Tag: FBI

FBI email probe should not ‘operate on innuendo’: Obama

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Barack Obama implicitly criticized FBI director James Comey Wednesday, insisting US investigations should not operate based on “innuendo” or “incomplete information.” Obama’s remarks in an interview with website NowThisNews were his first public comments since Comey’s announcement Friday that the FBI had discovered a new trove of emails that might or might not be pertinent to an earlier probe of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s handling of classified information. […]

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Defiant Clinton camp doubles down on Trump, FBI

CINCINNATI, United States (AFP) – by Jennie MATTHEW Initially caught off guard, Hillary Clinton’s campaign has swung between defiance, counter-attack and painting Donald Trump as a mortal danger since the FBI director revived her email scandal. The decision, announced by James Comey in a letter to lawmakers last Friday, initially dumbfounded Clinton and her allies, throwing what was already America’s ugliest presidential election into spasms of shock. Clinton was at the time on a plane with […]

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Clinton still frontrunner despite FBI emails letter: poll

WASHINGTON , United States (AFP) — Democrat Hillary Clinton maintained her lead over Republican Donald Trump in their race for the White House, even in the wake of renewed scrutiny of her use of a private email server, a poll showed Monday. Barely a week from the election, the NBC News/SurveyMonkey weekly poll showed Clinton’s six-point national lead remained essentially unchanged since last week. FBI Director James Comey’s announcement on Friday of the recent discovery […]

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FBI renews probe on Clinton emails, US polls narrow

  by Jennie Matthew FORT LAUDERDALE, United States | AFP | — The race for the White House narrowed noticeably on Sunday as Hillary Clinton sought to shake off a renewed FBI probe of her emails and Donald Trump blitzed western states nine days ahead of the vote. An ABC News/Washington Post poll put the Democratic presidential candidate just one point ahead of her Republican challenger Donald Trump at 46-45 percent in a four-way race. […]

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FBI investigates ‘intentional’ Connecticut plane crash

NEW YORK, United States (AFP)– The FBI is investigating an “intentional” crash of a small plane in Connecticut that killed a Jordanian student and injured an American flight instructor, officials and US media said Wednesday. The plane exploded in a fireball on Tuesday in East Hartford, about 120 miles (192 kilometers) northeast of New York. The flight instructor, who survived the crash, told investigators it was not an accident, The New York Times reported. The dead person […]

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Four dead in shooting at mall in Washington state: police

  (REUTERS) Four people have been shot dead at a mall in northwest Washington state and the gunman has fled the scene, police said on social media. The shooting occurred at about 7:30 p.m. local time Friday at the Cascade Mall in Burlington, Washington, about 65 miles north of Seattle, Washington State Patrol spokesman Mark Francis said in a Twitter post. A local hospital told a CBS affiliate that it has received one causality from […]

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FBI detains five over NY bombing: media

NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Federal authorities on Sunday detained five people with possible links to the New York bombing, local media reported, citing unnamed law enforcement sources. The FBI’s New York branch tweeted that no one had been charged in connection with the blast in the city’s Chelsea neighborhood, which injured 29 people — but did not make mention of any arrests. “We did a traffic stop of a vehicle of interest in […]

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Minnesota stabbings probed as ‘potential’ act of terror: FBI

by Brian KNOWLTON WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The FBI said Sunday it was investigating a stabbing spree at a Minnesota mall as a “potential act of terrorism,” as local media identified the suspect as a 22-year-old Somali-American. Nine people were wounded Saturday in the attack in the city of St. Cloud before an off-duty policeman shot and killed the attacker.  A news agency with ties to the Islamic State group said the rampage was […]

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FBI arrests more than 40 East Coast mobsters

NEW YORK, United States (AFP) – by Jennie MATTHEW The FBI said it leapt from the pages of a mafia novel. But fiction turned reality Thursday when prosecutors unveiled charges against 46 alleged mobsters, making dozens of arrests up and down the East Coast. The arrests spotlight an Italian mafia purportedly alive and kicking in 21st century America, not confined to Hollywood legend, and one which prosecutors said has diversified in keeping with the times. […]

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FBI gathers evidence in downtown Dallas after gunman killed five police officers

  (Reuters) — An FBI forensics team continued to collect evidence on Friday (July 8) in Dallas the day after a U.S. military veteran of the Afghan war who said he wanted to “kill white people” killed five police officers during a protest decrying police shootings of black men. Seven other police officers and two civilians were wounded in the ambush in downtown Dallas on Thursday night, officials said. Police killed the gunman, identified by […]

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No charges in Clinton email probe: US attorney general

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Wednesday she has accepted the FBI’s recommendation that no charges be brought against Hillary Clinton for using a private email server while secretary of state. Lynch made the widely-expected announcement following a meeting with FBI Director James Comey as well as prosecutors and agents who led the high-profile investigation, which has weighed heavily on Democrat Clinton’s White House campaign. “I received and accepted their […]

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Clinton ‘pleased’ to speak with FBI in email probe

by Olivia HAMPTON WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Hillary Clinton says she was “pleased” to speak with the FBI about her use of personal email while serving as secretary of state, but refused to discuss reports that she will not face charges. In an interview aired Sunday, Clinton acknowledged it was unwise for her husband to meet with America’s top law enforcement officer, with the encounter coming in the midst of the FBI investigation that […]

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