A Minnesota Republican state senator was charged on Wednesday with soliciting a minor, according to federal prosecutors. Justin David Eichorn, the Republican state senator for District 6, was arrested on Monday after communicating online with who believed to be a 17-year-old girl, but in reality was a police officer, officials said in a statement on Tuesday. Law enforcement placed online advertisements offering commercial sex, and Eichorn began sending messages, saying," I saw your post and( sic

BERLIN( AFP)-Pressure was mounting Tuesday( Sept 28) on Mr Armin Laschet to quit after his conservatives lost to the Social Democrats in Germany's election, further complicating his bid to form the next government after the disastrous vote.Mr Laschet's CDU-CSU conservative alliance brought home its worst election result in post-war Germany of 24.1 per cent, behind Mr Olaf Scholz's SPD on 25.7 per cent. But Mr Laschet, the conservative bloc's hope to succeed veteran Chancellor Angela Merkel, has