WASHINGTON TIMES — Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on Tuesday compared the articles of impeachment drafted against him by members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus to an extortion attempt. "There have been people who have been making threats privately and publicly against me for quite some time, and I think they should understand the Department of Justice is not going to be extorted," he said, speaking at the Newseum's Law Day event. "We are going to do what is required by the rule of law and any kind of threats anybody makes are not going to affect the way we do our job."... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Cecile Richards received a hero's send-off on her last day as president of Planned Parenthood, but pro-life activists say her uncompromising stance on abortion and alliance with the Democratic Party have left the organization on shaky ground.... (more)

NATIONAL REVIEW — The Republican-controlled Iowa legislature passed a bill Wednesday that would ban abortion after a fetal heartbeat can be detected. Since a heartbeat is often found as early as six weeks into pregnancy, the measure would qualify as the most stringent abortion restriction in the country if Republican governor Kim Reynolds signs it into law.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Nearly 200 members of Congress and 100 state and national pro-life groups are calling on the Trump administration to take taxpayers out of the abortion business. The coalition sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar on Monday asking him to cut off abortion providers from Title X dollars, which are earmarked for family planning services.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Texas led a coalition of states Tuesday in a lawsuit challenging the legality of the Obama-era DACA deportation amnesty, opening up a new legal front in the increasingly messy battle over illegal immigration. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in southern Texas, asks judges to rule against the 2012 program that's granted tentative legal status to more than 800,000 Dreamers.... (more)

ALAN KEYES — One thing right- and left-wing totalitarian regimes have in common is their hostility, in practice, toward parental authority. The "property right" they target most consistently is the one by which children belong to their parents -- not just in the existential sense in which objects belong to the people who possess and use them, but in the sense of the shared way of being in which all humans belong to the same species.... (more)

NEWSMAX — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un plans to invite experts and journalists from the United States and South Korea when the country closes its nuclear test site in May, Seoul officials said on Sunday, as U.S. President Trump pressed for total denuclearisation ahead of his own unprecedented meeting with Kim.... (more)

HAARETZ — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed a cache of documents he says proves Iran lied to the world about its nuclear program for years, even after the 2015 nuclear deal with the world. "Iran did not come clean about its nuclear program," Netanyahu said in a prime time address in English. Iran, for its part, blasted the speech as "propaganda."... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the Iran nuclear deal was "built on Iran's lies," and was not established "on a foundation of good faith or transparency," after Israel announced it had obtained 110,000 files from an Iranian storage facility on Iran's efforts to develop a secret nuclear weapons program.... (more)

NEWSMAX — The reviews are in: President Donald Trump gave a thumbs-down Sunday to the comedian who roasted his chief spokeswoman at the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner, offending present and past members of his administration, including one who walked out in protest.... (more)

ROBERT KNIGHT — Snopes.com is handy at times. The "fact check" site is useful when vetting a news story that favors a progressive take. If even the left-leaning Snopes finds it false or mostly false, that's pretty persuasive. But not so much when it comes to something involving conservatives or conservative causes.... (more)

FORBIDDENKNOWLEDGETV.NET — A video by filmmaker Alexandra Bruce, posted at her website ForbiddenKnowledgeTV.net, reveals the striking fact that local news stations throughout the U.S. share identically-worded scripts in order to control the public's views and attitudes. Exactly who controls the shared scripts is the question, since the local stations are affiliates of different networks.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — The illegal immigrant caravan swamped border officials in San Diego Sunday as hundreds of people showed up at the San Ysidro port of entry and demanded admittance and asylum as reporters, immigrant rights activists and Mexican watched. After a month of traveling across Mexico, hundreds of people, most of them from Honduras, massed in Tijuana and began to present themselves to U.S. border officials, reciting the script they've been coached to deliver to clear the first hurdles toward asylum.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Research by Chinese geologists suggests that the mountain above North Korea's main nuclear test site has likely collapsed, rendering it unsafe for further testing and requiring that it be monitored for any leaking radiation. The findings by the scientists at the University of Science and Technology of China may shed new light on North Korean President Kim Jong Un's announcement that his country was ceasing its testing program ahead of planned summit meetings with South Korean President Moon Jae-in and U.S. President Donald Trump.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Former CIA Director John Brennan ripped President Donald Trump on Saturday for his attacks on former DNI chief James Clapper, who was cited in a House Intelligence Committee report for his role in the release of an unsubstantiated Russian dossier shortly before Trump's inauguration last year.... (more)

NEWSMAX — The parents of a terminally ill British toddler whose case drew attention from Pope Francis and others around the world say they are "heartbroken" that their son has died. Kate James and Tom Evans said on Facebook that 23-month-old Alfie Evans, who had an incurable degenerative brain condition and was at the center of a legal battle over his treatment, died on Saturday morning.... (more)

NATIONAL REVIEW — The parents of Charlie Gard have expressed their solidarity with the mother and father of Alfie Evans, the terminally ill tot who has been forbidden by British courts from being taken to Italy for further treatment. "With heavy hearts we have watched as Alfie's case has unfolded," Chris Gard and Connie Yates wrote Friday on the "Charlie's Fight" Facebook page. "For those who have not been in a situation like this, it is impossible to understand the pain Tom and Kate are going through."... (more)

BOB UNRUH — The District of Columbia has begun putting much-needed day cares out of business because their operators are not college graduates. The new requirement, just approved and retroactively affecting day-care providers who have successful provided working parents help for decades, comes from the Office of the State Superintendent of Education.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Michelle Wolf, who was brought in for the comedy routine Saturday for the White House Correspondents Association dinner, told a groan-inducing joke about abortion that afterwards drew a wave of backlash from conservative figures.... (more)

THINK PROGRESS — Jill Stein ended months of silence and speculation about her role in the ongoing investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, announcing this week that she would not be complying with a documents request put forth by the Senate intelligence committee.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — President Trump said Friday that he's ready for nuclear talks with North Korea and won't "be played" by the secretive nation. "We will not be played by North Korea," Mr. Trump said. "The United States in the past was played like a fiddle." Mr. Trump was referring to past deals struck with North Korea that won the communist regime what it wanted but did not stop its development of nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.... (more)

NEWSMAX — The Republican-led House Intelligence Committee released a much-anticipated report on Russian interference in the 2016 election that accused former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper of orchestrating the release of an anti-Trump research report and providing "inconsistent testimony" about his contact with the media.... (more)

ART MOORE — The House Intelligence Committee released a heavily redacted final report Friday on its yearlong Russia investigation documenting its previously reported conclusion that it found no evidence of collusion between the Trump presidential campaign and the Russian government during the 2016 election.... (more)

NEWSMAX — The Russian lawyer involved in the controversial meeting with Trump campaign officials at Trump Tower has admitted she's a Kremlin operative, The New York Times reported Friday.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Pro-life activists will protest outside of more than 100 Planned Parenthood locations on Saturday to urge President Trump to cut off a significant portion of the abortion giant's taxpayer funding. The third annual National Day of Prayer and Protest Against Planned Parenthood will feature rallies at more than 140 locations in 37 states.... (more)