BYRON YORK — There's been no shortage of breathless reaction to Trump-Russia special prosecutor Robert Mueller's indictment of 13 Russians and three Russian organizations for their efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election. "An attack that -- but for the loss of life -- is as bad as Pearl Harbor," tweeted veteran journalist Jonathan Alter.... (more)

BOB UNRUH — A grand jury indictment released Friday by Special Counsel Robert Mueller accuses 13 Russian nationals and three companies of interfering in the 2016 presidential election. The indictment says the nationals, posing as Americans, contacted members of the Trump campaign. But authorities said there was no allegation any American was a knowing participant.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — President Trump said Friday that the indictments against 13 Russians for interfering in the 2016 presidential election show that his campaign didn't collude with Moscow, and that he beat Hillary Clinton fair and square. "Russia started their anti-US campaign in 2014, long before I announced that I would run for President," Mr. Trump tweeted. "The results of the election were not impacted. The Trump campaign did nothing wrong - no collusion!"... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — The Christopher Steele dossier allegation that an "extensive conspiracy" existed between the Donald Trump campaign and the Kremlin wasn't borne out in the special counsel's first charges of Russian election interference. Special Counsel Robert Mueller brought a grand jury indictment against 13 Russians for interfering in the election via social media posts, false American identities and fake political groups. The indictment and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said no Americans knowingly took part.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — The Bolshevik Revolution turned 100 last October. As Friday's indictment of Russia's Internet Research Agency reminds us, it's been 100 years of tyrannical and murderous Russian regimes working to subvert democracy wherever they can and distort American public opinion by any means they can devise.... (more)

LOS ANGELES TIMES — With an ode to his adopted home state of Utah and swipes at Washington and President Trump, Mitt Romney launched a political comeback Friday by announcing his bid for U.S. Senate. Revealing his intentions in a 2/12 minute video, filled with uplifting images of family and the state's rugged beauty, Romney signaled his intention to run a localized campaign rooted in an old political standby: criticism of the Beltway and its noxious political culture.... (more)

CBS NEWS / YOUTUBE — Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the Republican Party's presidential nominee in 2012, is officially running for Senate in Utah. The head of Utah's Republican Party has criticized Romney for not having enough ties to the state. He moved there after losing the 2012 election. Matt Canham, senior managing editor of the Salt Lake Tribune, breaks down the latest with CBSN.... (more)

SUNSENTINEL — Stoneman Douglas High School girls basketball player Maddy Wilford -- who was shot several times and 'fighting for her life' in the immediate aftermath of Wednesday's Parkland shooting -- is now in stable condition and received a visit from President Trump and the First Lady late Friday night.... (more)

NEW YORK POST — The FBI was warned last month that Nikolas Cruz was an armed psycho who might shoot up a school -- but it didn't bother investigating, the agency admitted Friday... (more)

NEW YORK POST — Before Nikolas Cruz carried out his mass killing at a Florida high school this week, police responded to his home 39 times over a seven-year period, according to disturbing new documents.... (more)

FOX NEWS — Ted Cruz wants CNN to know he's no coward. The Texas senator on Friday blasted the liberal news network for sitting on an interview he gave it even as "New Day" host Chris Cuomo was accusing him of being "afraid" to appear on the network.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Congressional Republicans failed to repeal or replace Obamacare. But one state has come up with a way to get around it. Idaho is dealing with Obamacare by just blowing it off. If it works, other states seem likely to follow... (more)

WESLEY PRUDEN — When Kim Jong-un dispatched his crack propaganda team to Pyeongchang (and not P.F. Chang, the Chinese restaurant chain, as reported by NBC News) to cover the Winter Olympics, he couldn't have imagined that the American media in town would have been so easy to con.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Mitt Romney on Friday was set to announce his campaign for Utah's Senate seat that will almost certainly succeed, and will only be burdened by attributes that candidates normally kill for -- universal name recognition and the captivated attention of the national press corps.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Mitt Romney's ascension to Congress's upper chamber may be a safe bet, but that doesn't mean he'll have an easy road. Just as the news broke indicating Romney will announce his candidacy for Orrin Hatch's, R-Utah, Senate seat on Thursday, Utah's Republican Party chairman slammed the former presidential candidate. "I think he's keeping out candidates that I think would be a better fit for Utah because, let's face it, Mitt Romney doesn't live here, his kids weren't born here, he doesn't shop here," Rob Anderson said in an interview with the Salt Lake Tribune, further accusing Romney of "using name recognition to win a seat."... (more)

BYRON YORK — Observers are buzzing about a series of events in the last 60 days in the case of Michael Flynn, the Trump national security adviser who on Dec. 1 pleaded guilty to one count of lying to the FBI in the Trump-Russia investigation. The new developments might add up to very little or they might be significant. In any event, they are raising eyebrows.... (more)

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — Back in early December, Trump fans started throwing stuff at me for suggesting that we await more information about FBI agent Peter Strzok before demanding that he be drawn and quartered. Yes, it was clear that Strzok engaged in serious misconduct: The married G-man's reported extramarital affair with his married FBI colleague Lisa Page was scandalous not only for the obvious reasons but as potential blackmail material against counterintelligence agents.... (more)

BOB UNRUH — Bruce Ohr, the demoted Department of Justice official who provided information to the FBI for the anti-Trump "dossier," did not disclose to the bureau that the opposition-research firm that produced the dossier was paying his wife, according to newly obtained government documents.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Former CIA Director John Brennan is in a "world of trouble" over statements he has made concerning British spy Christopher Steele's dossier linking President Donald Trump to Russia, former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino said Monday.... (more)

DAILY CALLER — White House problems with the Democrats' "rebuttal memo" on the surveillance of Trump associates are genuine and the document could disclose "sources and methods," California Rep. Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence confirmed.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — With dozens of Dreamers looking on from the viewing gallery, the Senate was unable to muster the votes to approve an amnesty for them and 1.8 million other illegal immigrants, leaving their fate in doubt with just weeks to go before many of them start to lose their DACA protections.... (more)

DAILY CALLER — Justice Clarence Thomas decried the contemporary culture of victimhood during remarks Thursday, telling an audience at the Library of Congress that constant aggrievement would exhaust the country.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., spoke pessimistically Thursday about preventing mass shootings like the one that took place in his home state a day earlier. "I'm trying to be clear and honest here, if someone's decided I'm going to commit this crime, they will find a way to get the gun to do it," Rubio said in a Senate floor speech. "That doesn't mean you shouldn't have a law to make it harder; it just means understand, to be honest, it isn't going to stop this from happening."... (more)

CBS NEWS — The leader of a white nationalist militia Thursday night appeared to walk back his earlier statements that Florida shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz was a member of his group. Law enforcement in Tallahassee, Florida, said they had no record of Cruz being part of the organization.... (more)

CBS NEWS — Seventeen people were killed and more than two dozen others were wounded when 19-year-old Nikolas Jacob Cruz allegedly opened fire on Wed., Feb. 14, 2018, on the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School campus in Florida. Pictured are 14 of the victims who were killed in Parkland, Florida.... (more)