A sarcastic Twitter thread has gone viral after a user posted a series of advertisements for bathtub trays showing women in the tub with extravagant food and drink spreads and an unnecessary number of electronic devices.The thread started with a post showing a woman smiling in the bath while sipping a latte with a heart swirled into the foam, while a glass of red wine waits on the tray in front of her.“The people who manufacture bathtub tray systems seem to have no idea what women actually do in the bath and I find that strangely comforting,” the Twitter user said.Thousands of users re-tweeted and liked the posts poking fun at the unrealistic bathtub scenes.“Wait, what DO women do in the bath? Have I been doing it wrong the entire time?” one user asked....

SAN JOSE, Calif. — UC Irvine basketball coach Russell Turner said he and his players baited Oregon forward Louis King by calling him "Queen" during UC Irvine’s 73-54 loss to Oregon on Sunday night in the second round of the NCAA tournament. Turner lingered in the postgame handshake when he reached King, a 6-foot-9 freshman, later explained to reporters what happened. "Yeah, I'll tell you," Turner said during a postgame press conference. "I was saying Double Team Queen to try to see if I could irritate him. And I did. And I kept talking to my team about what we wanted to do. "We were calling him 'Queen' because I knew it might irritate him, because of how important he is to their team, the queen in chess. It was a play on his name of King....

UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Jordan Eberle and Brock Nelson scored to back Robin Lehner's fifth shutout of the season as the New York Islanders beat the Arizona Coyotes 2-0 Sunday.Lehner stopped 31 shots to help the Islanders win for the second time in two days and keep pace with first place Washington in the Metropolitan Division.Starting for the second straight day, Lehner had nine saves in the first period, and 11 each in the second and third to improve to 22-12-5 this season.Darcy Kuemper finished with 24 saves as the Coyotes lost their fifth straight (0-3-2), and finished 0-3-1 on a four-game trip. Arizona hasn't won since March 14 against Anaheim at home, where there will play four of their last six games as they try to make the playoffs for the first time since 2012....

Washington (CNN)Donald Trump now has a chance to recast the story of his presidency.Just as he did on election night in 2016, the President has won a victory over the conventional wisdom of his critics, this time after special counsel Robert Mueller found there was no evidence that Trump had conspired with a hostile foreign nation -- Russia -- to win power.The finding, delivered in a summary of the Mueller report by Attorney General William Barr, means Trump can finally try to move on from an intrigue that strangled his presidency from the start.The report offered personal vindication to Trump and a powerful new political weapon to fire at his critics in the Democratic Party and the media at the start of his re-election campaign....

(CNN)Attorney General William Barr delivered his summary of Robert Mueller's investigation to Congress, clearing the President of collusion. But CNN's commentators say there's more to it than that. The views expressed in this commentary are theirs. View more opinion articles on CNN. Shan Wu: Mueller is not a savior, demon or avengerThe conclusion of the Mueller probe, via William Barr's summary, forces us as a country to confront our over-reliance upon the criminal justice system to solve societal problems. Liberals, conservatives, Democrats and Republicans have looked to Mueller for a solution to the legion of troubling issues raised by the Trump administration. Mostly dependent upon one's politics, Mueller himself is viewed as savior, demon or avenger. Of course, he and the criminal justice system itself are none of those, and beliefs to the contrary are the tail wagging the dog....

Elisha Barno and Askale Merachi won the men's and women's races at Los Angeles Marathon on Sunday morning. The Kenyan Barno shocked runner-up John Korir with a blistering pace down the home stretch. Barno finished with a time of 2:11:45, followed by Korir (2:11:52), Juan Luis Barrios (2:11:59), Milton Rotich (2:12:42) and Weldon Kirui (2:13:24). Ethiopia's Merachi had a bit less drama in her victory:With a time of 2:24:11, Merachi held off Cynthia Jerop (2:25:54), Lucy Karimi (2:26:15), Olha Skrypak (2:30:33) and Jane Kibii (2:32:12) with relative ease. She also set a course record with her victory, according to Austin Knoblauch of the Los Angeles Times.And Barno's victory ended Kirui's string of dominance, after the Kenyan won the previous two men's marathons. ...

There will be a new national champion in college basketball after the Purdue Boilermakers picked apart the Villanova Wildcats 87-61 on Saturday in the South Region.In addition to sending Villanova home early, the Boilermakers extended their streak of reaching the Sweet 16 to three straight seasons. Head coach Matt Painter has his team back on track after it lost two of its final three games in the regular season and Big Ten tournament.Carsen Edwards cracked the 40-point mark for the second time this season. The Purdue junior finished with 42 points on 12-of-21 shooting. Matt Haarms added 18 points and nine rebounds.Villanova shot just 34.5 percent from the field, and its 87 points allowed were a season-high. Senior Eric Paschall ended his college career with a team-high 19 points....

President Trump spoke to reporters for the first time since Attorney General William Barr's letter, saying, "it was just announced there was no collusion with Russia, the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard."

The process of determining what else can be released from special counsel Report Mueller’s report and scrubbing it of grand jury material, among other things, “has begun,” according to a Justice Department official.

The NCAA tournament's first weekend saved the best for last when top overall seed Duke was pushed to the brink Sunday by a UCF team that seemed destined to pull off one of the biggest upsets of all-time.The thrilling last two minutes of the game provided moments that define March Madness and in many ways made up for an otherwise mediocre first three days. But there's no shortage of storylines coming out of the first weekend. Here's a look at the biggest winners and losers from four non-stop days of madness — encompassing 48 games altogether: Duke. The whole "survive and advance" mantra of the NCAAs couldn't be truer for this heavily favored Blue Devils team that escaped a monumental upset to No. 9 seed Central Florida. It was Williamson's bulldozing basket against 7-foot-6 center Tacko Fall and R.J. Barrett's put-back — both plays made in the final 14 seconds — that saved Duke's national title pursuit in the 77-76 thriller. Ultimately, this is a win for fans, too, considering Duke's appeal as a must-watch spectacle unlike any team we've seen in years. ...

(WELLINGTON, New Zealand) — New Zealand will hold a top-level inquiry into the massacre of 50 people at two Christchurch mosques that will look into what roles semi-automatic guns, social media and intelligence agencies had preceding the attacks.Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced Monday it would hold a Royal Commission of Inquiry, the country’s highest form of investigation.“While New Zealanders and Muslim communities around the world are both grieving and showing compassion for one another, they are also quite rightly asking questions on how this terror attack was able to happen here,” Ardern said.Her Cabinet had previously agreed on holding an inquiry, but had not decided what level of investigation. She said royal commissions are usually reserved for matters of the gravest public importance and that was clearly appropriate in this case. She said the exact terms of the inquiry, including its duration, would be finalized over the next two weeks....

(DUBAI, United Arab Emirates) — A Kenyan teacher from a remote village who gave away most of his earnings to the poor won a $1 million prize on Sunday for his work teaching in a government-run school that has just one computer and shoddy Internet access.The annual Global Teacher Prize was awarded to Peter Tabichi in the opulent Atlantis Hotel in Dubai in a ceremony hosted by actor Hugh Jackman.Tabichi said the farthest he’d traveled before this was to Uganda. Coming to Dubai marked his first time on an airplane.“I feel great. I can’t believe it. I feel so happy to be among the best teachers in the world, being the best in the world,” he told The Associated Press after his win.Tabichi teaches science to high schoolers in the semi-arid village of Pwani where almost a third of children are orphans or have only one parent. Drought and famine are common....

(CNN)The deadly Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has surpassed 1,000 cases, according to the country's health ministry.The number of confirmed cases stands at 1,009, of which 944 are confirmed and 65 probable, in an outbreak that started in August. The death toll is at 629 -- 564 are confirmed from Ebola and 65 probable. It is the second-deadliest and second-largest Ebola outbreak in history, topped only by one in West Africa in 2014, when the disease killed more than 11,000 people, according to the World Health Organization."We use words like 'cases' and 'containment' to be scientific, but behind every number is a person, a family and a community that is suffering," said Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general in a statement Saturday. "This outbreak has gone on far too long."...

The number of Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo has surpassed 1,000 in the second-worst outbreak in history, with daily rates on the rise as response workers continue to face violence.This past week saw 58 new cases, the highest number in a week in 2019, according to the International Rescue Committee (IRC).The World Health Organization said 610 deaths have been reported since the outbreak was declared last August in the DRC’s northeastern provinces of North Kivu and Ituri.“We are already almost seven months into this outbreak and at this stage we should be seeing the case rate declining, not on the rise,” said Tariq Riebl, IRC’s Emergency Response Director in the DRC.“With mistrust and security issues, cases are likely to be going unreported and the true figure could be even higher,” he added....

Showcasing all of the NBA's off-the-court happenings, from celebrities sitting courtside to mascots throwing down dunks off trampolines.

CNN's Don Lemon breaks down Attorney General William Barr's summary of the Mueller report and states that the public needs to see the full report.

Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets defensive lineman Brandon Adams died Saturday, the school announced."Our entire Georgia Tech football family is heartbroken by the news of Brandon’s passing," head coach Geoff Collins said in a statement. "In the short time that I have had the privilege and honor of knowing Brandon, I admired and respected him, first and foremost as a terrific human being, but also as an outstanding teammate and leader."Adams, 21, played three years for Georgia Tech. He had 41 total tackles and 6.5 tackles for loss in 33 games.The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Ken Sugiura praised Adams, describing him as "a force in the interior, often requiring double-teams to keep him from pushing centers into the pocket." Sugiura added that the Brentwood, Tennessee, native was one of the top Yellow Jackets to watch during the team's spring practices....

The Golden State Warriors had a day to forget when they were blown out 126-91 by the Dallas Mavericks on Saturday. Per ESPN Stats & Info, the Warriors' 35-point loss was their worst home defeat since the 2006-07 season. The San Antonio Spurs defeated the Warriors 126-89 on March 26, 2007. Despite watching their team get blown out, fans at Oracle Arena were in good spirits while cheering for Dirk Nowitzki after he dropped a season-high 21 points. The Mavs also got a triple-double from Luka Doncic. The rookie sensation had 23 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists. In Saturday's loss, the back-to-back defending NBA champions went 4-of-30 from three-point range. All five starters had plus-minus ratings of -24 or worse, with Kevin Durant (25) and DeMarcus Cousins (19) the only players in that group to reach double-figures in scoring. ...

“America’s Next Top Model” invaded Sunday’s “Shark Tank,” as All-Stars champion Lisa D’Amato tried to sell  the sharks on a new way of feeding their kids on the go.An admitted fan of the show, the reality star is the inventor of the Dare-U-Go bib, which functions as a compartmentalized food container that wraps around a child’s neck letting them snack at their own convenience. D’Amato’s sons demonstrated the product.“Being a mom is definitely one of my biggest accomplishments,” said D’Amato, who won the fifth season of "Model" and its All-Stars edition in 2011. “But the reality of maintaining my busy lifestyle and work schedule while raising two rambunctious little boys was making me lose my mind.”...

(CNN)The United States sailed two ships through the Taiwan Strait, Sunday, in an operation that comes as top officials from the Trump administration prepare to travel to Beijing for high-level trade talks.The US Navy destroyer, the USS Curtis Wilbur, and the US Coast Guard cutter, USCGC Bertholf, "conducted a routine Taiwan Strait transit March 24-25 (local time) in accordance with international law," the Navy's Seventh fleet said in a statement. "The ships' transit through the Taiwan Strait demonstrates the US commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific," Cdr. Clay Doss, a spokesman for the Navy's Seventh Fleet told CNN in a statement.The US also sailed two ships through the strait in February and January. ...

Let's get to the good part: Iceland's Fjadrargljufur canyon is beautiful. Now, the not-so-good part: The fragile canyon, featured in Justin Bieber's 2015 "I'll Show You" video, is being loved to death. So the country is closing it, at least until June.The music video, which has more than 440 million views on YouTube, was filmed in several locations around Iceland. But Fjadrargljufur, with its sheer, 328-foot-tall walls, makes for great photo ops. And it's getting the bulk of the attention from Beliebers flocking to the spot, hoping to commune with their idol and maybe, what, see him float past in his undies?  Poor Biebs. He's been struggling lately, saying he's in midst of the "most human season I’ve ever been in." He really doesn't need a whole country mad at him. ...

For 22 months, Donald Trump called him a rogue prosecutor, surrounded by a team of angry partisans with conflicts of interest, leading an investigation into a hoax.But on Sunday, it was Robert Mueller who Trump owed for a rare bright spot in his administration.The special counsel’s conclusion — as relayed to Congress and the public by Attorney General William Barr — that the investigation did not establish that Trump’s campaign conspired with Russian efforts to meddle in the 2016 election lifted a dark cloud that’s sat over his presidency since its earliest days.March 24 will join a handful of triumphal moments for Trump: the confirmations of Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, the passage of a $1.5 trillion Republican tax cut bill, withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement and the Iran nuclear accords and moving the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem....

A high school play is scoring some major buzz staging an unlikely flick: Ridley Scott’s 1979 hit movie Alien.And from the looks of the lighting and costume design, New Jersey’s North Bergen High School put on quite the show.They brought the film to life onstage for two nights only, Friday and Saturday.That’s a short stint, but it was filled with enough dazzling visuals and a student-cut trailer that it’s made a lasting impression.At the center of the spotlight of “Alien: The Play,” there’s a truly elaborate “xenomorph” costume that thrust the production into social media relevance.The over-the-top extraterrestrial effects and sixteen students carried this show, which looks like it was as sheer, exuberant fun....

The New England Patriots just lost a GOAT.No, Tom Brady isn't going anywhere. But, with apologies to Randy Moss, TB12 won't be throwing to arguably the best weapon he's ever had and inarguably — in my humble opinion — the greatest tight end in league history.Sadly, Gronk has left the building.As March Madness' weekend action wound down Sunday evening, Rob Gronkowski introduced a heavy dose of chaos to the reigning Super Bowl champions, announcing on Instagram that his illustrious career had come to an end after nine unforgettable years."My life experiences over the last 9 years have been amazing both on and off the field. The people I have meet, the relationships I have built, the championships I have been apart of, I just want to thank the whole New England Patriots organization for every opportunity I have been giving and learning the great values of life that I can apply to mine," wrote Gronkowski, 29....

(NEW YORK) — New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on Sunday launched a pointed attack of President Donald Trump and his policies, speaking feet away from one of Trump’s Manhattan properties. She called Trump a “coward” who “punches down” and says that he is “tearing apart the moral fabric of our country.”She lambasted the Trump International Hotel & Tower, which appeared over her left shoulder as she delivered a 30 minute speech, as “a shrine to greed, division and vanity” and accused Trump of putting his name on every building.“He demonizes the vulnerable and he punches down. He puts his name in bold on every building,” Gillibrand said. “He does all of this because he wants you to believe he is strong. He is not. Our president is a coward.”...

DUNEDIN, New Zealand – New Zealanders are debating the limits of free speech after their chief censor banned the 74-page manifesto written and released by the man accused of slaughtering 50 people at two mosques in the city of Christchurch.The ban, issued Saturday, means anybody caught with the document on their computer could face up to 10 years in prison, while anyone caught sending it could face 14 years. Some say the ban goes too far and risks lending both the document and the gunman mystique.At the same time, many local media organizations are debating whether to even name the Australian man charged with murder in the March 15 attacks after New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern vowed she would never mention him by name....

Sunday marked the first night of Hollywood Week on "American Idol," and emotions ran high for contestants and judges alike. Following a lengthy round of nationwide auditions, more than 100 "Idol" hopefuls were flown to Los Angeles for a rigorous showcase of two solo performances and one with a group, which will ultimately reduce the competition by half. Many contestants were hindered by nerves and sickness – R&B crooner Nate Walker was even rushed to the hospital by ambulance for a lost voice and stomach pain at the end of the episode. Emotionally, Dimitrius Graham, 27, might have had it roughest of all: When he walked out onstage, the Baltimore native revealed his sick mom, Lorraine, had called moments earlier to tell him that she was having surgery the next day. ...

WASHINGTON – Since his appointment nearly two years ago, Robert Mueller sought to answer one overriding question that has cast a shadow over Donald Trump's presidency: Did his campaign coordinate with the Kremlin to win the White House? A summary of the special counsel's investigation delivered to lawmakers Sunday said unequivocally that neither Trump nor his campaign conspired with Russian efforts to sway the election that put him in office. But the four-page summary fell short of giving the White House the "complete and total exoneration” the president, his lawyers and political allies claimed after Attorney General William Barr released it to lawmakers and the public. On the separate question of whether Trump sought to obstruct Mueller's inquiry, the special counsel was not equally definitive: "While this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him," Barr wrote, quoting from Mueller's report. ...

Memphis Express quarterback Johnny Manziel jogged onto the field at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium in the second quarter of Sunday’s Alliance of American Fogame against the Iron.Manziel marched Memphis down the field, but the drive stalled in the red zone. The Express failed to get on the scoreboard, as Austin MacGinnis' 34-yard field goal attempt clanked off the right upright with 1:56 left in the second quarter. Manziel finished his first drive with the Express 1-of-2 for 36 yards through the air and had two rushes for 20 yards. The former Heisman winner and first-round NFL draft pick took the first snap on Memphis' fifth drive. Brandon Silvers, who started the game, was 13-of-18 for 129 yards before Manziel was put in. The Express was trailing 16-8. ...

Jeff Yang is a frequent contributor to CNN Opinion, a featured writer for Quartz and other publications, and the co-host of the podcast "They Call Us Bruce." He co-wrote Jackie Chan's best-selling autobiography, "I Am Jackie Chan," and is the editor of three graphic novels: "Secret Identities," "Shattered" and the forthcoming "New Frontiers." The opinions expressed in this commentary are those of the author. View more opinion articles on CNN. (CNN)While the Department of Justice received the full results of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election promised by the office of the special counsel on Sunday, all that has been delivered to Congress and released to the public to date is a summary created by Attorney General William Barr. ...

Seattle (CNN)Pilots from the three American carriers that fly Boeing 737 MAX planes tested software changes developed by Boeing to a key stabilization system on Saturday, a person briefed on the tests said.The changes are intended to decrease the chances of triggering the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, or MCAS, which is believed to have played a role in the Lion Air crash in October. The Federal Aviation Administration has said there are similarities between that crash and a second 737 MAX crash earlier this month in Ethiopia. Pilots and training officials from Southwest Airlines, American Airlines and United Airlines met with Boeing officials Saturday to review the software changes in the Seattle area, where the model is assembled, according to multiple airline sources....

(CNN)A fraternity at the University of Georgia has been temporarily suspended after a video circulating on social media shows several people mocking slavery and one person using the n-word.The video, about 30 seconds long, shows an individual lightly hitting another person with a belt. At least one person is heard saying, "Pick my cotton, b****." As the group laughs, the phrase is repeated several times. A male voice is heard saying, "You're not using the right words," and then someone uses the n-word.The Xi-Lambda chapter of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity at UGA is currently suspended and "there is an investigation underway regarding the students involved in the video," UGA's Student Government Association said in a statement....

Duke survived Central Florida's determined second-round upset bid in a 77-76 thriller that undeniably stands as this NCAA tournament's most exciting game so far and proved to be an instant March classic. Here are six defining plays from the game's final few minutes that had us all on the edge of our seats. 1. Zion Williamson charging at 7-foot-6 center Tacko Fall and scoring. Williamson's fearless bucket with 14 seconds left positioned Duke for the tie. Trailing 76-73, the Blue Devils looked as if they were going for a game-tying 3-pointer after missing one seconds before. Instead, Williamson aptly read the defense and tenaciously attacked the tallest player in college basketball, scoring with contact and fouling Fall out of the game. ...

The mountain has labored and brought forth a mouse. After two years of hype, special counsel Robert Mueller has reported to Attorney General William Barr that there was no “collusion,” as Donald Trump would put it, between Trump or the Trump presidential campaign and the Russians regarding the 2016 election. There will be no new indictments from Mueller beyond the few already issued, none of which charges a U.S. person with anything related to collusion. This is a big disappointment to the people in politics and the press who were openly hoping to see Trump, and his family, kicked out of the White House and thrown into jail.And there were a lot of those people, as Grabien editor Tom Elliott noted last week:...

I am not a fan of Donald Trump but I am happy — almost ecstatic — to report that the president is not a Russian agent. That’s the good news in Attorney General William Barr's four-page letter to Congress about special counsel Robert Mueller's report. Unfortunately, the letter makes clear that the Russians considered Trump to be what used to be known as a “useful idiot,” someone who would unknowingly advance Russian interests with no need for any sort of direct control. Barr’s letter confirms again that the Russians were all in for Trump and notes that they had two major operations devoted to influencing the 2016 election in his favor: Hacking various computers and widely distributing stolen emails that would damage the Clinton campaign, and “multiple offers from Russian-affiliated individuals to assist the Trump campaign.” ...

Until Kelly Clarkson stepped back on an arena stage earlier this year, she didn’t realize how much she had missed touring. There hadn’t been any time to think about it.These days, the pop star and part-time Nashville-area resident says she has “a full cup,” and her first headlining tour in three years is only part of it.A few months after she released her eighth album, 2017’s “Meaning of Life,” she became a coach on TV’s “The Voice.” She’s been an unstoppable force on the show, coaching teenage singers Brynn Cartelli and Chevel Shepherd to championships in her first two seasons.It wasn’t the first time Clarkson celebrated a big win on TV, of course. In 2002, she was the inaugural champion of “American Idol,” and the 36-year-old remains one of the biggest stars to come out of “Idol,” “The Voice” or any other singing competition you can name....

Beira, Mozambique (CNN)Nearly every day since Cyclone Idai tore through Mozambique in mid-March, children return to a school in Beira with the same question. When will school reopen? Children aren't alone in wondering what it will take to rebuild the devastated southeast African nation, where the Category 2 storm submerged entire villages and left others in ruins. At least 446 are dead and more than half a million have been affected. Rescue workers are scrambling to reach those trapped in stagnant waters and contain the spread of disease.Ten days on, it is impossible to escape the sight of damaged buildings in the coastal city of Beira, where Idai made landfall shortly around midnight on March 15. ...

It's just the sort of backhanded clue Bachelor Nation loves."Bachelor" Colton Underwood and his chosen winner, Cassie Randolph, showed up at a hockey game Saturday – Vegas Golden Knights vs. Detroit Red Wings – in matching jerseys that read "Future Mrs." and "Underwood." You can guess who was wearing what. The couple left the show not engaged, as was Underwood's plan, but happily dating and planning to "Give it our best shot. Together."And since the finale earlier this month, they've been enjoying being seen out together, which was verboten until the show wrapped on ABC. The pair had fun posting hockey date-night photos of themselves to Instagram.Underwood, 27, posted a sweet photo of him hugging Randolph, appropriately captioned, "Future Mrs."...

Pick your lucky numbers: The largest lottery jackpot of 2019 has swelled to an estimated $750 million.After Saturday night’s Powerball drawing came and went without a winner of the grand prize, Wednesday’s drawing will be for the fourth-largest lottery prize in U.S. history – and the biggest since Mega Millions reached a staggering $1.537 billion in October 2018. The lump sum payout would be $465.5 million.Your odds of hitting the jackpot, according to Powerball: 1 in about 292 million. Sigh.But, hey, if you want to feel better about your chances: Powerball says 1 in every 24.87 tickets is a winner – from a few bucks up to many thousands.Want to play? Here’s what you need to know:10:59 p.m. EDT. Don’t wait until the last minute to buy your tickets, though. Sales cutoff times vary by state, closing 59 minutes ahead of the drawing in states including California, Florida and New York but 90 minutes prior to the drawing in Colorado, for example....

(CNN)A triumphant President Donald Trump emerged Sunday to claim "complete and total exoneration" after special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation found no evidence Trump or his campaign associates conspired with Russia to win the presidential election.The report itself was more circumspect: in a letter to Congress, Attorney General William Barr said Mueller did not have enough evidence to prosecute Trump on obstruction charges, but did not exonerate him.But the absence of clear evidence of wrongdoing was enough for Trump to boast of vindication after the nearly two-year cloud of the probe has lifted. His remarks foreshadow what advisers say will be an unsparing effort to cast the entire Mueller probe as a pointless and expensive folly....

An elderly rector of a church in Canada thanked supporters while leaving a hospital, after a man stabbed him during a televised Mass.

(CNN)Congressional reaction to the summary of special counsel Robert Mueller's findings Sunday unsurprisingly split along party lines as Republicans saw complete vindication and exoneration of President Donald Trump, while Democrats felt frustrated and demanded the full report and supporting documentation be sent to Capitol Hill, where investigations into the President continue.Democrats also complained about the role Attorney General William Barr played in deciding not to prosecute Trump over allegations of obstruction of justice, especially after Mueller wrote, "While this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him."The Democratic chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York, who is leading one of the several ongoing investigations into Trump, said he would soon call on Barr to testify before his committee to explain his actions....

COLUMBIA, S.C. — There was always a danger of this for Duke, even as the No. 1 team in college basketball won all but one game this season when fully healthy. Imperfectly constructed, crazy reliant on youth, often prone to tossing bricks at the rim, the margin between history and infamy was set up to be a small one. This time, in a second-round howitzer of a basketball game, it was just enough. Duke escaped the NCAA tournament’s second round, 77-76, holding on to beat No. 9 seed UCF when the Knights’ B.J. Taylor and Aubrey Dawkins barely missed shots close to the rim as time expired. That sequence followed a frantic Duke comeback from down four with 2:09 remaining, and with the Blue Devils completely discombobulated on offense, it appeared UCF was about to land a knockout punch at any moment. ...

Washington (CNN)Attorney General William Barr on Sunday released his summary of the main conclusions from special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.Here are the top takeaways: No collusion President Donald Trump has been saying -- and tweeting -- a similar refrain for two years now: "NO COLLUSION!"Trump says Barr's summary proves him right. "(T)he investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities," the letter states.Trump and his allies are already seizing on that line of the summary released Sunday, and it's undoubtedly a major headline pushing back on two years of Democrats claiming they had evidence of collusion....

The finding that Donald Trump and his 2016 presidential campaign didn't conspire with the Russian government is somewhat mystifying.Not because it cannot be accepted as true. Special counsel Robert Mueller's reputation for excellence, diligence and thoroughness underscores how the finding is credible and ought to be welcomed.No, it mystifies because Trump could have sat quietly waiting for the truth to emerge. The president's underlings could have honestly answered questions by the FBI and lawmakers. But this didn't happen.The president spent nearly two years trashing an inquiry that ultimately cleared him and his campaign of criminally conspiring with Russia, and several former aides are now convicted felons for lying under oath — apparently about something that didn't warrant concealment. Some evidently lied out of a misbegotten, twisted sense of loyalty that only made matters worse. ...

The Justice Department appointed Robert Mueller special counsel on May 17, 2017, marking the beginning of a federal investigation that captivated the country over its nearly two-year run, which ended Friday.Since that day, Mueller and his investigation became a non-stop point of intrigue. Who was he going after? What evidence did he have? What will his final report say?Now that he's turned in his report to Attorney General William Barr, we have some idea as to the resources that went into one of the most high-profile investigations in United States history.- 675: The number of days from when Mueller was appointed to the day he turned in his report to Barr.- 34: people indicted as a result of Mueller's investigation, including Russian nationals and several former Trump aides and advisors....

After two years of divisive speculation, rancorous rhetoric and competing conspiracy theories over what went down in the 2016 election, Attorney General William Barr on Sunday shared the first details from special counsel Robert Mueller's exhaustive investigation into Russian interference. In a four-page letter addressed to the top Democrats and Republicans on both the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, Barr summarized the findings from Mueller's "confidential report" that the special counsel submitted on Friday. Barr cautioned that his "review is ongoing" but he said he felt it was "in the public interest" to share an outline of Mueller's conclusions sooner rather than later. Here are the highlights from Barr's summary after his "initial review" of Mueller's report: ...

New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski, whose 79 receiving touchdowns ranks third all-time at the position, has announced his retirement.The three-time Super Bowl champion made his decision public Sunday in a post on Instagram. "I will be retiring from the game of football today," Gronkowski wrote. "My life experiences over the last 9 years have been amazing both on and off the field ... But now its time to move forward and move forward with a big smile knowing that the New England Patriots Organization, Pats Nation, and all my fans will be truly a big part of my heart for rest of my life." Gronkowski has been a force on the field, being named to the Pro Bowl five times and first-team All-Pro on four occasions....

(CNN)The special counsel's office deliberated at length with Justice Department officials about issuing a subpoena for President Donald Trump to be interviewed, but ultimately the decision was made not to move forward with such a significant investigative step, according to a source familiar with the matter. For months, Robert Mueller's team had requested a sit-down interview with Trump, but the President's lawyers refused to commit and negotiations continued. Eventually, the special counsel submitted written questions to the President last fall concerning the time frame before the 2016 election, which Trump answered in late November 2018.The source said the sensitive discussions between Justice Department officials and the special counsel team, and the determination that a subpoena would not be pursued, were based on the perception of the evidence and merits of the issues -- separate and apart from the fact that current department policy dictates that a sitting president cannot be indicted. ...

(CNN)A key memo in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation accused Paul Manafort of allegedly colluding with the Russian government when he was then-presidential candidate Donald Trump's campaign chairman in 2016 — but a criminal charge never came. The accusation is one of the most conspicuous and direct, unresolved allegations Mueller made publicly over the last 22 months and is a lingering question now that he has submitted his report to Attorney General William Barr. The accusation was revealed last April, when prosecutors submitted to a court a still-largely redacted memo then-Acting Attorney General Rod Rosenstein wrote to Mueller.The memo, from August 2017, outlined exactly what Mueller should investigate. Numerous bullet points were blacked out — more than a page in full — yet two bullet points about Manafort were publicly visible....

WASHINGTON – It was the nation's first look at what special counsel Robert Mueller had concluded after investigating the president for years. And in the end, everyone seemed to have a different take, which largely came down along party lines. On Sunday, Attorney General William Barr compiled a four-page letter that highlighted the findings of Mueller's investigation. The letter, which was sent to Congress, attempts to answer key questions that have hung over all of President Donald Trump's presidency, specifically whether the president committed the crime of obstruction of justice and colluded with Russia. In Barr's letter, he said that no proof was found that the Trump campaign conspired with Russia but said Mueller made no decision over whether the president obstructed justice. Barr said that Mueller's office left that charging decision to him and the Justice Department. ...

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Special counsel Robert Mueller found no evidence of collusion between President Donald Trump and Russia, according to attorney general William Barr.

LOS ANGELES – Chris Pratt, Ariana Grande, Ellen DeGeneres, Shawn Mendes, Zendaya, Avengers: Infinity War and Riverdale were among those who won coveted orange blimps at Nickelodeon’s Kids’ Choice Awards 2019 on Saturday.Hosted by music mogul DJ Khaled, the unpredictable and always messy awards show was broadcast live from USC’s Galen Center in Los Angeles, where kids celebrated their favorites in pop culture, television, music, social media and movies.This year’s party kicked off with DJ Khaled making his way to the Kids’ Choice Awards in style, with an assist from friends Kylie Jenner and the Jonas Brothers. His next-level arrival began with a ride in a Rolls Royce Phantom, followed by a cruise on a luxury yacht, and a trip on board the “Kids’ Force One” helicopter before landing at the awards....

A major avocado producer announced a voluntary recall of the pear-shaped fruit because of the potential that the California-grown whole avocados could be contaminated with listeria monocytogenes. California-based Henry Avocado Corp. says it has taken this step out of “an abundance of caution” based on positive test results on environmental samples taken during a routine government inspection.The company claims there are no reported illnesses associated with the recall. The avocados in question are distributed and sold in bulk at stores in Arizona, California, Florida, New Hampshire, North Carolina and Wisconsin. Avocados imported from Mexico and distributed by Henry Avocado are not subject to the recall and may continue to be sold and consumed, the company says....

(CNN)President Donald Trump spent the last 18-plus months attacking the investigation into Russian interference and the possibility of collusion between his campaign and the Russians. On Sunday, that same investigation, led by special counsel Robert Mueller, gave Trump something he wanted -- and needed badly: A dismissal on the question of collusion and no charges of obstruction against either the President or his team."The special counsel's investigation did not find that the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with Russia in its efforts to influence the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election," read a summary of Mueller's conclusions by Attorney General William Barr sent to Congress on Sunday afternoon. ...

Despite continued backlash, Kathy Griffin says she doesn't regret posing for a photo in May 2017 holding a mock "decapitated" head of President Donald Trump.The comedian shared her feelings on the now infamous photo, which got her fired from CNN among other jobs, during an interview with CBS Sunday Morning's Luke Burbank Sunday."I'm Hanoi Jane, you know? I get it. This photo is gonna be with me forever, no matter what I do," she said, before revealing that she continues to get "online and in-person" death threats."I was in London a month ago and I had a driver who took myself and my assistant from London Heathrow to the hotel, and he recognized me from the photo and he said that he was from Morocco and that if we were in Morocco he would cut my tongue off," she said. "So, that was a long drive!"...

Another student of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., has died by apparent suicide, police have confirmed. The death comes a week after Sydney Aiello, 19, a survivor of last year’s mass shooting, took her own life.Coral Springs Police confirmed that the most recent death was an “apparent suicide,” though they have not yet released details of the student’s identity, other than the fact that he or she was a currently enrolled student at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.Police have not confirmed if the deceased student was enrolled at the high school last year when it became the scene of a horrific mass shooting that claimed 17 lives. They have also not confirmed the cause of death....

Charlie was doing fine. The blind 11-year-old Golden Retriever didn't want an upstart puppy named Maverick moving in.But his family, Adam and Chelsea Stipe, thought that after losing one eye to glaucoma in 2016 and another a year later, Charlie could use some help. Maverick, a 4-month-old, became Charlie's "seeing eye" dog. Before long they were fast friends, playing together and eventually Charlie even shared his pillow with Maverick.  The friendship is winning the internet as the dogs' Instagram account, only started a week ago, is now at 79,000 followers. The North Carolina couple introduced Maverick to Charlie in January, according to "Today." The older dog's initial reluctance gave way to tenderness as the puppy walks close to him and makes sure he can find his misplaced toys....

If you want healthy plants, some people say you should talk to them. If you want to make delicious cheese, try playing hip-hop music. That's the finding of a recent experiment by researchers in Switzerland who set out to determine how soundwaves might affect the microorganisms that give cheese its flavor. The experiment, titled Cheese in Surround Sound, started last fall with nine 22-pound wheels of Emmental cheese placed in nine separate wooden crates. The assorted fromage was played various types of sound waves and songs, including Mozart's "The Magic Flute," Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven," and "Jazz (We've Got)" from hip-hop legends A Tribe Called Quest. There was also one control cheese wheel that wasn't given any music at all. ...

WASHINGTON – Special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation did not find evidence that President Donald Trump or members of his campaign conspired with Russia's efforts to sway the 2016 election, delivering a boost to the president in a case that has shadowed his administration since its first days.But the special counsel's report leaves "unresolved whether the president's actions and intent could be viewed as obstruction," Attorney General William Barr said in a letter to Congress delivered Sunday. "While this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him" on whether he obstructed justice, Mueller said in the report, according to Barr's four-page summary. ...

CNN's Wolf Blitzer discusses the summary findings of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation with former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.

President Trump's lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Jay Sekulow talk to CNN about Attorney General William Barr's summary of special counsel Robert Mueller's report.

Washington (CNN)Nearly a year before his letter Sunday telling lawmakers he did not believe President Donald Trump committed obstruction of justice, Attorney General William Barr authored a memo saying he thought the obstruction investigation was "fatally misconceived."Barr, then a private citizen and former attorney general to President George H. W. Bush, issued the memo to senior Justice Department officials in June 2018. Trump went on to nominate Barr to lead the Justice Department on a permanent basis after Trump fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions in early November. As CNN reported in December, Barr's June 8, 2018, memo offers a detailed analysis of one of the most consequential episodes of Trump's presidency, concluding that while he was "in the dark about many facts," special counsel Robert Mueller's obstruction inquiry was "fatally misconceived."...

WASHINGTON – After Attorney General William Barr gave Congress his summary of the nearly two-year investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, lawmakers planned Sunday to pick up the baton with multiple investigations of President Donald Trump, his administration and his business.Lawmakers of both parties parsed Barr's four-page summary for statements that supported their positions. Barr said special counsel Robert Mueller "did not find that the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with Russia," which Republicans said vindicated Trump.Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., called it a “good day for the rule of law” and a “great day for President Trump and his team.”...

WASHINGTON – Congress on Sunday got its first peek into what special counsel Robert Mueller found after years investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election and any possible collusion with President Donald Trump's campaign. The summary was compiled by Attorney General William Barr and put into a four-page sent to Congress. It was created after Barr spent days reading through Mueller's lengthy investigation, which was completed on Friday. It attempts to answer key questions that have hung over Trump's presidency, specifically whether the president committed the crime of obstruction of justice and colluded with Russia. In Barr's letter, he said that no proof was found that the Trump campaign conspired with Russia but said Mueller made no decision over whether the president obstructed justice. Barr said that Mueller's office left that charging decision to him and the Justice Department. ...

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump claimed vindication from a summary made public Sunday of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.“It was a complete and total exoneration,” the president said as he boarded Air Force One in Palm Beach, Florida en route to Washington."It is a shame our country had to go through this," Trump said. "It is a shame your president had to go through this – before I even got elected, it began, and it began illegally.”Trump referred to the investigation as an "illegal takedown that failed."He also posted on Twitter that there was "No Collusion, No Obstruction, Complete and Total EXONERATION."Mueller's investigation did not find evidence that Trump or members of his campaign conspired with Russia's efforts to sway the 2016 election, but it left unresolved whether Trump's actions and intent could be viewed as obstruction of justice, Attorney General William Barr said in a letter to Congress....

Attorney General William Barr on Sunday submitted to Congress his summary of the main conclusions from special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation. The full text of his letter is below:Dear Chairman Graham, Chairman Nadler, Ranking Member Feinstein, and Ranking Member Collins: As a supplement to the notification provided on Friday, March 22, 2019, I am writing today to advise you of the principal conclusions reached by Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller and to inform you about the status of my initial review of the report he has prepared. The Special Counsel's Report On Friday, the Special Counsel submitted to me a "confidential report explaining the prosecution or declination decisions" he has reached, as required by 28 C.F.R. § 600.8(c). This report is entitled "Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election." Although my review is ongoing, I believe that it is in the public interest to describe the report and to summarize the principal conclusions reached by the Special Counsel and the results of his investigation. ...

On Sunday, Attorney General William Barr delivered a four-page letter to congressional leaders outlining the results of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.The letter addresses each aspect of Mueller’s findings, highlighting the focal points of the investigation: Russian interference in the 2016 election, whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia and whether President Donald Trump obstructed justice.On collusion with Russian, Barr quoted Mueller’s report as concluding, “[T]he investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.”On possible obstruction of justice, Mueller wrote, “while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.” ...

(CNN)California-grown avocados sold in bulk to retail stores in six states by the Henry Avocado Corporation are being recalled due to potential contamination with the bacterium listeria monocytogenes, the company announced on Saturday."Henry Avocado is issuing this voluntary recall out of an abundance of caution due to positive test results on environmental samples taken during a routine government inspection at its California packing facility," reads the company's statement. There have been no reported illnesses associated with the recall at this time.The recalled products included California-grown conventional and organic avocados. They were packed at Henry Avacado's facility in California and distributed to six states: Arizona, California, Florida, New Hampshire, North Carolina and Wisconsin. Henry Avocado, a family owned and managed company, started packing in this facility in late January 2019 and every shipment is subject to the recall....

A major avocado producer announced a voluntary recall of the pear-shaped fruit because of the potential that the California-grown whole avocados could be contaminated with listeria monocytogenes. California-based Henry Avocado Corp. says it has taken this step out of “an abundance of caution” based on positive test results on environmental samples taken during a routine government inspection.The company claims there are no reported illnesses associated with the recall. The avocados in question are distributed and sold in bulk at stores in Arizona, California, Florida, New Hampshire, North Carolina and Wisconsin. Avocados imported from Mexico and distributed by Henry Avocado are not subject to the recall and may continue to be sold and consumed, the company says....

HARTFORD, Conn. — Eric Paschall dabbed his tears with a towel during a postgame news conference, trying unsuccessfully to keep the emotions of the night at bay."It's just hard going out like this," he said. "But everything comes to an end."That end was swift and ugly for Villanova on Saturday night. After winning two national titles in three years, the sixth-seeded Wildcats brought a young team to the XL Center this week and got squashed in the second round by No. 3 seed Purdue 87-61.It was their most lopsided NCAA tournament loss in program history. And it felt, in some ways, like the end of an era.Though Villanova is only a year removed from its most recent title, it will enter the offseason without a senior — or a member of its 2016 championship team — on its roster. Only a handful of rising sophomores and juniors will remain, tasked with rebuilding the program into the national contender that it recently has been....

When Apple boss Tim Cook takes the stage at the Steve Jobs Theater in Silicon Valley on Monday, he will usher in a new era for the world’s largest technology company.The chief executive officer is expected to unveil streaming video and news subscriptions, key parts of Apple’s push to transform itself into a leading digital services provider. The company may even discuss a monthly video games subscription. Likely absent from the event: Any new versions of the gadgets that have helped Apple generate hundreds of billions of dollars in profit since 1976.It’s a particular challenge for Cook, who took over after Jobs died in 2011. The current CEO is an expert in hardware supply chains who spent years wrangling eager component manufacturers in Asia to assemble the company’s blockbuster iPhone. Apple’s newer partners — Hollywood studios, movie stars, newspapers and magazine publishers — are more wary of working with tech giants, or have already teamed up with rivals like Netflix Inc. and Amazon.com Inc....

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Admiral Schofield made a head-turning statement as Tennessee was locked in a battle with Iowa on Sunday.The Tennessee senior told the Vols coaches to take him out of the game and put in Kyle Alexander."It is going to change the game for us," he recalled telling the Tennessee coaches. "He did a great job for us.”“I’m a winner. At the end of the day, if I don’t have to be on the floor to win, that’s fine.”Schofield sat on the bench for all five minutes of overtime. The senior also was on the bench for the final 14 seconds of regulation, when Tennessee drew up a final play that resulted in a missed Jordan Bone 3-pointer.SPORTS, DELIVERED: Get latest news right in your inbox!...

CNN analyst Jeffrey Toobin discusses the implications of Attorney General William Barr's summary of special counsel Robert Mueller's report.

CNN's Shimon Prokupecz reads a "key line" from Attorney General William Barr's conclusion of special counsel Robert Mueller's report on his investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election.

(CNN)Hip-hop luminary Dr. Dre took to Instagram on Sunday to celebrate his daughter's acceptance to the University of Southern California and throw shade at other rich families caught up in a national admissions scandal.The rapper, whose real name is Andre Young, posted a picture with his daughter, Truly Young, and her acceptance letter to the school."My daughter got accepted into USC all on her own," the rapper wrote in the caption. "No jail time!!!!" Dre's comment was a thinly veiled reference to the college admissions scandal in which dozens of parents are facing federal charges after accusations they cheated to get their children accepted to prestigious schools, including USC. But critics were quick to point out in the comments of Dre's post that his daughter's acceptance to the university came just a few years after he and producer Jimmy Iovine made a $70 million donation to the school. ...

Attorney General William Barr told Congress that the special counsel’s 22-month investigation did not conclude that President Donald Trump or any individuals associated with his campaign conspired with Russian efforts to meddle in the 2016 election.But on the question of whether the president obstructed justice with his response to the investigation, Special Counsel Robert Mueller ultimately decided “not to make a traditional prosecutorial judgement,” neither exonerating nor implicating the president.Barr reviewed the evidence with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who was in charge of the Mueller investigation from the start, and determined it wasn’t sufficient to establish that Trump obstructed justice....

Attorney General William Barr delivered a summary of special counsel Robert Mueller's report to Congress on Sunday. Cheers from cartoonist Bruce Plante. In fact, on this page, you'll find a bevy of cartoon galleries produced by artists throughout the USA TODAY Network and from Cagle Cartoons — a site that archives some 200,000 cartoons from artists worldwide. We update our galleries regularly. And we'll try to swap them onto this page so you can enjoy the most recent additions to our collection as they come. Check back often!  Want more? Here's our cartoons front.         ...

Leaders of the Justice Department have sent a summary of Robert Mueller's key findings to key members of Congress. The special counsel's office completed its investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election on Friday. Attorney General William Barr is required to notify Congress that the investigation is complete but is not obligated to release the full report, as many in both parties have demanded. Read what Barr describes as Mueller's "principal conclusions" below. Not seeing the letter? Click here....

Attorney General William Barr's summary of the principal conclusions from the Robert Mueller special counsel investigation was just delivered to Congress. Follow here for the latest.

Former Vice President Joe Biden remains the front-runner among the 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls – despite not officially entering the race – and he performs the best of those potential nominees in a hypothetical matchup with President Donald Trump, according to a Fox News poll released Sunday. Asked whom they would like to see win the nomination from a list of 20 potential candidates, 31 percent of Democratic primary voters choose Biden. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., comes in second with 23 percent, followed by California Sen. Kamala Harris (8 percent), former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke (8 percent), Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren (4 percent) and New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker (4 percent)....

MOON TOWNSHIP, Pa. (AP) — Francois Lewis and freshman Adam Flagler scored 19 points apiece as Presbyterian beat Robert Morris 77-70 in the second round of the CIT on Sunday.JC Younger added 17 points for Presbyterian (20-15), which has the most wins in its Division I history. Lewis and Younger each made five 3-pointers as Presbyterian was 14 of 31 from distance.The Blue Hose trailed 44-31 at halftime, but opened the second half on a 15-0 run and held Robert Morris to 26 points in the final 20 minutes.Charles Bain had 14 points and 10 rebounds for the Colonials (18-17). Jon Williams and Josh Williams each had 11 points.___For more AP college basketball coverage: https://apnews.com/Collegebasketball and http://twitter.com/AP_Top25...

A student at the Florida high school where a gunman's rampage killed 17 people last year has been found dead of an apparent suicide, police said Sunday – the second student from the school to claim their own life in a week.The student, whose name was not released, attended Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, police said."Officers responded to a call Saturday and determined the death was from apparent suicide," Coral Springs Officer Tyler Reik told USA TODAY. "The investigation is ongoing."Reik said a suicide of a young person takes its toll on a community.“Any time a community deals with that, especially with young individuals and suicide, it definitely hits the whole community," he said. "For the family and the friends of the victim, our hearts go out to them. We need to continue reaching out, especially with the younger individuals in the community, support groups and whatever we can do, because it affects everybody in a different way.’’...

WASHINGTON – Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation did not find evidence that President Donald Trump or members of his campaign conspired with Russia's efforts to sway the 2016 election, delivering a boost to the president in a case that has shadowed his administration since its first days.But the special counsel's report leaves "unresolved whether the president's actions and intent could be viewed as obstruction," Attorney General William Barr said in a letter to Congress delivered Sunday. "While this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him" on whether he obstructed justice, Mueller said in the report, according to Barr's four-page summary. ...

(CNN)When the NHL champion Washington Capitals visit the White House on Monday, they'll do so without a few key members of their Stanley Cup-winning team.Braden Holtby, the Caps' star goalie, will not attend the event because he wishes "to stay true to my values," he said Friday in a video on NHL.com."For me, it's just a personal thing. I believe in what I believe in, and in order to stick to those values, I think I have to do what I feel is right," Holtby said. "But that doesn't make a difference on anyone else's decision. We stick by every single teammate that we have and their decision."Holtby, who was born in Saskatchewan, Canada, said his support for the LGBTQ community was one factor in his decision not to attend....

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Jordan Bone had to be having flashbacks Sunday at Nationwide Arena.The Tennessee junior guard got a good look at a 3-pointer with a chance to win the game and secure Tennessee a Sweet 16 spot, just as he did last year against Loyola Chicago.He missed, as he did then. And Tennessee, which once led by 25, headed for overtime against Iowa, which frantically came back to put UT's season in serious jeopardy.But Bone had his moment anyway.He forced a turnover on Iowa's first overtime possession with UT ahead by two. Then he caught a Grant Williams pass on the wing in front of Tennessee's bench and nailed a 3-pointer just feet from where he missed at the end of regulation.Tennessee is onto the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2014 and the eighth time in program history, beating Iowa 83-77....

 MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. — For years, the cable companies have been attacked, maligned and abused as the money-grubbing gougers of our living rooms. Now, with Apple set to preview yet another entertainment streaming service Monday, get ready for some possible backlash to streamers. We hate cable because rates keep going up, and they give us hundreds of channels we don’t want. Many of us would prefer to order channels a la carte, and they won’t let us. So why continue paying the man when you could cut the cord and enjoy TV for free? Here’s one good reason: because cable just works. One could argue, (and I certainly have,) that the experience of the cable alternative services like YouTube and Hulu with Live TV is visually better, with more options for how to watch. ...

(NEW YORK) — Jordan Peele has done it again. Two years after the filmmaker’s Get Out became a box-office sensation, his frightening follow-up, Us, debuted with $70.3 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.The opening, well above forecasts, had few parallels. It was the largest debut for an original horror film (only the It remake and last year’s Halloween have surpassed it in the genre) and one of the highest openings for a live-action original film since Avatar was released 10 years ago.In today’s franchise-driven movie world, seldom has a young director been such a draw. But moviegoers turned out in droves to see what kind of freak-out Peele could muster in his sophomore release....

Samantha Vinograd is a CNN national security analyst. She served on President Obama's National Security Council from 2009-2013 and at the Treasury Department under President George W. Bush. Follow her @sam_vinograd. The views expressed in this commentary are her own. View more opinion articles on CNN. (CNN)Every week, I offer a glimpse of the kind of intelligence assessments that are likely to come across the desk of the president of the United States, modeled on the President's Daily Briefing, or PDB, which the director of national intelligence prepares for the president almost daily.Here's this week's briefing:Words matter, especially when they come from the President of the United States. ...

Conway, New Hampshire (CNN)Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren said she does not support term limits in Congress while speaking at a town hall in New Hampshire on Sunday."Here's the problem on term limits on folks in Congress -- it makes them more dependent than ever on the lobbyist. Believe me, if the senators only stay for two terms, the lobbyist will be there a lot longer and they'll know how the game is plaid," the senator, who's running for president, told an audience member at the town hall in Conway, New Hampshire. "It worries me that it will make them even more dependent on big money."Warren said that without term limits, she's been able to use the money she raises during election years for a grassroots campaign in her home state of Massachusetts....

Investigations into the causes of the two Boeing 737 Max crashes, in Indonesia and Ethiopia, have focused on software — and the possibility that it was autonomously pointing the planes' noses downward, acting without the pilots' consent.It's a nightmare scenario. It's also a reminder that software is everywhere, sometimes doing things we don't expect.This sank in for a lot of people four years ago, during the Volkswagen diesel emissions scandal. It turned out that software inside the cars had been quietly running the engines in such a way as to cheat on emissions tests.While it's always possible for manufacturers to use software dishonestly, the more common problem is software that's used to enable sloppy designs....

Dr. Dre is taking a jab at fellow celebrities who made headlines earlier this month for their alleged involvement in a college bribery scandal.Actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin are charged with paying thousands of dollars to fake test scores and disguising their children as athletes in order to gain access to prestigious schools, including the University of Southern California.In a since-deleted post, the rapper and producer shared Saturday on Instagram that his daughter, Truly Young, got into the same university – and added that the way it happened won't land him in jail. "My daughter got accepted into USC all on her own. No jail time!!!" he captioned the photo of him and his daughter, a boast that has raised some eyebrows. ...

A University of Georgia fraternity has been suspended after a video that appeared to show its members using racial slurs and mocking slavery began circulating on social media over the weekend.The video appears to show one student slapping another with a belt while saying “pick my cotton” followed by a racial slur. The University’s Student Government Association released a letter to the student body Friday saying that it is aware of the video.“We have been notified that the chapter is currently suspended, and we can confirm that there is an investigation underway regarding the students involved in the video,” the statement read.Tau Kappa Epsilon, identified by social-media users as the fraternity involved in the incident, said it had expelled the four members in the video...

Indiana elementary school teachers say they were “shot execution-style” with plastic pellets and injured during an active-shooter training in January, sparking backlash about the intensity of what law enforcement officers say was a standard drill.Now, the sheriff says he’ll stop conducting all active-shooter drills with teachers in response to the criticism.“During active shooter drill, four teachers at a time were taken into a room, told to crouch down and were shot execution style with some sort of projectiles – resulting in injuries to the extent that welts appeared, and blood was drawn,” the Indiana State Teachers Association said in a tweet on Wednesday, adding that teachers were “terrified” and “screaming.”...

A cruise ship stranded off Norway’s western coast has reached port with its remaining passengers. The Viking Sky ship airlifted more than half its 900 passengers to safety before authorities opted Sunday to allow the ship to limp into the nearby port of Molde with the aid of a tow boat."All passengers and crew are safe, and passengers will be flying home starting tonight," the cruise line said in a statement on its website Sunday. "Throughout all of this, our first priority was for the safety and well-being of our passengers and our crew. We would like to thank the Norwegian Redningssentral and the Norwegian emergency services for their support and skill displayed in managing the situation in very challenging weather conditions."...

(CNN)A second Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student has died in what police are calling "an apparent suicide." The student, who was enrolled at the Parkland, Florida, school at the time of death, has not been publicly identified. The death occurred Saturday evening and is under investigation, said Coral Springs Police spokesman Tyler Reik.It's unclear under what circumstances the student died, or what connection, if any, the student had to last year's shooting at the high school. News of the student's death comes as the Parkland community is mourning the passing of a former Marjory Stoneman Douglas student, Sydney Aiello, who died last Sunday. Aiello, who survived the 2018 massacre at the school, took her own life after suffering from survivor's guilt and being diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, her mother told CNN affiliate WFOR. ...

(CNN)American Airlines plans to cancel flights well into April because of the Boeing 737 Max grounding.American, the world's largest airline, said Sunday it is canceling about 90 flights a day out through April 24. Before Sunday's announcement, American had only canceled flights through March 28.The airline is hopeful that that the 737 Max planes will be flying again soon, but said it is canceling flights about a month out as it waits for word from the Federal Aviation Administration."Canceling in advance provides additional availability and rebooking options for our customers," said the statement from American.The global fleet of 371 of the 737 Max jets was grounded indefinitely on March 13 after two of the planes had fatal crashes. A Lion Air flight crashed in October and an Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed on March 10....

Updated at 2:12 p.m. ETA luxury cruise ship has safely arrived at port in Norway after a harrowing ordeal that started when the ship's engines failed during a storm off the country's western coast on Saturday.The Viking Sky, operated by Viking Ocean Cruises, sent out a mayday signal after experiencing engine problems in the Norwegian Sea, according to Reuters. At the time, the ship was carrying nearly 1,400 passengers and crew, many of whom were senior citizens. The engine trouble occurred in a stretch of waters known for rough, frigid waters called Hustadvika, which as Reuters reported, is known "shallow waters dotted with reefs." To make matters worse, the engine struggle came during a storm with strong winds gusting at a speed of roughly 79 feet per second, according to the Norwegian Meteorological Institute....