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Republican Rep. Joe Barton of Texas is apologizing for a graphic image of himself that emerged on social media this week, confirming he took the picture and sent it to women with whom he was pursuing relationships.

"While separated from my second wife, prior to the divorce, I had sexual relationships with other mature adult women," Barton, 68, admitted in a written statement. "Each was consensual.

Those relationships have ended. I am sorry I did not use better judgment during those days. I am sorry that I let my constituents down," the statement added. "This woman admitted that we had a consensual relationship," Barton said.

"When I ended that relationship, she threatened to publicly share my private photographs and intimate correspondence in retaliation."

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Cat Woman...

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A woman accused of mailing potentially deadly homemade bombs to President Obama and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in 2016 was arrested, in part, due to cat hair, a cigarette box and an almost-destroyed shipping label bearing her address.

Julia Poff, 46, mailed the devices in October 2016, along with a third package that she sent to the Social Security Administration according to an indictment.

Investigators traced Poff to the package sent to Obama because of cat hair found under an address label. An FBI crime lab compared the hair to some from two of Poff’s cats and found it “microscopically consistent” with the hair of one of those animals.

A grand jury indicted her this month on six counts, including mailing injurious articles and transporting explosives with the intent to kill and injure.

At the hearing, a federal agent testified that Poff was angry with Abbott because she did not receive support from her ex-husband. Poff’s application for social security benefits was denied.

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The Prodigal Son...*

The Prodigal Son, marble sculpture by Joseph Mozier, c. 1857, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Acquitted...

A New York City police officer was acquitted  of murder and manslaughter charges in the off-duty killing of an unarmed man who the officer said attacked him last year during a late-night traffic dispute in Brooklyn.

The officer, Wayne Isaacs, testified that he opened fire after the man, Delrawn Small, threatened to kill him and punched him at a stoplight in the Cypress Hills section of Brooklyn.

The surveillance video showed the victim approaching the officer's car but raised questions about the officer’s account of the confrontation.

The jury of five men and seven women deliberated over three days before deciding the government had not proved its case against Officer Isaacs.

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