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The middle class is often the rhetorical focus of presidential candidates, but Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump discuss it in very different ways.

Vice presidential debates are rarely consequential in elections, but they have provided some of the most indelible moments from campaigns in the past.

Los Angeles has a new strategy for policing the homeless: one guided by compassion. It's rolling out a new team of officers dedicated to "helping" rather than "dealing with" homeless people. They're acting more like social workers than cops.

U.S. policy on Syria is back to the drawing board as it calls off military cooperation with Russia amid continued Russian airstrikes on civilian areas.

The leader of the Justice Department's national security division, who's leaving after 17 years of government service, says one of the biggest changes during his tenure is the commitment to punish nation states and individuals who hack U.S. infrastructure and businesses.

The number of people younger than 25 showing up at the bridge intending to commit suicide is five times what it was in 2000. A crisis text hotline is encouraging young people to reach out for help.

Democratic Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office is requiring the Trump Foundation to stop fundraising in New York because it does not have the proper certification to do so.

In 1975, the Personal Rapid Transit in Morgantown, W. Va., was expected to usher in a new age of public transit nationally. It didn't. Still, the aging system is getting a $100-million upgrade.