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June 1, 2018

Friday Top Headlines

Jobs report, tariffs and NAFTA, Mueller’s spending, asset forfeiture horror, and more.

  • Payrolls rose 223,000 in May while the unemployment rate fell to an 18-year low of 3.8% (CNBC)

  • E-commerce retail sales up 95% in five years (CNS News)

  • Trump threatens NAFTA after imposing tariffs on U.S. allies to punish “unfair competition” (The Washington Times)

  • Mueller probe spending tops $17 million (Politico)

  • Former Obama DNI James Clapper: No “smoking gun” evidence of collusion (The Daily Caller)

  • Prosecutors interview Comey as they investigate whether McCabe should be charged (The Washington Post)

  • Grassley: Fusion GPS founder’s testimony “extremely misleading” if not “outright lie” (National Review)

  • Google lists “Nazism” as the ideology of the California Republican Party (Vice News)

  • Federal employees sue Trump over executive order restricting union activity (The Hill)

  • TSA and Border Patrol stole a man’s life savings but never charged him with a crime (Washington Examiner)

  • Samantha Bee to be honored by the TV Academy one day after calling Ivanka Trump a “c—t” on TBS (CNS News)

  • Dick’s shocked to find its gun sales plummeting after anti-gun moves (Hot Air)

  • Virginia Democrat’s ad: After 9/11 the greatest threat to America lived in a cave; now he lives in the White House (Hot Air)

  • Italy finally agreed on a government, ending months of political deadlock (Business Insider)

  • J. Crew markets “gay pride” clothes to little kids (The Daily Wire)

  • Policy: It’s time for Trump to rethink the One-China policy (American Enterprise Institute)

  • Policy: Freezing the Paris climate accord is a job for the Senate (The Washington Times)

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