January 17, 2019

Thursday Top Headlines

Federal workers guaranteed pay, Dems disunited, terror plot foiled, missile defenses expanded, Rainbow Mafia, and more.

  • Paid vacation: Trump signs bill to pay government workers after shutdown ends (New York Post)

  • Pelosi struggles to keep Democrats united during government shutdown (The Washington Free Beacon)

  • Democrats offer measure to raise minimum wage to $15 an hour (The Hill)

  • FBI foils suspected terror plot on White House (The Daily Wire)

  • FBI records, emails, Social Security numbers exposed in massive data leak (Fox News)

  • Pentagon seeks to expand scope and sophistication of U.S. missile defenses (The Washington Post)

  • Rainbow Mafia pillories Karen Pence for teaching at Christian school (Reuters)

  • Trump celebrates Religious Freedom Day: “Innate to every human person” (The Daily Wire)

  • Six takeaways from new EPA chief’s confirmation hearing (The Daily Signal)

  • The Left attacks Trump’s pick to replace Brett Kavanaugh for her smart college writings (The Daily Signal)

  • Transgender activists gearing up to rewrite Harvard Medical School’s curriculum (The College Fix)

  • British PM Theresa May survives no-confidence vote a day after major Brexit defeat (Fox News)

  • Humor: Gillette now including free manly side bag with every purchase (The Babylon Bee)

  • Policy: No matter what happens politically, Britain must leave the EU (Investor’s Business Daily)

  • Policy: From caliphate to insurgency: ISIS is not going away (The Washington Free Beacon)

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