Entire U.S. Senate to go to White House for North Korea briefing  —  Top Trump administration officials will hold a rare briefing on Wednesday at the White House for the entire U.S. Senate on the situation in North Korea, senior Senate aides said on Monday.  —  All 100 senators have been asked …

BART takeover robbery: 40 to 60 teens swarm train, rob weekend riders  —  A recent string of robberies on BART trains took a frightening turn when dozens of juveniles swarmed an Oakland station over the weekend and commandeered a train car, forcing passengers to hand over bags and cell phones …

Macron Campaign Wards Off Hacking Attempts Linked to Russia  —  Presidential candidate's campaign suffers multipronged phishing attack beginning in mid-March  —  PARIS—Hackers matching the profile of a pro-Kremlin group have tried in recent weeks to access campaign email accounts …

White House ‘confident’ of averting shutdown as Trump shows flexibility on wall  —  The White House sought Monday to calm a jittery Washington ahead of a showdown with Congress over spending, and President Trump softened his demand that a deal to keep the federal government open include money …

Trump Wants Tax Plan to Cut Corporate Rate to 15%  —  President tells staff he wants to prioritize reductions over deficit concerns  —  WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump has ordered White House aides to accelerate efforts to draft a tax plan slashing the corporate rate to 15% and prioritizing cuts …

State Dept. blog promotes Trump's Mar-a-Lago, prompting ethics concerns  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump personally owns Mar-a-Lago, his private club on Florida's eastern coast.  But that didn't stop the State Department, in a blog post on the United States Embassy in London's website, from touting the property.

Trump Administration Plans to Impose 20% Tariff on Canadian Softwood-Lumber Imports  —  The dispute centers on Canadian provinces that have been allegedly allowing loggers to cut down trees at reduced rates and sell them at low prices  —  The Trump administration is taking retaliatory action …

Obama Wall Street's Newest Fat Cat With Cantor Speech  —  (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) (Associated Press)  —  When he was president he called them “fat cats,” but now he's likely thanking them for a huge payday.  —  Former President Barack Obama, less than 100 days out of office …

Robert Pirsig dies at 88; wrote counterculture classic ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance’  —  Robert Pirsig in 1991 at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge, Mass. (Gary Guisinger / For The Times)  —  In the nearly five years it took Robert Pirsig to sell “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance …

Forget the critics, Mr. President.  Your first 100 days have been just fine.  —  Despite the best efforts of the White House “PR apparatus” to sell the president's first 100 days as a success, the New York Times declared in an editorial, the new administration has, in fact, been plagued by …

Chobani sues Alex Jones, InfoWars for defamation over Twin Falls assault coverage  —  Chobani, the Greek yogurt maker, is suing Alex Jones, the right-wing conspiracy theorist who says the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting was a hoax, 9/11 was an inside job by the U.S. government …

Tantaros Adds to Fox Fight With Claim of ‘Sockpuppet’ Attack  —  Fox harassment mirrors ‘Homeland’ plot, former host claims  —  Network used ‘sockpuppets’ to intimidate, Tantaros claims  —  Former Fox News host Andrea Tantaros stepped up her fight with her ex-employer claiming in a new lawsuit …

Despite Trump's Low Numbers, Dem Surge Is No Guarantee  —  Democrats may be feeling vindicated by President Donald Trump's bumpy first 100 days in office, but they still have work to do if they hope to turn antipathy towards the president into a decisive rebuke of the GOP at the polls in 2018.

Infighting cools down in Trumpland  —  President Trump's White House is making an effort to heal the wounds from the infighting and leaks that have dogged the administration over its first 100 days.  —  Trump appears to have brokered at least a temporary peace between son-in-law Jared Kushner …

Flynn's Turkish lobbying linked to Russia  —  The Turkish man who gave Mike Flynn a $600,000 lobbying deal just before President Donald Trump picked him to be national security adviser has business ties to Russia, including a 2009 aviation financing deal negotiated with Vladimir Putin, according to court records.

In Trump era, Rachel Maddow starts beating Fox News  —  Fox News normally ranks #1 among cable news channels.  But lately MSNBC's Rachel Maddow has been challenging Fox at 9 p.m., the centerpiece of the prime time schedule.  —  “The Rachel Maddow Show” surpassed “Tucker Carlson Tonight” …

Why Colleges Have a Right to Reject Hateful Speakers Like Ann Coulter  —  Disinviting right-wing provocateurs isn't a suppression of free speech.  It's a value judgment in keeping with higher education's mission.  —  As graduation season approaches, colleges across the country are locking …

Arkansas carries out country's first back-to-back executions in almost two decades  —  Arkansas on Monday night executed two inmates in back-to-back lethal injections, carrying out the country's first double execution since 2000.  —  The executions came after Arkansas, pushing back on legal challenges …

Prosecutors: Inmate's water cut off for 7 days before his death in the Milwaukee County Jail  —  An inquest has been ordered following the April 2016 dehydration death of Milwaukee County Jail inmate Terrill Thomas.  Here's how an inquest works, and how the only other Milwaukee County inquest in the past decade ended.

The Effects of Ending the Affordable Care Act's Cost-Sharing Reduction Payments  —  Controversy has emerged recently over federal payments to insurers under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) related to cost-sharing reductions for low-income enrollees in the ACA's marketplaces.

Former press secretary Josh Earnest doesn't have much sympathy for Sean Spicer  —  Press secretary Josh Earnest's advice for his successor Sean Spicer  —  Former White House press secretary Josh Earnest is speaking for the first time about how his successor Sean Spicer is doing.

Amidst Backlash, Ivanka Trump Clothing Is Secretly Relabelled as Adrienne Vittadini  —  BoF has learned that G-III, the company that licenses Ivanka Trump ready-to-wear, has relabelled inventory without the knowledge of the brand and sold it to discount chain Stein Mart.