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August 18, 2017

Friday Top Headlines

  • Barcelona terror attack: At least 13 dead after van plows into crowd; suspect arrested. (Fox News)

  • Second attack: Spanish police kill four terror suspects in town of Cambrils. (Hot Air)

  • Several people hurt in stabbing in Turku, Finland. (CBS News)

  • CNN’s “hate groups” map puts conservative lives at risk. (The Daily Signal)

  • Apple donates $1 million to Southern Poverty Law Center, claims Trump equated “Nazis and those who oppose them.” (CNS News)

  • Nancy Pelosi calls on Paul Ryan to immediately remove Confederate statues from Capitol — statues she left up while she was speaker. (CNS News)

  • Seattle Mayor Ed Murray calls for removal of Confederate monument, Vladimir Lenin statue. (The Seattle Times)

  • Abraham Lincoln monument torched in Chicago: “An absolute disgraceful act.” (The Washington Times)

  • ACLU blames cops for Charlottesville violence. (Reason)

  • Organization that murders 200,000 people of color each year takes stand against racism. (The Babylon Bee)

  • Former IT staffer for Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Imran Awan, indicted for bank fraud. (Washington Examiner)

  • Judge in Tea Party case orders IRS to disclose employee names, reasons. (The Washington Times)

  • American Bar Association wants to let undocumented immigrants practice law. (Law Newz)

  • Feds spend $438,699 studying if “gender norms” make LGBTQ people get drunk. (The Washington Free Beacon)

  • The trans juggernaut wants your kids, and public schools are just the beginning. (The Federalist)

  • Policy: How the mainstream media gets hate wrong. (The Daily Signal)

  • Policy: The Democrats’ broken ObamaCare premium promise. (Republican National Committee)

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