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Associated Press Tuesday, 18 August 2015, 06:53 Last update: about 12 years ago

PRESIDENTIAL RACE-REPUBLICANS-IMMIGRATION

DES MOINES, Iowa — Donald Trump is dividing his Republican presidential rivals anew with his call to rewrite the U.S. Constitution to crack down on millions of immigrants living in the U.S. illegally, and to force Mexico to pay for a wall along the border. 

PRESIDENTIAL RACE-TRUMP-JURY DUTY

NEW YORK — Donald Trump pulled up in a long black limousine and gave a very presidential wave as he made his way into the building. Then the billionaire promptly found himself seated next to ordinary, wage-earning, subway-riding New Yorkers, forced to wait — and wait some more — for the wheels of justice to turn. The Republican presidential candidate reported for jury duty in Manhattan on Monday and spent much of the day like everyone else, filling out forms and wondering whether he would get picked to serve on a jury. 

PRESIDENTIAL RACE-CLINTON-BIDEN

WASHINGTON — Over the past quarter century or so, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Joe Biden have collaborated and competed, shared more than a dozen staffers, fought each other for a presidential nomination and then served together in the Cabinet of the man who beat them both. Now, as Biden considers challenging Clinton for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, their long and tangled relationship is being tested anew. By Josh Lederman and Lisa Lerer. 

CLINTON-EMAILS

WASHINGTON — The State Department review of Hillary Rodham Clinton's emails so far has found as many as 305 messages that could contain classified information and require further scrutiny by federal agencies, the department says.

PRESIDENTIAL RACE-CLINTON SERVER

WASHINGTON — Now that federal investigators have Hillary Rodham Clinton's homebrew email server, they could examine files on her machine that would be more revelatory than the emails themselves. 

UNITED NATIONS-CHASING THE ACCUSED

UNITED NATIONS — A new push to fight the "cancer" of peacekeeper sexual misconduct has a troubling weakness: Countries' lack of interest in investigating and prosecuting their own troops. It's their responsibility, but some don't even say whether they look into allegations, the U.N. says.

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