$248.8 B for the month of August this year vs. $253.4 B one year ago, -$4.6 B or -1.

Source: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4634034-weekly-indicators-conflict-between-inflation-and-interest-rates-persists?source=feed_all_articles

A 20-year-old Michigan woman found alive in a funeral home in August after being wrongly declared dead is now genuinely dead—and her relatives blame the earlier mistake for her demise.

Source: https://www.newser.com/story/297701/woman-found-alive-at-funeral-home-dies-8-week-later.html

A303, from 7.30pm August 4 to 6am August 11, slight delays (under 10 minutes): A303 both directions Countess to Cholderton mobile lane closures for litter picking works.

Source: https://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/23691078.a36-a303-multiple-upcoming-road-closures-motorists/?ref=rss

A303, from 7.30pm August 4 to 6am August 11, slight delays (under 10 minutes): A303 both directions Countess to Cholderton mobile lane closures for litter picking works.

Source: https://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/23691078.a36-a303-multiple-upcoming-road-closures-motorists/?ref=rss

A 54 percent majority of Americans say Biden is allowing a southern border invasion, according to an August 2022 poll commissioned by the left-of-center National Public Radio (NPR).

Source: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/03/02/bidens-pick-for-labor-sec-is-migration-advocate/

A 72-year-old man has died in East London after police recovered his body from a lake near Ilford yesterday (Tuesday, August 29).

Source: https://www.mylondon.news/news/east-london-news/live-ilford-updates-body-man-27619533

Abimbola Ajoke Bamgbose, a 38-year-old social worker, died in August after buying an overseas package deal with Mono Cosmetic Surgery.

Source: https://www.barryanddistrictnews.co.uk/news/national/18982112.health-tourism-warning-mother-of-threes-liposuction-death-turkey/?ref=rss

About 2,000 officers who are members of the Unite union will walk out for 31 days between 24 June and 27 August.

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65831998?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA

About 500 yards north of a spot where the Brimstage Brewery is now located, just off a secluded Brimstage Lane, a bizarre and terrifying incident took place one warm evening in August 1978.

Source: https://www.wirralglobe.co.uk/news/23943579.haunted-wirral-two-baffling-brimstage-lane-mysteries/?ref=rss

About a month ago, the ' Ronald Acuna Jr. appeared to be the runaway winner of the National League MVP award, until star Mookie Betts put together a historic August.

Source: https://deadspin.com/braves-ronald-acuna-jr-aims-to-bolster-mvp-resume-vs-1850799162?utm_source=regular

A car with home appliances heads out of Carrefour-Feuilles during the Grand Ravine gang attack on the area on Tuesday, August 15, 2023.

Source: https://haitiantimes.com/2023/08/21/deaths-in-carrefour-feuilles-attacks-latest-in-2400-killed-in-haiti-report-says/

According to agreed facts, on one unknown date between October, 2020 and August, 2021, the man sent "multiple pictures of his penis" to the teenager on Snapchat.

Source: https://www.northerndailyleader.com.au/story/8140158/sporting-coach-walks-from-court-for-sending-girl-snapchat-photos-asking-for-nudes/?src=rss

According to a study by consultants Uruguay XXI released Friday in Montevideo, exports from the South American country -duty-free zones included- totaled US$ 1.027 billion in August, which represented a 17% year-on-year drop.

Source: https://en.mercopress.com/2023/09/02/uruguayan-exports-suffer-17-yoy-drop?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_content=main&utm_campaign=rss

According to court documents released to the public this week, 22-year old Dylen Joseph Swan orchestrated a three-day crime spree involving a car chase, at least two shootings, and an armed robbery in August 2021.

Source: https://newstalk870.am/ixp/1130/p/washington-man-guilty-of-3-day-crime-spree-sentenced-to-14-years/

According to Gary Jupiter, owner of both the downtown Courtyard by Marriott and Hampton Inn, hotels are already booked at about 75% capacity for almost every SEC game weekend and he expects reservations to grow to at least 80% by the end of August.

Source: https://www.businessreport.com/business/lsu-football-season-cant-come-soon-enough-for-baton-rouge-hospitality-industry

According to OPEC August report, Nigeria’s crude grade, Bonny Light, against which all other crude grades produced by the country were priced, was sold for $80 per barrel in July.

Source: https://punchng.com/fg-loses-n1-9tn-to-oil-theft-in-july-report/

According to reports, on the 21st of August last month, a 15-year-old boy who was studying in eighth grade mysteriously disappeared from his school in Gangtok.

Source: https://voiceofsikkim.com/gangtok-sp-press-briefing-on-kidnapping-case-of-gangtok-and-arrest-of-three-culprits/

According to some reports, 50,000 people attended his funeral in Dublin in early August.

Source: https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/feb-8th-1847-daniel-o-connell-tragic-plea-save-ireland-famine

According to that dataset, the total imports of goods amounted to €1.11 billion, compared to €973.9 million in August 2022, recording an increase of 14.6 per cent.

Source: https://cyprus-mail.com/2023/11/11/cyprus-trade-deficit-grows-to-e6-49-billion/

According to the CWU, six postal workers were dismissed on August 11. One wasn’t dismissed but given a penalty, and the outcome of another worker is unknown.

Source: https://www.wirralglobe.co.uk/news/23719301.six-wirral-postal-workers-fired-cup-tea-pub/?ref=rss