The 76th annual National Book Awards have been presented by the nonprofit National Book Foundation, with winners including Rabih Alameddine for fiction, Patricia Smith for poetry, and Omar El Akkad for nonfiction.

Poet Patricia Smith has won the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for lifetime achievement.

CLEVELAND – From a floor fight over rules to accusations of plagiarism, there was no shortage of drama on the first day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. Trump campaign stops rules rebellionEarlier in the day, open discord and revolt broke out on the floor as GOP officials crushed an attempt to change party rules, a maneuver that could have embarrassed Trump. Trump's campaign team frantically whipped votes on the floor to squelch the effort. "I blame Hillary Clinton personally for the death of my son -- personally." "Who would trust Hillary Clinton to protect them?