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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton walks to a podium to speak with members of the media at Westchester County Airport in White Plains, N.Y., Monday, Sept. 19, 2016. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Judge blasts State Dept. for slow-walking Hillary Clinton emails

A federal judge blasted the Obama administration for slow-walking the release of some of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emails, saying in court Monday that the government appears to be withholding information from voters ahead of the election.

September 19, 2016
In this Sept. 7, 2016, photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks in Philadelphia. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign is aggressively outworking Republican Donald Trump in battleground Pennsylvania, a state the billionaire can scarcely lose and still hope to become president. Clinton’s team, having already left few details to chance despite favorable polling, is bearing down hard in the state her party has carried in six straight elections, ratcheting up advertising and travel by a team of top supporters such as President Barack Obama this week. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Trump tax plan would spur 2 million new jobs but deepen deficit

Donald Trump's tax plan would give the economy a major boost, adding about 2 million more jobs than the economy would produce without it -- but at a major cost to government finances, which would see a massive drop in revenue, a new analysis said Monday.

September 19, 2016
In this June 27, 2006, file photo, reviewed by the U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. military guards walk within the Camp Delta military-run prison at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley) ** FILE **

House votes to block Gitmo closure

The House voted Thursday to block any more transfers of detainees from Guantanamo Bay, striking a symbolic blow against President Obama after he signaled last week he still believes there's a chance to shutter the prison before he leaves office.

September 15, 2016
As president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai destroyed a corruption investigation into a man believed to have smuggled out of the country as much as $2.78 billion for Afghan officials, drug traffickers and insurgents. (Associated Press)

George W. Bush’s Afghanistan reconstruction efforts killed by corruption

President George W. Bush's hopes of building a viable nation in Afghanistan fell victim not to the ongoing Taliban insurgency but rather to endemic corruption that the U.S. fed, pumping tens of billions of dollars into a society with a government ill-equipped to handle it, according to a watchdog report released Wednesday.

September 14, 2016
FILE - This is a Thursday, April 21, 2016 file photo of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his wife Melania Trump, appear on the NBC "Today" television program, in New York . The Daily Mail newspaper Friday Sept. 2, 2016 has retracted a story about Melania Trump after her lawyers filed a lawsuit in the United States accusing the newspaper and a Maryland blogger of publishing false statements about her alleged involvement with an escort agency. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Trump lawyer says Melania followed immigration law

A lawyer for the Trump family said Wednesday that Melania Trump, wife of the GOP presidential nominee, did not break immigration law when she first arrived in the U.S. in the 1990s, nor when she obtained a green card based on her "extraordinary ability" as a fashion model.

September 14, 2016
Screen capture of Backpage.com.

Sex website Backpage.com loses Supreme Court appeal

The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal by Backpage.com, one of the Internet's largest sex services websites, and the company will now have to reveal to Congress whether it attempts to screen out sex traffickers.

September 13, 2016
President Obama (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Obama wants U.S. to take 30 percent more refugees in 2017

President Obama wants the U.S. to take 30 percent more refugees next year, top administration officials told Congress on Tuesday, calling for Americans to do more on the world stage at a time when many voters are already balking at the current pace.

September 13, 2016
The name plate for witness Bryan Pagliano, former senior adviser, Information Resource Management, State Department, who did not appear, sits on the witness table on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2016, during a hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on "Examining Preservation of State Department Records." (AP Photo/Molly Riley) ** FILE **

Bryan Pagliano defies subpoena to avoid testifying on Clinton emails

Despite Hillary Clinton's urging last year that he give full testimony, Bryan Pagliano, the campaign operative she hired at the State Department and then had run her server, refused to attend the hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

September 13, 2016