The Patriot Post® · Wednesday Top Headlines

• 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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