Saturday, November 5, 2016

Clinton Spreading the Wealth, With Eye on Congress and other top stories.

  • Clinton Spreading the Wealth, With Eye on Congress

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

    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assumption that Mexican migrants, mostly men, are streaming into the United States illegally in search of jobs is long outdated, the Obama administration said this week.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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  • Republicans May Block Any Of Clinton's Supreme Court Nominees, McCain Says

    Republicans May Block Any Of Clinton's Supreme Court Nominees, McCain Says
    The main pretext Republican senators have offered for leaving open the Supreme Court seat of the late Justice Antonin Scalia is that the next president, not Barack Obama, should be the one to fill it. But now that his party’s nominee, Donald Trump, seems headed for a loss in November, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) appears to be changing his tune ― and may be signaling that more unprecedented obstruction is on the horizon if Hillary Clinton wins the White House. “I promise you that we will be united..
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  • Memorial to Be Held for Slain Palm Springs Officers

    Memorial to Be Held for Slain Palm Springs Officers
    Thousands of people are expected at a memorial service for two California police officers shot to death when responding to a domestic disturbance call at the home of the family of an ex-convict. Palm Springs officers Jose "Gil" Vega and Lesley Zerebny are being honored at the gathering Tuesday at the city's convention center, before being laid to rest. Gov. Jerry Brown was to attend the service, his office said. At least 10,000 people were expected to be there, said James Canfield, the conv..
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  • Trump builds on voter fraud claims rated false by fact-checker

    Trump builds on voter fraud claims rated false by fact-checker
    Donald Trump, in his Green Bay address on Monday night, doubled down on his assertion that the election will be stolen from him. | AP Photo Trump builds on voter fraud claims rated false by fact-checker By Ben Schreckinger 10/18/16 01:06 AM EDT Taking fire from all sides for his claim that American democracy is “rigged,” Donald Trump cited academic studies to justify his claims that the country is beset by widespread voter fraud Mon..
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  • Defiant Donald Trump doubles down on conspiracy claims

    Defiant Donald Trump doubles down on conspiracy claims
    Doug Schneider, Green Bay (Wis.) Press-Gazette 12:32 a.m. EDT October 18, 2016 Presidential candidate Donald Trump spoke Oct. 17 at the KI Convention Center in downtown Green Bay to a crowd of about 3,000. Sarah Kloepping/USA TODAY NETWORK-WisconsinPresidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at his campaign rally at the KI Convention Center in Green Bay October 17, 2016. (Photo: Jim Matthews/USA TODAY NETWORK-W)GREEN BAY — Seemingly unfazed by recent controversy surrounding h..
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  • Town council accepts mayor's resignation following racist posts

    Town council accepts mayor's resignation following racist posts
    A Pennsylvania town council voted on Monday accepting the resignation of Republican Mayor Charles Wasko. Wasko came under fire earlier this year following racist posts made on his Facebook page. He had posted pictures of apes with captions referring to President Barack Obama and his family, and had one referring to lynching. The West York town council met on Monday, with a unanimous vote to accept Wasko’s resignation. The mayoral duties will be taken over by Democratic Council President Shawn M..
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  • State Department official sought FBI declassification of Clinton email

    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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  • Former judge accused of lowering sentences for sexual favors

    Former judge accused of lowering sentences for sexual favors
    LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Oct. 18 (UPI) -- A former judge in Arkansas is accused of trading bribes and sex for reduced sentences in traffic and misdemeanor criminal cases, according to an indictment unsealed Monday. Disgraced District Judge Joseph Boeckmann was indicted Monday on eight counts of wire fraud, one count of bribery, 10 counts of travel act and two counts of witness tampering on allegations of offering deals to several male defendants between 2009 and 2015. The 21-count indictment follows ..
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  • Man who killed 4 after driving off Calif. bridge shrieked in pain

    Man who killed 4 after driving off Calif. bridge shrieked in pain
    Richard Anthony Sepolio is seen on the ground after crashing his truck off the Coronado Bridge. (Guillermo A Gonzalez via Facebook). BY Chris Sommerfeldt. NEW YORK DAILY NEWS. Updated: Tuesday, October 18, 2016, 1:54 AM. The intoxicated U.S. ...
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