The New York Times

1. Trump’s $1.8 Billion Fund Tests Constitutional Limits

   The deal the president reached with his own subordinates relies on a mechanism created by Congress that legal experts had warned was subject to manipulation.

2. Jan. 6 Police Officers Sue to Block Trump’s Payout Fund

   The two officers accused the administration of creating a “slush fund” to reward rioters and groups that committed violence on behalf of President Trump.

3. Prison to Pardons to Payouts: Jan. 6 Rioters Are Elated at Trump’s $1.8 Billion Fund

   The possibility that people who ransacked the Capitol could get money from the government they attacked is the latest head-spinning twist in President Trump’s effort to rewrite the history of Jan. 6.

4. Cuba Says the Trump Administration Is Not Negotiating in Good Faith

   Cuba’s ambassador to the United Nations said in an interview that Havana wanted to talk but the Trump administration was creating pretexts for military action.

5. Rubio, in Video, Urges Cubans to Align With Trump Administration

   In a rare direct address, Secretary of State Marco Rubio blamed the former leader Raúl Castro for the country’s longstanding electricity and resource shortages.