The Roar keeps you updated with local news, recent events and interesting stories ― everything you need to know for this week.
- On Thursday night, July 28, Hillary Clinton became the first woman ever to accept the nomination for President of the United States from a major party.
- At the Democratic National Convention last week, Khizr Khan, the father of a Muslim United States soldier who died in Iraq 12 years ago, addressed Donald Trump directly, saying that he would gladly lend his copy of the US Constitution to the Republican party nominee, and that Trump has sacrificed “nothing, and no one.”
- On August 5, The 2016 Rio Olympic Games start in Brazil. The games will be held in South America for the first time ever.
- On July 31st, an ISIS attempt to take hostages at an oil field near Kirkuk, Iraq ended with the attackers being killed and their captives being safely released.
- Late Thursday night, two San Diego police officers were shot while on duty. These shootings left one officer dead and the other seriously injured.
- On Saturday, July 30, a hot air balloon crashed in central Texas, near Lockhart. There were 16 on board, and it’s still unclear how many survived.
- In Russia, the athletes who were banned from attending the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio due to doping offensives took part in their own games in Moscow on the same day the other athletes not banned left for Rio.
- Health officials are investigating a case of the Zika virus in Florida that is a non-travel-related instance of contracting the virus.
- Families have started to leave Aleppo, Syria after the Syrian Army announced it had surrounded the city and cut of rebel supply routes. The city has been destroyed by the constant pressure put on it by Syrian and Russian forces.
- Saturday morning, an earthquake with a 7.7-magnitude struck the Mariana Islands in the Pacific Ocean. No tsunami warning has been issued.
