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The Republican National Convention had no shortage of drama this week. 

We've seen the convention floor erupt into chaos, Melania Trump deliver a speech containing some plagiarism, and Ted Cruz get booed off the stage. 

But some pretty wild things were going on around and outside the Convention as well.

Here's what it looked like.

Many delegates expressed fervent support for the Republican nominee through their clothing.

Or through their shoes.

This delegate's attire seemed to send a particular message.

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GOP turns to security, divisions on convention's first night

Donald Trump officially won the Republican Party's presidential nomination Tuesday, making the businessman the GOP standard-bearer after a rollicking primary season that saw him vanquish 16 rivals.

The roll call vote of states gave Trump enough delegates at the Republican National Convention to win the nomination after months of speculation and dissent among the GOP ranks. There was little opposition on the floor as delegates cast votes for Trump state by state.

The vote came on the second day of the Cleveland convention, where the theme was billed as "Make America Work Again." Though the focus was supposed to be jobs, speakers spent more time denouncing presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. She was talked about more than Trump himself.

House Speaker Paul Ryan said Clinton represents a third term of Barack Obama's presidency instead of the "clean break from a failed system." Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Clinton has "a tortured relationship to the truth."

Trump himself briefly appeared in a videotaped statement: "This is a movement, but we have to go all the way," he said.

What to know about the second day of the convention:

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THE NOMINATION

The boisterous roll call featured officials bragging about their states, per tradition, and enthusiastically declaring Trump the winner of their delegates. New York put him over the top in the delegate count, with Trump's son Donald Jr. delivering that state's results.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's name wasn't formally placed in nomination even though he was closest to Trump in the primaries. Earlier Tuesday, some Republicans were saying Cruz's supporters wanted to gather enough signatures to allow the Texan to be nominated.

Being officially nominated means a candidate is entitled to have supporters deliver a nominating and seconding speech. But Trump's campaign and GOP officials eager for a show of unity behind Trump worked to head that off.

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THE SPEECHES

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a former federal prosecutor, laid out an aggressive case against Clinton, asking the crowd to weigh in on her leadership on the Islamic State group, China, and an al-Qaida-linked group in Nigeria. Riled up, the crowd yelled "Lock her up! Lock her up!"

Failed Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson went so far as to associate Clinton with Lucifer.

While politicians at the podium heaped criticism on Clinton, Trump's children made direct appeals in favor of Trump. Tiffany Trump, the candidate's 22-year-old daughter from his marriage to Marla Maples, said her father is a "natural-born encourager" who has motivated her to work her hardest.

Donald Trump Jr., his eldest son and an executive vice president at The Trump Organization, cited his father's business acumen and said his father approaches business projects the same way he has approached his campaign and life in general.

Speakers also included some unknown names, such as Andy Wist, founder and CEO of a waterproofing company in the Bronx, as well as Dana White, president of the popular Ultimate Fighting Championship, which promotes mixed martial arts.

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CLINTON WEIGHS IN

Clinton said the first day of the Republican gathering had been "surreal," comparing it to the classic fantasy film "Wizard of Oz."

"When you pull back the curtain, it was just Donald Trump with nothing to offer to the American people," Clinton said during a speech in Las Vegas.

After the roll call, Clinton tweeted a fundraising appeal: "Donald Trump just became the Republican nominee. Chip in now to make sure he never steps foot in the Oval Office."

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MONDAY NIGHT HANGOVER

Trump's wife, Melania, received criticism because her speech Monday included two passages with similarities to a speech first lady Michelle Obama delivered at the 2008 Democratic convention. Mrs. Trump's speech was well received in the convention hall.

Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort called the criticism "just absurd" and said the issue had been "totally blown out of proportion."

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OUTSIDE THE HALL

Police broke up scuffles between groups of demonstrators a few blocks from the Republican National Convention as crowds in the hundreds gathered Tuesday afternoon.

There were no arrests, police said, despite several tense moments that saw officers step in between protesters pushing and shouting at each other during some of the biggest, most raucous gatherings in downtown Cleveland since the four-day convention began on Monday.

One skirmish broke out when right-wing conspiracy theorist and radio show host Alex Jones started speaking in downtown's Public Square through a bullhorn. Police on bicycles pushed back a surging crowd, and Jones was whisked away.

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THE REST OF THE WEEK

Vice presidential pick Mike Pence, the Indiana governor, is set to speak Wednesday. Cruz, who has not yet endorsed Trump, is set to speak too. Trump will close the convention with an acceptance speech Thursday night.

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Obama to take questions on Dallas attack, race relations

WARSAW, Poland (AP) - President Barack Obama on Saturday rejected any notion that the past week's stunning violence signals a return to racial brutality of a dark past, saying that as painful as the killings of police and black men were, "America is not as divided as some have suggested."

With five Dallas police officers dead at the hands of a sniper and two black men dead at the hands of police, Obama appealed to Americans not to be overwhelmed by fear of a return to 1960s-style chaos and to understand the progress that has been made in racial relations since that time.

"You're not seeing riots and you're not seeing police going after people who are protesting peacefully," he said. "You've seen almost uniformly peaceful protests and you've seen, uniformly, police handling those protests with professionalism."

Obama spoke at the conclusion of a NATO summit in Warsaw before leaving for Spain, part of a farewell trip to Europe he was cutting short by one day because of the developments at home.

The comments marked the third time in as many days that Obama has spoken, from a distance, about the police-involved fatal shootings of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota that were followed by a sniper attack in Dallas that killed five police officers. Seven other officers and two civilians were also injured.

Obama said the Dallas shooter, a black Army veteran who was later killed by police, was a "demented individual" who does not represent black Americans any more than a white man accused of killing blacks at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, represents whites.

The president said he would visit Dallas in a few days to pay respects and mourn with the stricken Texas city. The shootings, and the ensuing protests in some U.S. cities, led to an uncharacteristic response from the president: He cut his five-day, two-country European trip to four days. On his flight to Spain, he called Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to offer his condolences on behalf of the American people, the White House said.

While Obama proceeded with his plan to visit Madrid, he scrapped a stop in the southern city of Seville. He was cramming two days of events into one, including meetings with interim President Mariano Rajoy and a visit with U.S. sailors stationed at a naval base in Rota.

In his news conference before departing Poland, Obama said that while "there is sorrow, there is anger, there is confusion" in the U.S., "there's unity in recognizing that this is not how we want our communities to operate. This is not who we want to be as Americans and that serves as the basis for us being able to move forward in a constructive and positive way."

The president said he planned to convene a White House meeting in coming days with police officers, community and civil rights activists and others to talk about next steps. He said the "empathy and understanding" that Americans have shown in responding to the events of the past few days, including Dallas police officers even as they came under attack, had given him hope.

"That's the spirit that we all need to embrace," Obama said. "That's the spirit that I want to build on."

But Obama, who has angered his political opponents after every deadly mass shooting by calling for tighter gun laws, made clear that he will continue to speak out about the need for such measures, which the Republican-controlled Congress has refused to go along with. He said the U.S. is unique among advanced countries in the scale of violence it experiences.

The president spoke sympathetically of police officers in gun-filled communities who have "very little margin of error" when deciding how to engage with people on the street who may well be armed, whether they mean harm or not. "Police have a really difficult time in communities where they know guns are everywhere," he said.

"If you care about the safety of our police officers, then you can't set aside the gun issue and pretend it's irrelevant."

Citing laws allowing the carrying of guns in Texas, he said that even some of the Dallas protesters who staged a peaceful rally before the sniper attack were armed. He also cited the presence of an apparently legally owned gun in the car where motorist Philando Castile was shot dead during a traffic stop in suburban St. Paul, Minnesota.

Obama also tried to calm public anxiety about personal safety, saying violent crime is actually down in the U.S.

"So as tough, as hard, as depressing as the loss of life was this week, we've got a foundation to build on," he said. "We just have to have confidence that we can build on those better angels of our nature."

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Associated Press writer Darlene Superville in Seville, Spain, contributed to this report.

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This week on Rainmaker Rewind, Sonia Simone shares an exciting announcement on Copyblogger FM that you don't want to miss.

James Garvin of U.C. Davis joins Sonia to chat about the evolution and future of online education, as well as a new collaboration between Copyblogger and U.C. Davis!

And, as always, be sure to check out the other great episodes that recently aired on Rainmaker FM.

1. Copyblogger FM. Sonia Simone and James Garvin reveal the collaboration between Copyblogger and U.C. Davis and what it means for online education going forward: Announcing: A Breakthrough Educational Collaboration between Copyblogger and U.C. Davis


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9. Hack the Entrepreneur. Jon Nastor also welcomes Carrie Dils to the network this week. The two talk about her journey from freelancer to entrepreneur and the benefits of teaching courses online: Building Something Out of Nothing

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UN report: People around the world are eating more fish

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - People around the world are eating more fish and global per capita fish consumption topped 20 kilograms (44 pounds) a year for the first time in 2014, according to preliminary estimates in a U.N. report released Thursday.

The Food and Agriculture Organization report said the record consumption, which appears to have continued in 2015, is the result of increased supplies from fish farming, growing demand linked to population growth, reduced wastage, rising incomes and urbanization, and a slight improvement in some fish stocks.

According to The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2016, world per capita fish consumption increased from an average of 9.9 kilograms (21.8 pounds) in the 1960s to 14.4 kilograms (31.7 pounds) in the 1990s, 19.7 kilograms (43.3 pounds) in 2013 and 20.1 kilograms (44.2 pounds) in 2014.

FAO Director-General Jose Graziano da Silva said fish farming or aquaculture - using coastal net pens or ponds to raise freshwater and saltwater species - now provides half of all fish for human consumption.

China has played a major role in the growth of fish farming, accounting for 60 percent of world aquaculture production, the report said.

On a negative note, the report said "the state of the world's marine fish stocks has not improved" despite notable progress in some areas.

It said almost a third of commercial fish stocks are now fished at biologically unsustainable levels, triple the level of 1974.

Global total production from fishing in 2014 was 93.4 million tons - 81.5 million tons from marine waters and 11.9 million tons from inland waters, the report said. China was the largest marine producer followed by Indonesia, the United States and Russia.

For the first time since 1998, anchovy was not the top-ranked catch in 2014, falling below Alaska pollock, the report said.

Anchovy catches in Peru fell to 2.3 million tons in 2014 - half the amount in 2013 and the lowest level since a strong El Nino in 1998 - but the report said production recovered in 2015 to more than 3.6 million tons.

Graziano da Silva said recent reports by experts, international organizations, industry and civil society "highlight the tremendous potential of the oceans and inland waters now, and even more so in the future, to contribute significantly to food security and adequate nutrition for a global population expected to reach 9.7 billion by 2050."

He welcomed the entry into force on June 5 of an FAO agreement "to prevent, deter and eliminate illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing" which, among other things, allows a country to ban ships it suspects of having engaged in illicit fishing, thereby preventing their catches from getting to markets.

Illicit fishing may account for up to 26 million tons of fish a year, or more than 15 percent of the world's total annual marine and inland fishing output, Graziano da Silva said.

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Dems block Senate defense bill, fear domestic spending cuts

WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Democrats sidetracked a $575 billion defense bill for next year late Thursday and threatened to shut down Congress' work on spending legislation, accusing Republicans of shortchanging domestic programs. The move prompted the leaders of each party to testily accuse the other side of dysfunction.

Both parties support the defense measure itself. But Democrats fear that if it is completed and sent to President Barack Obama, they would lose leverage with the GOP for future spending measures financing health, public works, law enforcement and other domestic programs.

The Senate voted 50-44 - 10 votes short of the 60 needed - to head off a Democratic filibuster that effectively stalls the defense measure.

As Democrats made their intentions clear, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said they should be renamed "the dysfunction party" and warned that this is a dangerous period to block money for the Pentagon.

"At a time when we face an array of terror threats around the globe, we cannot afford to put politics above support for our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines," said McConnell, R-Ky.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid fired back, saying, "They're the party of Trump, so don't call us dysfunctional," referring to presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, whose controversial statements have divided Republicans.

Reid and other top Democrats sent McConnell a letter earlier Thursday, saying Republicans were breaking a budget pact reached last year by not providing comparable funding for defense and domestic programs and inserting controversial provisions into spending legislation. They said Republicans had inserted extra money into defense bills but rejected Democratic efforts to provide additional funds for infrastructure projects, scientific research and to combat the Zika virus.

The Democrats wrote that they would block Senate work on upcoming spending bills "without strong, public assurance that you are committed to honoring the core tenets" of the budget agreement, "including fair funding, parity and a rejection of poison pill" language.

McConnell said the amount of money in the defense bill did comport to last year's budget pact. He noted that Democrats on the Senate Appropriations Committee had recently joined Republicans in unanimously approving the defense measure.

"There's no excuse to filibuster this bill," he said.

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Off-duty NYC cop fatally shoots man after traffic dispute

NEW YORK (AP) - New York's attorney general is investigating an off-duty police officer's fatal shooting of a man he said attacked him in a case of road rage.

Police say the New York Police Department officer was driving his personal vehicle early Monday in Brooklyn when he was involved in a traffic dispute with 37-year-old Delrawn Small.

Police say when both cars stopped at a red light, Small got out of his vehicle and punched the officer repeatedly through an open window.

Police say the officer pulled out his service weapon and killed Small. The officer was treated at a hospital for minor injuries.

Police haven't identified the officer. They say the shooting remains under investigation.

The attorney general is authorized to investigate police shootings when the person killed is unarmed.

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This story has been corrected to show the last name of the man who was killed is Small, not Dempsey.

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