Candidates in 'sewer' ahead of debate Setting the stage for Monday night's first 2016 presidential debate, the Clinton campaign accused Donald Trump of "sewer" politics after he threatened to invite Gennifer Flowers, a former model with whom Bill Clinton admitted having a sexual liaison. That came after Clinton threatened to bring Trump enemy Mark Cuban. Trump's running mate, Mike Pence, later denied that Flowers would be present. Veteran broadcaster Bob Schieffer commented on CBS: "Those kinds of things are beneath the dignity of the office that these two people are running for." On Monday morning, a new Bloomberg poll put the candidates level, at 46%. On Sunday, both candidates took time out from preparations to meet Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. Clinton camp says Trump in 'sewer' as debate looms and fight gets dirty Lester Holt, ringmaster Like a lion tamer with a wooden chair, NBC's top-rated newscaster must keep the two big cats in his ring under some semblance of control as a record 100 million Americans are expected to watch the showdown. Holt, 57, has been quiet about how he will moderate the clash – but he has been surprisingly successful to date at holding both candidates to account. Lester Holt: presidential debate moderator, proven fact-checker Students set agenda Students at Hosftra University on Long Island, where the debate will be held, described their political priorities to the Guardian. Surprisingly, given millennials' overwhelming support for Clinton (a recent poll showed the Democrat leading 56%-20% among the under-35s) and Trump's litany of offensive comments towards women, ethnic minorities and political opponents, many said they were leaning toward the Republican. In debate lead-up, Hofstra University students argue Clinton v Trump Arnold Palmer dies, aged 87 Arnold Palmer, one of the greatest players in the history of golf, has died. His great rival Jack Nicklaus said: "He was the king of our sport and always will be." Palmer turned pro in 1955, winning a tournament in his first year on the tour and eventually winning seven majors – six of them between 1960 and 1964. The people's champion with an unmistakable aura of greatness Pitcher José Fernández killed Florida Marlins pitcher José Fernández was killed in a boating accident on Saturday night, at the age of 24. Divers from the Miami-Dade fire rescue department recovered the bodies of Fernández and two friends after a coastguard patrol boat spotted their upturned vessel. Their 32ft boat had struck an unlit jetty at the south end of Miami Beach and flipped over. A smiling star whose death leaves baseball bereft Russia accused of war crimes At the United Nations, Russia has been directly and repeatedly accused of war crimes. Accusations centre on the widespread use of bunker-busting and incendiary bombs on civilians in rebel-held eastern Aleppo, which appears to have destroyed hopes of any form of ceasefire. "Bunker-busting bombs, more suited to destroying military installations, are now destroying homes, decimating bomb shelters, crippling, maiming, killing dozens, if not hundreds," said Matthew Rycroft, the UK ambassador to the UN. Before the Syrian government representative began speaking, US, British and French delegations left the chamber in protest. Russia accused of war crimes in Syria at UN security council session No clear favorite for UN top job Hacked emails, bogus Twitter accounts, smear allegations and backroom deals – the race for the international community's top diplomatic job, UN secretary general, is paved with dangers. Today, the UN security council will hold a fifth straw poll, aimed at picking a winner from the remaining nine contenders. The clear favorite has been António Guterres, the former Portuguese prime minister and UN high commissioner for refugees. But he could be blocked by a veto from one of the five permanent council members, most plausibly Russia. Deal-making and dirty tricks: inside the race for UN secretary general High Hitler: the Third Reich and drugs Adolf Hitler was an absolute junkie whose addiction to amphetamines colored his leadership of the Third Reich. So claims a new book, Blitzed, that reveals the astonishing and hitherto largely untold story of the Third Reich's relationship with drugs including cocaine, heroin, morphine and, above all, methamphetamines. The book was published in Germany last year, becoming a bestseller. Author Norman Ohler says the regime's relationship with drugs had been largely overlooked: "I guess drugs weren't a priority for the historians." High Hitler: how Nazi drug abuse steered the course of history Bohos in SF-LA migration As the once alternative, Flower Power city of San Francisco has become a playground for tech billionaires, so its artists are fleeing to an unlikely new home: Los Angeles. "San Francisco turned into this billionaire playground. Everything I identified with was being pushed out. The community that I loved was crumbling and disappearing," said painter Andrew Schoultz. "I just didn't want to be in that city any more. So I moved to LA." Schoultz, 41, says his move was the right one: "A lot of art curators, galleries, museums don't do San Francisco any more." The boho-drain: bohemians say goodbye San Francisco, hello LA Obama to host festival Barack Obama will host Leonardo DiCaprio, Sharon Jones, the cast of Stranger Things and the Lumineers at South by South Lawn, a "festival of ideas, art and action" on 3 October. The White House said the president's festival – a collaboration with South by SouthWest – will be an "opportunity to celebrate the inspiring work so many Americans have already accomplished". Leonardo DiCaprio and Sharon Jones confirmed for Obama's first festival In case you missed it … Learning about your health from the media? Seduced by franchise-corporation caring? Mark Greif's advice is to cancel your gym membership and come off the paleo diet. Your basic human needs are all catered for and life is too short to spend in the pursuit of longevity. "Health, exercise, food, sex have become central preoccupations of our time," Greif writes. "We preserve the living corpse in an optimal state, not so we may do something with it, but for the feeling of optimisation. More and more of life gets turned over to life maintenance." But for what purpose? Get off the treadmill: the art of living well in the age of plenty | 
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A young woman stands between a photo on a news truck of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton on the eve of the first presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York. Photograph: UPI / Barcroft Images 
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