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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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Annie Karni / Politico:   Trump's shrinking West Wing
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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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE:
Statement by Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis on Military Service by Transgender Individuals  —  Press Operations Release No: NR-312-17  —  The Department of Defense has received the Presidential Memorandum, dated August 25, 2017, entitled “Military Service by Transgender Individuals.”
Shawn Snow / Military Times:   Transgender military service unchanged as Mattis announces study of policy implementation
Ari Melber / NBC News:
Presidential Pardons Might Not End Russia Prosecutions  —  President Donald Trump's unusual pardon of former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, issued before his federal case was even finished, has sparked a debate over whether the president could end Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe with a spate of pre-emptive pardons.
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Del Quentin Wilber / Wall Street Journal:
Special Counsel Robert Mueller Subpoenas Paul Manafort's Spokesman  —  P.R. executive Jason Maloni was told to appear soon before a federal grand jury, according to person familiar with the matter  —  Special Counsel Robert Mueller has subpoenaed the spokesman for former Trump campaign …
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.
Albert Samaha / BuzzFeed:
Joel Osteen's Megachurch Says It Didn't Open Its Doors To Houston Evacuees Because The City Didn't Ask It To  —  Hundreds of evacuees and volunteers filled Lakewood Church within hours of its doors opening for relief efforts, leaving many still wondering what took so long in the first place.
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U.S. National Weather Service (NWS) / NWS:
Preliminary data from at least one Texas rain gauge appears …
Discussion: The Verge and Splinter
USA Today:
‘GET OUT NOW’: Levee breached near Houston in Hurricane Harvey aftermath
Discussion: Splinter, IJR, The Daily Caller and Politico
Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Google Critic Ousted From Think Tank Funded by the Tech Giant  —  WASHINGTON — In the hours after European antitrust regulators levied a record $2.7 billion fine against Google in late June, an influential Washington think tank learned what can happen when a tech giant that shapes public policy debates …
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 …
Arizona Republic:
Judge won't vacate former Sheriff Joe Arpaio's contempt conviction without oral arguments … U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton canceled former Sheriff Joe Arpaio's upcoming sentencing hearing for his criminal contempt-of-court conviction, telling attorneys not to file replies to motions …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Splinter
Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
Yes, antifa is the moral equivalent of neo-Nazis  —  “Anti-fascist” members gather Sunday in Berkeley, Calif. (Amy Osborne/Agence France-Presse via Getty Images)  —  Last weekend in Berkeley, Calif., a group of neo-communist antifa — “anti-fascist” — thugs attacked peaceful protesters at a …
Discussion: Mother Jones, The Daily Caller and Vox
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CNN:
Next target Guam, North Korea says  —  (CNN)North Korea's launch of a missile over Japan was a prelude to more military operations directed at the American territory of Guam, North Korean state media warned Wednesday.  —  The country's state-run Korean Central News Agency reported leader Kim Jong Un presided …
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Jane Onyanga-Omara / USA Today:
Missile Defense Agency: U.S. warship successfully shoots down missile in test off Hawaii
Discussion: Axios, Zero Hedge and Instapundit
Mike Allen / Axios:
The incredible shrinking president  —  As President Trump formally launches his tax-reform drive this afternoon with a no-details, “vision-casting” speech in Springfield, Missouri, the self-inflicted wounds of the past 222 days are adding up.  (Speech preview here, off embargo at 6 a.m.)
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” …
Discussion: Raw Story
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
HILL LEADERS to the W.H. next WED.  — FIRST IN PLAYBOOK: The plan for debt limit, gov't funding and Harvey relief — ANNIE KARNI on the thinning West Wing - B'DAY: Warren Buffett  —  By ANNA PALMER (anna@politico.com; @apalmerdc), JAKE SHERMAN (sherman@politico.com; @JakeSherman) …
Discussion: Political Wire and Morning Consult
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Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
In the Trenches of Trump's Leak War
Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
How to Get Rich in Trump's Washington  —  His presidency has changed the rules of influence in the nation's capital — and spawned a new breed of lobbyist on K Street.  —  As for so many other people, election night did not pan out quite the way Robert Stryk expected.
The Daily Beast:
Trump Pal Bought IAmAF**got.Com and VaginaBoy.Com, Then the Sites Attacked Their Mutual Enemy … Documents disclosed this week show just how far former Trump Organization adviser and convicted felon Felix Sater will go to help his one-time business associate President Donald Trump.
Ted Mann / Wall Street Journal:
White House Won't Require Firms to Report Pay by Gender, Race  —  Obama-era proposal was aimed to address pay disparities  —  The White House on Tuesday said it will halt a planned Obama-era rule that would have required businesses to begin collecting data about how much they pay workers …
Discussion: The Hill, Mashable and Raw Story
Sarah Whitten / CNBC:
Best Buy says viral photo of $40 packs of water in Houston was ‘a big mistake’  — The company told CNBC that it does not sell water by the case and the signage promoting the offer was a mistake made by several employees.  —  Electronics retailer Best Buy said a viral photo of cases …
Discussion: Gizmodo and The Root
Naomi Jagoda / The Hill:
Trump kicks off tax reform pitch  —  President Trump is set to kick off his sales pitch on tax reform Wednesday with a speech in Missouri as he seeks to rally the public behind one of his top legislative priorities.  —  The speech, held at a manufacturing company in Springfield, Mo. …
Discussion: Axios and Jamie Dupree
Nick Wingfield / New York Times:
‘Cortana, Open Alexa,’ Amazon Says.  And Microsoft Agrees.  —  In an unusual partnership, Amazon and Microsoft are working together to extend the abilities of their voice-controlled digital assistants.  —  SEATTLE — The crowded pack of voice-controlled digital assistants — Apple's Siri …
Luke Rosiak / The Daily Caller:
Exclusive: Wasserman Schultz IT Staffer Banned From House Network Months Ago Still Has Active Account  —  A former IT aide suspected of stealing equipment and data from Congress still has an active, secret email account on the House computer system, even though he has been banned …
Discussion: Instapundit
Erik Prince / New York Times:
Contractors, Not Troops, Will Save Afghanistan  —  In 1941, shortly after Pearl Harbor pulled the United States into World War II, a group of volunteer American aviators led by Gen. Claire Chennault known as the Flying Tigers fought Japanese aggression in China.
Frank Somerville / San Francisco Chronicle:
KTVU anchor: ‘I experienced hate firsthand’ at Berkeley rally  —  I experienced hate firsthand today.  —  It came from these people dressed in all black at a protest in Berkeley.  Ironically they were all chanting about no hate.  —  Some had shields and gloves.  Some had helmets.  Some had gas masks.
Discussion: Instapundit
 
 
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Alexander C. Kaufman / HuffPost:
Houston Flooding Always Hits Poor, Non-White Neighborhoods Hardest
Discussion: Daily Kos and The Root
Josh Meyer / Politico:
Virginia received DHS warning before Charlottesville rally
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Splinter
Ken Masugi / American Greatness:
Trump's Coming Victory over Identity Politics
Alexis Okeowo / New Yorker:
Witnessing a Rally for a Brand-New Confederate Monument
William Grimes / New York Times:
Jeannie Rousseau de Clarens, Valiant World War II Spy, Dies at 98
Ashraf Khalil / Associated Press:
19 indicted for attacking protesters during Erdogan US visit
Discussion: New York Magazine
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Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Tillerson moves to close State cyber office
Discussion: CANNONFIRE
Fox News:
FBI shuts down request for files on Hillary Clinton by citing lack of public interest
Kaili Joy Gray / Shareblue:
“What a crowd, what a turnout”: Trump shocks by treating Texas visit like a campaign rally