Mueller authorized by DOJ to investigate alleged Manafort collusion with Russian government  —  (CNN)Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein told special counsel Robert Mueller in a classified August 2, 2017, memo that he should investigate allegations that President Donald Trump's former …

Active shooting at YouTube headquarters brings huge police response  —  An active shooting at YouTube's headquarters in San Bruno, Calif., sparked panic and a massive police response Tuesday.  —  Several YouTube employees sent tweets Tuesday afternoon, saying employees were racing …

Scott Pruitt Bypassed the White House to Give Big Raises to Favorite Aides  —  In early March, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt approached the White House with a request: He wanted substantial pay raises for two of his closest aides.

Sinclair Chairman Claims Entire Print Media Has ‘No Credibility’  —  David Smith, the executive chairman of Sinclair Broadcast Group, said he dislikes and fundamentally distrusts the print media, which he believes “serves no real purpose.”  In emails to New York, Smith said that print …

Trump Says He Plans to Order Military to Guard Border  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Tuesday that he planned to order the military to guard parts of the southern border until he can build a wall and tighten immigration restrictions, proposing a remarkable escalation of his efforts …

Trump is finally making investors nervous  —  Investors spent most of last year ignoring the president's antics.  They're not anymore.  —  If the stock market was in a Trump rally before, it's in a Trump slump now — even if the president would rather not admit it.

Beto O'Rourke says he raised staggering $6.7M in first quarter of 2018  —  U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke, D-El Paso, says he raked in over $6.7 million for his U.S. Senate bid in the first quarter of 2018.  It's an eye-popping number that poses a new category of threat to Republican incumbent Ted Cruz.

APNewsBreak: US suspects listening devices in Washington  —  For the first time, the U.S. government has publicly acknowledged the existence in Washington of what appear to be rogue devices that foreign spies and criminals could be using to track individual cellphones and intercept calls and messages.

Jeff Sessions Quietly Appointed a Prosecutor to Probe Trump's Foes.  That Could Be an Unprecedented Disaster. … The headlines called it a non-event when Attorney General Jeff Sessions decided not to appoint a special counsel to look into the special counsel after all.

Don't Be Fooled, ‘Roseanne’ Is Really TV's Most Anti-Trump Show  —  The NBA great and Hollywood Reporter columnist argues the politics on the revived sitcom are played for laughs like on ‘All in the Family’ or the ‘Colbert Report,’ but the daily economic struggles of the Conner family actually make a pointed anti-Trump statement.

Trump: I could have ‘very good relationship’ with Putin  —  At a joint news conference with Baltic leaders, the president said ‘getting along with Russia is a good thing.’  —  President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he might get along quite well with Russian President Vladimir Putin — or that he might not.

University event aims to combat ‘Christian Privilege’  —  George Washington University diversity workshop to be held four days after Easter  —  Just four days after Easter, George Washington University will host a training session for students and faculty that teaches that Christians …

Marco Rubio on gun control: It depends who he's talking to  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — It was one week after the fatal shootings at a Parkland, Florida, high school, and Republican Sen. Marco Rubio was looking to show solidarity with an angry crowd of parents and students in his home state.

'I can't breathe': Asheville police video shows white officer beating, choking black jaywalking suspect … Johnnie Rush was trying to get home from a long shift at the Cracker Barrel.  —  Then he got stopped for jaywalking — an encounter with the police department in Asheville, N.C. …

‘Go ahead, be pissed at me’: Oklahoma lawmaker, upset at teachers' decorum, vows not to vote for education … As the statewide teacher walkout entered its second day, some lawmakers are criticizing the behavior of those protesting at the Capitol.  —  Rep. Josh Cockroft …

Next Slide  —  A poll commissioned by Democrat Mike Espy's U.S. Senate campaign shows him leading Republicans Cindy Hyde-Smith and Chris McDaniel in a three-way race as the two Republicans split votes.  —  The poll was taken by Chism Strategies in the days after Gov. Phil Bryant announced …

Why is the media—including the liberal media—supporting these teachers' strikes?  —  I've been amazed—in a good way—at how positive is the media coverage of all these teacher wildcat strikes and actions in West Virginia, Kentucky, Oklahoma, and Arizona.  Particularly from liberal media outlets.