Saturday, August 26, 2017

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

 
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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. 
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?
 
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.
 
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. 
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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Trump goes back to his professional wrestling days
 
Give Robert Lee a raise
 
Trump's chilling contempt for future generations
 
Ukraine has finally removed all 1,320 Lenin statues. Our turn.
 
Nation-building is the only way out of Afghanistan
 
Where, oh where, are all Trump's political appointees?
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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.
 
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
     
 
 
 
 

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