Typhoon Soudelor, the biggest storm of the season, brought high winds and widespread flooding to south-east China after pounding Taiwan, leaving at least 14 people dead and several missing over the weekend.
Meanwhile, in Hong Kong, the typhoon triggered the hottest day since records began 130 years ago, with air pollution levels pushing into the “very high risk” category.
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UPDATE, 8.40 AM ET MONDAY: There was gunfire overnight in Ferguson, Missouri after police say they shot a man who fired at them following a confrontation between rival groups. Police said a man was in critical condition after plain-clothes officers returned fire.
The incidents followed a day of peaceful demonstrations.
Hundreds of protesters gathered in Ferguson, Missouri to mark one year since the shooting of Michael Brown. Deray McKesson writes at The Guardian:
We did not discover injustice, nor did we invent resistance last August. Being black in America means that we exist in a legacy and tradition of protest, a legacy and tradition as old as this America. And, in many ways, August is the month of our discontent.
This August, we remember Mike Brown. But we also remember the Watts Rebellion, and the trauma of Katrina – three distinct periods of resistance prompted or exacerbated by police violence.
Resistance, for so many of us, is duty, not choice.
It was also another sad anniversary in Japan on Sunday, with the 70th anniversary of the second atomic bomb.
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Singapore celebrated its 50th birthday.
Australia could be set to restrict sales of Vegemite after a government official called it a “precursor to misery”. Here’s why…
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The whirlwind that is Donald Trump shows no sign of blowing itself out, as fallout continues over his debate exchange with Megyn Kelly, as well as the disputed circumstances of the departure of a senior campaign adviser.
And if that wasn’t bad enough, there will likely be more negative buzz on Monday.
But a new NBC poll shows… well, you can guess.
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But of course, he has these guys sticking up for him – or at least he did half an hour ago…
Purdue professor Kathryn Cramer Brownell writes at Reuters how Trump and Jon Stewart “aren’t so different after all.”
Over more than a half-century, television has essentially replaced the party as the modern political boss. Transforming political contests into an on-screen production has the democratic feeling of viewer participation — but it still maintains the reality of corporate control.
Stewart’s long successful run and Trump’s six-week surge demonstrate how American voters have come to expect political discussions and debates to mirror prime-time TV entertainment programming.
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Finally, Frank Gifford, NFL hall of fame player and broadcaster, died aged 84.
The Overnight Note 