Small Businesses Cheer ‘New Sheriff in Town’ After Climate Pact Exit  —  As news that President Trump was pulling out of the Paris climate accord hit at a luncheon for small-business owners in Toledo, Ohio, on Thursday, an already happy crowd suddenly turned euphoric.

Trump Appears Unlikely to Hinder Comey's Testimony About Russia Inquiry  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump does not plan to invoke executive privilege to try to prevent James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, from providing potentially damaging testimony to Congress on statements the president …

America's CEOs fall out of love with Trump  —  NEW YORK - The relationship between corporate America and Donald Trump's White House has chilled.  —  The regular parades of business titans into the West Wing are gone.  A gathering of executives led by Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman initially planned …

Mattis: North Korea a ‘clear and present danger’ to world  —  SINGAPORE — North Korea is accelerating its push to acquire a nuclear-armed missile capable of threatening the United States and other nations, and the U.S. regards this as a “clear and present danger,” U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Saturday.

Donald Trump - miracle worker  —  The world from which President Trump returns on his historic trip to Muslim Saudi Arabia, Jewish Israel, Christian Vatican, and agnostic Brussels, is different from the world prior to his trip.  Hope exists where it did not, because of this trip.  This is not rhetoric.

THE LATEST: SPECIAL COUNSEL'S TRUMP PROBE ADDS MANAFORT CASE  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on ongoing investigations into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election (all times local):  —  The Associated Press has learned that the special counsel running the U.S. investigation …

Evergreen State faculty demand punishment of white professor who refused to leave on anti-white day  —  He provoked ‘white supremacist backlash’  —  Bret Weinstein was driven off campus to teach because the campus police said they weren't allowed to protect him.

'I'm A House N*gga': Did Bill Maher Cross a Line During Ben Sasse Interview?  —  Is the “n-word” offensive, in any context?  —  That question will be put to the test in the next few days after Real Time host Bill Maher jokingly said tonight “I'm a house nigga” after guest Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse suggested …

Ted Cruz crushes bizarre attack on Paris withdrawal  —  It is beyond my power of discernment to identify the most over-the-top comment criticizing President Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris climate accord.  But this tweet by a Harvard professor named Joyce Chaplin is surely a contender:

The Problem With Jared Kushner  —  What are we supposed to make of the news that Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law and senior White House adviser, met with the Russian ambassador in December to discuss establishing a back channel between the incoming Trump administration and the Kremlin, using Russian diplomatic facilities?

At age 111, America's oldest veteran is still smoking cigars, drinking whiskey and loving life  —  AUSTIN — Richard Overton is right where he wants to be.  —  He's sitting in a lawn chair on the front porch of the Austin home he built nearly 70 years ago, working on his fifth Tampa Sweet cigar on a 91-degree sunny day.

Vladimir Putin Tells Megyn Kelly: U.S. Hackers Could Have Framed Russia  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin found himself on the defensive Friday when asked by NBC News' Megyn Kelly to explain his earlier claim that private “patriotic” hackers could have interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Nunes-led House Intelligence Committee asked for ‘unmaskings’ of Americans  —  The Republican-controlled House Intelligence Committee asked U.S. spy agencies late last year to reveal the names of U.S. individuals or organizations contained in classified intelligence on Russia's meddling in the 2016 election …

Fed Officials Sharpen Concerns Over Trump's Immigration Policy  —  Shortages no longer limited to skilled labor, companies report  —  Kaplan says ‘sensible immigration reform’ can help boost GDP  —  Federal Reserve officials are beginning to worry out loud that President Donald Trump's immigration policies …

Trump to nominate Richard Spencer for Navy secretary  —  President Trump plans to nominate Richard Spencer to be secretary of the Navy, the White House announced Friday evening.  —  Spencer, who has been Trump's rumored pick for months, most recently served at the investment company Fall Creek Management …

Trump's tangle with Europe leads the continent to find partners elsewhere  —  BRUSSELS — A day after President Trump pulled out of a key climate agreement, declaring he was fighting for “Pittsburgh, not Paris,” an international realignment was already taking shape on Friday …

A California-led alliance of cities and states vows to keep the Paris climate accord intact  —  Gov. Andrew Cuomo directed One World Trade Center and the Kosciuszko Bridge to be lighted in green in support of the Paris accord.  (Kevin P. Coughlin / Office of Gov. Andrew Cuomo)

Minnesota measles outbreak exceeds last year's nationwide numbers  — “Many of the cases could have been prevented if people had gotten vaccinated,” a state health official says  —  (CNN)There are now more measles cases in Minnesota than there were in the entire United States last year.