WASHINGTON TIMES — Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Thursday that an ongoing probe into President Trump "needs to conclude" in order to let him focus on North Korea, the U.S.-Mexico border and other world negotiations. Mr. Sessions also said he expects the Justice Department inspector general to finish his investigation into the department's and FBI's handling of investigations into Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election in a "few weeks," saying that will provide more information for decisions on whether there was wrongdoing.... (more)

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON — The country is about to witness an investigatory train wreck. In one direction, Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation train is looking for any conceivable thing that President Donald Trump's campaign team might have done wrong in 2016.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — The Senate on Thursday approved former CIA Director Mike Pompeo to be the nation's next secretary of state, overcoming heavy resistance once again from Democrats to a top Trump nominee. The vote puts an energetic new manager with a strong rapport with the boss in charge of the demoralized State Department, which has often found itself sidelined in recent months at a time when mounting crises in hot spots such as Iran, Syria and North Korea are confronting the administration.... (more)

NEWSMAX — With a single step over a weathered, cracked slab of concrete, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made history Friday by crossing over the world's most heavily armed border to greet his rival, South Korean President Moon Jae-in, for talks on North Korea's nuclear weapons. Kim then invited Moon to cross briefly north with him before they returned to the southern side.... (more)

ART MOORE — As President Trump prepares for an unprecedented summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un that came about after a year of heated rhetoric, Washington and Tehran are exchanging warnings and threats as the U.S. considers withdrawing from the nuclear agreement with Iran negotiated by the Obama administration.... (more)

NEWSMAX — One of the 19,045 CIA and FBI documents on President John F. Kennedy's Nov. 22, 1963, assassination released Thursday revealed the "KGB handler" of gunman Lee Harvey Oswald. According to McClatchy, the documents fill in some blanks about a Soviet Embassy official in Mexico City who met with Oswald weeks before the assassination.... (more)

HOLLYWOOD REPORTER — Bill Cosby has been found guilty of aggravated indecent assault against Andrea Constand in 2004. On Thursday, a Pennsylvania jury returned a verdict after 14 hours of deliberation and held him responsible for rape on all three counts brought by prosecutors.... (more)

NEW YORK TIMES — It was a rash of sadistic rapes and murders that spread terror throughout California, long before the term was commonly used. The scores of attacks in the 1970s and 1980s went unsolved for more than three decades. But on Wednesday, law enforcement officials said they had finally arrested the notorious Golden State Killer in a tidy suburb of Sacramento.... (more)

BOB UNRUH — A school district in Virginia is being warned by a team of lawyers that the presentation of explicit sex videos to classes of 14-year-old girls likely were felony violations of state and federal laws. "The Albemarle County Public Schools must sever its relationship with Planned Parenthood's shocking assault on children," said Mat Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Social media stars Diamond and Silk, the hilarious duo that support the president, testified before the House Judiciary Committee Thursday on allegations of bias against conservatives by Facebook -- and their impassioned statements frequently elicited smiles from spectators.... (more)

DAILY MAIL — President Donald Trump and wife Melania welcomed the French president and first lady to the White House for their first state dinner on Tuesday night as the two leaders toasted to continued warm relations between their countries. All eyes were on Melania as she stole the show in a Chanel black Chantilly lace haute couture gown that had been hand-painted with silver and embroidered with crystal and sequins. The First Lady paired her gown with a pair of gunmetal stilettos.... (more)

THE HILL — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is set to announce a federal jobs proposal that would guarantee a job with at least a $15-per-hour wage and health benefits to every adult American "who wants or needs one," The Washington Post reports.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — A federal judge delivered another blow to President Trump's attempt to roll back the Obama-era DACA program, ruling Tuesday that last year's revocation was illegal and the entire program could have to be restarted. That goes beyond other judges, who had also ruled the phaseout illegal but had only ordered Homeland Security to accept renewal applications from people who'd already been awarded DACA before. Judge John D. Bates's ruling would require a full restart, meaning even illegal immigrant "Dreamers" who'd never been approved before would now be able to apply for DACA.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Any legislation designed to ban President Donald Trump from firing FBI special counsel Robert Mueller is unconstitutional, Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, declared in an opinion piece posted Tuesday by USA Today.... (more)

NEWSMAX — A pro-gun student at the Parkland, Florida, high school where 17 people were killed in a Feb. 14 mass shooting says he was yanked from class and grilled after about his trip to a gun range with his dad. Kyle Kashuv told The Daily Wire he was called out of class at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Monday to talk to two security resource officers about the Twitter posts of the gun-range visit.... (more)

NEWSMAX — The National Rifle Association's Political Victory Fund raised a record $2.4 million in March -- its biggest monthly haul in 20 years -- attributing it to calls for stricter gun controls after the Parkland school massacre in Florida in February.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — The New York Times apparently couldn't fathom that the Palestinian Authority -- which has been Israel's so-called "peace partner" in the Middle East conflict -- would be so audacious as to provide salaries to terrorists and their families. The Gray Lady called reports of such a policy the stuff of "far-right conspiracy" in a feature on Facebook's new head of news partnerships, Campbell Brown, the former CNN host and NBC News reporter.... (more)

BOB UNRUH — President Trump's Environmental Protection Agency administrator, Scott Pruitt, proposed a transparency rule Tuesday that would ban from agency use any studies that bar public access to the underlying data.... (more)

BOB UNRUH — The Little Sisters of the Poor, a Roman Catholic charity that cares for poor and elderly around the world, fought the Obama administration's requirement that employers pay for abortion pills for employees.... (more)

JOSEPH FARAH — You don't think it makes a difference when the Southern Poverty Law Center is the group you hire to police content for your media business? It does. It really, really does.... (more)

CHELSEA SCHILLING — The Toronto van killer who murdered 10 pedestrians and injured several more when he plowed through crowds on a sidewalk Monday was a fan of Santa Barbara shooter Elliot Rodger and, like Rodger, he was angered that women wouldn't sleep with him.... (more)

WES VERNON — Today in the early 21st century, we have for the past four years been living in a period marked by a full 100 years since the starting point of then unprecedented and recurring killing beyond what could have been imagined in previous eras.... (more)

ALAN KEYES — Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or the Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both. (18 U.S. Code I.67 §1385)... (more)

PHILIP KLEIN — Five-time political candidate Mitt Romney wanted delegates to this past weekend's Utah Republican convention to know one thing: He isn't running for the Senate because he's interested in a political career. Romney, who suffered an embarrassing loss over the weekend in a vote of grassroots activists serving as delegates, is nonetheless expected to coast to victory in the primary and general election in a highly-Republican state where he enjoys strong popularity among the broader electorate. What's amusing is that he's still trying to perpetuate the narrative that he's really a nonpolitician.... (more)

BYRON YORK — When a political figure is accused of wrongdoing, a conversation begins among journalists, commentators, and public officials. Are the charges true? Can the accusers prove it? That's the way it normally works. But now, in the case of the Trump dossier -- the allegations compiled by a former British spy hired by the Clinton campaign to gather dirt on presidential candidate Donald Trump -- the generally accepted standard of justice has been turned on its head.... (more)