White House officials flagged Trump's behavior to psychiatrist last year  —  White House officials reached out to a noted Yale University psychiatrist last fall out of concern over President Trump's increasingly erratic behavior.  —  Dr. Bandy Lee, who edited the best-selling book …

'I Don't Talk' That Way, Trump Says.  Except When He Does.  —  WASHINGTON — As President Trump tries to refute the portrayal in the latest attention-grabbing book, he has not only denied saying the things attributed to him, he has denied that he has ever said anything like them.

Economy adds more jobs than expected in August, and wage growth hits post-recession high  — Nonfarm payrolls grew by 201,000 in August.  Economists surveyed by Reuters expected a 191,000 increase.

Giuliani to AP: Trump will not answer obstruction questions  —  NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump will not answer federal investigators' questions, in writing or in person, about whether he tried to block the probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

White House in chaos — what's new?  —  The president decided the entire staff was working against him, running their own agenda, not his or the nation's.  Poll ratings had plummeted, with job approval in the 30s.  Leaks were commonplace as staffers hyped their own policy positions, even brazenly floated them in trial balloons.

Newly Released Emails Show Brett Kavanaugh May Have Perjured Himself at Least Four Times  —  Formerly confidential emails have been released that show the Supreme Court nominee contradicting statements he made under oath to the Senate.  —  You can forgive Democratic senators for saying “I told you so.”

Tesla shares crash after Elon Musk smokes joint on live web show  —  Two senior executives quit electric carmaker as market value falls 8%  —  Play Video  —  Tesla shares crashed 8% on Friday as two of its senior executives quit, just hours after the electric carmaker's chief executive …

Trump to Preside Over U.N. Security Council, Prompting Anxiety All Around  —  WASHINGTON — Three weeks from now, in New York, President Trump will find himself in the setting he most relishes: seated at the head of a polished table, calling on those seated around him, rewarding those he likes and cutting off those who displease him.

Opioid billionaire granted patent for addiction treatment  —  A billionaire pharmaceuticals executive who has been blamed for spurring the US opioid crisis stands to profit from the epidemic after he patented a new treatment for drug addicts.  —  Richard Sackler, whose family owns Purdue Pharma …

Papadopoulos to be sentenced in Russia investigation  —  George Papadopoulos, the novice, unpaid foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump who rose to prominence when he became the first former campaign adviser arrested as part of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russian-influence probe, is scheduled to be sentenced Friday in Washington.

Russia-Linked Money-Laundering Probe Looks at $150 Billion in Transactions  —  Transactions uncovered at Danske's Estonian branch highlight the growing concern about illicit money flows from the former Soviet Union  —  Investigators at Denmark's largest bank are studying around $150 billion …

POLITICO Playbook: Inside Washington's money machine  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  PLAYBOOK EXCLUSIVE: INSIDE WASHINGTON'S MONEY MACHINE 60 DAYS BEFORE ELECTION DAY ... In the next few grafs, we're going to take you inside the money machines powering the Republican and Democratic parties …

Record-breaking 100 women may be elected to the House in 2018  —  The wave is being driven entirely by Democrats, a new race-by-race analysis shows.  On the GOP side, the number of women serving in office is expected to dip.  —  WASHINGTON — In November, Americans could elect more than 100 women …

For A Lot Of Muslim Republicans, Their Party's Over  —  Anwar Khalifa is about as Texan as you can get.  He speaks in a sharp twang and cruises around in a Chevy truck with real longhorns mounted on the front.  He never skips “worship day,” he taught his three daughters to shoot, and …

Polling the 2018 Midterm Elections in Real Time  —  The Upshot has partnered with Siena College to poll dozens of the most competitive House and Senate races across the country.  Our poll results are updated in real time, after every phone call.  We hope to help you understand how polling works, and why it sometimes doesn't.

Dems vow to grab Trump tax returns upon taking majority  —  Democrats are vowing to get their hands on President Trump  —  's tax returns if they are able to win back the House majority in November.  —  “I'm definitely going to bring it up if we don't have them by then — that's a definite,” Rep. Bill Pascrell

Frustration and Finger-Pointing as G.O.P. Pulls Out of Deal Talks on Hacked Materials  —  WASHINGTON — House Republicans withdrew on Thursday from negotiations with Democrats over a pact that would have effectively barred both parties from using hacked or stolen material on the campaign trail this fall.

In the Next Wave of Big Political Books, Mike Schmidt on Mueller, Jim Stewart on Trump and the Rule of Law  —  Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury and Bob Woodward's Fear set the market for Trump books ablaze.  Now, one of the Times's most dogged investigative reporters has landed a deal …

The Latest: Trump: American flag needed in moon docudrama  —  The Latest on President Donald Trump (all times local):  —  President Donald Trump says a docudrama about the moon landing would have been a “much bigger success” had it shown the planting of the American flag.

At rally, Trump brings up ‘the impeachment word’ to embolden voters ahead of midterms  —  The president also accused the The New York Times of “treason” for recently publishing an opinion piece by an unnamed administration official.  —  BILLINGS, Mont. — Republicans have to show up to the polls …

25 Straight Minutes Of Illegal Aliens Crossing Into US Through Arizona Ranch  —  Arizona rancher John Chilton's 50,000-acre spread along the U.S.-Mexico border is allegedly ground zero for human smugglers, drug cartel members and illegal immigrants, and he has videos showing trespassers sneaking through his property.

Trump crosses a new threshold for anti-media rhetoric, jokingly praising a congressman for assaulting a reporter  —  This post has been updated.  —  President Trump on Thursday night ratcheted up his not-so-veiled attacks on the media, making light of an assault perpetrated by a Republican member …

How Assad Made Truth a Casualty of War  —  On February 22, 2012, when the British photojournalist Paul Conroy survived the artillery barrage that killed Marie Colvin, he was rushed to a place of greater danger.  Bashar al-Assad's war of repression has killed civilians indiscriminately …