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Jon Gabriel / USA Today:
Sheriff Joe Arpaio is no conservative and no hero, no matter what President Trump says — Convicting Arpaio of contempt of court was like busting Al Capone on tax evasion. It was the tip of an iceberg of misdeeds I saw my longtime sheriff commit. — CONNECT
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Amanda Erickson / Washington Post:
What authoritarianism experts think of Trump's decision to pardon Joe Arpaio
What authoritarianism experts think of Trump's decision to pardon Joe Arpaio
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Impeachable Offenses?, Hullabaloo, New York Times, BillMoyers.com, New York Magazine, Booman Tribune and BuzzFeed
Maia Davis / ABC News:
Trump after pardoning Arpaio gives plug for another polarizing sheriff
Trump after pardoning Arpaio gives plug for another polarizing sheriff
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Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Obama adviser: Trump asking to drop case against Arpaio could get him impeached
Obama adviser: Trump asking to drop case against Arpaio could get him impeached
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Asked Top Aides Months Ago if Arpaio Case Could Be Dropped, Officials Say
Trump Asked Top Aides Months Ago if Arpaio Case Could Be Dropped, Officials Say
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Trump's pardon of Arpaio fits a pattern: A divider, not a uniter
Trump's pardon of Arpaio fits a pattern: A divider, not a uniter
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Politico
David Caplan / ABC News:
Harvey slams Texas: Rescue operations underway as historic flooding hits Houston area — Houston is being inundated with flooding of historic proportions after the ferocious Hurricane Harvey set in over the Texas Gulf Coast this weekend, dumping torrential rain on the city with no end in sight for days.
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The Weather Channel:
Rainfall from Harvey Could Reach 50 Inches in Some Spots, Highest Ever Recorded in Texas; Catastrophic Flooding to Continue for Days — Story Highlights — Harvey has stalled inland over Texas, resulting in catastrophic, record flooding. — Periods of torrential rain will continue …
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Joel Achenbach / Washington Post:
FEMA director says Harvey is probably the worst disaster in Texas history
FEMA director says Harvey is probably the worst disaster in Texas history
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NHC Webmaster / National Hurricane Center GIS Data:
Summary - Tropical Storm Harvey (AT4/AL092017)
Summary - Tropical Storm Harvey (AT4/AL092017)
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Joe Biden / The Atlantic:
‘We Are Living Through a Battle for the Soul of This Nation’ — In January of 2009, I stood waiting in Wilmington, Delaware, for a train carrying the first African American elected president of the United States. I was there to join him as vice president on the way to a historic Inauguration.
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump Island: Risk rising with Republican leaders — It started with Charlottesville. The pardon of Joe Arpaio sped it up. — Until now, most Republicans on the Hill have either backed Trump, or mostly stayed silent about their differences. Now, he's being openly defied.
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Peter Wehner / New York Times:
Behold Our ‘Child King’ — REPUBLICAN lawmakers have seen the Trump disaster coming for a while now. They simply have no clue what to do about it. — A couple of months ago — before we learned that Donald Trump Jr. wanted to spend quality time with people he believed represented the Russian government …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
What if Trump ditched the GOP?
John Wayne Ferguson / Galveston County Daily News:
15 rescued from Dickinson nursing home — Fifteen senior citizens were evacuated from the La Vita Bella nursing home in Dickinson, David Popoff, the city's emergency management coordinator confirmed on Sunday afternoon. — A picture of the residents sitting in waist-deep water went viral on Twitter Sunday.
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Dave Lawler / Axios:
First Cohn, now Tillerson, turn on Trump — Asked by Fox News Sunday's Chris Wallace about President Trump's values, Secretary of State Tillerson said, “the president speaks for himself.” Wallace followed up by asking Tillerson if he was separating himself from Trump's values …
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Kailani Koenig / NBC News:
Kasich on a 2020 Run With Dem Hickenlooper: ‘The Answer Is No’ — WASHINGTON — Ohio's Republican Governor John Kasich on Sunday tried to shut down reports that he is considering an independent presidential bid in 2020 with Colorado's Democratic Governor John Hickenlooper.
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Political Wire, The Daily Caller, Daily Wire and Mediaite
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Flake challenger: Trump ‘is what the country wanted’
Flake challenger: Trump ‘is what the country wanted’
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Adolfo Flores / BuzzFeed:
ICE Left 50 Immigrant Women And Kids Stranded At A Bus Station Before Hurricane Harvey Struck — The bus depot had been closed due to the approaching storm. — Federal immigration authorities left about 50 immigrant women and children, most of them asylum-seekers from Central America …
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ImmigrationProf Blog, Daily Kos and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Colum Lynch / Foreign Policy:
Top State Department Officials Step Down in “Black Friday” Exodus — The State Department's Top U.N. Expert Steps Down On Eve of Trump's Turtle Bay Debut — The top State Department envoy responsible for overseeing U.S. policy at the United Nations and other international organizations stepped …
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Raw Story and New York Magazine
Doyle McManus / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed Trump is shedding supporters like no other president in modern history — President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on Aug. 23. (Carolyn Kaster / Associated Press) — President Trump's poll numbers are bad and getting worse.
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Caroline Orr / Shareblue:
Trump hasn't done a thing to declare the opioid crisis an official emergency — In early August, after Democrats managed to shame him enough to say something, Donald Trump told reporters that the country's ongoing opioid epidemic was a “national emergency,” and promised to take the necessary steps to make the declaration official.