McCain
- Trump’s attacks on McCain exacerbate tensions with Senate GOP by Alexander Bolton (The Hill)
- Trump Slammed After Escalating Attacks on McCain: He’s “Beefing With a Dead Man—and Losing” by Inae Oh (Mother Jones)
- Rather than attack Trump, Lindsey Graham attacks Trump critics who defend McCain by Josh Israel (ThinkProgress)
- Washington National Cathedral: John McCain’s Funeral Did Not Require Trump’s OK by Sanjana Karanth (Huffington Post)
Israel /Golan Heights
- Trump: Time for US to recognise Israeli sovereignty over Golan (Al Jazeera)
- Trump to recognize Israel’s sovereignty over Golan Heights by Rebecca Morin (Politico)
- President Trump Backs Israeli Sovereignty Claim Over Golan Heights by Daniella Cheslow (NPR)
- Trump’s Golan Announcement Was No Impulse Tweet by Kathy Gilsinan (The Atlantic)
Border
- Trump mulls deploying emergency disaster workers to detention centers by Niv Elis (The Hill)
- The Trump Administration Is Admitting That Its Border Policies Aren’t Working by Noah Lanard (Mother Jones)
- Marine Corps commandant says deploying troops to the border poses ‘unacceptable risk’ by Molly O’Toole (LA Times)
- Asylum-Seekers Sent Back to Tijuana Under Trump Policy Are Finally Starting to Get Their Day in Court by Fernanda Echavarri (Mother Jones)
Jared Kushner
- Charles Kushner pens op-ed in defense of son Jared by Caitlin Oprysko (Politico)
- The Kingdom and the Kushners: Jared Went to Riyadh. So Did His Brother. by David D. Kirkpatrick (NY Times)
- Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump Continue to Use Unofficial Communications for Government Business by Inae Oh, Dan Friedman (Mother Jones)
- Kushner Used Private Email To Conduct Official Business, House Committee Says by Tim Mak (NPR)
- Cummings demands docs on Kushner’s alleged use of encrypted app for official business by Andrew Desidero, Kyle Cheney (Politico)
Other News
- Acting Defense Secretary Shanahan Investigated Over Ties To Boeing by Mark Katkov (NPR)
- Ex-White House communications director Hope Hicks to cooperate with House Judiciary probe of Trump by Shira Tarlo (Salon)
- Trump’s hyped free speech order will ask colleges to do what they already have to by Benjamin Wermund (Politico)
- Trump’s Acting Defense Secretary Faces Ethics Investigation Over Boeing Ties by Nick Visser (Huffington Post)
- Blue states threaten to drop family planning program over Trump abortion ban by Rachel Roubein, Alice Miranda Ollstein (Politico)
- White House rejects Dem request for documents on Trump-Putin communications by Morgan Chalfont (The Hill)
- Roger Stone invokes Fifth Amendment in House Judiciary document request by Jacqueline Thomsen (The Hill)
- Trump wants Patriots owner Robert Kraft at White House despite prostitution bust by Gabby Orr, Eliana Johnson, and Daniel Lippman (Politico)
- Trump’s Caddy Will Put You in a Chokehold If You Criticize His Boss by Rick Reilly (Politico)’
- Trump’s free speech executive order isn’t about free speech by Zack Beauchamp (Vox)
Analysis
- How Trump is on track for a 2020 landslide by Ben White, Steven Shepard (Politico)
- Why White Supremacist Attacks Are on the Rise, Even in Surprising Places by Brian Levin (TIME)
- Cindy Yang helped Chinese tech stars get $50K photos with Trump. Who paid? by Sarah Blaskey, Nicholas Nehamas, and Caitlin Ostroff (Miami Herald)
Opinion
- By Donald Trump’s Standards, Jared and Ivanka Should Be in Jail by Bess levin (Vanity Fair)