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Clinton blames State's 'poor' record-keeping for her choice to hide emails
Hillary Clinton's campaign on Wednesday blamed the State Department's sloppy record-keeping system for Clinton's choice not to preserve in real time the records of her government work from her private email system when she led the department. Speaking on CNN, Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon said the State Department's system was in such disarray it thwarted Clinton's effort to meet the standard under law for printing and filing her records. The IG report said that in failing to print and file emails related to government work as they were sent and received, "she did not comply with the department's policies that were implemented in accordance with the Federal Records Act."
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Trump cracks jokes over Clinton IG report
Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump reacted to a new inspector general's report released Wednesday criticizing Hillary Clinton's email practices during her tenure at the State Department. "She had a little bad news today, as you know from some reports that came down. Not so good," Trump told supporters at a campaign event in California. "Inspector general's report - not good! But I want to run against Hillary. I just want to run against her," he added, implying that it could cost her the Democratic nomination and force him to run against, as he put it, "Crazy Bernie." The report from the State Department's inspector general concluded that Clinton violated the the agency's record-keeping policy by withholding her communications.
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Scarborough on Trump: 'Does he want to win?'
"He's actually becoming more reckless, more combative, looking more like he's a primary candidate as he needs to make this shift," MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said of Donald Trump. "The window closes very soon. ... Unless Donald Trump starts acting like a real general election candidate and not answering every Twitter [criticism], he's going to lose."
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Matt Mackowiak, Texas-based GOP consultant 
@MattMackowiak
There's no reason to bring up Vince Foster and scandals from 25 years ago when the State Dept OIG finds that HRC broke law for "privacy."
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Sen. Mike Lee op-ed: Here's how to make government accountable again
In a little over eight months, a new president will take the helm of a federal bureaucracy that inflicts almost $2 trillion in costs on the American economy annually. And under current law, the American people have little opportunity to limit how the next president will use this bureaucracy. This has to change, and I have a bill that will change it.
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My friend is going on trial in Turkey for terrorism
Jordan Allott, a filmmaker who has extensively covered the plight of Christians in the Middle East, was once helped into Syria by a man named Sawo, an Assyrian Christian who has at various times helped refugees and contributed to reports for the United Nations. But Sawo goes on trial this week on a very unlikely charge that he has been helping the very Kurdish groups he had been investigating for the murder of a Christian deacon in Syria. And he stands accused by a government that is under pressure to get quick convictions after recent terrorist bombings by the Islamic State and Kurdish nationalist groups.
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| On this day 50 years ago, British Guiana gained independence, becoming the nation of Guyana. Today, there are three little-noticed political divisions in that part of South America - Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana, which is actually a province of France. But there were once five Guianese colonies - Spanish Guyana (part of Venezuela), British Guiana, Dutch Guiana (now Suriname, independent since 1975), French Guiana, and Portuguese Guiana (now part of Brazil). |
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Katie Couric defends documentary that selectively edited gun advocates
Yahoo News anchor Katie Couric is standing by her gun documentary, even after the discovery that it was selectively edited to make it appear as if she stumped a panel of gun rights advocates with a simple question about background checks. Eight seconds of awkward silence were spliced in to make it appear that they had no answer to the question. But members of the group in fact answered the question immediately, as a full audio recording of the same interview showed when obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
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The State Department's inspector general published a report finding that Hillary Clinton did break federal records rules by exclusively using a private email server for all of her work as secretary of State and keeping the emails hidden from the government for up to five years. Did Bernie Sanders make a mistake by failing to exploit this as a character issue?
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Greens lose in oil companies' shareholder votes, but vow to fight on
Shareholders of Exxon, the country's largest oil company, rejected a number of resolutions to make climate change part of the company's business model. Chevron shareholders also rejected several resolutions on global warming at that company's annual meeting on Wednesday. But climate advocates say they will keep fighting.
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Obama wants federal contractors' climate data
The Obama administration wants to begin asking federal contractors to disclose information about their greenhouse gas emissions. The White House's Federal Acquisition Regulation Council proposed new rules on Wednesday requiring government contractors to provide information on how they account for the emissions blamed for causing manmade climate change. The White House said in a blog post that the rule "would drive greater disclosure of greenhouse gas emissions and climate-related risk data among the government's supply chain."
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Violent Trump protesters arrested in Anaheim
Anaheim, Calif., is home to Disneyland, the Los Angeles Angels and, now, violent anti-Trump protests. Donald Trump held a rally Wednesday in the California city in the run-up to the Republican primary on June 7. It was dogged by progressive protesters who traded chants with Trump supporters. Throughout the day, police tried hard to keep the two groups from coming to blows. At one point they had to wade into a Trump, anti-Trump shoving match to break it up.
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Barone: Trump, Clinton tied in polls: Were all the wise men wrong?
Over the 12 months of polling ending in April 2016, Hillary Clinton ran ahead of Donald Trump in 63 national polls, while Trump led her in only six and tied her in three. Polls in the dozen or so 2012 target states showed similar results. But Trump enthusiasts insisted their man would easily prevail. Now May polling suggests, to paraphrase the British prime minister Lord Melbourne, that what all the wise men promised has not happened and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass.
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Auto union dumps on Trump, endorses Clinton
In its endorsement of Hillary Clinton for president, the United Auto Workers Union condemned likely GOP nominee Donald Trump for not having the best interests of union members and their families at heart. "Mr. Trump clearly does not support the economic security of UAW families," said UAW President Dennis Williams in a statement Wednesday, which cited Trump's push for moving union jobs to "low-paying" nonunion states to compete with Mexican factory jobs.
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Trump axes national political director after just six weeks on the job
The Donald Trump campaign announced Wednesday that it is parting ways with its national political director following a feud with the woman who ran the candidate's successful Florida primary operation. Rick Wiley reportedly had a conflict with Karen Giorno, who serves as Southeast regional political director for Trump. Wiley, a veteran campaign operative who also ran Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's short-lived presidential campaign, was hired by Trump just six weeks ago to take over his campaign's national operation.
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