NEWS OF THE DAY

From Across the Nation

_1 Baby boomers: Millennials and their younger generations now make up a majority of the U.S. population. A new analysis by the Brookings Institution shows that 50.7% of U.S. residents were under age 40, as of July 2019. The analysis released by the U.S. Census Bureau shows that millennial, Generation Z and younger generations numbered 166 million people. The combined Generation X, baby boomer, and older cohorts represented 162 million residents. Baby boomers were born between 1946 and 1964; Generation Xers in the late 1960s and 1970s; Millennials between 1981 and 1996 and Generation Z after 1996.

_2 Confederate statue: A judge dismissed a legal challenge Monday that had been blocking Virginia officials from removing a towering statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from the state’s capital city, but he immediately imposed another injunction against dismantling the figure. The new 90day injunction bars Gov. Ralph Northam’s administration from “removing, altering, or dismantling, in any way” the largerthanlife statue of Lee on a prominent Richmond avenue while claims in a lawsuit filed by local property owners are litigated. Now covered in graffiti, the Lee monument has become a focal point and gathering spot amid Richmond’s sustained antiracist protests

_3 Kaepernick attack: The U.S. Navy is investigating an incident in which dogs attacked a “Colin Kaepernick standin” during a K9 demonstration during a 2019 fundraiser at the Navy Seals Museum in West Palm Beach, Fla. The Navy said in a statement posted on Twitter that officials became aware of the video on Sunday. Kaepernick is a former San Francisco 49ers quarterback who began kneeling during the playing of “The Star Spangled Banner” before games to protest social injustice and police brutality.

_4 Missing servicemen: The U.S. Marines late Sunday released the names of eight service members who went missing during a training exercise aboard an amphibious assault vehicle off San Clemente Island last week. Only one of their bodies was found, despite an intense dayslong search involving helicopters and boats ranging from inflatables to a Navy destroyer. Found at the scene was Lance Cpl. Guillermo S. Perez, 20. The others are “presumed dead”: Pfc. Bryan J. Baltierra, 19; Lance Cpl. Marco A. Barranco, 21; Pfc. Evan A. Bath, 19; U.S. Navy Hospitalman Christopher Gnem; Pfc. Jack Ryan Ostrovsky, 21; Cpl. Wesley A. Rodd, 23; Lance Cpl. Chase D. Sweetwood, 19 and Cpl. Cesar A. Villanueva, 21.

_5 Border wall: A construction company whose CEO has made direct appeals on Fox News to build President Trump’s border wall won another major contract Monday, this time for nearly $300 million. Fisher Industries was awarded a $289 million contract for 17 miles in Laredo, Texas. The North Dakotabased company had already received $1.7 billion in two contracts elsewhere on the border. U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer, a North Dakota Republican who received donations from company CEO Tommy Fisher, has said he championed Fisher Industries to Trump.

Chronicle News Services