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After months of failing to shore up the support of his party, Republican standard-bearer Donald Trump last week decided to shake up the top of his campaign. By ousting chairman Paul Manafort in favor of Breitbart News chief Stephen Bannon and longtime GOP pollster Kellyanne Conway, Trump gave many the impression that he was no longer interested in attempting to moderate for the general election — something some top Republican strategists suggested may be the final straw for the party moving to re-allocate its resources elsewhere. Читать дальше...

Melania Trump is preparing legal action against the Daily Mail following an article that alleged she once worked as an escort, and she is doing so using the same lawyer who helped take down Gawker for Hulk Hogan, Politico and The Huffington Post's Michael Calderone report.

Napster billionaire Sean Parker pulled out all the stops for his reportedly $4.5 million Lord of the Rings-themed wedding in Big Sur, California, in 2013. Guests were clothed by Academy Award-winning costume designer Ngila Dickson, there was a 9-foot-tall wedding cake, a feast laid out on a white fur, and a pony.

The swing state of Ohio is not feeling too hot about Donald Trump. Roughly 43 percent of the state backs Hillary Clinton, and about 39 percent backs Trump, with another 10 percent planning to vote for the Libertarian Gary Johnson, less than 1 percent for the Green Party's Jill Stein, and another 8 percent undecided, Monmouth reported Monday.

The Rio Olympics ended Sunday night with a festive Closing Ceremony — but the drama from the Games lives on, particularly for U.S. swimmer Ryan Lochte. Swimwear brand Speedo announced Monday that it was ending its sponsorship agreement with Lochte, following the swimmer's involvement in a protracted robbery scandal alongside teammates Gunnar Bentz, Jack Conger, and Jimmy Feigen. Lochte had initially claimed the four men were victims of an armed robbery during a taxi ride, but local authorities... Читать дальше...

Sorry, Panama Canal. You are no longer the only waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

The State Department on Monday is expected to discuss the release of another batch of emails from Hillary Clinton's private server, which was the subject of a year-long FBI investigation following controversy over her email practices while serving as secretary of state. Thousands of emails reportedly remain undisclosed, The Washington Post reports — even after the more than 30,000 messages Clinton's team gave to the State Department in December 2014. Conservative legal group Judicial Watch has sued for their release... Читать дальше...

An Indian man went to the hospital after experiencing stomach pain only to confirm to the shocked surgeons that yes, he had willingly consumed the dozens of knives they found in his stomach. "In 20 years, I've never seen such a patient," chief surgeon Jatinder Malholtra told The Washington Post. "I was amazed."

In the crucial swing state of Colorado, Donald Trump's Jefferson County campaign is being run by someone who is too young to vote … or even drive. Weston Imer, 12, in in charge of organizing volunteers in the county, which is part of the Denver metro area and has a population of about 552,000.

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Obama administration from enforcing national guidelines that would require public schools to allow transgender students to use restrooms and locker rooms that match their gender identity. A Texas-led coalition of 13 states protested that the White House was overreaching with the directive, arguing, "These new mandates, putting the federal government in the unprecedented position of policing public school property and facilities ... run roughshod over clear lines of authority... Читать дальше...

Donald Trump, showing no signs of curbing his use of personal insults, slammed longtime target Anthony Weiner on Monday, deeming the former New York representative a "pervert sleaze":

George W. Bush's former secretary of state, Colin Powell, is tired of Hillary Clinton blaming him for her email scandal. Clinton allegedly told the FBI that her use of a private email server came as a suggestion from Powell, a moment that is documented in a new biography of Bill Clinton:

Donald Trump on Monday demanded the Clinton Foundation be shut down, issuing a statement calling the organization the "most corrupt enterprise in political history":

Nutritious food is in such short supply in U.S. prisons that ramen noodles have actually overtaken tobacco as the dominant currency among inmates, The Guardian reports. "[Money] doesn't change unless there's some drastic change to the value in people using it," researcher and doctoral student Michael Gibson-Light said, concluding that the shift to ramen noodle trading indicates severe nutritional deficiencies in prisons.

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Pfizer has sealed a deal to buy U.S. biotech Medivation for $14 billion, the companies announced Monday. Pfizer beat out French drug maker Sanofi, which courted Medivation for months. Pfizer has been trying to use acquisitions to make up for slowing sales of older drugs. Buying Medivation would give Pfizer a blockbuster prostate-cancer treatment, Xtandi, that has been approved, and is projected to generate $1.3 billion in sales by 2020.

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A U.S. regulator has signed off... Читать дальше...

Donald Trump viciously attacked Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski on Monday morning, just hours after his new campaign manager insisted he "doesn't hurl personal insults."

By pretty much any measure, Team USA absolutely dominated the competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. With 121 total medals, the U.S. had almost double the number of second-place Britain, with 67, and No. 3 China, with 70 (fewer silvers and golds than Britain), and America's 46 gold medals beat the total medal counts of every country from No. 5 Germany (42 medals) on down. President Obama tweeted out his congratulations on Sunday, the day of the final ceremony in Rio:

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The Rio Olympics ended Sunday night with a Closing Ceremony inspired by the South American nation's famous Carnival. Simone Biles, who won four gold medals and a bronze in gymnastics, carried the U.S. flag in the ceremony. She led a U.S. team that collected 121 medals — the country's biggest haul in a non-boycotted Olympics since 1904. The rainy, three-hour ceremony marked the official handover of the Olympic flag to Tokyo, which hosts the next Summer Games in 2020. Despite complaints... Читать дальше...

Hillary Clinton's top aide, Huma Abedin, reportedly spent 12 years serving as the assistant editor of the Saudi Arabia-based and funded Journal of Minority Muslim Affairs, which has controversially blamed the U.S. for 9/11 and argued against women's rights, The New York Post reports. Abedin's supposed tenure at the journal overlapped with time she spent serving Clinton when Clinton was Secretary of State.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is "not famous for his extrovert displays and pop culture references," as BBC News puts it, so it was a surprise when he appeared at the Closing Ceremony of the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro dressed as the fictional plumber Super Mario.

Just before Christmas in 2013, Donald Trump predicted how his presidential ambitions would go. "I'm going to get in and all the polls are going to go crazy. I'm going to suck all the oxygen out of the room. I know how to work the media in a way that they will never take the lights off of me," Politico reports him saying. And he was right. But it came at a cost.

The election isn't here yet, but it's looking more and more likely Hillary Clinton will trounce Donald Trump in November. Speculation over who she might appoint as advisors and agency heads has already commenced. And like anyone else, I have got my own opinions about who Clinton should pick, particularly when it comes to the economics positions.

In the discourse around the American intelligence apparatus, agencies like the CIA and NSA are commonly described as protecting U.S. "national security." This phrase evokes a sort of collective interest of the American people, as if those agencies are manning the barricades between the citizenry and a scary world.

There's a reason your vote is private, American electorate, and it's not because of Facebook.

Beauty pageants are ubiquitous the world over. But in Tel Aviv this year, one beauty pageant became historic — Miss Trans Israel was the country's first-ever transgender beauty pageant.