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Hurricane Dorian picks up speed, loses strength, on its way to North Carolina, where more than 200,000 have lost power. 1/19

In the Bahamas, the horror of the hurricane’s destruction continues to unfold. 2/19

Other consequences of Hurricane Dorian: bricks of cocaine floating up on Florida beaches. And sixteen memes about the president’s Sharpie. 3/19

Robert Mugabe, the Zimbabwean independence icon turned authoritarian leader, dies at 95. 4/19

“He has just died like everyone else. He left us in this mess and we are still suffering.” 5/19

Serena Williams faces Bianca Andreescu in the US Open final tomorrow. If she wins, she’ll tie Margaret Court for the most Grand Slam titles. 6/19

"Rah!" "Men!" "Name of opponent!" Fight songs for 65 schools evaluated for clichés and nonsense syllables. 7/19

Evidence is stacking up that a small number of strategically placed bots can influence the choices of undecided voters. 8/19

Facebook starts making its own AI deepfakes to head off the 2020 election’s disinformation disaster. 9/19

See also: Billie Eilish was depressed until she quit Twitter. 10/19

India looks to become the fourth nation to land on the moon. The mission cost less than $150 million, cheaper than the budget for Interstellar. 11/19

A proposal to re-freeze sea water in the Arctic and create "miniature modular icebergs" would use a submarine-like vessel. 12/19

Investment in clean energy is down. Production of it continues to rise. 13/19

An underwater monitoring station in the Baltic Sea mysteriously vanishes. 14/19

A primer on the latest thinking on how the Egyptians built the pyramids cites "the result of generations of practice and experience." 15/19

Expiration labels on food are a broken system, leading to a colossal amount of food waste—and the food industry knows it. 16/19

Starbucks no longer sells newspapers in at its 8,600 US stores thanks to “changing customer behavior.” 17/19

"Most incidents don’t kill you or cripple you." Travel tips for going to places described as too dangerous (albeit from an older, white American dude). 18/19

Walter Mosley quits writing for television after a fellow writer complains about him using the n-word. 19/19

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