- Government shutdown sets record as longest in U.S. history (USA Today)
- Trump’s shutdown differs greatly from Obama’s (The Daily Caller)
- Trump has a strong legal argument that he can declare national emergency at border (The Daily Signal)
- Immigration court backlog could grow by years after government shutdown (Bloomberg)
- New caravan forms, prepares to head north to U.S. border (The Daily Wire)
- Dems fly to Puerto Rico on chartered jet, meet with lobbyists, see “Hamilton” as shutdown drags on (Fox News)
- GoFundMe is refunding all donations made to the “Fund the Wall” campaign (Business Insider)
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg will miss oral arguments for second week but is free of cancer with no further treatments planned (CNBC)
- Julian Castro launches presidential run (The Washington Free Beacon)
- Rep. Tulsi Gabbard announces Democrat presidential bid (The Washington Post)
- Judge blocks Trump birth control rollback from taking effect in 13 states, DC (Washington Examiner)
- Florida governor suspends Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel (Townhall)
- Conservative groups targeted in Lois Lerner’s IRS scandal receive settlement checks (The Daily Signal)
- VA prepares to redirect billions of dollars into private care (The New York Times)
- Opioid overdoses now deadlier than car crashes, researchers find (The Hill)
- Democrats roll out big health care proposals in the states (Associated Press)
- A new American leader rises in ISIS (The Atlantic)
- China’s 2018 trade surplus with U.S. hits record high of $323 billion (ABC News)
- Humor: Anti-wall extremist the Kool-Aid Man leads campaign against Trump (The Babylon Bee)
- Policy: We could build two border walls just by eliminating “improper payments” (Investor’s Business Daily)
- Policy: Renewable energy subsidies costly to taxpayers, benefit big companies (The Heartland Institute)
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