Trump Lawyers Clash Over How Much to Cooperate With Russia Inquiry  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump's legal team is wrestling with how much to cooperate with the special counsel looking into Russian election interference, an internal debate that led to an angry confrontation last week between …

Obama Goes From White House to Wall Street in Less Than One Year  —  Ex-president speaks to Carlyle, Cantor, Northern Trust  —  ‘If someone is willing to pay him to give a speech, God bless’  —  Follow @bpolitics for all the latest news, and sign up for our daily Balance of Power newsletter.

Sean Spicer's yucky cameo at the Emmys  —  Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer got a turn on one of Hollywood's glitziest stages Sunday night.  And he used it to laugh about the falsehoods he told the American people in an attempt to rehabilitate his image.  —  I'm all for a good laugh.

Before tackling single-payer, save Obamacare  —  Before supporters of universal health coverage get all wrapped up debating a single-payer system, they need to focus on a dire threat to the Affordable Care Act likely to come up for a vote in the Senate before the end of the month.

Shrink at least 4 national monuments and modify a half-dozen others, Zinke tells Trump  —  Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has recommended that President Trump modify 10 national monuments created by his immediate predecessors, including shrinking the boundaries of at least four western sites …

Meghan McCain in talks to join 'The View"  —  Meghan McCain is in late-stage talks to join ABC's “The View,” three sources familiar with the matter told CNN.  —  McCain, who did not immediately respond to a request for comment, announced last week that she was leaving Fox News.

Stanislav Petrov, Soviet Officer Who Helped Avert Nuclear War, Is Dead at 77  —  Early on the morning of Sept. 26, 1983, Stanislav Petrov helped prevent the outbreak of nuclear war.  —  A 44-year-old lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Air Defense Forces, he had begun his shift as the duty officer …

Trump's team gunning for potential 2020 reelection rivals  —  Allies of Donald Trump have begun plotting to take down or weaken potential Democratic challengers in 2020, including several who will be on the ballot in next year's midterms.  —  The 2018-focused work ranges …

I moved from a blue state to a red state and it changed my life  —  Money ranked 100 cities to live in 2017.  We based it off 170,000 data points.  Here are the top 10.  Time … 2631  —  35  —  46  —  TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — I used to say I'd never move to a red state.  And then I did.

House Democrats Break Campaign Fundraising Record  —  WASHINGTON — The campaign arm of House Democrats has posted its highest off-year August fundraising haul ever, the group told NBC News.  —  While their Republican counterparts haven't yet released their August results …

The White House Women Who've Got Trump's Back  —  WASHINGTON — For Sarah Huckabee Sanders, chaos in President Donald Trump's White House has proven to be a ladder.  —  Not that she would call it that.  —  Just days after she replaced Sean Spicer as press secretary in July …

For those in the Party of Trump, the Republicans — not the president — are to blame  —  OXFORD, N.C. — During one of their usual morning gatherings at the Bojangles' restaurant in this rural town near the Virginia border, a group of retirees from a local Baptist church shook their heads …

Rolling Stone, Once a Counterculture Bible, Will Be Put Up for Sale  —  From a loft in San Francisco in 1967, a 21-year-old named Jann S. Wenner started a magazine that would become the counterculture bible for baby boomers.  Rolling Stone defined cool, cultivated literary icons …

Both parties to move on Facebook and other tech giants  —  Members of Congress in both parties have begun exploring possible legislative action against Facebook and other tech giants, setting the stage for a potentially massive battle in the midterm election year of 2018.

Equifax Stock Sales Are the Focus of U.S. Criminal Probe  —  U.S. attorney in Atlanta said to be leading investigation  —  Managers unaware of breach when they sold stock, company said  —  The U.S. Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into whether top officials …

Trump's claim there were long gas lines in North Korea has residents puzzled  —  TOKYO — In his latest Twitter outburst against North Korea, President Trump said that “long gas lines [are] forming in North Korea,” adding an exclamatory “Too bad!”  (In the same tweet, he bestowed a new nickname on Kim Jong Un: “Rocket Man.")

How Party Bosses, Not Voters, Pick Politicians in New York  —  It was hardly a secret that Herman D. Farrell Jr. had planned to retire.  The governor feted him at a goodbye breakfast in June.  Colleagues sent the 85-year-old assemblyman off to shouts of “for he's a jolly good fellow.”

McConnell's mortal enemy might soon be in his caucus  —  Three words are striking fear in Senate Republicans these days: “Sen. Roy Moore.”  —  The bomb-throwing former Alabama Supreme Court justice has vaulted to a hefty lead in Alabama's Senate special election, lambasting Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell every step of the way.

St. Louis officers chant ‘whose streets, our streets’ while arresting protesters  —  St. Louis police arrested more than 80 people Sunday after a peaceful protest turned violent as night fell.  In a concentrated area downtown, some protesters smashed windows and overturned trash cans …