Belgium became the first 2024 Eurovision Song Contest participant country to announce their entrant when public broadcaster RTBF on August 30 publicised their own selection of Thomas "Mustii" Mustin.
August 24, the US Department of Justice filed a civil complaint in an intra-Departmental court against SpaceX, a spacecraft company, over claimed hiring discrimination targeting asylees.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, 62, a Russian businessman whose Wagner Group private military company briefly clashed with government forces and advanced on Moscow in June, was among the ten passengers listed for an Embraer plane that crashed in Tver Oblast August 23 without survivors, the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency said the same day.
August 14, a Fulton County, Georgia grand jury seated in Atlanta indicted nineteen people, including former United States President Donald Trump, on 41 counts overall, Trump himself facing thirteen.
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