The Patriot Post® · Friday Top Headlines

• Scott Pruitt quits as EPA chief amid ethics controversies (New York Post)

• 213,000 jobs added in June but headline unemployment rate back up to 4% as more enter workforce (CNBC)

• Trump says U.S. tariffs could be applied to Chinese goods worth $500 billion (Reuters)

• No joke: Chuck Schumer pushed Trump to nominate Merrick Garland to Supreme Court (Washington Examiner)

• Judge gives green light to California’s sanctuary laws (The Washington Times)

• Trump administration expands government’s deportation powers (The Washington Times)

• Protesters blast ICE as agents disrupt child sex-trafficking ring (National Review)

• Trump: “I would offer Warren $1M to prove her Native American heritage” (The Hill)

• Mom shoots man who took her car with kids inside (KDFW)

• Massachusetts governor signs gun seizure bill (The Daily Signal)

• Al Sharpton, Donna Brazile and other black leaders send letter criticizing Schumer, Pelosi for denunciations of Maxine Waters’s call for harassment (The Washington Free Beacon)

• Rap sheet: 133 acts of media-approved violence and harassment against Trump supporters (Breitbart)

• Teenager says man threw drink at him then stole his “Make America Great Again” hat (The Hill)

• Humor: “Love Trumps Hate!” screams protester while beating Republican to death with a shovel (The Babylon Bee)

• Policy: Don’t abolish ICE (National Review)

• Policy: We must reform Obama’s school discipline policies (The Heritage Foundation)

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