NEWSMAX — Israeli defense officials have warned that Iran is planning to order its proxies to fire missiles at northern Israel in retaliation for recent airstrikes in Syria attributed to Israel that killed Iranian personnel, The Times of Israel reported on Sunday.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — The chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence is pushing to hold Attorney General Jeff Sessions in contempt of Congress this week for not complying with a subpoena. Rep. Devin Nunes, California Republican, sent a letter to the Justice Department requesting classified information for his committee's investigation into abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and counterintelligence inquiries, including the targeting of Americans such as former Trump campaign official Carter Page, but the letter was ignored.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Thousands of supporters of Iranian opposition groups rallied just blocks from the White House on Saturday for the downfall of Tehran's theocratic government and to invite President Trump to "rip up" the Iran nuclear deal. The rally came one week before Mr. Trump's May 12 deadline to decide whether to pull out of the Obama-era Iranian nuclear deal that saw the U.S., Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China ease sanctions on Tehran in exchange for limits to its nuclear program. Mr. Trump has criticized the 2015 accord since it took effect.... (more)

NATIONAL REVIEW — Shortly after his speech to the NRA's annual meeting Friday, Texas senator Ted Cruz took a few moments to speak to National Review about what Republicans can get done in the remainder of the year, and the options they have for working around the filibuster efforts of Senate Democrats.... (more)

DAILY CALLER — The FBI attorney who exchanged anti-Trump text messages with another bureau official resigned on Friday, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned. The FBI confirmed that the lawyer, Lisa Page, tendered her resignation.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Fired FBI Director James Comey has repeatedly denied during his book tour that he ever testified that FBI agents concluded that retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn didn't intentionally mislead them. That adamant assertion came into question Friday night when the Republican majority on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence released portions of Mr. Comey's closed-door testimony. The section had been classified when the panel's Russia report was first released last month.... (more)

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — 'How do you know Trump's not a suspect?" I've been hearing that question a lot these days. News reports indicate that Special Counsel Robert Mueller may try to coerce President Trump's testimony by issuing a grand-jury subpoena if the president does not agree to a "voluntary" interview. That has sparked a public debate over the question of whether Mueller, an inferior executive officer, has such authority to strong-arm the chief executive -- the official in whom the Constitution reposes all executive power, including the power that Mueller exercises only as long as the president permits it.... (more)

BOB UNRUH — Now is the time for President Trump's administration to fulfill a campaign promise of defunding the giant abortion business Planned Parenthood. That's according to a letter submitted to the federal Department of Health and Human Services by representatives of nearly 90 organizations, including National Right to Life, Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee, Eagle Forum, Live Action, the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission and the Catholic Association.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Education Secretary Betsy DeVos received a standing ovation Saturday where she might have least expected it -- at a college graduation ceremony. The friendly reception came at Ave Maria University, a small Catholic liberal arts college near Naples, Florida, after her commencement speech on the importance of public service that included a jab at the "pernicious effects" of big government.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — A long-awaited report on free speech protections at the University of California, Berkeley, blames "hard to defend" conservative speakers for inciting left-wing students to violence. A commission of Berkeley faculty, students formed in 2017 after violent and costly student protests called its commitment to free speech into question. Their months-long study of the issue resulted in the conclusion that "ultra-conservative rhetoric" by the likes of Milo Yiannopoulos and Ann Coulter only exists to "advance a facile narrative that universities are not tolerant of conservative speech."... (more)

REUTERS — A federal judge said Special Counsel Robert Mueller should not have "unfettered power" in probing ties between President Donald Trump's campaign and Russia, and accused Mueller of using criminal cases to pressure Trump's allies to turn against him.... (more)

FOX NEWS — A federal judge on Friday harshly rebuked Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team during a hearing for ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort -- suggesting they lied about the scope of the investigation, are seeking "unfettered power" and are more interested in bringing down the president.... (more)

GREG COROMBOS — A federal judge blasted the special counsel investigation of Robert Mueller Friday, accusing the former FBI director of assuming "unfettered" authority and maintaining control of the Paul Manafort prosecution solely to squeeze out incriminating information about President Trump.... (more)

REUTERS — The U.S. National Security Agency collected 534 million records of phone calls and text messages of Americans last year, more than triple gathered in 2016, a U.S. intelligence agency report released on Friday said.... (more)

BREITBART — President Donald Trump took the podium at the NRA convention on May 4 amid massive applause, thanked NRA leadership and the "American patriots of the NRA," then launched into a speech reaffirming that our natural rights originate in God.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — President Trump on Friday reiterated his call to arm qualified teachers as part of the response to the recent Parkland, Florida, school shooting, while slamming gun-free zones as invitations to potential mass killers. "We strongly believe in allowing highly-trained teachers to carry concealed weapons," Mr. Trump said, also calling for "highly trained security guards."... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — For the "first time in the country's history," Saudi Arabia has agreed to build Christian churches for its Christian population, which before now has been banned by law from practicing their faith openly.... (more)

WES VERNON — So it's all settled: Mitt Romney is Utah's next United States Senator. Right? Not necessarily. There's a conservative alternative in the June primary, but that (ahem) is mere formality. The skids supposedly are greased. He's in. That's what the Deep State tells us."Deep State" includes powerful media; moneyed elitists in both parties; Democrats who tolerate Republicans who behave and cave to Democrat demands, etc.... (more)

CBN NEWS — After President Donald Trump held a celebration for the National Day of Prayer in the Rose Garden, and signed an executive order setting up a new faith-based office, Vice President Mike Pence did an interview with CBN News' David Brody -- in his office.... (more)

CBN NEWS — He had the backing of Pope Francis, but what about the Church in his home country of the United Kingdom? Did 23-month-old Alfie Evans and his parents' alternative plan of medical treatment in Italy have its support?... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Federal investigators were reportedly "monitoring" at least one phone call Trump lawyer Michael Cohen made to the White House before the FBI raids, a revelation that prompted Rudy Giuliani to demand intervention by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.... (more)

PATRICK J. BUCHANAN — If Donald Trump does not wish to collaborate in the destruction of his presidency, he will refuse to be questioned by the FBI, or by a grand jury, or by Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his malevolent minions.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — A House of Representatives report is blasting the intelligence community's claims that Russia intervened in the 2016 U.S. presidential election on behalf of Donald Trump. The Republican majority report of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the Washington Times reported, said the intelligence community's conclusion "that Vladimir Putin interfered in the 2016 presidential election to specifically help Donald Trump was flawed by 'tradecraft failings.'"... (more)

WESLEY PRUDEN — Everybody wants to be a snowflake, now including even newspapermen. There's nothing inherently wrong with something called "World Press Freedom Day," but journalism has always been a contact sport. That's what made freedom of the press one of the best ideas the Founding Fathers ever came up with.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Thousands of students in as many as 400 schools are walking out of their classes Wednesday to join 16-minute rallies in support of the Second Amendment. The national walkout was organized by high-school senior Will Riley, 18, who attends Carlsbad High School in New Mexico. Riley told Fox News he believes the national gun walkout on March 14 was depicted by the media as a "united front from my generation and for my generation" in favor of increased gun control. He explained, "That's a myth I want to dispel."... (more)