- Tropical Storm Harvey has made a second landfall along the Texas-Louisiana border, bringing flooding rains east of Houston after an all-time US storm record of 52 inches of rain there.
- The Trump regime will eliminate an Obama-era rule that required corporations to collect and report payroll data to curb discrimination, calling the regulation "enormously burdensome".
- At least a fifth of US oil refineries are shut down due to Harvey and gas prices are expected to rise sharply across the Southeast and Midwest over the next several weeks.
- Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and Spanish retailer Armancio Ortega are battling it out for title of world's wealthiest, all three are worth above $80 billion.
- As the comment period deadline for the FCC's decision on net neutrality expires Wednesday, 22 million comments have been sent to the government agency on internet freedom.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. -- Benjamin Franklin
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