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In 1993, then-Deputy White House Counsel Vince Foster committed suicide in Virginia's Fort Marcy Park — at least, that's according to six separate investigations of the incident. The death of Foster, who was a friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton's, has been fodder for years for conspiracy theorists positing the Clintons somehow had Foster killed because he possessed incriminating knowledge about the couple's affairs. Still, multiple official investigations ruled the death a suicide.

The National Football League announced host cities for the 2019 through 2021 Super Bowls on Tuesday. Next year's Super Bowl LI will be held in Houston, it was announced in 2013, while in 2014 the league decided to send 2018's Super Bowl LII to Minneapolis. Today's announcement reveals Super Bowl LIII will take place in Atlanta in 2019, Super Bowl LIV in Miami in 2020, and Super Bowl LV in Los Angeles in 2021.

An ultra-rare "werewolf cat" is believed to have been discovered by an animal rescue group in South Africa, ABC News reports. Dubbed Eyona, meaning "the one," the tiny kitten is thought to belong to the rare Lykoi breed — a natural mutation that occurs in domestic shorthair cats and makes them "resemble a werewolf."

Sen. Bernie Sanders' request Tuesday for a recanvass of the results from the Kentucky Democratic presidential primary is apparently proof that he really is going to fight for every last vote he can get. Though results show a nail-bitingly close race between Sanders and Hillary Clinton, with Sanders losing by less than one-half of 1 percent of the vote, the review of voting tallies from each of Kentucky's 120 counties that Sanders' campaign has requested isn't likely to change the results much at all. Читать дальше...

Researchers studying the spread of disease can have a difficult time getting reliable information about how populations of people travel between locations. Thankfully, said populations do tend to wander around with tiny electronic transmitters in their pockets. In other words, by tapping into cell phone records, researchers are at last beginning to explore how to make more accurate epidemic models in anticipation of when the next big disease outbreak hits.

Bill Cosby will go to trial over a sexual assault case dating back to 2004, a judge ruled Tuesday in a preliminary hearing. Cosby's team had argued that the case was based on hearsay and shouldn't be tried, but the judge ruled that there is enough evidence for the case to go to trial. The 78-year-old comedian faces three counts of felony indecent assault against Andrea Constand, an employee at his alma mater, Temple University. Constand was the first of more than 50 women to come forward and accuse... Читать дальше...

Late BMX legend Dave Mirra has become the first action sports athlete to be diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy, ESPN reports. The neurodegenerative brain disease, commonly known as CTE, is linked to dementia and depression and is thought to be caused by repeated trauma to the head.

Romera Jucá, the interim planning minister of Brazil, has stepped down in disgrace less than two weeks after taking office. The reason? Leaked recordings apparently show him plotting to remove President Dilma Rousseff from office in order to end the investigation into the "Car Wash" corruption scandal, Folha de São Paulo reports. The scandal involves alleged money laundering and kickbacks at Petrobras, the state-owned oil company, and in the recording Jucá speaks with former oil executive Sergio Machado. Читать дальше...

Dave Eggers, Stephen King, Michael Chabon, Cheryl Strayed, Amy Tan, Stephen Elliott, and Jonathan Lethem are among hundreds of novelists, poets, and essayists to have signed a scathing "open letter to the American people" opposing the candidacy of Donald Trump.

All in all, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is pretty pleased with his performance in the 2016 Republican presidential race. Despite suspending his campaign in March after losing his home state, Rubio told The Guardian in an interview published Tuesday that, in any other election cycle, his campaign would've been solid. "A lot of times it feels almost like the guy who built this really strong building," Rubio said of the GOP contest, "and it was in the right place, and it was the way these buildings have always been built... Читать дальше...

Nyquist, the racehorse who won the 2016 Kentucky Derby earlier this month, will not compete in the Belmont Stakes on June 11. Trainer Doug O'Neill told Daily Racing Forum Tuesday morning that Nyquist has an elevated white blood cell count as well as a slight fever, and will be treated with antibiotics and remain at Pimlico Race Course stables in Maryland rather than be shipped to New York for the Belmont Stakes.

China is constructing its first space tracking, telemetry, and command facility outside of its borders in Patagonia, Argentina, and some critics are already expressing concerns that it will be doing more than just looking at the stars.

While it's now hard to think of Al Gore without his documentary An Inconvenient Truth coming to mind, the one-time presidential candidate admits he almost didn't make the famous film. In an interview with Wired — published 10 years after Gore transformed a slideshow he'd compiled on the threats of climate change into the documentary — Gore confesses that, initially, he "did not want to do a documentary":

Ancient Chinese beer drinkers weren't so different from you and me, at least according to evidence found on 5,000-year-old pottery fragments in the Shaanxi province. Thanks to a discovery by Stanford University researcher Jiajing Wang and her team, it appears that Chinese beer-makers actually mastered many modern brewing techniques long before they were thought to have been adopted in the region, The Washington Post reports.

Representatives from the nation's largest financial institutions are holding off on questioning Donald Trump's economic agenda — but it's not because they don't have any questions. At a private meeting last week in Washington, D.C., Bloomberg reports that financiers decided the cons of inquiring into Trump's plans just might outweigh the pros:

As Donald Trump ramps up his attacks against his likely general election rival, Hillary Clinton, he is increasingly zeroing in on her husband, former President Bill Clinton, for his alleged sexual transgressions. "Is Hillary Clinton really protecting women?" Trump has blasted.

You know it's bad when North Korea calls you out for propaganda, but that's exactly what a senior official said on Monday when slamming Donald Trump's suggestion that he would meet with leader Kim Jung Un.

Roughly 100 French investigators raided Google's headquarters in Paris Tuesday morning as part of an ongoing tax fraud investigation, Reuters reports. A source close to France's finance ministry has confirmed the raid, but Google has yet to make a comment. The French state is accusing the tech company of owing $1.8 billion in back-taxes, following a close scrutinization of international companies' tax arrangements.

SeaTac, Washington, City Manager James Payne plotted to create a "tactical map" of Muslims in the neighborhoods around Seattle's SeaTac airport, apparently due to terrorism concerns, The Seattle Times has learned. Payne, who has since resigned, reportedly "stated an interest in knowing with a great deal of specificity (to the neighborhood, house, and even person) where Sunni and Shiite Muslim residents lived," an investigator in the case found.

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Toyota recalled nearly 1.6 million more U.S. vehicles fitted with front-side Takata airbags. Takata, under pressure from U.S. regulators, earlier this month declared 35 million to 40 million more inflators in the U.S. to be defective. Faulty Takata inflators can rupture, and have been linked to 13 deaths and more than 100 injuries worldwide. Toyota has now recalled 4.73 million vehicles in the U.S. over Takata airbags. The new recall involves some Corolla, Matrics, Yaris, 4Runner, Sienna... Читать дальше...

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Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders told The Associated Press on Monday that the Democratic National Convention in July could get "messy" if the party makes it more inclusive, as he has asked, but that's OK. "So what? Democracy is messy," Sanders said. The comments came as Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton's campaign declined an invitation to a Fox News debate with Sanders ahead of California's June 7 primary, saying her "time is best spent campaigning."

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Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump may have nearly clinched their respective parties' nominations, but they have a long way to go before they win over Americans, a new poll finds. The latest NBC News/Survey Monkey poll out Tuesday reveals that the majority of Americans dislike, or even hate, Clinton and Trump. Nearly 60 percent say they don't like the former secretary of state, while slightly more — 63 percent — have bad feelings towards Trump.

Analyzing human faces to detect character traits sounds like something out of a post-apocalyptic sci-fi film, but the Israeli start-up Faception in fact already has a contract with a homeland security agency. Faceception claims it will be able to help identify terrorists for the government, but also has said that the face-scanning technology can pick out everyone from a great poker player to a pedophile to a genius, The Washington Post reports.

Donald Trump is winning the support of many religious conservatives even though he has a spotty issue on opposing abortion, which conservative pundit Charles Krauthammer calls "the central issue of the conservative movement for the last 30 years, in terms of social issues." But before the early 1980s, Samantha Bee chronicled on Monday's Full Frontal, evangelical Christians and Southern Baptists didn't care much about abortion, considering it an issue for the Catholics to fret over. They had to... Читать дальше...

Is the key to Donald Trump's success just old-fashioned racism? He surely stokes race hatred among his followers and even more-or-less openly panders to anti-Semitism. Yet he also seems to feed on economic desperation. He has won running against trade, his support tracks inversely with educational attainment, and he's posted his biggest margins in some of the most desperate counties in America; surely economic anxiety has something to do with his rise.