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Hillary Clinton leads in just one of the four swing states polled by Quinnipiac University, in the latest batch of polls released Thursday by the Connecticut-based polling center. Clinton edges out Donald Trump in a head-to-head matchup in Virginia, leading 50 percent to 43 percent. But in Colorado, Clinton and Trump are tied, each with 47 percent; in both Georgia and Iowa, Trump is ahead with 50 percent support to Clinton's 44 percent.

Yahoo confirmed Thursday that at least 500 million user accounts were compromised in a massive data breach in late 2014. The hack is suspected to be the work of a "state-sponsored actor," Yahoo said in a statement.

The United Kingdom will proceed with its formal exit from the European Union, known as "Brexit," in early 2017, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said Thursday. "We are talking to our European friends and partners in the expectation that by the early part of next year you will see an Article 50 letter. We will invoke that," Johnson said from New York, where he is attending the United Nations talks.

In the series premiere of Mr. Robot, the titular (and imagined) character explained to our protagonist Elliot that the hackers of fsociety don't communicate at all online. "Our encryption is the real world," he says.

TV networks and advertisers are hoping for record-breaking viewership during Monday night's first presidential debate. While President Barack Obama and his Republican rival Mitt Romney garnered 67 million pairs of eyes during the first debate of the 2012 cycle, experts are predicting that the fervor over the competition between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump could draw even more people than ever before. To put the excitement over this cycle in perspective, Fox News has already set the all-time... Читать дальше...

Donald Trump's second ex-wife, Marla Maples, has been famously tight-lipped on her thoughts about her billionaire ex-husband and his run for president. Despite being quoted in the London-based Telegraph in 1999 as saying, "If he is really serious about being president ... I will feel it is my duty as an American citizen to tell the people what he is really like," Maples and her daughter, Tiffany Trump, have mostly kept to themselves this election season. (Maples, for her part, denies giving the... Читать дальше...

If Hillary Clinton really wants to know why she isn't 50 points ahead of Donald Trump in the polls, perhaps she should rewatch her video conference address to the Laborers' International Union of North America. In a speech Wednesday addressing working families, Clinton explains — or rather, shouts — why she is clearly a better advocate for them than Donald Trump. "If you do know somebody who might be voting for Trump, stage an intervention," Clinton said. "Try to talk some sense into them. Lay out the facts. Читать дальше...

The Los Angeles Police Department on Thursday denied reports that it is investigating actor Brad Pitt for child abuse. "We have no criminal investigation that we are actively pursuing," LAPD Sgt. Barry Montgomery told The Hollywood Reporter. "We are not investigating any case, nor do we have any allegations against Mr. Pitt. We understand how rumors get spun up and hopefully we can put a few of them to rest. We have no investigation involving Mr. Pitt."

It is illegal to harass manatees, but that didn't stop James Roy Massengale Jr., 47, from jumping in an Islamorada, Florida, creek in an attempt to make some aquatic friends. When some passing witnesses saw the scene, they informed Massengale it is illegal to harass manatees; Massengale, The Independent reports, clarified his intentions: "I'm riding it!"

A letter written last week by the Las Vegas Police Protective Association, a police union, argues that no one should be able to display materials supporting the Black Lives Matter movement while in court.

In an interview with The Guardian published Thursday, Donald Trump's campaign chair in Ohio's Mahoning County denied racism existed before President Obama took office. "Growing up as a kid, there was no racism, believe me. We were just all kids going to school," said Kathy Miller, who was a teenager amid the civil rights movement in the 1960s. When asked if she'd noticed any segregation during her childhood, Miller insisted she'd "never experienced it."

With insurers withdrawing from the health care exchanges, consumer choice on the decline, participation well below projections, and premium prices on the rise, to say that ObamaCare is at this point a markedly troubled program is hardly a partisan jab. In fact, even some congressional Democrats are starting to publicly agree.

Hillary Clinton's interview on Between Two Ferns started with the Secret Service tackling masked host Zach Galifianakis, and things only got more ridiculous from there. After a few quips about Clinton's tenure as secretary of state — "How many words per minute did you type? And how does President Obama like his coffee?" — Galifianakis asks Clinton about, of course, Donald Trump.

Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman declined to take questions during his press conference Wednesday ahead of his team's upcoming game against the San Francisco 49ers. "I'm not going to answer any questions today and it's no offense to you guys," Sherman told the press, "but I think the state of things in the world today is very interesting."

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio viciously tore into Donald Trump after the Republican nominee touted the city's former stop-and-frisk policy as a means of stopping black-on-black crime. Trump is "either ignorant of the history of the city or he's lying about it," de Blasio told the press at City Hall.

In an interview with Toledo ABC affiliate WSYX on Wednesday, Donald Trump explained why he announced last Friday that he believes President Obama was indeed born in the U.S. As it turns out, Trump's disavowal of the birther theory wasn't inspired so much by a change of heart as it was by Trump getting annoyed with all those pesky questions about his own beliefs about where Obama was born. In other words, he wanted to shut everyone up.

When asked what he thought about the Republican presidential nominee during a Thursday interview for Good Morning Britain, His Holiness the Dalai Lama had this to this to say — or rather do:

The Los Angeles Police Department and the L.A. County Department of Children and Family Services are reportedly investigating Brad Pitt following an anonymous report about an incident on the private plane the actor shares with his wife, Angelina Jolie.

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The Federal Reserve concluded a two-day policy meeting on Wednesday with an announcement that it was holding interest rates in place, as economists expected. "The economy has a bit more running room than might have been previously thought," Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen said. Yellen also emphasized that a rate hike could soon be justified, because, "We don't want the economy to overheat." Many economists took the comments as a sign that a December rate hike was likely. The Fed decision gave global stocks a lift early Thursday... Читать дальше...

The man accused of injuring over two dozen people in a New York City bombing and placing multiple other explosive devices at sites in New York and New Jersey last weekend was on the FBI's radar, although multiple suspicions failed to compel them to bring him in for an interview, The New York Times reports.

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Violent protests over a fatal police shooting continued in Charlotte, North Carolina, for a second night on Wednesday. Gov. Pat McCrory (R) declared a state of emergency and said he would deploy National Guard troops and highway patrol officers. "We cannot tolerate violence," he said. Four more police officers were injured in clashes on Wednesday, as protests that started out peacefully were disrupted when some people threw rocks and smashed windows. One person was shot and gravely injured in "civilian on civilian" violence... Читать дальше...

The view from the top is that America's economy is improving, slowly but surely. The jobless rate is a mere 5 percent. The dollar is strong. The markets are at or near record highs. And "we are coming close to our assigned congressional goal of maximum employment," as Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen intoned earlier this year.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have called it quits. Cue the trumpets, man the horns. That rustle you hear is the world arranging itself carefully into camps: no, not #TeamJolie or #TeamJen, but teams #ThoseWhoCare and #ThoseWhoDon't.

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Before this presidential campaign began, many people believed that the American public's view of Hillary Clinton couldn't change all that much. Sure, she'd get attacked plenty by her opponents, but after being first lady, a senator, and secretary of state, in the furious glare of the media spotlight since 1991, the voters knew what they felt about her.