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January 18, 2019

Friday Top Headlines

Pelosi trip yanked, State Dept. summons workers, Trump gains with Latinos, universal pre-K, March for Life, and more.

  • Trump abruptly yanks Pelosi’s international trip after she proposed postponing State of the Union Address (Politico)

  • Trump cancels U.S. delegation’s trip to Davos economic summit (Fox News)

  • Shameless Nancy Pelosi lied about the Secret Service and doesn’t even care (Townhall)

  • State Department asks employees to return to work amid shutdown (The Hill)

  • Shock poll: Trump gains 19 points with Latino voters during border-wall shutdown (Mediaite)

  • Shutdown triggers surge in porn-viewing federal workers with time on their hands (Washington Examiner)

  • Congress to probe report that Trump directed lawyer to lie (Associated Press)

  • Democrats ready universal pre-K pitch ahead of 2020 (The Washington Free Beacon)

  • Senate adopts resolution saying judicial nominees can be in Knights of Columbus (The Daily Signal)

  • Thousands more migrant children may have been separated from their parents (National Review)

  • Fifth Circuit panel: Center for Medical Progress abortion videos are not “deceptively edited” (The Daily Wire)

  • Abortion foes march into divided Washington (The Hill)

  • Humor: Report: Economic toll of government shutdown almost as bad as economic toll of having a bloated federal government in the first place (The Babylon Bee)

  • Policy: Feinstein’s scattershot anti-gun bill badly misses the mark (The Daily Signal)

  • Policy: Nine key takeaways from Trump’s Missile Defense Review (Washington Examiner)

For more of today’s news, visit Patriot Headline Report.

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