“Janet Reno, first female US attorney general, dies at 78”

Janet Reno, former US attorney general, died Monday morning at her home in Miami following a long battle with Parkinson's disease. She was 78. Reno, the nation's first-ever female attorney general, served in the Clinton White House from 1993 to 2001. At a ceremony to honor Reno in 2009, then-Attorney General Eric Holder praised his predecessor for her tenacity and tireless work ethic during her eight years in the job. "I don't know how many times she said to me, 'What's the right thing to do?'" Holder said. "It was never what's the easy thing, what's the political thing, or the expedient thing to do.” The United States Attorney General is the head of the United States Department of Justice, concerned with legal affairs and is the chief law enforcement officer and chief lawyer of the United States government. The Attorney General is appointed by the President of the United States. This office of Attorney General was established by the Judiciary Act of 1789.

In Other News FBI Director James Comey told lawmakers Sunday the agency hasn't changed its opinion that Hillary Clinton should not face criminal charges after a review of new emails. "Based on our review, we have not changed our conclusions that we expressed in July," Comey wrote in the new letter to congressional committee chairmen. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump each campaigned Thursday in North Carolina, which is emerging as perhaps the state on which the 2016 presidential race turns. Clinton has held a small but persistent lead in the state in recent weeks. A Quinnipiac University poll out Wednesday showed Clinton ahead, 48% to Trump's 46%. It's made North Carolina's 15 electoral votes Democrats' best chances of winning a state Mitt Romney carried -- albeit by just 2 percentage points -- in 2012. And for Trump, whose path to 270 electoral votes is already precarious, North Carolina is essentially a must-win -- a test of whether he can turn out working-class white voters and survive organizational and TV ad spending disadvantages to the Clinton campaign.