Democracy Now! Daily Digest "This Is the New Normal": How Climate Change Is Fueling Massive Storms like Harvey, A Dilemma for Undocumented in Texas: Wait Out Hurricane Harvey or Seek Help and Risk Deportation? & More 28AUG17

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Monday, August 28, 2017 democracynow.org Stories As Catastrophic Flooding Hits Houston, Fears Grow of Pollution from Oil Refineries & Superfund Sites A catastrophic storm has hit Houston, the nation's fourth-largest city and home to the largest refining and petrochemical complex in the United States. The crisis ... Read More → "This Is the New Normal": How Climate Change Is Fueling Massive Storms like Harvey Hurricane Harvey has already dumped more than 9 trillion gallons of water on Texas—enough water to fill the Great Salt Lake in Salt Lake City twice ... Read More → A Dilemma for Undocumented in Texas: Wait Out Hurricane Harvey or Seek Help and Risk Deportation? Hurricane Harvey has threatened the safety of immigrants in Texas who are afraid to evacuate to shelters or approach authorities to seek help, in part ... Read More → "Resurrected From Irrelevance": Arizona Republic Columnist Slams Trump Pardon of Sheriff Joe Arpaio The White House announced on Friday that it was pardoning longtime Trump supporter and former Maricopa County sheriff Joe Arpaio, the controversial ... Read More → Headlines → Five Dead as Unprecedented Hurricane Harvey Bears Down on Texas 1,200 Die in South Asia amid Historic Flooding in India, Bangladesh and Nepal China Hit by a Severe Tropical Storm, Days After Historic Typhoon Kills 22 Trump Pardons Notorious Racist Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio White Knights Member Arrested after Shooting at Black Man During Protests in Charlottesville Oklahoma Police Chief Resigns over Ties to Neo-Nazi Website Sebastian Gorka Leaves White House and Rejoins Breitbart News Trump Signs Directive Banning Transgender People from Military Yemen: Saudi-Led Airstrike Kills 16 Civilians in Sanaa U.S. & Somali Troops Carry Out Raid That Leaves 10 Dead, Including 3 Children South Sudan: U.S. Journalist Killed in Fighting Between Gov’t and Rebels Iraqi Military Says It's Seized Control of Tal Afar from ISIS ISIS Suicide Bomb Attack in Kabul Kills 30 at Shiite Mosque Half a Million Attend Peace March in Barcelona, Spain Thousands Attend Funeral for 8-Year-Old Palestinian Run Over by Israeli Settler Burma: At Least 100 Killed in Army Crackdown against Rohingya Muslims Guatemalan High Court Blocks President from Expelling Head of U.N. Anti-Graft Unit Trump Admin Imposes New Economic Sanctions on Venezuela Trump Slated to Lift Ban on Transfer of Military Equipment to Local Police NYC Mayor de Blasio Considers Removing Columbus Statue amid Protests Forward this email → Donate today →