The Patriot Post® · Friday Top Headlines

• Trump blocks pay raise for 1.5 million federal workers, calls for no increase next year (Washington Examiner)

• DOJ sides with plaintiffs alleging Harvard discriminates against Asians (National Review)

• NYT, Daily Beast expose how NBC News tried to nix bombshell Weinstein story (NewsBusters)

• FBI “very deceptive” in rebutting story on Chinese firm hacking Clinton emails, GOP lawmaker says (Washington Examiner)

• Trump administration to end U.S. funding to UN program for Palestinian refugees (The Washington Post)

• EU trade commissioner gives ground: We’re willing to drop auto tariffs to zero (if the U.S. will do the same) (Hot Air)

• Report: political interests “commandeered” state AGs for environmental agenda (The Washington Free Beacon)

• Democrat threatens ICE agents conducting deportations: “You will not be safe” (The Daily Wire)

• Explosive Ivy League study repressed for finding transgender kids may be a social contagion (The Federalist)

• An anti-scientific cult has way too much control over non-GMO food labels (Washington Examiner)

• California Democrat calls for boycott of In-N-Out Burger chain over donation to GOP (Hot Air)

• Humor: Trump wins 19th consecutive “Employee of the Month” award at White House (The Babylon Bee)

• Policy: Send campus sexual assault to court (Washington Examiner)

• Policy: The misguided Affordable Clean Energy rule (The Heartland Institute)

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