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 Emmy Awards Cameo Was a Sickening, Cynical Laugh Grab  —  When Sunday night's Emmy Awards began, it seemed like it was going to face the horror of the current political landscape head-on.  The crux of Stephen Colbert's opening sequence was that people are turning to TV escapism because the world is going to s**t.

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.")

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Legal defense fund set up for Michael Flynn  —  The family of former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn has set up a legal defense fund for him, soliciting donations to ease the “tremendous financial burden” from the ongoing investigations into his actions and the 2016 presidential campaign.

Trump in Moscow: what happened at Miss Universe in 2013  —  The pageant and the president's attempts to get close to Putin have become a focus of the investigation into Trump's links to Russian interference in the US election … Sitting in a makeshift studio overlooking the Moscow river …

The Fake Outrage Over Breastgate Shows Why We Must Not Play Liberals' New Rules Game  —  The Brooke Baldwin mammary mess is just another example of how liberals leverage their ability to create new rules out of thin air as a means of asserting their power over us normals.

Trump's message for the United Nations: Reform  —  The Trump administration on Sunday emphasized reform will be on the agenda when President Trump heads to the United Nations for the first time this week.  —  Senior level officials previewed themes in Trump's upcoming Tuesday speech …

Knife-wielding campus pride leader killed by police at Georgia Tech  —  Georgia Tech police fatally shot the president of the Pride Alliance student group Saturday night in full view of dorm residents.  —  Police encountered Scout Schultz, a 21-year-old computer engineering student …

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.”

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 …

Exclusive — Lindsey Graham Drives Obamacare Repeal Bill on Breitbart Radio: Melt Phone Lines to Congress, ‘Insist That We Have the Vote’  —  Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) urged Americans to melt the phone lines into Congress on Monday morning, during an exclusive interview on Breitbart News Saturday …