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Trump continues attacks on 'dishonest,' 'distorted' media
After a week filled with allegations of sexual assault and declines in national polls, Donald Trump doubled down on his attacks of Hillary Clinton and the media over the weekend. At an event in Portsmouth, N.H., on Saturday, the Republican presidential nominee said that Clinton should be in jail and that the media continues to "rig" the election with their continued reports on sexual assault allegations. Trump has denied the allegations, and at one point Saturday called one of his accusers, "this crazy woman on the airplane." The Republican presidential nominee echoed his own sentiments Sunday in tweets saying the media and Clinton campaign are rigging the election "by putting stories that never happened into news!" Never in modern times has a major-party nominee hurled accusations that the election results themselves can't be trusted.
Kaepernick kneels, starts, gets booed by Bills fans
San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick faced a barrage of boos Sunday as he started his first game of the season and continued his protest of kneeling during the national anthem. On the second play of the game, the 28-year-old QB scrambled for a first down, silencing some of the crowd. While many in Buffalo greeted Kaepernick with hostility, others showed their support for his actions with signs outside the stadium.
San Diego truck plunges into crowd, killing 4
Four people were killed in San Diego on Saturday after a pickup truck swerved over a retaining wall and plunged 60 feet into a park where a biker festival was taking place. Authorities were trying to determine Sunday why the driver lost control of his truck on a highway bridge but said that Richard Anthony Sepolio, a Navy member stationed at Naval Base Coronado, was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence causing death. Sepolio, 25, and one person on the ground survived with "major" injuries, but the four who died were killed almost instantly, California Highway Patrol Officer Jake Sanchez said. Seven others were also injured.
Cubs take Game 1 in NLCS; Indians jump to 2-0 in ALCS
After pinch-hitter Miguel Montero blasted a grand slam in a five-run eighth inning, the Chicago Cubs defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 1 of the National League Championship Series. Montero's homer may have not only saved the Cubs' season, but it also made history as the first pinch-hit grand slam to provide a game-winning run in a postseason game. The win also marks the first time the Cubs have taken a 1-0 lead in a best-of-seven playoff series since 1945. In the American League, the Cleveland Indians took a 2-0 series lead against the Toronto Blue Jays on Saturday behind the go-ahead-hit from Francisco Lindor.
North Korea missile launch fails
North Korea failed to launch an intermediate-range ballistic missile, the Pentagon said Saturday. U.S. Strategic Command detected the failure around 11:30 p.m. ET Friday near a city in northwestern North Korea. Despite United Nations Security Council resolutions, North Korea routinely conducts missile tests. The pariah nation, though, has yet to show the capability of arming its missiles with nuclear weapons or reaching the continental United States.
'SNL' skewers second presidential debate
If you watched the second presidential debate last Sunday and thought, "This is going to be great on Saturday Night Live," then you were right. In the new season's third debate-themed cold open, with Alec Baldwin's Donald Trump again battling Kate McKinnon's Hillary Clinton, SNL turned what many saw as a nasty town hall-style debate into a display of comedic genius. And the show didn't even need to embellish much.
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