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Unbiased headline news – A Russian court has denied an appeal by a U.S. soldier sentenced to three years and nine months in prison for alleged death threats and theft. Gordon Black was sentenced in June by a court in Vladivostok, located in Russia’s Far Eastern region, where he was arrested in May while visiting a Russian woman he had met and dated while stationed in South Korea. The 34-year-old was detained after the woman, identified by Russian media as Alexandra Vashuk, reported him to the police following an argument. — The United Kingdom has enacted emergency measures to alleviate overcrowding in prisons overwhelmed by those sentenced for participating in, or inciting, riots across England and Northern Ireland earlier this month. Under Operation Early Dawn, defendants in northern England who have been arrested but not yet appeared in court will be held in police station cells until a prison space becomes available, causing delays as they cannot face trial until space is secured. — The United States and South Korea commenced a significant joint military exercise on Monday aimed at deterring escalating threats from North Korea, which criticized the drills as “offensive and provocative.” The annual exercise will address “realistic threats across all domains, including the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s increasing missile threats, GPS jamming, cyber-attacks, and lessons learned from recent armed conflicts,” both militaries stated last week. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is North Korea’s official name. — Tourists will soon have the opportunity to visit North Korea again. According to two China-based tour operators, the reclusive nation is set to reopen one city to foreign tourists after nearly five years of border closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Beginning in December, visitors will be allowed to travel to the northern mountainous city of Samjiyon, as reported by CBS News partner BBC News. — Harvey Weinstein will remain in custody in New York while awaiting retrial on rape and sexual assault charges in Manhattan. Prosecutors confirmed this as the former movie mogul made a brief court appearance related to California’s request to extradite him. However, after the New York case concludes, he will return to California to serve his pending 16-year sentence for a separate rape conviction there, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said in a statement. — The family of D’Vontaye Mitchell, who died on June 30 after being pinned down by four hotel workers outside a Hyatt Regency in Milwaukee, has reached a settlement with the hotel following the workers’ charges in his death, which were captured on security video. Family attorneys Ben Crump, Will Sulton, and B’Ivory Lamarr stated in a joint announcement that the Mitchell family’s legal team “entered good faith conversations” with Hyatt “with the goal of helping to achieve resolution for the family of D’Vontaye Mitchell.” — A shooting near a Boston festival left five people injured, and police on Monday were searching for the suspects. The shooting occurred Sunday night in Franklin Park as a Dominican festival was concluding. Police reported that three men and two women sustained non-life-threatening injuries and were transported to a hospital. Their ages and names have not been disclosed. — Phil Donahue, the influential TV talk show host whose program aired for nearly 30 years, has died at the age of 88. Donahue passed away Sunday night following an undisclosed illness, according to a family statement provided to ABC News by a representative for Donahue’s wife of 44 years, Marlo Thomas. The family has requested that donations be made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital or the Phil Donahue Notre Dame Scholarship Fund in lieu of flowers, as per the statement.

This is NOT another poll! A new fact-based report was released that’s not good for Donald Trump’s campaign narrative. What he’s been preaching at his rallies and what Americans are concerned about are two totally different things. This report shows that he’s not addressing American’s concerns. He’s not only not addressing the issues, he’s failing in them. This is documented proof that Kamala Harris is on the right track and that’s why poll numbers are rapidly rising in her favor.

Unbiased headline news – Ukraine has targeted a crucial bridge in Russia’s Kursk region and hit a second one nearby, disrupting supply lines as it continues a significant cross-border offensive that began on Aug. 6, officials reported. The bridge strikes, seemingly intended to hinder a Russian counter-offensive in Kursk, could indicate that Kyiv plans to establish a presence in the region. No official details were provided on the exact location of the second bridge attack, but Russian Telegram channels claimed the second strike hit a bridge over the Seim River in the village of Zvannoe. — Canada’s two largest freight railways are threatening to shut down operations on Thursday due to a labor dispute that is already impacting the movement of goods across both Canada and the United States. Canadian railways transport over $350 billion worth of goods annually, representing more than half of the country’s total exports, according to the Railway Association of Canada. Industries ranging from agriculture to automotive, ports, and retail are being affected. The two companies have already stopped shipping certain goods. — A sheriff’s deputy in Georgia was shot and killed while responding to a reported domestic dispute in what police describe as an ambush by a suspect who later took his own life. Deputy Brandon Cunningham, 30, and another deputy arrived at a home in a Hiram, Georgia subdivision when a male suspect opened fire, unleashing a “hail of bullets” at the deputies and other officers, striking Cunningham, according to Major Ashley Henson of the Paulding County Sheriff’s Office during a news briefing. — President Biden’s recent decision to partially suspend asylum processing at the southern border has resulted in a significant decrease in the number of migrants released into the U.S. interior or assessed for humanitarian protection, according to official government data. In early June, Mr. Biden, citing the unprecedented levels of illegal border crossings in recent years, used executive authority to disqualify most migrants from U.S. asylum, making it easier for immigration officials to deport those entering the country illegally. — Investigators have found human remains on a property in southeastern Michigan belonging to a man whose wife disappeared more than three years ago and is believed to be dead. Dee Warner’s family reported her missing in April 2021. Her husband, Dale John Warner, 56, was charged in November with open murder and evidence tampering related to her disappearance. He has pleaded not guilty. Michigan State Police announced Sunday that they recently searched Dale Warner’s Lenawee County property and discovered human remains. — Seven members of the same family were rescued from a home invasion in Queens, New York, after they were allegedly terrorized by the suspects, according to the New York Police Department. Emergency dispatchers received a call to the home in the Douglaston neighborhood of Queens around 2 a.m. on Saturday. When officers arrived, they saw a woman running out of the building with a baby in her arms, according to police. The woman informed officers that three intruders had entered the home and were still inside with other family members. — A driver in Houston could face a murder charge after allegedly striking and killing an innocent bystander on a sidewalk early Sunday while attempting to run over his domestic partner, according to police. The incident occurred around 3 a.m. when patrol officers in the Midtown area of the city responded to what they initially thought was a gunshot and discovered the fatally injured victim on the sidewalk, Robert Ementich, a spokesperson for the Houston Police Department, said during a news briefing. — Perdue Foods is recalling over 167,000 pounds of certain chicken products. The poultry company is voluntarily recalling 167,171 pounds of frozen chicken “after a foreign material was identified in a limited number of consumer packages,” the company stated in a release on its website. The company reported no illnesses or injuries associated with the products. All recalled items have a best-used-by date of March 23, 2025, according to the company. —

Donald Trump will not be happy with Loopy Lindsey Graham’s interview on national TV. Graham publicly stated that Trump may not win the election and gave several reasons why. Of course Donald Trump will, more than likely, begin insulting Lindsey for not standing in order with the rest of the Republican cult members.

Unbiased headline news – An Israeli strike in southern Lebanon early Saturday resulted in the deaths of at least 10 Syrian nationals, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry. The strike on Wadi al-Kfour in Nabatieh province is one of the deadliest in Lebanon since the Hezbollah militant group and Israeli military began exchanging fire on Oct. 8, a day after Hamas attacked southern Israel, igniting the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. Hezbollah has stated it will cease its attacks once a cease-fire is established in the Gaza Strip. — A Russian missile strike ignited a fire in the Ukrainian city of Sumy on Saturday, while Ukrainian forces continued their advance into Russia’s Kursk border region. Two people were injured in the Sumy strike, which also damaged vehicles and nearby buildings, according to Ukraine’s State Emergency Service. The agency reported that the attack involved an Iskander-K cruise missile and an aerial bomb. Ukraine’s air force also announced it had shot down 14 Russian drones overnight, including some over the Kyiv region. — The first adult to face rioting charges following a week of unrest across England and Northern Ireland, triggered by a July 29 knife attack that resulted in the deaths of three young girls, appeared in court Friday. Kieran Usher, 32, did not enter a plea during his appearance at South Tyneside Magistrates’ Court on Friday morning. His next court date is scheduled for Aug. 23 at Newcastle Crown Court. Usher, from Sunderland, was arrested Thursday by Northumbria Police and charged with rioting in connection with alleged disorder that occurred in Sunderland on Aug. 2. — The Supreme Court declined to allow the Biden administration to enforce parts of a new rule that includes protections against discrimination for transgender students under Title IX while legal proceedings are ongoing. The high court upheld two separate rulings from federal courts in Kentucky and Louisiana, which blocked the Department of Education from enforcing the entire rule across 10 states. The Justice Department had requested the Supreme Court to stay part of these decisions, but the court declined. — Cases of whooping cough have risen to more than three times the number reported at the same time last year, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. So far this year, 10,865 cases of whooping cough, or pertussis, have been recorded, compared to 2,918 during the same period in 2023, CDC data shows. The current number of cases is closer to the 8,271 cases reported by this time in 2019, indicating a return to pre-pandemic levels. — Priceless paintings by Monet, Cezanne, Van Gogh, and others were unharmed Saturday after firefighters successfully contained a blaze that erupted on the roof of Somerset House, a major arts venue in central London, officials said. Heavy smoke and flames were visible from the top of the historic building around noon, but firefighters managed to bring the fire under control, pouring water from buckets on ladder trucks. Firefighters extinguished the remaining flames in the early evening and remained on the scene until Sunday, according to Keeley Foster, assistant commissioner of the London Fire Brigade. — A large bronze statue of the late civil rights leader and Georgia congressman John Lewis was installed Friday, at the very spot where a controversial Confederate monument stood for more than 110 years in the town square before its removal in 2020. Work crews carefully placed the 12-foot-tall (3.7-meter-tall) statue into position as internationally acclaimed sculptor Basil Watson watched closely. “It’s exciting to see it going up and exciting for the city because of what he represents and what it’s replacing,” Watson said, as he assisted with the installation. — Maurice Williams, a rhythm and blues singer and composer who, with his backing group the Zodiacs, became one of music’s notable one-hit wonders with the classic ballad “Stay,” has died. He was 86. Williams died on Aug. 6, according to a statement from the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame, which did not immediately provide additional details. A writer and performer from a young age, Williams had been part of various harmony groups when he and the Zodiacs recorded “Stay” during a studio session in 1960.

The hypocrite ‘conservative Christian’ Republicans strike again! Lauren Boebert & Rep. Anna Paulina Luna reveal how Christian and conservative they really are. They posted photos online that don’t look like something people of God would share to the public. Just another example of the Republican motto: “Do as I say, not as I do.”