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AP FACT CHECK: Clinton email claims collapse under FBI probe — WASHINGTON (AP) — Key assertions by Hillary Clinton in defense of her email practices have collapsed under FBI scrutiny. — The agency's yearlong investigation found that she did not, as she claimed, turn over all her work-related messages for release.
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On Hillary Clinton's Rough Day, Republicans Rue Missed Chance — WASHINGTON — As the Republican strategist Brian Walsh watched the nonstop cable news coverage Tuesday from his K Street office, he thought he was seeing the stuff of his party's dreams. — A week after former President Bill Clinton lit …
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Jim Comey's Statement on the Clinton Emails: A Quick and Dirty Analysis — The first notable thing in FBI Director Jim Comey's statement on the Clinton email flap is that he issued it at all. Normally, the FBI does not issue reports on its investigative findings separate …


Another Clinton ‘scandal’ goes poof — SO NOW it's all but official: No bolt from the blue will ruin Hillary Clinton's presidential hopes. — There will be no criminal charges against Clinton because of her use of a private e-mail server while secretary of state.


Ryan: GOP will hold hearings on Clinton probe — Republicans will hold hearings to learn more about the FBI's decision to not recommend criminal charges for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton — (R-Wis.) said Tuesday night. — “People have been convicted for far less …
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Comey to testify on Clinton email probe Thursday — FBI Director James Comey will testify on Capitol Hill Thursday regarding the bureau's investigation of Hillary Clinton's email practices, part of a concerted GOP effort to keep the heat on Clinton heading into the party conventions and a long congressional recess.
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Robert Brown user — There are other ways to view the same sets of facts. For instance, consider that Mr Comey has spent his entire career getting to where he is today as the Director of the FBI. He surely has greater ambitions, so if he can make a plausible case not to prosecute based on his judgment …
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The Note: Politics on the Jersey Shore — NOTABLES —CLINTON CAMPAIGNS IN ATLANTIC CITY: Hillary Clinton campaigns in Atlantic City today, and this morning her campaign is up with a new online video highlighting Donald Trump's business record in the city, ABC's LIZ KREUTZ notes.
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Washington Has Been Obsessed With Punishing Secrecy Violations — Until Hillary Clinton — Secrecy is a virtual religion in Washington. Those who violate its dogma have been punished in the harshest and most excessive manner — at least when they possess little political power or influence.

Legal, but Not Political, Clarity on the Clinton Emails
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House GOP Summons FBI Director To Testify On Clinton Emails On Thursday
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Sen Rand Paul: Hillary Clinton Should Not Be Above the Law
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F.B.I.'s Critique of Hillary Clinton Is a Ready-Made Attack Ad
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Clinton to propose 3-month hiatus for repayment of student loans
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I Don't Get It — I'm on vacation but I had to watch FBI Director Comey's statement.
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Lewandowski: FBI director acted as ‘judge and jury’ on Clinton
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On Clinton's emails, no ‘reasonable person’ can disagree with James Comey
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Clinton Forgot It's Not the Crime, It's the Cover-Up
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FBI's Comey indicts Clinton character, competence: James Robbins
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FBI Rewrites Federal Law to Let Hillary Off the Hook
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'He's got a gun! Gun': Video shows fatal confrontation between Alton Sterling, Baton Rouge police officer — Alton Sterling, a 37-year old man who sold CDs, was shot and killed by a Baton Rouge police officer Tuesday morning outside a convenience store on North Foster Drive after …
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Video captures white Baton Rouge police officer fatally shooting a black man, sparking outrage — A video showing two white police officers involved in a deadly altercation with a 37-year-old black man in Baton Rouge circulated across the Internet early Wednesday morning …
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Alton Sterling shot, killed by Louisiana cops during struggle after he was selling music outside Baton Rouge store (WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT) — It's happened again. — Chilling cell phone video surfaced Tuesday of two Louisiana cops killing a 37-year-old man selling music outside …
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Coroner: Man shot by BRPD multiple times to chest, back; 2 officers placed on leave — A Baton Rouge man shot by police was hit multiple times in the chest and back, according to the East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner's Office. — Investigators are still working to piece together what prompted …
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Protests break out after Baton Rouge police fatally shoot man
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Alton Sterling Shooting by Police in Baton Rouge Sets Off Protests
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Trump praises for Saddam Hussein's efficient killing of ‘terrorists,’ calls today's Iraq ‘Harvard for terrorism’ — Trump: World better with Hussein and Gadhafi in power — Raleigh, North Carolina (CNN)Donald Trump on Tuesday once again expressed his preference for keeping dictators in power in the Middle East.
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Donald Trump Praises Saddam Hussein's Approach to Terrorism — Again
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Donald Trump praises Saddam Hussein for killing terrorists ‘so good’
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Trump, Saddam and why people mistrust the media
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Clinton Camp Blasts Trump's ‘Cavalier Compliments’ For Dictators
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Chilcot report live: ‘We just want the truth,’ say families — Plus all the day's other political news as Tory leadership runners go down to three — Jack Straw, who was foreign secretary at the time of the Iraq war, and who by his own account could have stopped Britain's participation …
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Ryan faces GOP defections on gun proposal — Already dealing with threats of another Democratic floor protest, Speaker Paul Ryan — (R-Wis.), is now facing defections from the right on a GOP gun bill that conservatives complain is unconstitutional. — The handful of Republican naysayers …
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