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As president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai destroyed a corruption investigation into a man believed to have smuggled out of the country as much as $2.78 billion for Afghan officials, drug traffickers and insurgents. (Associated Press)

George W. Bush’s Afghanistan reconstruction efforts killed by corruption

President George W. Bush's hopes of building a viable nation in Afghanistan fell victim not to the ongoing Taliban insurgency but rather to endemic corruption that the U.S. fed, pumping tens of billions of dollars into a society with a government ill-equipped to handle it, according to a watchdog report released Wednesday.

September 14, 2016
FILE - This is a Thursday, April 21, 2016 file photo of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his wife Melania Trump, appear on the NBC "Today" television program, in New York . The Daily Mail newspaper Friday Sept. 2, 2016 has retracted a story about Melania Trump after her lawyers filed a lawsuit in the United States accusing the newspaper and a Maryland blogger of publishing false statements about her alleged involvement with an escort agency. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Trump lawyer says Melania followed immigration law

A lawyer for the Trump family said Wednesday that Melania Trump, wife of the GOP presidential nominee, did not break immigration law when she first arrived in the U.S. in the 1990s, nor when she obtained a green card based on her "extraordinary ability" as a fashion model.

September 14, 2016
Screen capture of Backpage.com.

Sex website Backpage.com loses Supreme Court appeal

The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal by Backpage.com, one of the Internet's largest sex services websites, and the company will now have to reveal to Congress whether it attempts to screen out sex traffickers.

September 13, 2016
President Obama (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Obama wants U.S. to take 30 percent more refugees in 2017

President Obama wants the U.S. to take 30 percent more refugees next year, top administration officials told Congress on Tuesday, calling for Americans to do more on the world stage at a time when many voters are already balking at the current pace.

September 13, 2016
The name plate for witness Bryan Pagliano, former senior adviser, Information Resource Management, State Department, who did not appear, sits on the witness table on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2016, during a hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on "Examining Preservation of State Department Records." (AP Photo/Molly Riley) ** FILE **

Bryan Pagliano defies subpoena to avoid testifying on Clinton emails

Despite Hillary Clinton's urging last year that he give full testimony, Bryan Pagliano, the campaign operative she hired at the State Department and then had run her server, refused to attend the hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

September 13, 2016
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump decried the slowness of Congress implementing a biometric entry-exit visa tracking system at U.S. ports of entry, particularly at airports. Mr. Trump vowed that, under his administration, the system would be in place to head off the possibilty of another 9/11-level terrorist event. (Associated Press)

Visa security loophole exploited by 9/11 attackers still open 15 years later

At least five of the Sept. 11 hijackers exploited a glaring hole in visa security to stay in the U.S. beyond their time — allowing them to board the planes and conduct their murderous attack. Fifteen years later, and despite a clear consensus on the need for improvement, that gaping hole remains.

September 8, 2016
In this Oct. 21, 2014 file photo, people opposed to child sex trafficking rally outside of the Washington state Supreme Court in Olympia, Wash. The Washington Supreme Court ruled Thursday, Sept. 3, 2015, in favor of three young girls who sued Backpage.com, claiming they were sold as prostitutes on the site. Thursday's ruling says the Communications Decency Act does not protect Backpage from state lawsuits because there's enough evidence to show that it didn't just host the ads, but helped develop the content. (AP Photo/Rachel La Corte/ File)

Chief Justice Roberts grants reprieve to Backpage.com sex services website

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. granted at least a temporary reprieve Wednesday to one of the country's largest sex-services websites, saying he wants to take more time to hear arguments in a dispute over whether Backpage.com does enough to stop predators from sex trafficking.

September 7, 2016
Seeking asylum: Migrants and activists scuffle with police after authorities started to clear out makeshift camps in Calais, France on the English Channel on May 28, 2014. Officials blame a British-French pact for burdening the city with immigrants seeking British asylum. (Associated Press) **FILE**

UK to build wall to stop illegal immigration from France

The U.S. is still debating the value of fencing on its southwest border but the U.K. is moving forward, preparing to erect a 1 kilometer wall to protect the departure point from France to Britain, according to reports Wednesday.

September 7, 2016