• U.S. job openings climb to record 6.9 million (MarketWatch)

• Mass evacuations as “monster” Hurricane Florence barrels toward U.S. coast (CBS News)

• Media uses 9/11 to attack Trump (The Daily Wire)

• Sessions: More than 580 people convicted of terrorism, terrorism-related charges since 9/11 (CNS News)

• Classy: TSA uses 9/11 anniversary to debut new slogan — “Not on Our Watch” (Reason)

• Anti-Trump fanatic attempts to stab California Republican congressional candidate (Washington Examiner)

• Bernie Sanders’s son falls short in New Hampshire primary (The Hill)

• Trump-backed Eddie Edwards wins NH GOP primary; would be state’s first black congressman (The Washington Times)

• WaPo fact-checker warns Dems: Don’t keep propagating Kamala Harris’ falsehoods on Kavanaugh (Hot Air)

• Cardinal Wuerl to meet with Pope Francis about potential resignation (Axios)

• Pew: Public school teachers far less racially, ethnically diverse than their students (CNS News)

• Journals, universities deep-six study for noticing men and women are different (The Federalist)

• More Yale freshmen identify as LGBTQ than conservative, survey finds (The College Fix)

• More than one in five college students so stressed they considered suicide (UPI)

• Federal deficit soars 32% to $895B (The Hill)

• Feds spend $172K to fight distracted pedestrians via phone alerts (The Washington Free Beacon)

• Chicago sets up universal income task force as city seeks ways to tackle poverty (Fox News)

• Eighth Circuit allows Missouri abortion-clinic regulations to stand (National Review)

• Humor: He’s still got it! Funnyman Jim Carrey jokes Americans should “say yes to socialism” (The Babylon Bee)

• Policy: Lessons from hurricane response and recovery in 2017 (The Heritage Foundation)

• Policy: Three major ways tax reform 2.0 would help Americans (The Daily Signal)

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