5 Things To Know For Your New Day -- Wednesday, July 6

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Hillary Clinton’s Day Of Drama:

It was a day that was all about Hillary Clinton — but she wasn’t even the star of her own show.

Instead, FBI Director James Comey and President Barack Obama took leading roles Tuesday that could prove crucial to her fate.

The day started with relief — as Clinton learned the FBI will not recommend charges over her private email servers — and ended with euphoria — as Obama stood on a stage and chanted “Hillary, Hillary.” But victories for the Clinton campaign are rarely clear cut, and there was plenty of fresh fodder for her critics to feast on even as a dark legal cloud was lifted from over her.

It played out on a day of surreal events that set a new high water mark for the turbulence that so often rips through Clinton’s political career.

While she escaped an indictment, Clinton endured a stunning dressing down from Comey. The inscrutable former prosecutor accused the candidate who wants to be the ultimate guardian of the nation’s secrets of being “extremely careless” in handling classified data.

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Mega Millions Jackpot Jumps To $508 Million:

The Mega Millions jackpot has climbed to an estimated $508 million after Tuesday’s drawing failed to produce a winning ticket.

The jackpot is the seventh biggest of all time, including Powerball and Mega Millions prizes. It has a cash value of $357 million.

Tuesday night was the 34th consecutive drawing without a winner. The next drawing will be Friday at 11 p.m. ET.

The winning numbers on Tuesday were 29, 46, 53, 64 and 73. The “mega ball” was 10.

Mega Millions is played in 44 U.S. states, D.C., and the U.S. Virigin Islands, and tickets cost $1.

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Adults Are Invading Snapchat:

Adults are catching on to Snapchat — but that hasn’t made the app any less popular with teens.

About 38% of U.S. mobile users between the ages of 25 and 34 used Snapchat at least once in May, a number that has grown from about 19% in December 2014.

Even the percentage of “old” people on Snapchat — those over the age of 35 — has risen from about 9% to 14%.

Despite this invasion, Snapchat has not lost its popularity with its core user base. The percentage of 18- to 24-year-olds using the app has continued to climb from 44% to about 68%. (Younger users were not measured in comScore’s report.)

So what gives? Social media platforms are supposed to lose their cool once “the olds” join, right?

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Good Fats Can Cut Risk Of Death By 27%, Study Says:

We’ve long known that “bad” fats aren’t the healthiest choices in our diets, but the latest news from Harvard is lethal: Eating too much saturated or trans fat can increase your risk of dying.

The silver lining? You can reverse some of that risk by making healthier fat choices.

“This study is by far the most detailed and powerful examination of the relationship between different types of dietary fats and mortality,” said Dr. Frank B. Hu,professor of nutrition and epidemiology at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. “Our study demonstrates that not all fats are created equal, and eating healthy unsaturated fats at the expense of unhealthy saturated and trans fats is an important way to live a longer and healthier life.”

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