Headlines for August 5, 2024

Bangladesh Prime Minister Resigns, Flees Country After Bloody Weekend, Weeks of Protests, U.S. Sends More Military to Middle East Amid Threats of Retaliation After Israel’s Assassinations, Israeli Attacks on Shelters for Displaced Gazans Kill Dozens, Most of Them Children, Far-Right Protests Roil U.K. in Aftermath of Deadly Stabbing Attack That Killed 3 Girls, Kamala Harris Gets Enough Votes to Clinch DNC Nom as Trump Pulls Out of Debate, WaPo: Egypt’s Abdel Fattah el-Sisi May Have Bribed Trump for $10 Million in 2017, Sudan’s Paramilitary RSF Continues Deadly Attack on El Fasher as U.N. Warns Famine Could Spread, Al-Shabab Claims Mogadishu Beach Attack That Killed 37, Dispute over Venezuela’s Election Results Deepens as Opposition Claims It Won by 2X the Vote Count, Pentagon Chief Lloyd Austin Revokes Plea Deal for 9/11 Guantánamo Prisoners, U.S. Gov’t to Start Paying Out $2 Billion to BIPOC Farmers Who Suffered Institutional Discrimination, Southern States Brace for Hurricane Debby as It Makes Landfall in Florida