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Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Even in visiting hurricane-ravaged Texas, Trump keeps the focus on himself — The Debrief: An occasional series offering a reporter's insights … As rescuers continued their exhausting and heartbreaking work in southeastern Texas on Tuesday afternoon, as the rain continued to fall …
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Politico and Outside the Beltway
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USA Today:
‘GET OUT NOW’: Levee breached near Houston in Hurricane Harvey aftermath — HOUSTON — Rescue boats, high-water vehicles, kayaks and even jet skis searched flood-swollen streets Tuesday for trapped, desperate residents as relentless Tropical Storm Harvey trudged east toward Louisiana.
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The Daily Caller and IJR
Eric Holthaus / Politico:
Harvey Is What Climate Change Looks Like
Harvey Is What Climate Change Looks Like
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Tampa Bay Times:
UT fires teacher whose tweet blamed Harvey on Texas GOP vote
UT fires teacher whose tweet blamed Harvey on Texas GOP vote
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Washington Post, Daily Wire, Associated Press and The Ticker
The University of Tampa:
Statement Regarding Kenneth Storey
Statement Regarding Kenneth Storey
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Mediaite, Fox News, Campus Reform, TheBlaze, New York's PIX11 and The Daily Caller
Jason Samenow / Washington Post:
Harvey marks the most extreme rain event in U.S. history
Harvey marks the most extreme rain event in U.S. history
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Watts Up With That?, VICE News, Gizmodo, The Daily Caller, Grist, Axios, NPR, Power Line and Roy Spencer, PhD.
CNN:
Trump pledges storm recovery ‘better than ever before’
Trump pledges storm recovery ‘better than ever before’
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Q13 FOX News, FOX6Now.com and KTLA
Euan McKirdy / CNN:
Joel Osteen church denies reports it closed its doors to flood victims
Joel Osteen church denies reports it closed its doors to flood victims
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The Hill, Lakewood Church, New York Times, IJR, FOX2now.com, Business Insider, The Daily Caller, AOL, The Root, lakewoodchurch.com, Talking Points Memo and FOX6Now.com
Washington Post:
Trump's ability to govern tested by Harvey at home and North Korea abroad
Trump's ability to govern tested by Harvey at home and North Korea abroad
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Politico, Associated Press and Daily Kos
Washington Post:
Houston struggles to determine extent of Harvey flooding impact as Trump visits Texas to survey devastation
Houston struggles to determine extent of Harvey flooding impact as Trump visits Texas to survey devastation
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New York Times, NPR, The Hill, Fox News, New York's PIX11, NBC News, Splinter, ThinkProgress, Q13 FOX News, CBS New York, Gizmodo and Daily Wire
Annie Karni / Politico:
Melania's stiletto sideshow
Melania's stiletto sideshow
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Slate, Vanity Fair, IJR, NewsBusters, twitchy.com, Mashable, Daily Wire and Washington Post
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Rep. Rohrabacher says ‘rendezvous’ being set up with Trump to relay info from WikiLeaks' Assange on DNC hack — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — (CNN)Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher said Monday that a “rendezvous” is being set up between him and President Donald Trump to relay information he received …
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The Daily Caller, Raw Story, Mediaite and emptywheel
Tom Vanden Brook / USA Today:
Mattis freezes transgender policy; allows troops to continue serving, pending study — WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis late Tuesday announced that transgender troops will be allowed to continue serving in the military pending the results of a study by experts.
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RedState, Raw Story and twitchy.com
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G. Robert Hillman / Politico:
Mattis allows transgender troops to serve as Pentagon studies Trump's ban
Mattis allows transgender troops to serve as Pentagon studies Trump's ban
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Associated Press and Axios
Evan Perez / CNN:
Special counsel subpoenas Manafort's former attorney and spokesman — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — Washington (CNN)Special Counsel Robert Mueller has issued subpoenas to a former lawyer for Paul Manafort and to Manafort's current spokesman, an aggressive tactic that suggests an effort to add pressure on the former Trump campaign chairman.
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Weekly Standard, Business Insider, Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, The Daily Caller and Axios
St. John Barned-Smith / Houston Chronicle:
Houston Police officer drowns in Harvey floodwaters — A Houston police officer drowned in his patrol car in Harvey floodwaters, according to three department officials. — The officer, an HPD veteran who has been with the department for more than 30 years, was in his patrol car driving …
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CNN:
Trump appointee: Comment calling Obama's mother a ‘w@!re’ result of ‘Internet crimes’ against me — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — (CNN)President Donald Trump's appointee to a Department of Energy post says inflammatory comments that appeared to have been made by him online were the result of …
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Weekly Standard, Joe.My.God. and Raw Story
CNN:
Trump Jr. agrees to transcribed interview with Senate panel — Trump Jr., Manafort to testify before Senate — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — (CNN)President Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., has agreed to sit down for a transcribed interview with the Senate judiciary committee …
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Political Wire, Axios, Politicus USA, IJR, Mediaite and The Root
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Donald Trump Jr. set to testify before Senate Judiciary panel
Donald Trump Jr. set to testify before Senate Judiciary panel
Discussion:
The Daily Caller
Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Judge dismisses Sarah Palin's lawsuit against New York Times — Lawsuits against media outlets are piling up — A federal judge in Manhattan on Tuesday dismissed Sarah Palin's defamation lawsuit against the New York Times. — “Nowhere is political journalism so free, so robust …
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Mother Jones, Mashable, TheBlaze, Daily Wire, Talking Points Memo and Political Wire, more at Mediagazer »
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Federal judge tosses Sarah Palin's suit against the New York Times
Federal judge tosses Sarah Palin's suit against the New York Times
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NY State of Politics, New York Magazine, Business Insider and IJR
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Ted Cruz's claim that two-thirds of the Hurricane Sandy bill ‘had nothing to do with Sandy’ — “The problem with that particular bill is it became a $50 billion bill that was filled with unrelated pork. Two-thirds of that bill had nothing to do with Sandy.” — Hypocrisy watch!
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Dartunorro Clark / NBC News:
Ted Cruz Says He ‘Enthusiastically’ Backed Sandy Storm Aid. But He Voted ‘No’
Ted Cruz Says He ‘Enthusiastically’ Backed Sandy Storm Aid. But He Voted ‘No’
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Politico, The Hill, VICE News, New Jersey Online, Mother Jones, Mediaite, CNBC, Raw Story, twitchy.com and The Texas Tribune
Jake Offenhartz / Gothamist:
KKK Hoods & Russian Flags Appear In Trump Tower Gift Shop — Shoppers looking for MAGA hats at Trump Tower this week may have encountered a Ku Klux Klan hood or a photo of President Putin, and asked themselves whether what they were seeing was real merchandise.
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LAist, Raw Story, The Daily Caller, Joe.My.God. and theGrio
Jack Shafer / Politico:
The Newseum Deserves to Die — You know that triumphant feeling that sweeps from your brain to your toes when one of your enemies stumbles and falls into a mass of his own excrement? Such delight overwhelmed me yesterday as the Newseum—that gilded monument to journalistic vanity …
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Business Wire, DCist, Washington Post and Eschaton, more at Mediagazer »
Pew Research Center:
Republicans Divided in Views of Trump's Conduct; Democrats Are Broadly Critical — In their own words: How people describe Trump's presidency — In his first seven months as president, Donald Trump has generally drawn high job approval ratings among Republicans.
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Washington Post, The Hill, Pew Research Center, Business Insider, RedState and Politicus USA
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Sarah Zhang / The Atlantic:
Yes, That's a Huge Floating Mass of Live Fire Ants in Texas — When there is flooding along the Gulf Coast, there are fire ants. The invasive ants congregate into living rafts, drifting through water until they reach solid ground again. It's a time-honed survival strategy.
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The Verge, NBC News, Daily Wire, IJR and The Daily Caller
David Brooks / New York Times:
How Trump Kills the G.O.P. — It's ironic that race was the issue that created the Republican Party and that race could very well be the issue that destroys it. — The G.O.P. was founded to fight slavery, and through most of its history it had a decent record on civil rights.
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The Atlantic, VDARE, Don Surber and driftglass
Michael J. O'Loughlin / americamagazine.org:
Sean Spicer finally gets to meet Pope Francis — Sean Spicer has finally met Pope Francis. — A group of legislators and politicians from around the world gathered in Italy this week for a meeting of the International Catholic Legislators Network, where they were received by Pope Francis at the Vatican.
Caleb Howe / RedState:
Conservative Talker Neal Boortz Wins for Worst, Ugliest, Most Uncalled-for Hurricane Comment to Date — Just a short time ago, a woman suffering through the terrible flooding and loss in Texas was on camera on CNN when she unleashed what was not only surely pent-up rage and frustration at her situation …
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No More Mister Nice Blog, twitchy.com and IJR
Tuomas Forsell / Reuters:
Finland says no fighter deal with Boeing after Trump's comments — HELSINKI (Reuters) - President Sauli Niinisto on Tuesday denied that Finland was buying new fighter jets from American planemaker Boeing (BA.N), following remarks by U.S. President Donald Trump.
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Axios
Greg Bluestein / Political Insider blog:
Georgia lawmaker: Talk of ditching Confederate statues could cause Democrat to ‘go missing’ — A Georgia Republican lawmaker warned a Democratic former colleague who criticized his support for Civil War monuments on Facebook that she won't be “met with torches but something a lot more definitive” …
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Raw Story
Charles Riley / CNNMoney:
Fox News pulled off the air in Britain — Rupert Murdoch and his sons are pulling Fox News off the air in Britain. — The network's parent company, 21st Century Fox, has announced that the controversial news channel will no longer be broadcast in the U.K. after failing to attract an audience.
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Raw Story and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
Mallory Ortberg / Slate:
Helping After Harvey — Prudie counsels a Houston native whose girlfriend is reluctant to support flood victims who may have voted for Trump. … Mallory Ortberg: Good morning, everyone! Let's chat. — Q. That's not what I had in mind: I come from the Houston area and have been heartbroken …
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Red Alert Politics, IJR and Daily Wire
Fox News:
Family of six counted among the dead as Harvey death toll rises to 14 — A family of six trying to escape the floodwaters produced by Harvey has been counted among the 14 victims who died in the historic storm, authorities said. — The four children and their great-grandparents died Sunday afternoon …