• Trump announces five more judges to be considered for Supreme Court (The Washington Times)

• Move to curtail “blue slips” gives the president, and successors, wide leeway in picks for federal bench (The Wall Street Journal)

• Secretive liberal donor network to ramp up efforts to elect far-left district attorneys (The Washington Free Beacon)

• Mueller requests DOJ hand over documents related to James Comey firing (ABC News)

• Border agent killed, another injured during attack near Texas border; Trump renews call for the wall (Fox News)

• Dying WWII vet laughed at, neglected by caregivers (Hot Air)

• Hillary praises Bill for staying off Twitter as president — before it was created (The Daily Wire)

• Al Franken “reflecting” with family but has no intention of resigning (Star Tribune)

• Patty Murray condemns Franken, but she campaigned for Ted Kennedy (The Washington Times)

• EPA spending $1.2 million on “environmental justice” (The Washington Free Beacon)

• Charles Manson, the ‘60s cult leader/mass murderer, dies at 83 (New York Post)

• Florida church warns at every door “we are heavily armed” (Fox News)

• Merkel fourth term in doubt as German coalition talks fail (Reuters)

• A 20-year trail of voter fraud in Maryland (Hot Air)

• Humor: Navy’s new recruiting ad promises aviators adventure, ability to draw phallic symbols in the sky (Duffel Blog)

• Policy: Could porn be one explanation for sexual predators like Louis C.K.? (Institute for Family Studies)

• Policy: The coming tax-cut boom (Investor’s Business Daily)

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