AP sources: EPA chief spent millions on security and travel  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt's concern with his safety came at a steep cost to taxpayers as his swollen security detail blew through overtime budgets and at times diverted officers away from investigating environmental crimes.

Exclusive: Trump adviser played key role in pursuit of possible Clinton emails from dark web before election  —  (CNN)A Donald Trump foreign policy adviser pushed government agencies to review materials from the dark web in the summer of 2016 that he thought were Hillary Clinton's deleted emails …

What About “The Breakfast Club”?  —  Revisiting the movies of my youth in the age of #MeToo.  —  Earlier this year, the Criterion Collection, which is “dedicated to gathering the greatest films from around the world,” released a restored version of “The Breakfast Club,” …

Blake Farenthold resigns abruptly from Congress  —  This is a developing story.  —  WASHINGTON — Corpus Christi Republican Blake Farenthold abruptly resigned from Congress Friday afternoon, less than four months after dropping reelection plans under siege for crude and verbally abusive office behavior.

U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman pulls out loaded gun in constituent meeting to make point about safety  —  A South Carolina Republican congressman is not backing down from critics after he pulled out his own personal — and loaded — .38-caliber Smith & Wesson handgun during a meeting with constituents Friday.

Backpage Has Been Taken Down By The US Government And Sex Workers Aren't Happy  —  Backpage.com, the popular classified ads website, went offline Friday after being seized and disabled by the federal government.  —  The Backpage.com notice stated that additional information would be provided …

Congrats, Jeff Goldberg.  You Just Martyred Kevin Williamson.  —  Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg climbed out on a limb last month to add conservative fire-breather and Never Trumper Kevin D. Williamson of National Review to join his growing staff.

Police: Sweden boy, 7, decapitated by mother in home  —  Hanane Mouhib has been arrested and charged with second degree murder after police say she decapitated 7-year-old Abraham Cardenas in a Sweden home Thursday night.  (Photo: Monroe Co. Sheriff's Office)  —  AA

Kushner Partner in 666 Fifth Ave.  Says It Has Deal to Sell  —  The Kushner family appeared on Friday to have struck a deal to buy out its partner in the troubled Fifth Avenue skyscraper at the center of its real estate empire, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Department Of Homeland Security Compiling Database Of Journalists And ‘Media Influencers’  —  In today's installment of “I'm Not Terrified, You Are,” Bloomberg Law reports on a FedBizOpps.gov posting by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with the relatively benign-sounding subject, “Media Monitoring Services.”

Michelle Obama: My Husband Was ‘The Good Parent,’ Trump Is ‘The Fun Parent’  —  Former first lady Michelle Obama threw a few barbs at President Donald Trump while speaking to a group of women at the Simmons Leadership Conference in Boston on Thursday.  —  Asked whether she would consider …

The fall of Milo Yiannopoulos … It seems the phenomenon of Milo Yiannopoulos - the brief, bright arc of his invention - is over.  I do not want him to fall without being understood so I will tell you the strange tale of our encounters last year.  Monsters should be understood, and pitied, for our own sakes.

As vultures circle, The Denver Post must be saved … The photo on the left shows 142 members of The Denver Post's newsroom staff in the newspaper's lobby on May 15, 2013, a month after winning a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the Aurora theater shooting.

Dow plunges more than 550 points to end the week as trade war fears rattle Wall Street  — President Donald Trump threatened more levies against China on Thursday, stating that he has asked the United States Trade Representative to consider $100 billion in additional tariffs against China.

Trump asked CIA official why drone strike didn't also kill target's family: report  —  reportedly asked a CIA official why the agency didn't kill a terrorist target's family during a drone strike.  —  The Washington Post reported Thursday that, after watching a recorded video of a drone strike …

ICE raids meatpacking plant in rural Tennessee; 97 immigrants arrested … Federal officials arrested 97 immigrants at a meat-processing plant in rural Tennessee late Thursday in what civil rights organizations said was the largest single workplace raid in a decade and a sign that the Trump administration …

Making Ads and Pages More Transparent  —  We believe that when you visit a Page or see an ad on Facebook it should be clear who it's coming from.  We also think it's important for people to be able to see the other ads a Page is running, even if they're not directed at you.

How ‘Chappaquiddick’ Distorts a Tragedy  —  Senator Edward Kennedy, one of the most famous members of America's most famous family, understood that he belonged as much to popular culture as to political culture.  Now, nine years after his death, comes a movie about the event that …

Federal judge upholds Mass. assault weapons ban  —  A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit on Friday that challenged Massachusetts' ban on assault weapons, delivering a significant victory for Attorney General Maura Healey, who had tightened enforcement of the state's laws against such weapons …

Attorney General Announces Zero-Tolerance Policy for Criminal Illegal Entry  —  Attorney General Jeff Sessions today notified all U.S. Attorney's Offices along the Southwest Border of a new “zero-tolerance policy” for offenses under 8 U.S.C.  § 1325(a), which prohibits both attempted illegal entry …

S.C. Republicans introduce bill to consider secession over gun rights  —  A group of Republican state legislators in South Carolina introduced a measure Thursday that would allow the state to secede from the United States if the federal government began to seize legally purchased firearms in the state.

Will We Stop Trump Before It's Too Late?  —  Fascism poses a more serious threat now than at any time since the end of World War II.  —  On April 28, 1945 — 73 years ago — Italians hung the corpse of their former dictator Benito Mussolini upside down next to a gas station in Milan.