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.

Putin Says Trump's ‘Not My Bride,’ But Still Hopes for Detente  —  Russian president says U.S., Russia can compromise on issues  —  Putin backs deployment of UN peacekeepers in Ukraine  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin said he's still hopeful of improving relations …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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.

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 …

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.

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 …

Congress Faces a Tense Agenda, With Little Margin for Error  —  After a summer recess, Congress must grapple with keeping the government open, paying U.S. creditors and passing a hurricane-aid bill—a test of the uneasy alliance between the president and the GOP

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.