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Administrators at a Wisconsin high school sparked outrage when they announced that four specific students had been killed by a drunk driver, only to reveal later that it was just a "drill about safe-driving techniques." After reciting the Pledge of Allegiance on a regular school morning, students at Brodhead High School were informed of their classmates' deaths.

Three laptops belonging to workers on Hillary Clinton's campaign were stolen from a car in Philadelphia Friday night, local police report. The MacBook Pros are believed to contain campaign information, perhaps including the candidate's upcoming schedule.

Let's imagine you're a person of taste, and "you desperately need a plane to match your pink iPhone," says Andrew Moseman at Popular Mechanics. The Cobalt Valkyrie-X ($1,500,000) could be the answer.

Iraqi soldiers making their way toward Mosul, the last major city controlled by the Islamic State in Iraq, are in the process of taking the final town on the city's southern outskirts on Saturday. Hammam al-Alil is defended by about 70 ISIS fighters, some of whom attempted to escape while others are fighting back with attempted suicide bombings.

At one of his final pre-election appearances in Tampa, Florida, on Saturday, Republican Donald Trump brought a baby on stage and declared the child a "future construction worker" and an "early Trump fan."

The Supreme Court on Saturday ruled that an Arizona ban on independent ballot collection may continue.

Daylight saving time ends at 2 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 6, and since it's fall, this biannual hassle at least offers the mercy of being the nicer one where we gain an hour of sleep instead of losing it. But, as Claremont McKenna College's Laura Grant explains at Newsweek, don't expect many benefits beyond the extra rest:

The Clinton Foundation admitted in a Reuters story Friday night it accepted a $1 million donation from the government of Qatar during Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state. In October, the foundation refused to confirm such a donation occurred.

Because this is the classiest election ever — and really, why shouldn't a tabloid literally inspired by the way people morbidly gawk at car crashes be part of it? — The Wall Street Journal reports that The National Enquirer paid $150,000 to buy the rights to a tale of Donald Trump's marital infidelity and then suppressed it.

Fully 40 percent of millennials believe the election results could be fraudulent, finds a new poll released Friday.

A schoolgirl kidnapped by the Boko Haram terrorist group from Chibok, Nigeria, in 2014 was rescued alive with a 10-month-old baby, the Nigerian military reported Saturday.

Embattled South Korean President Park Geun-hye faced at least 40,000 angry protesters demanding her resignation in Seoul on Saturday. Park is accused of giving an old friend, Choi Soon-sil, undue influence in state affairs.

Beyoncé, her husband, Jay-Z, and Chance the Rapper headlined a Get-Out-the-Vote concert for Hillary Clinton in Cleveland Friday night. Performing in a Clinton-esque pantsuit, Beyoncé declared she is "with her" because we "have to think about the future of our daughters, our sons, and vote for someone who cares for them as much as we do."

What did the former mayor know and when did he know it? Rudy Giuliani claimed Friday morning he knew about the FBI's recent announcement about Hillary Clinton's private email server before it became public, stating in an interview on Fox he had no role in releasing the information but "darn right [he] heard about it" in advance.

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Donald Trump's wife Melania earned $20,056 modeling in America before she obtained a work visa, documents from her earliest years in the United States indicate. Then known as Melania Knauss, Trump first came to the States from her native Slovenia on Aug. 27, 1996, under a visa that permitted her to look for work but not to accept any paid position. She acquired an H-1B work visa on Oct. 18, 1996, but in the month and a half between those dates, she worked 10 paid modeling gigs for employers... Читать дальше...

Donald Trump's wife Melania earned $20,056 modeling in America before she obtained a work visa, documents from her earliest years in the United States indicate.

The prototype for a smart contact lens points to a future where "just about any object" can connect to the internet, "even disposable ones," said Tom Simonite at TechnologyReview.com. Shyam Gollakota, an assistant professor at the University of Washington, demonstrated a Wi-Fi-connected contact lens last month at MIT to showcase a new technology dubbed "backscatter."

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Woodstock, Vermont. The Glenmorgan estate dates from 1836. The five-bedroom Federal-style brick home on 75 acres has hardwood floors, French doors, a library, and a third-floor suite with views of the valley.

This week's question: A growing number of Millennial newlyweds are signing intellectual prenups, which ban couples from stealing each others ideas for software, apps, songs, novels and more should they ever divorce. Please come up with a new legal term to describe these distinctly unromantic agreements.