August 27, 2020 News Brief

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The Milwaukee Bucks boycotted Game 5 of the NBA’s first round series against the Orlando Magic last night setting off a wave of cancelled games across professional sports in protests of the shooting of Jacob Blake. 

https://www.nba.com/article/2020/08/26/milwaukee-bucks-players-statement-following-boycott-game-5

Wisconsin authorities arrested 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse, a white Illinois resident and militia member. He was charged with first-degree intentional homicide in the shooting of two protesters on Tuesday. 

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2020/08/26/kyle-rittenhouse-charged-kenosha-protest-shootings-militia/5634532002/

Hurricane Laura made landfall last night leaving hundreds of thousands of Americans without power and even reversing the flow of the Mississippi River. 

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