Boy Scouts: Top leaders didn't call Trump to praise speech  —  https://apnews.com/aedbaf4543ea464dbcef 78491ba281b9  —  Link copied!  —  NEW YORK (AP) — The Boy Scouts denied Wednesday that the head of the youth organization called President Donald Trump to praise his recent, politically aggressive speech to its national jamboree.

John Kelly closes the Oval Office door  —  The door to the Oval Office used to be wide open, with favored officials drifting in and out — even in the middle of meetings — to kibitz with Trump.  —  Now, the door is closed.  Gen. John Kelly, the new White House chief of staff …

An NSC Staffer Is Forced Out Over a Controversial Memo  —  A top official of the National Security Council was fired last month after arguing in a memo that President Trump is under sustained attack from subversive forces both within and outside the government who are deploying Maoist tactics …

Trump, GOP senators to introduce bill to slash legal immigration levels  —  President Trump will appear with a pair of conservative Republican senators at the White House on Wednesday to unveil legislation aimed at slashing legal immigration levels over a decade, a goal Trump endorsed on the campaign trail.

How ‘Sharknado’ Casts Its C-Listers and Nearly Landed Trump as President  —  Months before he declared himself a candidate, Trump was set to play commander-in-chief in the schlocky Syfy film franchise that has lured everyone from Ann Coulter to Charo for cameos while regular Tara Reid makes a quarter of one male co-star's pay.

Why The Mooch Lost His Cool  —  Anthony Scaramucci tells HuffPost about the highs and lows of his fiery stint at the White House and what that cuss-filled rant was really about. … I received a call Monday night from Roger Stone, the infamous political prankster and Donald Trump confidant.

Tillerson spurns $80 million to counter ISIS, Russian propaganda  —  Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is resisting the pleas of State Department officials to spend nearly $80 million allocated by Congress for fighting terrorist propaganda and Russian disinformation.

Democrats Could Have a 2020 Presidential Field As Wide As an Iowa Cornfield  —  It's the early, silly season of 2020 presidential speculation.  So there's nothing unusual about speculation surrounding two fairly obscure Democratic House members, Seth Moulton of Massachusetts and Tim Ryan of Ohio.

South Carolina governor candidate Catherine Templeton's ‘proud of the Confederacy’ remarks stir controversy  —  COLUMBIA — Catherine Templeton made waves in her first public forum as gubernatorial candidate by saying she is “proud of the Confederacy” and pledged “we're not going to rewrite history” by removing Confederate monuments.

Lawmakers unmoved by Trump threat to ax money for their insurance  —  President Donald Trump is threatening to ax money for lawmakers' health insurance until they repeal Obamacare.  —  Senate Republicans aren't trying to stop him.  —  “If that's what he wants to do, he ought to just do it,” Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) told POLITICO.

Residents fuming over sex-crazed hotel guests  —  Who said the New York peep show is dead?  —  Grannies and other residents of a Lower East Side public-housing building say they've been getting an X-rated eyeful since Ian Schrager's fancy Public hotel opened next door in June …

House Judiciary Chairman's Priority: Investigating Hillary Clinton  —  Judiciary panel has ignored Russia probe, Comey firing  —  Chairman Goodlatte asks for new special counsel on Clinton  —  Between Russian meddling in last year's election, Donald Trump's decision to fire FBI Director James Comey …

Millennials Unearth an Amazing Hack to Get Free TV: the Antenna  —  Cord-cutters accustomed to watching shows online are often shocked that $20 ‘rabbit ears’ pluck signals from the air; is this legal?  —  Dan Sisco has discovered a technology that allows him to access half a dozen major TV channels, completely free.

Trump nominee Sam Clovis blasted progressives as ‘race traders’ and ‘race traitors’ in old blog posts  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)Sam Clovis, President Donald Trump's nominee to be the Department of Agriculture's chief scientist, maintained a now-defunct blog for years in which he accused progressives of …

NAACP issues first-ever travel advisory for a state — and it's Missouri  —  NAACP officials say their recent travel advisory for Missouri is the first that the civil rights group has issued for any state.  —  But the warning follows a recent trend of similar alerts issued by other groups …

Attorney for woman in drug case says body-camera footage shows officers planting drugs  —  Josh Insley, a private attorney for Shamere Collins, said he and Collins believe the video supports her claim that police planted drugs in the vehicle, and will be pursuing legal options against the department.

The marketplace of ideas is killing the Trump administration  —  The Trump team has not exploited the Ideas Industry, and it's killing them.  —  The hard-working staff here at Spoiler Alerts has spent this week suggesting that Donald Trump lacks the ability to exercise power and the gift …

This Is Probably The Only Story You Didn't Hear About First From Bradd Jaffy And Kyle Griffin  —  At 7:36 a.m. on May 18, Time executive editor Matt Vella tweeted the magazine's weekly cover, an image perfectly engineered to generate fodder for cable news and unleash screenshots across Twitter …

In Minneapolis, response to police shooting of white woman by Somali officer has been different  —  MINNEAPOLIS — Kim Handy-Jones stands at the front of a meeting room in a working-class portion of southeast Minneapolis, large pieces of butcher paper labeled “Body Cams,” “Accountability” and “Training” hanging behind her.

Poll: Democrats surge ahead on generic ballot  —  Republicans trail Democrats by 7 percentage points on the generic congressional ballot, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll, the Democratic Party's greatest advantage on the generic ballot since the poll began asking the question this past spring.

Attorney General Sessions Announces Opioid Fraud and Abuse Detection Unit  —  Attorney General Jeff Sessions today announced the formation of the Opioid Fraud and Abuse Detection Unit, a new Department of Justice pilot program to utilize data to help combat the devastating opioid crisis …