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President Obama will campaign with Hillary Clinton for the first time this coming Tuesday, appearing with the presumptive Democratic nominee in North Carolina, a state he won in 2008 and narrowly lost in 2012. Obama originally planned to appear with Clinton in Wisconsin last month, but the scheduled event was postponed after the massacre at Orlando's Pulse nightclub.

The iPhone appeared in 2007 and Android launched in 2008, but the lengthy decline of the once-popular BlackBerry smartphone has been slowed by its continued use by the U.S. government — until now.

Iraqi officials report at least 126 people, including 25 children, were killed in two bombings in Baghdad Sunday. The larger of the two attacks, claimed by the Islamic State and perpetrated very early Sunday morning, killed at least 125 and wounded about 150 more by blowing up a pickup truck next to a busy shopping center.

If your dog, like mine, is transformed from a gallant defender of the castle into a whimpering skulker at the sound of fireworks or thunder, you may soon be able to drug that fear right out of them.

A Muslim man walking to the entrance of a Houston, Texas, mosque for 5:30 a.m. prayer services was ambushed and shot by three as-yet-unknown people Sunday morning. The victim, a doctor, has been taken to the hospital and is expected to survive.

The director of 1978's The Deer Hunter, Michael Cimino, has died at 77, as first announced on Twitter by Cannes Film Festival director Thierry Fremaux. "Michael Cimino died peacefully surrounded by his family and the two women who loved him," Fremaux wrote in French. "We loved him too."

The largest private coal mining corporation in America, Murray Energy, has warned it may have to lay off as many as 4,400 employees — some 80 percent of the company's workforce — thanks to a long-term slump in the coal markets.

Saturday's deadly attack in Dhaka, Bangladesh, which left at least 28 people dead, was designed to target foreign nationals and the Bangladeshi elite.

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Elie Wiesel, the Auschwitz survivor whose writing and activism uniquely forced the world to confront the horrors of the Holocaust, died Saturday at his New York home. He was 87 years old. "Elie Wiesel was one of the great moral voices of our time, and in many ways, the conscience of the world," President Obama said in a statement. Wiesel was a teenager when he was sent to Auschwitz and Buchenwald, where he watched his father die just a few months before the camps were liberated. He chronicled... Читать дальше...

Following a three-hour interview with investigators Saturday morning, Hillary Clinton said that evening she was happy to participate in the FBI's inquiry into the private email server she used while secretary of state.

Elie Wiesel, the Auschwitz survivor whose writing and activism uniquely forced the world to confront the horrors of the Holocaust, died Saturday at his New York home. He was 87 years old.

Looking for a great nonfiction read? Below you'll find some of this summer's most recommended books. It's an eclectic bunch, including thought-provoking essays on race; two radically different explorations of animal obsession; revelations about the literary past; and considerations of how we might view — well, everything — differently in the future. Six are available now, with two to look forward to in August.

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Have you noticed the West is in the throes of a full-blown populist uprising? Whether it's Brexit, left-wing movements in the Mediterranean, the establishment parties booted from the presidential runoff in Austria, the rise of France's Marine Le Pen, or, of course, America's own Donald Trump, populism is surging.