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In the face of mounting criticism over its lack of diversity, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences just rolled out its longest and most diverse list of invitations to date. Of the 683 prospective new members, 46 percent are female and 41 percent are people of color. Among those invited are Idris Elba, John Boyega, and Alicia Vikander.

In the first North American Leaders' Summit hosted in Canada in over a decade, President Obama, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto underscored the importance of North American unity in their pledges to better fight climate change and emphasize free trade. "The politics of trade is difficult," Obama said, seemingly alluding to both Donald Trump's anti-globalization rhetoric of late and the recent Brexit vote. However, he continued, countries must not... Читать дальше...

For the first time in seven years, the Republicans beat the Democrats in the Congressional Baseball Game, which was held last week at Nationals Park. It was a hard-won victory, but, uh, not a pretty one:

Hillary Clinton isn't the only woman cracking glass ceilings lately. Actress Scarlett Johansson just made Hollywood history by becoming the "highest grossing actress of all time," and possibly the first woman to crack Box Office Mojo's top-ten list of the top-grossing actors, The Cut reports.

As Donald Trump fends off accusations that he knowingly scammed Trump University students, The New York Times has uncovered a second apparent scam involving his seminar business, Trump Institute.

President Obama will finally hit the campaign trail with Hillary Clinton next Tuesday in Charlotte, North Carolina. The pair will appear in the battleground state for a discussion about "building on the progress we've made," the Clinton campaign said.

Fresh off the hullabaloo over his latest music video, Kanye West has another big announcement to make: More Yeezy gear is coming your way.

It didn't take a mathematician to figure out that Wednesday's Wimbledon match between Roger Federer (arguably the best tennis player of all time) and Marcus Willis (who?) was going to be a blow-out. But Willis, ranked No. 772 in the world, embraced his 250-1 odds with a delightful sense of humor:

Despite the nail-biting polls, statistician Nate Silver predicted Wednesday that Hillary Clinton has a whopping 79 percent chance of winning a general election against Donald Trump. Silver correctly predicted the results of 49 out of 50 states in 2008 and correctly guessed the results of every single state in 2012. Still, Silver predicted that Trump had a mere 2 percent chance of winning the GOP nomination last August.

Ben Carson is certain that his mother would not have taken kindly to how "dishonest reporters" covered his bid for the Republican presidential nomination earlier this year. In fact, in response to a question on CBS Radio's Brown and Scoop podcast about what his mom, Sonya, would've thought about her son running for president, Carson said Wednesday he thinks she might have chosen to exercise her Second Amendment rights.

While it is still uncertain which terrorist organization targeted Istanbul's Ataturk Airport on Tuesday, killing at least 41 when three suicide bombers detonated at a security checkpoint, many current indications point to the Islamic State. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio might agree: After all, he predicted such a large-scale ISIS attack in Turkey just two days before the bombings.

On Wednesday, the Senate voted 68 to 32 to clear the Puerto Rico debt relief bill, just days ahead of the July 1 deadline for Puerto Rico's next bond payment. With the procedural vote now over, the bill will move onto final passage in the Senate, where it's expected to get the majority vote, and then to President Obama's desk, where it's expected to be signed into law.

In 1944, with the end of World War II looming, Jewish prisoners in the Lithuanian extermination camp Ponar devised a plan. The prisoners were being forced to dig up and burn the bodies of murdered Jews as the Nazis scrambled to hide evidence from the approaching Soviet army. The prisoners knew that once their work was done, they too would be killed. So, using spoons found among the corpses, the prisoners dug a tunnel from their holding pen to the outside. On the last night of Passover, the prisoners slipped into the tunnel to attempt escape.

Spain just made Scotland's battle to remain in the European Union that much harder. On Wednesday, as Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon met with European Parliament chiefs to negotiate her country's membership in the trade bloc, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy vowed to block Scotland's attempts to remain after Britain's vote to exit.

A white-nationalist neo-Nazi group, the Traditionalist Worker Party, has vowed to make an appearance at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland next month to "make sure that the Donald Trump supporters are defended from the leftist thugs," according to spokesman Matt Parrott.

Priorities USA, a super PAC that supports presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, accepted two donations totaling $200,000 from Suffolk Construction, a Boston-based firm.

Before our robot overlords enslave us, they are at least going to save us some cash on parking tickets. Or, at least, one is.

Writing for The New York Times, Bernie Sanders continued to nudge Hillary Clinton while warning Democrats that a Brexit-like situation would not be impossible in the United States. The Vermont senator weaved in his usual lines about the global 1 percent while leveling colloquially with his readers: "Could this rejection of the current form of the global economy happen in the United States? You bet it could."

Three months ago, I slept fitfully during a 13-hour layover in the international terminal of Istanbul's Ataturk airport. The U.S. Mission in Turkey had just published an emergency message warning of "credible threats to tourist areas, in particular to public squares and docks in Istanbul." My nerves were jangled, but in the end, I was safe.

Hillary Clinton may have a safe lead over Donald Trump across all seven battleground states, but that's certainly not the case with all of her potential Republican competitors. Ballotpedia's battleground poll out Wednesday reveals that Clinton polls a bit behind Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) across all seven states, averaging 40 percent to Kasich's 44 percent. Clinton polls even against House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), with both averaging 42 percent.

With Britain roiling in the wake of the Brexit vote last week, Prime Minister David Cameron's frustration boiled over during Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday with Cameron shouting at the Labour Party leader to resign.

Following the group's endorsement of Donald Trump in May, the National Rifle Association's Victory Fund is now putting its money where its mouth is by launching a $2 million advertising campaign in six battleground states that hammers Hillary Clinton for the U.S. mission in Benghazi.

Donald Trump has some Icelandic politicians very, very confused. Despite the fact that it's illegal to accept donations from foreign nationals, Talking Points Memo reports that the Trump campaign has been including members of Icelandic parliament in its email blasts asking for money. The Iceland Monitor reports that "at least three prominent Icelandic politicians" have gotten an email from Trump asking for campaign funding and outlining his fight against "Crooked Hillary and her pathetic cronies... Читать дальше...

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 269 points or 1.6 percent on Tuesday, ending a two-day sell-off sparked by Thursday's vote by the U.K. to leave the EU. The Dow lost 900 points on Friday and Monday. The S&P 500 rose by 1.8 percent and the tech-heavy Nasdaq by 2.1 percent. London's FTSE 100 index erased half of its losses, rising 2.6 percent. Paul Hickey, co-founder of Bespoke Investment Group, said it was too soon to say whether the "relief rally" would last.

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At least 41 people were killed when three suicide bombers attacked Istanbul's Ataturk International Airport on Tuesday. At least 239 others were injured. Two of the terrorists opened fire with automatic weapons at a security checkpoint outside the airport before detonating their explosives. The third blew himself up in a parking lot. Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said the Islamic State appeared to have been behind the attack based on early indications, although nobody immediately claimed responsibility. Читать дальше...