BRYAN FISCHER — I am a Christian for one simple reason: the physical resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. There is simply no credible alternative to the view that his grave was empty on Easter morning because of his bodily resurrection. His body wasn't there because he wasn't there. And he wasn't there because he had been raised from death to life.... (more)

NEWSMAX — The United States said Friday it has secured the support of the U.N. Security Council for a new package of sanctions designations that target smuggling at sea by North Korea. Ambassador Nikki Haley said the North Korea Sanctions Committee, which comprises all members of the U.N.'s most senior decision-making body, unanimously approved designations of 21 shipping companies, one individual and 27 ships. She said it was the largest-ever set of U.N. designations against the North.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — The Trump administration's plans for a border wall will put about 1,000 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border behind some barrier -- up from 654 miles right now, the Border Patrol said Friday. "That will make a major difference," said Ronald D. Vitiello, acting deputy commissioner at U.S. Customs and Border Protection, as he briefed reporters on progress in building the wall.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — A federal judge ordered the Trump administration late Friday to grant pregnant illegal immigrant girls in U.S. custody unfettered access to abortions, ruling they have a constitutional right to the procedure. Judge Tanya Chutkan, an Obama appointee to U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., who has been a thorn in the side of the Trump administration in several major cases, said that the government has been creating too many hurdles in the path of the teen girls.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Jerome Corsi's red-hot new book "Killing the Deep State: The Fight to Save President Trump" is a runaway bestseller -- but you'd never know that from reading The New York Times. In an interview with Newsmax TV, Corsi said that he's not entirely surprised at his book's exclusion from the high-profile list.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Obama CIA director John Brennan, a subject of ongoing analysis at the American Spectator, recently uncorked an epic Twitter rant. Enraged by President Trump's words aimed at FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, Brennan steamed at the president: "When the full extent of your venality, moral turpitude, and political corruption becomes known, you will take your rightful place as a disgraced demagogue in the dustbin of history. You may scapegoat Andy McCabe, but you will not destroy America...America will triumph over you."... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — ABC's wildly popular "Roseanne" reboot has been renewed for another season, the network announced Friday. "We're thrilled that America has welcomed the Conner family back into their homes," ABC Entertainment President Channing Dungey said in a statement. "The show is as fresh and relevant today as it was when it left the air 21 years ago. We can't wait to see what the 'Roseanne' team has in store for next year."... (more)

BOB UNRUH — The FBI's credibility has been challenged by President Trump and members of Congress in recent months. Its former director, James Comey, admitted handing over government documents to a member of the public to trigger appointment of a special counsel. Comey's deputy, Andrew McCabe, was investigating Hillary Clinton's email scandal while McCabe's wife's political campaign was receiving financial donations from her associates. Several agents had to be removed from another project because of their open political bias. And evidence suggests that agents used a politically funded hit piece on Trump as a legal document to obtain search warrants from a secret court.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Byron Allen, the executive producer of the movie "Chappaquiddick," about the 1969 scandal involving Sen. Ted Kennedy and Mary Jo Kopechne, faced a struggle to release the movie. "Unfortunately, there are some very powerful people who tried to put pressure on me not to release this movie," Allen told Variety.... (more)

NEWSMAX — A Facebook Inc. executive said in an internal memo in 2016 that the social media company needed to pursue adding users above all else, BuzzFeed News reported on Thursday, prompting disavowals from the executive and Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg.... (more)

JOSEPH FARAH — I feel like the prophet Jeremiah. He was always the prophet I did not want to be when I grew up. He not only was the bearer of bad news to Israel, but he did not exactly live a mostly comfortable life -- like Ezekiel and Daniel.... (more)

AP NEWS — Two British militants believed to have been part of an Islamic State group cell notorious for beheading hostages in Syria were unapologetic in their first interview since their capture, denouncing the U.S. and Britain as "hypocrites" who will not give them a fair trial. The men, along with two other British jihadis, allegedly made up the IS cell nicknamed "The Beatles" by surviving captives because of their English accents.... (more)

ART MOORE — Amid new evidence of Obama White House collusion with the FBI in the probe of alleged Trump-Russia collusion in the 2016 election, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has decided a special prosecutor is not needed at the moment to investigate allegations of abuse of power by the bureau and by Hillary Clinton in the sale of Uranium One.... (more)

BYRON YORK — The FBI is promising swift action on a House subpoena covering three politically charged investigations after word that Attorney General Jeff Sessions has grown angry with the bureau's slow-walking of congressional requests for information.... (more)

NEWSMAX — The White House said Thursday that Russia's expelling of 60 American diplomats marked "a further deterioration in the United States-Russia relationship." "Russia's response was not unanticipated, and the United States will deal with it," the administration said in a statement from press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders.... (more)

ROBERT BARNES — Paul Manafort's legal team brought a motion to dismiss on Tuesday, noting that Rosenstein could not appoint Mueller to any investigation outside the scope of the 2016 campaign since Sessions did not recuse himself for anything outside the campaign. I agree with this take on Mueller's authority. If we follow that argument that would mean Sessions himself has exclusive authority to appoint a special counsel for non-collusion charges, and Sessions has taken no such action. Sessions himself should make that clear to Mueller, rather than await court resolution.... (more)

BOB UNRUH — Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who has yet to produce evidence of Trump campaign collusion with Russia, has turned over all of the evidence regarding Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn to a federal judge, according to a report. Investigative journalist Sara Carter reported two of her sources said Mueller's office complied with a federal judge's order regarding the former national security adviser.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — The Justice Department's inspector general said Wednesday that he is investigating whether the FBI overstepped its bounds when it conducted secret surveillance of a Trump campaign figure in 2016 and 2017, and whether the FBI bungled its handling of the anti-Trump "Steele dossier." Republicans last week revealed that the dossier played a significant role in getting the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court to approve wiretaps of Carter Page, a foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Republican congressional investigators say it's possible high-ranking officials in the U.S. government under the Obama administration and former Senate Democratic leadership coordinated together in the early days of the federal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.... (more)

BOB UNRUH — Dr. James Dobson, who for decades has been the radio voice for Christians on children, family, life and marriage, first with Focus on the Family and now with Family Talk radio, says it's an outrage that Congress has funded the abortionists at Planned Parenthood with another $500 million. "While there are multiple reasons for which conservatives should take issue with such a bill, Christians specifically should be outraged by the inclusion, once again, of half a billion dollars in taxpayer funding for the country's number one abortion provider, Planned Parenthood," he said.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — A lawsuit accusing the Saudi Arabian government of complicity in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and seeking billions of dollars in damages, can go forward, a judge ruled Wednesday. U.S. District Judge George Daniels in Manhattan dismissed Saudi Arabia's motion to dismiss the case on the grounds of lack of proof of official complicity. But Judge Daniels said the plaintiffs -- victims' relatives and their families -- can "narrowly articulate a reasonable basis for this Court to assume jurisdiction under [the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act] over Plaintiffs' claims against Saudi Arabia."... (more)

FOX NEWS — A Current Affair: Maury Povich interviews Leslie Leland about how the grand jury in Ted Kennedy's Chappaquiddick case was suppressed.... (more)

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY — The revival of Roseanne premiered to massive ratings Tuesday night. The return delivered an incredible 18.2 million viewers along with an equally impressive 5.1 rating among adults 18-49. According to ABC, this is the highest-rated comedy telecast on any network in nearly four years (since a premiere episode of CBS' The Big Bang Theory from 2014).... (more)

NATIONAL REVIEW — An analysis of the crowd at the March for Our Lives showed that only 10 percent of the marchers were teenagers under 18. Despite media reports emphasizing the youth of the protesters, especially the Parkland student leaders, the average marcher was a 49-year-old, college-educated woman, reported Dana R. Fisher, a University of Maryland sociology professor who surveyed the crowd at the march.... (more)

LIBERTY HEADLINES — A satirical video that overdubs fiery rhetoric of Adolf Hitler (in German) over a speech given by student activist David Hogg at Saturday's "March for our Lives" in Washington has earned it a warning to would-be viewers on YouTube. The video channel, owned by Google, flagged the 56-second send-up of the gun control advocate – who shot to fame following his reporting and commentary at the Parkland, Fla. school shootings – as "inappropriate" or "offensive."... (more)