- US-backed rebel forces have captured Syria's largest oil field in Deir Ezzor, held by ISIS forces since 2014, rebel forces retook the Syrian city of Raqqa last week from Islamic State.
- The FBI reportedly foiled a plot to get a Russian sleeper agent inside Hillary Clinton's inner circle in 2010, part of the same busted Russian spy ring that included model Anna Chapman.
- Snap elections Sunday in Japan's lower house of parliament have given Prime Minister Shinzo Abe a super-majority in his efforts to revise Japan's post-war constitution.
- Democratic Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer says a bipartisan bill to shore up insurance markets can pass, but GOP Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell is blocking a vote.
- Automaker Tesla has reached a deal to open its first electric car factory in Shanghai, China already accounts for 40% of the global electric vehicle market.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. -- Benjamin Franklin
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