August 14, a Fulton County, Georgia grand jury seated in Atlanta indicted nineteen people, including former United States President Donald Trump, on 41 counts overall, Trump himself facing thirteen.
On August 8, voters in Tulsa, Oklahoma, US approved an US$814 million package to improve the infrastructure around the city. The "Improve our Tulsa 3" package received more than the requirement of 60% of the ballots cast.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, 62, a Russian businessman whose Wagner Group private military company briefly clashed with government forces and advanced on Moscow in June, was among the ten passengers listed for an Embraer plane that crashed in Tver Oblast Wednesday without survivors, the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency said Wednesday.
On August 1, Wikinews reporter Ash Thawley interviewed Steven Meserve, founder of Loving Cats Worldwide, with one of its Cat Extravaganza cat shows slated for December in Birmingham, UK.
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