Melbourne and Sydney Australia erupted with ant-lockdown protests over the weekend with thousands taking to the streets to demand their freedom of country’s heavy handed pandemic restriction.

The federal government said there is potential to launch civil rights investigations over a contentious issue in American schools: mask mandates.

According to the poll, 60% believe that other religions, such as Islam and Buddhism, can also lead to salvation.

Over the weekend, Rev. Franklin Graham, pastor and president of the evangelical relief ministry Franklin Graham, commissioned Christians worldwide to dedicate Sunday, August 22, as a special day of prayer for the dire situation in Afghanistan.

Billionaire Palantir CEO Alexander Karp has made a personal donation to a hermit who recently lost his cabin home in a fire. Hermit David Lidstone, also known as River Dave, has lived in a cabin out in the woods in New Hampshire for the past 30 years. River Dave was recently in the headlines and jailed after he refused to leave his cabin after the new owners of the land ask him to leave. River Dave told the new owners and the press that he had a private verbal agreement with the land’s previous owner.

At least 22 people have been killed in historic floods that ravaged the central portion of Tennessee on Sunday. In addition to those who lost their lives, dozens of people are still missing and at least 60 people have been injured in what is now the deadliest flood in Middle Tennessee history.

Israeli fighter jets bombed four Hamas weapons sites on Sunday in response to violent protests that erupted along the Gaza border.

The US State Department was the target of a substantial cyberattack in recent weeks according to Fox News reporter Jacqui Heinrich via Twitter thread. The State Department released a statement saying that,

The Department takes seriously its responsibility to safeguard its information and continuously takes steps to ensure information is protected. For security reasons, we are not in a position to discuss the nature or scope of any alleged cybersecurity incidents at this time.

The State Department went on to say that their normal operations or critical involvement with the situation and evacuation in Afghanistan have not been impacted.

In the 6th inning of the Tigers’ Sunday afternoon contest against the Toronto Blue Jays, Cabrera blasted a 1-1 pitch off Blue Jays pitcher Steve Matz over the right-center-center field wall at Rogers Centre in Toronto.