Trump delivers scorched-earth speech as he tries to regain footing  —  President Donald Trump delivered a scorched-earth speech to conservative activists on Saturday, calling the Russia investigation “bullshit,” adopting a southern accent to mock his former attorney general …

Trump announces executive order that could strip colleges of funding if they don't ‘support free speech’  —  A new executive order from the White House will aim to make federal research funding for colleges and universities contingent on their support for “free speech,” President Trump said Saturday.

I Testified Against Nixon.  Here's My Advice for Michael Cohen.  —  My appearance before Congress helped take down a president.  Will the same thing happen to Trump?  —  Mr. Dean was a White House counsel under Richard Nixon.  —  There are several parallels between my testimony before Congress in 1973 …

How Jeff Bezos Went to Hollywood and Lost Control  —  Jeff Bezos amassed the world's greatest fortune by relying on what he has called a “regret minimization framework.”  He built an $800 billion company with 14 codified principles and a brutally exacting culture.  His annual salary of $81,840 has not budged since 1998.

Anti-Muslim Activist Laura Loomer Banned From CPAC After Harassing Reporters  —  Loomer, who has already been banned from Twitter and Uber, was banned from conservative gathering on Saturday shortly before President Trump was supposed to take the stage.  —  The Conservative Political Action …

How a black man ‘outsmarted’ a neo-Nazi group — and became their new leader  —  Without notifying his followers or even his inner circle, the longtime president of a legacy neo-Nazi group has signed over its control to a black civil rights activist from California.

Inside Raheem Kassam's ‘Transatlantic Right Wing Spring Fling’  —  Cockburn doesn't mind a cocktail or two, but he wasn't sure if he could stomach the ‘Raheem is Daddy’ special on offer at the Nigel Farage party last night at CPAC.  —  Kassam is a particularly proud boy at the moment, and perhaps understandably so.

Commission picks new map for Maryland's gerrymandered 6th District  —  A nonpartisan commission charged with redrawing Maryland's 6th Congressional District, which a court ruled was unconstitutional, has proposed new boundaries for the sprawling district.  —  The Governor's Emergency Commission …

Stay-Puft Socialism, Luxurious Infanticide  —  Old evils continue to reinvent themselves. … Dear Reader (Including the Amy Klobuchar intern kept in a crate in the back office),  —  One of my favorite Twitter accounts is the official Twitter feed of the Socialist party of Great Britain.

White House Ambitions Cloud Democratic Hopes to Win the Senate  —  WASHINGTON — Democratic leaders are convinced that Steve Bullock, the popular governor of Montana, would give the party its best shot at unseating Senator Steve Daines, a freshman Republican, when he stands for re-election next year …

Revealed: Facebook's global lobbying against data privacy laws  —  Social network targeted legislators around the world, promising or threatening to withhold investment  —  Facebook has targeted politicians around the world - including the former UK chancellor, George Osborne …

Russian General Pitches ‘Information’ Operations as a Form of War  —  MOSCOW — The chief of Russia's armed forces endorsed on Saturday the kind of tactics used by his country to intervene abroad, repeating a philosophy of so-called hybrid war that has earned him notoriety in the West …

Sacramento D.A.: No charges against police officers who shot Stephon Clark  —  One year after Sacramento police shot Stephon Clark to death and sparked a renewed national dialogue over police shootings of young black men, Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert declared Saturday …

‘I know where I came from!’:  Sanders begins 2020 campaign with personal speech in Brooklyn  —  Brooklyn, New York (CNN)Bernie Sanders on Saturday spoke about his father's escape from Europe, where “virtually his entire family there was wiped out by Hitler and Nazi barbarism.”

UC-Berkeley police arrest suspect in campus attack on conservative activist  —  University of California-Berkeley officials on Friday arrested a suspect who allegedly assaulted a conservative activist on campus last month.  —  Zachary Greenberg, 28, was arrested by university police about 1 p.m. …

Judge demands answers from Roger Stone on book that could violate gag order  —  The judge in charge of Roger Stone's criminal trial on Friday demanded to know why the court wasn't made aware of the “imminent general release” of a book that could include discussion of the longtime Trump adviser's …

Poster linking Rep. Ilhan Omar to 9/11 sparks outrage, injuries in W.Va. state Capitol  —  Friday was a day meant to celebrate the Republican Party in the West Virginia Capitol.  But a poster connecting a Muslim congresswoman to the 9/11 terrorist attacks led to heated emotions …