The Patriot Post® · Thursday Top News Executive Summary

Above the Fold

DEEP-STATE COLLUSION: Whistleblower attorney Mark S. Zaid tweeted of Trump “coup” and “rebellion” in January of 2017 (The Washington Times)

TARIFFS BEING PHASED OUT: China says it has agreed with U.S. to gradually cancel tariffs, which should help to ameliorate the $38 billion consumer price tag (Reuters)

Government & Politics

“FAKE OUTRAGE”: Rand Paul blocks Senate resolution backing protection for whistleblowers (The Hill)

PREPARE THE POPCORN: Impeachment going public: Hearings next week for all to see (Associated Press)

FRENEMIES SCHEDULED TO MEET: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will visit White House next week (Washington Examiner)

RELIGIOUS FREEDOM QUASHED: Federal judge strikes down rule allowing clinicians to object to abortions for moral or religious reasons (NBC News)

Big Brother

MORE TIME FOR INDOCTRINATION: Kamala Harris proposes a 10-hour school day (The Daily Wire)

INDEFENSIBLE: A Michigan man underpaid his property taxes by $8.41. The county seized his property, sold it — and kept the profits. (Reason)

National Security

ALIEN SURGE: Illegal-immigrant population inside U.S. surged 550,000 in 2019 (Washington Examiner)

EATING CROW: DOJ charges two former Twitter employees with spying for Saudi Arabia (National Review)

Closing Arguments

POLICY: Time for the Supreme Court to clearly protect religious freedoms (Washington Examiner)

POLICY: How Trump is reshaping the courts (The Daily Signal)

HUMOR: Elizabeth Warren’s plan to pay for Medicare for All: Spend so much that the national debt clock rolls over to zero (The Babylon Bee)

For more of today’s editors’ choice headlines, visit In Our Sights.

The Patriot Post is a certified ad-free news service, unlike third-party commercial news sites linked on this page, which may also require a paid subscription.