In the shopping center of the city of Jacksonville (Florida), where the broadcast of the tournament for the sports video game Madden NFL 19 took place, an unknown person opened fire. Police report several deaths. to Four people were killed, according local News 4 Jax. The shooter was killed. The police do not yet know if the attacker had accomplices. According to the Los Angeles Times, the shooter was one of the participants in the tournament who lost his match.

In the queen early in the morning of August 26, a fire occurred in a seven -story residential building. The fire began on the attic occupying the top floor of the building, its reason could be a short circuit or careless handling of fire. Rescuers extinguished the fire for ten hours. Subscribe to our YouTube

The Vietnamese authorities demanded compensation from Monsanto, which supplied the US Army with herbicides during the Vietnam War. The country's Foreign Ministry said it considers as a precedent the recent decision of a court in California to compensate American Dwayne Johnson, who claimed that he got cancer because of the Monsanto pesticide.

The Moscow authorities refused to approve the application of supporters of politician Alexei Navalny to hold a procession and rally in the center of Moscow on September 9, Interfax reports. As Vladimir Chernikov, the head of the capital's department of regional security, explained, the authorities consider it impossible to hold a procession along Tverskaya Street, since "many events dedicated to preparing the celebration of the city's day" are planned there.

Doctors at the hospital in Salisbury, where the Briton Charlie Rowley, who suffered from Novichok poisoning in Amesbury, is suspected of having meningitis. His brother spoke about this in an interview with The Daily Mirror. According to Matthew Rowley, doctors do not yet know what kind of meningitis they are dealing with. He directly connected the deterioration of the victim's condition with the consequences of poisoning.

Left Front coordinator Sergei Udaltsov, starving in a special detention center, was hospitalized, Interfax reports, citing his wife. Details about the state of Udaltsov's health are still unknown. On August 14, Udaltsov was arrested for 30 days under an article on a repeated violation in organizing rallies. After his arrest, he began a dry hunger strike. On the fifth day of the hunger strike, Udaltsov was already hospitalized.

Senator John McCain died in the USA Spencer Platt / Getty images In the United States, at the 82nd year of life, Senator John McCain died, one of the most authoritative politicians in the country, which has been representing Arizona in the Upper House of Congress for many years. All the last year, McCain fought with the brain tumor, but the day before the death of the senator, his family announced that he decided to stop treatment.

US President Donald Trump will not be invited to Senator John McCain's funeral, CNN reported, citing two friends of the McCain family. The senator himself has been sharply critical of Trump in recent months and has publicly said he does not want to see him at his funeral. CNN sources said his family's position on the matter has not changed. At the same time, former presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, who was McCain's rival in the 2008 election, were invited to McCain's funeral.

Peter Foley / Bloomberg / Getty images arrest of one of the participants of the largest fraud in the history of securities - trader and pastor Vitaly Korchevsky, USA, August 11, 2015 The Verge published the history of journalist Novelist Koshiv about the grouping of hackers and exchange traders from Russia, the USA, Ukraine and, apparently, other countries.

Over the next two days, a mock chemical attack against civilians may be carried out in the Syrian province of Idlib, according to the Russian Defense Ministry. According to the Russian department, “English-speaking specialists” have already arrived in the region. For staging a chemical attack, it is supposed to use rockets with chlorine. The Ministry of Defense said that the United States could use the future attack as an excuse for a new strike on Syrian government facilities.

US President Donald Trump and his wife Melania visited a children's hospital in Columbus, Ohio, to raise awareness of the opioid crisis in the US. At the hospital, Trump drew with the children, including coloring in coloring books. Twitter noticed that in photos taken after the trip, Trump was painting one of the stripes of the American flag blue - they immediately concluded that the president probably just doesn't know what the national flag looks like (it has red and white stripes).

Once upon a time you read a book, and now you remembered it and tried to find it. You don’t know the name, your head is foggy. This is a fairly common story: in early August, employees of the New York Public Library even held a hackathon where they tried to help readers with a similar problem. A description of the cover, an approximate plot, or the names of the characters—that’s all the librarians had. And yet, after two hours of searching, they found 48 books! Via Google.

In St. Petersburg on the evening of August 25, the Volodarsky bridge began to spontaneously open. According to Fontanka, citing eyewitnesses, the bridge has risen by about 30-40 centimeters. As a result of the incident, two cars and a bus crashed into the span of the bridge. All drivers were injured, one of them is in serious condition. The cause of the incident, according to a source in Smolny, could be too thick a layer of fresh asphalt.

Open film studio "Lark" / "Window to Europe" Frame from the film "Sea buckthorn summer" A week ago in Vyborg the film festival “Window to Europe” ended. It showed two biographical films - about the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky and playwright Alexander Vampilov. The experts liked one, the other to the audience. According to the film critic of Yegor Moskvitin, to wait for both.

Businessman Roman Abramovich is exploring the possibility of selling the Chelsea football club, according to The Sunday Times. According to the publication, Chelsea management turned to Raine Group, an investment bank specializing in investments in technology and sports, to assess the situation. A spokesman for Abramovich declined to comment on the situation. A Chelsea source said the businessman was "not thinking about selling the club".