Sep 1, 2017

White House: Trump will make DACA announcement on Tuesday

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Sarah Sanders told reporters Friday that President Trump will make a decision on whether or not to end the Obama-era DACA program on Tuesday. "The president's been very clear, he loves people," said Sanders, adding that Trump wants the decision to be made correctly.

Mixed messaging: Friday morning, multiple sources told Axios' Jonathan Swan that Trump would not be announcing any changes to DACA today. A few hours later Trump said his decision would be made "sometime today or over the weekend." Now Sanders is saying the announcement will come Tuesday. Meanwhile, many DREAMers are in limbo, worried that they could become Trump's next deportation target.

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Coronavirus spreads to more countries, and U.S. ups its case count

Data: The Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins, the CDC, and China's Health Ministry. Note: China numbers are for the mainland only and U.S. numbers include repatriated citizens.

The novel coronavirus continues to spread to more nations, and the U.S. reports a doubling of its confirmed cases to 34 — while noting those are mostly due to repatriated citizens, emphasizing there's no "community spread" yet in the U.S. Meanwhile, Italy reported its first virus-related death on Friday.

The big picture: COVID-19 has now killed at least 2,251 people and infected almost 77,000 others, mostly in mainland China. New countries to announce infections recently include Israel, Lebanon and Iran.

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Wells Fargo agrees to pay $3 billion to settle consumer abuse charges

Clients use an ATM at a Wells Fargo Bank in Los Angeles, Calif. Photo: Ronen Tivony/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Wells Fargo agreed to a pay a combined $3 billion to the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday for opening millions of fake customer accounts between 2002 and 2016, the SEC said in a press release.

The big picture: The fine "is among the largest corporate penalties reached during the Trump administration," the Washington Post reports.

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