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House Benghazi Committee Chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., center, whose investigation led to the revelation of Hillary Clinton's private email server while secretary of state, arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, July 7, 2016, to question FBI Director James Comey, who was to testify before the House Oversight Committee to explain his agency's recommendation to not prosecute Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton over her private email setup as secretary of state.
FBI Director James Comey defended his recommendation against pursuing criminal charges for Hillary Clintonover her use of private e-mail whilesecretary of state, testifying before Congress as he faced an onslaught of criticism from Republicans. "The appropriate resolution of this case was not to bring a criminal prosecution," Comey told the House Oversight Committee Thursday at a hastily called hearing in Washington.
FBI Director James Comey testifies during a hearing before House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Thursday. Alex Wong/Getty Images hide caption For more than four hours, FBI Director James Comey answered questions from the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Summoned before Congress, FBI Director James Comey defended the decision to not prosecute Hillary Clinton over her private email setup. He said there was no evidence that she or any of her aides knew that anything they were doing was against the law.
North Carolina State athletic director Debbie Yow knows the work to build a national top-25 sports program is even toug STORRS, Conn. - UConn has hired Temple assistant men's basketball coach Dwayne Killings to fill a similar role with the Huskies.
Incumbent Republicans Gov. Gary Herbert and U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz are headed toward November as heavy favorites after primary voters turned out in record numbers and overwhelmingly endorsed their re-election bids. On the Democratic side of Utah's primary election Tuesday, Misty Snow, a grocery store cashier making her first foray into politics, faces a far steeper challenge against incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Mike Lee as she tries to become the state's first openly transgender elected official.
Republican Gov. Gary Herbert easily defeated Overstock.com executive Jonathan Johnson Tuesday to win a closely watched primary race that helped boost voter turnout to the highest level in two decades. After results came in, Herbert told reporters that he was grateful and that he believed voters felt he had a positive track record that he could build upon for the future.
Before he became the top U.S. tax collector and the target of an unprecedented Republican-led impeachment drive, John A. Koskinen majored in physics, guided the country through the "Y2K" problem and ran a foundation that promotes youth soccer. Now, amid a three-year controversy over the Internal Revenue Service's scrutiny of conservative groups, Koskinen, 76, is being re-educated in the exertion of forces, the limits of computer technology and -- according to a predecessor -- the sensation of being kicked around.
President Barack Obama's upcoming trip to Yosemite National Park occurs amid both pomp and peril for the National Park Service. Even as Yosemite officials ready themselves, and the park service celebrates its centennial, lawmakers and Interior Department investigators are criticizing what a House panel on Tuesday termed "misconduct and unethical behavior," including allegations of serial sexual harassment.
The Fallen Roof granaries, constructed more than 800 years ago, still contain a dried corn cob. Maize accounted for roughly 80 percent of the ancestral Pueblo diet.
The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has asked the State Department for more information about the deletion of several minutes of videotape from a news briefing dealing with sensitive questions about U.S.-Iranian nuclear negotiations. In a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry released on Friday, Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, asked for documents identifying the official or officials involved in editing out the portion of the Dec. 2, 2013, daily press briefing.
As Oregon and California software giant Oracle battle in court and the realm of public relations over who is to blame for the $305 million Cover Oregon website debacle, a Congressional ally of the company is urging that state officials be criminally prosecuted over political "interference" in the project. A new 200-page Congressional committee report backing the request by U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-UT, delivers a fascinating, if one-sided account that reveals new details of the level of political manipulation employed by former Gov. John Kitzhaber and his campaign advisers to manage the ostensibly independent bureaucracy charged with running the project.
Republicans gave an election-year airing to their complaints about IRS chief John Koskinen Tuesday, telling a GOP-run House committee that he should be impeached for lying to lawmakers and destroying evidence. "Mr. Koskinen was sent to the IRS to clean it up but it's gotten worse," Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, told the House Judiciary Committee, pressing a long-shot effort he's led since last year to remove the agency's commissioner.
The Transportation Security Administration's head of security has been ousted amid an uproar over long lines at airport security checkpoints and intense scrutiny over bonus payments. "Kelly Hoggan has been removed from his position as head of security at TSA, following our hearing on May 12 on mismanagement at TSA," the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform posted on its Twitter account.
Congressional investigators say the government spends about three-fourths of its technology budget maintaining aging co... . FILE - In this May 17, 2016 file photo, Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington.
The commissioner of the IRS declined on Monday to appear at a congressional hearing this week examining whether he deserves to be impeached, but said in a written statement that allegations against him "are without merit." IRS chief John Koskinen has not had time to prepare for Tuesday's House Judiciary Committee hearing because of travel and because he is also getting ready for an unrelated hearing, the agency said in a statement.
A sympathetic House Judiciary Committee is giving a high-profile forum to a top Republican who wants to impeach IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, a cause that excites conservatives but seems unlikely to go far in Congress this election year. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz planned to testify to the GOP-run Judiciary panel on Tuesday.
In this photo taken Feb. 10, 2016, Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has introduced a resolution to censure Koskinen.
THURSDAY 6/22 Salt Lake Acting Co.: Saturday's Voyeur 2017 There are years when Saturday's Voyeur - Salt Lake Acting Co.' s annual satirical musical comedy revue - is certain to focus on specifically local headlines.