Gender / Trans Rights
- The Trump administration reportedly wants the government to revoke civil rights protections from transgender people by Emily Stewart (Vox)
- The Trump Administration Wants to Narrow the Definition of Gender Identity by Edwin Rios (Mother Jones)
- Transgender rights at risk as Trump weighs a narrowed legal view on gender by Adam Rosenberg (Mashable)
- Trump Administration Is Considering New Rules to Flat Out Deny Transgender Identity by Daniel Politi (Slate)
- Report: The Trump Administration Wants to Define Gender at Birth by Kerensa Cadenas (Vanity Fair)
- Trump administration trying to define transgender out of existence: NY Times by Daniel Trotta (Reuters)
- LGBTQ groups to rally in response to NYT report on Trump’s gender policy proposal by Emily Birnbaum (The Hill)
- Trump administration trying to define transgender out of existence Reuters (The Guardian)
- How Republicans Laid the Groundwork for Trump’s Assault on Transgender Existence by Evan Urquhart (Slate)
Russia Nuclear Arms Treaty
- 5 things to know about threatened US-Russia nuclear weapons deal (Al Jazeera)
- U.S. To End Cold War-Era Nuclear Arms Treaty With Russia, Trump Says by James Doubek (NPR)
- Russia slams US withdrawal from arms treaty as ‘blackmail’ by Jakob Hanke (Politico)
- Russia: U.S. Withdrawal From Nuclear Treaty Would Be A ‘Very Dangerous Step’ by Dominique Mosbergen (Huffington Post)
- Trump says U.S. to exit landmark nuclear arms pact, Russia threatens retaliation (Reuters)
- Russia Threatens Retaliation After Trump Vows to Exit Landmark Nuclear Arms Treaty by Daniel Politi (Slate)
Saudi Arabia / Khashoggi
- Saudi official gives new version of Khashoggi killing: Report (Al Jazeera)
- Republican Senators Doubt Saudi Arabia’s Account Of Jamal Khashoggi’s Death by Hayley Miller (Huffington Post)
- Jamal Khashoggi: Trump administration privately doubts Saudi Arabia and worries Jared Kushner’s close relationship is a ‘liability’ by John Hudson, Anne Gearan, Josh Dawsey (Independent)
- Jamal Khashoggi: UK, France and Germany ‘urgently’ demand clarification of ‘exactly what happened’ in Saudi consulate by Tom Barnes, Chris Baynes (Independent)
- Congressional Leaders Reject Saudi Arabia’s Story of Jamal Khashoggi’s Death by Mark Niquette (TIME)
- “Pompeo did not handle this well”: The diplomatic community fumes at Trump’s response to Jamal Khashoggi by Abigail Tracy (Vanity Fair)
- Jamal Khashoggi: Saudis blame ‘rogues’ as pressure on crown prince grows by Jon Swaine (The Guardian)
- Saudi Arabia calls Khashoggi killing ‘grave mistake,’ says prince not aware by Doina Chiacu, Kylie MacLellan (Reuters)
- Jamal Khashoggi death: Saudi Arabia says journalist was murdered (BBC)
- “Pompeo did not handle this well”: the diplomatic community fumes at Trump’s response to Jamal Khashoggi by Abigail Tracy (Vanity fair)
Immigration / Migrant Caravan
- Migrant caravan on the move from Mexico-Guatemala border (BBC)
- Caravan of Central American Migrants Swells to 5,000 as It Advances Toward U.S. by Mark Stevenson, Sonia Perez D (TIME)
- President Trump Calls Migrant Caravan a ‘Disgrace to the Democratic Party’ by Alejandro de la Garza (TIME)
- Watch 5,000 Central American Migrants Walk to the United States by Edwin Rios (Mother Jones)
- Migrant Caravan Grows as it Continues Push Toward the United States by Daniel Politi (Slate)
Other News
- Trump says there’s another tax cut on the way. We have no idea what he’s talking about. by Emily Stewart (Vox)
- Brett Kavanaugh: Witches placed mass hex on Supreme Court Justice during New York protest ritual by Peter Stubley (Independent)
- Trump’s new ambassador to South Africa happens to be a Mar-a-Lago member by Casey Michel (ThinkProgress)
- Trump approval jumps ahead of Obama’s midterm approval rating by Emily Birnbaum (The Hill)
- Trump Tweets That a Blue Wave in November Would Hurt the Economy by Edwin Rios (Mother Jones)
- Trump administration admits Trump’s claim that Obama had his ‘wires tapped’ wasn’t based on evidence by Frank Dale (ThinkProgress)
Opinion
- Fixing a broken process for nominating US Supreme Court justices by E. Donald Elliot (Salon)
- ‘Toxic Christianity’: the evangelicals creating champions for Trump by Harriet Sherwood (The Guardian)