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August 17, 2018

Friday Top Headlines

More clearances at stake, $1.5T repatriation, military parade, opioid crackdown, and more.

  • Trump gears up to strip more clearances from officials tied to Russia investigation (The Washington Post)

  • $1.5 trillion in corporate cash is coming to America (Bloomberg)

  • Pentagon postpones Trump’s military parade after cost estimate of $92 million was $80 million more initially thought (CNBC)

  • New Mexico compound mysteriously destroyed by authorities (NBC News)

  • ISIS fighter wanted for murder posed as a refugee to get into the U.S. (Townhall)

  • Nearly 20 illegal immigrant juveniles skip deportation hearings, disappear into shadows each day (The Washington Times)

  • Trump administration cracking down on production of prescription opioids (The Hill)

  • Federal judge orders Trump to reinstate Obama’s Waters of the U.S. rule (Washington Examiner)

  • Pope Francis breaks silence on Pennsylvania Catholic church sex-abuse scandal (Washington Examiner)

  • Satanic Temple statue unveiled at the Arkansas State Capitol (ABC Little Rock)

  • Good news: Hero groom strips off and leaps into the sea during his beach wedding to save drowning teen (Daily Mail)

  • Humor: Dems: We have to enact socialism so we can find out what it is (The Babylon Bee)

  • Policy: Ben Carson makes the right move rolling back Obama-era housing policy (Manhattan Institute)

  • Policy: Sen. Warren’s plan to “fix” capitalism would destroy trillions in market value (Investor’s Business Daily)

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