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Details: Written by MARTIN CRUTSINGER, MARIA DANILOVA, Associated Press ; Published: 09 October 2016

Demonstrators protest outside of the World Bank building calling for better economic policy on the world during the World Bank/IMF annual meeting in Washington, Friday, Oct. 7, 2016. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana

IMF director: "growth has been too low for too long benefiting too few"

Details: Written by JESSE J. HOLLAND, EMILY SWANSON, Associated Press; Published: 08 October 2016

White and Asian families have more ability to help their children

Details: Written by JULIE PACE, JONATHAN LEMIRE, Associated Press; Published: 08 October 2016

Audio: Listen to Trump boast about groping women

Details: Written by By PIERRE RICHARD LUXAMA and DAVID McFADDEN; Published: 06 October 2016

Rescue workers in Haiti struggled to reach cutoff towns and learn the full extent of the death and destruction caused by Hurricane Matthew as the storm began battering the Bahamas on Wednesday and triggered large-scale evacuations along the U.S. East Coast. ( AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

Storm expected to hit U.S. East Coast Thursday afternoon

Details: Written by Sidnee King, Howard University News Service; Published: 05 October 2016

Police continue to investigate who may have defaced the D.C. hotel owned by Rep. Presidential Candidate Donald Trump. Photo by Sidnee King, HUNS.

A new hotel owned by Donald Trump was vandalized with Black Lives Matter messages

Details: Written by JOSH LEDERMAN and JULIE PACE, Associated Press; Published: 05 October 2016

Democratic vice-presidential nominee Sen. Tim Kaine leaves the stage with Republican vice-presidential nominee Gov. Mike Pence during the vice-presidential debate at Longwood University in Farmville, Va., Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016. Right is Anne Holton, wife of vice-presidential candidate Sen. Tim Kaine. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Republican Mike Pence won bipartisan plaudits for a calm and collected performance in the vice presidential debate

Details: Written by AMANDA LEE MYERS, Associated Press; Published: 03 October 2016

This evidence photo on display at a news conference on Monday, Oct. 3, 2016, at Los Angeles Police headquarters shows a fake gun that was found after the fatal shooting of a hispanic man on Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016. The police chief disclosed details of Saturday's shooting of Carnell Snell, in South Los Angeles and a separate fatal police shooting of a Hispanic man Sunday amid heightened tensions over police shootings involving blacks and other minorities in California and elsewhere. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

The Los Angeles police chief on Monday defended the use of deadly force against two men in separate fatal shootings over the weekend

Details: Written by MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press; Published: 02 October 2016

Runners leave the Supreme Court in Washington with papers announcing court decisions, June 20, 2016. The Supreme Court is set to begin its new term as it ended the last one, down one justice and ideologically deadlocked on a range of issues. The absence of a ninth justice since Antonin Scalia’s death in February has hamstrung the court in several cases and forced the justices to look for less contentious issues on which they are less likely to divide by 4-4 votes. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Outcome of presidential election will affect court

Details: Written by DAVID BAUDER, HILLEL ITALIE, Associated Press; Published: 02 October 2016

San Diego Union-Trbune endorsed Clinton -- its first Democratic endorsement ever

Details: Written by CATHY BUSSEWITZ, Associated Press; Published: 02 October 2016

Sonia Paquet, a Canadian prosecutor, holds a cell phone displaying online reviews of establishments that sell illegal sex. Prosecutors from around the world say the fight against sex trafficking is moving online as traffickers use popular websites to advertise sexual services. They talked Friday, Sept. 30, 2016, about how they can crack down on the problem at an international sex trafficking summit in Waikiki that drew prosecutors from Asia, the U.S. and Canada. (AP Photo/By Cathy Bussewitz)

DAs plan to push for tougher laws and harsher penalties

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