Trump Moves to End DACA and Calls on Congress to Act  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump on Tuesday ordered an end to the Obama-era executive action that shields young undocumented immigrants from deportation and called on Congress to replace the policy with legislation before it fully expires on March 5, 2018.

Putin Says Trump Is Not His Wife  —  Actors in prosthetic make-up portraying Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump  —  President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday it would be misplaced to talk of “disappointment” in the context of U.S. President Donald Trump, because the two leaders are not married.

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.

Key Trump Aide's Departure Rattles President's Allies  —  Aide has worked for Trump since 1999 and is a close confidant  —  President Donald Trump's allies are worried that the most damaging of the many recent departures from his White House may be that of Keith Schiller …

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 …

Spicer lands post-White House gig  —  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 but celebrated his official last day in the West Wing on Aug. 31 — has signed with Worldwide Speakers Group …

Rev. Robert Wright Lee IV Statement On Leaving His Church After Speaking Out Against White Supremacy at MTV Video Music Awards  —  I'm writing this statement to make sure that people are able to read in my own words what has happened to me over the last three weeks so that the events …

Conservative publisher wants nothing more to do with Times  —  https://apnews.com/58606fa07433442ba470 a91d374f8926  —  Link copied!  —  NEW YORK (AP) — A company that publishes books by Laura Ingraham, Mark Levin, Ann Coulter and other conservative authors says it wants nothing to do anymore …

New Clinton book blasts Sanders for ‘lasting damage’ in 2016 race  —  Sanders booed after voicing support for Clinton  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)Hillary Clinton casts Bernie Sanders as an unrealistic over-promiser in her new book, according to excerpts posted by a group of Clinton supporters.

Exclusive Interview: Louise Linton Gets Real  —  “I deserved the criticism,” the wife of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says as she apologizes for the Instagram post seen 'round the world.  —  I first met Louise Linton in early August, two weeks before her name would dominate headlines — before she was likened to Cruella de Vil.

Inside Steve Bannon's meeting with Mark Meadows  —  Steve Bannon met with Freedom Caucus chairman Mark Meadows on Monday afternoon at the “Breitbart Embassy” — the Capitol Hill townhouse so-named because those who work at the right-wing website like to think of themselves as the ambassadors for “real America” in Washington, D.C.

‘If they deport all of us, who will rebuild?’  Undocumented workers could be key to Texas recovery. … HOUSTON — Everywhere Samuel Enríquez looks, he can see the work that needs to be done.  But because he is in the United States illegally, he knows he can't earn an official paycheck in this city's recovery.

Sessions announces end of DACA  —  Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Tuesday that the Trump administration is ending DACA, the Obama-era program to shield some illegal immigrants, who arrived in the U.S. as children, from deportation.  —  In an accompanying press release …

Why Does Trump Always Shoot The Hostages?  —  Trump poses with DREAMer activists in 2013.  —  Courtesy Estuardo Rodriguez  —  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 …