Typhoon Haishen batters South Korea after slamming Japan

More than 300 flights from 10 airports have been cancelled, with some train services suspended.

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Thousands of Burning Man fans violated social distancing laws to hold their own festivals in the Nevada desert and on California beaches

San Francisco Mayor London Breed called those gathering on beaches "reckless" and "selfish" for violating social distancing guidelines.

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‘Discriminatory’ dress codes must end at hundreds of Texas school districts, ACLU says

The ACLU sent a letter to hundreds of Texas school districts urging them to revise their dress and grooming policies.

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A California fire that burned more than 7,000 acres was caused by a faulty spinning smoke machine at a gender-reveal party

A string of fires have hit parts of California in quick succession, so far killing eight people and razing around 3,300 buildings.

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Two Oregon men arrested for allegedly attacking counter-protesters at pro-Trump rally

Two people were arrested for attacking counter-protesters during a pro-Trump rally outside the Capitol building in Salem on Labor Day.

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As California burns, the winds arrive and the lights go out

New wildfires ravaged bone-dry California during a scorching Labor Day weekend that saw a dramatic airlift of more than 200 people trapped by flames and ended with the state's largest utility turning off power to 172,000 customers to try to prevent its power lines and other equipment from sparking more fires. California is heading into what traditionally is the teeth of the wildfire season, and already it has set a record with 2 million acres burned this year. The previous record was set just two years ago and included the deadliest wildfire in state history — the Camp Fire that swept through the community of Paradise and killed 85 people.

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Why Steve Nash’s Hiring Is About Relationships, Not Race

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A Police Officer Shot a 13-Year-Old With Autism in Salt Lake City

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Academy Explains Diversity Rules for Best Picture Oscar

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Federal Report Warns of Financial Havoc From Climate Change

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Democrats Fear Partisan Slant at Postal Service as Trump Allies Dominate Most of Board

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The Electoral College Will Destroy America

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‘You Couldn’t See Anything’: Harrowing Helicopter Rescues as California Wildfires Rage

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Stand-off over face masks ends with couple forcibly removed from ferry, NYC police say

The couple said they wouldn’t have been removed “if we were (expletive) Black.”

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Allegiant passenger removed after dispute over flight attendant's face mask

Allegiant removed a man Monday after he repeatedly interrupted the pre-flight safety briefing to tell the flight attendant to put her mask back on.

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Nebraska police officer dies 2 weeks after he was shot

A Nebraska police officer who was shot two weeks ago while attempting to arrest a 17-year-old on an assault charge died Monday, authorities said. Luis “Mario” Herrera, a 23-year veteran of the Lincoln Police Department, was shot while serving a warrant Aug. 26, The Lincoln Journal Star reported. “Sadness does not begin to describe fully our community’s sense of loss with the passing of Investigator Mario Herrera," Lincoln Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird said in a brief statement.

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Donald Trump cuts Joe Biden's lead in key battleground states, exclusive polling reveals

Donald Trump has slashed Joe Biden’s lead in some of the key battleground states which will likely determine who wins the US election, according to new polling for The Telegraph. The US president saw the percentage of people who say they will vote for him in six swing states rise between July and early September, according to the survey results. The results will be cheered in the Trump campaign given the president has trailed by a huge margin over the summer as coronavirus cases surged in America. For months Redfield & Wilton Strategies has been tracking opinion for this newspaper in the six states Mr Trump won by the narrowest margins in 2016: Arizona, North Carolina, Florida, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. The last polling in mid-July showed Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, clearly in the lead in all six states. The latest surveys, conducted in late August and early September after the party conventions, have that lead narrowing. Mr Trump is now ahead in North Carolina by one percentage point, according to the polling. He has also roughly halved Mr Biden’s lead in Florida. Mr Biden still leads in Pennsylvania and Arizona and is far ahead in Michigan and Wisconsin.

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No stimulus checks for Americans in slimmed-down GOP coronavirus relief package

Senate Republicans plan to vote Thursday on a new coronavirus bill, but it isn't likely to pass and is far less generous than the GOP plan unveiled just weeks ago.

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Joe Biden tells A.F.L.-C.I.O. members he'll be 'the strongest labor president you have ever had'

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden spent part of his Labor Day at the A.F.L.-C.I.O headquarters in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where he promised that if elected, he will be "the strongest labor president you have ever had."Biden vowed to increase the wages of essential workers, hold business executives liable if they interfere with unionization efforts, and pass the PRO Act to give workers more bargaining and organizational rights, The New York Times reports. "Wall Street did not build this country," Biden said. "You did — the great American middle class. And the middle class was built by unions — unions — and the American people now finally get it after a long time of being convinced that unions were a problem, not the answer." A Gallup poll released at the end of August found that 64 percent of Americans approve of labor unions, up 16 points from a 2009 low point.More stories from theweek.com Senate Republicans are apparently struggling to find 51 GOP votes for a COVID-19 relief bill Are the troops turning on Trump? Ellen DeGeneres says she's coming back for a new season, and 'yes, we're gonna talk about it'

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Australian journalists flown out of China 'amid diplomatic standoff'

The two journalists from different organisations left due to diplomatic tensions, local media report.

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Rochester, NY, police chief announces retirement in wake of Daniel Prude's death

Rochester Police Chief La'Ron Singletary announced his retirement Tuesday in the wake of Daniel Prude's death in police custody in March.

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Lukashenko reportedly tells Russian TV the U.S. is orchestrating the Belarus protests

In his first sit-down interview since anti-government protests swept the nation, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko made a slight concession, The Guardian reports — the so-called "last dictator in Europe," who has held his post for 26 years, acknowledged he "may have sat in the president's chair a little too long." But, other than that, he denied responsibility for the unrest, instead pointing a conspiratorial finger at the United States, and reiterated that he does not plan on stepping down.Lukashenko reportedly told members of the Russian media — whom The Guardian notes did not appear to subject the ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin to tough questioning — that he believes Washington is orchestrating the protests via the messaging app Telegram from centers in Poland and the Czech Republic, using the situation as a dry run, more or less, for a similar operation in Russia for the future.The claims are unsubstantiated and dismissive of Belarus' growing, internal, and organic opposition movement that is seeking change from the autocratic regime in Minsk, although Lukashenko accused what he described as a class of "young bourgeois" in Belarus who "want power" of stirring up trouble, as well. Read more at The Guardian, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and RT.More stories from theweek.com Senate Republicans are apparently struggling to find 51 GOP votes for a COVID-19 relief bill Are the troops turning on Trump? Ellen DeGeneres says she's coming back for a new season, and 'yes, we're gonna talk about it'

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EXCLUSIVE: Wounded US Army vet and lone-survivor of IED says he was used as a 'prop' in anti-Trump 'propaganda'

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