• Senate Republicans close to pushing through ObamaCare repeal (The Washington Times)

• States need $645 billion to pay full health care costs (Paywall — The Wall Street Journal)

• Report: Cutting $2.3 trillion of government waste would balance the budget in three years (The Washington Free Beacon)

• Mexico earthquake death toll surpasses 200 (Fox News)

• Maria slams ashore in Puerto Rico as a Category 4 hurricane (Bloomberg)

• Right-to-work scores a major win in Wisconsin (Hot Air)

• Gun-control activists to pour another million dollars into Virginia state elections (The Washington Free Beacon)

• The Coast Guard has set a new record for cocaine seizures at sea for the second consecutive year (The Washington Post)

• San Diego State University students get extra credit for calculating their “white privilege” (The Daily Wire)

• Venezuelan price controls lead to predictable shortages (Reason)

• Policy: Defanging identity fraud by verifying identities (American Enterprise Institute)

• Policy: Finally, some common sense Western fire policies (Heartland Institute)

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