Sources: White House proposes to cut EPA budget by quarter  —  The White House has proposed slashing EPA's budget by about a quarter and eventually eliminating 1 in 5 of the agency's workers, according to sources familiar with the budget proposal sent to EPA on Monday.

Sources: Trump signed off on checking White House staffers' phones  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump signed off on press secretary Sean Spicer's decision to check aides' cell phones to make certain they weren't communicating with reporters by text message or through encrypted apps, multiple sources confirmed to CNN on Monday.

Exclusive — President Trump: New York Times ‘Intent Is so Evil and so Bad,’ ‘They Write Lies’  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald J. Trump told Breitbart News in an exclusive Oval Office interview that the “intent” of the New York Times in its negative coverage of him is “so evil and so bad” and that “they write lies.”

PwC Partner at Oscars Tweeted Backstage Minutes Before Best Picture Mix-Up  —  Brian Cullinan posted photo of Best Actress winner Emma Stone just before giving wrong envelope to Best Picture presenter Warren Beatty  —  Here's the elevator pitch: “The Social Network” meets “The Oscar” meets “The Accountant.”

The ministers of Trump's truths  —  Forget the theater, the palace intrigue, the stumbles.  One thing you should know on Day 40 (and soon the 40th night) of President Trump: This is Bannon-Miller presidency in the making.  Think about the dark view of the state of the world, of the state of our nation, of the state of media.