Pruitt enlisted security detail in picking up dry cleaning, moisturizing lotion  —  Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt asked members of his 24/7 security detail to run errands for him on occasion, including picking up his dry cleaning and taking him in search …

Justice Department investigating ex-Senate Intel staffer over allegations classified information was disclosed  —  (CNN)The Justice Department has opened an investigation into a former Senate Intelligence Committee staffer who allegedly disclosed classified information, prompting the Senate panel …

Trump and Bolton spurn top-level North Korea planning  —  After two months on the job, Trump's new national security adviser has not called a single top-level National Security Council meeting on North Korea.  —  National Security Adviser John Bolton has yet to convene a Cabinet-level meeting …

NBC News/WSJ poll: Economic satisfaction under Trump isn't helping his party's 2018 chances  —  By a whopping 25-point margin, voters say they're more likely to back a congressional candidate who promises to serve as a check on President Donald Trump, according to a new national poll from NBC News and the Wall Street Journal.

Giuliani says people in the porn business are not credible.  Trump has appeared in three softcore porn videos.  —  Trump pours champagne on limo in 2000 adult video  —  (CNN)When Rudy Giuliani said Wednesday that Stormy Daniels has no credibility because she is is a porn star …

Why hasn't Bernie Sanders endorsed his son's run for Congress?  —  Senator Bernie Sanders has traveled to Iowa and narrated a 30-second ad to endorse one congressional candidate and journeyed to Allentown, Pa., on behalf of another.  He publicly backed a mayoral candidate in Omaha.

White House Analysis Finds Tariffs Will Hurt Growth, as Officials Insist Otherwise  —  WASHINGTON — A White House economic analysis of President Trump's trade agenda has concluded that Mr. Trump's tariffs will hurt economic growth in the United States, according to several people familiar with the research.

'It's Horrendous': The Heartache of a Migrant Boy Taken From His Father  —  When he landed in Michigan in late May, all the weary little boy carried was a trash bag stuffed with dirty clothes from his dayslong trek across Mexico, and two small pieces of paper — one a stick-figure drawing …

Trump dangled administration job to Judge Jeanine  —  Jeanine Pirro has a top-rated Fox News show and a forthcoming book — “Lies, Leakers, and Liberals” — but she still wants to be President Donald Trump's attorney general.  —  A former prosecutor and judge, Pirro has repeatedly told Trump's aides …

Exclusive: U.S. immigration authorities sending 1,600 detainees to federal prisons  —  WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - U.S. authorities are transferring into federal prisons about 1,600 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees, officials told Reuters on Thursday …

Let Trump Handle Brexit: An Explosive Leaked Recording Reveals Boris Johnson's Private Views About Britain's Foreign Policy  —  “I am increasingly admiring of Donald Trump.  I have become more and more convinced that there is method in his madness.”  —  Theresa May will use the G7 summit …

Trump's tariffs teach Europe a lesson, Putin says  —  MOSCOW — As he watches Europe's confrontation with President Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin appears to be enjoying an “I told you so” moment.  —  European leaders long ignored his warnings about the dangers of a world dominated …

Facebook says millions of users who thought they were sharing privately with their friends may have shared with everyone because of a software bug  —  A new software bug is Facebook's latest self-inflicted privacy headache.  —  After a year of troubling mishaps on its massive social platform …

Hannity's phone-smashing rhetoric heads in a different direction  —  On the Friday before Labor Day in 2016, the FBI released a set of documents related to Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server.  Included among them were a number of new details about the bureau's investigation including …

Sources: Colin Kaepernick's legal team expected to subpoena President Trump in case against NFL  —  After months of circling President Donald Trump during NFL depositions and discovery, Colin Kaepernick's lawyers are expected to force Trump directly into the ongoing legal battle between the quarterback and league.

Dennis Miller's new podcast is an incoherent marvel  —  The content of ‘The Dennis Miller Option’ exists in a strange purgatory between right-wing provocation and confused-grandpa doddering.  —  Culture  —  The content of ‘The Dennis Miller Option’ exists in a strange purgatory between …

White House poised to purge lower-level communications staffers  —  Aide who made McCain joke out at White House  —  (CNN)The White House is poised to purge lower-level staffers from its communications office, multiple sources said, following weeks of uncertainty about the future of the embattled team.

How to Define a Wave  —  With President Trump's job approval ratings up, the economy humming and the congressional ballot tightening, it no longer looks as dire out there for GOP.  Some, like Washington Post's Michael Scherer, argue that “shifts in the national mood raise the possibility …

Scooters littering US city streets shout at people: 'Unlock me or I'll call the police'  —  Built-in alarm sparks anger from city officials amid concerns over racism and policing: ‘This is a threat to people’  —  Play Video  —  The stories of Americans calling police on people of color …

A Secretive Owner of Triple-Crown Contender Justify: George Soros  —  If the strapping chestnut colt Justify wins the Belmont Stakes on Saturday to become just the 13th horse in history to claim horse racing's Triple Crown, two of the three groups that have an ownership stake …

The Most Powerful Conservative Couple You've Never Heard Of  —  Few political donors are as influential, yet little known, as Liz and Dick Uihlein.  —  The Midwestern couple has joined the upper pantheon of Republican donors alongside names like Koch, Mercer and Adelson.

Celebrity chef Adam Harvey arrested for poisoning seven-story maple tree blocking his solar panels  —  A tree dies in Brooklyn.  —  A celebrity chef with a warped sense of going green poisoned a neighbor's giant silver maple tree because it blocked sunlight from the solar panels on his Windsor Terrace home …

Theresa May staggers over the line with Brexit plan  —  LONDON — She got there in the end — and just about held the line.  —  After a tortuous 24 hours of back and forth with her Brexit secretary, U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May emerged Thursday lunchtime with an Irish “backstop” …

We Need To Stop School Shootings And Here's How  —  More than three months have passed since a deranged teenager came into my high school and killed more than a dozen of my classmates.  Yet the same old discussions keep going on and on and on — despite the fact that the people having …

MSNBC's Joy Reid threatened colleague with violence, was homophobic during her radio days, ex-bosses say  —  MSNBC star Joy Reid physically threatened a senior colleague, accused a Republican politician of being gay on air and often referred to her hateful blog during a short-lived stint …

IT scandal set to explode — or not  —  At the FOX News site Frank Miniter checks in on “the curious case of Imran Awan” in a column headlined “Democrats' IT scandal set to explode with possible plea deal.”  The Daily Caller's Luke Rosiak has broken story after story in the Awan case.

U.S. suicide rates rise sharply across the country, new report shows  —  By Amy Ellis Nutt June 7 at 1:14 PM Email the author  —  Suicide rates rose in all but one state between 1999 and 2016, with increases seen across age, gender, race and ethnicity, according to a report released Thursday …