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.

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.

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.

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.

Justice Dept. to Take On Affirmative Action in College Admissions  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is preparing to redirect resources of the Justice Department's civil rights division toward investigating and suing universities over affirmative action admissions policies deemed …

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 …

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.

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 …

First Golfer: Donald Trump's relationship with golf has never been more complicated  —  Expect Trump storylines at the U.S. Women's Open … Playing golf with the 45th President of the United States offers a revealing character study of him.  Donald Trump's private clubs are where he feels …

Ode to the Buttered Roll, That New York Lifeline  —  It can be hard to explain the appeal of a buttered roll.  —  Unlike the breakfast sandwich or the cruller, the humble buttered roll makes no claims to lusciousness.  It's not really greater than the sum of its parts: a round roll, sliced and slathered with butter.

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.

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.

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 …

These Two TV Producers Have Become Famous For Tweeting And Everyone Is Like :eyes:  —  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 …

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 …

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.