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.

Trump Is ‘Not My Bride,’ Putin Says  —  MOSCOW — President Vladimir V. Putin seemed to be in top form during a news conference in China on Tuesday, answering a question about President Trump by saying the American leader is “not my bride, and I am not his groom.”

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 …

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 …

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 …

Sessions to announce end of DACA  —  Attorney General Jeff Sessions will announce 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 …

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.

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.

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.

In Conversation: Bill de Blasio  —  The mayor thinks New Yorkers appreciate real talk, even if some of it is bad news.  But also, he says, a lot of it isn't.  —  Mayor Bill de Blasio rounds the corner of a Gracie Mansion porch wearing a broad smile.  It's a Friday afternoon in late August, and he's had a good week.

When the Rich Said No to Getting Richer  —  A half-century ago, a top automobile executive named George Romney — yes, Mitt's father — turned down several big annual bonuses.  He did so, he told his company's board, because he believed that no executive should make more than $225,000 a year …

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.