“LET ME BE CLEAR”: Sean Hannity's stern response to sexual harassment allegation  —  Fox News star and syndicated radio host Sean Hannity has issued a strong denial following a sexual harassment allegation made by attorney/blogger Debbie Schlussel, a former guest on Hannity's television show.

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.

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 …

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 …

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 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.

As budget deadline looms, Trump pushes border wall funding  —  With a budget deadline looming, President Donald Trump plans a whirlwind of activities seeking to highlight accomplishments while putting fresh pressure on congressional Democrats to pay for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border …

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 …

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.

May Hires Jim Messina for U.K. Conservative Election Team  —  President Obama's former campaign chief starts work for Tories  —  Messina returns to U.K. after success on 2015 Cameron campaign  —  U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May has hired President Obama's former deputy chief of staff Jim Messina …

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.

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 …

Genital mutilation victims break their silence: ‘This is demonic’  —  CDC says at least 500,000 females in U.S. have undergone genital mutilation, or are at risk of having it done.  —  CONNECT  —  It was the summer of 1990.  —  Mariya Taher was 7 years old, vacationing in India with her family …

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 …

ANALYSIS: How Trump accomplished so little yet so much in first 100 days  —  Amid the chaos and disruption that have defined President Trump's first 100 days, a giant contradiction breaks through.  —  Few modern presidents have accomplished so little in the opening months of their time in office.

Italy migrant crisis: Charities ‘colluding’ with smugglers  —  An Italian prosecutor says he has evidence some of the charities saving migrants in the Mediterranean Sea are colluding with people-smugglers.  —  Carmelo Zuccaro told La Stampa (in Italian) phone calls were being made from Libya to rescue vessels.

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.

Carried away: The inside story of how the Carl Vinson's canceled port visit sparked a global crisis  —  In early April, officials at U.S. Pacific Command were developing plans to respond to a sharp rise in tensions with North Korea.  Defense Secretary James Mattis ordered PACOM Commander …