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11:55 AM ET, August 28, 2017

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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 …
Bill Chappell / NPR:
Already Flooded, Houston Braces As 2 Swollen Reservoirs Are Opened
Discussion: TechCrunch and The Daily Caller
Mark Landler / New York Times:
Trump to Travel to Texas With Torrential Rain Still in the Forecast
Kevin Sullivan / Washington Post:
More than 30,000 people expected in shelters as extent of Harvey's blow comes into chilling focus
HuffPost:
Here's How To Help The Victims Of Hurricane Harvey
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
Associated Press:
Black-clad anarchists swarm anti-hate rally in California
Discussion: RedState
Nick Gillespie / Hit & Run:
“Antifa attack peaceful right wing demonstrators in Berkeley”
Discussion: Instapundit
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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Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump's cascade of crises
Josh Dawsey / Politico:   Trump's prized perk: Oval Office photo ops
Scott Wong / The Hill:
Republicans don't know who to talk to at White House
Discussion: RedState
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?
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
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
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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Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:   Conservatism Is Not A Suicide Pact
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: Trump weathers his own storm after pardoning Arpaio
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.
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:
Discussion: RedState and The Resurgent
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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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Associated Press:
Trump prepares to lift limits on military gear for police
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
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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Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Trump talks Harvey, NAFTA and border wall in wide-ranging morning of tweets
Discussion: IJR
Rosie Gray / The Atlantic:
What Steve Bannon's Return Means for Breitbart
Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal:
Ask Not for Whom the Doorbell Tolls. They Won't Answer It.
David Z. Morris / Fortune:
Leaked Chats Show Charlottesville Marchers Were Planning for Violence
Connor Sheets / al.com:
New Confederate memorial unveiled in Alabama
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Associated Press:
Pink blows VMAs away with powerful speech about daughter
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Albert R. Hunt / Bloomberg:
America's Getting More Tolerant and Haters Hate It
Emanuella Grinberg / CNN:
CNN crew helps pull elderly couple from flooded home
 

 
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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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