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Details: Written by SUMMER BALLENTINE, Associated Press ALAN SCHER ZAGIER, Associated Press; Published: 09 November 2015

Solidarity: Head football coach Gary Pinkel posted a picture of the team and coaches locking arms

Details: Written by Associated Press writer Michael Hill in Albany, New York,; Published: 07 November 2015

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson speaks in Lakewood, Colorado on Oct. 29, 2015 Carson’s campaign says the Republican White House hopeful was not offered a formal scholarship to the United States Military Academy at West Point as he wrote in his autobiography. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Carson is facing challenges on stories he told about his early life in his autobiography 'Gifted Hands'

Details: Written by KEVIN FREKING, Associated Press; Published: 07 November 2015

Veteran's healthcare is improving but waiting lists continue to grow

Details: Written by Josh Lederman, Associated Press; Published: 07 November 2015

Obama heads to Paris at the end of the month for a major international summit on climate change

Details: Written by Mark Sherman, Associated Press; Published: 04 November 2015

Eddie Hood speaks during an interview at his home in Rome, Ga., Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015. Hood was a potential juror in the murder trial of Timothy T. Foster who was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of an elderly white woman in 1987. The U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether prosecutors improperly singled out potential black jurors, including Hood, in notes and then excluded them all from the death penalty trial. (AP Photo/ John Bazemore)

Six of the nine justices indicated that black people were improperly kept off the jury that sentenced Timothy Foster to death

Details: Written by Josh Lederman of the Associated Press; Published: 03 November 2015

President continues push for criminal justice reform

Details: Written by NOMAAN MERCHANT, MATT SEDENSKY, Associated Press; Published: 03 November 2015

Part Three of the AP's year-long investigation into law enforcement officers and sexual misconduct

Details: Written by MARTHA IRVINE, SCOTT SMITH, Associated Press; Published: 02 November 2015

When law enforcement misuse their power who can victims turn to

Details: Written by NOMAAN MERCHANT, MATT SEDENSKY, Associated Press; Published: 01 November 2015

The Bureau of Justice statistics doesn't track how many law officers are convicted of sexual misconduct

Details: Written by JENNY BARCHFIELD, Associated Press; Published: 01 November 2015

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