Tropical Storm Josephine is expected to keep well north of Puerto Rico and east of the mainland United States to avoid serious impacts there, forecasters said Saturday. A ship that wrecked off the coast of Mauritius in July broke in two Saturday, prompting concern that more oil could spill out near the island and cause a significant threat to marine life. A U.S. Postal Service spokesman said the agency will stop taking down mail collection boxes until after Election Day. The Trump administration withdrew the nomination of William "Perry" Pendley to the Bureau of Land Management Saturday amid political pressure from both sides of the aisle. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization Saturday to the Yale School of Public Health for an open source, saliva-based COVID-19 test that uses commercially available equipment. Florida officials reported a reduction in the number of positive COVID-19 cases, but also said they expected the number of deaths to increase in the coming weeks, while New York reported a record high number of tests. South Korea reimposed social distancing measures Saturday to curb COVID-19 after local cases spiked in the capital. Illinois' longest-serving governor, James Thompson, has died, his family announced. He was 84. President Donald Trump issued an executive order giving ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, 90 days to divest from its U.S. assets and any data the video-sharing app had gathered in the United States. Stone Mountain Park closed Saturday to stop a planned far-right rally and a counterprotest there, but demonstrations went ahead in town. Poland and the United States signed an agreement Saturday that will increase the number of U.S. troops in Poland. Tropical Storm Kyle moved away from the U.S. East Coast on Saturday, one day after forming near Atlantic City, N.J. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged Saturday never to "repeat the tragedy of war" during a commemoration marking VJ Day, the day Japan surrendered in World War II. Three police officers in Mississippi have been charged with murder for the beating death of a 62-year-old man last year. A federal appeals court has ruled against California's ban on large-capacity magazines, affirming a lower court's decision that the ban violates the Second Amendment. Los Angeles-area officials lifted some evacuation orders Saturday as firefighters battled a 17,000-acre blaze amid what could be a record-breaking heat wave in Southern California, officials said. Tig Notaro has replaced fellow comedian Chris D'Elia in Zack Snyder's Netflix movie, "Army of the Dead," after D'Elia was accused of sexual misconduct. A new mystery drama focused on the character Dionne from the 1995 comedy film "Clueless" is in development at the Peacock subscription service. "Scandal" alum Kerry Washington and "The Politician" actor Ben Platt have been booked as guest hosts of the late-night chat program, "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" Nina Dobrev, Jimmy O. Yang and Charles Melton are set to star in Netflix's romantic comedy, "Love Hard." Pop star Taylor Swift's "Folklore" is the No. 1 album in the United States for a second consecutive week. The United Nations Security Council has rejected the U.S. proposal to extend an arms embargo on Iran. On Aug.15, 1969, the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival, often described as a landmark counterculture event, opened on Max Yasgur's farm near Bethel, N.Y. ER physicians in Austin, Texas, report report a number cases of severe, maiming injuries -- including skull fractures, brain hemorrhages and broken jaws -- in young protesters hit by beanbag rounds fired by police. Actor Anthony Anderson turns 50 and actor Jennifer Lawrence turns 30, among the famous birthdays for Aug. 15. |
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