The Patriot Post® · Thursday Top Headlines

• Trump signs VA Mission Act into law to give veterans more health care choices (Washington Examiner)

• $119,050,900,000: Merchandise trade deficit with China hit record through April (CNS News)

• “Human rights disaster”: China’s persecution of Christians at highest level since Mao (The Washington Times)

• Federal judge rules anti-sanctuary city law unconstitutional (The Washington Times)

• ACLU files lawsuit to prevent government from asking about citizenship on 2020 Census (The Daily Wire)

• ICE agents pull off one of the largest raids in the last decade, arrest 114 at Ohio gardening centers (Washington Examiner)

• DOJ watchdog finds James Comey defied authority as FBI director (ABC News)

• MSNBC, NBC anchors push back on Bill Clinton’s attacks on interview: “Baffling,” making “false allegations” (The Washington Free Beacon)

• Scalise returns to congressional baseball practice nearly one year after attempted murder (National Review)

• U.S. student loan debt hits staggering $1.5 trillion (PJ Media)

• Feds spending $350K to see if lesbians are using the right contraception (Hot Air)

• Feds send $1 million to a study designed to push transgenderism on children (The Federalist)

• Gotta pay for that racial sensitivity training: Starbucks coffee just got more expensive (The Wall Street Journal)

• Policy: Four key points in the tariffs debate as Trump prepares for G-7 summit (The Daily Signal)

• Policy: Putting American security first in the post-JCPOA order (American Enterprise Institute)

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