Here's a roundup of news trending across the nation and world today.
What to know now:
1. Bill's next job: In a campaign stop in Kentucky over the weekend, Hillary Clinton told supporters that she would ask former president Bill Clinton to be "in charge of economic revitalization" should she win the presidency. "My husband, ... I'm going to put in charge of revitalizing the economy, cause you know he knows how to do it," Clinton told the crowd at a rally in Fort Mitchell. "And especially in places like coal country and inner cities and other parts of our country that have really been left out. I've told my husband he's got to come out of retirement and be in charge of this because you know he's got more ideas a minute than anybody I know."
2. Actor arrested: Wendell Pierce was arrested Saturday at an Atlanta hotel. Reports say the actor, who has starred in "The Wire" and "Treme," got into an altercation with a woman over presidential politics. Pierce was arrested on a charge of simple battery and released the same day on $1,000 bond, according to law enforcement fficials.
3. Shark attack: A 23-year-old woman was transported to a Boca Raton, Fla., hospital Sunday with a small shark attached to her arm. The woman was swimming when a nurse shark bit her and wouldn't let go. Paramedics transported the woman on a stretcher with her arm and the shark secured to a splint board. She was treated and released from the hospital Sunday.
4. Cancer therapy: A therapy developed by researchers at Duke University to fight the most aggressive form of brain cancer – glioblastoma -- has been fast-tracked by the Food and Drug Administration after nearly miraculous results have been documented. The therapy uses the polio virus to fight the cancer which normally kills its victims within months after being discovered. Two patients in the study are said to be showing no signs of the cancer three years after they had the treatment.
5. Bus crash: A bus heading to a casino crashed near a South Texas town over the weekend, killing 8 people and injuring 44 more. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the accident. The agency will look at the operations of the charter bus company as part of its investigation, NTSB spokesman Keith Holloway said.
And one more
A woman is missing and presumed dead after she fell off a Carnival cruise ship. According to the cruise line, Samantha Broberg, 33, climbed up on some railing and fell over backwards."Based on the video analysis, we can confirm that it appears she climbed up and sat on a deck railing and subsequently fll backwards," Carnival spokeswoman Jennifer De La Cruz said.
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