The Patriot Post® · Friday Top Headlines

• Unemployment rate hits the lowest level since 1969 (CNBC)

• Senate votes to advance Kavanaugh nomination, setting up final vote for Saturday (Fox News)

• Judiciary Committee releases executive summary of supplemental FBI report on Kavanaugh (Fox News)

• Witness told FBI that Ford’s “allies” pressured her to change story (The Daily Wire)

• Georgetown Prep alumni confirm Kavanaugh’s definition of “Devil’s Triangle” in letter to Judiciary Committee (National Review)

• Cook Political Report shifts three Senate races toward Republicans (The Hill)

• Anti-Trump, far-left California judge shows why judicial nominations matter (Investor’s Business Daily)

• The EPA is reportedly going to stop one of its costliest abuses — the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards Rule (The Daily Signal)

• Senate sends opioid bill to Trump’s desk (The Washington Free Beacon)

• DACA “Dreamer” arrested for smuggling meth (The Washington Times)

• New White House counterterrorism strategy singles out “radical Islamists” (The Washington Free Beacon)

• Mike Pence paints China as foremost threat to U.S.: “We will not be intimidated" (ABC News)

• California man suing Vatican over years of alleged sex abuse by priest (National Review)

• San Francisco passes ordinance requiring public artwork to depict more women (National Review)

• Humor: FBI investigation implicates entire world: "There is none righteous, no, not one” (The Babylon Bee)

• Policy: Why spatial reasoning matters for education policy (American Enterprise Institute)

• Policy: Is corporate tech patenting in space unfair? (American Enterprise Institute)

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