It’s Scary: President Trump told an interviewer from Reuters that the US could have a “major conflict” with North Korea if it conducts another nuclear test. “There is a chance that we could end up having a major, major conflict …

Wish List: The White House yesterday released President Trump’s sketchy plan for tax reform, a one-page bullet point list of changes that would be a windfall for the wealthy and provide some relief for more average taxpayers. The plan did …

Trumped Again: A federal judge in San Francisco yesterday blocked President Trump’s move to deny federal funds to so-called “sanctuary cities.” US District Judge William H. Orrick ruled that Trump is out of bounds trying to use federal aid as …

100 Days: While dismissing the first 100 days of a presidency as an artificial standard, President Trump is putting on a political and PR campaign to make his first 100 days look great. Although he’s already declared that he has …

French Toast: France’s far right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen finished a close second in elections yesterday and moves on to a May 7 runoff. Emmanuel Macron, a centrist and political newcomer who supports staying in the European Union, finished …

Quod Erat Demonstandum: Hundreds of thousands of people, if not more than a million, marched in 600 locations around the world yesterday in defense of science and scientific facts that are under assault under the Trump administration. They carried signs …

Terror and Nationalism: The Paris police officer killed Thursday by a terrorist on the Champs-Élysées was an openly gay man who had been one of the officers to respond to the mass attack on the Bataclan concert hall in 2015. …

World: One Paris police officer was killed and another wounded yesterday on the famous Champs-Elysees by a gunman firing a machine gun. The shooter was killed by other officers. Witnesses said the gunman got out of a car driven by …

Killing O’Reilly: Fox News is without a prime time star after firing its chief moneymaker Bill O’Reilly two and a half weeks following the NY Times exposure of his $13 million history of sexual harassment and financial settlements. A statement …

Breaking: Former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez, who was serving a life sentence for murder, hanged himself with a bed sheet in his prison cell overnight. He was just 27. Hernandez was convicted of murdering a friend in 2013. Just …