EPA Chief's $50-a-Night Rental Said to Raise White House Angst  —  Pruitt apartment questions follow first-class flight reports  —  Washington lease is compared to an Airbnb-style arrangement  —  Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt's lease at a Washington apartment owned …

Behind the chaos: Office that vets Trump appointees plagued by inexperience … An obscure White House office responsible for recruiting and vetting thousands of political appointees has suffered from inexperience and a shortage of staff, hobbling the Trump administration's efforts …

David Hogg And Media Matters Team Up For Ingraham Boycott  —  Parkland student and pro-gun control activist David Hogg has teamed up with liberal activist group Media Matters to push a boycott campaign against Fox News host Laura Ingraham.  —  Ingraham knocked Hogg for complaining about colleges that rejected his applications.

Stephon Clark was shot eight times, mostly in his back, according to autopsy requested by his family … Stephon Clark, the unarmed 22-year-old killed by Sacramento police officers earlier this month, was shot eight times, with most of the bullets hitting him in the back …

ABC is about to announce Season 2 of ‘Roseanne’ reboot  —  Pro-Trump ‘Roseanne’ returns with strong ratings  —  Just days after “Roseanne” made a blockbuster return, ABC is set to order a second season, according to a source at the network.  —  The move is a no-brainer.

AP-NORC/MTV Poll: Young people run from Trump  —  NEW YORK (AP) — A majority of young people believe President Donald Trump is racist, dishonest and “mentally unfit” for office, according to a new survey that finds the nation's youngest potential voters are more concerned about the Republican's performance …

Arnold Schwarzenegger — Undergoes Emergency Heart Surgery  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  10:40 AM PT — Arnold's people just told us the following ... the procedure was “to replace a pulmonic valve that was originally replaced due to a congenital heart defect in 1997.

Why I left Fox News … You could measure the decline of Fox News by the drop in the quality of guests waiting in the green room.  A year and a half ago, you might have heard George Will discussing policy with a senator while a former Cabinet member listened in.

How Trump got to ‘yes’ on the biggest purge of Russian spies in U.S. history … In the days leading up to the largest expulsion of Russian spies in U.S. history, few people inside or outside the Trump administration knew exactly what the president would do.

Paul Manafort, a mysterious Russian jet, and a secret meeting  —  In August 2016, a private jet linked to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska traveled from Moscow to Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey.  The Gulfstream G550 (registration M-ALAY) landed shortly after midnight and …

Kentucky teachers shut down schools in protest over the pension bill.  Here's what we know  —  James Crisp/Special to Courier Journal  —  A wave of school closures have swept Kentucky as teachers across the state, frustrated by a controversial pension reform bill passed Thursday night, requested substitutes or called in sick.

Here are the internal Facebook posts of employees discussing today's leaked memo  —  “I've always thought our ‘open but punitive’ stance was particularly vulnerable to suicide bombers.”  —  The publication of a June 2016 memo describing the consequences of Facebook's growth-at-all-costs triggered …

Affirmative Action for Reactionaries  —  Although I'm a squishy-hearted liberal, I have a soft spot for dyspeptic reactionaries like H. L. Mencken and V. S. Naipaul, men — they're almost always men — who speak to a dark, misanthropic corner of my soul.  Thus I've occasionally read Kevin Williamson …

Tarrant County woman sentenced to five years in prison for illegally voting in 2016  —  FORT WORTH  —  A judge sentenced a Rendon woman to five years in prison Wednesday for voting illegally in the 2016 presidential election while she was on supervised release from a 2011 fraud conviction.

Elizabeth Esty Must Resign  —  Elizabeth Esty will likely spend the next several days defending her failure to take strong steps to protect a woman who'd been threatened and bullied — by a member of her own staff — by blaming the system and talking about the good she's done in Congress.

Hillary Clinton fires back at critics: No one told a man who lost an election to shut up  —  is striking back at critics telling her to “shut up” following her 2016 loss, saying, “They never said that to any man who was not elected.”  —  “I was really struck by how people said that to me …

SIEGE IN GAZA Twelve killed by Israeli forces and 550 injured as thousands of Palestinians swarm the border, burn photos of Trump, and vow to protest for six weeks until the US embassy moves to Jerusalem  —  Protesters were seen burning posters of Donald Trump, throwing stones …

Coffee Drinkers Need Cancer Warning, Judge Rules, Giving Sellers the Jitters  —  Coffee sellers are mulling how to fight a California judge's ruling that would require the beverage to be branded with cancer warning labels.  —  The National Coffee Association, whose members include Starbucks …

Denying Genetics Isn't Shutting Down Racism, It's Fueling It  —  Last weekend, a rather seismic op-ed appeared in the New York Times, and it was for a while one of the most popular pieces in the newspaper.  It's by David Reich, a professor of genetics at Harvard, who carefully advanced …

Federal workers spill on life in Trump's Washington  —  One Health and Human Services employee swore off online dating after potential suitors repeatedly got upset that he worked for the Trump administration.  An Education Department fellow eagerly returned to teaching after listening to Betsy DeVos bash public schools.