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U.S. Embassy in Kabul Closes After Taliban Attacks

Following a Taliban suicide-bomb attack on the U.S. military base at Bagram Air Field that killed four people and wounded 16 others, and a truck-bomb attack on the German consulate in Mazar-e-Sharif that killed 7 and wounded over 100, the U.S. Embassy in Kabul has announced that it will close temporarily.

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Linda Tripp: The Colossal Clinton Con

She’s finally done it. The country faces a possible constitutional crisis should Hillary win the election. With a federal criminal investigation of the President-Elect underway, President Obama might well issue a preemptive presidential pardon on his way out the door.

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Senior Clinton Aide Left Classified Material in Chinese Hotel Room

Fox News just received its answer to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed several weeks ago, in the form of State Department spokesman John Kirby admitting that, yes, one of Hillary Clinton’s senior aides did leave classified material unsecured and unattended in a Chinese hotel room.

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 13: Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton discusses her new book

Schweizer: 12 Days from Election, Clinton World Still Has No Good Answers on Russian Uranium Deal

The Clinton defense in the Uranium One deal rests entirely on us taking their word for the fact that there is nothing to see. But of course, that is what they said about the email server. And we now know how widely they lied about that scandal. The fact that the news media is playing lap dog and not watch dog in this case does enormous damage to the integrity of our government.

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Former Clinton State Department IT Official Takes the Fifth over 90 Times

John Bentel, formerly the State Department Director of Information Resource Management of the Executive Secretariat, was deposed by lawyers for watchdog group Judicial Watch in U.S. District Court on Monday. He refused to answer by invoking his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination… over ninety times.

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Kerry Voices Concern to Lavrov About New Aleppo Fighting

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry voiced concern to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday about renewed fighting and air strikes in the Syrian city of Aleppo after a break of several days, the State Department said.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov (L) talks with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerr

Ohio Crowd Boos Clinton State Dept. ‘Quid Pro Quo’ at Pence Rally

MASON, Ohio — An Ohio crowd reacted strongly as Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Mike Pence brought up breaking news out of the Federal Bureau of Investigation that a senior state department official attempted to use favors to convince FBI officials to change the classification of an email being reviewed in the Bureau’s investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s mishandling of classified information.

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Wikileaks: ‘Has That Gotten Any Press?’ Clinton Asked After Fast and Furious Killing of ICE Agent

“Has that gotten any press?” was then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s one-line response to an email notifying her that the gun used to kill Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agent Jamie Zapata in February 2011 was tied to the Fast and Furious scandal.

An email message that is part of the leaked WikiLeaks emails was sent from Jacob Sullivan to Secretary Clinton on March 1, 2011, just two weeks after Agent Zapata was murdered in Mexico. Sullivan, who then served as Director of Policy Planning at Clinton’s State Department, had forwarded a message from Clinton Advisor Daniel Kurtz-Phelan. The subject line of the unclassified message was “American guns killing American agents.”

ICE Agent Victor Avila prays over casket of his partner, Agent Jaime Zapata. (AP Photo/Del