• Payday without pay hits federal workers as shutdown drags on (Associated Press)

• Trump administration lays groundwork to declare national emergency to build wall (The Washington Post)

• Trump administration eyes disaster money to fund border wall (Associated Press)

• CNN accidentally proves why walls and fences work (The Daily Signal)

• Obama Border Patrol chief: Agents arrest “rapists, murderers, gang members every single day” (Washington Examiner)

• TV editor fired for doctoring video of Trump’s border speech (Hot Air)

• Texans fight to stop government from seizing land for border wall (National Review)

• Dems introduce gun-ban bill as GOP seeks to expand gun-carry protections (The Washington Free Beacon)

• Sen. Jones asks FEC to probe “deceptive tactics” in 2017 election win over Roy Moore (The Washington Times)

• Michael Cohen, ex-Trump lawyer, to testify publicly before Congress (Associated Press)

• Ocasio-Cortez slammed for hypocrisy after her campaign fined for not providing workers’ compensation coverage (Fox News)

• Troop withdrawal from Syria has started (The Washington Times)

• Trump cancels trip to World Economic Forum amid standoff over shutdown (CNBC)

• Pompeo, at site of Obama’s address to Muslim world, rebukes his legacy: “Age of self-inflicted American shame is over” (Fox News)

• Venezuela’s tyrant gets six more years (The Washington Free Beacon)

• Humor: Church greeters stationed at southern border to deter immigrants (The Babylon Bee)

• Policy: Yes, there is a crisis at the border — the numbers show it (Investor’s Business Daily)

• Policy: Don’t join the media freak out over recent jump in CO₂ emissions — it won’t last (Investor’s Business Daily)

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