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.

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Retired civil servant John Chilcot says the 2003 U.S.-led invasion was mounted on flawed U.K. intelligence, executed with "wholly inadequate" planning and ended "a long way from success." Oscar Pistorius' new sentence for killing girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp is far less than the 15-year jail term he could have faced.

Trump praises late Iraqi leader Saddam as terrorist killer

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who frequently criticizes U.S. foreign policy under President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, has praised former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's ruthlessness. "Saddam Hussein was a bad guy, right? ... But you know what he did well? He killed terrorists.

EDITORIAL: Only the facts? a ” FBI findings leave additional questions

But in providing Ms. Clinton this hall pass, the director ventured into opinion: “Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.” Laws protecting classified information were potentially violated; but nothing to see here, move along despite a “federal statute making it a felony to mishandle classified information either intentionally or in a grossly negligent way, or a second statute making it a misdemeanor to knowingly remove classified information from appropriate systems or storage facilities."

Trump gives voice to mainstream anti-Semitism

In the midst of my week-long, cross-country road trip with two close friends, Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, had posted an image critical of Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee. Somewhere between Knoxville and Nashville, between the Waffle Houses and the trees, I noticed a peculiar meme on my Twitter newsfeed.

After Dallas, Hillary Doubles-down on BLM Talking Points

An ambush on police officers at a protest in Dallas that left five officers dead on Thursday night altered the contours of a presidential campaign, with Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump canceling political events on Friday, and striking different tones about the events in Texas, which Mr. Trump called "an attack on our country" and Mrs. Clinton used as evidence of the need for "more love and kindness." "It is a coordinated, premeditated, assault on the men and women who keep us safe," Mr. Trump said in a statement.