OBAMA

HONOLULU — President Barack Obama says criticism of his strategy to combat the Islamic State group is legitimate and failure to keep the public informed has contributed to fears that not enough is being done. 

LAS VEGAS CAR CRASH

LAS VEGAS — A homeless woman accused of slamming a car carrying her 3-year-old daughter into a crowd of pedestrians on the Las Vegas Strip told authorities she was stressed out after being chased by security guards from parking lots where she had been trying to sleep before the crash, according to a police report.

MISS UNIVERSE PAGEANT

NEW YORK — The Miss Universe pageant and host Steve Harvey double down on the apologies after an excruciating live television moment — announcing incorrectly that Miss Colombia had won and then taking the crown from her head to give to a rival from the Philippines. 

WOMAN DEAD IN JAIL

HEMPSTEAD, Texas— A grand jury decides that no felony crime was committed by the sheriff's office or jailers in the treatment of a black woman who died in a Southeast Texas county jail last summer. 

PRESIDENTIAL RACE-TRUMP-JERSEY CITY

JERSEY CITY, New Jersey — An investigation by a leading New Jersey news organization found residents and one former police officer who said they saw small groups celebrating in Jersey City on the day of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, and nothing to back up Donald Trump's claims that he saw thousands of Muslims cheering the fall of the towers in the city across the river from New York.

PRESIDENTIAL RACE-TRUMP-CLINTON

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump accuses Hillary Clinton of lying when she said the Islamic State group used videos of his comments about Muslims to recruit militants.