GOP Leaders Don't Expect White House Tax-Plan Details  —  Broad July statement from Big Six viewed as starting point  —  Trump aides have sent mixed messages on releasing more detail  —  Follow @bpolitics for all the latest news, and sign up for our daily Balance of Power newsletter.

Pro-Trump Media Bristles As John Kelly Limits What Gets To The President's Desk  —  The new White House chief of staff is on an info war, peeving some on the far right.  —  Pro-Trump media personalities and websites are worried they may be losing a dear reader: President Trump.

Roger Stone: Any Politician Who Votes To Impeach Trump “Would Be Endangering Their Own Life”  —  Roger Stone, a former Trump campaign advisor and personal friend of the President says if Congress impeaches Donald Trump, there will be all-out Civil War in the U.S.

Trump seriously considering ending DACA  —  President Trump is seriously considering ending DACA, the Obama-era policy that shields some illegal immigrants from deportation, before conservative state attorneys general file a court challenge to the program.  —  Sources familiar …

Videos show East High cheerleaders repeatedly forced into splits, police investigating … DENVER - Editor's note: the video included in this story is difficult to watch and may not be suitable for all viewers.  —  Denver Police are now investigating incidents involving multiple cheerleaders …

Turd Reich: San Francisco dog owners lay minefield of poo for rightwing rally  —  ‘I just had this image of alt-right people stomping around in the poop,’ says the organizer of an unusual protest ahead of Saturday's Patriot Prayer rally … When a group of far-right activists come …

The obscene effort to shame 'Trump's Jews'  —  Allow me a moment of pride: The hot new criticism of my fellow Jews is that we don't complain enough.  —  SEE ALSO  —  Really.  A host of pundits, concerned about President Trump's baffling unwillingness to single out neo-Nazis for criticism …

Is McGregor Safe Fighting Mayweather?  Ringside Physicians Say No  —  The highly anticipated showdown between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Conor McGregor may be a financial bonanza for its promoters, as well as for Nevada's casinos and sports books, but there is an important constituency that does …

Soldiers on Pence Detail Reassigned for Bringing Women to Hotel  —  The U.S. Army detail assigned to Vice President Mike Pence's communications team has been removed from White House duties after being caught on video bringing women back to their hotel in Colombia, according to three U.S. defense officials.

Statue Of Jefferson At UVA Vandalized, Police Investigating  —  A statue of Thomas Jefferson located on the campus of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville was vandalized over the weekend.  Today UVA police confirmed they were investigating the incident.  From the Daily Progress:

Intel chief sheds light on ‘beautiful letter’ Trump says he wrote him  —  Clapper's full interview on Trump's rally  —  (CNN)When former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper questioned President Donald Trump's “fitness to be in this office” after the President's wild speech …

James Cameron: 'The downside of being attracted to independent women is that they don't need you'  —  As the 3D version of Terminator 2 hits screens, he talks about how he will never reproduce the shock of the original film - and how he has learned to be nice on set

Zinke won't eliminate any national monuments  —  BILLINGS, Mont. — Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said he's recommending that none of 27 national monuments carved from wilderness and ocean and under review by the Trump administration be eliminated.  —  But there would be changes to a “handful,” he said.

These are the 10 sailors lost from the USS John S. McCain … After more than 80 hours of searching thousands of miles of open sea, the U.S. Navy now hopes only to recover the bodies lost from the USS John S. McCain after it collided with an oil tanker near Singapore.

Court orders company to produce data on anti-Trump site  —  A court in the District of Columbia on Thursday ordered web hosting company DreamHost to produce data and information requested by the Department of Justice (DOJ) related to an anti-President Trump website.

Oil and gas allies to Trump: Slow down  —  President Donald Trump's aggressive drive to roll back environmental regulations is moving too fast even for some in the oil and gas industry.  —  Publicly, petroleum companies and their trade groups are cheering Trump's efforts …

Breitbart, other ‘alt-right’ websites are the darlings of Russian propaganda effort  —  Amid an investigation into Russian meddling in the last U.S. presidential election, a Russian propaganda Twitter network aimed at American audiences consistently spreads links to Breitbart and other right-wing …

From space, ‘astounding’ Hurricane Harvey looks like it's about to swallow all of Texas  —  A brief-but-haunting video released by NASA on Thursday night shows Hurricane Harvey's powerful churn toward Central Texas, where the slow-moving storm is expected to throttle coastal communities with high winds and up to 25 inches of rain.

In a polarized Virginia district, differences between the Republican and the Democrat may surprise you  —  (Jay Westcott /For The Washington Post)  —  BLACKSBURG, Va. — Chris Hurst checks the dark clouds out the window of his Jeep Liberty as he barrels west up Route 460 to the crest of Brush Mountain.

Jeff Flake wants details of Trump's call for border wall  —  Sen. Jeff Flake said Thursday he won't be able to say whether he'd vote to fund President Donald Trump's wall along the US-Mexico border until he knows whether the president wants to build a single brick-and-mortar structure …

Apple Is Planning a 4K Upgrade for Its TV Box  —  Company plans to announce new Apple TV model in September  —  New model will play 4K HDR content from movie studios, apps  —  Apple is planning to unveil a renewed focus on the living room with an upgraded Apple TV set-top box …

Some In Congress Don't Get The “Gravity” Of Russian Election Meddling, Former CIA Director Said  —  John Brennan, CIA director under President Barack Obama, also bemoaned a “barrage” of “inaccurate and misleading” news reports.  He made these statements in an internal memo to CIA employees obtained through …

Amazon and Whole Foods Market Announce Acquisition to Close This Monday, Will Work Together to Make High-Quality, Natural and Organic Food Affordable for Everyone  —  SEATTLE & AUSTIN, Texas—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Aug. 24, 2017— (NASDAQ:AMZN)—Amazon and Whole Foods Market today announced …

EXCLUSIVE: Wasserman Schultz' ‘Islamophobia’ Claim Prompts Angered Marine To Go Public On Awans  —  A Marine who provided key evidence in the FBI case against Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz's former IT employee said he is appalled by her claim that Islamophobia led U.S. Capitol Police to frame the former staffer.

Qatar Restores Full Relations With Iran, Deepening Gulf Feud  —  LONDON — Qatar restored full diplomatic relations with Iran on Thursday, the latest volley in an 11-week-old geopolitical feud that has set the tiny yet fabulously wealthy Persian Gulf nation against its neighbors and rattled a previously placid part of the Middle East.

Why Is the Southern Poverty Law Center Targeting Liberals?  —  Since the violence in Charlottesville 10 days ago, when white supremacists left one young woman dead and 19 others injured, the Southern Poverty Law Center has hit the jackpot.  The Alabama-based nonprofit is set to receive millions …

Russian ambassador Mirgayas Shirinskiy is seventh Russian diplomat to die since November  —  There's no way around it: The deaths of seven high-ranking Russian diplomats in nine months (and not one after a prolonged illness) play into conspiracy theories and one of America's favorite tropes, the Russian hit job.