• Trump picks record number of new judges (Reason)

• Hostility unabated: Colorado seeks to punish cake artist Jack Phillips again (Alliance Defending Freedom)

• Trump revokes security clearance for former CIA director John Brennan (Fox News)

• Botched CIA communications system helped blow cover of Chinese agents (Foreign Policy)

• With a quarter-million comments in, EPA set to move on contentious “secret science” rule (Washington Examiner)

• Democrats discard Washington platform in bid for House control (The New York Times)

• NY Gov. Cuomo: America “was never that great” (CNS News)

• CNN covered Rob Porter allegations more than 24 times as much as Keith Ellison (The Daily Caller)

• New poll reveals shocking results: Black approval of Trump is twice as high as last year (The Daily Wire)

• Austin pirate radio station, flagship for Alex Jones, faces $15k fine (Austin American-Statesman)

• Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac offer home loans for 3% down (Fox Business)

• Drugs killed more than 70,000 Americans in 2017 (The Washington Free Beacon)

• California okays encouraging assisted suicide (National Review)

• White male professors to be given female minority scholar mentors in anti-bias effort (The College Fix)

• Good news: Police officer jumps off overpass to save boy’s life in daring New York rescue (WLTX 19)

• “Bottom” Story of the Day: San Francisco launching “Poop Patrol” to combat crappy streets (San Francisco Chronicle)

• Humor: Colorado baker forced to bake cake celebrating possible closure of his own business (The Babylon Bee)

• Policy: The divisive consequences of the Census Bureau’s committee on race (The Daily Signal)

• Policy: A late summer budgetary nightmare (Real Clear Policy)

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