• Supreme Court starts new term shorthanded (The Hill)

• Key witnesses knew nothing about any misconduct, stick to stories as FBI digs into Kavanaugh case (The Washington Times)

• Trump clinches new NAFTA deal (Bloomberg)

• House GOP to call Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein back to Capitol Hill (The Washington Post)

• House votes to make individual tax breaks permanent (Washington Examiner)

• Pyongyang tells U.S. to end sanctions: “There is no way we will unilaterally disarm ourselves first” (CNS News)

• China slashes steel, textile tariffs as Trump ratchets up pressure (Washington Examiner)

• Nearly 50 million Facebook accounts impacted by “security issue” (The Washington Times)

• California governor signs tough net neutrality bill, and Justice Department sues (CBS News)

• Viganò challenges Vatican to speak on sex-abuse cover-up in new letter (National Review)

• Highest minimum wage in the U.S. will hit $19 an hour (The Daily Signal)

• One-third of Americans prescribed opioids in the past two years (The Washington Free Beacon)

• Humor: Senate to be replaced with room full of monkeys throwing feces (The Babylon Bee)

• Policy: Kill, don’t expand, tax subsidies for electric vehicles (Washington Examiner)

• Policy: The incredible economic opportunities of offshore energy exploration (National Review)

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