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3:40 PM ET, August 27, 2017

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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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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.
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?
Washington Post:
Trump asked Sessions about closing case against Arpaio, an ally since ‘birtherism’
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Schiff: Trump pardon sends message to Russia investigation witnesses
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Asked Top Aides Months Ago if Arpaio Case Could Be Dropped, Officials Say
Discussion: Vox
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Trump's pardon of Arpaio fits a pattern: A divider, not a uniter
Discussion: Politico and FiveThirtyEight
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.
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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Associated Press:
Hurricane Harvey: Houston residents desperately seek help
Discussion: ABC News
ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript 8-27-17: Gov. Greg Abbott and Thomas Bossert
Discussion: Politico
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 …
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.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and The Daily Caller
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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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Flake challenger: Trump ‘is what the country wanted’
Discussion: RedState
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 …
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.
Frances Robles / New York Times:
Two Men Arrested in Connection With Charlottesville Violence  —  The police arrested two men, including a member of the Ku Klux Klan, and were seeking a third in connection with violent episodes that took place at the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va., this month …
Discussion: Mashable
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
The Trouble With Ivanka's Business Partner  —  His vendors call him a “career grifter.”  His father's creditors claim he's a fraud and a serial extortionist who shakes people down with trumped-up threats of criminal charges.  With these and other allegations piling up in court records along with judgments …
Discussion: Raw Story
Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
BUSTED: Oklahoma police chief outed as owner of racist website and white supremacist record label  —  A Texas television station investigating white supremacist hate in their region was startled to discover a website linked to the newly-appointed Colbert, Oklahoma police chief.
 
 
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Doyle McManus / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed Trump is shedding supporters like no other president in modern history
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Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
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Thomas Erdbrink / New York Times:
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Matt Taibbi / Rolling Stone:
The Media Is the Villain - for Creating a World Dumb Enough for Trump
Discussion: Raw Story
Jayme Fraser / Billings Gazette:
Zinke's veteran daughter excoriates Trump in response to transgender military ban
Discussion: The Hill, Raw Story and Political Wire
 

 
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Sources: NBCUniversal Vice Chairman Bonnie Hammer plans to leave the company at the end of the year; she has been with the company since 2004

 
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