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Remarks prepared for delivery at press briefing. — Good morning. I'm here to give you an update on the FBI's investigation of Secretary Clinton's use of a personal e-mail system during her time as Secretary of State. — After a tremendous amount of work over the last year …
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FBI recommends no charges against Clinton … Federal officials have decided not to pursue federal charges against Hillary Clinton — for her private email setup, FBI Director James Comey said Tuesday in an announcement that will send a shockwave throughout national politics.
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BREAKING: After Hillary Interview, FBI Director to Make a Statement Tuesday — FBI Director James Comey will make a statement Tuesday at 11 am eastern from headquarters in Washington D.C. He will also take questions from reporters. Over the weekend the FBI interviewed former Secretary …
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F.B.I. Recommends No Charges Against Hillary Clinton for Use of Personal Email — WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, on Tuesday said the F.B.I. is recommending no charges against Hillary Clinton for her use of a personal email server while secretary of state.
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FBI recommends no charges against Clinton in email probe — FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday announced the agency is not recommending the Justice Department bring charges against Hillary Clinton, despite denouncing the former secretary of state and her colleagues for the way they handled …
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FBI's Comey says ‘no reasonable prosecutor’ would bring a case against Clinton for emails
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FBI Recommends No Charges Should Be Filed Against Hillary Clinton
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Pressure on Lynch to step aside in Clinton email probe
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Wikileaks publishes Clinton war emails
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Trump Campaign Blames Anti-Semitic Tweet on “Microsoft's Shapes” — Just when you think the saga of Donald Trump's not-so-subtle, likely accidental white supremacist dog whistle can't get any more exciting, Trump's Director of Social Media Dan Scavino proves us wrong. Dan—take it away.
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DONALD J. TRUMP STATEMENT ON FALSE ACCUSATION FROM HILLARY CLINTON — These false attacks by Hillary Clinton trying to link the Star of David with a basic star, often used by sheriffs who deal with criminals and criminal behavior, (showing an inscription that says “Crooked Hillary …

Donald Trump's ‘Star of David’ tweet controversy, explained
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'The gun didn't kill my boy. I did': Father grieves son he accidentally shot — (CNN)Stephen Brumby had a long list of hobbies and interests, and at 14 years old, he was starting to catch up to his father and older siblings. — He loved tennis, bass fishing and playing worship piano at church …
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Nate Silver is happy to be wrong — Nate Silver is giving Donald Trump a 19 percent chance of becoming president - and that makes him a little nervous, as well it should. — No, it's not because he failed to predict Trump's albino-swan victory in the Republican primaries …
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EXCLUSIVE: This Is Trump's Foreign Policy, A Conversation With Top Trump Adviser Dr. Walid Phares — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump “will not ask Japan or South Korea to invest in building nuclear weapons but he will speak with their leaders about how to create a safer …
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Adviser: Trump ‘not going to get rid of’ Iran deal
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Trump supporter: ‘Mexican restaurant refused to serve me’ — An Orange County woman claims she was tossed from a Mexican restaurant Sunday, not for too much tequila — but for too much Trump. — Esther Levy, 61, of Warwick, said an employee at the popular Cancun Inn eatery in Sugar Loaf chucked …
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A home that looks perfect, until bigotry rears its ugly head — Over a long weekend of fireworks, face paint and flags, Fernando Herboso couldn't stop thinking about the new America he encountered last week. — Herboso, 58, and his brother Carlos have their own real estate agency …

Flag burning leads to Urbana man's arrest — What's your opinion? Submit a Letter to the Editor here — URBANA — Within hours of a Fourth of July Facebook post showing him burning an American flag, a 22-year-old Urbana man found himself under arrest and under fire — from all corners of the Internet.
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Press director: Trump's media blacklist won't be honored at RNC — Position: Director of the House Daily Press Gallery — Alma mater: American University, political science and communications — Stay abreast of the latest developments from nation's capital and beyond with curated News Alerts …
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The Theology of Donald Trump — SINCE Donald Trump assures us that the Bible is his favorite book, it's worth asking: Just what is his theology? — After Mr. Trump met with hundreds of evangelical Christians a couple of weeks ago, James Dobson, who is among the most influential leaders …
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Washington's Hollow Men — The government/media power elite are spectacularly ignorant of the American people. … — T. S. Eliot — In Merced or Dayton, if an insurance agent, eager to help his wife facing indictment, barged into a restaurant where the local DA is known to lunch …
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Who Are All These Trump Supporters? — At the candidate's rallies, a new understanding of America emerges. — HE APPEARS — Trump is wearing the red baseball cap, or not. From this distance, he is strangely handsome, well proportioned, puts you in mind of a sea captain: Alan Hale from …
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Medina bombing is an assault on Islam itself — Haroon Moghul is a senior fellow and director of development at the Center for Global Policy. His next book, “How to be a Muslim,” will be out in 2017. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his. — (CNN)Medina is a city eclipsed …
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