- Hurricane Laura slammed into the Texas/Louisiana border as a massive Category 4 storm with 150 mph winds and a 20 foot storm surge, inundating thousands of square miles of coastal lowlands.
- As the US passed six million COVID-19 cases, France is reporting 5,500 cases in one day, the most since April, as a new community outbreak near Paris has French health officials worried.
- The NBA's Milwaukee Bucks went on strike to protest the shooting of Jacob Blake, resulting in a league-wide strike that included the WNBA, and baseball, soccer, and tennis.
- The Libyan capital of Tripoli is under a 24-hour curfew as government and rebel forces clash over youth-led protests in the city.
- Federal prosecutors have charged a Russian national with a malware hacking ransomware scheme as he planned to pay an employee of a Nevada-based company to infect the company's network.
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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