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A fighter of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant holds an ISIL flag and a weapon on a street in the city of Mosul, June 23, 2014. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry held crisis talks with leaders of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region on Tuesday urging them to stand with Baghdad in the face of a Sunni insurgent onslaught that threatens to dismember the country.
One marijuana-smoking state representative from Manchester easily won re-election this week, while the other - bounced from his seat by voters - vowed to run again and said he will continue to advocate for medical marijuana.
A senior U.S. military officer told NBC News that a man wearing a suicide vest is responsible for the deadly explosion at Bagram Airfield. Officials say the number dead from the explosion is in the single digits, but more were injured when the man detonated the vest.
There were no bombshells or funny business during the conversation taped Tuesday at the White House and aired on HBO's "Real Time" Friday night. Obama spoke with pride of his achievements during his two terms as chief executive, saying "every single issue we've made progress on" will be on the ballot next Tuesday in the form of the opposing candidates.
In this Thursday, Oct. 20, 2016 photo, a logging truck passes through downtown Madison, Maine. Madison, population 4,700, is in Maine's second congressional district.
Nevada already has legal brothels, round-the-clock casinos and a coy catchphrase declaring that "what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas." If voters approve, the state could soon add another vice in the form of recreational marijuana.
California voters, who've watched as Massachusetts and Colorado leaped ahead on causes such as gay marriage and legal marijuana, could restore its role as a laboratory of liberal policy-making with The push to regain California's reputation as the nation's progressive stronghold is being aided by billionaire hedge-fund founder Tom Steyer, who has poured more than $17 million into five of the 17 questions on the ballot next week. The measures also may be aided by a 2011 state law that puts initiatives before voters only in November, when turnout among Democrats is highest.
Johnson's campaign is founded on the principle that smaller government will mean greater freedom for citizens, both economically and in their personal lives. It's the policy glue that holds together his fiscally conservative, socially liberal and noninterventionist message.
In the 1st Congressional District, which covers eastern New Hampshire and the city of Manchester, Republican Rep. Frank Guinta is trying to hold his seat against former Democratic Rep. Carol Shea-Porter and Independent candidate Shawn O'Connor. The 2nd congressional district includes eastern and northern New Hampshire and the cities of Nashua and Concord.
President Barack Obama commuted the sentences of 98 inmates Thursday, continuing his efforts to release federal inmates sentenced to harsh prison terms for nonviolent drug offenses. Nearly half the group - 42 people - originally had been sentenced to life imprisonment.
Ninety-eight federal inmates will return home sooner than expected after President Barack Obama commuted their sentences on Thursday, part of a clemency push that has sped up dramatically in Obama's final months. All told, Obama has cut short sentences for 872 inmates, including 688 this year.
The Indiana gubernatorial candidates said during a debate Tuesday that they believe the state should do more to attack the growing abuse of heroin and other drugs. Democrat John Gregg and Republican Eric Holcomb both pointed to proposals they've made for addressing the problem as federal statistics show Indiana saw a 59 percent jump in overall drug overdose deaths between 2006 and 2014.
Sen. Tick Segerblom, D-Las Vegas, has requested two resolutions for drafting that would ask voters in 2018 to abolish term limits for state and local elected officials and repeal a two-thirds requirement in the Legislature to raise taxes. Nevada Sen. Tick Segerblom, D-Las Vegas, talks during a break in the special session at the Legislative Building in Carson City, Nev.
Hillary Clinton calls the scourge of heroin and opioid addiction a "quiet epidemic." Donald Trump marvels that overdoses are a problem in picturesque American communities.
The Lancaster County Sheriff's Office concluded Operation Fall Harvest, a months-long drug investigation, with the arrests of multiple people for drug and weapons offenses. Over two dozen officers spread out across the county beginning early Thursday morning armed with approximately 80 arrest warrants for almost 50 people.
Donald Trump is rolling out a policy he thinks will solve the opioid crisis in the U.S. Trump gave a speech yesterday in New Hampshire, where he lamented how many people were getting addicted to opiates, then overdosing. Trump's solution to the problem was, of course, ending illegal immigration.
Ronald Reagan won a historic landslide victory in the 1984 election, taking 49 of 50 states. But he failed to win the vote of a young Republican businessman in New Mexico whose willingness to go against the political grain has made him this presidential campaign's X-factor.
There's a new source of income for Donald Trump's corporate portfolio: the joint fundraising account for his campaign and Republican Party. Federal Election Commission reports filed Saturday show the Trump Victory Committee paid Trump's TAG Air Inc. $511,306 over the past three months.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee speaks Friday, Oct. 7, 2016, at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle. Inslee announced an executive order to fight the rising abuse of opioids in Washington state.
AP File Photo President Barack Obama, left, has asked Utah Gov. Gary Herbert, right, to use the National Governors Association as a sort of clearinghouse on refugee information to the states. Herbert is chairman of the NGA.