Post Date:
August 16, 2018 Issue Date:
September 1, 2018

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$716 billion

The amount of military funding (though 2019) in a defense bill President Donald Trump signed Aug. 13. The act boosts military pay by 2.6 percent.

46%

The percentage of Americans in a new PRRI survey who said business owners should be allowed to refuse to provide wedding services to same-sex couples on religious grounds. Last year, the figure was 41 percent.

$289.2 million

The amount a California state jury on Aug. 10 ordered Monsanto Co. to pay a man who claimed the company’s Roundup and Ranger Pro weedkillers caused his cancer.

301

The number of Catholic “predator priests” from six Pennsylvania dioceses who are alleged to have sexually abused over 1,000 boys and girls since the 1940s, according to a Pennsylvania grand jury report.

$3.3 million

The amount earned by Chicago Airbnb hosts who rented out their homes during the Lollapalooza music festival in August, according to the company.

$477,000

The amount of lunch money police say two female public school cafeteria workers—sisters—pilfered from cash registers at the high school and middle school in New Canaan, Conn., from 2012 to 2017.