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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 

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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 

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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    

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

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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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Aleppo burns and half of the dead and injured are children    

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Fears of a stolen election circulate among Trump voters      

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Cellphone photo released by Dan Gilleon, the attorney for the family of Alfred Olango, shows Alfred Olango, the Ugandan refugee killed Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2016, in El Cajon, Calif. The fatal police shooting of Olango, who drew something from his pocket and extended his hands in a "shooting stance" happened about a minute after officers in a San Diego suburb arrived at the scene where a mentally unstable man was reportedly walking in traffic, a police spokesman said Wednesday. (Olango Family via AP) 

Alfred Olango, 38, seemed to suffer mental breakdown after his friend died      

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In this Sept. 15, 2016 photo, the Rev. Moses Colbert poses for a photo at his church in Gastonia, N.C. As Americans prepare to cast ballots for the next president, the voting process has never been more convoluted. A federal appeals court over the summer struck down several parts of a North Carolina law that not only required voters to show photo ID but also reduced early voting and eliminated same-day registration during the early voting period. Colbert, a black pastor from Kings Mountain, N.C., was among those who challenged the law after finding himself unable to vote in 2014. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton) 

Voting rules vary widely state and by county 

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One man holds his fist up as others yell at police at the scene where a black man was shot by police earlier in El Cajon, east of San Diego, Calif., Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2016. (Hayne Palmour IV/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP) 

A black man who reportedly was acting erratically at a strip mall was shot and killed by a police officer 

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