Saturday's Headlines: Hurricane Harvey hits Texas, bringing heavy rain, storm surge

Retropolis: The most devastating storms in U.S. history; Trump's focus on Hurricane Harvey intensifies; Trump pardons former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio

Democracy Dies in Darkness     The morning's most important stories, selected by Post editors   Top Stories Hurricane Harvey hits Texas, bringing heavy rain, storm surge After landfall on Friday at Category 4, Harvey weakened to a still-dangerous Category 2 storm early Saturday, with the meteorologists predicting up to 30 inches of rain and "catastrophic" floods. Some parts of southeastern Texas reported 10 inches of rain within hours after Harvey came ashore.  By Tim Craig, Mary Lee Grant and Joel Achenbach  •  Read more » Retropolis: The most devastating storms in U.S. history From Galveston in 1900 to Katrina in 2005, people who ignored warnings to evacuate paid dearly for it. Will those in the path of Hurricane Harvey make the same mistake? By Petula Dvorak  •   Read more »   Trump's focus on Hurricane Harvey intensifies The president faces his first big test of emergency management response a dozen years after Hurricane Katrina hobbled a Republican predecessor. By David Nakamura  •   Read more »   Trump pardons former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio The president's first pardon keeps one of his staunchest political allies out of jail and will likely cheer his conservative base. Arpaio was convicted of contempt of court for continuing to detain people merely because he suspected they were in the country illegally.  By Devlin Barrett and Abby Phillip  •   Read more »   Trump confronts top aide's harsh public rebuke of Charlottesville response National Economic Council director Gary Cohn's criticism was the most serious public condemnation of Trump's behavior by a member of his inner circle since his presidency began, and it raised the question of how a president who puts a heavy premium on loyalty would react. By Damian Paletta and Philip Rucker  •   Read more »   Sebastian Gorka, fiery nationalist and Bannon ally, quits White House Gorka, who was a spokesman on national security matters, said he resigned because his faction was silenced. But White House officials said he was pushed out. By Philip Rucker  •   Read more »   Mueller's team issues subpoenas to lobbying firms as part of Russia probe The special counsel's investigation is zeroing in on the finances of Michael Flynn, President Trump's former national security adviser, and Paul Manafort, former chairman of the Trump presidential campaign. By Carol D. Leonnig and Tom Hamburger  •   Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT Opinions   Trump goes back to his professional wrestling days By David Von Drehle  •   Read more »   Give Robert Lee a raise By Kathleen Parker  •   Read more »   Trump's chilling contempt for future generations By John Podesta  •   Read more »   Ukraine has finally removed all 1,320 Lenin statues. Our turn. By Anne Applebaum  •   Read more »   Nation-building is the only way out of Afghanistan By P.J. Crowley  •   Read more »   Where, oh where, are all Trump's political appointees? By Editorial Board  •   Read more » ADVERTISEMENT More News   Trump directs Pentagon to ban transgender service members, prohibit sex-reassignment surgery The presidential memorandum reverses an Obama administration decision but leaves it to military leaders to address the fate of current transgender service members. By Abby Phillip  •  Read more »     North Korea launches multiple missiles, heightening tensions The launches coincide with joint exercises between the U.S. and South Korean militaries, exercises that North Korea always strongly protests because it considers them preparation for an invasion. By Anna Fifield  •   Read more »   In once-welcoming Italy, the mood turns sour amid seemingly endless waves of migrants With thousands of new arrivals from Africa every month, more Italians are starting to rebel, and they are driving their leaders to pursue once-unthinkable solutions to halt the flow. By Michael Birnbaum  •   Read more »   A C-SPAN caller confessed his racism to a black guest. A year later, he called back to say how he'd changed. A white man from the South learned to reverse his racial prejudice. By Colby Itkowitz  •   Read more »   American service member missing after Black Hawk crashes off Yemen's coast The aircraft crashed in what U.S. military officials are calling a training accident. U.S. forces rescued five other troops who were on board, U.S. Central Command said. By Andrew deGrandpre  •   Read more »   6-year-old was locked in a basement and forced to eat carrots, police say Brett Parker Tobiasson, 31, and his wife, Clarissa Anne Tobiasson, 27, who had adopted the boy, were charged with felony child abuse. By Lindsey Bever  •   Read more »   Before Mayweather-McGregor, poll shows boxing holding its own in the face of MMA's growth According to a new Washington Post-UMass Lowell poll, 28 percent of Americans count themselves as fans of professional boxing, nearly matched by the 25 percent who say they're fans of MMA. By Rick Maese and Scott Clement  •   Read more »         Share Today's Headlines:    Twitter     Facebook Trouble reading? Click here to view in your browser. You received this email because you signed up for Today's Headlines or because it is included in your subscription. For additional free newsletters or to manage your newsletters, click here. We respect your privacy. If you believe that this email has been sent to you in error or you no longer wish to receive email from The Washington Post, click here. Contact us for help. ©2017 The Washington Post, 1301 K St NW, Washington DC 20071