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Live: Hurricane Harvey Churns Toward Texas Coastline
New York Times
... • Hurricane Harvey, powered by the Gulf of Mexico's warm waters and poised to strike the United States as a major hurricane, swept toward Texas on Friday. High winds and dozens of inches of rain were expected to begin battering coastal and inland ...
Hurricane Harvey grows stronger as Texas braces for historic storm to make landfall Friday eveningWashington Post
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Trump slams another Republican senator, warning Bob Corker that 'Tennessee not happy!'
Washington Post
President Trump attacked another fellow Republican on Friday, taunting Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) after the Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman last week publicly questioned the president's stability and competence. Trump said Friday morning on ...
Trump attacks Corker: 'Tennessee not happy' with GOP senatorThe Hill
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Trump's economic adviser says president 'must do better' to denounce white nationalism
Washington Post
Gary Cohn, the White House economic adviser who stood beside President Trump last week as he blamed “many sides” for violence during the deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, said the Trump administration now “must do better” to condemn ...
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Samsung's heir apparent guilty of corruption, sentenced to five years in prison
Washington Post
TOKYO — Lee Jae-yong, the scion of the Samsung dynasty and the most powerful tycoon in South Korea, was found guilty Friday for his part in a sensational corruption scandal that had already brought down a president. Lee, who is 49 and had been in ...
Samsung leader Jay Y. Lee given five-year jail sentence for briberyReuters
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Harvey forecast to slam Texas coast as major hurricane with 'devastating' flood potential
Washington Post
(This article, originally published at 11:05 a.m., is regularly updated to reflect the latest information and forecast.) Harvey rapidly intensified Thursday morning in the central Gulf of Mexico, and it officially became a hurricane early in the afternoon.
Hurricane Harvey strengthens, threatens US with most powerful storm in 12 yearsReuters
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Texas in direct path of suddenly intensifying, 'astounding' Hurricane Harvey
Washington Post
Texas is bracing for potentially catastrophic flooding and winds as Hurricane Harvey intensified Thursday and cruised toward a late Friday impact near Corpus Christi. The National Hurricane Center described Harvey's sudden strengthening as “astounding.
Oil markets volatile as industry prepares to be hit by Hurricane HarveyReuters
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John Kelly's Latest Mission: Controlling the Information Flow to Trump
New York Times
A pair of memos circulating in the White House seeks to codify a more formal process for how President Trump receives information. Credit Al Drago for The New York Times. For months, the White House under President Trump operated with few real rules, ...
Trump falls behind in August push for tax reformPolitico
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Amazon Plans to Lower Some Prices at Whole Foods
New York Times
Amazon said it would offer lower prices on a selection of items in Whole Foods stores, including organic eggs and responsibly farmed salmon and tilapia. Credit Todd Heisler/The New York Times. SEATTLE — The era of Whole Paycheck, the derisive ...
Amazon cuts Whole Food prices in clear signal of sweeping changes to comeWashington Post
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Interior Secretary Proposes Shrinking Four National Monuments
New York Times
Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah includes the mesas of the Valley of the Gods near Blanding, Utah. Credit Alex Goodlett for The New York Times. BEARS EARS NATIONAL MONUMENT, Utah — Parts of this sprawling region of red-rock ...
Interior secretary recommends Trump alter at least three national monuments, including Bears EarsWashington Post
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