WASHINGTON TIMES — The White House's suspicions over the motives of besieged FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe go back at least to the first months of President Trump's presidency. The doubts revolved around a since-debunked February 2017 New York Times story that reported that U.S. intelligence owned numerous intercepts and phone records of Trump campaign officials communicating with Russian intelligence.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — A senior Obama State Department official gave the green light to an FBI agent in 2016 to meet with dossier writer Christopher Steele, a new book says. The two met at Mr. Steele's London office, touching off a relationship that would fuel the ongoing investigation into possible Donald Trump-Russia election collusion that shows no sign of ending.... (more)

BOB UNRUH — A teenage Muslim spending the night with friends stabbed three people, killing one, "because of his Muslim faith," according to police in Florida. The suspect read the Quran "to give him courage to carry out his intentions," according to an affidavit.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Public confidence in American universities has eroded in recent years, and campus administrators have taken notice, blaming not only the high cost of a 4-year degree but the impact of liberal bias in the academy, a new survey of college presidents finds. "Asked to assess which of several factors were most responsible for declining public support, 98 percent of college and university presidents cited 'concerns about college affordability and student debt', 95 percent said 'concerns over whether higher education prepares students for careers,' and 86 percent cited the perception of liberal political bias," reports an extensive new poll from Inside Higher Ed, an independent media company and industry source which tracks higher education.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — President Trump's firing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was crude, rude and way overdue. The president, not the president's chief of staff, should have been the first to inform Mr. Tillerson personally and in private, that he is getting the heave-ho. Mr. Trump should have let him have time to prepare his own face-saving announcement.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Even though tensions had been mounting between President Trump and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson for months, a new report indicates the president abruptly fired Tillerson because he went "rogue" and tried to save the Iran nuclear deal.... (more)

NEWSMAX — President Barack Obama's 2012 campaign hired Fusion GPS to find negative information on Republican candidate Mitt Romney and hid the payments through its law firm, according to a new book published Tuesday.... (more)

BOB UNRUH — When President Obama and his Democratic colleagues in Congress adopted Obamacare, they required abortion coverage, with no exemptions, to the delight of the abortion industry. They later were forced to exempt a few types of organizations, such as churches. The U.S. Supreme Court ordered the government to expand those exemptions when it ruled in the Hobby Lobby case, and President Trump widen the exemptions even further.... (more)

BYRON YORK — It has long been the key question of the Trump-Russia affair: Did Donald Trump's presidential campaign collude with Russia to influence the 2016 election? Now, we have the first official, albeit partisan, answer. "We have found no evidence of collusion, coordination, or conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russians," said Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee Monday as they released findings from a 14-month Trump-Russia investigation.... (more)

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — The House Intelligence Committee has concluded that there is "no evidence of collusion, coordination, or conspiracy" between the Trump campaign and the Russian regime. That was what Congressman K. Michael Conaway (R., Texas) announced yesterday evening, in the course of explaining that the committee has ended the investigative phase of its probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election.... (more)

ALAN KEYES — The Florida Legislature moved forward with a bill last week "that includes new restrictions on rifle sales and a program to arm some teachers." The measure also includes a provision to "raise the minimum age to buy rifles from 18 to 21." At least one Florida lawmaker has rejected that age provision as unconstitutional.... (more)

JOAN SWIRSKY — The word Politicide was first coined by Abba Eban – Israel's foreign minister in 1967 – to describe the attempted murder of the sovereign, independent State of Israel by enemies both within and outside of the fledgling state. When Victor Sharpe first read the word, he told me how it resonated in "the deepest parts of my heart and soul."... (more)

THE HILL — The House Intelligence Committee is shutting down its contentious investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, the top Republican leading the probe announced on Monday.... (more)

NEWSBUSTERS — On Monday, the House Intelligence Committee closed its inquiry into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, much to the chagrin of the liberal media. The committee confirmed that the Russians were indeed trying to cause chaos in the election, claimed they weren't out to help candidate Donald Trump specifically and that there was no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. But during their evening broadcasts, ABC and CBS downplayed the findings while NBC ignored them.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Conservative economist Larry Kudlow is the front-runner to replace Gary Cohn as President Donald Trump's chief economic adviser, CNBC's Jim Cramer reports.... (more)

NEWSMAX — The White House on Sunday pledged to help states pay for firearms training for teachers and reiterated its call to improve the background check system as part of a new plan to prevent school shootings. But in a move sure to please the gun lobby, the plan does not include a push to increase the minimum age for purchasing assault weapons to 21, which President Donald Trump had repeatedly championed.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Democrats have marked the first year of the House's investigation into Russian election meddling by promoting conspiracy tales in the Christopher Steele dossier and leaking to the press more than two dozen stories, some of which Republicans contend were way off base.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Former intelligence chief James Clapper is poised to avoid charges for allegedly lying to Congress after five years of apparent inaction by the Justice Department.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — A Russian billionaire writes that George Soros, a major financier of liberal causes, is funding Fusion GPS, the firm that orchestrated the Christopher Steele dossier. If true, it is possible that Fusion GPS's ongoing anti-Trump investigations have not only been funded by the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton campaign, but also by currency trader Soros. He recently pledged $18 billion to a cast of liberal groups and causes.... (more)

NATIONAL REVIEW — Internal radio-dispatch recordings released Thursday contradict the narrative advanced by the Broward County sheriff's deputy who sheltered in place rather than trying to stop the massacre occurring inside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. In the face of widespread criticism, Deputy Scot Peterson publicly insisted that he believed the mass shooting, which claimed 17 lives on February 14, was taking place outside on the athletic fields surrounding the school.... (more)

BYRON YORK — It's become a hot topic in coverage of the Trump-Russia investigation: A Trump supporter met with a Russian in the Seychelles in January 2017, and something consequential may or may not have happened. The Trump supporter was Erik Prince, the former Navy SEAL best known as the founder of Blackwater, the security firm that helped guard U.S. forces and installations in Iraq.... (more)

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — 'What's good for the goose . . ." is more an understandable impulse than a useful rule of thumb in legal controversies, particularly legal controversies in which an error has been made. The White House and congressional Republicans have watched in ire as the Trump administration has been tied in knots by the no-boundaries Mueller investigation. "Okay," they're thinking, "now, it's payback time."... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — The National Rifle Association filed a federal lawsuit Friday against Florida over its new law making it illegal for anyone under the age of 21 to buy a rifle. Florida Republican Gov. Rick Scott had signed the bill into law earlier that day, raising the age to purchase a firearm from 18 to 21. "We filed a lawsuit against the state for violating the constitutional rights of 18 to 21 year olds," Marion Hammer, a NRA lobbyist in Florida, told The Tallahassee Democrat.... (more)

NEWSMAX — China's on track to contain the world's largest Christian population thanks to a surge in underground house churches and state-sanction places of worship, according to the Council of Foreign Relations. In a background document titled "Christianity in China," the CFR estimates of the number of Protestants at anywhere from 58 million to 115 million and higher -- though fewer than 30 million attend officially registered churches.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Mitt Romney is shaking hands, posing for pictures and cracking jokes as he barnstorms Utah seeking votes for his Senate bid. What he isn't doing is talking about his well-documented feuds with President Trump. Wearing blue jeans and flashing his famous smile, Romney strode into a gymnasium lined with elk antlers and rifles to greet a group of sportsmen not far from the Bears Ears National Monument, downsized recently by the Trump administration.... (more)