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Alfredo Corchado / Dallas Morning News:
Mexico offers to help Harvey-soaked Texas — Updated at 10:30 p.m. with additional information. — The Mexican government expressed its solidarity Sunday with the United States following the damage caused by Hurricane Harvey and offered assistance to Texas.
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New York Times:
In Houston, Anxiety and Frantic Rescues as Floodwaters Rise — HOUSTON — What felt like an apocalyptic onslaught of pounding rains and rapidly rising floodwaters brought the nation's fourth-largest city to its knees on Sunday, as highways and residential streets turned to rivers …
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Cost of cleaning up Harvey will bring new test of governance for Trump and GOP — The catastrophic floods brought by Hurricane Harvey to southeastern Texas will pose an immediate test for the White House and Congress, pressing policymakers to approve billions of dollars in recovery funds …
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Michael E. Mann:
What can we say about the role of climate change in the unprecedented …
What can we say about the role of climate change in the unprecedented …
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Bill Chappell / NPR:
Already Flooded, Houston Braces As 2 Swollen Reservoirs Are Opened
Already Flooded, Houston Braces As 2 Swollen Reservoirs Are Opened
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Associated Press:
The Latest: Texas governor says he can't reach Houston mayor
The Latest: Texas governor says he can't reach Houston mayor
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Kevin Sullivan / Washington Post:
More than 30,000 people expected in shelters as extent of Harvey's blow comes into chilling focus
More than 30,000 people expected in shelters as extent of Harvey's blow comes into chilling focus
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Kyle Swenson / Washington Post:
Black-clad antifa attack peaceful right wing demonstrators in Berkeley — Their faces hidden behind black bandannas and hoodies, about a 100 anarchists and antifa — “anti-fascist” — barreled into a protest Sunday afternoon in Berkeley's Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park.
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San Francisco Chronicle:
Live coverage: Violence at Berkeley rally escalates, police make arrests — At least 14 people were arrested during a protest Sunday at Berkeley's Civic Center Park, police said. Some demonstrators exchanged blows and deployed pepper spray. Credit: Guy Wathen, Lizzie Johnson
Nick Gillespie / Hit & Run:
“Antifa attack peaceful right wing demonstrators in Berkeley”
“Antifa attack peaceful right wing demonstrators in Berkeley”
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Washington Post:
Trump's business sought deal on a Trump Tower in Moscow while he ran for president — Donald Trump during a 2005 visit to Colorado to speak at a business convention. At his right is Felix Sater, a Russian-born real estate developer. (Cyrus McCrimmon/The Denver Post)
Ellen Mitchell / The Hill:
Trump vents over missing China tariffs: report — President Trump earlier this month accused some of his top economic advisers of being “globalists” who were resisting his agenda, Axios reported on Sunday. — During John Kelly's first week as White House chief of staff …
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Exclusive: Trump vents in Oval Office, “I want tariffs. Bring me some tariffs!”
Exclusive: Trump vents in Oval Office, “I want tariffs. Bring me some tariffs!”
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Trump's prized perk: Oval Office photo ops
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Fascism, American Style — As sheriff of Maricopa County, Ariz., Joe Arpaio engaged in blatant racial discrimination. His officers systematically targeted Latinos, often arresting them on spurious charges and at least sometimes beating them up when they questioned those charges.
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Todd Gitlin / New York Times:
Who's Afraid of Antifa?
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump's Brand of Law and Order Leaves Leeway on the Law
Trump's Brand of Law and Order Leaves Leeway on the Law
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Sarah Ellison / Vanity Fair:
Exiles on Pennsylvania Avenue: How Jared and Ivanka Were Repelled by Washington's Elite — “What is off-putting about them,” one political veteran told me, “is they do not grasp their essential irrelevance. They think they are special.” — I. AIR FORCE ONE
Arizona Republic:
Joe Arpaio's first impression of his presidential pardon: Is it fake? — When Joe Arpaio's attorney first showed him the presidential pardon, the former sheriff's first reaction was to ask if it was a fake. — Late Friday afternoon, attorney Mark Goldman was already driving to Arpaio's house …
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Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: Trump weathers his own storm after pardoning Arpaio
The Note: Trump weathers his own storm after pardoning Arpaio
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Bloomberg:
Amazon Cuts Prices at Whole Foods by Up to 43% on First Day — Internet giant bought upscale grocery chain for $13.7 billion — Some prices unchanged but favorites like avocados are cheaper — Amazon.com Inc. spent its first day as the owner of a brick-and-mortar grocery chain cutting prices at Whole Foods Market.
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Tillerson switcheroo may happen sooner than expected — As of last night, we were told that no replacement of SecState Rex Tillerson is imminent. But some switcheroo may happen sooner than expected, given the jaw-dropping reporting by Axios' Jonathan Swan last evening in his weekly Sneak Peek newsletter:
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Trump frustration with Tillerson rising fast
Scoop: Trump frustration with Tillerson rising fast
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NBC News:
Trump Reverses Obama Policy on Surplus Military Gear for Police — WASHINGTON — Reversing an Obama-era policy, President Donald Trump Monday removed restrictions on the kinds of surplus military gear the Defense Department can turn over to local police departments.
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Team Trump turns to Rove playbook to juice 2018 turnout — Donald Trump's White House may take a page from the Karl Rove playbook. — The administration has been in talks to put conservative initiatives on the ballot in 2018 midterm battleground states in hopes of energizing base voters dispirited …
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Jchong / Lawfare:
It's Time: Congress Needs to Open a Formal Impeachment Inquiry — President Donald Trump at Liberty University on May 13, 2017. (Shealah Craighead/White House) — Last Tuesday, the New York Times published a foggy story noting that Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell …
Julian Borger / The Guardian:
White House ‘pressuring’ intelligence officials to find Iran in violation of nuclear deal — Intelligence analysts, chastened by the experience of the 2003 Iraq war, are said to be resisting the pressure to come up with evidence of Iranian violations
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