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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