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Michael Dukakis, the one-time Democratic presidential nominee, scoffed at a Draft Dukakis campaign on Twitter to get the former Massachusetts governor into the 2016 race, telling The Boston Globe that he and his wife "are supporting Hillary."

President Francois Hollande of France spoke by phone with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian President Vladimir Putin to explore the possibility of a summit with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to rekindle efforts to reach an effective cease-fire in Ukraine's east, Hollande's office said.

Donald Trump, who so far has refused to say whether he'd pledge support for a Republican presidential candidate if he lost the GOP nomination, told a tea party gathering in Nashville, Tenn., that he will decide "very soon" whether he would mount a third-party bid.

Eric Laurent and Catherine Graciet, both writers, were charged by French authorities with extortion, accused of blackmail by demanding $3.4 million from Morocco's King Mohammed VI in exchange for not publishing a book critical of his monarchy.

Shelby Ainsworth, principal at West Monroe High School in Louisiana, where the school mascot is the Rebel, said students are banned from flying Confederate battle flags from their vehicles on campus but that the banner can be displayed at sporting events as long as it's not on a pole or a stick.

Joe Lewandowski, who found more than 1,000 Atari game cartridges in a landfill in Alamogordo, N.M., where they had been buried for more than 30 years, has sold 881 of the titles on eBay, raising more than $100,000, most of which will go to the city and to the Tularosa Basin Historical Society.

Gloria Adame, who worked as a driver's license technician at the Texas Department of Safety office in Irving, was sentenced to 15 months in prison after pleading guilty to selling licenses to more than 28 illegal aliens.

Jose Luis Rodriguez, 52, of El Paso, Texas, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering in a $100 million scheme to smuggle shoes into Mexico without paying Mexican tariffs, duties and taxes.

Tycarn Hundley, 18, was arrested on robbery and weapons charges in a liquor store holdup in Jersey City, N.J., after authorities said they were able to identify him as a suspect because of a "Yolanda" tattoo on his left forearm.

A Section on 08/30/2015

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