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Dabney Montgomery, who served with the all-black Tuskegee Airmen in the second world war and marched with Martin Luther King Jr in the civil rights movement of the 1960s, has died. He was 93.

Montgomery’s goddaughter, Marlene Patton, said he died of natural causes on Saturday morning at a Manhattan hospice care facility. He had lived in Harlem until he entered the facility last Sunday night.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Monday offered a $50,000 reward for information leading to the capture of a Utah-based polygamous faith leader who escaped from home confinement ahead of his trial over food stamp fraud.

Lyle Jeffs, 56, fled confinement in Salt Lake City sometime over the weekend of June 18 - 19 and an arrest warrant was issued by a federal judge that Sunday afternoon, authorities said.

Chicago recorded its deadliest month in two decades in August, part of a sharp rise in gun violence in the nation's third-largest city this year.

Chicago police said Thursday that 90 people were killed last month, a 66 percent increase over August 2015. There were 472 shooting victims — an average of more than 15 people per day.

A Falcon 9 rocket belonging to tech billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX aerospace firm has exploded during a routine test firing at Cape Canaveral in Florida, shaking buildings and sending a thick cloud of black smoke into the air.

There were no reports of injuries in the explosion just after 9 am (1400 GMT) on Thursday

SpaceX said in a statement that an "anomaly" during the static fire test resulted in the loss of the rocket and the Israeli communications satellite that it had been due to carry into space on Saturday.

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It’s official: the curious system meteorologists have been tracking since last week has finally strengthened into Tropical Storm Hermine.

Around 11 a.m. this morning, the National Weather Service’s hurricane hunter plane flew back into Tropical Depression Nine — and collected the data needed to name the system previously called Invest 99L and Tropical Depression Nine.

As part of his "second chance" initiative, President Barack Obama on Tuesday commuted the prison sentences of more than 100 nonviolent drug offenders, setting a new monthly record.

Obama announced the commutations of 111 more individuals, bringing the August total to 325. Thirty-five of those who were granted relief Tuesday had been serving life sentences."

We must remember that these are individuals -- sons, daughters, parents, and in many cases, grandparents -- who have taken steps toward rehabilitation and who have earned their second chance," the White House said in a statement. "They are individuals who received unduly harsh sentences under outdated laws for committing largely nonviolent drug crimes."

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