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August 1, 2017, The United States Senate, in a 92–5 vote, confirms Christopher A. Wray as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. (Reuters)

August 2, 2017, Series Premiere of Sinner

August 2, 2017, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, retires from public appearances at the age of 96, after having completed 22,219 solo engagements since 1952. (ABC News (Australia))

August 2, 2017, A natural gas explosion at college prep school Minnehaha Academy in Minneapolis, Minnesota, kills two staff members. Another nine people were injured, seven of whom are hospitalized, three in critical and four in serious condition. (AP)

August 2, 2017, Teams of United States-based researchers, composed of American, Chinese and South Korean scientists, successfully edit a piece of faulty DNA that causes a deadly form of heart disease from cells in human embryos. (BBC)

August 2, 2017, President of the United States Donald Trump signs the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act. Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Medvedev calls it a "trade war". (Reuters)

August 2, 2017, United States President Donald Trump, together with Senators Tom Cotton and David Perdue, unveils the RAISE Act, a plan that would, if passed, reduce legal immigration to the U.S. by half each year, and implement a "merit-based system" prioritizing skilled workers, instead of the current family-based chain migration system. (The Washington Post)

August 3, 2017, The Guest Book

August 3, 2017, Grand jury subpoenas have been issued in connection with a June 2016 meeting that included Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and a Russian lawyer. (Reuters)

August 3, 2017, Special counsel Robert Mueller has impaneled a grand jury in Washington, D.C. to investigate allegations of Russia’s interference in the 2016 elections. (Reuters)

August 3, 2017, Two transcripts of telephone conversations between U.S. President Donald Trump and foreign leaders are leaked. Trump was shown to disagree with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto on 27 January over the proposed border wall, and with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull the next day over the resettlement deal of refugees in Nauru and Manus. (The Washington Post)

August 3, 2017, West Virginia Governor Jim Justice announces, during U.S. President Donald Trump's rally in Huntington, he is changing his party affiliation from Democratic to Republican. (Huff Post via MSN.com)

August 4, 2017, Release of The Dark Tower

August 4, 2017, Release of Kidnap

August 4, 2017, Release of Wind River

August 4, 2017, A fire at the 79-story Dubai Torch Tower in the United Arab Emirates, which forced nighttime evacuations, was under control in a few hours with no serious injuries immediately reported. The building's exterior was still being renovated from a fire in February, 2015, which investigators had blamed, at least in part, to flammable siding, echoing the findings of this past June's Grenfell Tower fire in London. (The New York Times)

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August 8, 2017, A magnitude 7.0 earthquake strikes Sichuan in southwest China, killing at least thirteen people and injuring more than 175. (BBC)

August 8, 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump promises "fire and fury like the world has never seen" if North Korea threatens the United States. (NBC News)

August 9, 2017, Series Premiere of Mr. Mercedes

August 9, 2017, In a suspected terror attack, six French soldiers are injured, three seriously, when a man drives a car into them at a barracks in the Paris suburb of Levallois-Perret. (Independent)

August 9, 2017, Hurricane Franklin, the Atlantic Ocean's first hurricane of the season, is set to hit Mexico's Gulf state of Veracruz tonight or tomorrow morning. The category 1 storm is expected to lose strength as it moves inland through the oil-producing state. (Reuters)

August 9, 2017, Two Cuban diplomats are expelled from the Embassy of Cuba in Washington, D.C., after an incident in Havana forced U.S. officials to return home. (Fox News)

August 9, 2017, Unarmed Russian Air Force reconnaissance jets, under the authority provided by international Open Skies Treaty, fly over several Washington, D.C., area government buildings and landmarks as well as the President's residence in Bedminster, New Jersey. (ABC News)

August 9, 2017, The U.S. imposes new sanctions on eight Venezuelan officials, including Secretary of the 2017 Constituent Assembly Adán Chávez - the late President Hugo Chávez's brother, to "deter further democratic backsliding" in the South American country. (Reuters)

August 10, 2017, New York State-based GateHouse Media announces an agreement to buy 11 U.S. newspapers from Georgia-based Morris Communications. Included in the deal is the Log Cabin Democrat, founded in 1879, and three Alaskan newspapers: the Juneau Empire, the Peninsula Clarion and Homer News. The deal is expected to close on October 2. (AdWeek)

August 11, 2017, Release of Annabelle: Creation

August 11, 2017, Release of The Glass Castle

August 11, 2017, Release of Nut Job 2: Nutty By Nature

August 11, 2017, Release of Good Time

August 11, 2017, Release of Ingrid Goes West

August 11, 2017, Release of The Only Living Boy in New York

August 11, 2017, Series Premiere of Atypical

August 11, 2017, A white supremacist rally called "Unite the Right" takes place in Charlottesville, Virginia. (CNN)

August 11, 2017, The world's oldest man, Polish–Israeli Yisrael Kristal, who was also recognized as the oldest living Holocaust survivor, dies at age 113 years, 330 days, in Haifa, Israel. (BBC via MSN.com)

August 12, 2017, Fights break out between alt-right protestors and left-wing counterprotesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the removal of the Robert Edward Lee Sculpture. One person is killed and several people are injured after a man drove his car into a crowd of counterprotesters. (CNN)

 

 

August 12, 2017, A Virginia State Police helicopter monitoring protests crashes, killing two officers onboard. (NBC News)

August 13, 2017, Series Premiere of Get Shorty

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August 13, 2017, A magnitude 6.4 earthquake occurs off the Indonesian island of Sumatra. There are no reports of casualties or structural damage to buildings. (Reuters via Channel News Asia)

August 13, 2017, In golf, American Justin Thomas wins the PGA Championship for his first career major title. (AP via ESPN)

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August 14, 2017, Merck chief executive officer Kenneth Frazier resigns from President Trump's American Manufacturing Council, citing his opposition to Trump's lack of a strong response denouncing the incidents instigated by white nationalists in Charlottesville, Virginia. (CNN)

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