DAILY MAIL — President Donald Trump and wife Melania welcomed the French president and first lady to the White House for their first state dinner on Tuesday night as the two leaders toasted to continued warm relations between their countries. All eyes were on Melania as she stole the show in a Chanel black Chantilly lace haute couture gown that had been hand-painted with silver and embroidered with crystal and sequins. The First Lady paired her gown with a pair of gunmetal stilettos.... (more)

THE HILL — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is set to announce a federal jobs proposal that would guarantee a job with at least a $15-per-hour wage and health benefits to every adult American "who wants or needs one," The Washington Post reports.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — A federal judge delivered another blow to President Trump's attempt to roll back the Obama-era DACA program, ruling Tuesday that last year's revocation was illegal and the entire program could have to be restarted. That goes beyond other judges, who had also ruled the phaseout illegal but had only ordered Homeland Security to accept renewal applications from people who'd already been awarded DACA before. Judge John D. Bates's ruling would require a full restart, meaning even illegal immigrant "Dreamers" who'd never been approved before would now be able to apply for DACA.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Any legislation designed to ban President Donald Trump from firing FBI special counsel Robert Mueller is unconstitutional, Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, declared in an opinion piece posted Tuesday by USA Today.... (more)

NEWSMAX — A pro-gun student at the Parkland, Florida, high school where 17 people were killed in a Feb. 14 mass shooting says he was yanked from class and grilled after about his trip to a gun range with his dad. Kyle Kashuv told The Daily Wire he was called out of class at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Monday to talk to two security resource officers about the Twitter posts of the gun-range visit.... (more)

NEWSMAX — The National Rifle Association's Political Victory Fund raised a record $2.4 million in March -- its biggest monthly haul in 20 years -- attributing it to calls for stricter gun controls after the Parkland school massacre in Florida in February.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — The New York Times apparently couldn't fathom that the Palestinian Authority -- which has been Israel's so-called "peace partner" in the Middle East conflict -- would be so audacious as to provide salaries to terrorists and their families. The Gray Lady called reports of such a policy the stuff of "far-right conspiracy" in a feature on Facebook's new head of news partnerships, Campbell Brown, the former CNN host and NBC News reporter.... (more)

BOB UNRUH — President Trump's Environmental Protection Agency administrator, Scott Pruitt, proposed a transparency rule Tuesday that would ban from agency use any studies that bar public access to the underlying data.... (more)

BOB UNRUH — The Little Sisters of the Poor, a Roman Catholic charity that cares for poor and elderly around the world, fought the Obama administration's requirement that employers pay for abortion pills for employees.... (more)

JOSEPH FARAH — You don't think it makes a difference when the Southern Poverty Law Center is the group you hire to police content for your media business? It does. It really, really does.... (more)

CHELSEA SCHILLING — The Toronto van killer who murdered 10 pedestrians and injured several more when he plowed through crowds on a sidewalk Monday was a fan of Santa Barbara shooter Elliot Rodger and, like Rodger, he was angered that women wouldn't sleep with him.... (more)

WES VERNON — Today in the early 21st century, we have for the past four years been living in a period marked by a full 100 years since the starting point of then unprecedented and recurring killing beyond what could have been imagined in previous eras.... (more)

ALAN KEYES — Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or the Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both. (18 U.S. Code I.67 §1385)... (more)

PHILIP KLEIN — Five-time political candidate Mitt Romney wanted delegates to this past weekend's Utah Republican convention to know one thing: He isn't running for the Senate because he's interested in a political career. Romney, who suffered an embarrassing loss over the weekend in a vote of grassroots activists serving as delegates, is nonetheless expected to coast to victory in the primary and general election in a highly-Republican state where he enjoys strong popularity among the broader electorate. What's amusing is that he's still trying to perpetuate the narrative that he's really a nonpolitician.... (more)

BYRON YORK — When a political figure is accused of wrongdoing, a conversation begins among journalists, commentators, and public officials. Are the charges true? Can the accusers prove it? That's the way it normally works. But now, in the case of the Trump dossier -- the allegations compiled by a former British spy hired by the Clinton campaign to gather dirt on presidential candidate Donald Trump -- the generally accepted standard of justice has been turned on its head.... (more)

NEWSMAX — With the Justice Department's issuance of a criminal referral related to fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, President Donald Trump is finally fighting back against the Deep State plot to smear him, says Jerome Corsi, author of The New York Times bestseller "Killing the Deep State: The Fight to Save President Trump."... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Tucked inside the inspector general's report on former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was the story of an August 2016 phone call from a high-ranking Justice Department official who Mr. McCabe thought was trying to shut down the FBI's investigation into the Clinton Foundation while Hillary Clinton was running for president.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Roger Stone, a former Trump campaign ally, responded to the Democratic National Committee's Russia collusion lawsuit Monday, telling it to preserve its databases, records and servers for inspection. "[We] intend to test the basic underlying claims that 'Russians' hacked, stole, and disseminated DNC data, rather than the various other plausible scenarios, including internal theft," wrote Robert Buschel, an attorney representing Mr. Stone, in a letter to the DNC's lawyers.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Harvard law professor and author Alan Dershowitz argued Monday that former FBI director and current special counsel Robert Mueller should be investigated for his role in protecting a notorious FBI informant -- and that civil liberties are at stake.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — A small bipartisan gesture at the end of a fiercely partisan fight Monday has put Mike Pompeo on course to Senate confirmation as the nation's next secretary of state. During a day of wild parliamentary back-and-forth in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the former congressman from Kansas and outgoing CIA director secured the crucial vote of lone Republican holdout Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, only to face rejection from the panel because fellow Republican committee member Sen. Johnny Isakson of Georgia missed the Monday evening confirmation vote to attend a funeral back home.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — For 38 years, EMW Women's Surgical Center has been performing abortions in Louisville, Kentucky. It's now the last abortion provider in the state, and it's fighting to keep its doors open and to prevent Kentucky from becoming the first state in the nation without an abortion option. The administration of Gov. Matt Bevin, a Republican, said last year that EMW doesn't have valid transfer agreements with an ambulance service and hospital. State law requires transfer agreements in case a procedure goes wrong.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — An Illinois woman who runs a child care service out of her home is suing the state, saying its restrictions on day care facilities make it illegal for her to keep a gun in her house for self-defense. Jennifer Miller's lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court for central Illinois after the state emerged as a battleground in the post-Parkland gun debate, with citizens and various localities trying to stake claims on either side of the issue.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — "Mom, you won't believe what my teacher's talking about right now." That is the text message Regina Young, a parent in North Carolina's Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, said she received from her seventh-grade daughter one day. "Before I could even respond to her text," Ms. Young said, "she told me how uncomfortable she was to hear her teacher tell stories about her transgender home."... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — Concordia Publishing House has been in business since 1869 as the official publishing arm of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod denomination. But apparently the Christian content of its website, particularly an ad for an upcoming Vacation Bible School, is too much for Google AdWords, the online advertising service.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — President Trump said Monday that he has instructed the Department of Homeland Security not to allow the reported caravans of people traveling through Mexico to be admitted to the U.S. "Despite the Democrat inspired laws on Sanctuary Cities and the Border being so bad and one sided, I have instructed the Secretary of Homeland Security not to let these large Caravans of people into our Country. It is a disgrace. We are the only Country in the World so naive! WALL," Mr. Trumptweeted.... (more)