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Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine assured voters that Hillary Clinton will become a beacon of accountability while speaking on NBC's Meet the Press Sunday.

In an effort to convince Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) to endorse Donald Trump, vice presidential candidate Mike Pence reportedly claimed Trump is "a different guy in private than he is shown in public."

The entire Russian Paralympic team has been suspended from competition by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) because of doping allegations.

Thai officials said Sunday that with 94 percent of ballots counted, 61 percent of voters endorsed a new national constitution.

Organizers of the Olympic Games in Rio have been forced to apologize to fans trapped outside stadiums Saturday by long lines caused by security chokepoints. Telecasts showed athletes competing in half-empty venues while their would-be audience sweltered outside in 90 degree heat and stood in 20-minute lines to buy water.

Iran has become the first country to ban popular augmented reality game Pokémon Go thanks to a decision handed down by — and this is a real government agency — the High Council of Virtual Spaces.

The Islamic State issued a statement Sunday claiming responsibility for Saturday's machete attack which injured two police officers in Charleroi, Belgium.

Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton is "unstable" and "totally unbalanced," GOP candidate Donald Trump said at a campaign rally in New Hampshire Saturday night.

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President Obama released a redacted version of his administration's "playbook" for drone strikes Saturday in response to a successful Freedom of Information Act suit from the American Civil Liberties Union. The 18-page Presidential Policy Guidance document details the rules the Obama White House has followed since 2013, which require the president to personally approve drone strikes that target people outside combat zones, permanent U.S. residents, and anyone about whom "there is a lack of consensus" among agency heads. Читать дальше...

President Obama released a redacted version of his administration's "playbook" for drone strikes Saturday in response to a successful Freedom of Information Act suit from the American Civil Liberties Union.

"A robotic dinner plate with a human-like arm is revolutionizing the lives of the differently abled," said Ananya Bhattacharya at Quartz. Obi is a sleek white robot that makes it possible for people with impaired movement to feed themselves. The $4,500 device includes a rotating serving dish with four compartments for different foods, as well as a robotic-arm fitted with a spoon.

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Joy points upward, according to Marie Kondo, whose name is now a verb and whose life has become a philosophy. In April at the Japan Society in New York, she mounted a stage in an ivory dress and silver heels, made namaste hands at the audience, and took her place beneath the display of a PowerPoint presentation. Now that she had sold nearly 6 million copies of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up and had been on the New York Times best-seller list for 86 weeks and counting, she was taking the next logical step... Читать дальше...