- Small business optimism jumps to second-highest level in measure's 45-year history; tax cuts credited (The Washington Free Beacon)
- Feds collect record individual income taxes through May; still run $532.2B deficit (CNS News)
- Charitable giving in U.S. tops $400 billion for first time (Associated Press)
- Proposal to split California into three states makes November ballot (The Washington Times)
- In primary races, Republican voters rewarded loyalty to Trump (The Wall Street Journal)
- Trump-basher Mark Sanford, who president called "nothing but trouble," ousted in key South Carolina primary (Fox News)
- House GOP will vote on immigration next week, sinking discharge petition (The Hill)
- At the Pentagon, mass confusion over future of "war games" with South Korea (Washington Examiner)
- Trump administration condemns Iran's role in facilitating 9/11 attacks (The Washington Free Beacon)
- Andrew McCabe alleges FBI, Justice Dept. failed to provide information on his firing in lawsuit (CBS News)
- DOJ takes down 2,300 alleged child sex abusers in massive national operation (The Daily Caller)
- Juanita Broaddrick book about Clinton rape disappears from Amazon (PJ Media)
- "Not in my backyard": Blue state rejects free electricity to avoid seeing a wind farm (Hot Air)
- AT&T wins court approval to buy Time Warner (CNBC)
- George H.W. Bush is the first U.S. president to reach 94 (Associated Press)
- Two women get kicked out of Uber after kiss — but what CNN doesn't tell you is that the driver was Muslim (CNN)
- Humor: House Democrats draft legislation that would make it a hate crime to eat at Chick-fil-A (The Babylon Bee)
- Policy: Suspending military exercises in South Korea carries risks (The Daily Signal)
- Policy: Subsidies for coal and nuclear will harm taxpayers, ratepayers, and the free market (Washington Examiner)
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