Louisiana officials announced that the state's wildfire was deliberately set, although authorities have not released details of the Tiger Island Fire's origin.
In a landmark case, the Spreckels Union School District in Salinas, California, has agreed to a $100,000 settlement with a mother and her daughter, who accused staff at Buena Vista Middle School of secretly guiding the 11-year-old girl to transition to a male identity.
This ambitious endeavor, aiming to amass 300 billion yuan (roughly $41 billion), surpasses its predecessors in 2014 and 2019, which garnered 138.7 billion yuan and 200 billion yuan, respectively.
Last month was "the fifth-highest August on record in terms of federal background checks for gun transfers since the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System was established 25 years ago."
In a recent revelation that may seem ironic to some, New Jersey's Democratic Governor Phil Murphy stated that New Jersey can no longer accommodate more illegal immigrants, despite his 2017 campaign pledge to transform the entire state into a "sanctuary state."
In November 2017, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that MosquitoMate, Inc. had submitted plans to infect live male mosquitoes with a bacteria called "Wolbachia pipientis," which enhances WNV infection.