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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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.

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.

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.

‘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.