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Hillary Clinton approved sharing debunked Trump-Russia claims with media: Campaign manager

Campaign Manager Robby Mook, right, accompanied by Director of Communications Jennifer Palmieri, left, speaks to members of the media aboard Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's campaign plane, Friday, Oct. 28, 2016, while traveling to Iowa. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

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Hillary Clinton personally approved sharing a false theory linking former President Trump to Russia even though the allegations had not been vetted, the manager of her 2016 campaign testified in court on Friday.

The Home Depot improvement store is seen in Niles, Ill., on Saturday, Feb. 19, 2022. Home Depot saw its sales remain strong in its fourth quarter as it continues to benefit from a sizzling housing market. Sales for the three months ended Jan. 30 rose to $35.72 billion from $32.26 billion. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh) **FILE**

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President Joe Biden and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol visit the Samsung Electronics Pyeongtaek campus, Friday, May 20, 2022, in Pyeongtaek, South Korea. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

China, North Korea cast shadow over Biden Asia mission

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In this Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012, photo, North Korean students use computers in a classroom with portraits of the country's later leaders Kim Il-sung, left, and his son Kim Jong-il hanging on the wall at the Kim Chaek University of Technology in Pyongyang, North Korea. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu) **FILE**

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President Joe Biden and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol visit the Samsung Electronics Pyeongtaek campus, Friday, May 20, 2022, in Pyeongtaek, South Korea. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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President Joe Biden and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol visit the Samsung Electronics Pyeongtaek campus, Friday, May 20, 2022, in Pyeongtaek, South Korea. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

China, North Korea cast shadow over Biden Asia mission

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In this Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012, photo, North Korean students use computers in a classroom with portraits of the country's later leaders Kim Il-sung, left, and his son Kim Jong-il hanging on the wall at the Kim Chaek University of Technology in Pyongyang, North Korea. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu) **FILE**

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Pentagon spokesman John Kirby speaks during a media briefing at the Pentagon, Thursday, May 19, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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In this file photo, Bill de Blasio speaks during a news conference, Sept. 27, 2021, in New York. The former New York City Mayor says he will run for Congress in a redrawn district that includes his Brooklyn home. De Blasio announced Friday, May 20, 2022 on MSNBCs Morning Joe that he will seek the Democratic nomination for the 10th Congressional District. (AP Photo/Jeenah Moon, File) **FILE**

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Campaign Manager Robby Mook, right, accompanied by Director of Communications Jennifer Palmieri, left, speaks to members of the media aboard Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's campaign plane, Friday, Oct. 28, 2016, while traveling to Iowa. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Hillary Clinton approved sharing debunked Trump-Russia claims with media: Campaign manager

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U.S. President Joe Biden, disembarks from Air Force One on his arrival at Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, Friday, May 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, Pool)

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House Republican Conference Chair Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., accompanied by House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., right, speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 15, 2021. Proposed political maps released by the leaders of New York's Democrat-dominated legislature would give the party an advantage in 22 of of the state's 26 congressional districts and mean re-election trouble for several Republican members of the U.S. House. The congressional map in upstate New York would be realigned to create three Republican super districts — one of them now home to U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, the third-ranking House Republican. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

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Rep. Stephanie Murphy, D-Fla., speaks before the House select committee in Washington, July 27, 2021. Murphy on Monday, Dec. 20, 2021 announced she will not seek reelection next year. The Florida Democrat, a leader of the centrist Blue Dog Coalition and member of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, said she is retiring from Congress to spend more time with her family. (Chip Somodevilla/Pool via AP)

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This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and spherical immature virions, right, obtained from a sample of human skin associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. Monkeypox, a disease that rarely appears outside Africa, has been identified by European and American health authorities in recent days. (Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner/CDC via AP)

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FILE - An image of Tara Grinstead is displayed on a billboard in Ocilla, Ga. Ryan Duke, charged with murdering Grinstead, a popular high school teacher who vanished in 2005, went on trial Monday, May 9, 2022, with prosecutors and defense attorneys clashing over whether the jury should believe the defendant's confession to investigators. (AP Photo/Elliott Minor, File)

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FILE - Rep. Sanford Bishop, D-Ga., crowds into an elevator on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 11, 2020. The Democratic incumbent of 30 years, now Georgia’s senior congressman, is likely to face his toughest reelection campaign in a decade, with six Republicans running in the May 24 primary in hopes of winning the party’s nomination to challenge Bishop. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

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Russian Sgt. Vadim Shishimarin stands in court during a hearing in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, May 19, 2022. The 21 year old Russian soldier facing the first war crimes trial since the start of the war in Ukraine testified Thursday that he shot a civilian on orders from two officers and pleaded for his victim's widow to forgive him. (AP Photo/Roman Hrytsyna)

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FILE - Indigenous people painted with red ink representing spilled Indigenous blood and clay representing gold, protest against the increase of mining activities that are encroaching on their land, in front of the Ministry of Mines and Energy, in Brasilia, Brazil, April 11, 2022. Some of the world’s biggest mining companies have withdrawn requests for research and production in Indigenous territories of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, and have repudiated Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s efforts to legalize mining activity in the areas. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)

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This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and spherical immature virions, right, obtained from a sample of human skin associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. Monkeypox, a disease that rarely appears outside Africa, has been identified by European and American health authorities in recent days. (Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner/CDC via AP)

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FILE - Eintracht soccer supporters drink beer as they cool down in a in water fountain in downtown Seville, Spain, Wednesday, May 18, 2022. Large swathes of Spain were under alert on Friday May 20, 2022 as a wave of intense heat began sweeping across the country, leaving locals sweltering through May temperatures that rank among the hottest in two decades though the temperatures are expected to fall short of what meteorologists in Spain define as a heatwave. (AP Photo/Angel Fernandez, File)

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