The Patriot Post® · Wednesday Top Headlines

• North Korea threatens to cancel U.S. meeting over American military drills with South Korea (Fox News)

• Trump to ease sanctions on Chinese telecom (The Washington Free Beacon)

• Haspel secures enough votes for confirmation to CIA (The Hill)

• U.S. identifies suspect in major leak of CIA hacking tools (The Washington Post)

• Nunes demands to know why Justice Department even opened investigation into Trump campaign (The Washington Times)

• U.S. blocks UN statement calling for probe into Gaza violence (National Review)

• DCCC hit with ethics complaint after secret recording released (The Washington Free Beacon)

• Pennsylvania primary results show surprising Trump strength (Fox News)

• Women sweep to victory in House primaries (Politico)

• Cartels make $500 million a year from smuggling illegal aliens across U.S. border (The Washington Times)

• Starbucks, Amazon panic after leftist Seattle city council passes crippling “head tax” (The Daily Wire)

• Judge overturns California’s doctor-assisted suicide law (NBC News)

• Californication: California STDs raging at all-time highs for third year in a row (NPR)

• New data show California kids’ math achievement took a nosedive after Common Core (The Federalist)

• University stops professor from giving women better grades for being women (The College Fix)

• Humor: Things to do in the newly free bathrooms at Starbucks (PJ Media)

• Policy: Congress is right to consider prison reform (The Daily Signal)

• Policy: Critical amendments for the House farm bill (The Heritage Foundation)

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