Entire U.S. Senate to go to White House for North Korea briefing  —  Top Trump administration officials will hold a rare briefing on Wednesday at the White House for the entire U.S. Senate on the situation in North Korea, senior Senate aides said on Monday.  —  All 100 senators have been asked …

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.

BART takeover robbery: 40 to 60 teens swarm train, rob weekend riders  —  A recent string of robberies on BART trains took a frightening turn when dozens of juveniles swarmed an Oakland station over the weekend and commandeered a train car, forcing passengers to hand over bags and cell phones …

Trump Wants Tax Plan to Cut Corporate Rate to 15%  —  President tells staff he wants to prioritize reductions over deficit concerns  —  WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump has ordered White House aides to accelerate efforts to draft a tax plan slashing the corporate rate to 15% and prioritizing cuts …

State Dept. blog promotes Trump's Mar-a-Lago, prompting ethics concerns  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump personally owns Mar-a-Lago, his private club on Florida's eastern coast.  But that didn't stop the State Department, in a blog post on the United States Embassy in London's website, from touting the property.

Chobani sues Alex Jones, InfoWars for defamation over Twin Falls assault coverage  —  Chobani, the Greek yogurt maker, is suing Alex Jones, the right-wing conspiracy theorist who says the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting was a hoax, 9/11 was an inside job by the U.S. government …

Macron Campaign Wards Off Hacking Attempts Linked to Russia  —  Presidential candidate's campaign suffers multipronged phishing attack beginning in mid-March  —  PARIS—Hackers matching the profile of a pro-Kremlin group have tried in recent weeks to access campaign email accounts …

Robert Pirsig dies at 88; wrote counterculture classic ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance’  —  Robert Pirsig in 1991 at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge, Mass. (Gary Guisinger / For The Times)  —  In the nearly five years it took Robert Pirsig to sell “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance …

Forget the critics, Mr. President.  Your first 100 days have been just fine.  —  Despite the best efforts of the White House “PR apparatus” to sell the president's first 100 days as a success, the New York Times declared in an editorial, the new administration has, in fact, been plagued by …

In Trump era, Rachel Maddow starts beating Fox News  —  Fox News normally ranks #1 among cable news channels.  But lately MSNBC's Rachel Maddow has been challenging Fox at 9 p.m., the centerpiece of the prime time schedule.  —  “The Rachel Maddow Show” surpassed “Tucker Carlson Tonight” …

Amidst Backlash, Ivanka Trump Clothing Is Secretly Relabelled as Adrienne Vittadini  —  BoF has learned that G-III, the company that licenses Ivanka Trump ready-to-wear, has relabelled inventory without the knowledge of the brand and sold it to discount chain Stein Mart.

Despite Reports, Fmr Fox Guest Now Claims She Was Never Sexually Harassed by Sean Hannity  —  Debbie Schlussel, a former Fox News guest, appeared on a local radio show on Friday and recounted an incident where Sean Hannity purportedly asked her to a hotel, and when she rebuffed his advances …

Bill Nye's Bizarre Video On Transgenderism Bombs On YouTube [VIDEO]  —  A clip of Bill Nye's latest television show promotes transgenderism and other gender identities as hard science, and it's performing horribly on YouTube, as of Monday.  —  “My Sex Junk,” published on YouTube Sunday …

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 …

If you really respect Trump voters, tell them the truth  —  Struggling communities deserve help, but nostalgia economics won't work.  —  A wave of recent columns argue that what Trump superfans — or at least some hazily imagined, hard-pressed Northern working-class version of them — really want is respect.

Americans' Dissatisfaction With Speaker Paul Ryan, Congress Overall Is Growing, Poll Finds  —  Nearly three-quarters disapprove of Congress's job performance, up 12 points since February  —  Americans hold dim views of Congress and of House Speaker Paul Ryan, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll finds …

Trump jokes that Haley could ‘easily be replaced’  —  DON'T MISS A BRIEF.  SIGN UP FOR OUR DAILY EMAIL.

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 …

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.

Obama to net $400K for Wall Street speech: report  —  has agreed to speak at a Wall Street conference for $400,000, according to a new report.  —  Obama will appear at Cantor Fitzgerald LP's healthcare conference in September, Fox Business Network first reported Monday.

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.

Ailes Accuser Says Fox News Execs Ordered Eavesdropping On Her Digital Devices  —  A new lawsuit filed Monday by a suspended Fox News host accuses the network and senior executives of arranging to have her private communications spied on as part of a campaign of intimidation.

Le Pen ‘steps aside’ as party leader  —  Marine Le Pen says she's stepping aside as leader of far-right National Front party as she seeks French presidency … You can also follow @BBCBreaking on Twitter to get the latest alerts.

San Antonio mayor blames poverty on ‘broken people’ who aren't ‘in a relationship with their creator’  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  The mayor of San Antonio told a group of conservative Christians that she believes poor people are responsible for their own poverty.

The way we were, &c.  —  On the Obama era, the Trump era, Syria's ruling family, Saudi Arabia, sports, music, language, and more  —  There was a song: “Mem'ries light the corners of my mind.  Misty water-colored mem'ries of the way we were.”  I have been thinking lately about the way we were.

CIA director Mike Pompeo repeatedly cited WikiLeaks to attack Clinton during campaign  —  (CNN)Donald Trump's administration has taken a tough stance on WikiLeaks in recent weeks.  —  US officials told CNN last week that the Justice Department has prepared charges to seek the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.