The Patriot Post® · Wednesday Top Headlines

• House passes nearly $700 billion defense authorization bill (The Washington Post)

• GOP targets ObamaCare mandate repeal in Senate tax bill (The Hill)

• Sessions: Not enough basis to appoint a second special counsel to investigate Hillary Clinton (CNS News)

• Sessions testifies again on Capitol Hill (Fox News)

• Thanks SPLC hate map? Wrong North Carolina church burned by leftist hate group (PJ Media)

• Chicago’s Rahm Emanuel is latest gender pay gap hypocrite, says new report (The Washington Free Beacon)

• RNC cuts ties with Roy Moore campaign (Roll Call)

• Just in time… House to adopt mandatory anti-sexual harassment training (Associated Press)

• Democrat governors outsource climate campaigns to activist groups, emails reveal (The Washington Times)

• VOA will fire employees for interviewing Chinese dissidents (The Washington Free Beacon)

• Policy: The data show the ObamaCare mandate is a dismal failure (The Daily Signal)

• Policy: Do states have a role in making climate policy? No (Manhattan Institute)

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