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 …

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 …

San Francisco sets all-time heat record downtown at 106 degrees during state's hottest recorded summer  —  Lilly Santiago, 5, left, cools off with her mother, Lupita, 56, after playing basketball at Lanark Park on Thursday.  (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

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 …

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 …

‘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 …

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 …

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 …

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)

GOP leaders add their voices to the chorus calling for DACA program to stay  —  House Speaker Paul D. Ryan and other Republicans on Friday urged President Trump not to rescind an Obama-era program that allowed hundreds of thousands of immigrants to stay in the country legally …

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 …

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.

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 …

Trump to nominate Richard Grenell as ambassador to Germany  —  President Donald Trump intends to nominate Richard Grenell, the former United Nations spokesman under President George W. Bush, to be the next ambassador to Germany, the White House announced Friday.

White House walks back promise about Trump donating his ‘personal money’ to Harvey victims  —  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.  But on Friday, she wasn't so sure.

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.

Moment of truth arrives for Obamacare repeal  —  In a potential death knell for efforts to repeal Obamacare — at least this year — the Senate parliamentarian has ruled that Republicans face a Sept. 30 deadline to kill or overhaul the law with only 50 votes, Democrats on the Senate Budget Committee said Friday.

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 …