Tag: State Department

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is facing a federal indictment over charges that she mishandled classified information during her tenure as secretary of state by storing it on a personal email server. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Report: FBI ‘increasingly certain’ Clinton broke the law

Rudy Takala · March 21, 2016 12:55 pm

Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, said he would support the budget deal because it gives Congress an opportunity to pass a defense appropriations bill at the level agreed to last year. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Defense spending could go up, but here’s who could suffer

Jacqueline Klimas · March 21, 2016 4:01 am

David Brock, founder of the liberal Media Matters watchdog and a Hillary Clinton loyalist, said on Wednesday that a New York Times report on Clinton's email practices while secretary of state was "sloppily done" and "based on a false premise." (AP Photo)

PAC leader: Clinton the ‘gold standard’ of transparency

Rudy Takala · March 18, 2016 12:01 pm

Secretary of State John Kerry to declare the Islamic State's treatment of Christians as genocide. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

State shifts story on Islamic State genocide declaration

Curt Mills · March 17, 2016 8:57 pm

Kerry: Islamic State slaughter of Christians is ‘genocide’

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Kerry: Islamic State slaughter of Christians is ‘genocide’

Susan Crabtree · March 17, 2016 1:22 pm

U.S. officials say Secretary of State John Kerry has determined that the Islamic State group is committing genocide against Christians and other minorities in Iraq and Syria. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Kerry to say Islamic State engaged in genocide

Pete Kasperowicz · March 17, 2016 12:40 pm

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus called on the president to "do the right thing." (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

RNC pleads to Obama: Call ISIS killings ‘genocide’

Anna Giaritelli · March 16, 2016 11:48 pm

State will miss deadline to declare Islamic State Christian genocide

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State will miss deadline to declare Islamic State Christian genocide

Curt Mills · March 16, 2016 6:39 pm

If the depositions requested by Judicial Watch give rise to a reason to depose Clinton, the group said, it reserves the right to do so. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Watchdog group seeks to depose seven Clinton aides

Rudy Takala · March 15, 2016 11:58 pm

"These lawsuits are intended to expedite the release of records covered under FOIA that will allow Americans to hold Hillary Clinton accountable," Reince Priebus said. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

RNC files four lawsuits over Clinton emails

Rudy Takala · March 15, 2016 7:07 pm

"In all our investigations and reviews, we use social media to the extent that the evidence leads us there," Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Sarah Saldana told the Senate Committee on Homeland Security. (AP Photo/Molly Riley, File)

Homeland Security not fully using social media to screen visa applicants

Rudy Takala · March 15, 2016 5:34 pm

"[A]s long as Russia was aggressively weighing in militarily, they were removing, at least part of, the incentive for the regime to even engage in those kinds of conversations," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said about participation in the talks by the government of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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White House cautious over Putin’s pledge to leave Syria

Nicole Duran · March 15, 2016 12:33 am