Former Fox News contributor Debbie Schlussel claims host Sean Hannity invited her back to his hotel room  —  Former Fox News contributor Debbie Schlussel claims that host Sean Hannity sexually harassed her.  —  Schlussel said on the Pat Campbell Podcast Friday that Hannity repeatedly invited …

Trump Will Provoke a Crisis or Be Humiliated This Week  —  The president has miscalculated the politics of government funding.  —  It's hard to imagine a better metaphor for Donald Trump's presidency than if, backed by a Republican-controlled Congress, he celebrates his 100th day in office by shutting down his own government.

Republicans sound alarm on Trump's troubles ahead of 2018  —  Republicans say President Donald Trump needs to turn things around fast — or the GOP could pay dearly in 2018.  —  With the party preparing to defend its congressional majorities in next year's midterms, senior Republicans …

Obama's hidden Iran deal giveaway  —  When President Barack Obama announced the “one-time gesture” of releasing Iranian-born prisoners who “were not charged with terrorism or any violent offenses” last year, his administration presented the move as a modest trade-off for the greater …

Marine Le Pen Is In A Much Deeper Hole Than Trump Ever Was  —  Emmanuel Macron, a centrist candidate, and Marine Le Pen, of the far-right-wing National Front, will advance to a runoff in the French presidential election after finishing in the top two positions in a first-round vote on Sunday.

Senate Trump-Russia Probe Has No Full-Time Staff, No Key Witnesses  —  There are just seven part-time staffers working on the Senate inquiry.  None of them are trained investigators.  And they haven't interviewed a single player in Trump's orbit.  —  The Senate Intelligence Committee's probe …

What ‘Snowflakes’ Get Right About Free Speech  —  At one of the premieres of his landmark Holocaust documentary, “Shoah” (1985), the filmmaker Claude Lanzmann was challenged by a member of the audience, a woman who identified herself as a Holocaust survivor.

Bow-tie Wearing Dog Vigorously Contests Mark Halperin's Version of Events  —  Charlie, the adorable bow-tie-wearing dog who landed at the center of a national controversy on Friday night when NBC News Senior Political Analyst Mark Halperin tweeted a photo that many took to mean he was unhappy …

Trump Interview: Full Transcript  —  The AP has now released the full transcript of its Friday interview with President Trump and it is completely amazing.  —  Full transcript after the jump ...  A transcript of an Oval Office interview Friday with President Donald Trump by AP White House Correspondent Julie Pace.

Xi Urges Restraint on North Korea in Phone Call With Trump  —  Trump speaks by phone with Chinese president and Japan's Abe  —  Japan is participating in exercises with U.S. aircraft carrier  —  Chinese President Xi Jinping called for restraint on North Korea in a phone call with Donald Trump …

No Longer a Dream: Silicon Valley Takes On the Flying Car  —  This isn't science fiction.  A number of start-ups as well as big aerospace firms are trying to build personal aircraft you could fly around town.  —  CLEARLAKE, Calif. — On a recent afternoon, an aerospace engineer working …

How Hollywood Remembers Steve Bannon … Stephen K. Bannon, who maintains a precarious hold over the nativist wing of the Trump White House, honed his skills in the art of conservative persuasion in the most liberal precinct of the American imagination, Hollywood.  He became himself in the byways of the movie business.

Trump announces WH dinner for Supreme Court justices — then hours later postpones it indefinitely  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  The White House on Sunday announced that it would host a dinner on Thursday for the nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, then …

‘Everyone tunes in’: Inside Trump's obsession with cable TV  —  During a small working lunch at the White House last month, the question of job security in President Trump's tumultuous White House came up, and one of the attendees wondered whether press secretary Sean Spicer might be the first to go.

Trump Saved Carrier Jobs.  These Workers Weren't as Lucky.  —  HUNTINGTON, Ind. — These are the Indiana workers whose jobs President Trump didn't save.  —  After assembling circuit boards for Carrier furnaces at a factory here for 21 years, Jim Sholle, 56, walked out of the plant for the final time last month.

Why Paul Wolfowitz Is Optimistic About Trump  —  Iraq might descend into “chaotic violence”—or worse.  The broader Middle East could “go to hell” all over again.  —  If the United States doesn't step up under President Donald Trump, Paul Wolfowitz warns in a new interview for The Global POLITICO …

Megyn Kelly set for June NBC debut … Megyn Kelly is ready to get back on TV.  Page Six has exclusively learned that Kelly will officially start at NBC next month.  —  “She will start in May, and her Sunday show will premiere in June,” a network insider told us.

New Orleans Starts Tearing Down Confederate Monuments, Sparking Protest  —  New Orleans officials removed the first of four prominent Confederate monuments early Monday, the latest Southern institution to sever itself from symbols viewed by many as a representation racism and white supremacy.