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 …

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.

Judge Jeanine still tangoing with Trump over an administration role  —  The president has dangled top jobs in front of the Fox News host, a longtime New York pal, who has expressed interest in leaving her cable-news perch for government.  —  Jeanine Pirro has a top-rated Fox News show …

Hannity Advises Mueller Witnesses: ‘Bash’ Your Phones ‘With a Hammer’  —  Sean Hannity raised eyebrows on Wednesday night by doling out advice to witnesses in special counsel Robert Mueller's probe, based on how Hillary Clinton handled her email investigation: destroy your phones.

Another mess for Pruitt: Overstaying his White House welcome at lunch  —  Too many visits for lunch at the Mess earned a rebuke from the White House.  —  EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt loves eating at the White House mess, an exclusive U.S. Navy-run restaurant open only to White House officials, Cabinet members and other dignitaries.

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.

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.

Giuliani Casts Doubt On Trump's Stormy Daniels Affair: ‘Look At His Three Wives’  —  Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani went after Stormy Daniels on Wednesday at a press conference in Israel, expressing his disbelief that her alleged affair with President Donald Trump occurred because of Daniels' looks and occupation.

Foreign leaders who embraced Trump now feel burned  —  Trump's overseas friends are learning the hard way that handshakes and golf games can't convince Trump not to smack would-be allies.  —  Call it friends without benefits.  —  Foreign leaders are learning that hand-holding, golf games …

'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 …

US hits China's ZTE with $1 billion penalty in deal to end crippling sanctions, Commerce Secretary Ross says  — Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross says the U.S. has struck a deal with Chinese telecom giant ZTE to end crippling American sanctions.  — The department says the deal includes …

He Delivered Pizza to an Army Base in Brooklyn.  Now He Faces Deportation.  —  Food delivery.  Sanctuary.  Those are often the anchors for the more than half a million undocumented immigrants who live and work in New York City.  —  But an incident at the United States Army base in Fort Hamilton …

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 …

This Ohio factory thought it could bring U.S. jobs back from China.  Then Trump got involved.  —  By David J. Lynch June 6 at 5:30 PM Email the author  —  CLEVELAND — Bill Adler was invited last year to bid on a contract to make commercial sausage stuffers for a company that wanted to replace its Chinese supplier.

Former Fox News analyst says Fox has become ‘destructive propaganda machine’  —  Ex-analyst: Fox News doing extreme damage  —  He was a Fox News military analyst for many years.  Now he says Fox is doing a “great deal of damage” to the United States.  —  Ralph Peters left the network …

Lou Dobbs and Rep. Gaetz Trash ‘Disaster’ Paul Ryan: ‘Get the Hell Out of the Office’  —  If you thought SpyGate on Fox News primetime was lit, take a gander over at what's happening on Fox Business Network, where host Lou Dobbs is truly wilding on a nightly basis.

Judge Calls Trump's Border Separations of Children ‘Brutal’  — ACLU lawsuit is allowed to proceed in San Diego federal court  — Administration says policy helps prosecute undocumented adults  —  The Trump administration failed to kill a legal challenge to its practice …

Mick Mulvaney fires all 25 members of consumer watchdog's advisory board  —  Mick Mulvaney, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, fired the agency's 25-member advisory board Wednesday, days after some of its members criticized his leadership of the watchdog agency.

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 …

The Self-Defeating Myth Of “Pulling It Off”  —  Face it: Skinny girl privilege is real  —  If you've looked at a fashion trend in the past five years or so and felt it radiating an overwhelming sense of hostility toward everything about you as a person, not only are you not too sensitive, but you're exactly correct.

Millennials and retirement: How bad is it?  —  Today's young adults are falling behind but there's a way they can catch up. … Concern about the financial health of America's younger generations is growing—especially millennials, a demographic boom that came of age in an environment …

How Villaraigosa lost the governor's race despite tens of millions of dollars spent to boost his bid  —  When Antonio Villaraigosa was elected mayor of Los Angeles, it signaled the growing clout of California's Latino voters as well as the rise of a Democratic star whose charisma and ambition could take him to loftier perches.

Trump: Many Texans watched Harvey from their boats, requiring Coast Guard rescue  —  AUSTIN — President Donald Trump praised the Coast Guard for its heroics during Hurricane Harvey Wednesday, but credited the high number of water rescues to people taking their boats out to watch the storm roll in, baffling first responders.

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 …

Mapped: Global temperatures since 1880  —  Every area of the globe has warmed since instrument records began in 1880, NASA data shows.  The planet isn't warming equally, however — the fastest temperature increases are taking place at the poles.  That Arctic, for example …