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Obama is doing a "better job than he's given credit for," said US President Barack Obama's Democratic Party predecessor Bill Clinton.

Public perception of the president has lagged behind what he has done to benefit the country, Clinton said, speaking in Cape Town.

Clinton said, "I think he's done a better job than he's given credit for. I feel very strongly about this."

Documents have shown that a lawsuit filed in California by families alleges they were wronged in what authorities say was a $100 million real estate Ponzi scheme.

The Sacramento Bee reported on Monday that a group called Attorneys Against Abuse of Elders filed the proposed class-action suit in Sacramento Superior Court against a company headed by investment guru Lawrence Leland "Lee" Loomis. The suit, now moved to federal court, alleges "an elegantly sophisticated scheme" duped families out of their savings.

Officials have said that Prison guards and workers are smuggling cellphones to inmates in U. S. prisons, sometimes getting $500 for every phone they bring in.

USA Today reported on Monday that Guards, cooks and clerical workers are a troubling source of the prohibited phones in a smuggling network that also includes criminal gangs and inmates' family members.

Texas prisons Inspector General John Moriarty says, "It's only getting worse."

Officials have revealed that arraignment has been postponed for a woman and her boyfriend accused of starving, beating and tying up her two sons in Orange County, Calif.

The Los Angeles Times reported on Monday that Cheryl Ann Stuart, 25, and Mario Alberto Colin, 31, are being held at the Santa Ana jail in lieu of $250,000 bail until their July 23 arraignment.

It was also reported that Stuart was arrested on Wednesday night after her landlord called police saying Stuart's two sons, 2 and 5, had not been seen for days.

A top state official has informed that West Virginia will not hold a special election until 2012 to fill the U. S. Senate seat left vacant by the death of Robert Byrd.

Byrd, the longest-serving member of Congress in history, died Monday at 92 after more serious issues developed following his admittance to Inova Fairfax Hospital last week for heat exhaustion.

Community activists have said that Immigration reform should be a matter for the U. S. government to resolve and not left for Arizona and other states to settle.

The Arizona Republic has reported that to promote that message, a group of about 200 people gathered in a parking lot in downtown Phoenix Sunday to spell out "S. O. S. Congress" with their bodies while being photographed from a high-rise apartment balcony.