In 1996, the GOP dumped Dole to save its congressional majorities. For Donald Trump’s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, it must be like déjà vu all over again. You may have missed the news while you were doing whatever it is that normal people do with their summer weekends, but Trump is in even bigger electoral trouble this week than he was the week before.

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An Oklahoma man suspected of fatally shooting a male neighbor was accused of harassing and shouting anti-Muslim slurs at the man's family, who are actually Christians from Lebanon, and of trying to run over the man's mother with his vehicle. Police say Khalid Jabara was killed at his Tulsa home Friday and 61-year-old Stanley Majors is being held without bail on a first-degree murder complaint and possession of a firearm after a felony conviction, but online court records do not show that he has been formally charged. According to court records, Majors was charged with assault and battery with a deadly weapon, leaving the scene of a collision involving injury, violating a protective order and public intoxication.
By Caroline Humer NEW YORK (Reuters) - Aetna Inc warned in July that it would exit much of the individual Obamacare health insurance market if the government challenged its deal to buy rival Humana Inc , according to a letter it sent to the U.S. Department of Justice. The public release of the letter came after Aetna said on Monday that it would pull out of selling individual insurance on the government-run websites in 11 states, citing financial losses on the business. The company's withdrawal followed similar moves by UnitedHealth Group Inc and Humana, representing a blow to the marketplace for the government-subsidized insurance plans created under President Barack Obama's signature healthcare reform law.
Two children and a man have died in the Indian capital after their throats were slit by glass-covered strings used for flying kites during Independence Day celebrations, police said Wednesday. The tragedies prompted the Delhi government to this week issue an immediate ban on the production, sale and storage of the razor sharp strings which are used to try to cut down competitors' kites.

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It’s been an ugly chapter in American history, and it’s about to get a lot uglier with the news that the NSA has been hacked, and all its spying tools might soon be online for anybody to use. What Is The Equation Group? It starts with a shadowy collection of expert hackers called The Equation Group.
A wildfire broke out Tuesday and spread at a staggering pace in every direction through drought-parched canyons east of Los Angeles, burning at least a dozen buildings – including some homes – and prompting evacuation orders for entire communities. The blaze that began as a small patch of flame next to Interstate 15 in the Cajon Pass had scorched 15,000 acres of the San Bernardino Mountains. “The smoke is on the desert floor,” said Eric Sherwin of the San Bernardino County Fire Department.
A fire raging east of Los Angeles spread rapidly Wednesday, posing a threat to more than 82,000 people and prompting the governor of California to declare a state of emergency. More than 1,300 firefighters were battling the giant blaze and more were on the way, but as of early Wednesday they had been unable to contain the inferno. Dramatic local TV news footage captured from the front line of the blaze showed "firenadoes" -- tornado-like flaming vortexes -- sent spinning into the air by the unusual ferociousness of the inferno.

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Idaho wildlife managers on Monday praised family members who charged a mountain lion and rescued a young girl from the jaws of the animal which was attempting to drag her off for the kill. The four-year-old girl suffered minor injuries from the attack Friday evening near a hot springs in eastern Idaho where dozens of relatives had gathered for a reunion, state wildlife officials said. The young male mountain lion believed to be behind the attack was later tracked and killed by authorities.
A Florida man drowned Sunday while saving his wife from a Miami Beach rip current. The man, identified as 34-year-old Sherrod Whittington, was visiting from Ft. Myers when the powerful currents nearly swept his wife, Kendra Smith, to sea, according to Miami Beach fire officials. Sherrod Whittington, 34, was visiting from Ft. Myers when powerful currents nearly swept his wife, Kendra Smith, to sea, according to Miami Beach fire officials.