White House moves goalposts on tax reform  —  GARY COHN SPEAKS TO THE FT — A FEW INTERESTING NUGGETS YOU SHOULD READ ...  — THE WHITE HOUSE IS MOVING THE GOALPOSTS ON TAX REFORM ... AGAIN: Cohn now says he believes tax reform will be done by the end of 2017.

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.

Trump distances himself from GOP lawmakers to avoid blame if agenda stalls … President Trump is strategically separating himself from Republicans in Congress, an extraordinary move to deflect blame if the GOP agenda continues to flounder.  —  Trump deepened the fissures in the party …

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

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

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 …

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:

Trump is exactly what Republicans are not  —  (Jim Watson/Agence France-Presse via Getty Images)  —  John C. Danforth was a Republican U.S. senator from Missouri from 1976 to 1995.  —  Many have said that President Trump isn't a Republican.  They are correct, but for a reason more fundamental than those usually given.

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.

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …