Saturday, November 5, 2016

Boston police: Wounded officers upgraded to stable condition and other top stories.

  • Boston police: Wounded officers upgraded to stable condition

    Boston police: Wounded officers upgraded to stable condition
    BOSTON –  Boston police say two officers who were shot last week while responding to a domestic call have been upgraded to stable condition. Officers Richard Cintolo and Matt Morris were shot Wednesday night and seriously wounded as they responded to a domestic disturbance. The man who shot them was killed by police. Both officers underwent several surgeries at Massachusetts General Hospital. The department's Twitter account said Monday that Commissioner William Evans visited Cintolo and Morris..
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  • Judge accused of giving lighter sentences for sexual favors

    Judge accused of giving lighter sentences for sexual favors
    The judge allegedly dished out lighter sentences to defendants in exchange for nude photos and sexual acts and tried to bribe witnesses. (Tom Grill/Getty Images). THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Monday, October 17, 2016, 9:02 PM. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A ...
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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assumption that Mexican migrants, mostly men, are streaming into the United States illegally in search of jobs is long outdated, the Obama administration said this week.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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  • Mayor accused of racist post about Obamas allowed to resign

    Mayor accused of racist post about Obamas allowed to resign
    USA Today Network Teresa Boeckel, York (Pa.) Daily Record 10:56 p.m. EDT October 17, 2016Attendees react to a speaker during a West York Borough Council meeting two weeks ago. The council was addressing West York Borough Mayor Charles Wasko's inflammatory Facebook posts.(Photo: Paul Chaplin, For the York Daily Record)YORK, Pa. — West York Council unanimously accepted embattled Mayor Charles Wasko's offer to resign to a round of applause from a crowd in council chambers on Monday nigh..
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  • Assassination attempt on Vallejo cops linked to boy's shooting

    Assassination attempt on Vallejo cops linked to boy's shooting
    A 41-year-old North Bay man with a felony criminal record attempted to assassinate two Vallejo police officers on a coffee break Sunday night, but his modified assault rifle jammed, police officials said Monday. Authorities said officers ultimately chased Adam Powell, who was wearing body armor, out of the Starbucks on Lincoln Road and shot him three times as he continued to fiddle with the weapon — shutting down what police said could have been a bloodbath. Investigators, meanwhile, were looki..
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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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  • The Supreme Court Questions Trump and Clinton Haven't Answered Yet

    The Supreme Court Questions Trump and Clinton Haven't Answered Yet
    In a presidential campaign unlike any other, the U.S. Supreme Court has been treated almost as an afterthought, but that will change on Wednesday night. Debate moderator Chris Wallace of Fox News is making the high court one of six topics for the final debate between  Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, and the timing couldn’t be better.For the first time since 1968, Election Day will arrive with a Supreme Court seat needing to be filled. Three current justices are at least 78 years old, so the n..
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  • Republicans rush to build firewall to save the House

    Republicans rush to build firewall to save the House
    The top House Republican super PAC had always planned to spend big to protect GOP lawmakers in Democratic-friendly districts. But Donald Trump’s free fall is forcing American Action Network and its sister PAC, Congressional Leadership Fund, to also shell out millions in red-leaning districts that weren’t even in play until this month. Their suddenly urgent mission: Build a firewall to prevent a Democratic takeover of the House.Story Continued Below With Trump fending off allegations of sexual ..
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