Catching up on the morning’s news? Check out the stories making headlines here:
1. Due to a lack of funds, Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry is no longer paying his campaign staff at the national headquarters in Austin and in the early caucus and primary states of Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina, reports The Washington Post. Now, the campaign must decrease expenditures to include only what is essential as they wait for a campaign boost, perhaps from the Sept. 16 debate. However, the Perry-allied SuperPAC has $17 million and said it is ready to make up for the campaign’s shortcomings.
2. Despite the gunfire that erupted late Sunday night in St. Louis, Missouri, demonstrators carried out a series of peaceful acts of civil disobedience on Monday to honor Mike Brown, the teenager who was killed in Ferguson a year ago. The day’s events were known as “Moral Monday” and involved demonstrations that lasted throughout the day. Activists stormed the federal courthouse in St. Louis and blocked both directions of traffic on Interstate 70 by linking arms and creating a human chain. By midday, at least 56 people were arrested.
3. Megyn Kelly’s silence on her feud with Donald Trump broke last night during her Fox News show, “The Kelly File,” on Monday night. Kelly acknowledged that Trump thought her line of questioning was unfair but disagreed, saying she would not apologize “for doing good journalism.”









