• Republican Senate win in Mississippi gives Mitch McConnell three votes to spare to confirm Trump judges (Washington Examiner)

• Nooses found near Mississippi state capitol turn out to be Democrat “protest” (The Daily Wire)

• Rate of migrant men arriving at border with children up 110% in two years; meanwhile, 170 family units were separated between April and September after they were found to be unrelated (National Review)

• Illegal alien mother sues U.S. government for $60 million over child death (The Washington Times)

• As Trump renews border wall demands, government shutdown looms (Reuters)

• Poll: Seven in 10 Mexicans have negative view of migrant families arriving to their country (The Daily Caller)

• Trump to GM: Reopen those plants or lose your subsidies (CNBC)

• Trump rejects “man-made” climate change (The Hill)

• Supreme Court sides with landowners in dispute over frog habitats (National Review)

• ObamaCare enrollment drops — three reasons why that’s good news (Investor’s Business Daily)

• California bar killer had seven 30-round magazines — enough ammo to kill many more (Associated Press)

• State Department funds nonprofit that provided “material support” to Iran, Hamas (The Washington Free Beacon)

• Jim Acosta gets his first question after White House ban; here’s how Sarah Sanders responded (The Daily Caller)

• Humor: Melania Trump criticized for decorating White House with skulls of her enemies (The Babylon Bee)

• Policy: Biofuel mandates have been an environmental disaster (Foundation for Economic Education)

• Policy: Work, skills, and community: Restoring opportunity for the working class (American Enterprise Institute)

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