What to know now:
1. Mass killing: A Mississippi man has been arrested in the shooting deaths of five people in a south Alabama home over the weekend. Derrick Ryan Dearman allegedly broke into the home in Citronelle, Ala., in the early hours of Sunday and shot and killed five people, including a pregnant woman. Police say Dearman was getting revenge on his former girlfriend. He kidnapped the woman and a 3-month-old infant before he was captured. The girlfriend and the baby survived the shootings.
2. Hillary's health: Former New York mayor and current Donald Trump supporter Rudy Giuliani said Sunday that he believes Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton is suffering from a serious medical condition. Giuliani, speaking on Fox News Sunday said of Clinton, "She has an entire media empire that constantly demonizes Donald Trump and fails to … point out several signs of illness by her. All you've got to do is go online. Go online and put down 'Hillary Clinton illness' and take a look at the videos for yourself." Clinton's campaign staff has denied the candidate is ill.
3. Just an over-exaggeration: Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte told a Brazilian TV network that his main mistake during an alleged incident at the Rio Olympics "was overexaggerating" a story about being held up at gunpoint after a night of partying. "I just over-exaggerate part of it, the very first part, I was very intoxicated." When asked if what he actually had done was lie, Lochte said, "I wasn't lying to a certain extent. I overexaggerated what had happened."
4. Not happy with the choice: An ABC News/Washington Post poll taken earlier this month shows that 57 percent of those surveyed are dissatisfied with the choice between Republican nominee for president Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. Thirty-five percent of the respondents said they are considering voting for a third-party candidate. Fifty-nine percent of those respondents said they are worried that a vote for a third-party candidate would cause their least preferred candidate to win.
5. Obamacare troubles: Several large national insurance companies have announced plans to abandon Affordable Care Act marketplaces in many states because of sharply decreasing profits. According to a story from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the law known as Obamacare has not "evolved as expected" with more older and sicker people buying the healthcare plans. Health insurers in Wisconsin, the story says, are expected to ask for rate increases ranging from 5.44 percent to a whopping 37.88 percent. It's not certain they will get them, though.
And one more
With the start of college football just days away, The Associated Press has released its first Top 25 poll of the 2016 season. The University of Alabama sits atop the poll with Clemson, Oklahoma, FSU and LSU rounding out the top five.
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