Today's Top Headlines:
- Tropical Storm Erin intensifies, projected to grow into 125 mph Cat 3 hurricane, NHC says (Orlando Sentinel): https://tinyurl.com/294p7l4y
- First Thing: Trump says he’ll seek ‘long-term’ control of DC police (The Guardian): https://tinyurl.com/248llwsl
- Texas’s renegade Democrats prepare for a glorious defeat (The Economist): https://tinyurl.com/26qzsffr
- Outraged DC locals protest traffic checkpoint (CNN): https://tinyurl.com/2bje8zr6
- Melania Trump demands Hunter Biden retract comments linking her to Jeffrey Epstein (The Guardian): https://tinyurl.com/2a6p58ju
- Erin may rapidly intensify into a major hurricane. Here’s where the storm is going. (The Washington Post): https://tinyurl.com/2an8mfyo
- Human remains found in 1960s-era car pulled from Mississippi River in Sartell (MPR News): https://tinyurl.com/2awjcw3r
- California was comfortable, this American woman says, but ‘everyone is much happier’ since the family moved to Spain (CNN): https://tinyurl.com/2xqg4w2n
- Texas on standby as tropical threat builds in the Gulf (KHOU): https://tinyurl.com/266r9tdd
- DC Mayor Bowser walks delicate line with Trump, reflecting the city’s precarious position (AP News): https://tinyurl.com/285ezjjk