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- August 31st
- Ron Jeremy hit with 20 more sexual assault charges involving 13 women
- White House refuses to condemn alleged Kenosha shooter
- Mariah Carey remembers Ellen DeGeneres pressuring her to reveal she was pregnant: 'I was extremely uncomfortable'
- Biden has a 6 point lead over Trump among active-duty troops, poll shows
- John Thompson Jr., Georgetown basketball coach who made history with NCAA win, dies at 78
- Pandemic adviser with no epidemiology background reportedly pushes White House to adopt herd immunity strategy
- Herman Cain's Twitter account claims coronavirus 'is not as deadly' as expected after he dies of the virus
- Tenet performs surprisingly well in its overseas debut amid pandemic
- Portland shooting victim, possible suspect identified
- John Oliver rains fire and cold fury on the RNC 'racial panic' and the Kenosha troubles
- Marvel, Avengers, and Black Panther co-stars pay tribute to Chadwick Boseman
- Workers were trying to secure Beirut warehouse just hours before massive explosion
- The Lincoln Project spins an ad out of NBA coach Doc Rivers' lament on fear, love, race, and the RNC
- FDA commissioner says he's open to issuing COVID-19 vaccine before human trials are over
- U.S. COVID-19 cases top 6 million
- August 30th
- August 29th
- Longtime NBA veteran Clifford Robinson has died at 53
- University of Arizona scientists say they prevented campus coronavirus outbreak through wastewater testing
- Decree officially opens trade between Israel, UAE on heels of U.S.-brokered deal
- Jacob Blake's family, attorneys, witness dispute Kenosha police union's account of shooting
- Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman dies at 43
- August 28th
- The X-Files is getting an animated comedy spinoff
- Alleged Kenosha shooter's extradition hearing delayed for a month as he hires legal team
- Researchers confirm 1st case of coronavirus reinfection in the U.S.
- Nicolas Cage is going to play a dragon who drinks 'obscene amounts of vodka'
- FDA fires brand new spokesperson after Trump exaggerates plasma as coronavirus 'breakthrough' at RNC
- NBA players agree to resume playoffs Saturday, league pledges to convert arenas into voting locations
- Study finds weaker COVID-19 immune responses in men than women
- CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta fears attendees of Trump's RNC speech will get COVID-19 and 'may even die'
- China blanks out map to hide vast network of Uighur detention camps
- Thousands converge on Washington for 'Get Your Knee Off Our Necks' March
- Jim Gaffigan tears into Trump as a 'traitor' and a 'fascist,' asks supporters to 'wake up'
- Five of the strangest quotes from Donald Trump’s Republican convention
- Vladimir Putin prepares security force to put down Belarus election protests
- Watch the NY Mets and Miami Marlins take the field then walk off, leaving just a Black Lives Matter shirt behind
- ‘My conscience is clear - I did nothing wrong’: Harry Maguire tells his side to the story
- Stephen Colbert and Trevor Noah look back on Trump's RNC
- Homes selling faster as demand outpaces supply
- Britain home to the ‘unhappiest teenagers in Europe’ - but why?
- More than 3,600 Americans died of COVID-19 during the Republican National Convention
- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stepping down amid health problems
- Giant ‘Avozilla’ avocado pears go on sale
- August 27th
- $900,000 in taxpayer money has gone to Trump's properties throughout his presidency
- Kenosha teen shooting suspect charged with 6 criminal counts, including first degree homicides
- Gap sold $130 million worth of face masks in the last quarter
- Fox News' Chris Wallace calls out co-hosts for defending armed vigilantes
- Comic book writer who invented Thanos debuts new supervillain, 'Plunddo Tram,' inspired by Trump
- Eric Trump criticizes Democrats for talking about COVID-19 too much
- Star Wars' Kelly Marie Tran will make Disney history with her lead role in Raya and the Last Dragon
- NBA players have reportedly agreed to resume the season
- Worst-case storm surge from Hurricane Laura was avoided thanks to low tide
- Exclusive luxury escapes: rent an island, castle, safari villa or Lapland lodge
- Jared Kushner: NBA players are 'fortunate' that they can take 'a night off from work'
- Violence in Kenosha 'echoes' Trump's anti-protest rhetoric. The White House claims Wisconsin isn't Trump's responsibility.
- TikTok sale reportedly could be imminent after CEO's surprise resignation
- Quiz of The Week: 22-28 August
- New jobless claims decline but stay above 1 million
- FDA gives emergency-use approval for Abbott's $5, 15-minute COVID-19 test, though not for home use
- Stephen Colbert says the RNC is too dark to watch, but Samantha Bee and Trevor Noah still make light
- Poland refuse to sign off German ambassador over father’s Nazi links
- Why Tony Abbott is a controversial choice for UK trade role
- Unclear government PPE advice blamed in home care coronavirus death inquiry
- CBI chief warns of ‘ghost towns’ as UK workers stay away from offices
- Hurricane Laura makes landfall, rivaling Louisiana's worst storms
- TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer steps down, citing 'sharply changed' political environment
- Wisconsin officials identify Kenosha officer who shot Jacob Blake, said Blake's car had knife, no gun
- Stressed zoo elephants to be given cannabis in new trial
- NBA season reportedly up in the air after 'ugly' NBA players' meeting on boycott
- Republican National Convention vies with a hurricane, sports protests, #NationalDogDay for Americans' attention
- WNBA players join Jacob Blake strikes, wear shirts with bullet holes in back
- More than 100 COVID-19 cases in 8 states linked to Sturgis Motorcycle Rally
- August 26th
- NBA analyst Kenny Smith walks off TNT set in solidarity with players
- The NBA boycotts feel like a 'huge cultural inflection point,' analysts say
- Christopher Nolan fans plan to fly across the country to see Tenet
- CDC's abrupt change to COVID-19 testing guidelines was evidently forced through while Dr. Fauci was unconscious in surgery
- Kenosha Police face outrage over their seemingly preferential treatment of shooting suspect
- Milwaukee Bucks boycott playoff game in response to Jacob Blake shooting
- Trump administration officials reportedly pressured CDC to change COVID-19 testing guidelines
- COVID-19 cases in children rise by 21 percent in August
- This terrifying animation shows how high Hurricane Laura's storm surge might get
- NHC warns of 'unsurvivable' storm surge from Hurricane Laura
- Mark Meadows thinks 'nobody outside of the Beltway' cares about the Hatch Act
- New Porsche Panamera revealed: sharper looks, more speed
- Experts say the CDC's updated guidance on asymptomatic COVID-19 testing 'makes no sense'
- Need more outdoor space? This Scottish Highlands estate is all yours for £7.5m
- Two metre distancing ‘may not be enough’ in Britain’s pubs and clubs, scientists say
- Hurricane Laura is now forecast to hit Texas and Louisiana as a 'catastrophic' Category 4 storm
- How an Amazonian city that shunned lockdown may have hit herd immunity
- 2 dead, 1 wounded in Kenosha after armed 'vigilantes' clash with protesters, police say
- James Anderson joins Test cricket’s 600 wickets club - now he’s aiming for 700
- Trevor Noah and Stephen Colbert are cool with Jerry Falwell Jr.'s sexual choices, but not his hypocrisy
- Stephen Colbert recaps Night 2 of the RNC: 'Slow and boring' with lots of Trumps
- Coronavirus: UK government ‘watered down’ advice on effective hand sanitisers
- Jerry Falwell Jr. is leaving Liberty University with a $10.5 million golden parachute
- Melania Trump's lauded COVID-19 empathy was undercut by her mask-less, mingling RNC audience
- Covid misinformation blamed for Texans drinking bleach
- Larry Kudlow's claim that Trump inherited a 'stagnant economy' gets pushback from fact-checkers
- Hurricane Laura forces 585,000 evacuations from Texas and Louisiana
- August 25th
- Jacob Blake's mother pleads with Americans to 'examine your heart' in emotional speech
- RNC's 1st night draws a smaller TV audience than the DNC's
- Rare whisky is flavour of the month for investors
- 20,000 coronavirus cases in Boston stemmed from a single conference in February, researchers say
- American Airlines to cut 19,000 jobs in October
- Usain Bolt reportedly tests positive for COVID-19 following 'mask-free' party
- Courts are increasingly granting police immunity in excessive force cases
- NIH to conduct studies on compound similar to remdesivir
- The West Wing is getting a reunion special to support Michelle Obama's voter participation organization
- FDA chief admits he oversold COVID-19 plasma effectiveness
- Hurricane Laura could make landfall in Texas, Louisiana as a Category 3 storm
- The Late Show's Melania Trump previews her suspiciously familiar RNC speech
- Israel's COVID-19 breathalyzer test prototype promises results in 30 seconds
- Jeremy Corbyn’s stance on Salisbury attack was ‘wrong’, says former adviser
- Tesco to reward lockdown temps with 16,000 permanent jobs
- Isis Beatles facing ‘fate worse than death’ in ‘America’s toughest jail’
- Trevor Noah has some thoughts, jokes on Trump's sister secretly talking smack about him
- Bank holiday virtual music festivals: Reading, Leeds, Creamfields and more
- Stephen Colbert gingerly recaps Night 1 of Trump's Republican National Convention
- Jerry Falwell Jr. resigns from Liberty University after day of confusing back-and-forth amid sex scandal
- Dead bodies emerge on UK island
- Trump surrogate Kim Guilfoyle slams home state, suggests Puerto Rico isn't part of U.S., in loud, dark RNC speech
- Jerry Falwell Jr. says reports of resignation from Liberty University are 'completely false'
- August 24th
- Chris Paul's first answer after a dramatic playoff victory was about the Jacob Blake shooting
- Florida judge blocks state's school reopening order, saying it 'disregards safety'
- The Powerpuff Girls will be 'disillusioned 20-somethings' full of resentment in a live-action reboot
- Jerry Falwell Jr. reportedly resigns from Liberty University
- Postmaster general admits he doesn't know what it costs to mail a postcard
- Biden calls for police accountability following shooting of Jacob Blake
- Mark Zuckerberg reportedly encouraged Trump to crack down on TikTok, and now it's planning to sue
- Brendan Gleeson expertly channels Trump in the trailer for The Comey Rule
- Northern Ireland restaurants and pubs: best places to eat
- Researchers report 1st confirmed cases of coronavirus reinfection
- NHS care homes told to put ‘Do Not Resuscitate’ orders on all residents at Covid peak
- Jerry Seinfeld blasts 'some putz' who claimed New York City is dead: 'Oh, shut up'
- The Primodos scandal: why Theresa May is calling for ‘redress’
- John Oliver says Trump's shambolic border wall is a useless barrier, perfect monument to Trump
- Six million furloughed workers ‘broke rules by carrying on working during lockdown’
- School children at more risk from ‘flu or road accident’ than coronavirus, says deputy CMO
- Justin Townes Earle, singer-songwriter son of Steve Earle, has died at 38
- Jerry Falwell Jr. says his wife had an affair with the Florida 'pool boy,' claims they were being blackmailed
- Study delivers more bad news for Karens
- Biden promises no new taxes for small businesses, anyone making under $400,000
- August 23rd
- FDA issues emergency use authorization of convalescent plasma for COVID-19
- Despite Trump's claims, acting DHS chief says department has no authority to send agents to polling sites
- There's concern a 3rd coronavirus wave in the U.S. could be 'more diffused,' less concentrated
- What the U.S. can learn from India's rapid coronavirus testing efforts
- August 22nd
- House passes USPS legislation that has little chance of getting through Senate
- Kushner reportedly plans Middle East trip to build on Israel-UAE deal
- CDC's hopes for reopening schools safely boosted by 'encouraging' child-care center study
- Russian opposition leader Navalny still comatose but stable after transfer to Berlin hospital
- August 21st
- Lori Loughlin sentenced to 2 months in prison for role in college admissions scandal
- 'Golden State Killer' sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to series of rapes and murders
- Kanye West keeps failing to get on states' presidential ballots
- Unearthed clip shows Stephen Bannon joking about 'Build the Wall' fraud in 2019
- Forecast suggests 2 hurricanes could be in the Gulf of Mexico at the same time next week
- U.S. senator accidentally repeatedly yells the F-word during a congressional hearing
- Russian hospital claims Putin critic Navalny wasn't poisoned, bars his medevac to Germany
- The A-level and GCSE results ‘most often inflated’ by teacher’s grades
- Researchers, officials, and investors increasingly confident about a COVID-19 vaccine next January
- Watch Julia Louis-Dreyfus roast Trump while hosting the DNC
- ‘Financial armageddon’: darkness falls on Scotland’s night-time economy
- Late night hosts applaud the narrative perfection of Steve Bannon being arrested for a border wall scam
- BBC Newsnight editor accused of ‘off the scale’ bias after New Statesman cover story
- Hospital admissions ‘inflated’ at height of UK coronavirus outbreak
- Stephen Colbert recaps the DNC's grand finale, seems surprised Biden nailed his speech
- Some of the best stories from the 2020 DNC involved women hitting back — literally
- Cory Booker and Bernie Sanders share a joke about Booker's famous girlfriend at the DNC
- The world’s most appealing accents revealed
- Maybe Trump shouldn't have set the bar so low for Joe Biden's DNC speech
- Fox News raves Joe Biden's speech was 'enormously effective,' 'a home run'
- Pete Buttigieg reflects on how Biden 'stepped out ahead of this party' in endorsing marriage equality in DNC speech
- Kansas City Chiefs to ban fans from wearing headdresses to home games
- How to watch night 4 of the Democratic National Convention
- Trump campaign plasters The Washington Post with ads linking to claims debunked by the paper's fact checkers
- August 20th
- At least 2 people have died fighting raging wildfires in Northern California
- Sen. Bill Cassidy tests positive for COVID-19, has 'mild symptoms'
- The National Butterfly Center is dunking on Stephen Bannon
- The Chicks to bring a little giddy-up to the Democratic convention
- Ben Affleck is coming out of Batman retirement
- A confused Kirsten Dunst asks Kanye West why he put her on his campaign poster
- Lyft is suspending service in California
- Postal Service agents reportedly arrested Stephen Bannon
- Stephen Bannon arrested for allegedly defrauding donors to a 'Build The Wall' fundraiser
- Government spent £56m on consultants during pandemic
- Quiz of The Week: 15 - 21 August
- Unemployment claims are 'trending in the wrong direction' and are back above 1 million
- Mike Pompeo tries to use an awkward Simpsons meme to mock Hillary Clinton's DNC speech
- Cincinnati Reds 'devastated' by announcer's use of 'horrific' homophobic slur on the air
- Late night hosts were perplexed at Biden's low-rent nomination party, Trump's Goodyear boycott, calamari
- China dismisses anger at ‘huge Wuhan pool party’
- Has Alexei Navalny fallen foul of a ‘Putin poisoning’?
- Stephen Colbert recaps Night 3 of the DNC, from 'Trash-Talk Barack' to Kamala's big speech
- Prince Harry and Meghan Markle pitch mystery project idea to Hollywood
- Nation of online shoppers: Covid-19 sparks permanent change
- Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny rushed to hospital after apparently drinking poisoned tea
- Biden-voting former Trump DHS official says Trump was serious about swapping Puerto Rico for Greenland
- Dead chicks, newly dismantled mail sorting machines fuel distrust in DeJoy's USPS overhaul freeze
- Michigan will reportedly pay $600 million to Flint water crisis victims
- What is the UK’s favourite ‘no face-to-face contact’ sex position?
- Kamala Harris' DNC speech was full of tributes to Black women leaders — and her mother
- Kamala Harris officially becomes the first Black and South Asian woman on a major presidential party ticket
- DNC recognizes Biden's Violence Against Women act as its renewal stalls in Senate
- In moving video, 11-year-old whose mother was deported tells Trump he 'tore our world apart'
- Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords recounts years of recovery in stunning DNC speech
- Watch Billie Eilish bring her dark energy to the Democratic National Convention
- How to watch night 3 of the Democratic National Convention
- August 19th
- Thousands of lightning strikes sparked hundreds of fires in California
- Trump praises QAnon conspiracy backers as 'people who love our country'
- The Postal Service finally acknowledges the Postal Service
- Cher is calling post offices asking if she can volunteer
- Pelosi says postmaster general 'frankly admitted' he won't replace key USPS infrastructure
- Testing negative for antibodies doesn’t mean 'you didn't have COVID-19,' survey of coronavirus long-haulers suggests
- Tiger King zoo closes after reported animal welfare violations
- Princeton students in Chinese politics class will use code names to protect their identities from Hong Kong national security law
- Why the DNC is focusing on 'emotion over ideology'
- Percentage of Americans who say they'd get a COVID-19 vaccine declines 10 percent in 3 months
- Nearly half of physicians believe the U.S. coronavirus epidemic won't 'be under control' until after June 2021
- Eight castles in England you must visit this autumn
- UK Space Agency set to fight malaria from space
- Health misinformation generated billions of Facebook views in the last year, study finds
- Mali's president steps down after military intervention
- Mali coup: why the president resigned
- Late night hosts talk up Michelle Obama's DNC speech, mock Trump's comeback, laugh at Bernie's wood pile
- Stephen Colbert recaps the highs and lows of Night 2 of the Democratic National Convention
- Pain in Champagne: 100m bottles to go unsold as demand falls flat
- Will 1.6% rail fare rise keep commuters away from offices?
- Gavin Williamson warned against ‘scapegoating’ officials over A-level chaos
- Biden's Democratic National Convention doubled down on ObamaCare, as polls suggest it should
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slams NBC News for 'totally false and divisive' clickbait on her DNC speech
- Britain’s favourite conspiracy theory is revealed
- Democrats officially nominate Joe Biden for president, and then have an awkward Zoom party
- Rhode Island answers the DNC's roll call with a platter of calamari
- Bill Clinton rips Trump: 'We are the only major industrial economy to have its unemployment rate tripled'
- Sally Yates, acting attorney general fired by Trump, says he 'treats our country like it's his family business'
- How to watch night 2 of the 2020 Democratic National Convention
- August 18th
- TV networks are reportedly afraid of giving the RNC too much airtime, so they cut the DNC's time short too
- Cuba Gooding Jr. accused of rape in lawsuit
- Bipartisan Senate committee strongly implies Trump lied to Mueller
- Anderson Cooper rips apart MyPillow CEO as a 'snake oil salesman' in jaw-dropping interview
- Judge declines to force New Jersey to reopen movie theaters
- Bipartisan Senate committee 'had significant challenges' understanding Carter Page's activities in Moscow
- Andrew Cuomo criticized for writing mid-pandemic book about his response to the pandemic
- Bipartisan Senate report finds Paul Manafort posed 'grave counterintelligence threat' while on Trump campaign
- Michelle Obama says Trump is 'in over his head' at the White House. Trump says she's in 'over her head' on TV.
- Federal COVID-19 study to test a promising drug cocktail
- Plastic pollution accumulating in human organs, study finds
- New models suggest COVID-19 herd immunity might be achieved with far fewer people infected
- California reports 1st plague case in 5 years
- US Open 2020: women’s draw hit as six top-ten stars pull out
- Late night hosts offer some theories on why Trump is trying to destroy the U.S. Postal Service
- England and Germany ‘neck-and-neck’ in coronavirus vaccine race
- Stephen Colbert recaps the 1st night of the Democratic National Convention
- Next round is on Ryan Reynolds: actor’s Aviation American Gin sold in £460m deal
- Debate: should Gavin Williamson be expelled from the cabinet over exam results chaos?
- The Democratic National Convention used John Prine's last recording for a COVID-19 memorial video
- Socially distanced drive-through haunted house opens
- Bernie Sanders: 'Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Trump golfs.'
- George Floyd's brothers lead a moment of silence at the Democratic National Convention
- St. Louis couple who pointed guns at protesters to participate in Republican National Convention
- Kamala Harris' Secret Service code name reportedly reflects her groundbreaking nomination
- Here's how to watch the 2020 Democratic National Convention
- August 17th
- Virginia state senator, NAACP leaders charged with felony 'injury' to Confederate statue
- Millions of Californians brace for blackouts as governor calls severe power shortages 'unacceptable'
- UNC shifts to remote learning 1 week into the semester after coronavirus positive rate spikes
- DHS chief of staff under Trump endorses Biden, describes 'terrifying' dealings with president
- Trump says coronavirus is 'God testing me' to build economy again
- Officials made false statements about dropping charges against Jussie Smollett, special prosecutor says
- The 3 biggest storylines of the NBA playoffs
- Two men reportedly charged in unsolved 2002 killing of Run DMC's Jam Master Jay
- John Kasich defends DNC speaking slot: 'This country is moderate'
- Cardi B pushes for Medicare-for-all and free college in interview with Biden
- Mask mandates appear to be paying off in Kansas, Alabama
- McLaren Senna Ride-On: the ultimate electric toy car of 2020
- Eva Longoria, Tracee Ellis Ross, Kerry Washington, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus to emcee the DNC
- The USPS handles 500 million letters a day at Christmas. Mail-in ballots should be easy.
- New studies reportedly suggest lasting immunity to COVID-19 even in mild cases
- As few as one in ten civil servants heed Boris Johnson’s ‘back to work’ call, new figures show
- Washington Football Team's Jason Wright becomes the NFL's first Black team president
- ‘Exam shambles’: mystery as Ofqual removes appeal process
- UK property sales hit £37bn in market’s busiest month in decade
- Tory MP accused of rape to stay away when Parliament returns in September
- California wildfires plagued by fire tornado, record-shattering heat wave, wild lightning strikes
- Elvis is ‘alive and living in Chile’
- August 16th
- Former FDA commissioner provides clarity on coronavirus immunity questions
- Top post office officials called to testify before House Oversight Committee in emergency hearing
- CNN's Jake Tapper, Mark Meadows clash over unsubstantiated allegations of voter fraud
- Putin offered military assistance to Belarus, but analysts explain why he's unlikely to follow through
- August 15th
- August 14th
- R. Kelly's manager charged with threatening a shooting to disrupt documentary screening
- Democrats call on top DHS officials to 'resign in disgrace' after watchdog says their appointments were invalid
- A USPS 'Equipment Reduction' plan will reportedly eliminate 15 percent of mail sorting machines
- Some House Republicans have reportedly tied Kevin McCarthy's fate to Trump's
- Scotland to hold trials in cinemas with socially distanced juries
- Billie Eilish, John Legend, and The Chicks among artists set for the Democratic convention
- Cycling revolution: ‘demand for bikes has gone ballistic’
- Pennsylvania ballots might not be delivered in time to be counted, Postal Service warns
- Quiz of The Week: 8 - 14 August
- Late night hosts compare Trump's USPS mail-in confession to a Bond villain's oversharing
- Global oil demand forecast lowered for 2020 and 2021
- A quarter of young adults have contemplated suicide during the pandemic, CDC says
- GOP Sen. Susan Collins is 'concerned' about U.S. Postal Service delays, she tells postmaster general
- The COVID-19 recession is basically over for the rich and Wall Street, but not for the working class
- Michael Jordan trainers fetch $615,000 at auction
- August 13th
- Senate adjourns until September with no coronavirus relief deal
- The makers of Fortnite are revolting against Apple's App Store fees
- Postal workers are sounding the alarm as mail sorting machines are removed from processing facilities
- Hurricane season gets its 10th named storm months earlier than average
- Israel and United Arab Emirates agree to 'full normalization' of relations
- NYT: True coronavirus death toll is over 200,000
- New unemployment claims finally dip below 1 million, but layoffs remain incredibly high
- Health experts are warning of a 'gruesome' fall of coronavirus
- AMC to start reopening its movie theaters next week — and selling tickets for 15 cents
- 'Apple One' subscription bundles could reportedly roll out alongside the new iPhones
- Coronavirus: how the UK’s revamped tracking app will work
- Some analysts think the loss of college football may cost Trump the election
- Bid to resurrect extinct Sumatran rhino using stem cells
- Late night hosts highlight the confused early attacks on Kamala Harris from Trump, the GOP
- Grassroots sport in crisis: ‘protect indoor sport’ or lose a generation of players
- Flu now killing five times more people than Covid-19
- Just Eat to create ‘thousands’ of UK jobs as revenues hit almost £1bn
- Trump's payroll tax deferral is confusing, maybe unworkable, top U.S. business group warns
- Emu reported loose in New Jersey
- Kanye West met quietly with Jared Kushner in Colorado last weekend, for some reason
- After Trump's complaints, the Department of Energy proposes relaxing showerhead standards
- U.S. health officials report nearly 1,500 COVID-19 deaths, the highest total since May
- Watchdog report: U.S. ambassador to Britain made inappropriate remarks on race, religion
- August 12th
- U.S. commander 'concerned' over ISIS regrouping in western Syria
- Ohio drop box restrictions add new front to mail-in voting battle
- Hurricane-force storm in Iowa flattens 10 million acres of crops
- Serena Williams wins a tennis match while simultaneously parenting her daughter
- Stevie Nicks says pandemic 'is a real American Horror Story'
- Trump has pretty much eliminated daily intelligence briefings. Biden has already started receiving them.
- As many as 1 in 3 coronavirus patients could experience neurological or psychological after-effects
- How New Zealand is tackling fresh coronavirus outbreak
- Bentley Bentayga Speed: world’s fastest SUV gets a new look
- Billionaire media mogul Sumner Redstone dies at 97
- Sharing the pain: Hong Kong protesters invest in arrested mogul’s pro-democracy newspaper
- Trump and his aides reportedly think they have Democrats in a 'real pickle' with the COVID-19 aid stalemate
- Trevor Noah and Seth Meyers are not amused at Trump's self-serving 'sabotage' of the U.S. Postal Service
- Ryanair, Virgin Atlantic and Tui ‘breaching flight refund promises’
- COVID-19 deaths quadrupled among young Floridians in July, and it wasn't just partiers and bar-hoppers
- Late night hosts size up Joe Biden's choice of Kamala Harris for vice president
- Fauci isn't sold on Russia's claim it has a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine
- Man discovers wife’s affair on Google Maps
- French prime minister warns COVID-19 infection rate is going 'the wrong way'
- QAnon supporter wins House GOP runoff in Georgia
- Sarah Palin offers advice to Kamala Harris: 'Trust no one new' and ignore the 'yahoos'
- Colorado AG announces broad investigation into policies of Aurora Police Department
- August 11th
- 4 ways Kamala Harris just made history
- Why Karen Bass could take over Kamala Harris' Senate seat
- Big Ten to postpone fall football season
- Trump campaign tweets mugshots of alleged criminals, all of them Black, to claim Biden is pro-crime
- Alyssa Milano reveals hair loss from COVID-19
- The U.S. 'may have missed a window' to produce 'an important bridge' to a coronavirus vaccine
- Andrew Yang is feeling snubbed from the DNC speakers lineup
- Cardi B wants her music to 'make a woman feel like a bad b--ch'
- The murder rate has jumped dramatically in several major U.S. cities
- Mark Meadows is reportedly the bad cop of coronavirus relief negotiations
- Stilton causes a stink in Japan trade deal talks
- Black Bowmore DB5 1964: forget martinis, Mr Bond, try this £50,000 whisky
- The EPA approved a citrus-based mosquito and tick repellant that's so nontoxic you can drink it
- Coronavirus: why England’s daily death toll is dropping so slowly
- The people most excited about Kanye's 2020 run are GOP operatives, Trump's campaign, maybe Kanye
- Putin says Russia wins global race with 1st registered coronavirus vaccine
- Flu jabs shortage ‘may scupper government’s new vaccine targets’
- Late night hosts pan Trump's unemployment aid theater, laugh at his bid to get on Mount Rushmore
- Trump's executive action on unemployment aid would cost states billions, drain FEMA disaster fund
- Preacher says apocalyptic fireball could destroy Earth next month
- Secret Service says White House complex was never in danger amid officer-involved shooting
- Mississippi's new flag won't have Elvis on it, but it could feature a mosquito
- Report: Trump considering blocking citizens suspected of having COVID-19 from returning to U.S.
- EPA expected to soon announce rollback on methane regulations
- August 10th
- California judge orders Uber and Lyft to classify drivers as employees
- QAnon Facebook groups have more than 3 million combined followers, investigation reveals
- Senate cafeteria workers reportedly face layoffs if Congressional stalemate continues
- Gas explosion in Baltimore could be felt from several miles away
- As college football players push to play, 'Power 5' conferences reportedly discuss postponing season
- Mexico's coronavirus outbreak is now the third worst in the world
- Next coronavirus peaks will 'by far' exceed the current one, expert warns
- Chicago raises bridges, blocks access to downtown after overnight looting
- China imposes retaliatory sanctions on 6 U.S. lawmakers, including Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz
- ‘Horrific’: 30% of sportswomen abused by social media trolls
- How 2020 exam grades will be calculated
- Missing the office? Have the sounds of the workplace in your home
- Media tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested under Hong Kong's new national security law
- At least 97,000 U.S. kids tested positive for coronavirus over last 2 weeks of July
- Collin Morikawa wins 2020 PGA Championship
- New Zealand records 100 days without a new domestic coronavirus case
- August 9th
- National security adviser: 'Almost nothing' left to sanction 'of the Russians'
- 4 surprising reasons scientists think asymptomatic coronavirus cases are so common
- A crucial barrier to Afghan peace talks has been removed
- There's bipartisan concern about effectiveness, legality of Trump's pandemic-related executive orders
- August 8th
- August 7th
- Gates Foundation donates $150 million to push coronavirus vaccine doses below $3
- Stimulus bill talks hit another dead end after 2 weeks of negotiations
- Court rules House can enforce McGahn subpoena, but law professors say Trump's stalling already did its job
- Trump's latest fundraising attempt is reportedly a Facebook scam against his own supporters
- The one where the Friends reunion gets delayed again
- U.S. sanctions Hong Kong's leader and other officials over 'draconian' national security laws
- Cuomo says all New York schools can reopen
- Florida health directors reportedly told not to say whether schools should reopen
- Pfizer will manufacture Gilead's emergency coronavirus drug remdesivir to scale up its supply
- Oprah Winfrey is putting up 26 billboards calling for arrests in Breonna Taylor case
- Unemployment rate declines to 10.2 percent, but experts point to 'discouraging' pace of recovery
- UK and Japan rush to secure trade deal: what is in it?
- Energy bills: ‘big savings’ for millions of UK households this winter
- U.S. coronavirus death toll could rise to nearly 300,000 by December, model projects
- Dominic Cummings under pressure to explain second Durham trip as public lose trust
- Man wins lottery because girlfriend criticised his spelling
- Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine tests negative for coronavirus, hours after positive result
- Trump issues executive orders targeting TikTok, WeChat
- Data shows Kansas counties with mask mandates have seen a decrease in COVID-19 cases
- Facebook removes hundreds of fake accounts posing as Black Trump supporters
- Beirut bride filmed during blast says one thing entered her mind: 'Now you are going to die'
- August 6th
- State Department lifts global coronavirus travel advisory
- Facebook employees report 'pattern of preferential treatment' for conservatives who spread misinformation
- Lizzo signs deal to make shows for Amazon
- This year's hurricane season could be 'one of the busiest on record,' NOAA says
- Asymptomatic coronavirus carriers are just as contagious as those with symptoms, study shows
- Experts embrace at-home coronavirus tests, emphasizing speed over accuracy
- New York attorney general sues to dissolve the NRA, saying it's 'fraught with fraud and abuse'
- Beirut crowds call for the 'fall of the regime' as Macron visits following explosion
- Quiz of The Week: 1 - 7 August
- Nintendo's profits climb more than 400 percent amid coronavirus lockdowns
- 1.2 million people filed new unemployment claims last week
- LeBron James: NBA 'could care less' if Trump stops watching
- Deutsche Bank handed Donald Trump’s financial records to New York investigators
- US Open: Novak Djokovic is in, but Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer are out
- 135,000 jobs in Britain facing the axe amid ‘economic armageddon’
- Pastures new: city dwellers seek out countryside properties
- Coronavirus: ministers blew £150m on unusable masks from British banker
- Pence calls Chief Justice John Roberts 'a disappointment to conservatives'
- L.A. mayor warns utilities will be shut off at houses throwing large parties amid pandemic
- Man threatens service station workers with toilet brush
- August 5th
- Facebook removes Trump post due to coronavirus misinformation
- Iowa ends lifetime voting ban for people with felony convictions
- Students at viral Georgia high school say they face expulsion for remaining home amid pandemic
- The U.S. Army esports team would like Twitch commenters to stop asking about war crimes
- Twitter says vulnerability could have exposed direct messages for Android users
- Facebook knows Trump ads are making false claims about Biden — but it's not doing anything to stop them
- Scientists discover 11 new penguin colonies in Antarctica. But it's not all good news.
- YouTuber Jake Paul's house reportedly searched by the FBI
- A lapse in pandemic unemployment benefits could cause a greater consumer spending decline than the Great Recession
- GOP senator questions Trump giving RNC speech from the White House: 'Is that even legal?'
- Lebanon places Beirut port officials under house arrest during blast investigation
- SF90 Stradale: Ferrari’s stunning new hybrid
- The boom in second-hand pumps
- Ten independent London cocktail bars now taking bookings
- Instagram Reels, Facebook's competitor to TikTok, rolls out in the U.S.
- Seven states announce bipartisan agreement to expand COVID-19 testing
- Lockdown and chill: 12m Brits sign up for streaming services
- Prince Andrew ‘used Spitting Image puppet of himself’ to assault Virginia Roberts Giuffre
- Marriage proposal goes wrong as man sets flat on fire
- Video shows Black children held at gunpoint by police who thought they were in a stolen car
- Officials say deadly Beirut explosion caused by 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate
- August 4th
- Theme park closures due to coronavirus pandemic cost Disney billions
- Mississippi governor relents, ordering statewide mask mandate for 2 weeks
- Disney to release Mulan at home in September for $30
- Game delayed by drone latest development in weird MLB season
- Early Novavax coronavirus vaccine trial produced antibodies in all of its human volunteers
- Tropical storm Isaias races up East Coast, leaving 2 dead and 2 million without power
- At least 50 people killed, 2,700 injured in Beirut blast, health minister says
- Neil Young files copyright infringement lawsuit against Trump campaign
- State attorneys general want to lower Gilead's high remdesivir prices with federal patent law
- Ryan Reynolds says getting married at a former plantation was a 'giant f---ing mistake'
- Kanye West scraps effort to get on New Jersey ballot after challenge to 'egregiously bad' petition
- Trump's aides are reportedly promising him re-election if he 'nukes' his China trade deal
- Pro athletes are performing better without fans
- Faster than Concorde: fly from London to New York in just 90 minutes
- Bolivia just outright canceled the rest of its school year
- Chinese state media decries the planned 'theft' of TikTok
- Tory-linked PR firm handed £3m government contract without tender
- Twitter faces possible FTC fine afters users' email addresses and phone numbers were used for targeted ads
- GOP battle over Kris Kobach takes center stage as Kansas, 4 other states hold congressional primaries
- Father of Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘secret’ UK girlfriend says he knew she dated the paedophile
- Eli Lilly testing whether novel COVID-19 antibody drug can quash outbreaks in nursing homes
- Trump demands feds get a 'very substantial' cut of any Microsoft-TikTok sale, doesn't explain how that's legal
- Here today, Juan tomorrow: why Spain’s former king has fled into exile
- Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers watch Trump fiddle with banning TikTok as America burns
- Trump is evidently very pleased with acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf. Wolf's neighbors? Not so much.
- Mum caught digging tunnel to free murderer son
- Hurricane Isaias makes landfall in North Carolina
- California governor encouraged by slight improvement in coronavirus numbers
- Apple fire raging in Southern California sparked by a malfunctioning car
- August 3rd
- Israeli jets strike Syrian military targets after army thwarts Golan Heights attack
- WHO director-general warns there may never be a 'silver bullet' for COVID-19
- Leaked report shows DHS targeted Americans who fought against ISIS in attempt to tie antifa to foreign power
- Cardinals become third MLB team to miss a week of games after clubhouse coronavirus cases grow
- Taylor Swift just pulled off a Billboard feat no artist ever has before
- Trump says he's okay with Microsoft buying TikTok, but sets deadline for deal
- Andrew Lloyd Webber on the Cats movie: 'The whole thing was ridiculous'
- U.S. coronavirus response 'failed worse than I ever could have imagined,' infectious disease expert says
- Dwayne Johnson is buying the XFL
- Federal judge speaks out in emotional video after son was killed by 'madman'
- Lamborghini Essenza SCV12: stay off the road, this hypercar is purely for the track
- Len McCluskey threatens to cut Unite funding to Labour over anti-Semitism payouts
- Spain ‘secretly lobbied’ US in plan to end UK sovereignty over Gibraltar
- Nobel Peace Prize winner John Hume dies at 83
- Pelosi, Mnuchin double down over coronavirus relief differences
- Boris Johnson accused of using Whitehall staff as ‘guinea pigs’ amid coronavirus outbreaks
- John Oliver takes a sober look at how America teaches Black history, white racism
- GOP Rep. Louie Gohmert's daughter publicly chides him for ignoring 'medical experts,' getting COVID-19
- Israeli border tension ‘a sign world is about to end’
- Birx: U.S. in 'new phase' of pandemic, with coronavirus 'extraordinarily widespread'
- After consulting with Trump, Microsoft to continue talks to buy TikTok
- Department store Lord & Taylor files for bankruptcy
- Deutsche Bank launches investigation into personal banker of Trump, Kushner
- Isaias skirts Florida coast, bringing heavy rain and winds
- August 2nd
- Wildfire scorches more than 20,000 acres in Southern California
- Watch NASA astronauts' successful splashdown aboard SpaceX capsule
- Coronavirus testing czar calls for widespread mask compliance, but suggests mandate could be risky
- Former FDA commissioner hopeful U.S. can avoid singificant flu season amid pandemic
- Pelosi: 'I don't have confidence' in Dr. Birx
- Phillies, Marlins provide some cautious optimism for MLB after reporting no new coronavirus cases
- Public transportation may not be a major source of coronavirus transmission
- GOP may close convention to press, but decision reportedly not final
- August 1st
- TikTok's Chinese parent company reportedly agrees to divest app's U.S. operations
- Schumer calls latest round of coronavirus relief talks most productive yet, but sides still 'not close'
- Legal constraints mean Fed's Main Street program can't help businesses that need it most
- Trump's TikTok threat may just be a 'negotiation tactic'
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