August 22, 2016 House panel ‎presses FBI on Clinton lawyers' access to classified files The House oversight committee is ramping up pressure on anyone who had access to Hillary Clinton's personal server and classified files -- including her lawyers and aides who may not have had sufficient clearance.
August 22, 2016 Colin Powell says Clinton officials trying to 'pin' email scandal on him Former Secretary of State Colin Powell is pushing back on Hillary Clinton's reported claims that he advised her to use a personal email account -- telling reporters that the Democratic presidential nominee is trying to "pin" the scandal on him.
August 22, 2016 State Department issues updated travel warning for Iran The State Department issued an updated travel warning on Monday for Americans, especially Iranian-Americans, on the risks of travel to Iran, even after the U.S. signed a nuclear deal and made a $400 million cash payment to the country that was contingent on the release of four American prisoners.
August 22, 2016 Ó£ÌÒÊÓÆµ referenced in order to edit State Department video An investigation by the State Department's top attorney has found that the official who ordered the censorship of a 2013 press briefing -- deleting an exchange between a department spokeswoman and a Ó£ÌÒÊÓÆµ reporter -- specifically mentioned that exchange when ordering the doctoring of the video.
August 18, 2016 State Department says review into deleted briefing footage 'inconclusive' The State Department announced Thursday, after a weeks-long review involving dozens of interviews, that it still does not know why several minutes of footage from a 2013 briefing were deleted from a public archive – leaving the department’s top spokesman on the defensive over the unusual incident.
August 18, 2016 US held $400M payment to Iran until detainees were released, report says U.S. officials held a cargo plane carrying the equivalent of $400 million in cash for Iran until Tehran released several American detainees, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
August 17, 2016 State Department sought land deal with Nigerian firm tied to Clinton Foundation Shortly after Hillary Clinton left the Obama administration, the State Department quietly took steps to purchase real estate in Nigeria from a firm whose parent company is owned by a major donor to the Clinton Foundation, records obtained by Ó£ÌÒÊÓÆµ show.
August 16, 2016 State Department to turn over recovered emails from Clinton's private server The State Department has agreed to provide the watchdog group Judicial Watch with all emails sent or received by Hillary Clinton while serving as Secretary of State that were recovered from her private email server during the investigation by the FBI.
August 15, 2016 Russia: In talks with US over partnering to calm crisis in Aleppo, Syria Russia's defense minister said Monday that Moscow and Washington were edging closer to an agreement that would help defuse the crisis in the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo -- and the State Department did not deny it.