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Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio speaks at a news conference at the Sheriff's headquarters in Phoenix on Dec. 18, 2013. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Sheriff Joe Arpaio headed for big loss in Arizona, poll shows

Sheriff Joe Arpaio is headed for a staggering defeat in his bid for a seventh term at top law enforcement officer in Maricopa County, Arizona, according to a new poll Thursday that shows him trailing his Democratic challenger by 15 percentage points.

October 20, 2016
Donald Trump gestures toward Hillary Clinton during the third presidential debate Wednesday in Las Vegas. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton clash on policy, personality in final debate

Hillary Clinton accused Donald Trump of being "a puppet" for Russian President Vladimir Putin and urged voters to send a signal in this presidential election by rejecting the kind of candidate who has been accused of demeaning and assaulting women, mocking the disabled and inciting violence, as the two candidates faced off in their final debate.

October 19, 2016
Moderator Chris Wallace turns toward the audience as he questions Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump during the third presidential debate Wednesday in Las Vegas. (Associated Press)

Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton duck hard bargain to save Social Security

Pundits may debate the winner of Wednesday's debate but the loser would appear to be the government's fiscal future, with neither Donald Trump nor Hillary Clinton willing to budge from the plans analysts have said would leave the country's finances headed for a cliff.

October 19, 2016
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, right, and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, left, take the stage for the third presidential debate at University of Nevada in Las Vegas, N.Y., Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Hillary Clinton says Trump ‘choked’ on his border wall

Hillary Clinton accused Donald Trump of hiring illegal immigrants for his own businesses, and said he "choked" in his meeting with the Mexican president over building a border wall, as the two presidential candidates faced off in their third debate Wednesday.

October 19, 2016
Rep. Leonard Lance, New Jersey Republican (Associated Press) **FILE**

Demand Progress posts Congressional Research Service reports

A guerrilla group of open-records activists struck a major blow for sunshine in government Wednesday when it posted more than 8,200 reports from the Congressional Research Service, Capitol Hill's nonpartisan think tank whose research is usually closely guarded.

October 19, 2016
The Social Security Administration's main campus in Woodlawn, Md., is seen here on Jan. 11, 2013. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Social Security benefits to rise 0.3 percent in 2017

Social Security beneficiaries will see only a small automatic cost-of-living increase of three-tenths of a percent next year, the agency announced Tuesday, as a still-struggling economy held down inflation.

October 18, 2016
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and running mate Sen. Tim Kaine at a rally in Virginia. (Associated press) ** FILE **

WikiLeaks breach shows John Podesta’s veep list for Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton's campaign team considered naming Bill Gates or Melinda Gates as her nominee for vice president -- two of nearly 40 names on the initial long-list submitted by campaign chief John Podesta, according to hacked emails released by WikiLeaks on Tuesday.

October 18, 2016
Border Patrol agents look over the primary fence separating Tijuana, Mexico, and San Diego on June 22, 2016. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Illegal immigration surged 23 percent over last year

Nearly 409,000 illegal immigrants were nabbed at the border in fiscal year 2016 -- up from about 331,000 a year earlier -- and Homeland Security officials say the increased arrests also mean an increase in the number that are sneaking by them.

October 17, 2016
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IRS ordered to clear tea party backlog within month, years after targeting revealed

A federal judge has ordered the IRS to finally clean up the tea party targeting mess, giving the tax agency less than a month to decide on a handful of applications that are still pending more than three years after officials first admitted they were targeting the conservative groups and subjecting them to intrusive scrutiny.

October 16, 2016
UNESCO, the U.N. body that designates cultural treasures, ignored Israeli ties to the Temple Mount in favor of Palestinians, who refer to it as the Al-Aqsa Mwosque. (Associated Press)

Israel an ‘occupying power’ in Jerusalem, UNESCO declares

UNESCO, the U.N. body charged with protecting humanity's cultural treasures, approved a draft resolution Thursday calling Israel an "occupying power" in its own capital of Jerusalem, ignoring deep Jewish ties to the Temple Mount and instead accusing Israeli settlers of provoking Muslims through "aggressions."

October 13, 2016