EXCLUSIVE: Pruitt's EPA security broke down door to lobbyist condo  —  Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt's protective detail broke down the door at the Capitol Hill condo where he was living, believing he was unconscious and unresponsive and needed rescue …

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.

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 …

Stephon Clark Was Shot 8 Times From Behind or the Side, Family-Ordered Autopsy Finds  —  Stephon Clark, the unarmed black man who was killed by the Sacramento police in his grandmother's backyard, was shot eight times from behind or the side, according to a private autopsy commissioned by his family.

David Hogg would've made a good brownshirt  —  ANALYSIS/OPINION:  —  David Hogg, the Marjory Stoneman Douglas high-schooler who seems to have set himself up as Laura Ingraham's arch nemesis, has been making national television rounds of late, pretty much calling for adults to step aside …

FBI questions Ted Malloch, Trump campaign figure and Farage ally  —  American once touted as possible ambassador to EU tells of being detained at Boston airport and subpoenaed by Robert Mueller's Trump-Russia inquiry … A controversial London-based academic with close ties to Nigel Farage …

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 …

The ‘Roseanne’ Reboot Is Funny.  I'm Not Going to Keep Watching.  —  It can be very difficult to separate the art from the artist.  In the case of Roseanne Barr and her critically acclaimed television show based on her life, it is nearly impossible.  I wasn't going to watch the reboot …

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.

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.

‘Clueless’ star Stacey Dash withdraws from congressional race  —  Washington (CNN)"Clueless" star and former Fox News commentator Stacey Dash is withdrawing her congressional bid, a representative for the actress confirmed to CNN Friday.  —  “After much prayer, introspection and discussions with my family …

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 …

Congressman alleges McCabe lied to Comey, hinting at rift between FBI officials … The FBI's disciplinary office found that ousted deputy director Andrew McCabe lied to his boss, then-director James B. Comey, in October 2016 about having authorized the disclosure of sensitive information to a reporter …

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 …

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 …

The bitter lie behind the census's citizenship question  —  Vanita Gupta, president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, was head of the Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department from 2014 to 2017.  —  Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross failed a crucial test of leadership this week.

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 …

Noor Salman, widow of Pulse nightclub gunman, found not guilty on all counts  —  Noor Salman, the widow of Pulse nightclub gunman Omar Mateen, was found not guilty Friday in the only trial to stem from the deadly June 2016 shooting rampage.  —  Salman, 31, was accused of helping her husband plan …

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.

Texas woman sentenced to 5 years in prison for voting while on probation … If she had known it was illegal, Crystal Mason said she would have never cast a vote in the 2016 presidential election.  —  The 43-year-old former tax preparer hadn't even planned on voting until her mother encouraged her to do it.