Cybersecurity Incident & Important Consumer Information  —  Equifax Announces Cybersecurity Incident Involving Consumer Information  —  No Evidence of Unauthorized Access to Core Consumer or Commercial Credit Reporting Databases  —  Company to Offer Free Identity Theft Protection and Credit File Monitoring to All U.S. Consumers

The debt ceiling deal is a template for how Trump can get things done  —  Ignore Ryan and McConnell and make deals with Dems.  —  Having struggled mightily to get things done in Congress, Donald Trump did something new on Wednesday — direct talks with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer.

Broward GOP uncovers a nasty secret about its young party secretary  —  The Broward County Republicans are in turmoil today after revelations that a freshly elected member of their executive board is a man who once was charged with attempted murder in the savage claw-hammer beating …

Here's why Irma is a monster hurricane, in one GIF.  —  The last Category 5 hurricane to make landfall in the United States was Andrew, which lashed South Florida with wind gusts of up to 177 miles per hour in 1992.  It caused immense devastation and forever changed Florida's approach to hurricanes.

The military looked to ‘dreamers’ to use their vital skills.  Now the U.S. might deport them.  —  Zion Dirgantara can easily recall his first day of school in the United States.  It was a bright, sunny Tuesday, and terrorists hijacked four commercial planes.

Congressman Charlie Dent will not seek re-election in 2018  —  Congressman Charlie Dent speaks during an open house and tour of Custom Diesel Service, LLC. in Allentown on Wednesday, August 16, 2017.  /// (Harry Fisher / The Morning Call) mc-biz-diesel-repair-shop-financing (HARRY FISHER / THE MORNING CALL)

Russia's Facebook Fake News Could Have Reached 70 Million Americans … Russian-funded covert propaganda posts on Facebook were likely seen by a minimum of 23 million people and might have reached as many as 70 million, according to analysis by an expert on the social-media giant's complex advertising systems.

Mexico rocked by deadly earthquake  —  Mexico suffered its most powerful earthquake in nearly a century late Thursday, which left at least six people dead and sent violent tremors throughout the region.  —  The quake, which had a magnitude of 8.1, was registered off Mexico's southern coast …

Exclusive: Mueller seeks interviews with WH staff over Trump Tower meeting statement  —  Washington (CNN)Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team has approached the White House about interviewing staffers who were aboard Air Force One when the initial misleading statement about Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting …

Homeland Security Plans Massive Roundups of Undocumented Immigrants  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's Department of Homeland Security is planning nationwide raids to target 8,400 undocumented immigrants later this month, according to three law enforcement officials and an internal document …

The Risk of Nuclear War with North Korea  —  On the ground in Pyongyang: Could Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump goad each other into a devastating confrontation?  —  1. The Madman Theory  —  The United States has no diplomatic relations with North Korea, so there is no embassy in Washington …

Exclusive - Kobach: It Appears That Out-of-State Voters Changed the Outcome of the New Hampshire U.S. Senate Race  —  For years, the mainstream media has ignored the problem of voter fraud and belittled those of us who are trying to do something about it.  And when secretaries of state …

Bernie backers' attacks on Democrats infuriate the party  —  Prominent Democrats are increasingly riled by attacks from Bernie Sanders' supporters, whose demands for ideological purity are hurting the party ahead of the 2018 midterms and 2020 presidential election, they say.

Steve Bannon: Trump's leaked “Access Hollywood” tape was a “litmus test”  —  In his first extensive interview since leaving the Trump administration, former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon tells “60 Minutes” about the fallout after the leaked “Access Hollywood” tape.

Trump lawyer Ty Cobb, fooled by ‘email prankster,’ asks for ‘drone’ in private emails slamming reporter  —  White House special counsel Ty Cobb engaged in a lengthy email exchange with a prankster posing as White House social media director Dan Scavino, during which Cobb asked whether there was …

Gingrich or Santorum as speaker?  House conservatives plot mischief for the fall … Several influential House conservatives are privately plotting ways to use the legislative calendar this fall to push their hard-line agenda — including quiet discussions about possibly mounting a leadership challenge to House Speaker Paul D. Ryan.

Devastation in the Caribbean as Irma Heads Toward Miami  —  SAN JUAN, P.R. — One of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes ever recorded crescendoed over the Caribbean on Thursday, crumpling islands better known as beach paradises into half-habitable emergency zones and sideswiping Puerto Rico before churning north.

Uber Faces FBI Probe Over Program Targeting Rival Lyft  —  Investigators looking at whether Uber's defunct ‘Hell’ internal program was used to interfere illegally with competitors  —  Federal law-enforcement authorities in New York are investigating whether Uber Technologies Inc. used software …

King on Trump and Schumer: ‘It was almost like a love-in at times’  —  Schumer, Trump embrace in Oval Office picture  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Washington (CNN)There seems to be a bromance brewing between President Donald Trump and Sen. Chuck Schumer.  —  That's according to Rep. Pete King …

In major Supreme Court case, Justice Dept. sides with baker who refused to make wedding cake for gay couple  —  In a major upcoming Supreme Court case that weighs equal rights with religious liberty, the Trump administration on Thursday sided with a Colorado baker who refused to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple.