A former CIA case officer who has served as top policy aide to House Republicans is launching an independent campaign for the presidency on Monday with the backing of veteranย GOPย strategists and donors determined to block Donald Trump fromย getting anywhere near the White House. Feeding off mounting discontent within GOP ranks over Trump, Evan McMullin โ who is resigning todayย as chief policy director for the House Republican Conference โ announced his campaign with an open โLetter to Americaโ that took pointed shots at both the GOP nominee and Democrat Hillary Clinton.
Firefighters are battling a wildfire in Southern California that grew to more than 2 square miles in mere hours and forced the evacuation of homes near a reservoir. The fire, which broke out Sunday afternoon in the San Bernardino National Forest, prompted the evacuation order of the sparsely populated Summit Valley area east of the dam. The fire is burning about 55 miles east of Los Angeles in a remote area near Silverwood Lake, a state recreation area, near the small mountain community of Crestline.
Delta Airlines grounded all its flights worldwide Monday because of a computer breakdown, but lifted the order hours later while warning of cancellations and delays. The carrier blamed the computer problem on a power outage in its hub in Atlanta, Georgia. The halt left tens of thousands of passengers around the world stranded, as they crowded ticket counters and lay on the ground in airports.
Police decide to investigate Vanessa Marcotte's death as homicide after locating her body in a wooded area in Princeton, Mass. Yesterday. After a report of a missing person which received by the Princeton police. Princeton police contacted the Massachusetts state police.

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President Barack Obamaโs seventh and final summer vacation at Marthaโs Vineyard has begun with hopes of getting in some relaxing time with the first family before the busy fall leading up to Novemberโs presidential election. Obama will fill the next two weeks with leisurely rounds of golf, beach outings, bike rides and hikes with his wife and daughters, and dinner with Mrs. Obama and their friends at some of the islandโs top restaurants. Congress is also on an extended summer break from Washington, something the White House has chided it for as the nation deals with the Zika virus making its way to Florida.
Rio Olympics organisers said they would replace the Games' official Chinese flags on Monday after the discovery of a design flaw which caused fury in China. The Chinese have cut an unhappy camp in Rio, with several athletes complaining about conditions at the athletes' village and the foreign ministry warning of "frequent" theft in the Brazilian city.
Mackenzie "Mack" Horton may have won an Olympic gold medal Saturday, but he did not win the hearts and minds of hundreds of egg accounts on Twitter. The Australian swimmer beat out arch rival Sun Yang of China in the 400-meter freestyle in Rio de Janeiro. Horton certainly did not hide his feelings.

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The 71-year-old woman had visited her daughter, who operates a horse boarding and riding center in King County, Washington, the report said. The report is published in the Aug. 5 issue of the journal Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Whether on the streets of Manhattan or in the middle of a car show, street parking is never completely safe. Just last weekend, aย Mercedes-Benz 380SL rearranged a Ferrari 458 Speciale'sย face in the midst of a Cars and Coffee event in Great Falls, Virginia. It remains unclear what actually caused the incident, but according to the clip's description, the driver was trying to park her classic Mercedes-Benz roadster when her car somehow landed on the Speciale.
By James Macharia JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The African National Congress lost its grip on local government in Tshwane, home of the South African capital Pretoria, as results on Saturday gave the opposition Democratic Alliance a second big win in the ANC's worst election since the end of apartheid. The results of Wednesday's voting have reshaped the political landscape in South Africa, where the ANC has ruled virtually unopposed since it ended white-minority rule in 1994, led by Nelson Mandela. Unemployment, economic stagnation and scandals around President Jacob Zuma led voters to punish the ANC, changing the outlook for national elections in 2019 and potentially emboldening Zuma's rivals within the ANC to challenge him.

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