• Sessions announces “religious liberty task force” (The Hill)

• A list of 139 congressional Democrats who support disastrous “Medicare for All” (Washington Examiner)

• Morgan Stanley says the biggest stock correction of the year is building (Bloomberg)

• Chinese economy starts to feel tariff impact (The Wall Street Journal)

• Trump: I am ready to meet with Iran “anytime they want to” — with no preconditions (CNBC)

• U.S. spy agencies: North Korea is working on new missiles (The Washington Post)

• Socialism in a nutshell: Lights go out during vote for Maduro as socialist party head (Associated Press)

• States seek to block instructions for making plastic guns (NBC News)

• Dems expand push to blacklist businesses working on Trump’s border wall (The Washington Free Beacon)

• Police officer murdered by illegal alien (The Daily Wire)

• FBI partners with left-leaning Southern Poverty Law Center on hate crimes (The Washington Times)

• Man saves $1,092 on car insurance by identifying as a woman (CNS News)

• Feds spend $402,236 comparing “gender variant” youth with “cisgender youth” (The Washington Free Beacon)

• Woodward, who covered Watergate, to release bombshell book on Trump just before midterms (The Daily Caller)

• Humor: Twitter rolls out automatic tweet deletion so you won’t get fired in 10 years (The Babylon Bee)

• Policy: Fixing American infrastructure: Unleash market forces and promote devolution (Mercatus Center)

• Policy: Calculating the costs of the U.S.-China trade war (American Action Forum)

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