NEWSMAX — The food-delivery firm Deliveroo thanked Benedict Cumberbatch on Saturday after a newspaper reported that the "Sherlock" star had fought off muggers who were attacking one of its cyclists. Uber driver Manuel Dias told the Sun newspaper that he was driving Cumberbatch and his wife Sophie Hunter along London's Marylebone High Street when they saw a cyclist being hit with a bottle.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Former CIA Director John Brennan hasn't spent his time since leaving the government writing opinion pieces, but he said Friday he was compelled to pen a piece for The Washington Post "because of the abnormal and abhorrent behavior" of President Donald Trump.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Former CIA Director John Brennan won't be biting his tongue when it comes to being critical of President Trump, he said in an op-ed Friday, comparing the president to a snake-oil salesman. In the opinion piece for The Washington Post, Mr. Brennan, who touted working for four presidents, said Mr. Trump was unlike any of them, using a Twitter handle to "burnish his brand and misrepresent reality."... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — James Clapper, former Director of National Intelligence under President Barack Obama appeared on The Chris Stigall Show Friday morning on WPHT in Philadelphia. While promoting his new book, Facts and Fears: Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence, Clapper explained how desperately dangerous the Russian threat is to our country and that threat had manifested itself in the supposed "meddling" in the 2016 presidential election.... (more)

WASHINGTON POST — A federal study found signs that surveillance devices for intercepting cellphone calls and texts were operating near the White House and other sensitive locations in the Washington area last year.... (more)

NEWSMAX — The Mormon church on Friday will celebrate the 40th anniversary of reversing its ban on black people serving in the lay priesthood, going on missions or getting married in temples, rekindling debate about one of the faith's most sensitive topics.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — While Pope Francis is preparing to hold a climate summit at the Vatican next week, he's conspicously silent about one of the Roman Catholic Church's top social issues, abortion. The Daily Caller points out the pontiff has said nothing publicly about Ireland's vote to end its ban on abortion, which came after the Catholic-majority nation became the first country to legalize same-sex marriage though a popular vote in 2015.... (more)

NEWSMAX — It's unlikely that LeBron James or Isaiah Thomas are going to lose any sleep over it, but yes, Sen. Ted Cruz is gearing up to shoot some hoops. The Texas Republican on Thursday challenged Jimmy Kimmel to go one-to-one in basketball for charity -- and ABC's late-night man said Thursday night that he's in.... (more)

JOE KOVACS — Executives at the "CBS Evening News" are reportedly in panic over the ratings plunge from their main anchor Jeff Glor, prompting some in the media to ask if Glor is headed out the door. Page Six of the New York Post is reporting network officials "are already thinking about replacing him."... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — After a gunman opened fire on students in Parkland, Florida, the phones started ringing at the Texas Home School Coalition, and they haven't stopped yet. The Lubbock-based organization has been swamped with inquiries for months from parents seeking safer options for their kids in the aftermath of this year's deadly school massacres, first in Parkland and then in Santa Fe, Texas.... (more)

NEWSMAX — U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton's appointment of former CIA analyst Fred Fleitz to serve as NSC chief of staff has sparked a storm of controversy on the left as former intelligence officials and other security experts have rallied to his support.... (more)

NEWSMAX — A conservative college student leader determined to "Make Stanford Great Again" is the son of Obama administration official Susan Rice -- and says his parents might have put him on a right-leaning path by listening to Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — The FBI's own guidelines restrict the deployment of informants to spy on Americans, such as the bureau's decision to plant a human source among Donald Trump's presidential campaign aides. The cautionary regulation is contained in the FBI's nearly 700-page Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide. The restrictions are prompting national security analysts to say the FBI should have heeded its own rulebook, which encourages alternatives to human spies in any investigation, much less one into a presidential political campaign.... (more)

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — Well, well, well. The bipartisan Beltway establishment has apparently had its fill of this "Trump colluded with Russia" narrative -- the same narrative the same establishment has lustily peddled for nearly two years. The Obama administration recklessly chose to deploy the government's awesome counterintelligence powers to investigate -- and, more to the point, to smear -- its political opposition as a Kremlin confederate. Now that this ploy has blown up on the Justice Department and the FBI, these agencies -- the ones that went out of their way, and outside their guidelines, to announce to the world that the Trump campaign was under investigation -- want you to know the president and his campaign were not investigated at all, no siree.... (more)

BYRON YORK — Although his questioners at the time didn't know what he was talking about, Fusion GPS chief Glenn Simpson raised eyebrows on Aug. 22, 2017, when he told Senate Judiciary Committee investigators that the FBI had a "human source" inside the Trump campaign.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — Roseanne Barr's attempt to bridge the political divide came crashing down Tuesday, when ABC canceled her rebooted hit sitcom hours after the television star sent a racially tinged tweet. The cancellation comes as a blow to President Trump's supporters who said "Roseanne" accurately represented their political perspective.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — I'd like to think that if it weren't for Roseanne Barr's remark about Valerie Jarrett looking like a Muslim monkey-human hybrid that we would have spent much of this week still laughing in a resigned way about how liberals and reporters shared Obama-era photos of illegal immigrant children sleeping in cages, having wrongfully thought that they were new images of President Trump's immigration policies at work.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — The New York Times issued a correction Wednesday about the crowd size at President Trump's rally after the president challenged the paper's mistake, acknowledging the audience in Nashville, Tennessee, was more than five times larger than The Times initially reported.... (more)

CAL THOMAS — The scientific, moral and theological battle between life as an "endowed unalienable" right and the evolutionary view that we are just material and energy shaped by pure chance in a random universe with no author of life, no purpose for living and no destination after we die has been won in Ireland by the evolutionists.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — It did not come as a surprise to see that the Republic of Ireland voted to repeal their relatively strict abortion ban. What was disturbing was the large margin by which the vote passed and the zealous celebration that followed. On social media and in the news, Irish citizens celebrated the vote that legalized abortion with the kind of pure joy usually seen in victorious sporting events or at concerts -- not the approval of murdering babies in utero.... (more)

USA TODAY — The Supreme Court refused Tuesday to block an Arkansas law targeting medication abortions, which threatens to leave the state with only one abortion clinic.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Harvard University's student newspaper is calling on the school to hire more conservative faculty to bridge a "stark divide" that is not reflective of society and might be contributing to "declining trust" in higher education. In an editorial, The Crimson cited its finding the political makeup on the prestigious Ivy league faculty was out of touch with America.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Mitt Romney was faced with many of the same lines he dealt with throughout his 2012 presidential campaign, including on guns and immigration, while taking part in Tuesday night's GOP primary debate for the open Senate seat in Utah.... (more)

WES VERNON — The 1992 Republican National Convention gave a special ovation to the words of one of its speakers, Patrick J. Buchanan, who warned, "There is as religious war going on in this country. It is a cultural war, as critical to the kind of nation we shall be as the Cold War itself."... (more)

ALAN KEYES — I fear that many people who profess to be staunch supporters of the U.S. Constitution belie that claim in the way they speak and act. In ordaining and establishing the Constitution of the United States, the people of the United States exercised the chief power of their sovereignty over themselves. The provision that declares the Constitution, and all laws and treaties made in pursuance thereof, to be the Supreme Law of the land confirms this fact.... (more)