On DACA, President Trump Has No Easy Path  —  WASHINGTON — For months, an anxious and uncertain President Trump was caught between opposing camps in the West Wing prodding him to either scrap or salvage an Obama-era program allowing undocumented immigrants brought to the country as minors to remain in the United States.

Hurricane Irma now at Category 5, with 175 mph winds  —  Florida residents are stocking up on supplies and preparing for Hurricane Irma.  The storm was declared a category 4 hurricane.  It's moving across the Atlantic toward the northeast Caribbean.  All of Florida is under a state of emergency.

The New York Daily News Is Said to Be Nearing Sale  —  The Daily News, the nearly 100-year-old tabloid owned by the real estate magnate Mortimer B. Zuckerman, is close to announcing an agreement for its sale to Tronc, the publisher of The Los Angeles Times and The Chicago Tribune.

Spicer lands post-White House gig  —  President Donald Trump's former press secretary will go on the paid speaking circuit.  —  Sean Spicer is cashing in on “candor.”  —  President Donald Trump's first press secretary - who ceded his high-profile post to Sarah Huckabee Sanders in July …

Putin says Trump 'not my bride, and I'm not his groom'  —  https://apnews.com/1f2127fb6bc34ffabe70 85553b22a8d5  —  Link copied!  —  MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has refrained from making any criticism of U.S. President Donald Trump.  —  Speaking at a news conference on Tuesday …

Why Does Trump Always Shoot The Hostages?  —  Trump poses with DREAMer activists in 2013  —  President Trump, cornered, weakened, and apparently unable to get his hands on the usual levers of presidential powers, has adopted pretty much the worst possible strategy for someone trying to wield …

Betsy DeVos Is Planning A Major Title IX Announcement This Week  —  The US Department of Education may unveil plans to change to federal policy dealing with campus rape.  —  US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is planning to make a major announcement on Title IX, the campus gender equality law …

Hurricane Harvey revealed the awesome power of real America  —  We've seen it before — in the Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy, and after 9/11 — regular people get up and help, without the government telling them what to do.  —  CONNECT  —  Following the news over the past weeks and months was making me sad.

Impeaching Trump is a long shot.  There's another way to protect the country.  —  With the impeachment and removal of President Trump a long shot at best, there is another way to provide the country some protection from our unfit president: congressional government.

Benjamin Wittes  —  Editor-in-chief, Lawfare; senior fellow, Brookings Institution  —  When major Russia-scandal news breaks, Benjamin Wittes tweets out a homemade video of a miniature cannon blowing something up.  After the Wall Street Journal reported that special counsel Robert Mueller …

Intensifying Russia probes could pit Hill against Mueller  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Washington (CNN)Lawyers working with a team led by special counsel Robert Mueller approached the Senate intelligence committee this summer with a request: They wanted the transcript of an interview Senate staff …

Everything you need to know about Sen. Menendez's bribery trial  —  Sen. Menendez vows to fight corruption charges  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)It's a case with allegations spanning seven years, multiple countries, and involving hundreds of thousands of dollars.  At the center of it: a sitting US senator.

No One Asked for Verrit, but Here We Are  —  On Sunday evening, former secretary of state and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton endorsed Verrit, a “media platform for the 65.8 million” who supported her candidacy, immediately creating a minor Twitter firestorm.

Ivanka Trump has learned well from her father's cons  —  Ivanka Trump is for working women the way her father is for the working class: In both cases, the Trumps really just want their money.  —  President Trump's daughter built her brand around women's “empowerment,” by which I mean monetizing …

UNDERCOVER IN NORTH KOREA: “ALL PATHS LEAD TO CATASTROPHE”  —  The most alarming aspect of North Korea's latest nuclear test, and the larger standoff with the U.S., is how little is known about how North Korea truly functions.  For 65 years it's been sealed off from the rest of the world …