BOB UNRUH — Amid an ongoing surge in Christianity that developed as communism created a spiritual vacuum in people's lives, China has launched a new crackdown, including rules introduced last month that further restrict the activities of unregistered house churches, according to a new report. Christians in China have been repressed ever since the People's Republic was created in 1949, with the government's control of churches and imposition of the Communist Party's atheistic values.... (more)

U.S. NEWS — Eleven Republicans stepped forward before a Thursday evening filing deadline to challenge former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in the Utah Senate race, including a state lawmaker who says an "establishment insider" can't fix problems in Washington. Many of the candidates acknowledge the David-vs-Goliath nature of challenging the famous and popular Romney, but they say someone needs to keep the race to replace Republican Orrin Hatch from becoming a "coronation."... (more)

FOX NEWS — Broward Deputy Scot Peterson stands safely behind a concrete wall taking no action as high school students lay dead and wounded just feet away, newly released video of the Florida school shooting shows. The Broward Sheriff's Office released the 27-minute video Thursday of the former longtime resource officer responding to initial reports of a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14. Peterson, who was assigned to the school and on site when the shooting began, is seen with a civilian security monitor at the start of the video, but spends most of the video standing outside the school with his gun drawn.... (more)

WALL STREET JOURNAL — Lawrence Kudlow, a conservative economic commentator whose career included jobs in the White House, Wall Street, radio and business television, will become one of President Donald Trump's top economic advisers as director of the National Economic Council.... (more)

BOB UNRUH — The results may not be official for some time, but it appears that a Democrat, Conor Lamb, now leading by only a few hundred votes, may have won a special election in a western Pennsylvania congressional district that two years ago chose President Donald Trump by 20 points. Mainstream media regard the apparent outcome as an "unmistakable good sign" for Democrats ahead of the 2018 midterms approach.... (more)

ART MOORE — long with concluding the Trump campaign did not coordinate with Russia to influence the 2016 election, the House Intelligence Committee report by the Republican majority confirmed that President Obama's director of national intelligence, James Clapper, leaked information about the dubious anti-Trump "dossier" that ended up being reported by CNN.... (more)

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)