The Patriot Post® · Wednesday Top Headlines

• National Republican Congressional Committee suffered “cyber intrusion,” spokesman says (Fox News)

• Dow plunges nearly 800 points on rising fears of an economic slowdown (CNBC)

• Ninth Circuit: Law barring people from encouraging illegal aliens to enter U.S. is unconstitutional (Townhall)

• Mattis extends troop deployment at southern border until end of January (National Review)

• Trump task force proposes major Postal Service overhaul (CBS News)

• Pompeo asserts U.S. authority at NATO in stinging criticism (The Washington Free Beacon)

• Trump administration threatens to kill nuclear treaty after Russia found in violation (The Washington Times)

• Putin threatens new arms race (Washington Examiner)

• Citing “substantial assistance” to probe, Mueller recommends no prison time for former Trump adviser Michael Flynn (ABC News)

• Roger Stone pleads the Fifth, won’t give testimony or documents to Senate Judiciary Committee (The Washington Times)

• Grassley wants answers about FBI raid on whistleblower with information on Clinton Foundation, Uranium One (Fox News)

• Grassley: Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson lied in Senate testimony (The Federalist)

• Study: Black males twice as likely to be killed, mainly from gang violence (UPI)

• Resources are almost five times as abundant as they were in 1980 (Reason)

• Eighty percent using ObamaCare’s Medicaid expansion are ineligible, Louisiana report finds (The Washington Times)

• Bob Dole salutes President Bush one last time (Townhall)

• Humor: Trump releases findings of own independent investigation: “Most innocent president ever” (The Babylon Bee)

• Policy: Should we move away from employer-sponsored insurance? (E21)

• Policy: Memo to Congress: French riots show why U.S. carbon tax should be a nonstarter (Investor’s Business Daily)

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