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President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden visited a Washington, DC middle school Monday to welcome students back on the first day of the 2023-2024 school year. (Aug. 28)

One faculty member is dead following a shooting at UNC Chapel Hills that led to a three-hour-long lockdown Monday, officials said.

Tropical Storm Idalia is forecast to make landfall along the western coast of Florida before moving across the state and into Georgia.

Jeanne Roblez Howell, 64, of Sedona, disappeared during a hike at Bryce Canyon National Park. Park official said they found her body over the weekend.

Protest outcry in Tripoli after Libyan foreign minister meets with Israeli officials

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was booed at a vigil for Black men killed in a shooting at a Dollar General. The sheriff said it was racially motivated.

Tropical Storm Idalia was near the coast of Cuba Monday on a potential track to come ashore as a hurricane in the southern U.S., the National Hurricane Center said. (Aug. 28)

Here’s the latest for Monday August 28th: Tropical storm could become hurricane and threaten Florida; DeSantis booed at vigil for Jacksonville shooting victims; 3 US Marines dead in Australia crash; New crew reaches International Space Station.
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The trickling sound of treated radioactive water flowing to an underground pool could be heard as media toured the Fukushima nuclear power plant, a week after the beginning of the release of wastewater from the plant into the Pacific Ocean. (August 28)…

Four new crew members arrived on the International Space Station on Sunday. The four, from the U.S., Denmark, Japan and Russia, are due to stay in orbit for six months. (Aug. 28)(AP video production by Rod Jussim)