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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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Eric Holthaus / Politico:
Harvey Is What Climate Change Looks Like  —  In all of U.S. history, there's never been a storm like Hurricane Harvey.  That fact is increasingly clear, even though the rains are still falling and the water levels in Houston are still rising.  —  But there's an uncomfortable point that …
Euan McKirdy / CNN:
Joel Osteen church denies reports it closed its doors to flood victims  —  (CNN)Pastor Joel Osteen's Houston megachurch says it's opening its doors Tuesday to residents displaced by flooding.  —  Lakewood Church, which was founded by Osteen's father in the 1950s, posted on social media Monday …
Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
Harvey Gives Trump a Chance to Reclaim Power to Unify  —  Hurricane Harvey was the rarest of disasters to strike during the Trump presidency — a maelstrom not of Mr. Trump's making, and one that offers him an opportunity to recapture some of the unifying power of his office he has squandered in recent weeks.
Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:
Message From Hurricane Harvey: Americans Helping Each Other  —  After three days of Hurricane Harvey, the message emerging from Houston and the Texas coast is not one of chaos and destruction, but of collective strength, as Americans help each other survive through the worst of circumstances.
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Harvey, the Storm That Humans Helped Cause  —  Even before the devastation from Harvey, southeastern Texas was enduring a year unlike any before.  —  The daily surface temperature of the Gulf of Mexico last winter never dropped below 73 degrees.  You can probably guess how many previous times that had happened: Zero.
New York Times:   How Does Hurricane Harvey Compare With Katrina? Here's What We Know
Washington Post:
How many votes could Hurricane Harvey cost Trump in Texas?
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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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The Hill:
Gorka suggests covert US cyber program targeted at N. Korea  —  Sebastian Gorka, who recently departed the White House, on Tuesday appeared to publicly confirm the existence of a covert cyber sabotage program targeted at North Korea's missile program.  —  “There's many options in the more covert side …
Discussion: Politico and RedState
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CNN:
Trump says ‘all options on table’ after North Korea launches missile over Japan
Justin McCurry / The Guardian:
Trump and Abe vow to increase pressure after North Korea fires missile over Japan
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.
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
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The Guardian:
Sky stops broadcasting rightwing US channel Fox News in UK
Discussion: AOL, more at Mediagazer »
Bloomberg:
Trump Punishes Longtime Aide After Angry Phoenix Speech, Sources Say  —  George Gigicos removed as president's rally organizer  —  Sparse crowd put Trump in foul mood before delivering remarks  —  Donald Trump was in a bad mood before he emerged for a confrontational speech in Arizona last week.
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Margaret Hartmann / New York Magazine:
Trump Fires Longtime Event Organizer Over Sparse Crowd at Phoenix Rally
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.
Discussion: driftglass
Washington Post:
Houston struggles to determine extent of Harvey flooding impact as Trump visits Texas to survey devastation … HOUSTON — The remnants of deadly Hurricane Harvey menaced Texas and Louisiana alike on Tuesday, while a reservoir west of downtown Houston spilled over for the first time in its history due to record-shattering rainfall.
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Sanders: Probably too soon for Trump to visit Houston
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.
San Francisco Chronicle:
After melees, Berkeley mayor asks Cal to cancel right-wing Free Speech Week  —  In the aftermath of a right-wing rally Sunday that ended with anarchists chasing attendees from a downtown park, Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin urged UC Berkeley on Monday to cancel conservatives' plans …
Juan Escalante / Vox:
DREAMers like me have flourished under DACA.  Trump might take it all away.  —  If Trump ends DACA, DREAMers like me will return to a life of anxiety and doubt.  —  During the summer of 2012, I was working an unpaid communications internship in Tallahassee, Florida, with no hopes of ever getting …
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Daily Kos
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National Review:   Mr. President, End DACA
David M. Drucker / Vanity Fair:
How the Swamp Sold Its Soul to Donald Trump  —  “Your heart tells you that he's bad for the country,” one Republican strategist said.  “Your head looks at polling data.”  —  “From a personal standpoint, I think this president f**king sucks.  He's not even a Republican,” …
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Raw Story
NBC News:
Mueller Team Asking If Trump Tried to Hide Purpose of Trump Tower Meeting  —  WASHINGTON — Federal investigators working for Special Counsel Robert Mueller are keenly focused on President Donald Trump's role in crafting a response to a published article about a meeting between Russians …
MSNBC:
Exclusive: White House staff warned not to admit Gorka  —  Thing 1/Thing 2: All In has obtained emails sent the night the news broke that Sebastian Gorka was leaving the White House - emails that are not remotely normal, according to two former White House staff members. ...  more Duration: {{video.duration.momentjs}}
Los Angeles Times:
‘Antifa’ violence in Berkeley spurs soul-searching within leftist activist community  —  All eyes turned to Berkeley after a day of large-scale protests, and relative peace, in San Francisco.  (Aug. 27, 2017) (Sign up for our free video newsletter here http://bit.ly/2n6VKPR)
Discussion: Mother Jones and Daily Wire
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
A new polling low for Trump: Just 16 percent ‘like’ his conduct as president  —  Polling Donald Trump is one of the most difficult and confusing exercises in modern politics.  In Trump, we have a guy who won the presidency by surprisingly beating the polls in key Rust Belt states, of course.
Professor Amy Wax / National Review:
Scandal Erupts over the Promotion of ‘Bourgeois’ Behavior  —  Two law professors face racism, sexism, and homophobia charges for urging Americans to act responsibly.  —  Were you planning to instruct your child about the value of hard work and civility?  Not so fast!
Victoria Lopez / ACLU:
ICE Plans to Start Destroying Records of Immigrant Abuse, Including Sexual Assault and Deaths in Custody  —  Immigration and Customs Enforcement recently asked the National Archives and Record Administration (NARA), which instructs federal agencies on how to maintain records …
Discussion: Shakesville, Shareblue and Raw Story
Chicago Tribune:
Amazon slashes Whole Foods prices by up to 43 percent on first day  —  After falling 37 percent this year on disappointing sales and investor concern over the Amazon-Whole Foods union, Kroger fell 0.5 percent on Monday.  (Aug. 28, 2017) (Sign up for our free video newsletter here http://bit.ly/2n6VKPR)
 
 
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Lakewood Church:
Dear Houstonians!  Lakewood Church is inaccessible due to severe flooding!
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump responds to Ingraham: We're trying to shrink government
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10 legal experts on why Trump can't pardon his way out of the Russia investigation
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