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PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney, who banned indoor dining in the city due to the pandemic, apologized after a picture of him eating inside at a restaurant in Maryland on Sunday, August 30, circulated on social media. According to 6ABC, the mayor's office confirmed that he was eating inside a friend's restaurant when he was in Maryland. Their statement...

UNITED STATES—As hopes for a COVID-19 vaccine continue to push equities to new heights, Wall Street recorded its strongest return in August in decades. The S&P recorded its best August return since 1986, the Dow recorded its best return since 1984, and the Nasdaq had its best return since 2000. According to Dow Jones Market Data, the S&P added its...

STANFORD—On Thursday, August 24, Brown Institute for Media Innovation at Stanford University released that researchers at the Computer Graphics Lab at Stanford University launched the Stanford Cable TV News Analyzer to track and calculate screen time of public figures in broadcasts from CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC. “Each day, cable TV news networks determine what information millions of Americans receive....

CHICAGO, IL—A 19-year-old man fired gunshots at two police officers in the Homan Square neighborhood on the west side of Chicago on Sunday, August 30. The suspect was also wounded during a running shootout with a third police officer. On Monday, August 31, officials from the Chicago Police Department announced that Jeffon Williams, 19, was charged with seven counts of...

UNITED STATES—Alice Marie Johnson was granted a full pardon from her life sentence with no parole on Friday, August 28. Her case received national attention in 2017 after an interview with Mic went viral. Johnson's story brought attention to America's drug punishments, as many called for criminal justice reform. The 1986 Anti-Drug Abuse Act declared a war on drugs and...

DULUTH, MN—Six Minnesota mayors from cities in the state’s “Iron Range,” a name for iron mining regions around Lake Superior, signed an open letter endorsing President Trump as a supporter for the working class people of the region. The letter also called Joe Biden “out of touch with the working class” and expressed a feeling of abandonment by the...

ST. LOUIS, MO—A 43-year-old man was taken into custody for the shooting two St. Louis police officers on Saturday, August 29. The officers were responding to a shooting on Hartford Street south of Tower Grover Park around 6 p.m. The suspect entered the home of Steve and Mimi Haag, ordered them to leave, and barricaded himself inside. The Haags were...

PORTLAND, OR—A Portland protest on Sunday, August 30 resulted in the declaration of an unlawful assembly and 29 people being arrested. The protest occurred one night after a fatal shooting during an encounter between a group of President Donald Trump supporters and a group of people opposing Trump. At about 8:30 p.m., a group of about 150 protesters started marching...

ST. LOUIS, MO—Two police officers responded to reports of gunshots around 5:45 p.m. at the 3700 block of Hartford on Saturday, August 29, and commenced a search for a victim and a suspect. They heard gunfire and Officer Tamarris L. Bohannon, 29, was shot in the head and the second officer suffered a bullet to the leg while trying...

ATLANTA, GA—On Saturday, August 30, the Atlanta Police Department requested that the Georgia Bureau of Investigation investigate an officer-involved shooting. In a press release from the GBI website, it states: "Preliminary information indicates that at approximately 3:00 p.m., while APD officers were investigating a possible vehicle in a parking lot located near 80 13th Street NE. When officers approached the...