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 …

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 …

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.

‘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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

‘Send prayers’: Texas Republican turns down donated blankets, beds, manpower from Canada  —  Those who have been impacted by Hurricane Harvey in Texas and Louisiana are only beginning to see the way the flood waters have destroyed their homes.  Many families tried to ride it out …

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 …

The Nation issues editor's note on story questioning whether the DNC was hacked  —  After an extensive review, the Nation has issued an editor's note concerning an Aug. 9 article that raised questions regarding a consensus finding of the U.S. intelligence community that the Democratic National Committee …

Rubio, Nelson blast Trump's NASA pick  —  Florida's senators are voicing opposition to President Donald Trump's pick for NASA administrator, Oklahoma Congressman Jim Bridenstine, saying a “politician” shouldn't lead the nation's space program.  —  Republican Marco Rubio and Democrat Bill Nelson …

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.

Richard Posner announces sudden retirement from federal appeals court in Chicago  —  Judge Richard A. Posner is retiring after more than three decades on the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago, stepping down effective Saturday, Sept. 1, 2017.  (Abel Uribe/Chicago Tribune 2011)

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.

Matt Damon Talks Clooney, Trump, ‘Suburbicon’ and Racism in America  —  The star of ‘Suburbicon’ and ‘Downsizing’ discusses his long history with George Clooney, his itch to direct, his disdain for the president and his outrage about Charlottesville: “To see these young, aggrieved …

New America, a Google-Funded Think Tank, Faces Backlash for Firing a Google Critic  —  WASHINGTON — The head of an influential think tank funded by Google is grappling with a mounting backlash — including from her own scholars and donors — over the firing of a leading critic of the tech giant.

Hurricane Harvey photo proves chivalry is alive and well in America  —  Men are the stronger sex, and crises such as these offer men the opportunity to put their strength in service of others.  —  Chivalry lives.  —  In a viral photo from the Associated Press, a woman is pictured cradling …

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 …

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