Articles by John Solomon
Instagram sensation Dan Bilzerian received some bad news when he returned to his West Hollywood mansion after a September break-in -- several of his guns were gone.
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November 12, 2015
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The fourth Republican presidential debate showcased a vastly different economic vision for America than President Obama and the Democrats striving to succeed him on everything from taxes and the minimum wage to immigration and job training. And it produced some clear winners and losers.
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November 10, 2015
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The third Republican debate produced plenty of fireworks and managed to put the moderators and the larger news media on trial. Here's our instant assessment of who won, who held their own and who lost.
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October 28, 2015
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Ben Carson, the neurosurgeon turned GOP presidential front-runner, found a way to multitask Wednesday night, fielding questions in a televised debate while raising money simultaneously across the Internet.
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October 28, 2015
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The State Department initially approved a weapons shipment from a California company to Libyans seeking to oust Moammar Gadhafi in 2011 even though a United Nations arms ban was in place, according to memos recovered from the burned-out compound in Benghazi.
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October 20, 2015
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When Lt. Col. Andrew Wood, a Green Beret, first told Congress that security at the Benghazi consulate had been woefully inadequate before the Sept. 11, 2012, attack there, top State Department officials working for Hillary Rodham Clinton strongly disputed his assessment.
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October 19, 2015
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In the final weeks before the deadly Benghazi attack in September 2012, State Department officials serving in the tumultuous Libyan city had increasing worries about safety, reaching out repeatedly to the CIA and Libyan government for extra security and dealing with landlord and guard issues that raised additional red flags, according to documents recovered from the burned-out compound.
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October 19, 2015
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There were four winners and four losers in the first Democratic presidential debate of 2016, which is fairly impressive since there were only five candidates on stage.
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October 13, 2015
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More than three years after the Benghazi tragedy, the State Department is rejecting one of the recommendations from its internal watchdog to improve security at its high-risk diplomatic posts, and hasn't yet completed other high-priority reforms recommended by independent experts, according to an internal progress memo.
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October 8, 2015
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Bill Clinton's administration gathered enough evidence to send a top-secret communique accusing Iran of facilitating the deadly 1996 Khobar Towers terrorist bombing, but suppressed that information from the American public and some elements of U.S. intelligence for fear it would lead to an outcry for reprisal, according to documents and interviews.
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October 5, 2015
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While still working at the State Department, Hillary Rodham Clinton confidante Huma Abedin was paid by the private consulting firm Teneo Holdings to help stage a star-studded reception that included her boss' husband, Bill Clinton, along with George W. Bush and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair as speakers just days after the Benghazi tragedy, The Washington Times has learned.
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September 29, 2015
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Federal investigators formally investigated top Hillary Rodham Clinton aide Huma Abedin for the crime of embezzlement after confirming she took a "Babymoon" vacation and maternity time at the State Department without expending her formal leave, resulting in thousands of dollars of pay she wasn't entitled to receive, The Washington Times has learned.
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September 9, 2015
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When State Department officials first discovered that Hillary Rodham Clinton's personal email account contained classified information, they did not seize the thumb drive containing her digitally archived inbox but rather provided her attorney a special safe to secure the device, according to interviews and documents.
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August 16, 2015
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The total number of Hillary Rodham Clinton's private emails identified by a State Department review as having contained classified data has ballooned to 60, officials told The Washington Times.
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August 16, 2015
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The winners, the losers and those who treaded water in the opening 2016 Republican presidential-primary debate.
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August 6, 2015
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The U.S. intelligence community is bracing for the possibility that former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's private email account contains hundreds of revelations of classified information from spy agencies and is taking steps to contain any damage to national security, according to documents and interviews Thursday.
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July 30, 2015
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In the latest tale of the war on terror gone awry, the U.S. government allowed military equipment purchased with taxpayer money to help Yemen's security forces defeat Islamist extremists to sit unused inside a Virginia warehouse for a stunning eight years.
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July 15, 2015
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Every successful presidential candidate has a political whisperer, the one adviser with the stature to both channel the candidate's message and say "no" when it needs to be said.
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July 13, 2015
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In a disclosure that could have political implications for election campaigns, the State Department's chief watchdog reported Thursday that worker harassment complaints have nearly tripled inside the department during the tenures of Hillary Rodham Clinton and John F. Kerry -- but the department still doesn't have mandatory training for all employees.
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June 18, 2015
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Bill Clinton's foundation set up a fundraising arm in Sweden that collected $26 million in donations at the same time that country was lobbying Hillary Rodham Clinton's State Department to forgo sanctions that threatened its thriving business with Iran, according to interviews and documents obtained by The Washington Times.
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June 2, 2015
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