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.

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.

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.

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 …

US strikes a deal with China's ZTE 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.  — Commerce said the deal includes a $1 billion penalty …

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.

In private FEMA remarks, Trump's focus strays from hurricanes  —  The meeting was supposed to be about hurricane preparedness, as disaster officials gathered at Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters days after the start of the 2018 season.  —  But President Trump had a lot else on his mind …

‘Delete all your emails and then acid-wash’ your hard drives: Sean Hannity suggests Mueller probe witnesses should destroy their evidence  — The Fox News anchor Sean Hannity on Wednesday night urged witnesses in the Russia investigation to delete evidence and destroy their electronics …

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.

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.

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 …

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 …

Will Preet Bharara Run for Attorney General?  He Just Registered to Vote  —  Preet Bharara, the former United States attorney in Manhattan who was fired by President Trump, has registered as a Democratic voter in New York for the first time in more than a decade amid speculation that he might run for attorney general.

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 …

Giuliani defends comments about Stormy Daniels' credibility  —  Giuliani: Melania believes Trump over Daniels  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, said Thursday he stands by his recent comments that adult film actress Stormy Daniels has no credibility because of her profession.

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.

Gillum failed to disclose more than $400K in mortgage debts  —  TALLAHASSEE — Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum failed to disclose two mortgages on legally required financial disclosure forms going back to 2014, publicly available records show.  —  Gillum, who is a Democratic candidate for governor …

Read Samantha Bee's on-air apology  —  Samantha Bee: ‘Sorry for breaking America’  —  In a new episode of “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee” on Wednesday, the late-night host addressed the controversy over her use of a vulgar term to describe first daughter Ivanka Trump.

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 …

Rudy Giuliani danced to EDM at a restaurant in Israel, and, well, you just need to see it  —  Rudy Giuliani, one of President Donald Trump's personal lawyers and a former mayor of New York City, is in Israel this week to attend a business conference in Tel Aviv, where he's speaking …

Papadopoulos Was Approached By ‘Highly Suspicous’ Businessmen, His Wife Claims  — A dossier source allegedly offered Papadopoulos $30,000 a month to work from inside Trump administration  —  In the wake of the revelation that an FBI informant lured George Papadopoulos to London during the 2016 campaign …

‘Jarring’ nursery rhyme at Somerville school teaches kindergartners about lockdowns  —  While touring a kindergarten in Somerville on Wednesday to get a sense of what to expect when her 5-year-old daughter starts school in the fall, Georgy Cohen took stock of the items one might typically find in a classroom for young kids.

From statewide contests to local races, all politics are about Trump  —  Donald J. Trump has never campaigned in Hatfield.  The president is not calling for cuts to school funding in Southampton or denying new liquor licenses in Northampton.  But in the race for the First Hampshire District's …

House GOP in eleventh-hour attempt for immigration accord  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Divided on immigration, House Republicans are huddling privately as leaders try pushing them toward consensus on the issue, racing the clock and trying to defuse a civil war within the party that threatens …

Man admits to intentionally getting HIV  —  BENTONVILLE — Stephen Koch admitted in court to intentionally contracting HIV so he could infect others with the virus.  —  Koch, 25, of Scranton, Ark. pleaded guilty Monday to attempting to exposing another person to HIV, possession of methamphetamine …

The Deadly Incel Movement's Absurd Pop Culture Roots … For years, one of the first Google hits on my name was an article titled “Stalking Sady Doyle.”  It was written in 2011 by the “men's rights” advocate Paul Elam.  —  The post was a response to an article I'd written about sexist internet harassment.

Has Anyone Noticed That Income Inequality Stopped Growing?  —  Income inequality has been growing at a much slower pace over the past ten years.  Has anyone noticed?  —  Beyond stabilizing, according to some measures, inequality has actually fallen since the beginning of the Great Recession.