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August 24, 2018

Friday Top Headlines

FBI corruption, Hunter pleads not guilty, Planned Parenthood funding, NSA leaker, and more.

  • U.S. taxpayers are already saving, as administration confirms decision to defund UN Human Rights Office (CNS News)

  • Bruce Ohr bypassed DOJ superiors to feed FBI info from Trump dossier author (Washington Examiner)

  • Rep. Duncan Hunter pleads not guilty to misusing $250k in campaign funds (National Review)

  • Senate rejects Paul’s effort to strip Planned Parenthood of federal funding (The Hill)

  • Mick Mulvaney’s CFPB reforms pave the way for his successor (Washington Examiner)

  • DNC announces “sophisticated” hack was actually just an unauthorized security test (National Review)

  • Anti-Trump NSA leaker Reality Winner sentenced to more than five years (Fox News)

  • Chinese military joining Russians for nuclear war games (The Washington Free Beacon)

  • Study says Russian bots are stirring up anti-vaccination online (The Daily Wire)

  • Australia ousts another prime minister as ruling party shifts right (The Wall Street Journal)

  • Amazon bans gun book (The Washington Free Beacon)

  • Visa, Mastercard block donations to David Horowitz Freedom Center after SPLC labels it a hate group (The Daily Wire)

  • Facebook censors conservative articles, saying they “look like spam” (PJ Media)

  • Pew: Parents worse than teens with cellphone distractions (Washington Examiner)

  • Humor: Students excited to see slate of notable speakers who will be disinvited to campus this year (The Onion)

  • Policy: The California wildfire and net neutrality: The conversation we should really have (American Enterprise Institute)

  • Policy: Millennials may love socialism, but socialism won’t love them back (Investor’s Business Daily)

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