January 2, 2018

Tuesday Top Headlines

GOP tax cuts have political and economic effects, U.S. cuts UN budget, bake the cake fine final, and more.

  • GOP business tax cuts force other countries to compete (National Review)

  • Democrats build cynical political case against tax bill but don’t call for repeal so as to keep it as a divisive campaign issue (The Washington Post)

  • Nearly 450,000 people fled these three deep blue states In 2017 (The Daily Caller)

  • Trump: “Time for change” in Iran; “The U.S. is watching” (CNS News)

  • How Islamic State’s caliphate crumbled (The Wall Street Journal)

  • Haley: We cut almost $300 million from UN budget (Hot Air)

  • Secret document reveals China covertly offering missiles, increased aid to North Korea (The Washington Free Beacon)

  • Trump administration releases final 2017 report on incarcerated illegal immigrants (The Daily Signal)

  • Five Colorado officers shot, one fatally, in “ambush-type” attack (Daily News)

  • Baltimore breaks city record for killings per capita in 2017 (Associated Press)

  • Appeals court rules bakers must pay $135,000 for not making wedding cake (The Daily Signal)

  • Stock markets wrap up best year since 2013 (The Washington Post)

  • Policy: What the U.S. should do as protests escalate in Iran (The Daily Signal)

  • Policy: The Greatest Generation and the greatest illusion (City Journal)

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