WASHINGTON — The State Department says about 30 emails that may be related to the 2012 attack on U.S. compounds in Benghazi, Libya, are among the thousands of Hillary Clinton emails recovered during the FBI’s recently closed investigation into her use of a private server. Government lawyers told U.S. District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta […]
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Analysis: Fact checking Hillary Clinton’s attacks on Trump’s immigration policy
“We need to believe him [Donald Trump] when he bullies and threatens to throw out every immigrant in the country.” — Hillary Clinton, interview on CNN with Anderson Cooper, Aug. 24, 2016 A reader called this quote to our attention, saying that it was clearly wrong. Donald Trump has certainly called for deporting an estimated […]
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Donald Trump rebukes Hillary Clinton’s charges of racism
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Donald Trump confronted head-on allegations that he is racist on Thursday, defending his hard-line approach to immigration while trying to make the case to minority voters that Democrats have abandoned them. His poll numbers slipping behind Hillary Clinton’s with less than three months until Election Day, Trump tried to get ahead of […]
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Sad state of affairs
Who would have thought it would come to this? It is, indeed, a sad state of affairs when the two major party candidates are among the most unpopular to ever run for the country’s highest office. It is like having to choose between a migraine or a root canal — neither one is good. Makes […]
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Clinton Foundation donors given access to Sec. Hillary Rodham Clinton
A sports executive who was a major donor to the Clinton Foundation and whose firm paid Bill Clinton millions of dollars in consulting fees wanted help getting a visa for a British soccer player with a criminal past. The crown prince of Bahrain, whose government gave more than $50,000 to the Clintons’ charity and who […]
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Are attacks on Hillary Rodham Clinton’s health based on sexism?
NEW YORK — Donald Trump and his Republican allies say Hillary Rodham Clinton is weak, lacks stamina and doesn’t look presidential. Intent on undermining his Democratic rival, Trump and GOP backers are increasingly relying on rhetoric that academics and even some Republican strategists say has an undeniable edge focused on gender. His criticism of Clinton […]
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FBI uncovers 15,000 more documents in Hillary Rodham Clinton email probe
The FBI’s year-long investigation of Hillary Clinton’s private email server uncovered 14,900 emails and documents from her time as secretary of state that had not been disclosed by her attorneys, and a federal judge Monday pressed the State Department to begin releasing emails sooner than it planned in mid-October. Justice Department lawyers said last week […]
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Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager defends Clinton Foundation money
Days after the Clinton Foundation said it would stop accepting donations from corporations and foreign entities if Hillary Clinton becomes president, her campaign manager defended the organization’s fundraising after criticism from Republicans and even some Democrats. “Over 10 million people around the world get important AIDS medication, life-saving AIDS and HIV medication, because of the […]
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Hillary Clinton email investigation documents might be made public
A “substantial amount” of material that the FBI delivered to Congress about the Hillary Clinton email investigation – including a summary of agents’ interview with top aide Huma Abedin – appears to be unclassified, which means it could possibly be released to the public. Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Charles E. Grassley is calling for Senate […]
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Donald Trump accuses Hillary Clinton of ‘bigotry’ and opposing police
WEST BEND, Wis. — Donald Trump on Tuesday accused rival Hillary Clinton of “bigotry” and being “against the police,” claiming that she and other Democrats have “betrayed the African American community” and pandered for votes. “We reject the bigotry of Hillary Clinton, which panders to and talks down to communities of color and sees them […]