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September 1, 2017
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2017-09-01
)
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Disasters and accidents
2017 Atlantic hurricane season
Hurricane Irma
, now a
Category 2
hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 110 miles per hour (175 kilometers per hour), is expected to resume strengthening this weekend increasing the danger when it nears the
Leeward Islands
in the
Caribbean
next Thursday.
(Weather Channel)
(CNN)
(National Hurricane Center)
Health and medicine
Great Lakes
Researchers report, in the
Environmental Science & Technology
journal, the discovery of
antidepressant
concentrations in 10 kinds of fish in the
Niagara River
, which links to the
Great Lakes
via
Lakes Erie
and
Ontario
. Speculated causes include inadequate treatment of water re-introduced into said
bodies of water
.
(
New York Daily News
)
International relations
South Korea–United States relations
,
2017 North Korea crisis
South Korean President
Moon Jae-in
and U.S. President
Donald Trump
agree to revise the
South Korea Ballistic Missile Range Guidelines
which caps
South Korea
's missile development.
(Reuters)
Law and crime
United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
United States federal judge
Richard Posner
has announced his retirement after three decades of service on the bench of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, headquartered in
Chicago
,
Illinois
. Appointed by
President
Ronald Reagan
in 1981, Justice Posner has written more than 3,300 opinions from the bench.
(AP)
Politics and elections
2017 New Zealand general election
The
Labour Party
, led by
Jacinda Ardern
, surges in the polls and is neck-and-neck with the
National Party
, led by
Bill English
, for the race for
Prime Minister
of
New Zealand
.
(
The Guardian
)
2017 Kenyan general election
The
Supreme Court of Kenya
annuls the results of the recent presidential election, that indicated
President
Uhuru Kenyatta
was reelected, due to irregularities, and orders a new election.
(BBC)
Presidency of Donald Trump
Paul Ryan
(R-WI),
U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives
, urges President
Donald Trump
not to rescind the
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
(DACA) program that protects immigrants who illegally entered the U.S. as children from deportation.
(Reuters)
President Trump nominates
Oklahoma
congressman
Jim Bridenstine
, member of the
House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
, to be Administrator of the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
.
(Politico)
Science and technology
2017 in astronomy
Asteroid
3122 Florence
, which is roughly 2.7 miles (4.4 kilometers) wide, comes within 4.4 million miles (7 million km) of Earth — approximately 18 times the distance from our planet to the
Moon
.
(Space)
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