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August 2023

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August 31st
- Sunak reshuffle: Grant Shapps to replace Ben Wallace as defence secretary
- U.S. health agency advises easing federal marijuana restrictions
- Why spotted lanternflies are back and worse than ever
August 30th
- Burger King faces lawsuit over size of Whopper
- Why auto workers are on the brink of striking
- Medicare drug price negotiations start with 1st 10 drugs, pharmaceutical industry lawsuits
August 29th
- Disruption to flights could last days after air-traffic control failure
August 28th
- Peatlands are the climate bomb waiting to explode
- Fox News apologizes to Gold Star family for false story Marine Corps called 'disgusting'
- Watch Simone Biles win her record 8th US gymnastics championship
August 27th
- The answer to rising home prices: smaller homes
August 25th
- Canada ‘poison seller’ linked to 88 deaths in the UK
- 5 illuminating books about the video game industry
August 24th
- Sara Sharif ‘seen with injuries at school’ before her death
- Wind-powered ships are back. But will they make an impact?
- Nobody seems surprised Wagner's Prigozhin died under suspicious circumstances
August 23rd
- Rebellious nuns ban Texas bishop from monastery in chastity row
- Cheap cars get run off the road
- The 'girl dinner' TikTok trend has dieticians on edge
August 22nd
- Children trapped 900ft in the air in Pakistani cable car emergency
- The growing threat of urban wildfires
August 21st
- Hundreds of Ethiopian migrants ‘killed by Saudi border guards’, says human rights group
- Everything we know about the final season of 'Stranger Things'
August 20th
- Earthquake rattles Southern California as Tropical Storm Hilary hits
- Spain beats England 1-0 to win its first Women's World Cup
- Russian lunar spacecraft crashes into the moon
August 19th
- American Airlines suing website that offers tickets via price loopholes
- Hurricane Hilary bringing unprecedented storm warnings to Southwest
- A summer of shark attacks
- Should the school day start later? It's complicated.
- Vietnamese EV maker VinFast wows with staggering Nasdaq debut
August 18th
- Locals put up fake jellyfish signs to ward off tourists in Mallorca
- Maui travel and the ethics of tourism
- Ukraine's counteroffensive is making incremental gains. Does it matter in the broader war?
August 17th
- British museum worker sacked over ‘stolen’ treasures
- Women's World Cup athletic kits have upped their fashion game
- Mobsters jailed by Giuliani are 'thrilled' with his RICO prosecution. Former fans are sad.
August 16th
- How 'personhood' works as a legal defense of nature
- Bulgarian trio accused of running ‘Russian spy ring’ from Great Yarmouth
August 15th
- Blind Side subject Michael Oher sues ‘adoptive parents’
- The rise and fall of the DC Extended Universe
- AI's boost for students and teachers in higher education
- Police video shows GOP Rep. Ronny Jackson profanely threatening Texas trooper in rodeo altercation
August 14th
- Pembrokeshire campsite crash: baby saved after car ‘catapulted’ from road
- Kansas police raid small-town local newspaper, setting off a press freedoms clash
August 13th
- Federal agencies investigating near miss between Southwest jet and private plane
- Western mountain climbers allegedly left Pakistani porter to die on K2
- Understanding the new Covid-19 variant, Eris
- When therapy-speak enters the real world
August 12th
- Hawaii reportedly downplayed threat of wildfires for years prior to Maui blaze
- Artificial intelligence goes to school
August 11th
- Tory Lanez refuses to apologise after 10-year sentence for Megan Thee Stallion shooting
- Maui wildfire death toll hits 53, expected to rise, in Hawaii's 'largest natural disaster'
August 10th
- Pedro Pascal unable to enter Pedro Pascal exhibition in Margate
- Trucking giant Yellow: From bailout to bankruptcy in 3 years
- Ecuador anti-corruption presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio shot dead before election
- Maui wildfires kill 6, destroy historic tourist town Lahaina
August 9th
- Air pollution may be increasing antibiotic resistance, new research suggests
- Russia blamed for cyberattack that exposed UK voters’ data
- 'Circular saw blades' divide controversial Rio Grande buoys installed by Texas governor
- Ohio voters defeat GOP measure to raise referendum threshold
August 8th
- Los Angeles city workers stage 1-day walkout over labor conditions
- Traveller returns home after 10-year journey to every country in the world without flying
- Ohio is voting on whether to raise the bar on referendums — and a popular abortion amendment
- Mega Millions jackpot climbs to an estimated $1.55 billion
August 7th
- Tick bites could cause an allergy to red meat, CDC says
- The danger of drinking too much water
- Ascension island: UK could send small boats arrivals to remote Atlantic territory
- Bangladesh dealing with worst dengue fever outbreak on record
- Glacial outburst flooding in Juneau destroys homes
August 6th
- Oregon lifts ban on drivers pumping their own gas
- US knocked out of Women's World Cup in stunning exit
- The new push to solve long Covid
August 5th
- Scotland seeking 'monster hunters' to search for fabled Loch Ness creature
- DOJ investigating alleged racial profiling among Connecticut troopers
- NASA fully restores contact with Voyager 2 spacecraft
- The fight for equal pay
- The significance and benefits of being on Unesco's World Heritage list
- How the SAG-AFTRA strike is impacting influencers
August 4th
- Hundreds of children hit with heat exhaustion at World Scout Jamboree in South Korea
- The Lizzo allegations and fallout
- What is cardiac arrest and why does it happen?
August 3rd
- Interest rates rise to 5.25% for first time in 15 years
- Stars who have joined the picket lines during the Hollywood actors strike
- All the box office records broken by 'Barbie'
- Texas found dead body stuck in border buoys it placed in Rio Grande, Mexico says
August 2nd
- Leprosy could be endemic in central Florida, CDC warns
- Amputee rate in Ukraine rises to level akin to WWI
- Donald Trump criminal charges for 6 January could strain 2024 candidacy
- Why is Congress talking about aliens again?
- How wealth impacts college admissions
- The US just banned most incandescent light bulbs, and few people even noticed
- Fitch downgrades US credit rating, citing 'repeated debt-limit political standoffs'
August 1st
- NASA loses contact with Voyager 2 probe
- Bed Bath & Beyond relaunches online following bankruptcy
- 20 dead and 27 missing after lethal downpour in Beijing
- Is Barbenheimer coming for the Oscars?
- TikTok chef Thomas Straker sparks hospitality diversity row
- NPC streamers are having a moment
- Will a solar storm wreak havoc on the internet?
- Biden keeps U.S. Space Command in Colorado, reversing Trump move to Alabama

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