A round up of the day’s news that might be of interest to you.
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Thousands of people lined the streets of Moscow to pay their respects to Mikhail Gorbachev ahead of his funeral on Saturday — a farewell noticeably missed by Russian President Vladimir Putin. https://t.co/DP5F4gtWGL
Residents of Benton Harbor received an important advisory this week from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services heading into the weekend: there will be no free bottled water distributed on Sept. 5 due to the Labor Day holiday. https://t.co/SmOCPPorrX
Border officials say the death toll has risen to nine migrants in a disastrous crossing of the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass, Texas, following days of heavy rains. Dozens of people were rescued. https://t.co/rj4joeeI0S
A Ku Klux Klan plaque is affixed to the entrance of the United States Military Academy's science center at West Point, a congressional commission has discovered. https://t.co/st8WyYraZF
Former Pres. Trump is campaigning for Republicans in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on Saturday in what will be his first rally since federal agents searched his Florida home last month. https://t.co/d1N7OrNlMr
NASA scrubbed its second attempt to launch its Artemis 1 test flight on a long-awaited mission to send an unpiloted Orion crew capsule on a 37-day trip around the moon and back. https://t.co/wCUTmww5fA
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