‘Multiple fatalities’ reported at Santa Fe High School shooting  —  SANTA FE, Texas - A shooting at Santa Fe High School this morning has left “multiple fatalities,” a law enforcement source confirmed.  —  The source said the gunman was a male, but could provide no further information.

Trump personally pushed postmaster general to double rates on Amazon, other firms  —  President Trump has personally pushed U.S. Postmaster General Megan Brennan to double the rate the Postal Service charges Amazon.com and other firms to ship packages, according to three people familiar …

Exclusive: Special Counsel subpoenas another Stone aide in Russia probe - sources  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller has subpoenaed a key assistant of long-time Donald Trump adviser Roger Stone, two people with knowledge of the matter said, the latest sign …

Jordan Peterson, Custodian of the Patriarchy  —  He says there's a crisis in masculinity.  Why won't women — all these wives and witches — just behave?  —  TORONTO — Jordan Peterson fills huge lecture halls and tells his audiences there's no shame in looking backward to a model of how the world should be arranged.

In blow to GOP, House fails to pass massive farm bill in face of conservative Republican showdown … A sweeping farm bill failed in the House on Friday in a blow to GOP leaders who were unable to placate conservative lawmakers demanding commitments on immigration.

Trump Lawyer Met With Qatari Government Official Days Before FBI Raid  —  Was Michael Cohen seeking to add foreign governments as clients of his consulting business?  —  President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, who made millions over the past 18 months soliciting funds from clients seeking entree …

More than 100 killed in passenger plane crash in Cuba: state TV  —  HAVANA (Reuters) - More than 100 people were killed in a fiery crash of a Boeing 737 passenger plane in Cuba on Friday, Cuban broadcaster CubaTV reported.  —  There were three seriously injured survivors among the 114 passengers and crew …

U.S. Scrapped Training Exercise With South Korea Involving B-52s  —  South Korea expressed concern in advance of U.S.-North Korea summit, officials say  —  A training exercise involving U.S. B-52 bombers and South Korean planes was scrapped earlier this week after the South Korean government …

Obama's Legacy Has Already Been Destroyed  —  In one respect, it seems to me, the presidency of Donald Trump has been remarkably successful.  In 17 months, he has effectively erased Barack Obama's two-term legacy.  —  I don't want to say or face this.  I still want to believe my colleague …

Actually, the 1 Percent Are Still The Problem  —  The Atlantic trots out a familiar argument blaming the upper middle class for income inequality.  It's wrong.  —  One of the nice things about Occupy Wall Street was that it provided a tidy shorthand to describe the problem of income inequality …

The Best Explanation for Our Spate of Mass Shootings Is the Least Comforting  —  On another terrible day, I hate to introduce even more pessimism, but when we discuss mass shootings, one of the first questions we ask is the simplest and also the hardest to answer.  Why?  Why does this keep happening?

GOP candidate films herself confronting transgender woman using bathroom  —  A Republican candidate for Congress in California filmed herself confronting a transgender woman using the women's bathroom at a Denny's in Los Angeles.  —  Jazmina Saavedra, who is campaigning for a seat …

Playboy Playmate took young son on fatal leap from NYC building  —  A former Playboy Playmate jumped with her 7-year-old son to their deaths from a Midtown hotel Friday — amid a nasty custody battle with her chiropractic ex, sources told The Post.  —  Stephanie Adams, 47 …

The Onion's Brutal Israel Commentary Goes Beyond Satire  —  The country's leading humor publication has taken a stance on the Israel-Palestine conflict in a way that most “real” newspapers haven't.  —  via The Onion  —  On Monday, as the United States celebrated moving its Israeli embassy …

Sexpat Journalists Are Ruining Asia Coverage  —  Newsroom predators in foreign bureaus hurt their colleagues — and their stories.  —  Today, I'm known as a strong advocate in my social circles, promoting women's and minorities' voices in media.  But when I first moved to China seven years ago …

Frisco hospice exec admits making patients overdose ‘to hasten their deaths’ and make more money  —  The former executive of a Frisco hospice admitted Thursday to overdosing patients to “hasten their deaths” so the company could make more money, court records show.

Michigan State's Nassar Settlement Could Set A Troubling First Amendment Precedent  —  On Wednesday, Michigan State announced that it had settled with 332 survivors of Larry Nassar's sexual abuse for $500 million.  Of that enormous sum, $425 million will be divided among the women and girls …

Ryan-linked group raised $24.6M from anonymous donor  —  American Action Network, the nonprofit group closely aligned with House Speaker Paul Ryan, raised a record $41.9 million amid the GOP push to repeal Obamacare and restructure the tax code — more than half of which came from one donor …

Sen. Dean Heller's Campaign Paid His Social Media Influencer Son More Than $50,000  —  The Republican senator's campaign gave the cash to his son to run its Instagram page and make Facebook and YouTube videos.  —  Nevada GOP Sen. Dean Heller's campaign has paid his son, a social media influencer …

‘Unfair!’  Rudy Giuliani explodes when CNN's Cuomo plays clip of him saying presidents must obey subpoenas  —  Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani went on an angry tirade against Chris Cuomo on Friday after the CNN host played an old clip of him saying that presidents must comply with subpoenas to testify.

The Kremlin revives a Soviet-style law against dissent  —  “Show me the man, and I'll show you the crime.”  This phrase from Stalin's secret police chief Lavrentiy Beria, even if apocryphal, summarizes the Soviet regime's attitude to repressing its citizens.

Gun violence's distant echo  —  After school shootings, a teenager tries to bring gun control to her conservative Wyoming town  —  Alan Engdahl was driving home after an overnight shift in the oil field when his truck picked up a scratchy radio signal out of Gillette.

Credulity and Barbarity in the Age of Trump … For two days, a little whirlwind — the kind that blows through conservative and centrist media alike — has kicked up a preposterous kind of dust over the public discourse.  The substance: Were the words spoken by a president who endorses …

Stormy Daniels performance cut short after drunk man throws wallet in her face  —  Daniels appearance in Bend was delayed for hours  —  A customer takes a picture of herself with a poster of Stormy Daniels and a cutout of President Donald Trump while waiting to enter Stars Cabaret in Bend on Thursday, May 17, 2018.

It's right there in plain sight … THE MORNING PLUM:  —  Here's the difficulty.  We want Congress to exercise oversight when it comes to the activities of our intelligence services, to prevent them from abusing their awesome powers and to maintain public confidence that such abuses …