April 18, 2018

Wednesday Top Headlines

Tax filing extended, tax cuts permanent, FBI agent faces prison, Starbucks race training, and more.

  • Barbara Bush, former first lady, dead at 92 (Fox News)

  • Taxpayers are getting an extra day to file because of an IRS technical glitch (NBC News)

  • Cruz introduces legislation to make individual tax cuts permanent (The Washington Free Beacon)

  • Feds taxed and borrowed $4.47 trillion since last tax day; $12,737 for every man, woman, child in U.S. (CNS News)

  • McConnell quashes Trump’s plan to claw back spending deal (The Hill)

  • Mike Pompeo secretly met with Kim Jong-un to set up Trump meeting (The Washington Times)

  • Report: North and South Korea prepared to declare end of war (National Review)

  • FBI agent faces prison after pleading guilty to leaking classified documents to media — Hillary Clinton and James Comey had no comment (The Daily Wire)

  • Judge buys FBI’s bogus rationale for hiding leaked Comey memos (The Federalist)

  • Starbucks to close 8,000 stores for an afternoon to give staff “racial-bias” training (ABC News)

  • Philadelphia Starbucks customer: Supposedly racist manager “is an SJW feminist of the highest order’ (The Daily Wire)

  • Dick’s Sporting Goods will destroy assault-style rifles pulled from shelves (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

  • Supreme Court punts on data privacy case, thanks to the terrible CLOUD Act (Reason)

  • Tennessee legislature removes $250,000 dedicated to Memphis in budget as punishment for Confederate statue removal (The Tennessean)

  • One of the first Navy female fighter pilots — a devout Christian — landed Southwest flight with blown engine (The Daily Caller)

  • Policy: How to rein in student mobs (National Review)

  • Policy: Facebook’s use of data may annoy you, but IRS handling of your sensitive information is truly chilling (Reason)

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