Howard Schultz to Step Down as Starbucks Executive Chairman  —  SEATTLE — Howard Schultz, the outspoken executive chairman of Starbucks, will leave the company at the end of the month, bringing to an end the tenure of a socially conscious entrepreneur who turned a local Seattle coffee chain …

Mueller has waited long enough.  It's subpoena time.  —  What should the special counsel do next?  I'd suggest it's subpoena time.  —  Robert S. Mueller III has proved himself a remarkably patient prosecutor.  His negotiations with President Trump's lawyers have stretched on for at least six months …

Supreme Court throws out lower court decision that allowed immigrant teenager to obtain abortion  —  The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a lower court's decision that allowed an undocumented immigrant teenager to obtain an abortion over the protests of the Trump administration.

Pruitt had aide do numerous personal tasks, including a hunt for a used Trump hotel mattress  —  In mid-September, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator's director of scheduling and advance, Millan Hupp, reached out to the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., with an unusual request.

Why Melania Trump's vanishing act matters  —  WASHINGTON — First lady Melania Trump has all but vanished.  —  She hasn't been seen with President Donald Trump at a public event since May 10, four days before she underwent surgery for a kidney problem.  She won't be at her husband's side …

Crowd cheers when valedictorian quotes Trump.  Then reveals it was Obama  —  Ben Bowling graduation speech Courtesy of Ben Bowling  —  Bell County high school student and valedictorian Ben Bowling wanted to share some words of wisdom with his graduating class, but there was a twist that no one saw coming.

Trump Told Kim Kardashian She and Kanye West Are Helping Him With Black Voters  — Met with reality TV star on pardon plea for 63-year-old woman  — Credits her husband Kanye West with rise in black support  —  President Donald Trump welcomed Kim Kardashian to the White House last week to discuss prison reform.

The likely next speaker of the House is a mindless sycophant  —  On the evidence of House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy's CNN interview over the weekend, the likely next speaker of the House is a mindless sycophant and a threat to the constitutional order.  —  Confronted with a simple …

The great remove  —  How journalism got so out of touch with the people it covers  —  To become a journalist, Rajaa Elidrissi knew she would need a strategy.  Growing up in a low-income household in Elmhurst, Queens, she started collecting clips at age 13.

Papadopoulos' Wife: Trump Aide Was ‘Absolutely Not’ Involved In Russian Collusion  —  George Papadopoulos' wife, Simona Mangiante, said her husband was not involved in collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government and that he pleaded guilty in the special counsel's investigation …

Trump's phone call with Macron described as ‘terrible’  —  Washington (CNN)A call about trade and migration between US President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron soured last week after Macron candidly criticized Trump's policies, two sources familiar with the call told CNN.

Bill Clinton: I wouldn't have done anything differently in Lewinsky scandal even in #MeToo era  —  Clinton stuck by his decision to fight his impeachment rather than resign.  “I think I did the right thing.  I defended the Constitution,” he said.  —  Former President Bill Clinton says that …

BuzzFeed Allowed Key Defense in Russian's Defamation Suit Over Trump Dossier  —  A Florida judge rejects a Russian entrepreneur who argued that the Trump dossier publication wasn't protected as a fair report of official government action.  —  In its continuing fight against a Russian tech entrepreneur …

Did Putin Help Trump Come Up With His Cover Story?  (Pretty Likely)  —  One of the many revelations from that “leaked” letter from the White House to the Mueller team is that the White House is now stating as a fact what it had long denied or at least seriously downplayed: that the President personally …

It's Now Against The Law In California To Shower And Do Laundry On The Same Day  —  Authored by Daisy Luther via The Organic Prepper blog,  —  Governor Jerry Brown is retiring but not before he passes a few draconian laws as parting gifts for California.  Two bills were signed into law …

Pentagon investigates White House doctor Ronny Jackson  —  The Pentagon's inspector general is investigating President Donald Trump's former personal physician, who was accused of unprofessional behavior while being considered to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs.

CD01 Incumbent Popular, But Race is Close  —  Democratic enthusiasm makes race competitive  —  West Long Branch, NJ - The race for House of Representatives in Pennsylvania's newly drawn 1st congressional district is shaping up to be a close contest, according to the Monmouth University Poll.

Why Robocallers Win Even if You Don't Answer  —  Ignoring a robocall doesn't keep some scammers from making money from caller-ID services  —  Caller ID is feeding one of the very problems it was developed to stop: junk calls.  —  Illegitimate robocallers, or outfits that flood American landlines …

Special master in Michael Cohen case finds few privileged items in initial review of files  —  A court appointed watchdog in the case of President Donald Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, released an initial report Monday which found that relatively few documents in an initial tranche seized …

How The Alt-Right Manipulates The Internet's Biggest Commenting Platform  —  The commenting giant Disqus has said repeatedly that it doesn't allow hate speech.  But its platform is overrun with trolls, white nationalists, and neo-Nazis.  —  The alt-right and white nationalist trolls …

The Flaw in Trump's Obstruction-of-Justice Defense  —  President Trump's lawyers, in a letter released over the weekend, staked out bold the ground that the president can't commit obstruction of justice in his interactions with the federal law-enforcement apparatus—neither by firing investigators nor …

Cohn kept the jobs numbers for Trump  —  COHN KEPT THE JOBS NUMBERS FROM TRUMP — MM hears that before he left the White House, former National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn would withhold jobs report data from President Trump until shortly before their release because he was worried …

Woody Allen Says He Should Be ‘Poster Boy for the #MeToo Movement’  —  “I've worked with hundreds of actresses and not a single one... have ever ever suggested any kind of impropriety at all,” says the filmmaker  —  Woody Allen says he should be the “poster boy” for the #MeToo movement given …

4 states could expand Medicaid this year.  That's a big deal.  —  2018 is shaping up to be a watershed year for Obamacare's Medicaid expansion.  —  Virginia's legislature signed onto the expansion of coverage for low-income Americans last week.  Three additional states are looking at doing …

Mourning America: What my father, Ronald Reagan, would say today  —  Patti Davis is an author and the daughter of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.  —  My father used to talk about a recurring dream he had in which he was walking into a beautiful white building with grand columns, knowing that it was his new home.

Nearly half of Bay Area residents want out, poll shows.  The reason why is no surprise  —  The idea of a Bay Area “exodus” is no joke, and appears to be growing more vivid and real with each year.  —  A poll released Sunday by a local advocacy group showed that 46 percent of Bay Area residents surveyed …