You’ve heard them for months, the rumors that overworked White House Chief of Staff John Kelly is going to step aside, maybe to be replaced by budget boss Mick Mulvaney.





Now they are coming from those the Trump inner circle who have been pushing President Trump to get more aggressive heading into the fall midterm congressional elections. “He’s on borrowed time,” said long-time Trump adviser, who suggested a departure by August. The White House shrugged off the rumors. …

President Trump and his Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh have something in common that foodies hate. They both love ketchup, Trump on his well-done steaks, Kavanaugh on his spaghetti. ...

If he wins a seat in the Senate from Utah, as expected, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney will set a bunch of records and near records. For one, it will set a huge age gap, over 24 years, with senior Sen. Mike Lee. Also, said University of Minnesota political research Eric J. Ostermeier, his will be the longest stretch between losing and winning Senate campaigns, at 24 years, and he will be just the second governor to win a Senate seat from another state. …

Arizona State University’s Christopher Callahan will be showing off the school’s new journalism center four blocks from the White House next month. He’s the dean of ASU’s Phoenix-based Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and a former Capitol Hill reporter for States News Service and a University of Maryland journalism professor. …

Not sure what it means, but Emerson College polling reveals that Trump supporters more than those who backed Hillary Rodham Clinton believe space aliens have visited Earth. Overall, 31 percent believe aliens have landed, but among voters for President Trump, it is 38 percent to Clinton’s 25 percent. ...