Top Items:
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
F.B.I. Agent at Center of Russia Probe Turns Tables on G.O.P. — WASHINGTON — The embattled F.B.I. agent who oversaw the opening of the Russia investigation mounted an aggressive personal defense on Thursday, rejecting accusations that he let his private political views bias his official actions …
Discussion:
JustOneMinute and Political Wire
RELATED:
Joe DePaolo / Mediaite:
Strzok's House Judiciary Hearing Plunges Into Absolute Chaos As Lawmakers Exchange Heated Barbs — Thursday's House Judiciary Committee testimony from FBI agent Peter Strzok descended into absolute chaos shortly after the opening statements. — Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) was the first to question the agent.
CNN:
Partisan shouting match erupts at FBI agent Peter Strzok hearing
Discussion:
Vox, Washington Post, Washington Examiner, Washington Monthly, Fox News, Wall Street Journal, Splinter, The Week and Washington Free Beacon
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
FBI agent Strzok defiant in face of Republican interrogation
Discussion:
Axios, ABC News, Breitbart and The Gateway Pundit
Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
FBI agent: My work has never been tainted by political bias
Discussion:
Roll Call, Raw Story and Blazing Cat Fur
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Fireworks at Strzok hearing as GOP reps fume at anti-Trump FBI agent, threaten contempt
Discussion:
Louder With Crowder
Washington Post:
Trump upends NATO summit, demanding immediate spending increases or he will ‘do his own thing’ — BRUSSELS — President Trump upended the NATO summit here Thursday by calling an emergency meeting of leaders and threatening that if all member countries do not immediately increase …
Discussion:
Online NewsHour, Bloomberg, Mother Jones, Hullabaloo, Salon, Shakesville, NBC News, The American Conservative, Raw Story, The Atlantic, CNN, twitchy.com, NPR, The Week, Axios, New York Times and ThinkProgress
RELATED:
Politico:
Trump's whiplash NATO summit — Donald Trump unleashed havoc at NATO on Thursday, threatening to pull out if America's allies don't boost military spending then praising the alliance as a “fine-tuned machine.” — The president disoriented NATO leaders for the entire two-day meeting …
Fox News:
Trump dubs himself ‘stable genius,’ calls NATO summit a success
Discussion:
Fox News Insider, Louder With Crowder, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, POLITICUSUSA and AOL
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump leaves European allies spinning after NATO summit
Discussion:
Washington Post, Raw Story and The Week
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Prosecutors drop criminal case against porn star Stormy Daniels hours after strip-club arrest — Prosecutors in Columbus, Ohio, on Thursday dropped all criminal charges against porn star Stormy Daniels, hours after police arrested her for alleged illegal physical contact with patrons at a local strip club during a peformance there.
Discussion:
Law & Crime, NPR and fox8.com
RELATED:
CNN:
Stormy Daniels arrested at Ohio strip club. Her attorney calls it a setup. — (CNN)Adult film actress Stormy Daniels was arrested early Thursday at an Ohio strip club for allegedly touching patrons on stage in violation of state law. — Daniels, who gained notoriety …
Hailey Fuchs / Yale Daily News:
A sports junkie who ate pasta with ketchup: Law school friends reflect on Kavanaugh's time at YLS — In the days following the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh '87 LAW '90 to the U.S. Supreme Court, Democrats have condemned President Donald Trump's pick as an enemy of the left.
Discussion:
Daily Wire, twitchy.com and Washington Post
RELATED:
Just Security:
Setting the Record Straight: Brett Kavanaugh's Views on Criminal Investigation of the President
Discussion:
Axios
Amy Brittain / Washington Post:
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh piled up credit card debt by purchasing Nationals tickets, White House says
Discussion:
The Atlantic, Daily Wire, Fox News, Washington Free Beacon, ThinkProgress, TheBlaze, SCOTUSblog, NewsWars, RedState, Chicks On The Right, NewsBusters, Betsy's Page, Patterico's Pontifications, USA Today, twitchy.com, The Last Tradition, Breitbart, Washington Times, Bloomberg, HuffPost, The Week, POLITICUSUSA, The Daily Caller, Vox, Deadspin, WIS-TV, AOL, Hot Air, Mediaite and CNN
Bloomberg:
North Koreans Are No Show at U.S. War Dead Talks, Yonhap Reports — American officials kept waiting on militarized border — Latest sign of tension after Pompeo's visit last weekend — North Korean officials didn't show up for a planned meeting with U.S. counterparts to discuss returning …
Discussion:
Wall Street Journal, NewsWars, Politico and The Week
RELATED:
Adam Taylor / Washington Post:
North Korean officials no-show for meeting about U.S. troop remains — SEOUL — North Korean officials did not turn up to a Thursday meeting with the U.S. military about repatriating the remains of the war dead, according to a U.S. official with knowledge of the situation.
Discussion:
Politico, Townhall, Stars & Stripes, Yonhap News Agency, Breitbart, Mother Jones, Daily Kos and Task & Purpose
Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
North Koreans Are No-Shows at Meeting to Discuss U.S. Soldiers' Remains
Discussion:
TheBlaze, Shareblue Media and MSNBC
Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Trump wants tough new Air Force One paint job — President Trump wants to update the paint job on the next version of Air Force One, ditching the iconic robin's-egg blue (which he calls a “Jackie Kennedy color") for a bolder, “more American” look. — The big picture …
Discussion:
New Republic, AOL, Hit & Run, WGNO, Hullabaloo, Joe.My.God., The Week, WREG-TV and FOX6Now.com
RELATED:
Renae Reints / Fortune:
Trump Wants to Make Air Force One Look “More American”
Discussion:
Breitbart
Katherine Clarke / Wall Street Journal:
Michael Cohen Purchases New York City Apartment for $6.7 Million — Donald Trump's former personal lawyer financed the purchase with a mortgage from the developers, according to public records — Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's former personal lawyer who is under federal investigation …
Discussion:
The Real Deal New York
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
‘Roe v. Wade’ Movie Crew Member Assaulted Reporter … A crew member of a controversial anti-abortion movie stole my notes while I reported from a shooting location in Washington, D.C. on Thursday morning. — It was the latest embarrassment for the production of the movie, entitled Roe v. Wade.
Discussion:
New York Daily News
RELATED:
Megan Brenan / Gallup:
Nearly Two-Thirds of Americans Want Roe v. Wade to Stand — WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the U.S. Senate prepares to hold confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, the public is strongly opposed to any attempts to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that made abortion legal nationwide.
Discussion:
Washington Monthly, Politico, Outside the Beltway, Political Wire and National Review
Lisa W. Foderaro / New York Times:
Ocasio-Cortez Highlights How Third-Party Quirks Can Muddle Elections — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's political star has risen so high, she can win a primary election without trying — or apparently even knowing. — Last month, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, 28, unleashed a political tsunami of sorts …
Discussion:
Townhall, CNN, The Week, Washington Post, Politico, Axios, National Review, Bustle, Gothamist, naked capitalism, ThinkProgress, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, VICE News, Washington Times, Roll Call, The Daily Beast, Common Dreams, Washington Free Beacon, twitchy.com, The Daily Caller, Mediaite and Chicks On The Right
RELATED:
Lisa W. Foderaro / New York Times:
Ocasio-Cortez Confronts Crowley Over His ‘Third-Party Challenge’
Discussion:
twitchy.com
Tim Mak / NPR:
Russian Influence Campaign Sought To Exploit Americans' Trust In Local News — Russia's information attack against the United States during the 2016 election cycle sought to take advantage of the greater trust that Americans tend to place in local news. — The information operatives …
Discussion:
Axios, Boing Boing and Political Wire, more at Mediagazer »
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Trump's top Hill aide leaving White House amid Supreme Court battle — Marc Short, Trump's director of legislative affairs, is leaving later this month to join a D.C. consulting firm and teach at UVA. — President Donald Trump's legislative affairs director is heading for the exits …
Discussion:
Talking Points Memo, Axios, Washington Post, MSNBC, CNBC, Joe.My.God. and Mediaite
RELATED:
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Manafort moved to Alexandria jail — Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was moved Thursday to a jail in Alexandria, Virginia, just outside Washington, to await a criminal trial set to open later this month, jail officials confirmed. — U.S. District Court Judge T.S. Ellis III …
Discussion:
Raw Story, ABC News and The Daily Beast
RELATED:
Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Paul Manafort moves to Alexandria jail, a past home to spies and terrorists
Discussion:
POLITICUSUSA and Washingtonian
Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
Nunes leaves in middle of hearing following questions on Russia probe — Democrats on the House Rules Committee expressed frustration when House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes — (R-Calif.) was allowed to leave a panel hearing on a bill before they could ask questions …
Discussion:
Hill Reporter and CNN
Tom Burgis / Financial Times:
Tower of secrets: the Russian money behind a Donald Trump skyscraper — One October day in 2007, a celebrity real estate developer in a greatcoat and powder-blue tie alighted from a stretch limousine in Toronto's financial district. Before a bank of photographers, he took hold of a golden shovel.
Discussion:
Raw Story
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
What America could do with European levels of military spending — President Trump excoriated the country's European allies over their defense budgets on Wednesday, demanding they increase their military spending to levels closer to the United States. — But if the United States instead tried lowering …
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Paul Ryan's pathetic excuse for not challenging Trump on trade, explained — This is not how Congress works. — Speaking to reporters Thursday morning at the Economic Club of Washington, House Speaker Paul Ryan had three clear messages on trade: He thinks the Trump administration's trade wars …
Discussion:
Politico
Saleha Mohsin / Bloomberg:
Treasury Struggles to Keep Staff in Unit at Heart of Trade War — International affairs office has lost about 20 career staffers — Departures come as Trump escalates trade tensions abroad — About 20 career staff have quit the U.S. Treasury Department's international affairs unit …
Discussion:
Political Wire
CNN:
Officer resigns after not helping woman harassed for wearing a Puerto Rico flag shirt — (CNN)An Illinois police officer has resigned after being criticized for not intervening as a man harassed a woman for wearing a Puerto Rican flag shirt. — In the incident caught on video …
Discussion:
KTLA, CBS Chicago and fox8.com
Amber Jamieson / BuzzFeed:
A Child And Parent Who May Be US Citizens Are Still Separated More Than A Year After Crossing The Border — The child is one of 46 children under the age of 5 who have yet to be reunited with their families despite a federal court order. — A child under the age of 5 remains detained …
Output Producer, CA — 
China Markets Correspondent, Shanghai — 
Senior Assignment Editor, DC — 
Breaking News Editor, Tokyo — 
Senior Correspondent - Wealth, NY — 
Reporter - Ottawa Bureau — 
Local Government Reporter, IA — 
Research Director, CA — 
Immigration Enforcement Reporter — 
Presque Island Reporter, ME — 
Contributing Parks Ed. - SW, CA — 
AI Content Editor, WA — 
Legislative Reporter, TN — 
Editorial Assistant, Remote US — 
Elon Musk Reporter, NY or CA — 
Government & Politics Editor, WA — 
Business & GA Reporter. VT — 
Sports Reporter, WA — 
Energy Reporter, TX — 
Senior Reporter, SC — 
Trade & Climate Correspondent, DC — 
Reporter, WI — 
Political Newsletter Writer, CO — 
Jackson Reporter, MS — 
Music Editor, AZ — 
Breaking News Reporter, NV — 
Fearless Reporter/Producer, IA — 
Reporter II - Technology, Remote — 
Editor, Remote US — 
City Reporter, WA — 
Executive Editor, OR — 
Education & Budget Reporter, CA — 
Senior Writer/Editor, FL — 
Media Editor, Remote — 
