How America's Largest Local TV Owner Turned Its News Anchors Into Soldiers In Trump's War On The Media  —  Earlier this month, CNN's Brian Stelter broke the news that Sinclair Broadcast Group, owner or operator of nearly 200 television stations in the U.S., would be forcing its news anchors …

The Kushners Saw Redemption in the White House.  It Was a Mirage.  —  It was sweet redemption for Charles Kushner last year when his son Jared was named senior White House adviser.  A dozen years earlier, a sordid scandal stemming partly from a family falling-out had reduced the senior …

Tillerson Scrubbed From State Dept Website  —  The “Secretary of State Tillerson” link at the top of the department's homepage (www.state.gov ) disappeared overnight Saturday and was replaced with a generic “Secretary of State” tab.  When clicked, it leads to a page that informs visitors …

Commentary: In trial of Pulse shooter's widow, the missing recorded ‘confession’ was the biggest flaw  —  Taking Names  —  If you believe the prosecution, the case against Noor Salman should've been a slam dunk.  —  Authorities said the widow of Pulse shooter Omar Mateen confessed to being complicit in the attack.

'I don't know how you survive this one': Chris Christie on Pruitt's condo deal  —  EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt likely faces trouble over reports of his living in a condo co-owned by the wife of a top lobbyist for energy firms, said Chris Christie, an ABC News contributor and former governor of New Jersey.

As China puts the brakes on overseas investment, Los Angeles' development boom takes a hit  —  Last year, Chinese investors interested in buying or developing property in Southern California peppered World Trade Center Los Angeles officials with questions about how best to break into the market.

Emerging Democratic Party united on liberal policies but divided on how to win … A new Democratic Party is emerging in congressional primaries across the country, united over the most liberal policies in decades but sharply divided over which candidates to run against President Trump and Republicans in the midterms.

WATCH: Parkland students react in the best possible way to news the NRA is sending Ted Nugent after them  —  A panel made up of three student survivors from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School reacted appropriately when AM Joy host Joy Reid informed them that the NRA was unleashing aging rocker Ted Nugent …

Republicans rigged our democracy.  Here's how Democrats can fight back  —  Republicans have been using the constitution's flaws to wage a one-sided war against their political opponents.  It's time for Democrats to respond … Donald Trump wasn't elected because Democrats lost a policy fight in 2016.

Incoming NSA chief has a reputation for winning ‘all the important fights.’ Russia will be his biggest test yet. … The next head of the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command will be taking charge in the face of what intelligence officials call the greatest strategic threat to the United States …

‘Palm Sunday Massacre’ killer quietly freed from prison  —  The fiend behind one of the most infamous mass shootings in city history — the “Palm Sunday Massacre” that left eight children and two young moms dead in Brooklyn in 1984 — has been quietly released from an upstate prison.

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary Changes Definition Of ‘Assault Rifle’ After Parkland Shooting  —  Soon after the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, Merriam-Webster's online dictionary changed its definition of “assault rifle.”  —  The entry for “assault rifle,” which was updated March 31, 2018, reads as follows:

Automakers Sought Looser Rules but May Get More Than They Bargained for  —  When executives from the Big Three automakers went to the White House last spring to ask for more lenient emissions rules, their prospects looked rosy.  President Trump seemed eager to roll back regulations …

Report: McCabe lied four times  —  According to Rep. Jim Jordan, the FBI's Office of Professional Responsibility found that Andrew McCabe lied four to times to his superiors and investigators.  The report containing these findings has not been made public, but Jordan reviewed it.

AggregateIQ: the obscure Canadian tech firm and the Brexit data riddle … Play Video  —  'Find Christopher Wylie.  " That instruction - 13 months ago - came from the very first ex-Cambridge Analytica employee I met.  He was unequivocal.  Wylie would have answers to the two questions that were troubling me most.

Arkansas Profs Fear Getting Unfairly Fired Under New Policy  —  The University of Arkansas system passed a tenure policy Thursday some educators believe makes it easier to fire tenured professors.  —  The UA system's board of trustees unanimously voted to pass updates to Board Policy 405.1 …

Ominous cracks show in the West's united front against Russia … In the end, Britain was not isolated.  At least 28 countries have now agreed to expel nearly 150 Russian diplomats, in a coordinated response to Russia's use of a military-grade chemical weapon in an assassination attempt in Salisbury, a provincial English town.

At Pruitt's E.P.A.: No Studies, No Data, No Rules  —  The other day, Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, took yet another step to muzzle the scientific inquiry that for years has informed sound policy at an agency he seems determined to destroy.

About 75 Rockledge High School students walk out of class to support Second Amendment  —  A group of students from Rockledge High School in Brevard County briefly walked out of class Friday to show their support for the Second Amendment.  —  About 75 students, according to a head count …