7 things to know now: No charges for Clinton; man says he killed 7; Ross Harris trial

Here's a roundup of news trending across the nation and world today.

What to know now:

1. No charges on new emails: With the presidential election only hours away, FBI director James Comey announced Sunday afternoon that the bureau had found no new emails that would warrant criminal charges against Hillary Clinton for sending classified material on a server housed in her New York home. Last week, Comey sent a letter to members of Congress saying the bureau had discovered what turned out to be 650,000 emails on a laptop owned by Anthony Weiner, husband of Huma Abedin, a longtime Clinton aide. That letter said the bureau did not know if the emails were pertinent to the investigation of Clinton's use of the private email server, but that investigators were going to review the newly found emails.

2. Janet Reno dies: Janet Reno, the first woman to serve as U.S. attorney general, died early Monday of complications of Parkinson's disease, according to her sister. Reno, who served nearly eight years as President Bill Clinton's attorney general, was 79.

3. Hot car death: Closing arguments are set for a Georgia man charged with murdering his son by leaving him in a hot car in a parking lot at his workplace. Justin Ross Harris was charged with malice murder after his 22-month-old son, Cooper, died in June 2014 when he was left for hours in the vehicle.

4. Oklahoma earthquake: An earthquake measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale shook central Oklahoma Sunday night, causing damage and triggering an evacuation of some buildings in Cushing, Okla. Officials there say there were some minor injuries, and that at least four buildings were damaged during the quake.

5. Man confesses to killing 7: The man arrested for holding a woman hostage for two months on a South Carolina farm has confessed to at least seven murders, including the murder of the woman's boyfriend. Todd Christopher Kohlhepp has been charged with four of the murders so far, authorities say.

And one more

Twitter and WikiLeaks were both temporarily offline early Monday after they were the victims of a cyber attack. WikiLeaks posted a message on its Facebook page saying it had been hit with a denial-of-service attack. "We are still under a DoS attack on our e-mail publication servers and it appears that Twitter is down as well, we are unable to confirm if this is an attack on twitter at this time," the post read. The attack took down Twitter for a few minutes around 1:30 a.m. Monday.

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