NATIONAL REVIEW — An armed school-resource officer prevented what could have been a massacre at a central Illinois high school Wednesday by shooting and subsequently disarming a 19-year-old former student. The suspect reportedly arrived at Dixon High School around 8 a.m. and opened fire on school-resource officer Mark Dallas, Dixon city manager Danny Langloss said in a statement to WQAD-TV.... (more)

NATIONAL REVIEW — The president of Santa Monica College is instructing students to file a report with campus police if they witness hate speech. "Recently an outside visitor brought hate speech onto one of Santa Monica College's campuses," states a letter that SMC President Kathryn E. Jeffery sent to students and employees on May 3. "This will not be tolerated."... (more)

NEWSMAX — A former member of the National Guard who helped stop a terror attack on a Paris-bound train in 2015 is now running for office. Alek Skarlatos announced his candidacy for a Douglas County Commissioner seat in Oregon this week, according to The News-Review.... (more)

NEWSMAX — The nation's surgeon general came to the rescue Wednesday of a sick passenger on a flight from Atlanta to Jackson, Miss. -- answering a call if there was a doctor in the house with a buoyant "why yes." Surgeon General Jerome Adams tweeted some details of the "medical emergency" Wednesday afternoon.... (more)

NEWSMAX — The United States has hit a 40-year-low in its fertility rate, with only about 1.76 births per woman for the 2017 provisional estimate, according to numbers released on Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — The House passed legislation Wednesday to allow more veterans to see doctors outside the Veterans Affairs system. The bill, the VA MISSION Act, passed the House 347-70. It would allow more veterans to go outside the VA healthcare system and use private-sector doctors when VA medical centers can't provide appointments within a month, veterans have to drive more than 40 minutes to access care, or when care is determined inadequate by VA leaders.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — In its Tuesday cover story, the New York Daily News mercilessly ridiculed Ivanka Trump as "Daddy's little ghoul" and called the first daughter "seemingly oblivious" because she made an appearance at the new U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem this week.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — North Korea sent shock waves through the Trump administration's hope for a history-making summit with Kim Jong-un, angrily canceling a planned meeting with South Korean officials Wednesday to protest joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises and calling into doubt President Trump's announced meeting with Mr. Kim in Singapore in less than a month.... (more)

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — My weekend column dealt with the claim by Glenn Simpson that the FBI had a confidential informant embedded in the Trump campaign. Simpson is the co-founder of Fusion GPS. In August 2017, he related to the Senate Judiciary Committee that the former British intelligence officer, Michael Steele, told him that the FBI had a spy in the Trump campaign. Steele, of course, is the former British spy who collaborated with Simpson in 2016 on a Clinton campaign anti-Trump research project, now known as the Steele dossier.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — A judge in California has pulled the plug on the state's assisted-suicide law, and while Attorney General Xavier Becerra is expected to continue to fight for the provisions that can be used to take peoples' lives, the decision offers a reprieve from that process for now.... (more)

ALAN KEYES — "Heritage Foundation Defends Facebook's 'Right' to Censor, Will Oppose Regulation." So read the headline of an article at Breitbart.com reporting the opinion of "the think tank's senior research fellow for technology," Klon Kitchen. "I think Facebook is a private company," said Kitchen, a former national security adviser to Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb. "Facebook can ultimately make decisions about what kind of speech it wants to have on its platform."... (more)

NEWSMAX — Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Monday praised President Donald Trump's decision to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, The Hill has reported.... (more)

ART MOORE — Amid violent Palestinian protests, the U.S. officially opened a new embassy in Jerusalem on Monday, drawing effusive praise from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.... (more)

THE HILL — Special counsel Robert Mueller has withstood relentless political attacks, many distorting his record of distinguished government service. But there's one episode even Mueller's former law enforcement comrades -- and independent ethicists -- acknowledge raises legitimate legal issues and a possible conflict of interest in his overseeing the Russia election probe.... (more)

BYRON YORK — The FBI began its Trump-Russia investigation in July 2016. Special counsel Robert Mueller picked up the probe in May 2017. This summer the investigation will enter its third year.... (more)

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — It was July 31, 2016. Just days earlier, the Obama administration had quietly opened an FBI counterintelligence investigation of Russian cyber-espionage -- hacking attacks -- to disrupt the 2016 election. And not random, general disruption; the operating theory was that the Russians were targeting the Democratic party, for the purpose of helping Donald Trump win the presidency.... (more)

NEWSMAX — A Green Beret who supports embattled CIA nominee Gina Haspel had his pals subject him to waterboarding for nearly 45 minutes and livestreamed it in a bid to prove the notorious interrogation technique is not torture.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Monday's historic opening of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem is a wonderful acknowledgment from the United States of our solidarity with Israel and recognizing Jerusalem as its rightful capitol. I applaud President Trump for having the courage to follow through with this American promise after so many prior administrations would not. But one of the more bizarre criticisms of the scheduled ceremonies came from former presidential candidate Mitt Romney, focusing his ire on Robert Jeffress, a Baptist pastor who will speak at the event.... (more)

USA TODAY — The good news: We've made strides in shielding our children from secondhand smoke. The bad news: A Columbia University study suggests that an increase in parents smoking pot around their children could undo decades of effort to protect our kids.... (more)

NEW YORK POST — A gunman who targeted a group of families gathered for a Mother's Day celebration at a school in Brazil was fatally shot by an off-duty cop. Katia Sastre was praised by local officials for her bravery and was credited with saving the day.... (more)

NEWSMAX — President Donald Trump will address around 800 US and Israeli dignitaries at the ceremonial opening of the American embassy in Jerusalem by video on Monday, the US ambassador said. It was not immediately clear from Ambassador David Friedman's comment, on a call with reporters, whether Trump would speak via a live videolink or a pre-recorded address.... (more)

FOX NEWS — Israel's government prepared enthusiastically Sunday for the formal opening of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem with a gala party at its Foreign Ministry that included President Trump's daughter Ivanka, her husband, Jared Kushner, and other American VIPs.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Scientists are now questioning whether Kim Jong Un's willingness to talk denuclearization is diplomatic progress for the Trump administration or a panacea for possible nuclear fallout in North Korea, according to Forbes.... (more)

SUN SENTINEL — The Broward school district's repeated, emphatic -- and it turns out, false -- statements that Nikolas Cruz had not been in a controversial disciplinary program fit a pattern of an institution on the defensive and under siege.... (more)

NEWSMAX — After signing the nation's strictest abortion ban into law, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds said there is still more work ahead, The Hill reported on Sunday.... (more)