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  • The rocky markets hurt the rock-star bank. Their profit is down 58 percent.
  • President Trump summarily fired the FBI director, giving little reasoning except for a memo from a Justice Department official who criticized James Comey's handling of the Clinton email probe.
  • In Cuba, President Raul Castro has plans to reform the economy, but many challenges lie ahead before the country can move forward. Many of the changes are being implemented slowly because of resistance from within the Communist Party.
  • When researchers dug into Danish cancer data, teasing out cases involving people who'd had cellphones with those who hadn't, they found no increased risk of brain tumors. Swedish researchers also noted in an editorial that national rates of glioma, a brain cancer, hadn't increased since the 1970s.
  • Analysis of financial disclosure forms found that Congress' collective net worth grew by nearly a quarter since 2008. By any measure most federal politicians are richer than the average American.
  • The first steps toward a post-Gadhafi government are under way in Libya.
  • The state of Wisconsin has a webcam streaming as workers process more than 300,000 petition pages from the effort to recall Gov. Scott Walker (R). It's silent. You don't know who these people are. They're pushing papers. And it's mesmerizing.
  • Inmates at a maximum security prison in Arizona were stricken with botulism after consuming homemade hooch that's called "pruno" inside the big house. Potatoes appear to be the source of the problem in two separate outbreaks.
  • The outcome is unofficial at this point as the government has said it will not announce official results until the referendum concludes in the rest of Egypt next Saturday. Though voting counts differed, most major supporters and opponents of the constitution reported it had received a majority "yes" vote.
  • Mark Basseley Youssef admitted to violating four of eight conditions of his probation. He'd previously served 21 months in prison for bank fraud. His film, Innocence of Muslims, which depicted Prophet Muhammad as a fraud, sparked violence in the Muslim world.
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