Good morning. It’s Monday, August 31st, and this is your briefing from Lucas Dixon for The News & Observer. Today’s high will be 85 degrees with a chance of afternoon thunderstorms. In our top story: Raleigh Mayor Mary-Ann Baldwin lifted a 2-day citywide curfew yesterday. The mayor says the 10 pm curfew she set for Friday and Saturday nights helped limit damage after 1,000 (1 thousand) people marched to protest the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man in Kenosha, Wisconsin.