Watch: Chaffetz drops a hashtag in Clinton email hearing

Rep. Jason Chaffetz, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, said Tuesday that the refusal of Hillary Clinton's IT aide, Bryan Pagliano, to appear before the panel despite a subpoena ordering him to do so warranted a "hashtag" for "things that make you go, 'Hmm.' " "It's our understanding that while Mr. Pagliano worked in the IT department at the State Department for nearly four years, virtually every single email that Mr. Pagliano had has suddenly disappeared," Chaffetz said.

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House Republicans are keeping up their attacks on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emails by calling for testimony the tech expert who set up her private server and representatives from the company that maintained the system. Bryan Pagliano, a former information resource management adviser at the State Department , is scheduled to appear Tuesday at a hearing before the Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

The Latest: Excavation ends in search for California student

The Latest on a dig to search for a California college student missing since 1996 : Remains have been found during a three-day search for the body of a California college student missing for more than 20 years but authorities say it may take months before they learn if they are human. Sheriff's spokesman Tony Cipolla says the dig in three spots at the edge of California Polytechnic State University , San Luis Obispo was completed on Friday night.

FBI director defends Clinton email probe, document releases

FBI Director James Comey is defending the bureau's Friday afternoon release of documents from the Hillary Clinton email investigation, saying "we don't play games" and that the documents were put out when ready. In a memo to employees Wednesday, Comey said the decision to not recommend charges against the now-Democratic nominee wasn't a close call.

FBI renews search for California student missing 20 years

Sean Ragan, FBI special agent in charge of criminal investigation, addresses the media during a press conference at Cal Poly to inform the public of a renewed search for the remains of Kristin Smart at sites on the Cal Pol... . San Luis Obispo County Sheriff Ian Parkinson addresses the media during a press conference at Cal Poly to inform the public of a renewed search for the remains of Kristin Smart at sites on the Cal Poly campus in San Luis Obispo, C... via AP).

House Republicans seek inquiry on whether Clinton obstructed justice over e-mails

House Republicans asked the Justice Department on Tuesday to investigate whether Hillary Clinton, her lawyers, and the company that housed her e-mail account obstructed justice when e-mails were deleted from her personal server. Representative Jason Chaffetz of Utah, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said the e-mails should not have been deleted because there were orders in place at the time from two congressional committees to preserve messages on the account.

More Records Releases Loom for Clinton

"Thousands of pages of Hillary Clinton's official records are set to be released in coming weeks, testing the Democratic presidential candidate as she looks to maintain her advantage in the final two months of the campaign," the Wall Street Journal reports. "On the heels of recently released Federal Bureau of Investigation documents on Mrs. Clinton's use of a private email account at the State Department, the coming disclosures are likely to provide fodder for Republican Donald Trump.

Obama aims to avoid a – cycle of escalation’ in cyberattacks by countries

U.S. President Barack Obama said his country has had problems with cyber intrusions from Russia and other countries in the past, but aims to establish some norms of behavior rather than let the issue escalate as happened in arms races in the past. Obama's statement on the sidelines of the G20 summit in China, after he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin, did not refer specifically to a recent hack of the Democratic National Committee of the Democratic Party that the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is probing.

One of Hillary Clinton’s Laptops Got ‘Lost’ in The Mail

New revelations from a Friday FBI document dump show a Clinton Foundation laptop containing Hillary Clinton's personal email server archive was "lost" in the mail after a staffer sent it to the former Secretary of State and current Democrat presidential nominee. The laptop was requested to be turned over by the FBI as part of the criminal investigation into Clinton's use of multiple private email servers to store and transmit top secret, classified information.

Putin Blasts Both Trump and Clinton for – Shock’ Campaign Tactics

Vladimir Putin blasted both Donald Trump's and Hillary Clinton's tactics on the campaign trail but refused to publicly take sides in a U.S. presidential race in which he's been accused of secretly favoring the New York real estate billionaire. "They're both using shock tactics, just each in their own way," the Russian president said in an interview.

Jacob Wetterling: Remains of missing Minnesota boy found, authorities say

The remains of Jacob Wetterling, a Minnesota boy abducted from a rural road 27 years ago, have been found, the Stearns County Sheriff's Office said Saturday in a news release. "The Ramsey County Medical Examiner and a forensic odontologist identified the remains as Wetterling's earlier today," the release said.

FBI documents reveal new details on Clinton’s “extremely…

Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and her staffers used an informal and sometimes haphazard system for exchanging and storing sensitive information and were at times unaware of or were unconcerned with State Department policy, documents from an FBI investigation into her private e-mail server system show. The documents reveal myriad new details about the e-mail setup and show that investigators found multiple attempts by hackers to access Clinton's system - a series of personal devices and servers that the Democratic presidential candidate told investigators she used as a matter of convenience while she was secretary of state.

FBI Says a Laptop That Held Clinton’s E-Mails Has Gone Missing

A personal laptop computer used to archive Hillary Clinton's e-mails when she was secretary of state went missing after being put in the mail, according to the FBI's report on its investigation into her use of a private e-mail system. E-mails that Clinton sent and received through her private server during her tenure were archived on the laptop in 2013 by a person who was an assistant to former President Bill Clinton, the FBI said in its heavily redacted investigative report released Friday.