• Senate passes short-term spending bill to avert shutdown (Politico)

• Judge strikes down Trump administration’s attempt to tighten asylum process (National Review)

• Afghan and Iraqi interpreters risk death, wait years for legal U.S. visas while migrant caravan demands immediate entrance (The Daily Caller)

• Trump orders troops to leave Syria as White House declares victory over ISIS (ABC News)

• North Korea says it won’t denuclearize unless U.S. removes “threat” (Associated Press)

• BuzzFeed wins anti-Trump dossier lawsuit (The Daily Wire)

• Judges quietly dismiss more than 80 ethics complaints against Brett Kavanaugh (The Daily Wire)

• Read the full text of Speaker Ryan’s farewell address (The Daily Signal)

• Fed hikes rate, lowers 2019 projection to two increases (CNBC)

• Department of Agriculture moves to tighten restrictions on food stamps (USA Today)

• Elizabeth Warren introduces legislation to create a government-run pharmaceutical manufacturer (The Daily Signal)

• More than 500 priests accused of sexual abuse not yet publicly identified by Catholic church, Illinois attorney general finds (Chicago Tribune)

• Democrats used “similarly deceptive tactics” in Alabama Senate race as Russians used in 2016 election (The Daily Wire)

• Facebook gave tech companies “intrusive” access to users’ private messages and personal data, internal documents reveal (Fox News)

• Winner of CNN’s “Journalist of the Year” award admits he made up reports (The Daily Wire)

• Optimism among U.S. manufacturers at record high heading into 2019 (Washington Examiner)

• Humor: Miss Universe pageant embroiled in controversy as all losers identify as winners (The Babylon Bee)

• Policy: The failure of leadership on Syria (American Enterprise Institute)

• Policy: The Fed made the right call with rate hikes (Washington Examiner)

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