First Lady Visits Microsoft to Discuss Online Safety for Kids First Lady Melania Trump visited Microsoft in Washington state yesterday to learn about the company’s work on accessibility and online safety for children, Paul Roberts reports in The Seattle Times. The software giant “was the second stop in a three-city tour to promote the first lady’s ‘Be Best’ initiative, which is calling attention to child well-being, online safety and anti-bullying efforts and opioid abuse.” The First Lady’s trip began yesterday morning with a visit to a Tulsa, Oklahoma, charter school and will conclude today with a town hall on the opioid epidemic in Las Vegas, Nevada. Click here to read more. “Border agents in Southeast Texas have apprehended more than 100,000 immigrants attempting to enter the United States illegally since the beginning of October,” Samuel Chamberlain reports in Fox News. “In a statement, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said its agents in the Rio Grande Valley Sector -- which includes the cities of Brownsville, McAllen and Corpus Christi -- were on pace to apprehend 240,000 illegal aliens for this fiscal year. That would be an increase of approximately 50 percent over the 162,260 migrants apprehended between October 2017 and October 2018.” “The White House is creating a new high-level task force on preventing veterans suicide which will include new community outreach grants aimed at former service members and expanded projects across a host of government agencies to coordinate research and prevention efforts,” Leo Shane III reports in the Military Times. “President Trump signed an executive order Monday that helps active-duty military and sea veterans transition into the Merchant Marine, which handles cargo and passenger shipping but can be called upon in wartime for sealift operations,” Tom Howell Jr. reports in The Washington Times. With this move, veterans will find economic security while America will have a steady supply of mariners at the ready in case conflict erupts. In The Wall Street Journal, Phil Gramm and Michael Solon write that President Trump’s tax cuts and deregulatory agenda have unleashed the American economy—something that simply didn’t happen under the previous administration. “Since 2017 private investment has returned to the levels that drove other postwar recoveries, and productivity and labor-force participation are rising.” “For too long, we have witnessed the rise of blatant anti-Semitic and anti-Israel hate in the United States and around the world,” Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY), Rep. Ted Budd (R-NC), and Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) write in The Hill. “It is time to send a clear, resounding message to the entire world that anti-Semitic and anti-Israel hate will not be tolerated, and it starts with us, here in the chamber of the House of Representatives. We urge all of our colleagues to support H.Res. 72, remove Rep. Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and reject anti-Semitic and anti-Israel hate once and for all.”