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[h=4]The Short List: GOP debate; #NursesUnite against 'The View'; science experiment gets America talking[/h]It's GOP debate night 2.0. Get ready for a Trump-Fiorina ruuuuuumble
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It's GOP debate night 2.0. Get ready for a Trump-Fiorina ruuuuuumble
Donald Trump. Carly Fiorina. Oh, and<span style="color: Red;">*</span>nine other<span style="color: Red;">*</span>candidates take the stage at 8 p.m. Wednesday<span style="color: Red;">*</span>at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California. It<span style="color: Red;">*</span>is widely expected to be a bare-knuckles brawl between<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Trump and Fiorina, whose campaign was tracking upward after her performance in the last "undercard" debate, got a further<span style="color: Red;">*</span>boost after Trump criticized her looks —<span style="color: Red;">*</span>er, persona, as Trump later claimed —<span style="color: Red;">*</span>in<span style="color: Red;">*</span>a<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Rolling Stone<span style="color: Red;">*</span>interview. Our Magic 8 ball says GOP Throwdown 2.0<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(The One Before Everyone Stops Caring) will go a little like this: Trump will say something snide about Fiorina. She’ll smile and verbally pat him on the head. Some other candidates will say some stuff (wait —<span style="color: Red;">*</span>there are other people at this event?) but the analysis afterward will be all about Trump, Fiorina and gender politics. Needless to say,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>we've got our popcorn ready.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Don't forget the undercard debate with the remaining GOP candidates<span style="color: Red;">*</span>that starts at 6 p.m.)<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Add YOZINGER on Yo! for fun with, you guessed it, the zingers.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Follow along with @usatoday2016. And get your bingo cards ready!<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Both debates will be on CNN and<span style="color: Red;">*</span>live-streamed for free.
Twitter <span style="color: Red;">*</span>—<span style="color: Red;">*</span>including Barack and Hillary —<span style="color: Red;">*</span>declares: #IStandWithAhmed
If you're going to be a high school freshman at the center of a<span style="color: Red;">*</span>social media storm, it helps to have top-tier allies such as, you know, the president of the United States and a former-first-lady-turned-senator-turned-secretary-of-State-turned-Democratic-front-runner. You know, those kind of friends. Ahmed Mohamed, 14, is the lucky kid who has the support of President Obama and Hillary Clinton — as well as<span style="color: Red;">*</span>the rest of Twitter.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>So why all the love?<span style="color: Red;">*</span>It all started when, Ahmed says,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>he was suspended for three days<span style="color: Red;">*</span>and questioned by police after officials at MacArthur High School in Texas mistook his homemade clock for a fake bomb. Ahmed — an engineering student who has won awards for his inventions — said he brought the clock to school to show an engineering teacher. Another teacher confiscated it, and then the police were called<span style="color: Red;">*</span>but no charges were filed. Now the Dallas chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations says he was targeted because of his religious and racial identity and they're concerned some of the student's rights may have been violated. In the meantime, Ahmed has<span style="color: Red;">*</span>an<span style="color: Red;">*</span>invitation to the White House<span style="color: Red;">*</span>but there's<span style="color: Red;">*</span>no word yet on when he'll visit.
Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It's what makes America great.
— President Obama (@POTUS) September 16, 2015
America's nurses still mad about being mocked on 'The View'
Miss Colorado<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Kelley Johnson<span style="color: Red;">*</span>didn't win the Miss America pageant. But she won our hearts with her monologue, wearing scrubs and a stethoscope. (You probably saw it all over your Facebook feed.) Well, two hosts of The View were not impressed. <span style="color: Red;">*</span>“She came in in a nurse’s uniform, and basically read her emails out loud,” comedian and co-host Michelle Collins said of Johnson’s monologue, which told the story of “Joe,” an Alzheimer’s patient who made Johnson realize the importance of her role as his nurse. “Why does she have a doctor’s stethoscope on?” fellow co-host Joy Behar chimed in during the show. Nurses and other health care professionals were<span style="color: Red;">*</span>—<span style="color: Red;">*</span>and still are — really mad and<span style="color: Red;">*</span>are venting using the<span style="color: Red;">*</span>#NursesUnite hashtag on Twitter. Collins and Behar revisited their comments Wednesday and kinda-sorta apologized.
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Miss Colorado Kelley Johnson performed a personal monologue in the talent portion of the Miss America competition. She shocked many when she walked on stage in her nurse scrubs. VPC
Study: Will work (happier) for (free) food<span style="color: Red;">*</span>
When it comes to employee perks, few things are as simply satisfying as free food and drinks. As it turns out, it's also just good business. According to a new survey by grocery-delivery service Peapod, companies that provide free food have happier employees, compared with those who don't. Snacks may even lure potential<span style="color: Red;">*</span>employees to new companies: 48% of respondents said that if they were looking for a new job, they would weigh company perks, including availability of snacks, in their decision. All this talk about food makes us here at #TheShortList hungry. BRB. We need Cheetos.
Holly Pascall and Danielle Mahoney, employees at software company Appeagle, take a snack break. Appeagle provides employees free breakfast, lunch and unlimited snacks.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Appeagle)
Hero pilot diverts trans-Atlantic flight to save Simba the French bulldog from freezing
Temperatures at high altitudes, of course, drop to dangerously low levels that —<span style="color: Red;">*</span>without heat —<span style="color: Red;">*</span>can endanger the lives of pets and humans. An Air Canada pilot is being lauded for diverting a Tel Aviv-to-Toronto<span style="color: Red;">*</span>flight to Germany after the heating system in the plane's cargo area malfunctioned. Simba, a 7-year-old Frenchie, was traveling in the hold.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>The pilot, who was not identified,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>had Simba pulled from the Air Canada flight and placed on another Toronto-bound Air Canada flight from<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Frankfurt.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>The dog and grateful owner<span style="color: Red;">*</span>German Kontorovich were eventually reunited in Tornoto. Cue the warm fuzzies.
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A pilot is being praised for diverting a flight to save a dog's life. As Mara Montalbano (@maramontalbano) tells us, the dog was in danger of freezing to death otherwise. Buzz60
If you only read one thing tonight: <span style="color: Red;">*</span>What Peyton Manning did for my friend, dying of breast cancer
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Comedian Steve Rannazzisi lied about being at the World Trade Center on 9/11
Today in Election 2016:<span style="color: Red;">*</span>A new report finds voting machines in 43 states will be at least 10 years old by the 2016 election — near the end of their expected life spans. Even worse: Many states don’t have the funding to replace them.
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It's not as swank as some of the cars we've seen at the Frankfurt Motor Show, but there's just something about that popemobile. Swipe through this gallery to see the popemobile then and now.
The popemobile is taken for a test drive through the streets of Havana, Cuba, on Sept. 14, 2015. For 85 years, popemobiles have been carrying popes through large crowds, making it easier for more people to see the leader of the Catholic Church in person.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Ramon Espinosa, AP)
ARGH!!!<span style="color: Red;">*</span><span style="color: Red;">*</span>Is Jon Snow dead or isn’t he??<span style="color: Red;">*</span>It was the most infuriating cliffhanger of Game of Thrones Season 5.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Now Kit Harington, who plays Jon Snow, may have just confirmed that he is back in action for the upcoming sixth season.
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Great news Game of Thrones fans: Jon Snow lives! At least, according to Kit Harington's interview with Humo, a Belgian magazine. In the interview, Kit talked about how long he's still under contract with the HBO show. USA TODAY
You've got to hear this. An<span style="color: Red;">*</span>all-female a cappella group at James Madison University covered<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Beyoncé’s Pretty Hurts<span style="color: Red;">*</span>— and now we all have goosebumps and maybe a tear or two in our eye.
Have you seen it? A puppy goes after the only witness to his "crime."
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Contributing:<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Joanna Allhands, Brett McGinness, Jessica Estepa, Hadley Malcolm,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Jennifer Jacobs, Cooper Allen, David Jackson, John Bacon, Hoai-Tran Bui,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>USA TODAY;<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Paulina Firozi and Jessica Durando, USA Today Network;<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Jason Whitely, WFAA-TV, Dallas-Fort Worth;<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Erin Udell, (Fort Collins) Coloradoan;<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Dana Hunsinger Benbow, Indianapolis Star
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