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As Hurricane Harvey swirls through the Gulf of Mexico, speeding toward the Texas coast, it could also bring a critical test of President Donald Trump's abilities as commander-in-chief.

We kicked off the week with a total eclipse but that was not all. We had snakes, beefs and a whole lot of other stuff. Here's what happened outside the world of politics.

Hurricane Harvey is destined to be the first major homeland security and emergency management crisis the Trump administration has faced. And, ironically, it is at this moment that President Donald Trump will be judged on how well he lets a bureaucracy he so often maligns or denigrates actually do its job.

CNN's Jake Tapper checks President Trump's defense of his initial reaction to the white supremacists in Charlottesville. Read more at FactCheck.org

Amazon bought Whole Foods -- now it's going to lower prices.

The Transportation Security Administration is reviewing its screening procedures for cargo flown into and within the United States because of concerns that potential security vulnerabilities could be exploited by terrorists, a US official told CNN.

"Where are you really from?" It's a polarizing question that many people get asked. It can imply you aren't American and make you feel you don't belong.

Former CIA officer Valerie Plame was roughly $1 billion short of her goal to buy a major stake in Twitter and persuade the publicly traded company to ban President Donald Trump -- so she started a GoFundMe campaign to raise that sum and, as the page says, "#BuyTwitter and delete Trump's account."

He is not the first to mangle spelling and syntax on social media. But President Donald Trump is surely the most powerful. So when he tweets, deletes, then tweets again and deletes again, the pedants among us are understandably quick to log on and sound off.