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A suicide bombing at a hospital in Quetta, Pakistan, on Monday has reportedly left at least 67 people dead and nearly 100 injured. Reuters reported that both the Islamic State and Jamat-ul-Ahrar, which The Guardian described as an "offshoot of the Pakistani Taliban," have claimed responsibility for the attack, which seemingly targeted a group of prominent lawyers who had gathered at the state-run hospital after a high-profile colleague was shot and killed earlier that day. Bilal Kasi, the local president of the Bar Association... Читать дальше...

Donald Trump was hardly a minute into his economic address Monday when the protests started. By the 20-minute mark, protestors had managed to interrupt Trump 10 times — and by the time his speech wrapped up, he'd spoken through 14 outbursts.

A Monmouth University poll released Monday shows Democrat Hillary Clinton leading Republican Donald Trump by double-digits, building greatly upon her two-point lead before party conventions last month. Clinton earned 50 percent support among likely voters to Trump's 37 percent — and notably, Clinton's ballooning lead over Trump comes in a four-way poll, as the Monmouth survey included Libertarian Gary Johnson and the Green Party's Jill Stein:

Donald Trump ignored 14 interruptions from protesters Monday to present "the biggest tax revolution since the Reagan Tax Reform." During his economic policy address in front of the Detroit Economic Club, Trump proposed greatly simplifying the tax code by cutting it down from seven brackets to the House Republicans' proposed three, and suggested an "across-the-board income tax reduction, especially for middle-income Americans."

On Monday in Detroit, Donald Trump revealed he has radically changed his proposed tax brackets, putting his plan in line with what has been proposed by House Republicans. Trump had formerly proposed brackets of 0 percent, 10 percent, 20 percent, and 25 percent; as of his economic speech Monday, those proposed brackets are now 12 percent, 25 percent, and 33 percent.

Winona Ryder is awkward, adorable, and brooding in all the right ways — it's what made her a Gen-X darling in Heathers, Beetlejuice, and Edward Scissorhands. But maybe all that so-called sensitivity isn't what makes her "weird" and "edgy," but simply, well, human?

Archaeologists have discovered an enormous and strange Mayan tomb in Belize, leading to both further puzzles and, perhaps, insight into the 1,300-year-old Snake Dynasty and its conquests.

Evidence that Hillary Clinton could potentially carry the historically red state of Georgia this fall mounted Monday, when a second poll of the state showed her leading Republican nominee Donald Trump. The latest poll, by JMC Analytics, put Clinton 7 points ahead of Trump, pulling 44 percent support to his 37 percent. Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson claimed 7 percent. Clinton also enjoys a massive lead with African-American respondents, 84 percent to 6 percent, while Trump is ahead with white respondents, 52 percent to 25 percent. Читать дальше...

Another Olympic athlete has been arrested. On Monday, Brazilian police took Namibian boxer Jonas Junius, 22, into custody for allegedly attempting to "force himself" on a housekeeper in the Olympic Village, The Independent reported. Junius was the flag-bearer for Namibia during the Games' opening ceremony Friday.

Japan is demanding China remove surveillance equipment from a gas-drilling platform in international waters in the East China Sea, The Wall Street Journal reports. Tokyo has also reached out to Beijing over what it believes are territorial violations, in which two Chinese coast guard ships allegedly entered Japanese waters on Sunday.

The expression on this Olympic lifeguard's face just about sums up what we're all thinking about her job making sure the world's best swimmers successfully, well, swim:

As a dripping-wet Michael Phelps celebrated his 19th Olympic gold medal on Sunday evening, viewers at home might have found themselves squinting at his shoulders and wondering about the large purple-red polka dots on his skin:

In Evan McMullin's case, late might not be better than never. If the anti-Trump conservative, former CIA agent, and chief policy director of the House Republican Conference goes ahead with his reported plan Monday to launch an independent presidential bid, he'll already have missed the deadline to get on the ballot in half of the nation's 50 states:

Evan McMullin, a former CIA agent and the chief policy director of the House Republican Conference, will reportedly announce an independent presidential run Monday, offering #NeverTrump conservatives an alternative cut from their own cloth. Although McMullin doesn't have much of a public presence (at the time of publication, he had just over 2,000 followers on Twitter), he has consistently been an outspoken opponent of Donald Trump. Here's a glimpse at McMullin's #NeverTrump campaign.

Donald Trump loves fast food. ("The Big Macs are great," he said during a CNN townhall earlier this year. "The Quarter Pounder. It's great stuff.") He also cares a lot about cleanliness. And while the two might not seem to go together, Trump has insisted fast food's consistency and hygiene standards are among the reasons he eats burgers and fries so much, The New York Times reported in a recent story on Trump's penchant for junk food.

Donald Trump has claimed that the presidential election will be "rigged," a theory that has been parroted by allies Roger Stone, Alex Jones, Newt Gingrich, and Sean Hannity. As proof, Hannity and others have pointed to the fact that in 2012, Mitt Romney didn't receive a single vote in 59 districts in and around Philadelphia; Hannity considers this a blatant example of electoral fraud.

Evan McMullin, a former CIA agent and the chief policy director of the House Republican Conference, will reportedly announce an independent presidential run on Monday, offering an alternative for #NeverTrump conservatives.

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Delta Airlines said Monday that a system-wide computer outage was keeping its passengers from checking in and grounding its departures around the world. "Our systems are down everywhere," the No. 2 U.S. airline said via Twitter. Flights that were already in the air when the glitch hit were operating normally, but those scheduled to leave early Monday were delayed, affecting tens of thousands of passengers. Delta, which operates 5,000 flights per day, advised travelers to check the status of their flights through the day. Читать дальше...

Delta Airlines flights across the globe were stuck on the ground Monday after a power outage in Atlanta caused its computer systems to go down. "Large-scale cancellations are expected today," the company said in a statement, released at 7:30 a.m. ET Monday. "All flights enroute are operating normally. We are aware that flight status systems, including airport screens, are incorrectly showing flights on time. We apologize to customers who are affected by this issue, and our teams are working to... Читать дальше...

Although the complaints leading up to the Rio Olympics have been numerous, it is all worth it for moments like this:

Cue the jokes about an awkward Thanksgiving dinner this year. On Saturday, Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush, Jeb Bush's son, urged fellow Texas Republicans to back the man who constantly mocked and belittled his father as "low energy," a "lightweight," "a total stiff," a "a sad and a pathetic person," and "an embarrassment to his family." In George P. Bush's remarks to GOP activists, captured on video, he nodded to the fact that Donald Trump isn't exactly popular in his family: "From Team Bush... Читать дальше...

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Sunday was a big night for the U.S. Olympic swimming team in Rio, with Michael Phelps winning his 19th gold medal, and Katie Ledecky smashing her own world record time to win gold in the 400m freestyle. Ledecky, 19, finished in 3:56.46, nearly five seconds ahead of her nearest competitor. Phelps, swimming the second leg of the 4X100 freestyle relay, swam the fastest 100 meters of his storied career. He entered the water a fraction of a second behind France, and gave his team a lead it would hold throughout the race. Читать дальше...

Donald Trump will address issues relating to the economy from Detroit on Monday, both to highlight the difference between his plans and Hillary Clinton's and to return to steady ground after several weeks of disastrous headlines for his campaign. Trump will propose reducing cooperate tax to 15 percent from 35 percent, eliminating the estate tax, allowing parents to fully deduct child care costs from their taxable income, boosting domestic energy production, and putting a temporary moratorium on... Читать дальше...

Add New York Post columnist Andrea Peyser to the list of conservatives who are quitting Donald Trump. "That's all folks! I'm out," she wrote in her Sunday column, saying that while "in my heart, I wanted the smack-talking, hair-challenged, self-absorbed New York City billionaire Republican to nail down this baby," after his recent antics, "I can no longer justify calling myself a Trumpkin." (Peyser had endorsed Trump in June.) Trump is "a guy with the common touch, but the attention span of a flea," she wrote... Читать дальше...

When Hillary Clinton ran for an open U.S. Senate seat in New York in 2000, she focused much of her campaign on economically challenged Upstate New York, promising more than $500 million for the regional economy and, in an ad that ran right before her successful election, setting a goal of creating 200,000 upstate jobs. She is touting her experience as a job-creating senator in her presidential campaign, says Jerry Markon at The Washington Post, but "but nearly eight years after Clinton's Senate exit... Читать дальше...