Mueller Has Early Draft of Trump Letter Giving Reasons for Firing Comey  —  WASHINGTON — The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, has obtained a letter that President Trump and a top political aide drafted in the days before Mr. Trump fired the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey …

Forceful Chief of Staff Grates on Trump, and the Feeling Is Mutual  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump was in an especially ornery mood after staff members gently suggested he refrain from injecting politics into day-to-day issues of governing after last month's raucous rally in Arizona …

Longtime Trump aide Keith Schiller tells people he intends to leave White House  —  Meet the man who delivered the Comey letter  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's longtime aide and current director of Oval Office operations Keith Schiller has told people …

Ryan asks Trump to hold off on scrapping DACA  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)House Speaker Paul Ryan on Friday gave a major boost to legislative efforts to preserve protections for young undocumented immigrants — and urged President Donald Trump to not tear up the program.

Video shows Utah nurse screaming, being dragged into police car after refusing to let officer take blood from unconscious victim  —  A nurse says she was assaulted and illegally arrested by a Salt Lake City police detective for following a hospital policy that does not allow blood draws from unconscious patients.

The Maker of the Infamous $400 Juicer Is Shutting Down  —  Juicero has run out of juice.  —  The San Francisco-based maker of counter-top cold-press juicers said today that it is shutting down operations and suspending the sale of its presses and produce packs immediately.

Software Glitch or Russian Hackers?  Election Problems Draw Little Scrutiny  —  The calls started flooding in from hundreds of irate North Carolina voters just after 7 a.m. on Election Day last November.  —  Dozens were told they were ineligible to vote and were turned away at the polls …

I am starting to see reports...  I am starting to see reports from the misinformed press and the fake news on how I am in violation of breaking campaign law.  —  #1 I have still not officially announced my candidacy.  —  #2 See #1 and go f**k yourselves.  —  Everyone else, Have a great Labor Day …

Hurricane Harvey Shifts Political Winds in Washington  —  WASHINGTON — In swamping large swaths of Texas and Louisiana, Hurricane Harvey also forged a new reality for President Trump and the Republicans governing Washington.  —  Gone are the confrontational talk of a government shutdown and the brinkmanship over the debt limit.

Watch as Trump Calls On A Bunch of Religious Leaders to Thank Him For His Harvey Efforts  —  So, remember that one time when President Donald Trump held a Cabinet meeting and everyone at the table outdid themselves when it came to heaping praise on POTUS?  Well, we got a similar situation today during …

Smoke seen pouring from Russian consulate in San Francisco  —  https://www.apnews.com/9549026d1ed946e9 8d5119c785f2a388  —  Link copied!  —  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Acrid, black smoke was seen pouring from a chimney at the Russian consulate in San Francisco Friday, a day after the Trump administration ordered …

DOJ to retry woman who laughed during Sessions' confirmation hearing  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Washington (CNN)The Department of Justice will retry a woman whom prosecutors say disrupted Jeff Sessions' confirmation hearing for attorney general by laughing.  —  After rejecting a plea deal …

Trump pulls back threat to shut down government over border wall — for now  —  The White House has signaled to congressional Republicans that it will not shut down the government in October if money isn't appropriated to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, potentially clearing a path …

Arkema backtracks, refuses to provide chemical inventory to the public  —  Arkema, the company that owns the chemical plant in Crosby on the verge of more explosions, is refusing to provide a chemical inventory and facility map to the public, one day after promising to provide the information.

‘Eyes Wide Shut’ actress: I came out as a conservative in Hollywood.  Here's the incredible story of what happened next  —  About a year ago I made one of the more risky decisions of my life - one that I knew could hurt my career as an actress.  I decided to come out of the conservative closet …

It's time Congress returns to regular order  —  (FILES) This file photo taken on March 23, 2017 shows a view of the US Capitol dome on Capitol Hill in Washington,DC.  The top ‘AAA’ long-term debt rating of the United States will be in danger if lawmakers do not raise borrowing limits in a timely fashion …

White House walks back promise about Trump donating his ‘personal money’ to Harvey victims  —  A subtle but significant shift.  —  On Thursday, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters that President Trump would donate $1 million of his “personal money” to Hurricane Harvey victims.

Mick the Knife  —  Mick Mulvaney, President Donald Trump's budget director, walked into the Oval Office in early May on a longshot mission.  The slash-government conservative wanted to persuade the president to break one of his most popular campaign promises.

L'Oreal's first transgender model is SACKED by the cosmetics giant after claiming ‘ALL white people’ are racist in extraordinary Facebook rant  — But days after she was announced as L'Oreal's first transgender model, Munroe Bergdorf launched an extraordinary rant declaring all white people racist

FBI, Homeland Security warn of more ‘antifa’ attacks  —  Federal authorities have been warning state and local officials since early 2016 that leftist extremists known as “antifa” had become increasingly confrontational and dangerous, so much so that the Department of Homeland Security formally classified …

A National Guard vehicle vanished near Houston.  Soldiers used Snapchat to find it.  —  KATY, Tex. — A soldier commanding a vanished Humvee was not answering calls.  No one in the unit had his driver's phone number, worsening the situation of an Army vehicle and two soldiers missing somewhere …