Indictment: Ex-judge dismissed cases for sexual contact and other top stories.

• Indictment: Ex-judge dismissed cases for sexual contact

  

  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A former Arkansas judge accused of giving lighter sentences to defendants in exchange for nude photos and sexual acts has been indicted on federal fraud and bribery charges, according to a federal indictment unsealed Monday.Former Cross County District Court Judge Joseph Boeckmann resigned in May after an investigation into allegations of inappropriate sexual relationships with men accused of crimes dating back decades, to his time as a prosecutor. The 70-year-old Boeck..

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• Illegal Immigration Is Changing. Border Security Is Still Catching Up

  

  llegal immigration into the United States isn't what it used to be. The prevailing assumption that Mexican migrants, mostly men, are streaming into the United States illegally in search of jobs is long outdated, the Obama administration said this week. Instead, it's overwhelmingly families from Central America who are being intercepted together at the border. And this distinction between the shifting demographics at the border isn't just semantics. It's not so much an illegal immigration p..

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• Clinton Spreading the Wealth, With Eye on Congress

  

  Hillary Clinton’s latest contribution to fellow Democrats who are fighting to win Senate, House and gubernatorial elections: nearly $10 million. The value of having a Democrat-controlled Congress to partner with in 2017 if she wins the presidency: priceless. Donald Trump’s skid in the polls, fueled by multiplying allegations of sexual assault and his increasingly dark, acrimonious rhetoric, has raised Democrats’ hopes of a wave election, enabling a takeover of not just the Senate but even the H..

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• Trump's Wisconsin strategy: Burn it all down

  

  Wisconsin Republicans already rejected Donald Trump once. His escalating attacks on Paul Ryan are motivating a sizable number of them to do it again. Trump will campaign in Green Bay Monday night, but many Republicans won’t be glad to see him one day after he launched a Twitter tirade against Ryan, the speaker of the House and the pride of the Wisconsin GOP.Story Continued Below After getting blown out in the state’s primary last spring, Trump already faced a steep challenge in winning over lo..

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• Calif. dwarf arrested for planting bomb at Colo. police station

  

  A California dwarf has been arrested for trying – but failing – to detonate a homemade backpack bomb outside a police station in a small hippy town in Colorado, authorities said. David Michael Ansberry, 64, of San Rafael, California, was nabbed by cops ...

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• Retired four-star general admits leaking top-secret info to media

  

  Story highlightsThe feds accused Cartwright of providing and confirming classified information to two reporters Cartwright became Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 2007 and retired in 2011Retired four-star Gen. James Cartwright sat quietly with his attorney, former White House Counsel Gregory Craig, as Assistant US Attorney Leo J. Wise described the facts underlying the single charge of making false statements to federal investigators. Cartwright, who became vice chairman of the Join..

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• John McCain backs off promise Republicans would block Clinton Supreme Court nominees

  

  An issue that has been mostly absent from this year's Senate campaigns -- the fate of the Supreme Court -- suddenly erupted Monday after Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., indicated during a talk-radio appearance that Republicans would move to block any high-court nominee made by a President Hillary Clinton should the Democratic nominee win.McCain made his remarks on WPHT-AM radio in Philadelphia, during an interview in support for fellow Sen. Patrick Toomey, R-Pa.: "I promise you that we will be unite..

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• State Department official sought FBI declassification of Clinton email

  

  According to notes from interviews conducted during an FBI investigation into Clinton's email practices, Undersecretary of State Patrick Kennedy personally tried to convince FBI officials that the email should be declassified. One interviewee described feeling "pressured" by another FBI official at Kennedy's request.The FBI is denying that any "quid pro quo" was offered in the fight between the bureau and State Department over the classification level of the email, though one interview described..

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• After Hurricane Matthew, Haitians are worried aid groups will overstay their welcome

  

  Boys stand next to their destroyed home after Hurricane Matthew hit Jeremie Thomson Reuters When UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon touched down in Haiti Saturday for a one-day visit, he faced two immediate challenges and one longer-term dilemma. First, he had to raise the profile of the destruction from hurricane Matthew on Oct. 4 in order to generate more international aid. Second, he had to find a way to allay the frustrations of local Haitians, who complain o..

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• Police chief group issues apology to minorities

  

  International Association of Chiefs of Police President, Terrence M. Cunningham, struck a conciliatory tone, acknowledging the deep-seated, generational mistrust between minorities and the police.Cunningham, speaking at a meeting of the group in San Diego, said law enforcement's history is "replete with examples of bravery, self-sacrifice and service to the community."But Cunningham said at the same, "the history of policing has had darker periods.""There have been times when law enforcement off..

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