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The bill aims at reducing mandatory minimum sentences for certain drug offenses and armed career criminals.Â (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Senate advances criminal sentencing reform bill

Kelly Cohen · October 22, 2015 7:53 pm

Carson overtakes Trump in Iowa, as Marco Rubio surges

Kelly Cohen · October 22, 2015 12:03 pm

"We're incarcerating the wrong people. And were measuring the wrong things,"Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy saidÂ during the group's official launch. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Police chiefs unite to reduce incarceration

Kelly Cohen · October 21, 2015 6:11 pm

Carly Fiorina and Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., both released fundraising pitches late Tuesday based on "Back to the Future 2" ahead of the official day. (Screenshot)

GOP candidates riff on ‘Back to the Future’ day

Kelly Cohen · October 21, 2015 3:35 pm

Trump: Clinton’s Benghazi testimony may disappoint

Kelly Cohen · October 21, 2015 12:25 pm

Black Lives Matter movement started a petition telling the DNC that voters of color "deserve substantive responses and policy recommendations" from the Democratic presidential field.Â (AP Photo/Craig Lassig)

#BlackLivesMatter asks Democrats for special debate

Kelly Cohen · October 20, 2015 6:53 pm

Ban Ki-Moon visited Jerusalem to talk to Israeli and Palestinian leaders about reducing violence.Â (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

National Security

U.N. chief calls for peace in Israel

Kelly Cohen · October 20, 2015 5:06 pm

This will be Crist's third attempt to return to politics after losing a Senate bid in 2010 and Florida's gubernatorial race last year. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

The third coming of Crist

Kelly Cohen · October 20, 2015 4:12 pm

"I think every opportunity my mom has, she proves again and again why she should be our next president."Â (Bryon Houlgrave/The Des Moines Register via AP)

Chelsea Clinton says her mom’s Benghazi testimony will be ‘remarkable’

Kelly Cohen · October 20, 2015 4:00 pm

John McCain: Trey Gowdy is an ‘honest man’

Kelly Cohen · October 20, 2015 1:00 pm

Victims of Bernie Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme, Morton Chalek, 91, a WWII vet, and his friend Fran Reiss, 79, a retired educator, are among a legion of former investors still struggling to move on after seeing their life savings go up in flames.Â Many of the victims will finally be getting some payback.Â (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Victims of Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme to get $1 million

Kelly Cohen · October 20, 2015 12:21 pm

GOP lawmaker: Trump sounds like a ‘left-wing, Michael Moore wacko’

Kelly Cohen · October 20, 2015 11:49 am