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"Until now," The Washington Post editorial board writes, Donald Trump was "a Republican problem." But after he officially accepted the Republican nomination for the presidency Thursday night, "he became a challenge the nation must confront and overcome."

A textbook on Mexican-American heritage approved by the Republican-controlled Texas Board of Education says Mexican laborers "were not reared to put in a full day's work," The Associated Press reports. Activists said the textbook "is deeply offensive" and contains "multiple factual errors," including a suggestion that most Latinos are in the country illegally. More than 50 percent of Texas' public school students are Hispanic.

Confidential Malaysian police documents obtained by New York show that the pilot of MH370 apparently once plotted a murder-suicide flight path similar to the one ultimately followed by the doomed plane, which vanished into the southern Indian Ocean in 2014. Pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah had apparently used his Microsoft flight simulator program to "test" taking a plane northwest over the Malacca Strait, then turn south over the ocean until the fuel ran out. The recovered data points on his flight simulator... Читать дальше...

A supporter of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan climbs a flagpole during a pro-government demonstration at Taksim Square in Istanbul, amidst a thwarted military coup. | (REUTERS/Ammar Awad)

Watching Donald Trump's acceptance speech Thursday night at the Republican National Convention somehow didn't make it to the top of President Obama's to-do list. During a Friday press conference alongside Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, Obama admitted he didn't turn on the TV to hear what the Republican presidential nominee had to say. "I've got a lot of stuff to do," Obama said, adding that conventions "are pretty long events":

A mass shooting at the Munich shopping center Olympia Einkaufszentrum has resulted in "multiple deaths" and injuries, German media reports, along with alleged incidents at two other locations. A police briefing said at least eight people are dead and witnesses reported seeing three separate gunmen, whose whereabouts are unknown; authorities have told people in the area to stay in their homes.

A mass shooting at the Munich shopping center Olympia Einkaufszentrum has resulted in "multiple deaths" and injuries, German media reports, along with alleged incidents at two other locations. A police source said at least six people are dead and witnesses reported seeing three separate gunmen, whose whereabouts are unknown; authorities have told people in the area to stay in their homes.

A massive leak of Democratic National Committee internal emails on Friday revealed that DNC CFO Brad Marshall had considered using Bernie Sanders' religious beliefs against him. In an email with the subject "No shit," Marshall wrote:

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In possibly one of the strangest moments of what has become one of the strangest political years in recent memory, Peter Thiel, proclaimed libertarian and Silicon Valley demigod, endorsed Donald Trump on Thursday in a speech at the Republican National Convention.

In case there was any question about the world's imminent demise, Thursday and Friday saw the hottest temperatures ever recorded on the planet outside of Death Valley. In Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and western Iran, temperatures broke 125 degrees (or 51.6 Celsius); in the town of Mitribah, Kuwait, thermometers rose a smidgen above 129 degrees (or 54 degrees Celsius). Basra, Iraq, which has a population over over a million people, also hit 129.2 degrees on Friday.

Donald Trump doesn't seem to have realized the presidential primaries are over. In the Republican nominee's first speech of the general election Friday, Trump spent a strange chunk of time talking about his vanquished 2016 rival Ted Cruz, who pointedly refused to endorse him in his address to the convention Wednesday because of remarks Trump made during the primaries about his wife Heidi and father Rafael.

Former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke announced Friday that he is running for Senate in the state of Louisiana. A Holocaust denier and white nationalist, Duke served one term as a state representative of a New Orleans suburb over 20 years ago; he was unsuccessful in beating Democrat Edwin Edwards in a gubernatorial race in 1991:

If anyone was left wondering whether Donald Trump was ever going to execute that general election pivot, his farewell speech in Cleveland on Friday answered that question with a definitive "no." In a decidedly more off-the-cuff speech than the one he gave Thursday night when he accepted the Republican presidential nomination, Trump thanked the people of Cleveland for hosting the Republican National Convention before taking a (loving?) swing at his running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence.

Donald Trump might have been the star of the Republican National Convention this week, but the lady Trumps were the ones making sales. Melania Trump's convention speech dress — a wedding dress she allegedly ordered from Net-a-porter without the help of a stylist — sold out within an hour of her leaving the stage.

To highlight the contrast between presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton's immigration policies and those of her Republican opponent, Donald Trump, the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia next week will be organized with the help of several undocumented immigrants who have been given roles on the credentials committee, the platform committee, and the roster of speakers.

Donald Trump's lengthy nomination acceptance speech was the talk of Twitter on Thursday evening, and it was Democrat Bernie Sanders who scored the most popular tweeted response. "Trump: 'I alone can fix this,'" he wrote, adding, "Is this guy running for president or dictator?"

With this summer's Olympics just two weeks away, anti-doping labs are still turning up positive drug tests from the last two Games, in London and Beijing. The International Olympic Committee announced Friday that the latest round of reanalysis found another 45 athletes guilty of doping; of those 45, there were 15 positive results from the 2012 London Games, spanning athletes from nine countries and two sports, and 30 from the 2008 Beijing Games, including 23 medal-winners.

If only someone at the Republican National Convention had done a quick Google search on Spanish grammar, they could've saved a lot of heartache at the Republican convention. That's because the convention hall featured hundreds and hundreds of signs reading "Hispanics para Trump":

Donald Trump has said throughout his campaign that he wants to "Make America Great Again." Greatness implies some kind of aspiration. But Trump's speech capping a wild Republican National Convention wasn't really about greatness. It was more about just barely escaping the present unharmed. The theme felt more like "Make America Minimally Acceptable Again."

While Donald Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination Thursday night, a tweet from a white supremacist flashed on four massive screens surrounding the stage. The particular tweet curated by the Republican National Convention seemed innocuous, simply citing a line from Trump's speech and expressing support for the candidate:

The estate for The Beatles' George Harrison thinks the Republican National Convention got its song choices totally wrong Thursday night. If the convention wanted to borrow one of his songs, Harrison's estate tweeted, it should've been "Beware of Darkness" — not "Here Comes the Sun":

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Roger Ailes resigned on Thursday as head of Fox News after former anchor Gretchen Carlson filed a lawsuit accusing him of sexual harassment. Ailes led the conservative cable news channel for 20 years, building it from scratch into a money-making ratings juggernaut. He reportedly stands to get a $40 million exit package. Rupert Murdoch, the 85-year-old executive co-chairman of the news channel's parent — 21st Century Fox — will take over as acting CEO until a permanent replacement is hired. Читать дальше...

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Donald Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination on Thursday, telling convention delegates that the country is in a "moment of crisis" and promising to "restore law and order." The billionaire businessman and former reality TV star unleashed a sharp attack of his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, saying that as President Obama's secretary of state she built a legacy of "death, destruction, terrorism, and weakness." Before Trump spoke, his daughter Ivanka tried to soften his image... Читать дальше...

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