The House Committee on Oversight and Reform is asking the agency to conduct an ‘urgent review’ of all the seized documents.
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Armenia, Azerbaijan report 99 troops killed in border clash
The two have been in a decades-old conflict over a part of Azerbaijan that has been under the control of ethnic Armenian forces since 1994.
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Ken Starr, whose probe led to Clinton impeachment, dies
Ken Starr died at a hospital Tuesday of complications from surgery, according to a former colleague. He was 76.
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Markets shudder on dashed inflation hopes; Dow falls 1,250
The inflation figures were so bad that traders see a 1-in-3 chance for a rate increase of a full percentage point by the Federal Reserve next week.
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State Department says Russia spent $300 million to secretly influence world politics
The cable released Tuesday cites a new intelligence assessment of Russia’s global covert efforts to support policies and parties sympathetic to Moscow.
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Trump’s PAC faces scrutiny as legal probes intensify
The Save America PAC is under new legal scrutiny after the Justice Department issued a round of grand jury subpoenas that sought information about the political action committee’s fundraising practices.
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Republican Sen. Graham introduces bill to restrict abortions nationwide
Republicans have been forced to reckon with a growing trove of data suggesting that abortion could be a decisive issue in the midterms, motivating Democratic and independent voters far more than was widely expected.
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Jean-Luc Godard, deeply influential French New Wave filmmaker, dies at 91
The French news outlet Liberation, citing an unnamed family member, said Godard died by assisted suicide, which is legal in Switzerland.
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Hearing postponed for Vegas official facing murder charge in journalist’s stabbing death
Jeff German, a 40-year veteran of Las Vegas journalism who was widely respected for his tenacity, was working on follow-up reports about Robert Telles and the public administrator’s office when he died.
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Twitter whistleblower: China, India had agents working for platform
A former security chief for the social media giant is telling Congress that the site is plagued by weak cyber defenses, privacy threats and the inability to control millions of fake accounts.