Twitter's Insiders Are Skeptical About Beto O'Rourke.  Iowans Don't Seem To Care.  —  MT. VERNON, IOWA — Sydney Holland had heard pundits say that Beto O'Rourke was inexperienced and a policy lightweight, without specific answers on immigration or health care.  She'd seen people claiming he might not be a real progressive.

Saudi Crown Prince's Brutal Drive to Crush Dissenters Began Before Khashoggi  —  WASHINGTON — Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia authorized a secret campaign to silence dissenters — which included the surveillance, kidnapping, detention and torture of Saudi citizens …

Ta-Nehisi Coates Is an Optimist Now A conversation about race and 2020.  —  In recent days, as Democrats debated the definition of “reparations,” Joe Biden rationalized his opposition to integration, and socialist congresswomen started demanding the rebirth of a nation, inquiring minds wanted to know: What would Ta-Nehisi say?

Exclusive: 7 U.S. Military Members Identified As Part Of White Nationalist Group  —  Leaked chat logs revealed active military servicemen with ties to the extremist group Identity Evropa.  —  Leaked chat logs have connected seven current members of the U.S. armed forces to a white nationalist group …

Inside Rudy's vanishing act  —  Rudy Giuliani has vanished from your television.  The last time the president's once-ubiquitous attack dog did a major TV appearance was on Sunday, Jan. 20, when he went on NBC's “Meet the Press” and CNN's “State of the Union.”

We must apply our universal values to all nations.  Only then will we achieve peace.  —  Ilhan Omar, a Democrat, represents Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives.  —  Since I began my first term in Congress, I have sought to speak openly and honestly about the scale of the issues …

Trump was the face of the 737 probe  —  Several days after an Ethio­pian Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 crashed outside Ethio­pia's capital city, the Trump administration's senior air safety official was still defending the plane.  —  Acting Federal Aviation Administration chief Daniel K. Elwell …

Why there may be much less — and much more — to the Mueller report than people expect  —  This piece has been updated.  —  Martin Lederman teaches constitutional law at the Georgetown University Law Center and has twice served in the Office of Legal Counsel at the Justice Department.

Age of victim in prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein, long a source of confusion, eased his obligations to register as a sex offender  —  A federal investigation into alleged sexual misconduct by multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein had flagged scores of potential underage victims, including the 14-year-old girl who first alerted police.

SC sheriffs fly first class, bully employees and line their pockets with taxpayer money  —  South Carolina sheriffs have embezzled, bribed and dipped into public funds for expensive chauffeurs.  They've driven drunk and bullied other public officials.  They've been accused of leveraging …

‘Weak’ Lindsey Graham destroyed for staying silent about Trump's ugly attacks on his friend John McCain (Updated)  —  President Donald Trump has spent two days attacking the late Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) but there has not been a peep of defense coming from Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) …

'I haven't abandoned my principles': Hogan, pondering challenge to Trump, casts himself as a traditional Republican  —  Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan acknowledges that many Republicans nationwide who have heard about his potential presidential ambitions probably view him as a centrist with little hope …

If Biden runs, he should commit to just one term  —  David Gergen has been a White House adviser to four presidents and is a senior political analyst at CNN.  A graduate of Harvard Law School, he is a professor of public service and was the founding director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School.

7 reporters held, ‘brutally beaten’ by Hamas for covering Gaza protests  —  UN envoy strongly condemns terror group over violent treatment of Palestinian reporters and rights activists, four of whom were hospitalized  —  Seven Palestinian journalists in Gaza were being held in custody …

A church service on a blue-skied Sunday interrupts Trump's weekend of presidential pique  —  The Debrief: An occasional series offering a reporter's insights  —  On a sparkling, crisp spring Sunday morning, daffodils and crocus in bloom, President Trump attended a Lenten service …

As the New Zealand mosque attacks unfolded, the youngest victim — a 3-year-old boy — ran toward the gunman  —  CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — Mucad Ibrahim was wearing little white socks, the type with grips on the bottom so that ­toddlers don't slip, when he was carried out of the Al Noor mosque in this city.

Trump defends Fox News' Jeanine Pirro after Islamophobic comments  —  President Trump came to Fox News anchor Jeanine Pirro's defense on Sunday in response to the network taking her off the air without explanation, one week after she implied Rep. Ilhan Omar's (D-Minn.) use of a hijab was antithetical to the U.S. Constitution.