June 19, 2018

Tuesday Top Headlines

Americans are satisfied, immigration kerfuffle, Space Force, tariffs (again), and more.

  • Gallup: Satisfaction with direction of country highest since 2005 (American Thinker)

  • Ted Cruz introduces emergency legislation to end family separation at the border (National Review)

  • DHS secretary: smugglers and traffickers are using illegal minors as pawns (CNS News)

  • Fact-checking four claims about detaining children at the border (The Daily Signal)

  • Trump directs Pentagon to establish Space Force as new military branch (The Washington Free Beacon)

  • Trump seeks additional $200 billion in tariffs against China — and threatens even more (MarketWatch)

  • Senate rebukes Trump with vote to reinstate ZTE sales ban (The Wall Street Journal)

  • There’s always the ethanol mandate: Iowa farmers could lose $620 million from U.S.-China trade war (Reason)

  • Comey under investigation by DOJ IG (The Daily Caller)

  • Federal judge tosses Kansas voter ID law, orders state’s top prosecutor to undergo legal training (Fox News)

  • SPLC agrees to $3.3 million settlement over its “Field Guide To Anti-Muslim Extremists” (Hot Air)

  • West Point grad who posed with “Communism will win” in cap discharged (Fox News)

  • Armed civilian who took down Walmart shooter is pastor, medic (KIRO)

  • Germany will fail 2020 climate goals, now eyes 2030 target (Associated Press)

  • Humor: American viewer disgusted to see World Cup teams not singing U.S. national anthem before games (The Babylon Bee)

  • Policy: Encouraging lawful immigration and discouraging unlawful immigration (The Heritage Foundation)

  • Policy: What successful antipoverty efforts look like (American Enterprise Institute)

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