Immigration / ICE / Border
- ICE Reportedly Set Up Fake University With Undercover Agents to Bust Undocumented Immigrants by Lucy Diavolo (Teen Vogue)
- Trump, Democrats battle in early stage of U.S. border security talks by Amanda Becker, Richard Cowan (Reuters)
- US immigration courts face heavy backlog after shutdown by Rob Reynolds (Al Jazeera)
- ICE is force-feeding hunger-striking immigrants in the US: report (Al Jazeera)
- Migrants force-fed at Texas detention centre (BBC)
- Homeland Security Created A Fake University In Michigan As Part Of Immigration Sting by Bill Chappell (NPR)
- Trump doubts deal possible by border security committee (Reuters)
- Trump changes his messaging on wall, falsely claims it’s already being built by Addy Baird (ThinkProgress)
- Trump predicts failure by congressional committee charged with resolving border stalemate by Eric Werner, Seung Min Kim, and John Wagner (Washington Post)
- Trump says it’s ‘highly unlikely’ he’d offer a DACA fix for border wall deal by Caitlyn Oprysko (Politico)
- Trump and Pelosi battle over border wall funding, prompting fears of another government shutdown by Sarah Harvard (Independent)
- DHS Caused Hundreds of Immigrants to Show Up Thursday for Fake Court Dates by Sophie Murguia (Mother Jones)
- Rick Scott wants Trump to bypass Congress for a wall and DACA using illegal executive orders by Josh Israel (ThinkProgress)
- Trump inches closer to declaring emergency for wall as negotiations stall by David Smith (The Guardian)
- ICE Confirms Force-Feeding Of Detainees On Hunger Strike by Vanessa Romo, Reynaldo Leaños Jr. (NPR)
- House Democrats offering less money for a wall this year than in 2018 omnibus by Jennifer Schutt (Roll Call)
China
- Trump: China trade talks going well, will meet Xi in near future (Al Jazeera)
- Trump says wants big trade deal with China or will ‘postpone’ it (Reuters)
- US-China hail trade-talks progress as Trump touts Xi meeting (Al Jazeera)
Other News
- Michael Bloomberg’s Secret Plans to Take Down Trump by Edward-Isaac Dovere (The Atlantic)
- Trump’s Ag Secretary Just Skirted the Senate to Appoint These Corporate Flacks by Tom Philpott (Mother Jones)
- New Data Shows How the U.S. Ban on Global Funds for Abortion Spectacularly Backfires by Rosa Furneaux (Mother Jones)
- Trump Is Finalizing a Nuclear Option That Could Split the G.O.P. by Eric Lutz (Vanity Fair)
- Trump accuses Schumer of being ‘weak and passive’ on Iran by Rebecca Morin (Politico)
- Trump’s Third Chief Of Staff Is Already Planning His Escape by Bess Levin (Vanity Fair)
- Reps. Beyer, Lieu ask Mulvaney to immediately revoke Kushner’s security clearance by Lindsey McPherson (Roll Call)
- Senate rebukes Trump’s plan to withdraw U.S. forces from Syria, Afghanistan by Karoun Demirjian (Washington Post)
- Mitch McConnell Calls Push to Make Election Day a Holiday a Democratic ‘Power Grab’ by Matthew Haag (NY Times)
- Roger Stone: Mueller investigation seizes ‘voluminous and complex’ evidence from former Trump campaign official by Sarah Harvard (Independent)
- Trump backs down in US intelligence chiefs row after claiming he hadn’t read ‘complete’ testimony on Iran and North Korea by Clark Mindock (Independent)
- U.S. Court Orders Syria To Pay $300 Million For Killing Of Journalist Marie Colvin by Laurel Wamsley (NPR)
- US Senate rebukes Trump over Syria, Afghanistan troop withdrawals by William Roberts (Al Jazeera)
- US envoy calls for full list of North Korean weapons programmes (Al Jazeera)
- US envoy Stephen Biegun reveals North Korea nuclear pledge (BBC)
- The Report on Afghanistan That Trump Wanted “Locked Up” Was Just Released by Dan Spinelli (Mother Jones)
- Trump’s Intelligence Chiefs Contradicted Him on Live TV. Naturally He’s Blaming the Media. by Dan Spinelli (Mother Jones)
- In Reversal, Trump Now Claims He’s on the ‘Same Page’ as His Intelligence Chiefs by Matthew Daly (TIME)
- Democrats Announce Hearing On Trump’s Tax Returns by Paul Blumenthal, Arthur Delaney (Huffington Post)
- Trump to throw spotlight on abortion in State of the Union by Gabby Orr, Andrew Restuccia (Politico)
- Leaked documents contradict NRA’s claim about trip to Moscow arranged by Maria Butina by Igor Derysh (Salon)
- Today Is a Huge Day in the Fight to Restore Net Neutrality by April Glaser (Slate)
- Trump enters the 2020 election cycle with a massive fundraising lead over Democrats by Michelle Ye Hee Lee and
Analysis
- America Isn’t Really Set Up For Third-Party Presidential Bids by Geoffrey Skelley (FiveThirtyEight)
- Trump claims his intelligence chiefs said they were ‘totally misquoted.’ They spoke in public. by Aaron Blake (Washington Post)
Opinion
- Mitch McConnell, Enemy of the Vote by Jamil Smith (Rolling Stone)