Russian tennis pro Svetlana Kuznetsova, 31, defeated defending champion Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland (7-5, 1-6, 7-5) in Singapore at the Women's Tennis Association finals, and she left it all out there—literally, in the case of her long, thick braid. The athlete asked the umpire for scissors before the start of her third set and quickly chopped off the lengthy locks that were irritating her.

"It was bothering me a lot. When I was hitting the forehands I hit a good shot and it would hit my eye...I thought, 'what's more important? My hair, which can grow, or the match?'"

Even her opponent approved. "I didn't even know that," said Radwanska. "Good thing she didn't cut her anything else. I think hair is not very important."​

The most famous previous incident of a mid-match haircut was Andy Murray, who cut the front of his hair when playing Rafael Nadal in 2015. Murray, however, still lost.

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John Green is one of Millennial America's favorite people and authorities on current events, so the young-adult author and YouTube educator decided to address the recent hubbub over allegations that the 2016 election will be rigged. Green has good news and bad news, and they're both the same thing: the U.S. election is very complicated. Probably too complicated to effectively rig. Green begins his arguments by debunking the rigging claims Democrats made against Bush in 2004 regarding the results in Ohio.

The reason the U.S. election is difficult to rig (and numerous independent and international studies have found the system to be sound) is that there are essentially thousands of mini-elections in every town and county. This is great because the election isn't run by party hacks but mostly by local volunteers who just love America. On the other hand, people from, say, rural areas don't trust, say, urban areas to run their own election. But fear not, please. Please! There are two parties in this country that hate each other, and they both investigate the ever-living crap out of the other. Here are all the documented cases of in-person voter fraud:

That's 31 cases in 16 years. On any given year, more people are likely to be killed (not just struck) by lightning.

Finally, to address one persistent rumor: well-known liberal billionaire George Soros neither owns a stake in the voting machine company Smartmatic nor will Smartmatic machines be used in any state on Nov. 2.

Just for good measure, here are Green's sources for this video:

CGP Grey's video on the electoral college: https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotat...
The 2004 U.S. Presidential election between George W. Bush and John Kerry was not stolen by Bush in Ohio. Here is Farhad Manjoo's complete analysis of the vote rigging claims: http://www.salon.com/2006/06/03/kenne...

More about how the U.S. House of Representatives has occasionally selected the President: http://history.house.gov/Institution/...

George Soros does not have (and has never had) any investment in the voting machine company Smartmatic, and also Smartmatic machines will not be used in the 2016 election: http://www.smartmatic.com/case-studie...

The study purporting to show that a high percentage of non-citizen U.S. residents vote has been thoroughly debunked by peer-reviewed research: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/m...

Election law expert Chris Ashby explains the many reasons why the U.S. Presidential vote will not be rigged, why voting machines cannot be secretly adjusted, and why the highly decentralized U.S. election system makes widespread fraud extremely unlikely: https://extranewsfeed.com/the-electio...

Five Reasons Not to Worry about a Rigged Election: http://www.npr.org/2016/10/18/4982972...

Republican and Democrat elected officials agree that our system of elections is "more secure than it’s ever been in our nation’s history." http://time.com/4535364/donald-trump-...

A comprehensive investigation of voter impersonation in American elections found 31 incidents out of a billion votes cast: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/w...

Absentee voter fraud is somewhat more common than in-person voter fraud, but still very rare: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/t...

Voting law experts agree that official election fraud is becoming " increasingly rare" in the United States, NOT more common. http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2...

Factcheck.org heroically tackles each of Donald Trump's assertions about voter fraud in turn: http://www.factcheck.org/2016/10/trum...

So, go to the polls. Vote your heart out. Root against the other team. But when it's all said and done, someone is going to be in the office of the Presidency, and one rare thing George W. Bush and I agree on is the quote Green uses in this video: the office of the Presidency is always more important than the person who holds it. Whoever wins, it will be up to them to be a President for all Americans. Let's all be Americans and pick a President.

Oh noooooooo. My favorite probably-a-couple, Katie Holmes and Jamie Foxx, are rumored to have split up after three years of probably-dating, Page Six reports. This is very probably-sad.

The split of the couple, who have been rumored but never confirmed to be dating for three years, was reported by Radar. And a source told Page Six that it was because Foxx didn't want to make the relationship public. "Jamie wants to continue to act like the carefree guy he is in public," said the source. "Eventually, the question had to come about whether he was committed enough to the relationship."

The reasons for their split are just about as murky as their entire relationship, though at this point we are about 96% sure that they were together.

Here's what we know:

Holmes and Foxx, which sounds like a hip law firm, were first rumored to be dating back in 2013. But Foxx adamantly denied it in several interviews, and Holmes has refused to discuss her dating life publicly at all. Then this past June, Claudia Jordan, a Real Housewives of Atlanta alum and close friend of Foxx's, confirmed that they were dating."He is very happy with her," she said. "I like that he seems very happy." But then she tried to take it all back,claiming she "misspoke." Sorry, but that's just not a thing.

So why would these two work so hard to keep their love on the DL? It might be Tom Cruise's fault, which is somehow not surprising. The actor allegedly forced ex-wife Katie Holmes to sign this weird contract that prohibited her from dating anyone publicly for five years after their divorce, which does sound like a very Tom Cruise thing to do.

As far as the report of their rumored breakup, neither of their reps were available to comment. So the question is: if a relationship happens between two celebrities in private, but no reps were around to comment, did that relationship even happen at all? And if not, WHY AM I SO SAD IT'S OVER?

Lady Gaga was the latest celebrity to join James Corden in his musical SUV for a quick 15-minute session ofCarpool Karaoke. Corden and Gaga crushed it singing a whole bunch of Gaga's songs like "Bad Romance," "Born This Way," and "Million Reasons" complete with killer dance moves, but maybe keep your hands on the wheel next time, guys. Between that, giant pink cowboy hats and Gaga's intensely sparkly shirt reflecting light everywhere, it is a wonder they didn't get into an accident.

Gaga couldn't keep her "poker face" as Corden modeled some of her most iconic (and weirdest) looks, including his very own meat dress and this little number:

So Gaga does travel in things other than giant eggs. Good to know.

During her Tuesday night performance in Miami, Adele said that even though she herself can't vote (being British and all), she is "100 percent for Hillary Clinton. I love her, she’s amazing." The timing of her endorsement was perfect, because Hillary herself just happened to be at that show. You know, just taking in a concert, like she does.

Adele also urged everyone not to vote for Donald Trump in the upcoming election, a statement met with cheers from the audience (and a standing ovation from the woman in the clip).

Wow, at this point Trump must have almost as many un-endorsements as Hillary has endorsements. At least if he's going to lose, he's going to lose bigly.

Unrelated, but how long has Adele been on this tour? Seems like about a hundred years, right? Damn, that lady works hard…just like another lady known mostly by her first name.

If #TheDress enflamed the internet, this guy's tweet about his legs is at least a digital brush fire. The leg photo was accompanied with a modern little riddle. "Are these legs shiny and oily or are they legs with white paint on them?"

The majority of folks believed that the legs were covered in paint. If you're just seeing paint (obviously, come on, it's obviously paint), then you're probably incredulous that anyone could see anything else (they're just shiny, what? they're clearly oily).

But as we all remember from hashtag TheDress, there's often some truth to the side you can't see—and some people were seeing a shiny reflection. At least for a moment.

Most thought it was paint. And they thought you were a fool if you saw anything else. I don't think you're a fool, I just envy the alternative lens through which you see the world. You're probably a really big fan of Animal Collective.

Sorry dreamers, but the answer's paint.

Everyone's favorite tiny Michael Jackson impersonator, Bruno Mars, was a guest on the "Cubby & Carolina Bermudez In The Morning" radio show, where he talked about his new hit song "24K Magic," and opened up a bit about working with Adele on her song "All I Ask."

First he described the sheer power of Adele's amazing vocal chords, saying,

She's incredible. There was a moment when she was singing in the booth, and I'm not exaggerating at all and the water was vibrating...like you know that scene in Jurassic Park. She's got some pipes on her, and she's just a superstar.

But apparently the British Grammy winner didn't make the best first impression on Mars. He explains,

She walks into the studio, she's got all this attitude, she's a diva, she's like, "I don't want to do this. I don't like that." And then as soon as we hit a couple chords that she liked, we started rolling, and that's where we got that song from.

Hm. Well, on one hand, Adele meets the definition of "diva," in the sense that it means"a famous female singer of popular music." On the other hand, Mars' statement definitely implies the other definition of diva, which is "a self-important woman who is temperamental and difficult to please." That's maybe not the most flattering way to describe someone who knows what she does and doesn't want in her music.

Either way, Mars says that he'd absolutely be into performing "All I Ask" with Adele at some point, saying, "I don't know what she's waiting on, man. I'm like come on Adele, like, send an email, let me know!" Yeah, you keep waiting on that email, Bruno.

Halloween is right around the corner, and it is time to decide if you want to be a "cool house" and give out full-size candy bars, or if you want to give out raisins and be egged. Luckily, real life scary person Gordon Ramsay was on Jimmy Kimmel Live! to tell you the top five grossest Halloween treats to avoid giving to trick-or-treaters the only way he knows how—by yelling.

The only thing that could have made Gordon angrier is if that candy corn was raw.​

According to US Weekly, Shirlene Quigley, a professional dancer who has worked with Rihanna, Missy Elliot and Beyoncé, has been found safe after she was reported missing on Monday.

Quigley had gone missing after she was last seen boarding a bus out of Port Authority around 1a.m. on Sunday morning. Her phone was later recovered in a bridal shop in the Manhattan neighborhood of Chelsea. As authorities tried to locate Quigley, both Rihanna and Missy Elliot made desperate pleas on social media for people to be on the lookout for the former backup dancer.

On Tuesday, North Bergen police announced via their Instagram that they had located Quigley alive and safe.

After an extensive search by North Bergen Police Department Detectives in cooperation with the NYPD, we have located SHIRLENE QUIGLEY.
She is safe and at a medical facility which location is undisclosed at this time. North Bergen Police Detectives have contacted her father and he is in route from Los Angeles to reunite with his daughter.
We are very pleased with this outcome. We want to thank the New York City Police Department for their tremendous amount of cooperation in this matter.

Rihanna posted the good news on her Instagram along side a throwback picture of her and Quigley together.

God is so merciful!!! Happy you're alive and safe @shirlenequigley🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

Missy Elliot also shared a message about Shirlene being found with her fans.

Thank u for all of your countless prayers & persistence in getting the word out about@shirlenequigley disappearance her friends her family & the Dance Community and artist she worked with! All media outlets!thank u North Bergen police she has been located and is safe and being treated in a undisclosed location🙌🏾🙏🏾 thank u God 4 hearing our prayers! We love u @shirlenequigley with all our hearts!❤️ I'm just thankful u are still here with us today❤️❤️❤️

Although no details were released about why or how Shirlene had disappeared, she is safe and currently being held in a medical facility. Her father, who lives in California and first reported her missing, is en route to New York to be with his daughter.

A young woman named Harriet from Cheshire, UK, is showing the world how to really stick it to your ex. After she and her former beau Dan broke up over him being a big cheater, he insisted on being repaid for a ticket to a recent Justin Bieber concert they'd attended together.

Instead of just ghosting this punk, Harriet decided to pay him back in full. But she would do it at her own speed, and include a special message to remind him what a creep he is. Then she posted the exchange on Twitter for the whole world to enjoy.

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Harriet estimated that at this rate, it will take 17 years for Dan to be fully repaid. That should give him plenty of time to regret cheating on her, and asking her to pay him back, and going to see Justin Bieber in concert. Will that still seem like a good decision in 2033?

Hillary Clinton turns 69 on October 26th (nice!), and kicked off her birthday celebration on October 25th in Florida with chocolate chip cookies, tequila, and some sweet Florida publicity.

The appearance is delightfully kooky as El Gordo y La Flaca—which translates to The Fat Man and the Skinny Lady—warmly welcomed Hillary with cookies and booze.

As part of the birthday festivities, Hillary got a sweet early present in the form of tequila, and was presented with a Cuban shot, which Party Poopers Secret Service didn't let her drink.

El Gordo y La Flaca kept the party going as the appearance culminated in being serenaded by young, beautiful man Prince Royce and an enthusiastic mariachi band.

And it wouldn't be a Hillary Clinton morning show appearance if she didn't dance with the host.

Looks like she's more into the Nae Nae.

Happy birthday, Hillary! Wonder if she's waiting to get her present on November 8th.

In the sea of poo poo that is the 2016 presidential election, Fox News' Megyn Kelly has been a bright beacon of no-nonsense, journalistic hope. Kelly had a particularly whiny Newt Gingrich on her show Tuesday to discuss the state of the Trump campaign. When Kelly brought up some facts and figures that Gingrich didn't like, he started to get defensive, dodging questions and throwing around accusations of "media bias" against Trump. Kelly would have none of that shit.

The first part of the interview has Gingrich trying to pivot Kelly's questions about polls that show Clinton leading Trump to focus on specific areas of the country where Trump is doing well. (And what does Kelly do? SHUT HIM DOWN.) But things really got good later in the interview when Kelly brought up the slow demise of the Trump campaign in recent weeks.

Gingrich blamed the media for the collapse of Trump's campaign. And when Kelly brought up the recent allegations indicating that Trump may be a "sexual predator," Gingrich threw the cable news equivalent of a temper tantrum.

"You can't say that. You could not defend that statement," he said, doing the traditional angry-old-man-finger-point. "Now, I’m sick and tired of people like you using language that’s inflammatory that’s not true!"

When Kelly calmly explained that the media is just covering the story of the Trump assault allegations, not taking sides on it, Gingrich accused her of being "fascinated by sex" and not caring "about public policy."

"I'm not fascinated by sex, but I am fascinated by the protection of women and what we're getting in the Oval Office," Kelly responded.

And when the time came to end the very pleasant conversation she was having with Gingrich, Kelly said in closing, "We're going to have to leave it at that, and you can take your anger issues and spend some time working on them, Mr. Speaker."

STRAIGHT FIRE. The world needs more Megyn Kellys.

A woman took to the internet to ask for some advice. The issue? Her "friend" revealed himself to be more of a "jackass" after refusing to understand that she didn't purposely bleed all over his couch when she had her period.

The anonymous lady posted under a throwaway account to Reddit, and hopefully she changed the names so any chance of salvaging the friendship is still on the table. Although honestly, why would she want to?

Here's her story, the full account of which you can check out here:

Well Reddit, I'm pretty mortified about posting this, but I'm so utterly confused by this incident that I need some fresh perspectives. Sorry for the length.

So anyway - Jake and I have been close friends for about three years... We don't hang out as often as we used to anymore, but it's still great catching up and hitting the bars with each other every once in a while. Our relationship is completely platonic. Jake is gay.

Six months ago Jake and I went out for a night on the town. He offered me his couch to crash on for the night so I could sober up before driving home in the morning. I thanked him for the offer and I crashed.

Eight a.m. arrives and I get a frantic call from my friend who's crying incomprehensibly over the phone. I'm pretty concerned so I shoot Jake (who hasn't woken up yet) a quick text saying that I needed to rush out of his apartment, but thanks again for letting me stay over. I hop in my car, drive over to my friend Hannah's place. It turns out that she has had a messy fight with her boyfriend and they've just broken up, so I just hang out with Hannah for a bit and comfort her.

Well, you can probably guess what happened next. She had had her period, didn't notice, and left without cleaning up or letting Jake know about the state of his upholstery.

So Jake probably reached out and told her of the embarrassing situation. They probably laughed about it, and figured out how to clean everything up, right?

Haha, nah. Still at her other friend's house, she finally realizes she had her period, but nothing else goes according to the script.

Then I go to the bathroom after feeling "off." It turns out my period's come a week early, and my underwear had a bit of blood on it. Enough to be noticeable, but not an awful amount. I sheepishly tell Hannah what just happened, she laughs and hands me a tampon. I assume that my period has just started and after checking around Hannah's floor, where we had been sitting, to make sure there weren't any stains, I go right back to comforting her.

So maybe it should have occurred to me to ask, "Jake, did I leave any stains on your couch?" at this point. It didn't, because I was too focused on Hannah. But LUCKILY for me, about an hour later Jake sends me a stunning barrage of texts calling me disrespectful and disgusting for bleeding on his couch and not telling him. I obviously had no idea. So what do I do? Take responsibility for bleeding, offer to clean the couch or pay for its cleaning or even to replace the entire couch itself, apologize, and tell him I just hadn't realized I had bled on it because I hadn't even anticipated my period coming early. Jake never responds.

In case you didn't find this whole thing bizarre already, this is where our heroine thinks things really flow out of control.

This is where it, to me, just gets bizarre. Jake tells a bevy of our mutual friends that he wants to end our friendship with me because of "my disrespectful actions." He shows them the texts he sent me. According to my mutual friends, what they told him upon seeing the texts was something like "Jake, we actually can't believe you would send that to her. You sound insane in these texts, and she obviously didn't do it on purpose. You are being an asshole." Jake apparently got huffy with them and said, "really? You think I'm being irrational here?" I think, maybe my girlfriends are being overly sympathetic because they're women. I want to understand why Jake would be so upset. I tell my boyfriend and his friends what happened. They are also all aghast and think Jake is crazy.

She goes on to explain that Jake never responded to her 10 "apologetic texts" saying she was happy to talk to him about it.

In fact, for two months he wouldn't so much as acknowledge her if they ran into each other in public. Six months later, Jake and her are cordial, but he still removed her from all his social media. Needless to say, it doesn't seem like these two hang out anymore.

Her conclusion is full of the confusion and betrayal anyone would feel after someone they thought was their friend ended it all over nothing.

So I'm sad. Sad about the end of the friendship, but also just...confused. This was so inexplicable. I keep racking my head for times I was a bad friend that would justify Jake's behavior - I'm sure I have been, I'm not perfect and I recognize that and would like to work on it - but am I still right by saying this was completely out of nowhere? Tbh though, after this, I'm not trying to be friends again. I just want some insight from other people, since Jake refuses to have a conversation with me.

At least the comment section was incredibly supportive. Some thought Jake became embarrassed of his own behavior, and chose to back out of the friendship out of shame. Others just said, simply, "Lol what? How much does he hate women? Please stay away from this creep."

Others thought he just didn't understand how the human body works.

That's certainly a possibility, but let's all agree to google "are periods voluntary" before destroying a friendship over something as superficial as a few stains.

The LA County's Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) is extending their investigation of Brad Pitt with new allegations of child abuse, according to In Touch.

The DCFS previously investigated a September 14 incident on the Jolie-Pitt's private jet, in which Pitt, allegedly drunk and in the middle of a fight with wife Angelina Jolie, lashed out physically at their oldest son, Maddox. While conducting interviews, new allegations have arisen that Pitt verbally abused his children on many occasions. Great, just when you thought the whole divorce couldn't get sadder.

A source told TMZ that some of the Jolie-Pitt's six children have been "fearful" around Brad. ​(Maddox reportedly refused to reunite with his father during a planned visit with his siblings.) In Touch's source claims, "The investigation was not closed on schedule for a reason. The DCFS investigation is now going to continue for at least several more weeks."

A second insider told In Touch,

Now DCFS is interviewing many people to determine if they are witnesses to any improper behavior by Brad as well as searching for oth­ers who have knowledge of his ac­tions. That includes nannies, house­hold staff members and more. The fact that the investigation was extended is an in­dication of how serious this is.

In Touch says this means the entire family (the kids and both Jolie and Pitt) will have to be interviewed by social workers yet again. It's been a rough time for this family.

Some of us are forced to endure tragedies before we can appreciate life's lessons. Others of us just need to read about them in notes left by complete strangers, like this one addressed to "whoever owns this car."

To whoever owns this car:

My grandfather smoked his whole life. I was about 10 years old when my mother said to him, "If you ever want to see your grandchildren graduate, you need to stop immediately." Tears welled up in his eyes when he realized exactly what was at stake. He quit cold-turkey that very day. Three years later he died of lung cancer. We were very close, and his death destroyed me. My mother said to me, "Please never smoke. Don't put your family through what your grandfather put us through." I agreed. At 18, I have never touched a cigarette. I must say, I feel a very slight sense of regret never having done it, because your parking job was so shitty it gave m cancer anyway. Jesus Fuck, please learn how to park.

A powerful message indeed. Maybe someday that driver will be telling his child, "Please learn how to park. Don't put other drivers through what I put this driver through."

As he declared in the final presidential debate, nobody respects women more than Donald Trump. He respects women so much that he finds wishing condolences to a grieving mother a great time to talk about trying to pick her up.

Kelly Preston and John Travolta tragically lost their teenage son Jett in 2009, and the GOP nominee reached out in the grieving parents with an anecdote about flirting with Preston, in a blog post titled "Loyalty and Kelly Preston."

I have always respected people who were loyal and faithful--which brings to mind Kelly Preston. A long time ago, before I was married, I met Kelly Preston at a club and worked like hell to try and pick her up. She was beautiful, personable, and definitely had allure. At the time I had no idea she was married to John Travolta.

In any event, my track record on this subject has always been outstanding, but Kelly wouldn’t give me the time of day. She was very nice, very elegant, but I didn’t have a chance with her, and that was that.

He then goes on to say, "When I later found out she was married to John, I liked and respected her even more," before finally expressing his sorrow over the loss.

Mother Jones dug up the post on Monday, which is a scary insight into the man's brain: Trump couldn't stop himself from talking about picking up chicks and praising a woman for her looks even in the context of wishing his condolences to a family who just lost their son.

Thirteen days let.