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Postmaster General Testifies Before House

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and Postal Service Board Chairman Robert Duncan testified before the House Oversight Committee over concerns about an expected surge in mail-in ballots during the election in November. You can watch the full hearing here.

Tropical Storm Marco Downgraded Before Landfall

After 24 hours as a hurricane, Tropical Storm Marco was downgraded before it made landfall in Louisiana around 6 p.m. ET Monday with sustained winds of 40 mph. Further into the Gulf of Mexico, Tropical Storm Laura caused at least 11 deaths in the Dominican Republic and Haiti ahead of a projected landfall (as a hurricane) in Louisiana later this week.

Danish Intelligence Chief Suspended

The Denmark government suspended the head of the Danish Defense Intelligence Service (DDIS) on Monday after an independent watchdog criticized the agency for deliberately withholding information and violating Danish laws. The oversight board said the DDIS initiated operations contrary to law, and had obtained and shared “a significant amount” of information about Danish citizens.

🔴🔵Republican National Convention: Day One Recap, featuring speeches from Sen. Tim Scott, Nikki Haley, Donald Trump Jr., and President Trump (who will be speaking on each of the four days).

☠️ Poison Confirmed… a German hospital said Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny was poisoned by an unknown substance, and that his condition remains serious but not life-threatening.

⚖️ Death Penalty Overturned… the California Supreme Court overturned Scott Peterson’s 2005 death sentence for killing his pregnant wife, but upheld his murder conviction.

Mr. Jones & Me

The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) announced the addition of three new companies. Salesforce, Amgen, and Honeywell will join the 30-stock benchmark starting Aug. 31, replacing Exxon Mobil, Pfizer, and Raytheon. Experts say the move was in response to Apple’s recent decision to enact a 4-to-1 stock split, which significantly reduced the DJIA’s tech-sector weighting.

Zoom Resumes

Zoom experienced an outage in its video chat service for several hours Monday morning. The company first reported “partial outages” for its video meetings service just before 9 a.m. ET, and said it had resolved all issues by 12:30 p.m. Zoom does not publicly disclose user numbers, but experts in June estimated that its mobile app had ~173M monthly active users.

Tech Talk: IPO Edition

A number of tech companies filed for an IPO on Monday. Epic Games competitor Unity Software - known for its popular video game engine - joined fellow tech companies Snowflake, SumoLogic, and JFrog in disclosing plans to go public.

Worth Noting: The majority of U.S. states are now approved to give workers an extra $300 per week in unemployment benefits. View the full list.

⏰ TikTok Goes On The Clock: The short-form video app officially filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Monday (The suit revealed TikTok’s growth numbers for the first time, including ~100M monthly active U.S. users).

50 Shades Of Green

Most people would consider traveling to all 50 U.S. states to be an impressive accomplishment. Even more impressive is 29-year-old Rodney Smith Jr. of Hunstville, AL, who last year completed his fifth “tour” of the United States - with a charitable twist.

In 2017, Rodney visited all 50 U.S. states to mow a lawn in each state for someone in need of help: a veteran, a single mother, the elderly, or someone who is disabled. The initial journey garnered widespread attention on social media, and enabled Rodney to raise the funds for four additional mowing trips.

Dolls For All

When San Diego native Ariella Pacheco, 17, was a little girl, her parents let her pick out any American Girl doll she liked from a catalog. Naturally, Ariella picked out one with a hair color and style that matched her own. But what about children with rare medical conditions who don’t look like anybody else? Ariella pondered the question as she grew up, and earlier this year came up with a solution.

Over the past several months, Ariella designed and sewed custom cloth dolls for four local children who have among them a noticeable birthmark, surgical scars, a jaw alignment issue, and cranial differences. “I hope through these dolls they can see themselves in a new light and really embrace their beauty,” she told the San Diego Tribune.

The Elephant Outside The Room

Elephants are known to be social creatures, but for the past eight years, a 35-year-old elephant at the Marghazar Zoo in Islamabad, Pakistan, has lived alone. Kaavan the Elephant, who arrived in Pakistan at the age of one, did not always live in isolation - almost one decade ago, his playmate, Saheli, passed away.

This summer, the Pakistani High Court ruled in favor of releasing Kaavan from the zoo and relocating him to the Elephant Nature Park, a sanctuary for rescued animals. The court also ruled that all the zoo’s other animals need to be transferred within 60 days as the facility works to improve its standards for the quality of life of its inhabitants.

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