John Dean
- Watergate Figure John Dean Testifies On Monday And Trump Is Already Freaking Out by Ed Mazza (Huffington Post)
- Former Watergate Star Witness John Dean Set to Testify at House Hearing on Presidential Obstruction by Mary Clare Jalonick (TIME)
- Full text: Watergate’s John Dean gives statement on potential Trump obstruction (Politico)
- Democrats begin Mueller hearings with Watergate-era witness by Morgan Chalfant, Olivia Beavers (The Hill)
Mueller / Barr
- US Justice Department to provide Mueller evidence: Top Democrat (Al Jazeera)
- Justice Department to provide Mueller evidence to Congress: Nadler by Andy Sullivan, Makini Brice (Reuters)
- House Contempt Vote Against The Attorney General: What You Need To Know by Philip Ewing (NPR)
- House delays legal action against Barr as Dems secure ‘key’ Mueller evidence by Andrew Desidero, Kyle Cheney (Politico)
- House Democrats To Get Some Mueller Report Material, But Contempt Vote Is Still On by Philip Ewing (NPR)
- Trump administration buckles and agrees to give Congress key Mueller evidence by Andrew Buncombe (Independent)
- Nadler reaches deal with Justice on Mueller documents on eve of contempt vote by Olivia Beavers and Morgan Chalfont (The Hill)
Mexico
- Mexico says U.S. migration deal could draw in other Latam countries by Dave Graham (Reuters)
- Trump threatens new tariffs over a deal that Mexico says doesn’t exist by Rebekah Entralgo (ThinkProgress)
- Trump’s possibly fake deal with Mexico, explained by Matthew Yglesias (Vox)
- Opinion: Our Great Patriot Leader claims another illusory win by Max Boot (Washington Post)
- No Secret Immigration Deal Exists With U.S., Mexico’s Foreign Minister Says by Michael D. Shear and Maggie Haberman (NY Times)
- Trump renews Mexico tariff threat amid row over migration deal (Al Jazeera)
China
- Trump ready to slap new tariffs on China after G20 meeting by Doina Chiacu, Stella Qiu (Reuters)
- Trump Threatens Additional China Tariffs if President Xi Jinping Doesn’t Meet With Him by AP (TIME)
- It looks like the US has abandoned any pretense that its war on Huawei is totally unrelated to the China trade talks by Isobel Asher Hamilton (Business Insider)
Other News
- US embassies defy Trump administration orders not to fly LGBT+ flags by Carol Morello (Independent)
- Jared Kushner’s Company Curiously Raked in $90 Million Since He Joined the White House by Luke Darby (GQ)
- Trump accuses the Fed of making a ‘big mistake’ with its interest rate hikes by Caitlin Oprysko (Politico)
- Trump’s Russia Ambassador Wants to Come Home by Mckay Coppins (The Atlantic)
- There is bipartisan support to stop Trump from selling arms to Saudi Arabia by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
- President Trump Hints at His Next Trade War Target: French Wine by Terrence Dopp, Margaret Talev (TIME)
- Daughter of Fierce Kavanaugh Defender Amy Chua to Clerk for … Brett Kavanaugh by Jeremy Stahl (Slate)
- Trump administration intentionally slowing approval of immigrant work permits, lawsuit alleges by Lorelei Laird (ABA Journal)
- Homeland Security watchdog retires early after his office was forced to retract ‘feel-good’ audits of disaster response by Lisa Rein and Kimberly Kindy (Washington Post)
- US ‘now a full-fledged banana republic’ after Mitch McConnell wife $78m grants revelation by Chris Baynes (Independent)
- Grants for projects favored by McConnell raise ethical questions for Elaine Chao: report by Chris Mills Rodrigo (The Hill)
- The Koch Brothers Want to Prevent Future AOCs by Luke Darby (GQ)
- Trump Administration Taps Hardliner Cuccinelli For Top Immigration Job by Joel Rose (NPR)
- McConnell’s Wife Gave Him a Special Reelection Present: $78 Million in Federal Funding by Bess Levin (Vanity Fair)
- Ginsburg says Kennedy’s retirement was ‘event of greatest consequence’ for current term by Debra Cassens Weiss (ABA Journal)
Opinion
- Pelosi and Schumer Are Playing Too Nice by Jamelle Bouie (NY Times)
- Justice Breyer Raises Specter of Perpetual Detention Without Trial at Guantánamo by Charlie Savage and Carol Rosenberg (NY Times)