1. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton went straight for each other’s jugulars during the first presidential debate in New York last night. Trump blasted Clinton as a candidate with no history of success or results, despite working in politics for so long. Meanwhile, Clinton blasted her rival for his bankruptcies, dubbed his tax reduction plan the “Trumped-up trickle down” and called him out for calling women “pigs” and “slobs.” (CNN)
2. The Marlins’ pregame ceremony for Jose Fernandez was a predictably solemn occasion. The emotions built even more when the Marlins knelt in the dirt and inscribed personal messages to their late, beloved teammate. There were multiple displays of grace, sportsmanship and people rising to meet the occasion during the Marlins’ 7-3 victory over the Mets. Right after the national anthem, the Mets crossed the field and met the Marlins in an inspiring display of baseball brotherhood. (ESPN)
3. Gov. Paul LePage has been keeping a binder of photos that he said shows “90-plus percent” of the drug dealers arrested in Maine are black or Hispanic, but people of those races accounted for only 40 percent of those pictured in the notebook when it was released to the public Monday. (PH)
4. A Vermont man whose boat sank spent seven days adrift on an inflatable life raft before he was rescued off the coast of Massachusetts by a passing freighter, but his still-missing mother was presumed dead, the Coast Guard said Monday. The Coast Guard had suspended its search Friday for Linda Carman, 54, and her 22-year-old son, Nathan Carman. (PH)
5. Among all the charges, counter-charges, and interruptions at Monday’s presidential debate, the breakout star turned out to be not a person, but a bodily function—a sniff. Donald Trump’s loud and errant sniffles occurred throughout the entire debate from the very beginning. They were noticed early on, and quickly inspired their own Twitter account. (Complex)
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