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Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator and star of Broadway's hit musical Hamilton, won a Pulitzer Prize for drama Monday. The show, which features rap-battling founding fathers played by people of color, debuted on Broadway in August. Miranda was just a tad excited to hear the news:

Around 300 demonstrators were arrested in Washington, D.C. on the last day of non-violent protests organized by Democracy Spring. Monday's arrests bring the total number of arrests to 1,240 since the group began demonstrating a week ago.

When Kanye originally released The Life of Pablo, he explicitly said the album would be available exclusively on Tidal.

If you're looking for something to blame for Donald Trump's potential path to the presidency, you might look no further than the Buffalo Bills. Trump once tried to buy the team (and was outbid), leading him to say last year that he is in fact happy with how things worked out because, "If I bought the Buffalo Bills, I probably would not be doing what I'm doing now, which is much more important."

Vampire Weekend frontman and noted Bernie Sanders supporter Ezra Koenig isn't too pleased with New York's primary registration rules. Though the election isn't until Tuesday, the deadline to switch parties was Oct. 9.

The Supreme Court began hearing arguments on Monday for a challenge to President Obama's executive action on immigration, stirring the emotions of both immigration activists as well as their opponents. One critic of Obama's plan, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), went as far as to shout down a group of activists outside the Supreme Court on Monday, mockingly asking if, "I need to start reading the constitution" while chiding the protesters for allegedly violating the First Amendment by assembling in a way that wasn't peaceable. Читать дальше...

Ethiopian runners swept the Boston Marathon on Monday, with Lemi Berhanu Hayle taking the men's division and Atsede Baysa taking the women's.

Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) is the lone senator to have publicly endorsed Bernie Sanders for president. And he doesn't expect any of his colleagues to follow suit, he said Monday on MSNBC.

The Supreme Court backed an appeals court Monday in siding with the legality of Google's digital library of more than 20 million books, The New York Times reports.

Pro-Clinton Democrats are buying up ad time at local television and radio stations in key swing states, Politico reports, aiming to lock in low rates and lay the groundwork to dominate traditional media before the Republican Party can even lock in a nominee.

One of the easiest criticisms to level at a film is that it is "not realistic enough," but Mark Wahlberg and the team behind the movie Patriots Day might be taking that a bit too seriously. Wahlberg was spotted dressed as a police officer at the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday as part of filming for the Peter Berg-directed movie about the 2013 marathon bombings, The Washington Post reports.

Hillary Clinton should voluntarily pony up the millions in extra taxes she'd owe under her own income tax proposal, said Republican National Committee (RNC) Chair Reince Priebus on Monday in a letter to the Clintons' accountant.

The U.S. is sending 200 more troops to Iraq to fight the Islamic State, defense officials said Monday. For the first time, it's also sending Apache helicopters.

JetBlue employees can now get online associate's and bachelor's degrees on the company's dime, The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. The decision to let employees study at Thomas Edison State University, announced Monday, echoes Starbucks' 2014 partnership with Arizona State University.

The death toll from the most powerful earthquake Ecuador has seen since 1979 has risen to 350 people, the nation's security minister said Monday. Thousands more were injured.

Hillary Clinton has black voters to thank for carrying her to several primary victories, but some are now wondering if a comment aimed at black listeners on 105.1's The Breakfast Club maybe went too far:

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) had some tough words Monday for Bernie Sanders on his gun control stance.

For customers who are wary of locking themselves into a $99 yearly Amazon Prime membership, a new pay-by-the-month option announced Sunday could be enticing — especially for the streaming perks offered by Prime Video.

Bernie Sanders trails Hillary Clinton by between 10 and 17 points in New York polls ahead of the primary on Tuesday, but the Vermont senator told Today he is not pessimistic about his results. "Those are the public polls. The bottom line is, let's look at the real poll tomorrow. Generally speaking, polling has underestimated how we do in elections," Sanders told the hosts.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Monday for a challenge to President Obama's executive action on immigration. Obama's plan would allow for more than four million unauthorized parents of lawful residents to apply for a program protecting them from deportation and allowing them to work legally. With an even eight justices remaining after the death of Antonin Scalia, the possible 4-4 split between the conservative and the liberal sides of the court would void Obama's plan.

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Brazil's lower house of Congress on Sunday voted to open impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff, sending the case to the Senate. Rousseff's administration has faced a corruption scandal and a shrinking economy, but the charges against her involve the alleged use of money from state-owned banks to cover up a budget deficit to improve her re-election odds. If the Senate takes the case, Rousseff will step down temporarily and Vice President Michel Temer will act as president... Читать дальше...

The Islamic State gets just under 7 percent of its financing from drug trafficking, according to a report from research firm IHS on Monday, and Italy's top anti-mafia prosecutor says at least part of that revenue comes from smuggling hashish to the Italian mafia from Libya. "Certainly [ISIS] controls the Libya route," Franco Roberti tells Reuters. "It controls the coast along the Gulf of Sirte." Sirte, a Libyan coastal city, is ISIS's man base in the Mediterranean. "Decriminalization or even legalization... Читать дальше...

Over the weekend, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton both decamped from New York, just days before the Tuesday New York Democratic primary they both view as must-win. Sanders went to the Vatican on Friday to speak about "moral" economics at a conference hosted by the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, and Clinton attended a big-money fundraiser at George Clooney's house on Saturday. If you stop reading here, that alone seems to reinforce everything Sanders has been saying about Clinton and her dependence on the almighty dollar. Читать дальше...

The least unpopular candidate of the 2016 presidential race is Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R-Ohio), who is also the least known — and, probably, least likely to get his party's nomination — according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. Kasich has a net favorability rating of +12, because only 19 percent of registered voters view him unfavorably, while 31 percent view him positively, another 31 percent are neutral, and 19 percent don't know who he is well enough to form an opinion. Sen. Bernie... Читать дальше...

What's Earth's second most abundant organic material after cellulose? If the question leaves you scratching your head, look up at a tree while you do. Inside, you'll find lignin, the glue-like stuff that fills gaps in trees' cell walls and makes wood hard. It's the secret sauce in a newly developed polymer that could change how people think about plastic.