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Residents of the Russian village of Nyda, a rural town in Siberia north of the Arctic Circle, this week discovered thousands of natural snowballs covering an 11-mile stretch of beach. Though similar snowballs have been observed in Michigan and Finland, this is the first known time they've appeared in Nyda.

Kenyan Mary Keitany won her third straight title at the New York City Marathon Sunday, finishing with a time of 2:24:26. She broke away from the rest of the elite women runners halfway through the race — an unusual move most runners would attempt after the 20-mile mark — and ran the final 13 miles alone.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump kicked campaigning into high gear Sunday, hoping to snag a few more undecided voters in the last 48 hours before Election Day begins.

Donald Trump's campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, told Jake Tapper Sunday that CNN must retract "all the storylines, all the headlines, all the breathless predictions of the last two weeks" suggesting that Hillary Clinton was certain to win the election.

Chicago Cubs players Anthony Rizzo, David Ross, and Dexter Fowler joined Cubs mega-fan Bill Murray on Saturday Night Live to celebrate their World Series win with two, uh, different sketches.

Syrian forces supported by the United States and led by Kurdish fighters reported Sunday they have begun a campaign to retake Raqqa, Syria, the de facto capital city of the Islamic State.

The South Carolina man accused of keeping a woman "chained up like a dog" in a storage container confessed to seven murders, said Spartanburg Sheriff Chuck Wright. The woman was discovered Thursday on land belonging to Todd Kohlhepp, who has a history of violent behavior.

Sunday's Washington Post/ABC presidential poll gives Hillary Clinton a 5 percent national lead over Donald Trump. Both candidates are lagging in affirmative support: Just 55 percent of Clinton voters and 43 percent of Trump voters say they're voting for their candidate as opposed to against the other campaign.

Saturday Night Live's final pre-election cold open took an unexpectedly charming turn, appealing for unity and high voter turnout. The sketch started predictably enough, with Kate McKinnon's Hillary Clinton and Alec Baldwin's Donald Trump facing off in a contentious CNN interview.

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Donald Trump was rushed off the stage by Secret Service agents at a campaign rally in Reno, Nevada, Saturday evening after someone in the audience yelled, "gun!" Several minutes later, an individual was removed from the crowd, after which Trump reappeared and thanked the agents involved for their swift action. The Department of Homeland Security soon confirmed Austyn Crites, the man removed, was only carrying a sign, and he was simply a #NeverTrump Republican who wanted to peacefully protest. Читать дальше...

Donald Trump was rushed off the stage by Secret Service agents at a campaign rally in Reno, Nevada, Saturday evening after someone in the audience yelled, "gun!" Fortunately, it was just a false alarm: The supposed attacker, Austyn Crites, was actually a #NeverTrump Republican armed with a sign and no intention of doing Trump or his supporters harm.

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (Signet, $10).

Cervantes was the first author to elevate satire to a position between humor and eulogy. By presenting his protagonist as a hybrid of knight and anti-knight, he established a tone that combines satire and anti-satire, making the novel a fountainhead of all subsequent satirical literature.

Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol (Vintage, $16).

Without a doubt, it is in this 1842 novel that Nikolai Gogol inaugurated his exaggerated style. Читать дальше...

Here are three of the week's top pieces of financial advice, gathered from around the web:

When the engineers had at last finished their work, Eugenia Kuyda opened a console on her laptop and began to type.

Donald Trump was rushed off the stage by Secret Service agents at a campaign rally in Reno, Nevada, Saturday evening without immediate explanation.

Tim Kaine suggested in an interview Saturday that forces within the FBI are conspiring to hurt Hillary Clinton's campaign. "I don't think Giuliani's walkback is credible," the vice presidential nominee said, referencing Rudy Giuliani's backtracking of comments in which he indicated he knew about the FBI's recent announcement about Clinton's private email server before it became public.

If Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's last ditch campaign stops in swing states like Florida and Ohio seem like an exercise in futility this close to Election Day, think again. Compared to 2012, the percentage of voters who apparently intend to make a game-day decision is remarkably high.

A noticeably hoarse Hillary Clinton cut short her sole campaign event Saturday when heavy rains struck her rally in Pembroke Pines, Florida. She spoke just six and half minutes before deciding to pull the plug on one of her final pre-election events.