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WASHINGTON (AP) -- When Hillary Clinton was diagnosed with pneumonia late last week, she informed a handful of her closest advisers, but pressed on with a busy campaign schedule and did not inform the public that she was sick. "I just didn't think it was going to be that big a deal," she said.

Clinton's first comments about her health condition came in a CNN interview late Monday, a day after a dizzy spell caught on video forced the Democratic nominee to disclose her illness and cancel a West Coast campaign trip.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- "Dancing with the Stars" host Tom Bergeron said everyone in the studio was shocked when two men rushed the stage to protest Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte after his performance on the ABC reality competition.

Bergeron described the incident as "really unnerving" on ABC's "Good Morning America" Tuesday.

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FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) -- The Islamic community says it will repair and reopen the arson-damaged Florida mosque that was occasionally attended by Orlando nightclub gunman Omar Mateen.

Hamaad Rahman, assistant imam of the Islamic Center of Fort Pierce, said the mosque's approximately 100 members are "saddened and scared" by the fire, which was started late Sunday and burned for more than five hours before it was extinguished early Monday. The fire was started on the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the start of the Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha.

"Our community is bigger than a building. We are stronger than that," Rahman said Monday. "I feel we will be able to pull together from this, and as time goes by we will be able to rebuild."

The mosque has been subjected to more threats since June's nightclub shooting than it did in its previous 20 years of existence, Rahman said.

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