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Washington Attorney General Loretta Lynch said on Wednesday she has accepted the FBI's recommendation that the probe into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while serving as secretary of state be closed with no charges. Here are the key findings from the FBI's year-long investigation, made public at a news conference on Tuesday.

Justice Department asks judge to block transgender law

The request for a preliminary injunction, filed late Tuesday, provides the most extensive look yet at the Justice Department's argument that the bathroom-access requirements violate federal law. The filing comes just after North Carolina lawmakers left the measure largely intact during their session that ended Friday, all but ensuring that the measure's fate will be decided in federal court.

GOP to investigate FBI decision on Clinton emails

Angry House Republicans are announcing plans to investigate FBI Director James Comey's decision against pressing criminal charges for Hillary Clinton over her handling of classified emails. House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said Comey's decision defies explanation and leaves many questions unanswered.

81 percent of likely voters: ‘Powerful people get preferential treatment when they break the law’

FBI Director James Comey's decision not to seek a criminal indictment of Hillary Clinton over her misuse of a private e-mail server as secretary of State has brought out some pronounced reactions among American voters. "Many critics of the FBI 's decision claim that lower-level individuals caught mishandling classified information have been subject to prosecution and severe penalties.

U.S. court to hear arguments in warrantless NSA spying case

A U.S. appeals court will weigh a constitutional challenge on Wednesday to a warrantless government surveillance programme brought by an Oregon man found guilty of attempting to detonate a bomb in 2010 during a Christmas tree-lighting ceremony. The case before a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is the first of its kind to consider whether a criminal defendant's constitutional privacy rights are violated under a National Security Agency programme that allows spying on Americans' international phone calls and internet communications.

Continue reading Clinton’s LA Town Hall Ends in Sparks a ‘

Bostonian Whitney White flew coast to coast to ask Democratic Presidential Nominee Hillary Clinton a question that is on the lips of many of African Americans. At the close of a Clinton campaign town hall meeting in Hollywood last Tuesday evening, the popular Internet personality asked Clinton how she plans to win the trust of black Americans who are skeptical of her due to her support of a crime bill that caused the incarceration rate among the African American community to sky rocket.

How Old Scandals Shaped Clinton’s Email Mess From Start To Finish

During the early years of the Clinton administration, when the president and his team were beset by the Whitewater real estate investment scandal, Hillary Clinton was, for better or worse, the White House bulldog. Whitewater was rooted in her and her husband's days in Arkansas, when they built an intricate web of relations with James and Susan McDougal, two Arkansas benefactors who went in on the real estate deal with them, donated money and employed Hillary Clinton at a prominent law firm.

Blocked Indiana abortion law comes amid procedure’s decline

A federal judge's decision to block a new Indiana abortion law from taking effect was a setback for anti-abortion activists who backed the push to tighten restrictions on the procedure that are already among the most strict in the country. Provisions put on hold a day before they were to take effect Friday would have banned abortions sought because of a fetus' genetic abnormalities, such as Down syndrome or because of the race, gender or ancestry of a fetus, and required that aborted fetuses be buried or cremated.

Will accept findings on Clinton, AG says

Attorney General Loretta Lynch, conceding that her airport meeting with former President Bill Clinton this week had cast a shadow over a federal investigation of Hillary Clinton's personal email account, said Friday that she would accept whatever recommendations career prosecutors and the FBI director make about whether to press charges in the case. Former President Bill Clinton, shown here May 5, declined to comment on Attorney General Loretta Lynch's remarks about their ... "I will be accepting their recommendations," Lynch said in an appearance at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado.

The corrupting crusade against “corruption”

The progressive drive to broadly define and thoroughly eradicate political "corruption" has corrupted politics. But discord is not altogether pandemic in Washington, and last week a unanimous Supreme Court, in this term's most important decision, limited the discretion prosecutors have to criminalize politics.

The Clinton-Lynch Meeting: Corruption, Not Bad – Optics’by David…

The nation's top law-enforcement official and the former president and husband of the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee - who is under federal investigation - had a talk. Rather than conceding that such a private encounter is at the very least a conflict of interest, Democrats preemptively complained about the "optics."