1. Pres. Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden kicked off the school year Mon. with a surprise visit to a D.C. middle school.
Mon. was the first day of classes for Eliot-Hine Middle School; both Bidens spoke to an eighth grade math class Mon.. (UPI)
Joe Biden: "The hardest thing is to come back after three months of not doing any work, not doing any homework..."
2. Demonstrators in Madrid opened the week with a rally to show support for Spanish football star Jennifer Hermoso.
Hundreds showed up to the Plaza Callao Sat. to call for Spanish Football Association president Luis Rubiales's resignation.
Will he resign? It looks unlikely: Rubiales on Fri. delivered a defiant speech asserting that he "will not resign." (CNN)
3. Several leaders spoke out against white supremacist violence this week in response to a shooting in Jacksonville, FL.
What happened? A white gunman on Sat. opened fire on a store in Jacksonville, killing three before dying by suicide. (Vox)
Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters told reporters Sat. that the gunman penned a racist manifesto before the attack. (Vox)
Pres. Joe Biden addressed the shooting during a roundtable discussion with civil rights leaders Mon..
VP Kamala Harris also spoke out Mon.: "There are those who are intentionally trying to divide us as a nation."
Several state and local leaders also decried white supremacist violence at a vigil held for the victims on Sun..
4. Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Wandrea "Shaye" Moss won their defamation case against Rudy Giuliani Wed..
A federal judge handed a default judgement to the pair after Giuliani failed to produce evidence in the case. (NBC)
Freeman and Moss, who are mother and daughter, sued Giuliani after he falsely accused them of manipulating ballots in 2020.
5. Hurricane Idalia landed in Florida Wed. as a Category 3 storm, bringing 125mph winds and causing record storm surges.
Idalia broke records in several Florida cities, including Cedar Key, which saw an 8-foot water level surge Wed.. (WaPo)
Florida wasn't the only state impacted by Idalia: Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina all saw 8+ inches of rain.
6. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell made headlines Wed. after he froze while taking questions at a press conference.
Wed.'s freezing episode was McConnell's second this year: he last froze during a Senate press conference in July.