ Hundreds In Tijuana March Against Migrant Caravan by James Fredrick (NPR)
- U.S. judge questions Trump administration on asylum policy by Dan Levine (Reuters)
- Troops at U.S.-Mexican border to start coming home by Wesley Morgan (Politico)
- Opinion: A Functional Immigration System Would Look Nothing Like America’s by Krishnadev Calamur (Atlantic)
- Trump ready to begin drawdown of troops at US-Mexico border by David Smith and Sarah Kinosian (Guardian)
- Opinion: Trump’s Border Stunt Is a Profound Betrayal of Our Military by Gordon Adams, Lawrence B. Wilkerson and Isaiah Wilson III (NY Times)
- Judge bans US from enforcing Trump asylum ban by Nomaan Merchant (The Washington Post)
- The Trump Administration Just Made It Easier to Deport Survivors of Human Trafficking and Domestic Abuse by Kanyakrit Vongkiatkajorn (Mother Jones)
CNN / Acosta
- White House says it still plans to revoke access for CNN’s Acosta by Caitlin Oprysko (Politico)
- White House Threatens to Again Revoke Jim Acosta’s Press Pass Once Judge’s Order Expires by AP (TIME)
- White House drops bid to revoke Acosta’s press pass by Jordan Fabian (The Hill)
- Jim Acosta: White House backs down in fight over CNN reporter’s pass by Joanna Walters (Guardian)
Mueller / Whitaker
- Trump to give Mueller written answers by Thanksgiving by Eliana Johnson, Darren Samuelsohn (Politico)
- Democrats file major lawsuit against Trump’s appointment of Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general by Chris Riotta (Independent)
- Senate Democrats sue over Trump’s Whitaker appointment (Al Jazeera)
- Analysis: Fact-checking Trump’s latest claims about Whitaker and Mueller by Marshall Cohen (CNN)
- As challenges multiply to appointment of acting AG, Supreme Court is asked to weigh in by Debra Cassens Weiss (ABA Journal)
Pelosi
- Pelosi’s bid for speaker imperiled as public opposition grows by Rachael Bade, Heather Caygle, John Bresnahan (Politico)
- 16 Democrats Sign Letter Against Nancy Pelosi as Speaker. But the Effort Could be Losing Momentum by Alana Abramson (TIME)
White House Correspondents’ Dinner
- White House Correspondents’ Dinner Won’t Feature Comedian For First Time In 16 Years by Jenna Amatulli (Huffington Post)
- The 2019 White House Correspondents’ Dinner Will Drop Political Comedy in Favor of a Historian Host by Isabel Torrealba (Slate)
- No more laughs as White House Correspondents dinner turns to a historian by Michael M. Grynbaum (The NY Times)
Other News
- Everything’s Political to Trump, Even Killing Osama Bin Laden by Andrew Kragie (The Atlantic)
- The Supreme Court just took up the first big voting rights case of the Kavanaugh era by Ian Millhiser (ThinkProgress)
- The more you distrust the media, the more likely you’ll fall for fake news, study shows by Zack Ford (ThinkProgress)
- Trump tries to shore up Hyde-Smith as controversy swirls around her Senate bid by Rebecca Morin (Politico)
- Trump Repeatedly Attacks Navy SEAL Who Led Bin Laden Raid, Arguing Bin Laden Should Have Been Captured “A Lot Sooner” by Molly Olmstead (Slate)
- FBI now classifies far-right Proud Boys as ‘extremist group’, documents say by Jason Wilson (Guardian)
- Ivanka Trump used a personal email account to send hundreds of emails about government business last year by Carol Leonig and Josh Dawsey (Washington Post)
Analysis
- Black Voters Propelled Blue Wave, Study Finds by Stephanie Akin (Roll Call)