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February 25, 2015
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No, it’s not a drunk text. It's just the latest all-inclusive acronym, brought to you courtesy of Wesleyan University's Office of Residential Life.

The long string of letters stands for: lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, queer, questioning, flexual, asexual, genderf--k, polyamourous, bondage/discipline, dominance/submission, and sadism/masochism.

The abbreviation appears on the university's program housing website with an advertisement for ''a safe space for [LBTTQQFAGPBDSM] communities and for people of sexually or gender dissident communities.''

Wesleyan University, located in Middletown, Connecticut, made headlines last week after Delta Kappa Epsilon, a traditionally all-male fraternity, filed a lawsuit charging the school with ''sexual discrimination and false and deceptive practices'' after the administration mandated that all frats admit women. Teresa Mull

1:26 a.m. ET
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The New York Police Department said despite reports of gunfire at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport on Sunday night, they found no evidence that any shots were fired and all affected terminals have been searched and cleared.

After the first report of gunfire was received at around 9:30 p.m., Terminal 8 was evacuated "as a precaution," the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said. Another call came in about 45 minutes later about shots being fired in Terminal 1. A senior law enforcement official told NBC News a woman getting off an airplane thought she heard gunfire, and two other sources said at least one other person reported hearing shots. One of the sources said it's possible they heard people watching the Olympics cheering and clapping, and they mistakenly believed they were the sounds of gunshots and fighting. Catherine Garcia

12:37 a.m. ET
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On Sunday night, The New York Times published an article about the relationship between Donald Trump's campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, and the Moscow-allied former president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, as well as secret records from his once-ruling party showing millions of dollars worth of cash payments marked for Manafort.

Manafort was a consultant for Yanukovych, a member of the Party of Regions who fled to Russia after an uprising in 2014. The newly-formed National Anti-Corruption Bureau in Ukraine says that handwritten ledgers found in the former Kiev headquarters of the party show $12.7 million in undisclosed cash payments designated for Manafort from the party from 2007 to 2012, The Times reports. The records were discovered this year, and investigators believe the payments were doled out to people as part of an illegal system that influenced elections. They have not determined if Manafort ever received the money, or the purpose of any payments.

"He understood what was happening in Ukraine," Vitaliy Kasko, a former senior official with the general prosecutor's office, told The Times. "It would have to be clear to any reasonable person that the Yanukovych clan, when it comes to power, was engaged in corruption. It's impossible to imagine a person would look at this and think, 'Everything is all right.'" Manafort began focusing on international consulting in the 1980s, and his firm helped the Party of Regions win several elections. A lawyer for Manafort told The Times that Manafort did not receive "any such cash payments." Trump's former campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, tweeted a link to the Times report, without comment. Trump has not responded, on Twitter or otherwise. Read the entire report, complete with tales of oligarchs, offshore accounts, and mysterious deals, at The New York Times. Catherine Garcia

12:23 a.m. ET

Less than three months before the 2016 presidential elections and four months after giving birth to her third child, Ivanka Trump was vacationing in Croatia this weekend with her husband, Jared Kushner, and at least one friend, Wendi Deng Murdoch, the ex-wife of Rupert Murdoch and the woman who introduced Trump and KushnerKushner.

Sight seeing with @wendimurdoch in Dubrovnik

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Trump, who is an informal but influential adviser to father Donald Trump's presidential campaign, has a wide circle of friends that includes Chelsea Clinton, because why not? Ivanka Trump has also highlighted her friendship with Deng before, talking her up in Vogue and on Instagram. People on social media, however, saw something else, and the sounds of heads exploding was almost audible:

Deng denies the rumors that she is dating Russia's president — "I've never met Putin," she told Vogue. "But wow, so much press about it. Why did they choose me?" — but with the various ties between Vladimir Putin's government and Trump's campaign, the connection was, as they say, too good to check. So relax everybody. Can't two successful, accomplished women — one the daughter of the Republican presidential nominee, the other the recent divorcée of the owner of Fox News who is not dating the leader of a country apparently trying to sabotage Donald Trump's Democratic rival — vacation together in peace during the heat of a crazy election season? Peter Weber

August 14, 2016
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Sunday in Rio, Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt became the first person to win three consecutive Olympic 100-meter titles, earning the gold medal with a time of 9.81 seconds. The win gave Bolt his seventh overall Olympic gold.

Justin Gatlin of the United States came in second, 0.08 seconds behind Bolt, and Canada's Andre de Grasse won the bronze. Bolt's favorite race is the men's 200 meter, and qualifying begins Tuesday. In late June, he pulled out of the Jamaican national championship because of issues with his left hamstring, and had to go through rehabilitation. Catherine Garcia

August 14, 2016
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South Africa's Wayde van Niekerk set a world record in Rio on Sunday during the men's 400-meter final.

With a time of 43.03 seconds, the 24-year-old runner beat Michael Johnson's world record of 43.18, set in 1999, as well as Johnson's Olympic record of 43.49 seconds. Van Niekerk is the reigning world champion; his previous best time in the 400 was 43.48 seconds. The 2012 Olympic gold medalist, Kirani James of Grenada, came in second on Sunday with a time of 43.76 seconds. Catherine Garcia

August 14, 2016
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Kurdish officials say Peshmerga forces attempting to capture Mosul from the Islamic State launched an attack against militants early Sunday.

A commander said 12 villages have been taken from ISIS, and Kurdish forces are headed to the target of the operation, Gwer, 25 miles southeast of Mosul, Reuters reports. In a statement released through its news service, ISIS said two militants detonated car bombs in one village to block the Kurdish troops, killing some Peshmerga; Kurdish officials did not confirm any deaths. Mosul is the largest urban area under the control of ISIS, and the U.S. envoy to the coalition fighting ISIS said preparations for the offensive on Mosul are "approaching the final phase." Catherine Garcia

August 14, 2016
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British tennis star Andy Murray made history Sunday in Rio, becoming the first player to win two Olympic singles titles.

The 29-year-old defeated Argentina's Juan Martin del Potro in four sets, 7-5, 4-6, 6-2, 7-5, with the match lasting four hours. Murray won gold in the 2012 London Olympics, and in July, earned his second Wimbledon title. Del Potro beat Novak Djokovic in straight sets during the first round in Rio and defeated Rafael Nadal in the semis. Catherine Garcia

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