NEWSMAX — The reviews are in: President Donald Trump gave a thumbs-down Sunday to the comedian who roasted his chief spokeswoman at the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner, offending present and past members of his administration, including one who walked out in protest.... (more)

ROBERT KNIGHT — Snopes.com is handy at times. The "fact check" site is useful when vetting a news story that favors a progressive take. If even the left-leaning Snopes finds it false or mostly false, that's pretty persuasive. But not so much when it comes to something involving conservatives or conservative causes.... (more)

FORBIDDENKNOWLEDGETV.NET — A video by filmmaker Alexandra Bruce, posted at her website ForbiddenKnowledgeTV.net, reveals the striking fact that local news stations throughout the U.S. share identically-worded scripts in order to control the public's views and attitudes. Exactly who controls the shared scripts is the question, since the local stations are affiliates of different networks.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — The illegal immigrant caravan swamped border officials in San Diego Sunday as hundreds of people showed up at the San Ysidro port of entry and demanded admittance and asylum as reporters, immigrant rights activists and Mexican watched. After a month of traveling across Mexico, hundreds of people, most of them from Honduras, massed in Tijuana and began to present themselves to U.S. border officials, reciting the script they've been coached to deliver to clear the first hurdles toward asylum.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Research by Chinese geologists suggests that the mountain above North Korea's main nuclear test site has likely collapsed, rendering it unsafe for further testing and requiring that it be monitored for any leaking radiation. The findings by the scientists at the University of Science and Technology of China may shed new light on North Korean President Kim Jong Un's announcement that his country was ceasing its testing program ahead of planned summit meetings with South Korean President Moon Jae-in and U.S. President Donald Trump.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Former CIA Director John Brennan ripped President Donald Trump on Saturday for his attacks on former DNI chief James Clapper, who was cited in a House Intelligence Committee report for his role in the release of an unsubstantiated Russian dossier shortly before Trump's inauguration last year.... (more)

NEWSMAX — The parents of a terminally ill British toddler whose case drew attention from Pope Francis and others around the world say they are "heartbroken" that their son has died. Kate James and Tom Evans said on Facebook that 23-month-old Alfie Evans, who had an incurable degenerative brain condition and was at the center of a legal battle over his treatment, died on Saturday morning.... (more)

NATIONAL REVIEW — The parents of Charlie Gard have expressed their solidarity with the mother and father of Alfie Evans, the terminally ill tot who has been forbidden by British courts from being taken to Italy for further treatment. "With heavy hearts we have watched as Alfie's case has unfolded," Chris Gard and Connie Yates wrote Friday on the "Charlie's Fight" Facebook page. "For those who have not been in a situation like this, it is impossible to understand the pain Tom and Kate are going through."... (more)

BOB UNRUH — The District of Columbia has begun putting much-needed day cares out of business because their operators are not college graduates. The new requirement, just approved and retroactively affecting day-care providers who have successful provided working parents help for decades, comes from the Office of the State Superintendent of Education.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Michelle Wolf, who was brought in for the comedy routine Saturday for the White House Correspondents Association dinner, told a groan-inducing joke about abortion that afterwards drew a wave of backlash from conservative figures.... (more)

THINK PROGRESS — Jill Stein ended months of silence and speculation about her role in the ongoing investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, announcing this week that she would not be complying with a documents request put forth by the Senate intelligence committee.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — President Trump said Friday that he's ready for nuclear talks with North Korea and won't "be played" by the secretive nation. "We will not be played by North Korea," Mr. Trump said. "The United States in the past was played like a fiddle." Mr. Trump was referring to past deals struck with North Korea that won the communist regime what it wanted but did not stop its development of nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.... (more)

NEWSMAX — The Republican-led House Intelligence Committee released a much-anticipated report on Russian interference in the 2016 election that accused former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper of orchestrating the release of an anti-Trump research report and providing "inconsistent testimony" about his contact with the media.... (more)

ART MOORE — The House Intelligence Committee released a heavily redacted final report Friday on its yearlong Russia investigation documenting its previously reported conclusion that it found no evidence of collusion between the Trump presidential campaign and the Russian government during the 2016 election.... (more)

NEWSMAX — The Russian lawyer involved in the controversial meeting with Trump campaign officials at Trump Tower has admitted she's a Kremlin operative, The New York Times reported Friday.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Pro-life activists will protest outside of more than 100 Planned Parenthood locations on Saturday to urge President Trump to cut off a significant portion of the abortion giant's taxpayer funding. The third annual National Day of Prayer and Protest Against Planned Parenthood will feature rallies at more than 140 locations in 37 states.... (more)

BOB UNRUH — As the House Judiciary Committee addresses censorship by social media companies, a privacy advocate is asking Congress to require the companies to make public their algorithms, the computer coding that buries some content sources and promotes others.... (more)

BOB UNRUH — All presidents undergo regular physicals -- and sometimes their medical status is reported publicly, since the free world depends on a healthy U.S. president. But before now, there's been no insistence on a mental health evaluation -- not while John F. Kennedy was turning the White House into the Playboy Mansion, or while Bill Clinton was carrying on with an intern in the Oval Office, or when George W. Bush was under intense stress after 9/11, or when Barack Obama tried to cancel the First Amendment religious rights of nuns around the world and demand they pay for their employees' abortions.... (more)

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)