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Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press," while responding to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton saying in the debate last night that he is "becoming ISIS's best recruiter," Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump declared that to be "just another Hillary lie..." He continued, "I think my words represent toughness and strength. Hillary's not strength. Hillary's weak, frankly, she's got no stamina, she's got nothing... she couldn't even get back on the stage. Nobody even knows what happened to her. It's like she went home and went to sleep..."

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The latest on the closure of Los Angeles Unified School District schools due to a threat (all times local): 9:40 a.m. New York City officials say they and many cities across the country received the same threat that closed the Los Angeles school system. Mayor Bill de Blasio told reporters Tuesday that the threat came in the form of a "generic" email and that New York officials quickly concluded that it wasn't credible. Los Angeles Unified School District officials say they closed all of the system's more than 900 schools and 187 public charter schools as...

The Islamic State issued a fatwa condemning to death children with Down's syndrome, according to the Facebook page Mosul Eye, which says it reports news from within Islamic-State-occupied Mosul. "The Shar'i Board of ISIL issued an 'Oral Fatwa' to its members authorizing them to 'kill newborn babies with Down's Syndrome and congenital deformities and disabled children.' [Snip] Mosul Eye claimed to have recorded 'more than 38 confirmed cases of killing babies with congenital deformities and Down's Syndrome, aged between one week to three months.'