Welcome to Notable News for the 21st of August!

Today we cover:

-Microsoft announced that it disabled fake sites by a group affiliated with the Russian government

-Silent Sam Confederate statue toppled at the University of North Carolina

-Brett Kavanaugh's explicit 1998 memo

-Close to 250 officials have spoken out against Brennan's security clearance removal

-Trump considering removing sanctions against Russia altogether

-Simone Biles became the first woman to win 5 U.S. All-Around titles

-USA Gymnastics did not do anything to recognize the survivors of Nassar’s abuse again

-Former South Carolina police officer Michael Slager pleads guilty in the shooting of Walter Scott

-The Trump administration set to loosen state-based regulations on coal-fired power plants

-The oldest and thickest sea ice in the Arctic has started to break up

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