| By Bethel Habte (@bethel_habte)
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has fired campaign manager Paul Manafort and brought on senior advisor Kellyanne Conway to fill the post. Manfort was hired in March to replace Corey Lewandowski, so Conway’s the third person to win this round of musical chairs. Campaign aides cited by the Washington Post said that while Trump respected Manafort, he felt “boxed in” and “controlled” by people “who barely knew him.” Last week, Manafort denied any impropriety after the New York Times found that his name was on secret ledgers showing cash payments of more than $12 million designated for him from a Ukrainian political party with close ties to Russia. Manafort’s still going to stay on as Trump’s campaign chair. Stephen Bannon, executive chairman of the conservative Breitbart News, has been brought on as the campaign's chief executive, the New York Times reported citing Conway. Meanwhile, the FBI has given Congress documents related to its probe into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while she was secretary of state. Some members of Congress suspect that the FBI’s findings about her email servers were at odds with her previous testimony. Clinton has a 6 percentage point lead over Trump in the latest Reuters-Ipsos poll.
Digits of the day: 800 Australia and Papua New Guinea have agreed to close a controversial asylum-seeker detention center on Manus Island. Some asylum seekers have spent years at the camp, which human rights groups and the United Nations have criticized for its conditions and reports of abuse and self-harm amongst detainees, including children. As for what happens to the 800 refugees held in the camp? They haven’t figured that out, yet. Rio Olympics - China’s losing to Great Britain in the gold medal count in Rio, and some are predicting they’ll bring in their lowest medal haul in two decades. The country’s athletes failed to defend medals even in their strongest events, like badminton, diving, synchronized swimming and gymnastics.
More from Rio: - Jamaica, Kenya and the United States had good days in athletics, (the new name for “track and field” that I’ll never get used to). Jamaica's Omar McLeod earned the country its first gold in the men's sprint hurdles, Kenya's Faith Kipyegon crushed the 1,500m and American Christian Taylor successfully defended his triple-jump gold.
- Gymnast Simone Biles bounced back, earning another gold with a sultry, samba-laden and powerful floor routine. The American is walking away from Rio with four gold medals, just one shy of a world record.
- Great Britain’s cycling rivals in Rio don’t understand why the Brits are winning so much. "It seems they do nothing for three years, then they start at the Olympics and kill us," said Germany's Kristina Vogel.
- And in a moment of Olympic “aww,” New Zealand runner Nikki Hamblin stopped to help U.S. rival Abbey D’Agostino who suffered from an injury mid-race. This is a story best told in pictures:
Nikki Hamblin of New Zealand stops to help Abbey D’Agostino of USA during the Women’s 5000m round 1 preliminary. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez
Around the country - A wildfire broke out in a mountain pass in California and has rapidly engulfed more than 15,000 acres in flames. Authorities in Southern California have ordered 82,000 residents to evacuate their homes.
- Trump made his most aggressive appeal yet to African American voters, even as poll numbers within the demographic are at a whopping 0 percent in swing states like Ohio and Pennsylvania, according to an NBC/WSJ poll.
- Milwaukee, shaken by two nights of violence after a shooting by police, is one of a few U.S. cities to have volunteered for a federal government review of its police force.
Around the world - A North Korean ambassador in London has defected with his family to a “third country,” according to early media reports. The BBC named the defector as veteran diplomat Thae Yong Ho, a counselor at the North Korean embassy and deputy to the ambassador. If confirmed, it would be the highest-profile defection in recent years from the isolated country.
- The oft overlooked civil war in Yemen has cost the country $14 billion in damage and economic losses, according to a confidential report seen by Reuters. The conflict has killed more than 6,500 people, displaced more than 2.5 million and more than half of the population suffers from malnutrition
- Militants in Kashmir, India, ambushed an Indian military convoy, killing three personnel. The region is seeing the worst unrest in six years, which was set off early last month when security forces killed a popular, young separatist commander.
Around Wall Street - Cisco Systems is laying off about 14,000 employees, representing nearly 20 percent of the company’s global workforce, technology news site CRN reported, citing sources close to the company.
- Dozens of sources at SWIFT, the bank messaging system that was hacked to carry out a $81 million bank heist, told Reuters that the organization for years suspected there were weaknesses in the way smaller banks used its messaging terminals, but that the organization did not address the vulnerabilities.
- China’s cabinet approved a plan to connect the giant stock markets of Shenzhen and Hong Kong, offering global investors tempting access to China's fast-growing tech sector. But high valuations and a reputation for wild speculation are likely to keep investors cautious.
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