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 …

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 …

Leaders of American Industry on DACA  —  Entrepreneurs and business leaders from across the country are releasing an open letter encouraging President Trump to preserve the DACA program and calling on Congress to pass the bipartisan DREAM Act or similar legislation that provides …

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.

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.

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

Leader of Trump's voter suppression scheme exposed as a paid columnist for Breitbart  —  Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, the head of Donald Trump's so-called commission on “Election Integrity,” has a new gig as a paid columnist for the inflammatory right-wing pro-Trump website Breitbart.

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

Repealing Obamacare Just Got Even More Complicated  —  Ability to pass bill with just 51 votes will lapse Sept. 30  —  Latest Senate bid to repeal health law fell one vote short  —  Follow @bpolitics for all the latest news, and sign up for our daily Balance of Power newsletter.

Former aides to GOP lawmaker describe toxic work environment  —  https://apnews.com/e072b685bc0e4fec97cd 2e455a3fbae9  —  Link copied!  —  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Staffers in tears.  Pay cuts for small mistakes.  Aides who walked out of the office — and never came back.

“Hung from a tall tree”: Second Republican calls for lynching critics of white supremacy  —  Ever since the deadly neo-Nazi riot in Charlottesville, which centered on a condemned statue of Robert E. Lee, efforts to remove Confederate monuments have intensified.

Now CNN Can Read Its Reporters' DMs  —  Anyone who works in the media, particularly Gizmodo Media Group, will tell you that the messaging application Slack is the best thing about working in this precarious industry.  It's great!  A wonderful way to share news and tweets …

Dear Joel Osteen,  —  Over the past few days you've faced an unrelenting wave of Internet shaming, and you've experienced the wrath of millions of people who watched the week unfold and determined they were witnessing in you and your megachurch's response to the hurricane …