White House Staff React in Real-Time as Trump Tweets: ‘Jesus’ … It was 7:51 a.m. eastern time on a Friday, and the president was angrily tweetstorming again.  —  This time, it was about “Fake News,” “the Russians,” China and beef, James Comey and “tapes,” and his sometimes hapless White House staff.

Trump's Comey fight spooks Capitol Hill  —  There is widespread concern among Congressional leadership about Trump's frame of mind in the wake of the Comey firing.  —  Senior Senate aide: “It has to stop ... never seen anything like this in my entire career.”

‘It Took My Breath Away’: Chris Wallace Offers Stunning, Must-Watch Critique of Trump White House  —  Chris Wallace has spent the better part of the past four decades reporting on Washington for NBC, ABC, and now Fox News.  And given his lengthy tenure of Beltway reporting …

WannaCry ransomware used in widespread attacks all over the world  —  Earlier today, our products detected and successfully blocked a large number of ransomware attacks around the world.  In these attacks, data is encrypted with the extension “.WCRY” added to the filenames.

Why it's likely that Trump does have recordings of his Oval Office conversations  —  President Trump issued a not-terribly-veiled threat to former FBI director James B. Comey in a tweet Friday morning. … For a guy who has spent the past week being compared to Richard Nixon for firing a man …

Sessions issues sweeping new criminal charging policy  —  Attorney General Jeff Sessions overturned the sweeping criminal charging policy of former attorney general Eric H. Holder Jr. and directed his federal prosecutors Thursday to charge defendants with the most serious, provable crimes carrying the most severe penalties.

The ‘Merrick Garland for FBI’ scheme shows why liberals lose  —  We live in a golden age of political stupidity, but I'm not being hyperbolic when I say this: The idea of pulling Judge Merrick Garland off the D.C. Circuit federal appeals court and into the FBI is one of the silliest ideas I've seen anyone in Washington fall for.

A Misplaced Focus on “Collusion”  —  Public discussion of the FBI's ongoing investigation into Russian influence on the 2016 election is dominated by the question of collusion: Were senior members of the Trump campaign knowing collaborators in the Russian government's campaign to undermine Hillary Clinton's candidacy?

New York Times publisher sends personal appeal to those who canceled over Bret Stephens  —  New York Times publisher Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr. is making a personal appeal to subscribers who canceled because the paper hired Bret Stephens, a conservative columnist who has questioned …

Financial-Crimes Monitor to Share Records in Trump-Russia Probe  —  Senate committee requested the data from Treasury's FinCEN  —  WASHINGTON—A Treasury Department unit that specializes in combating money-laundering will share financial records with an expanding Senate probe …

‘You are paddleboarding next to approximately 15 great white sharks,’ chopper tells Calif. beachgoers  —  “You are paddleboarding next to approximately 15 great white sharks,” Deputy Brian Stockbridge announced via a loudspeaker.  —  Stockbridge was in a helicopter, flying off the coast …

Fired for Reporting the Truth  —  Portland State University's “Unpacking Misconceptions” panel (image via Twitter)  —  Simply tweeting video of a Muslim student characterizing his religion on an interfaith panel cost me my job.  —  Last month, I attended an interfaith panel discussion …

Former Sheriff Lee Baca defiant to the end, even after prison sentence  —  Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca has been sentenced to three years in prison, marking an end to a corruption scandal that has roiled the Sheriff's Department for several years.