The new OnePlus 6T smartphone was announced by OnePlus on Monday, but I've had the device in-hand for a few days, so I can tell you about it.

OnePlus had originally planned to announce the OnePlus 6T on Tuesday, but Apple's announcement of its October event on the same day led OnePlus to reschedule its event to Monday to prevent being overshadowed by Apple. It must have been a difficult decision for OnePlus, but the company did have some big announcements that would have likely played second fiddle to Apple's event had it kept its original Tuesday plans. 

Apart from announcing the OnePlus 6T itself, OnePlus also announced that it's new device will be carried and sold by a US carrier for the first time in its history. That's a major deal for the company, as smartphone popularity in the US is often dictated by availability in carriers' stores. 

That's not to say that OnePlus phones aren't popular — they're the most popular smartphones that a lot of Americans have likely never heard of. Release after release, crowds of people line up to buy the new OnePlus phone outside of temporary popup stores. I went to the OnePlus 6 popup store a few months ago, and while there was a line down the block, passersby didn't know about OnePlus. 

The OnePlus 6T is also the first OnePlus phone to become compatible with the largest carrier in the US, Verizon. As usual, it's also compatible with AT&T and T-Mobile, too.

The OnePlus 6T will start at $550 and will be available to buy from T-Mobile and from the online OnePlus store on November 1. For T-Mobile customers in New York City, the Times Square T-Mobile store will be selling the OnePlus 6T three days before it's official release starting at 5 p.m. on Monday.

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A new notch with a water-droplet design.

The OnePlus 6T's notch is the smallest and most tasteful there is compared to other notched phones, like the iPhone XS and Google Pixel 3 XL.

The screen itself is among the biggest on any smartphone.

The OnePlus 6T has a 6.4-inch display, which is on the larger end compared to most smartphones you can buy. 

With that said, the OnePlus 6T isn't as large a device overall as other phones with similar or smaller screens. As a result of its narrower bezels, it's actually slightly smaller than the Pixel 3 XL, which comes with a 6.3-inch display. 

Compared to previous OnePlus devices, the OnePlus 6T is on the heavier side, which is a bit of shame, but it could come as a result of new features that I'll get into later.

Underneath the display is a fingerprint sensor — the first of its kind for a smartphone available in the US.

To accommodate narrower bezels, most smartphone makers moved the fingerprint sensor to the backs of their phones, including OnePlus with its previous devices. 

The OnePlus 6T is the first smartphone that's widely available in the US that comes with an in-display fingerprint sensor that's hidden underneath the display. So far, it's worked surprisingly well, and there doesn't seem to be many compromises against a more traditional fingerprint sensor. 

The only time it's posed a problem is in bright, direct sunlight, which affects the way the in-display fingerprint sensor works. But when the fingerprint sensor faces any issues, I could rely on the extremely quick facial recognition to unlock the phone. 

• Green Bay Packers running back Ty Montgomery fumbled the ball late in the fourth quarter when he unwisely decided to return a kick instead of kneeling the ball.
• By fumbling, Aaron Rodgers never got the ball for a game-winning drive, and the Los Angeles Rams were able to run out the clock.
• After the game, several Packers players and coaches ripped Montgomery's decision, with one player believing Montgomery went rogue and ignored team direction because he was mad about his playing time.

A poor decision from Green Bay Packers running back Ty Montgomery was costly late in his team's 29-27 loss to the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday.

Trailing the Rams by two with just over two minutes remaining, Montgomery was back to return a kick from the Rams to set up a potential game-winning drive by Aaron Rodgers.

Upon collecting the ball in the end zone, instead of kneeling, Montgomery chose to run it out and return the kick. He made it to the 20-yard line when a Rams special team player was able to knock the ball loose. The Rams recovered the fumble and were then able to run out the clock to end the game.

After the game, NFL Network's Mike Silver reported that several Packers coaches and players, including Rodgers, were furious with Montgomery's decision.

One anecdote even made it sound like Montgomery went rogue and decided to run the ball because he was angry about being taken out of the game a possession before.

"They took him out (the previous drive) for a play and he slammed his helmet and threw a fit," one unnamed Packers player told Silver. "Then (before the kickoff) they told him to take a knee, and he ran it out anyway. You know what that was? That was him saying, 'I'm gonna do me.' It's a f----- joke."

The same player expressed confusion about why Montgomery would take such a risk when kneeling would have given Rodgers the chance to lead a game-winning drive — something he's pretty good at doing.

"I mean, what the f--- are you doing? We've got Aaron Rodgers, the best I've ever seen, and you're gonna take that risk? I mean, it's '12'! All you gotta do is give him the ball, and you know what's gonna happen."

One Packers coach said Rodgers was understandably angry afterward.

"Aaron was hot. And he had a right to be. He yelled, 'Take a f------ knee!' He was very, very mad."

"Definitely very disappointing," Rodgers told reporters of the fumble after the game. "That play didn't lose the game, but it definitely took an opportunity away for us to go down and win it."

Packers head coach Mike McCarthy was a little more forgiving of Montgomery for the play.

"I think we all realize with the management of the clock and where we wanted to be there, we wanted to be north of two minutes with the one timeout. We wanted to put the ball in Aaron's hands," McCarthy said. "But you also trust your players — tough decisions, close decisions — and like I said, I think Ty was just trying to make a play."

Packers wide receiver Davante Adams was slightly less forgiving, saying Montgomery should have been smarter.

"How much do I feel for him?" Adams responded to a reporter. "Obviously, he's not trying to fumble the ball, but you've got to be smart in situations like that. I know he'll learn from it, but at the same time that doesn't change what happened today."

Montgomery declined to speak to reporters after the game.

Already the team's third-string running back, such a costly decision in a close game is unlikely to help Montgomery get more playing time going forward.

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• A vast group of investors that includes pension funds and sovereign-wealth funds remains overweight stocks, even after recent volatility, according to JPMorgan strategists. 
• This suggests they expect the market to recover from its recent losses.
• At the same time, JPMorgan says it could leave stocks vulnerable to even more downside than recently witnessed if these investors find sufficient reason to sell.

The roller coaster in stocks this month has not been violent enough to push the largest group of investors out of the market. 

So-called end investors like endowments and pension funds — both of which manage other people's money — still hold a big overweight in equities, according to global market strategists at JPMorgan.

This demonstrates their conviction that stocks will soon recover their losses. Viewed differently, however, it shows that there's plenty of room for stocks to fall to if these investors identify an adequate catalyst to flee the market. 

"This big equity overweight poses further downside for equity markets from here if negative momentum and sentiment eventually induce real money investors to capitulate," JPMorgan's Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou said in a recent note to clients. 

Panigirtzoglou had pointed out earlier in October, before the worst of the recent sell-off, that retail traders who manage their own money were also heavily exposed to stocks. He came to this conclusion after studying households' allocation to stocks and the high levels of margin debt held by traders.

Hedge funds have also maintained their overweight to stocks amid the sell-off.

But Panigirtzoglou has placed a specific emphasis on end investors as a "broader universe" of traders whose exposure to stocks poses a downside risk to the market. 

Overall, non-bank investors have a 44% allocation to stocks, according to Panigirtzoglou — at the higher end of their rationing since the 2008 financial crisis.

Their allocation to stocks is in contrast with their holdings of bonds and cash. According to JPMorgan data, non-bank investors hold 37% in cash as a share of their combined holdings of bonds, stocks, and cash. That's lower than both the longer-term and post-crisis averages, as the chart below shows. 

The estimated dollar figures of their holdings confirm their preference for stocks over the relative safety of cash and bonds. According to JPMorgan, non-bank entities hold $27 trillion in bonds, $53 trillion in cash, and $62 trillion in equities. 

What this rationing implies is that stocks would be vulnerable to more losses if end investors find sufficient reasons to change their overweight allocation in stocks. 

Besides investor allocation, another key indicator confirms that investors still believe in this bull market. It's the Arms Index, which compares advancing and declining stock issues and trading volume as a gauge of market sentiment.

Even after last week's selling, it didn't climb above the threshold that indicates panic. The implication from this indicator, and from JPMorgan's data, is that the worst could still be to come for equities.

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What's old somehow always manages to become new again, so it's not a surprise that '90s fashion has officially come back around. It may have been a time before social media and cell phones that could reasonably fit in our pockets, but so many style trends directly came from the best movies of the decade.

Though most of us probably don't rock plaid mini skirts and over-the-knee socks these days, it's impossible to deny that '90s movie fashion was on point. Many of our favorite '90s stars— from Alicia Silverstone and Liv Tyler to Brad Pitt and Johnny Depp — donned some iconic outfits in '90s movies that will go down in both film and fashion history for decades to come.

These are the best outfits from '90s movies, from "Clueless" to "Cruel Intentions."

Cher and Dionne's coordinating plaid sets in "Clueless" defined a fashion era.

It's impossible to talk about '90s movie style without mentioning "Clueless"— the colorful, happy fashion from the 1995 film served as the perfect antidote to the grunge of the earlier part of the decade, and somehow made Mary Janes effortlessly cool.

The entire movie was a fun, fashion bonanza, but perhaps the most iconic outfits were Cher and Dionne's coordinating plaid suits in the early part of the film.

In 2018, costume designer Mona May told Interview Magazine how the plaid sets came to be, saying, "When we started working on 'Clueless' there was pretty much just grunge everywhere. We went to some high school in L.A. and it was all very Kurt Cobain, with flannel shirts and baggy jeans. For the movie, it was really to bring back the feminine in Cher and Dionne. To bring back the fun, the girly. It was the '90s so there was no internet and I had to research everything with books."

Of Cher's Dolce and Gabbana suit, May said, "For the opening scene, we wanted Cher to stand out. ... I looked at red and it didn't seem right, blue was pretty, but not bold. And Cher is bold — she doesn't have any excuses, she just goes for it. When we finally found the yellow, that was it. Amy Heckerling, the director, and I just knew. And then I complemented Dionne with black and white and red on her shirt and hat."

Romy and Michele hit their high school reunion in unforgettably fun frocks.

While "Clueless" was very much a high school movie about life as the popular kids, "Romy and Michele's High School Reunion" is about what happens after high school, and what it means for the less cool kids to go back to their old stomping grounds.

May was also the costume designer for that film, and she told Harper's Bazaar in 2016 that it was "kind of the grownup version of 'Clueless' and I was able to do more racy stuff." The two titular characters eschewed "grown-up" fashion though, instead opting for neon crop tops and mini skirts, even at the gym, making for movie fashion history.

Their best looks are at the end of the movie when they finally arrive at their reunion, and instead of conservative satin pastel suits that the popular girls wore, these high school misfits donned coordinating pink and blue latex baby-doll dresses, featuring plenty of shimmer and attitude … which is exactly how it should be.

Josie Geller's "first day of school" white outfit with feather trim was perfectly misplaced.

The '90s proved that going back to high school can be rough for any of us, but in "Never Been Kissed," Josie is a 25-year-old copy editor sent back to the hallowed halls of her high school for an undercover report.

Instead of opting for a wardrobe of jeans and tees, Josie arrives for her first day back at school in an all-white sheer blouse with feather trim, paired with white jeans, pale lip gloss, and teased hair. It looks laughably out of place, but that's what makes it so perfect.

Of course, she spills chocolate milk all over her white pants, but the whole look is so over-the-top and relatable that we can't help but love her for trying it.

A plane carrying 189 people between two Indonesian cities crashed Monday morning.

Lion Air Flight JT 610 was traveling from Jakarta to Pangkal Pinang when the Boeing 737 Max 8 crashed into the sea at about 6:30 a.m. local time. Everyone on board is feared dead.

The Reuters news agency said: "Yusuf Latief, spokesman of national search and rescue agency, said there were likely no survivors."

Wreckage has been recovered from the crash site in the Java Sea, not far from where the plane took off from Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Jakarta, the Indonesian capital.

Images show rescue workers carrying body bags.

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Bhavye Suneja, the pilot

Suneja had logged more than 6,000 flight hours, according to Lion Air.

Indonesia's Indian Embassy said on Twitter that Suneja "lost his life."

His co-pilot, whose name was Harvino

Harvino had logged more than 5,000 flight hours, according to Lion Air, which named him alongside Suneja.

It is common for Indonesians to use only one name.

A 21-year-old, her father, 52, and brother, 13, who were traveling to a funeral

The BBC reported that Michelle Vergina Bongkal, 21, was on the flight to attend her grandmother's funeral. She was traveling with her brother, Mathew, 13, and father Adonia, 52.

Her sister Vina told the BBC that the family had already been grieving the death of the grandmother.

She said the family regularly flew this route but normally used other airlines. She said they used Lion Air as they needed to take an early flight to attend the funeral.

• GoDaddy is the latest company to pull support from Gab, a social network popular with the far-right that doesn't police hate speech and positions itself as an alternative to Facebook and Twitter.
• The web-hosting company gave Gab 24 hours to find another hosting provider, and Gab is now temporarily shut down until it finds another host.
• GoDaddy said it "discovered numerous instances of content on the site that both promotes and encourages violence against people" in a statement to The Verge. 
• The suspect in the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting that left 11 dead and six injured allegedly used Gab and posted anti-Semitic messages there, including one right before the attack.

GoDaddy has joined the list of companies ending their business relationship with Gab, a social network popular with the far right for its policy of not policing hate speech.

GoDaddy confirmed that it gave Gab 24 hours to find another web hosting service after it "discovered numerous instances of content on the site that both promotes and encourages violence against people," in a statement to The Verge on Sunday night. 

Gab's website appears to be out of service at the moment, and the homepage now only shows a statement by Gab CEO Andrew Torba, who said "we are the most censored, smeared, and no-platformed startup in history, which means we are a threat to the media and to the Silicon Valley Oligarchy," and "as we transition to a new hosting provider Gab will be inaccessible for a period of time. We are working around the clock to get Gab.com back online."

Although by no means as large as its competitors like Facebook and Twitter, Gab poses itself as an alternative to popular social networks and doesn't punish users for hate speech or what many other social networks would deem offensive behavior. Thus, it's become popular with the far right, who have become dissatisfied other social networks and their terms of service, which often include rules about respecting others and not engaging in harassing behavior.

Gab made headlines this week when it was revealed that the suspect in the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting that left 11 dead and six injured allegedly used Gab and posted anti-Semitic messages there, including one right before the attack. 

Following the shooting, Paypal, Medium, Stripe, and Joyent also blocked Gab from accessing their services. 

Here's the full statement from Torba on Gab's homepage:

Gab has spent the past 48 hours proudly working with the DOJ and FBI to bring justice to an alleged terrorist. Because of the data we provided, they now have plenty of evidence for their case. In the midst of this Gab has been no-platformed by essential internet infrastructure providers at every level. We are the most censored, smeared, and no-platformed startup in history, which means we are a threat to the media and to the Silicon Valley Oligarchy. 

Gab isn’t going anywhere. 

It doesn’t matter what you write. It doesn’t matter what the sophist talking heads say on TV. It doesn’t matter what verified nobodies say on Twitter. We have plenty of options, resources, and support. We will exercise every possible avenue to keep Gab online and defend free speech and individual liberty for all people. 

You have all just made Gab a nationally recognized brand as the home of free speech online at a time when Silicon Valley is stifling political speech they disagree with to interfere in a US election. 

The internet is not reality. TV is not reality. 80% of normal everyday people agree with Gab and support free expression and liberty. The online outrage mob and mainstream media spin machine are the minority opinion. People are waking up, so please keep pointing the finger at a social network instead of pointing the finger at the alleged shooter who holds sole responsibility for his actions. 

No-platform us all you want. Ban us all you want. Smear us all you want. 

You can’t stop an idea. 

As we transition to a new hosting provider Gab will be inaccessible for a period of time. We are working around the clock to get Gab.com back online. Thank you and remember to speak freely. 

Andrew Torba, CEO Gab.com

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• Goldman Sachs has upgraded Ford to 'buy' with a $12 price target. 
• Analyst David Tamberrino says a refreshed product line and cost improvement could lead to 30% gains.
• Ford jumped more than 6% following the upgrade — follow the stock live in real-time here. 

Goldman Sachs has upgraded Ford to a buy rating from neutral, with a $12 price target that implies a potential 30% upside to the struggling automaker's. 

"While we still expect a downward earnings trajectory into 2019 (North America profit under-pressure), we believe next year will represent trough earnings and the combination of a refreshed product cadence globally as well as cost improvements from strategic initiatives will begin to take hold," David Tamberrino, Goldman's automotive analyst, said in a note to clients Monday. 

Shares of Ford gained more than 6% in trading Friday following the upgrade from Goldman, though the sector at large was surging after a report from China's National Development and Reform Commission proposed halving its tax on vehicles with smaller engines to revive the country's struggling auto sector. 

Ford's stock price has fallen more than 50% over the past year as earnings continue to disappoint, but a global restructuring effort announced in earlier this month has helped reverse course.

"With investor sentiment still skewed toward GM over Ford, " continued Tamberrino. "We believe any incremental announcements (i.e. plant closures and business decisions around underperforming regions/product lines) would likely be viewed positively.”

Those products could be similar to Ford's move to focus on its F-series truck line by eliminating products like the Fusion midsize sedan, Taurus and Fiesta. The F-150 remains the best-selling vehicle in America and has been for 35 years. In September, the company announced an all-electric SUV that would rival Tesla.

Goldman Sachs' upgrade brings it into company with Wall Street's most bullish analysts, JPMorgan and Jefferies, which both have $13 price targets for the stock.

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• The UK government plans to introduce a digital services tax in April 2020, which will involve Silicon Valley's tech giants paying 2% on the revenue they make from UK users.
• This is radical because it's the first time the UK has specifically targeted the US tech firms, often criticised for not paying enough tax.
• Up until now, the tech giants have always paid a small amount of corporation tax on the profits they report in the UK and not revenue.
• Britain expects the new tax to raise up to £400 million ($512 million) a year from 2020.
• UK officials haven't yet outlined how the tax will work exactly.

The UK government announced a drastic change to the way Silicon Valley tech giants such as Facebook, Amazon, and Google will be taxed in the UK.

Chancellor Philip Hammond said the UK would tax 2% of the revenue that tech giants make from UK users, in what he said would raise up to £400 million ($512 million) a year for the nation's coffers from 2020.

The so-called "Digital Services Tax" is a radical move. It's the first time the UK has specifically taken action on the US tech giants and the low amount of tax they pay in the UK.

Most of the major US tech firms have a complex tax setup that involves routing their sales through a subsidiary located in a low-tax country, such as Ireland. Their UK subsidiaries report revenue based on services provided to the parent company, resulting in drastically lower revenue and profit and, therefore, corporation tax.

"The digital platforms delivering search engines, social media, and online marketplaces have changed our lives... mostly for the better," Hammond said in his Budget statement in Parliament on Monday.

"But they also pose a real challenge for the sustainability and fairness of our tax system. The rules have not kept pace with changing business models, and it is clearly not sustainable or fair that digital platform businesses can generate substantial value in the UK without paying tax."

The tax, Hammond added, was aimed squarely at big US tech firms and may also affect Uber and Airbnb. He said the UK would avoid entrapping smaller startups in the new law by only targeting profitable companies generating £500 million in global revenue.

Hammond did not go into further detail about how the digital services tax would work, and the government plans to open a consultation before it introduces the tax in April 2020.

It puts Britain a step ahead of the US and EU on taxing big tech. The UK government said it is committed to ongoing talks among the G20 and OECD to reform the way tech firms are taxed, and will only apply the Digital Services Tax until an "appropriate long-term solution is in place."

Hammond did joke that he expected to hear from Facebook's new communications chief. Former deputy prime minister and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg is one week into his new job as Facebook's VP of global affairs and communications.

"I am looking forward to my call from the former leader of the Liberal Democrats," Hammond quipped.

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• Police say a student has died after being shot Monday morning at a high school in Matthews, North Carolina.
• Another Butler High School student was taken into custody.
• Messages sent by students depict the harrowing scene.
• "Mom oh God somebody in here with a gun. We all running for our lives," one student wrote in a text to their mother.
• The Matthews Police Department wrote on Facebook that there is no further safety threat.

A student died after being shot Monday morning at a high school near Charlotte, North Carolina, and another student was taken into custody, police said.

The Matthews Police Department wrote on Facebook Monday morning that officers had responded to a shooting at Butler High School. Authorities said they believe it was "an isolated incident" and there is no further safety threat. 

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Superintendent Clayton Wilcox told Charlotte's WSOC-TV that the student allegedly fired the gun out of anger at another student.

"We're incredibly sad, and we're sorry for this family," Wilcox said. "But we're also sorry for the young person who thought the only way to solve this problem was with a gun."

Students who were at school at the time of the shooting described the scene.

"Mom oh God somebody in here with a gun. We all running for our lives," one student wrote in a text message to their mother, per NBC Charlotte.

Another student described the fight that reportedly led to the shooting. 

"We hear the bell ring and I see two kids are wrestling," Lane McNary told NBC Charlotte. "I'm right there, I hear pop, pop, pop, and everyone's running, people are trampling over each other."

McNary left school at 9:45 a.m., per the outlet. "It was right there in front of me," he said of the shooting.

One student captured the chaos of the morning on Instagram. Off camera in the video, someone can be heard shouting: "Oh, he's got a gun."

The video was taken "moments before the shooting" according to NBC Charlotte. The same student also posted it to their Instagram story.

The school was placed on lockdown at 8:00 a.m. The lockdown was lifted at 9:30 a.m. and families were able to pick up students from Butler High School. It was reported that school would still be in session for the remainder of the day.

One mom told NBC Charlotte that after she picked up her daughter from school she will "absolutely not" send her back because "she's terrified."

At this time, authorities have not identified the victim or suspect.

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• A suspicious package addressed to CNN's Atlanta headquarters was intercepted at a local post office, the network announced Monday morning.
• President Jeff Zucker released a statement, saying there was "no imminent danger" to downtown Atlanta's CNN Center.
• The package comes less than a week after two others were addressed to the network among 13 explosive devices that were also mailed to prominent Democrats, donors, and critics of President Donald Trump.
• On Friday, Cesar Sayoc Jr. was arrested and charged with sending the series of pipe bombs in the mail.
• It's unclear who sent the one CNN received Monday.

A suspicious package addressed to CNN's Atlanta offices was intercepted Monday morning at a local post office, the network said in a statement.

CNN Communications tweeted a statement from network President Jeff Zucker, who confirmed there was "no imminent danger" to downtown Atlanta's CNN Center.

Zucker also said that all mail addressed to CNN was being screened at off-site facilities after a suspicious package prompted an evacuation from the network's New York offices last Wednesday. That package contained an explosive device.

Another suspicious package, addressed to former director of National Intelligence James Clapper at CNN's Time Warner offices, was found at a nearby Manhattan post office.

The announcement came hours after President Donald Trump tweeted to hit out at the "Fake News Media," who he also called the "Enemy of the People" who have done "everything in their power to blame Republicans, Conservatives and me for the division and hatred" in the country.

Trump slammed the 'Fake News Media' in Monday morning tweets

Giving no specific examples of what he described as "inaccurate" or "fraudulent" reporting, Trump had tweeted earlier on Monday morning calling for unidentified foes to "stop the open & obvious hostility & report the news accurately & fairly."

Trump continued: "That will do much to put out the flame of Anger and Outrage and we will then be able to bring all sides together in Peace and Harmony."

Trump continued his criticism of CNN as the network received 2 explosive devices last week

On Friday, authorities arrested and charged 56-year-old Florida resident Cesar Sayoc Jr. in connection to 13 explosive devices that were sent to prominent Democratic figures, in addition to the network, which President Donald Trump has previously "fake news".

Zucker slammed Trump's vocal disdain for the network after the first package was recovered last week, saying the administration "should understand their words matter."

Two days after the evacuation, Trump took aim at what he called "lowly rated" CNN, referring to unidentified reports that he said were "blaming me for the current spate of Bombs and ridiculously comparing this to September 11th and the Oklahoma City bombing, yet when I criticize them they go wild and scream, “it's just not Presidential!"

Later that morning, Trump tweeted to lament that the "news [is] not talking politics" and focusing on "this 'Bomb' stuff" ahead of next week's midterm elections was "very unfortunate," as it had hampered the Republicans' lead.

Trump's hedged mention of "'Bomb' stuff" sparked criticism that he seemed to be trivializing the packages, all of which were sent to some of his most vocal critics and those he's previously lashed out at on Twitter.

At a Friday night rally, Trump also doubled down on his criticism of the bomb scare coverage hours after federal investigators acquired a van linked to the suspect, Sayoc Jr. The van was widely captured on broadcast and social media covered in political stickers, including one that said "CNN sucks."

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• Sony's got a brand new PlayStation in the works: the $100, adorably miniature PlayStation Classic console.
• The console doesn't play CD-ROMs or music CDs. Instead, it comes with 20 classic PlayStation One games built in.
• Sony revealed the full lineup of games on Monday alongside a debut trailer.

Sony's got a brand new PlayStation console coming out on December 3: the $100 PlayStation Classic, a miniaturized version of the classic PlayStation 1 console.

It's not an exact replica of the original console from the mid-'90s. Instead, it's a lookalike with completely different internal hardware:

There's no CD-ROM to read your PlayStation 1 games, and the RCA ports in the back have been swapped for the far more modern HDMI equivalent. It's a miniaturized re-creation, along the lines of Nintendo's ridiculously popular NES and Super NES Classic Edition consoles.

You can even hold it in your palm!

It may be a PlayStation 1 in looks alone, but it also plays a smattering of PlayStation 1 games. 

There are 20 games in total built into the console, and Sony revealed the full list on Monday. It ranges from the obvious ("Resident Evil,""Metal Gear Solid,""Twisted Metal") to the obscure ("Intelligent Qube"). 

But it's been decades since many of us last played these games.

Thankfully, Sony put together a video showcasing all 20 games — a nice refresher (or introduction!) which we've embedded right here:

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• A gunman used an assault weapon to kill 11 people and wound six others in a mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on Saturday.
• Police identified Robert Bowers as a suspect in what is reportedly the deadliest attack on Jewish people in US history.
• Nearly 13,000 people in the US were murdered with firearms in 2015 (the latest available data), not including suicides.
• In March, the US government moved to weaken a decades-old restriction on federal research into guns.

Eleven people are dead and six others wounded after Saturday's mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Police arrested Robert Bowers as a suspect and charged him after he reportedly fired on officers who arrived at the scene. He was carrying an AR-15 assault rifle and several handguns, according to the FBI.

Minutes before the attack, Bowers wrote online, "HIAS likes to bring invaders in that kill our people," in reference to a Jewish refugee-resettlement agency. The post was shared on Gab, a social media service that does not police hate speech and has now been taken offline. "I can't sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your optics, I'm going in," Bowers wrote.

The Anti-Defamation League described the shooting in a statement as possibly "the deadliest attack on the Jewish community in the history of the United States."

The mass shooting is one of many that have happened in the US in 2018 — so far, almost 300 others have occurred since January 1, according to the Gun Violence Archive. In August, five Capital Gazette newspaper employees were shot to death by a gunman. In February, a gunman entered Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida and killed 17 people using a legally purchased AR-15 assault rifle.

Millions of people marched against gun violence in the wake of February's attack as Congress voted to loosen a restriction on the CDC's research of gun violence, which has been in effect for about 22 years.

Below is some of the most recent data available on gun violence in the US (highlighted in red; suicides and accidents excluded), and how it compares to other causes of death over the lifetime of an average American.

According to this analysis, assaults by firearm kill about 13,000 people in the US each year, and this translates to a roughly 1-in-315 lifetime chance of death from gun violence. The risk of dying in a mass shooting is about 35 times lower than that, with a 1-in-11,125 lifetime chance of death.

The chance of dying from gun violence overall is about 50% greater than the lifetime risk of dying while riding inside a car, truck, or van (a category that excludes pedestrian, cyclist, and other deaths outside of a motor vehicle). It's also more than 10 times as high as dying from any force of nature, such as a hurricane, tornado, earthquake, flood, or lightning strike.

These measures suggest Americans are more likely to die from gun violence than the combined risks of drowning, fire and smoke, stabbing, choking on food, airplane crashes, animal attacks, and natural disasters.

Where the data comes from

The chart above does not account for a person's specific behaviors, age, sex, location, or other factors that could shift the results; it's an average of the entire US population.

But it clearly shows that gun violence in the US is a leading cause of death, which is how the CDC describes firearm homicides in its National Vital Statistics Reports.

Most of the data comes from an October 2017 report by the National Safety Council and a November 2017 report by the National Center for Health Statistics on causes of death in the US, primarily those that occurred in 2015. (The NSC report uses 2014 data wherever newer data was unavailable.)

Mass shootings aren't part of the data sets above, but the Gun Violence Archive project keeps a sourced tally, which we've independently counted. The organization considers any event where four or more victims were injured (regardless of death) to be a mass shooting.

In 2015, some 333 mass shootings left 367 people dead and 1,328 injured, according to their tally. The statistics rose in 2016 to 383 mass shootings, 456 deaths, and 1,537 injuries. In 2017, there were 346 mass shootings that led to 437 deaths and 1,802 injuries.

Foreign-born terrorism data comes from a Cato Institute terrorism report, and some natural-disaster data comes from Tulane University.

We calculated the lifetime odds of death by applying 2015 life expectancy and population numbers in the US, and our analysis assumes each cause of death won't change drastically in the near future. (Mortality data from previous years suggests these rankings are relatively consistent, with the exception of skyrocketing accidental poisonings due to the opioid epidemic.)

You can view our full dataset and sourcing here.

A dearth of US gun-violence research

Although gun violence is one of the leading causes of death in America, it is also one of the most poorly researched, according to a January 2017 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

"In relation to mortality rates, gun violence research was the least-researched cause of death and the second-least-funded cause of death after falls," the study's authors wrote.

The study ascribed this dearth of research to restrictions — namely an addition to a 1996 congressional appropriations bill called the Dickey Amendment, which stipulated "none of the funds made available for injury prevention and control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may be used to advocate or promote gun control."

This is the rule that Congress recently voted to weaken with its new funding bill, which Trump signed in March. The new provision gives the CDC explicit permission to research the causes of gun violence, though it maintains a ban on "using appropriated funding to advocate or promote gun control."

The previous lack of clarity on researching gun violence has hindered many scientists from better understanding the problem.

"The fundamental, foundational work of documenting the full scale of the health consequences of firearms has not been done," Sandro Galea, an epidemiologist and the dean of the Boston University School of Public Health, told Mother Jones in January 2017. "It's the kind of project that we do all the time. It just hasn't been done with firearms because there haven't been resources."

Although the Dickey amendment has been weakened, a Republican-controlled Congress is reportedly uninterested in restoring $2.6 million in annual funding for CDC research into gun violence.

"[T]op GOP appropriators say they have no interest in funding new federal research into gun violence," The Hill wrote in April.

The research that has been conducted by private institutions like the Harvard Injury Control Research Center show a clear connection between gun ownership, gun availability, homicides, and violent death.

A roundup of gun-control and gun-violence studies by Vox shows that Americans represent less than 5% of the world population but possess nearly 50% of the world's civilian-owned guns. The data also reveals that police are about three times more likely to be killed in states with high gun ownership, countries with more guns see more gun deaths, and states with tighter gun control laws see fewer gun-related deaths.

Kelly McLaughlin contributed reporting to this post.

This story has been revised and updated. The original version was published on Feb. 15, 2018.

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• The number of mass shootings in the US this year has already reached 297.

• Eleven people were killed and six others were injured on Saturday when a gunman armed with an AR-15 and handguns opened fire in the Tree of Life synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

• There have been nearly as many US mass shootings as days in 2018.

Eleven people were killed and six others were injured on Saturday when a gunman armed with an AR-15 and handguns opened fire in the Tree of Life synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The incident marked the 294th mass shooting in 2018, according to the nonprofit Gun Violence Archive, which tracks shootings in the US. Since the incident there have an additional three shootings, bringing the total to 297.

To put this into perspective, we are 301 days into the year, which means the US has had nearly as many mass shootings as days in 2018.

Americans are more likely to die from gun violence than many leading causes of death combined, with some 11,000 people in the US killed in firearm assaults each year.

There is no broadly accepted definition of a mass shooting. Gun Violence Archive defines a mass shooting as a single incident in which four or more people, not including the shooter, are "shot and/or killed" at "the same general time and location."

The government also doesn't have an official definition. In 2013, a report from the Congressional Research Service, known as Congress's think tank, described mass shootings as those in which shooters "select victims somewhat indiscriminately" and kill four or more people — a higher bar than Gun Violence Archive's, as it doesn't take injuries into account.

In 2013, a federal mandate lowered that threshold to three deaths.

Data from Gun Violence Archive also shows that more than 12,000 people have died from gun-related violence so far this year and more than 23,506 others were injured.

Here's a complete list of the mass shootings— as defined by Gun Violence Archive — that have occurred in the US so far in 2018. 

You can view a report of any incident by visiting the list at gunviolencearchive.org.

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• The Cleveland Browns fired head coach Hue Jackson on Monday.
• The move comes after the Browns fell to 2-5-1 on the season and 3-36-1 during Jackson's tenure.
• The move also came after reports of tension on the coaching staff, particularly between Jackson and offensive coordinator Todd Haley.

The Cleveland Browns fired head coach Hue Jackson on Monday, as ESPN's Adam Schefter first reported.

In two-and-a-half seasons with the Browns, Jackson posted a 3-36-1 record, going winless last season. His win percentage with the Browns was just .088.

The move came after the Browns lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers, 33-18, on Sunday to fall to 2-5-1. Additionally, reports surfaced in recent weeks about tension on the Browns coaching staff, particularly between Jackson and offensive coordinator Todd Haley.

Jackson recently openly questioned his team's offense and said he would become more involved, though he wouldn't take on play-calling responsibilities.

Jackson survived as head coach, despite going 0-16 last season, even as the Browns reshaped the team following the hiring of GM John Dorsey. Some felt Jackson was in a make-or-break season with the Browns and needed to have a successful start to the season after the team made some big moves in free agency to bolster the roster.

Instead, with Baker Mayfield starting since Week 3, the team has looked sluggish and inefficient, even with considerable talent on both sides of the ball. According to Yahoo's Charles Robinson, Dorsey did not want Mayfield to be caught between the disagreements between Jackson and Haley and decided to make a change.

The Browns play the Kansas City Chiefs in Week 9.

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There's a reason why the Australian podcast "The Teacher's Pet"has been a hit around the world.

Thoroughly investigated by seasoned journalist Hedley Thomas, the story is compelling: In 1982, Lyn Dawson disappeared, leaving behind her husband and two young daughters. Years later, her body has still never been recovered and the investigation is ongoing. Two coroner's inquests have ruled that Lyn was murdered by her husband, Chris Dawson.

If you're an American listener or someone who is interested in true crime, here's what you should know before diving into the podcast.

“The Teacher’s Pet” is an investigative podcast into the disappearance and probable murder of Lynette Dawson in the Bayview area of Sydney, New South Wales, in 1982.

Respected newspaper The Australian is behind "The Teacher’s Pet" podcast, which is hosted and investigated by award-winning journalist Hedley Thomas.

There are currently 14 episodes, and the podcast is on indefinite hiatus at the moment. Since the case has not yet concluded, there will likely be more episodes in the future as developments arise. As of September 2018, the podcast has been downloaded over 17 million times by listeners around the world.

Geographically speaking, you’ll hear several terms used to describe the area where all this takes place: Sydney, Bayview, the insular peninsula, and the northern beaches. This map might help if you’ve never been there. Zoom out a little to see that the northern beaches and Bayview are all part of the larger Sydney area.

The case involves a star rugby player turned high school physical education teacher, his missing — and likely murdered — wife, his high school student lover, and the two very young daughters left behind when their mother disappeared.

Chris Dawson was, by all accounts, admired from near and far by both women and men for his athletic skills, charisma, and good looks. His identical twin brother Paul figures heavily in this story as well.

If you want to put faces to names, The Australian has assembled a handy dossier of all the major characters involved in this true crime case.

Since the podcast launched earlier in 2018, several people have come forward to Thomas and his investigative team with new leads.

Throughout the course of this podcast, one of the most fascinating parts is that listeners from the northern beaches continue to contact Hedley Thomas and share their stories.

In an interview with the Walkley Magazine, Thomas talked about why he thinks so many witnesses with new information are now coming forward.

“It’s this strange thing  —  people feel prepared to reach out to me as a result of hearing things, as opposed to reading them," he said. "They’re hearing, I hope, the authenticity in my voice, and in the voices of the people I’m interviewing. They’re realizing this is something we are committed to. It’s not a witch hunt: it’s an effort to deliver some justice to the family that has been denied it for a very long time."

• The Boston Red Sox beat the Los Angeles Dodgers in five games for the 2018 World Series title thanks in large part to a player many had never heard of.
• Back in June, the Toronto Blue Jays shipped first baseman Steve Pearce and $1.66 million to Boston in exchange for a minor leaguer.
• The 35-year-old had played for eight MLB franchises in his 12-season career before hitting three home runs and driving in eight runs en route to World Series MVP honors.

World Series MVP Steve Pearce was sensational as the Boston Red Sox dismantled the Los Angeles Dodgers for the Commissioner's Trophy, but he endured a long and nonlinear journey to this shining moment.

Pearce — a right-handed first baseman from Lakeland, Florida — came to Boston just four months before his World Series heroics. The Toronto Blue Jays shipped him to Boston in exchange for a Minor League infielder, and the Blue Jays even threw in $1.66 million to bolster the trade.

The 35-year-old journeyman had played for six different MLB franchises before landing in Toronto in December 2016. Pearce attended Indian River Community College for two years and was selected late in the 2003 MLB Drafts but chose instead to transfer to the University of South Carolina, where he led the team in home runs, RBIs, and batting average in each of his two seasons on the team.

The Pittsburgh Pirates drafted Pearce in the eighth round of the 2005 MLB Draft, and he made his Major League debut two years later. He was later traded to the Minnesota Twins, and from there he landed with the Houston Astros and every team in the AL East. 

Quite the path to hoisting the Willie Mays World Series MVP Award:

Pearce didn't come alive in the World Series until Game 4 in Los Angeles. He registered his first hit of the series in the top of the eighth inning, blasting a solo home run into center field to tie the game at four runs apiece. When he came to bat in the ninth with the bases loaded and the Red Sox up by one, he drilled a shot into right-center field and cleared the bases for a four-RBI showing on the night. That hit would prove to win the game for Boston after the Dodgers managed to rack up two runs later in the inning.

But Pearce's heroics rose to another level in Game 5. He blasted a 2-run homer off of future Hall of Famer Clayton Kershaw in the first inning to put the Red Sox on the board early. Then, in the top of the eighth, Pearce launched another solo shot into the left-field stands to add some insurance to Boston's 4-1 lead.

Pearce became the third player in MLB history with a home run and at least three RBI in back-to-back World Series games.

The other two? Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth.

"Baseball is a funny game," Pearce told Yahoo Sports' Mike Oz. "You never know where the game will take you. And I’ve gone through a lot in my life or in my career to be here, and I couldn’t be more thankful."

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There's nothing quite like getting swept up in a good book, which made story time one of the best, most magical parts of elementary school. From animals tales to stories of adventure, children's literature is as captivating as its grown-up counterpart.

For a blast from the past, here are 12 audiobooks that you should listen to if you loved the books as a child.

A Broadway legend narrates the New York City story "Eloise."

Broadway legend Bernadette Peters lends her voice to an equally famous (but fictional) New York City character, Eloise. In "The Eloise Audio Collection," comprising four stories by Kay Thompson, Peters narrates the escapades of the eponymous Plaza Hotel resident ― which take her from the Big Apple to Paris and beyond.

Listen to "The Eloise Audio Collection" by Kay Thompson, narrated by Bernadette Peters.

"Pippi Longstocking" will feed your sense of adventure.

"Pippi Longstocking"― which has been adapted for film and TV ― is one of the most famous children's books of all time. Actress Christina Moore narrates the beloved story of the spunky, red-haired girl who lives with unconventional pets (namely a horse and a monkey) and goes on adventures with her next-door neighbors.

Listen to "Pippi Longstocking" by Astrid Lindgren, narrated by Christina Moore.

The well-loved "Winnie-the-Pooh" stories are filled with unforgettable characters.

A.A. Milne's "Winnie-the-Pooh" centers on a boy named Christopher Robin (based on Milne's own son) and his anthropomorphic animal pals, stuffed toys come to life. The well-loved (and oft-adapted) stories are populated with unforgettable characters, from the titular Pooh, a honey-loving bear, to the dour donkey Eeyore.

Listen to "Winnie-the-Pooh" by A.A. Milne, narrated by Peter Dennis.

• A study found that psychopathic traits aren't that attractive to other people.
• These traits include recklessness, a lack of empathy, and manipulation.
• But when it comes to psychopaths attracting other psychopaths, it appears like attracts like.
• This could be partly due to them having a bad reputation.
• Their public image isn't wholeheartedly deserved, as psychopaths are not all serial killers.
• But their traits are still unpleasant at times, which could be why they stick together.

People with antisocial personality disorder tend to be known as psychopaths or sociopaths. They're known for being reckless, thrill-seeking, and lacking in empathy.

Relationships with psychopaths are never smooth sailing. If they are particularly narcissistic, they're not happy unless they're the center of attention all the time, meaning they can be obsessive and controlling. Sometimes, they may enjoy ruining the life of their partner, abusing them, gaslighting them, and bullying them into submission.

According to a study published in the Journal of Personality, people don't tend to find psychopathic traits in a partner very attractive. But when it comes to psychopaths going for people like them, it appears like attracts like.

Researchers from Emory University recruited 696 men and women to report what they were looking for in a person to date, to have a short-term relationship with, or a long-term relationship. They were given a list of 70 characteristics to choose from, taken from the DSM‐5 classification for personality disorders.

Generally, romantic interest in psychopathic traits was low, but participants who scored highly on the psychopathic spectrum themselves were more likely to prefer higher levels in a partner.

"To a large extent, our findings support a 'like attracts like' hypothesis for psychopathic traits," the researchers Ashley L. Watts, Jessica C. Rohr, Katherine L. McCauley, Sarah Francis Smith, Kristin Landfield Howe, and Scott O. Lilienfeld wrote.

Psychopaths have a bad reputation

Generally, psychopathy has a bad reputation, which may explain why their traits aren't so desirable.

Psychologist Adrian Raine, an expert of antisocial personality disorders, told INSIDER that there isn't a specific definition for psychopathy, but generally it's someone who lacks conscience, remorse, and guilt.

"I think there's been quite a lot of research and debate over whether psychopathy is a category, or is it a dimension," he said. "And I think main researchers in psychopathy all concur that psychopathy is a dimension — it's shades of grey, it's a continuum. It's just like height, weight, or IQ."

In other words, people tend to fall on the scale somewhere, but to be diagnosed as a psychopath you need to tick off a certain amount of traits in a checklist like the Hare Psychopathy Test.

However, the exaggerated characterisation of psychopathy we see in fiction isn't accurate, Raine added. For instance, there is no evidence to suggest they are fascinated by death and killing more than the average person.

"Most psychopaths don't kill," he said. "Most psychopaths are not violent. However, they are perhaps more likely to be violent, and more likely to commit homicide than other offenders."

This sounds contradictory because murder is rare. Psychopaths may be two or three times more likely to commit murder than the average criminal offender, but relatively few psychopaths do kill anyone.

They do have more violent, sexual, and aggressive dreams, though, which may be a result of their thrill-seeking nature

Why 'like attracts like'

Psychopaths may not all be murderers, but their lack of empathy for others may still be unpleasant for others to be around.

Psychologist Susan Krauss Whitbourne argues in a blog post for Psychology Today that this bad reputation psychopaths get from other people could contribute to the "like causes like" pattern.

"People who themselves score high on measures of psychopathy should be far less likely, if at all, to stigmatize those who share their personality traits," she wrote. "If they're high on the positive psychopathic dimension of fearlessness, they should be less afraid of being harmed, but they may also be more accepting in general."

Psychopaths, and people with other dark personality traits like Machiavellianism, sadism, and narcissism, are also attracted to other sorts of people. For instance, narcissists may be attracted to empaths because they see them as a continuous supply of attention.

Dark personalities may also like people who are impressive in some way, because it makes them look good by association, or people who make them feel good through compliments and gestures. They are also likely to target people's strengths over their weaknesses because they're known to enjoy a challenge.

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• Serena Williams is on WWE's radar.
• According to the company's chief brand officer Stephanie McMahon, the 23-time Grand Slam tennis champion is "awesome."
• Williams would be a welcome addition to the WWE roster, according to McMahon, and would represent a coup for the company as it continues to revamp its women's division.

Serena Williams is being targeted by professional wrestling firm WWE as it continues to revamp its women's division with big-name signings.

Williams is a 23-time Grand Slam champion in tennis, a tutu-wearing badass on the court, and a feminist hero to many off of it.

She is one of the most famous athletes in her sport, is considered the greatest female player in the Open Era of tennis, and would bring a set fanbase with her should she sign terms with WWE once she hangs up her tennis racket for good.

That appears to be what WWE may be banking on, as the company's chief brand officer Stephanie McMahon hints that Williams may well be her ideal signing.

McMahon, daughter of WWE owner Vince McMahon, said: "Serena! I want Serena," when speaking from the company's New York Office, as reported by WWE expert Gary Stonehouse for The Sun. "She's awesome."

Capturing Williams, even if the American only made sporadic WWE appearances, would still be a coup for McMahon considering the company continues to revamp its flourishing women's division.

WWE brought former UFC world champion fighter Ronda Rousey to the business of sports entertainment earlier this year, and she has proven to be a smash hit with fans.

In just half a year, Rousey slammed her boss through a table during a scripted moment on live television, "blew the roof off the joint" in her professional wrestling debut, and was slapped with a "30-day suspension" when she "attacked" her WWE mentor with a briefcase in June.

When she returned, Rousey was a "woman possessed" when she dropped SummerSlam opponent Alexa Bliss on her neck, and won her first ever WWE title in August.

Rousey is one key part in the cog of a machine that is revolutionising women's wrestling. Rousey, after all, was just one of 22 women's wrestlers who took part in Sunday's groundbreaking WWE Evolution event at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in New York. Evolution made history as it is the first WWE pay-per-view (PPV) show to consist solely of women's matches.

For McMahon, the initiative could not have been done without massive fan support. "It would’ve taken a lot longer," she said, had it not been for fan demand and a recruitment drive she and husband Paul Levesque aka Triple H took part in, to bring as many elite athletes from all over the world, to WWE. "Both male and female."

Women athletes were put under the same exhaustive training regime that the men were required to do, the WWE hired its first female coach, and then increased opportunities for women's appearances at live events. The result was Sunday's PPV show, but the way McMahon tells it, there could be more to come regardless of whether WWE signs Williams or not.

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• Paying off consumer debt begins with asking yourself a question, according to Adeola Omole, author of "7 Steps to Get Out of Debt and Build Wealth": What's motivating me?
• Omole paid off $70,000 in debt in less than three years and she explained how she did it on Farnoosh Torabi's "So Money" podcast.
• First, you have to figure out why you decided to go into debt in the first place. This helps you pinpoint your money mindset and behaviors, as well as money limitations.

The answer to getting rid of consumer debt begins with a question.

At least, that's if you follow the seven steps in author and lawyer Adeola Omole's book, "7 Steps to Get Out of Debt and Build Wealth."

According to Omole, who paid off $70,000 worth of consumer debt in under three years, you need to figure out two things: Why you got into debt in the first place, and why you want out.

"What's motivating you? What's driving you? What's getting you excited to get out of this debt?" she said on a recent episode of the "So Money" podcast with Farnoosh Toorabi.

"Step one of the seven step process that I put people through is why are you doing this?" said Omole, who works as a wealth coach. "It's a really simple question ... basically, why have I decided to get a debt?"

She added: "Your 'why' basically has a lot to do with your mindset, your money mindset, your beliefs around money, your limitations surrounding money."

Focusing on and tackling money limitations is what Omole said helped her crush her own debt and build a seven-figure net worth. Once Omole found her motivation, she gave up a few luxuries, like going to the movies and booking vacations. After she and her husband paid off their debt, they treated themselves to a vacation in Hawaii.

"We find things to do. We're athletes. We would go running, we had weights so we would lift weights. We would find creative things to do; going for brisk walks," she said. "It's not as exciting as going to Hawaii, but guess what? It's what you have to do to get to that stage that you want to get to."

Omole changed her spending patterns to help her reach her goal. That's the first thing you should do to pay off consumer debt, Alison Norris, strategy manager and certified financial planner at SoFi previously told Business Insider.

"The most powerful thing you can do is understand and address what caused the debt to accumulate in the first place," Norris said, emphasizing that the importance of changing those behaviors.

And once you do pay off that debt, it's important to know your spending habits and promise yourself to never carry a credit card balance again.

"If you can't afford to buy something without resorting to a credit card — if you don't have enough cash on hand — you simply cannot afford it. Break the cycle," Norris said.

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