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[h=4]The Short List: Hillary Clinton's very own Snapchat filter; Waze of love; Olympian Gus Kenworthy comes out[/h]Out of the loop today? We've got what you missed.
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A conservative foundation released a Snapchat filter for Snapchatters at or nearby the House committee hearing in which Hillary Clinton testified about the 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya.(Photo: Clinton photo by Carolyn Kaster, AP)
That's one way to target your audience
And your political foes. As Hillary Clinton prepared to testify Thursday before the House committee investigating the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, a conservative foundation grabbed the attention of Washington-area Snapchatters when it released a doozy of a Snapchat filter for users snapping from the hearing or nearby. "This message will disappear —<span style="color: Red;">*</span>just like Hillary Clinton's emails." Oh, snap!But I'm not on Snapchat. You're missing out.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>The app has location filters, which users can add as an overlay to their snaps, but paid political filters were just added in August. Clinton, who we bet isn't on Snapchat and probably doesn't care one whit<span style="color: Red;">*</span>about some app, said her testimony would honor the service of the four men, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, killed in the attack. Needless to say, it was a drama-filled day for the former secretary of State. Read the first take here and the fact check here. Also check out Clinton's biggest win and other hour-by-hour updates.
Who can understand the Waze of the heart?
This guy and gal. Theirs is a romance mapped out by every commuter's favorite traffic app, Waze. Eric Patrick and Abigail Saunders are known within among Wazers as "the Waze couple." The love story all began in 2013, when Patrick, a volunteer map editor, began talking to Saunders, a Waze regional coordinator, through the app about Waze-related stuff. (Waze map editors take their jobs very seriously <span style="color: Red;">*</span>—<span style="color: Red;">*</span>and we're very grateful.) As Patrick eventually navigated from San Antonio to Miami for grad school, they had the chance to meet. And after zero detours, the two found love. (And a kitty named Wazer.)
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When Eric Patrick started editing the community-based traffic and navigation app Waze, he was living in Texas and mapping out "untouched" back roads.
Gus Kenworthy?: 'I never got to be proud of what I did in Sochi, because I felt so horrible about what I didn't do'
Talk to a freeskier, and within five minutes he’ll mention progress. It’s the lifeblood of the sport, moving it forward and pushing new boundaries.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>On Thursday, he did it again — and in a more meaningful way than adding another spin or rotation. Kenworthy became the first action sports athlete to openly come out as gay, first telling his story to<span style="color: Red;">*</span>ESPN The Magazine.
In weird space news,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>astronomers discover<span style="color: Red;">*</span>a real-life 'Death Star'
It sounds like a scene from Star Wars. But NASA's Kepler spacecraft —<span style="color: Red;">*</span>which spots all sorts of weird things —<span style="color: Red;">*</span>has now discovered a white dwarf star that appears to be "cannibalizing" a small planet. Astronomers' findings were published Wednesday in the journal Nature, and the finding could confirm the theory that a white dwarf star may be capable of destroying planets within its solar system. "This is something no human has seen before," said lead author Andrew Vanderburg of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. "We're watching a solar system get destroyed."
An artistic representation of a white dwarf star that appears to be “cannibalizing” a miniature planet.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: CfA/Mark A. Garlick)
After today, the 'Future' becomes the past
Yes, the sun has almost set on our Back to the Future<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Day. We've talked about what the movie got right and wrong, how close we are to hoverboards and, in general, romanticized time travel and America's collective nostalgia for spectacularly-dated<span style="color: Red;">*</span>'80s films. And, if you haven't paused,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>welled up and pondered your own future after reading<span style="color: Red;">*</span>this quote, well, you're just not human.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>But there was one more person who needed to weigh in<span style="color: Red;">*</span>— and he has: Back to the Future<span style="color: Red;">*</span>screenwriter<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Bob Gale. USA TODAY asked Bob to predict what the next 30 years will hold. Read his<span style="color: Red;">*</span>predictions here. (Spoiler: We<span style="color: Red;">*</span>hope you're OK with less privacy, robots and bribery.)
Bob Gale, writer and co-producer of the "Back To The Future" movies looks over a copy of USA TODAY while sitting in a restored DeLorean "time machine" like the car used in the movie film at Universal Studios' Courthouse Square.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Robert Hanashiro, USA TODAY)
If you only read one thing tonight:<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Oregon's attorney general says GNC, one of the world’s largest retailers of supposedly all-natural dietary supplements, has knowingly sold products spiked with two synthetic drugs.
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Contributing: Mary Troyan, Mary Nahorniak, Paul Singer, Erin Kelly, Heidi M Przybyla, Kelly Lawler, Jefferson Graham, Susan Page, USA TODAY; Rachel Axon, Christine Brennan, USA TODAY Sports; Mary Bowerman, USA TODAY Network; Eugene Kiely, FactCheck.org;<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Bob Gale, Special for USA TODAY;<span style="color: Red;">*</span>the Associated Press
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