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State Dept. Finds 17,855 Missing Hillary Clinton Adviser Emails

The State Department now says it has so many documents that are responsive to the initial request that it will need to issue a group of them every 30 days until all 17,855 have been released. State adds that it is unable to even estimate how long the total production will take.

Secretary of State-designate and U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) refuses to take quest

Hillary’s Email Factsheet Makes No Mention of Top Secret Emails

After news broke this week that Hillary Clinton’s private email server had Top Secret information on it, Hillary’s campaign sent out a 13-paragraph email seeking to soothe worried supporters. The email concludes the whole story is “nonsense” and encourages readers

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Did an Op-Ed Predict the EPA Disaster in Colorado? No, Not Really

On July 30, a local Colorado newspaper called the Silverton Standard & the Miner published an op-ed by a concerned geologist which seems, at first glance, to have anticipated the EPA-caused disaster which made national news a week later.

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For Ferguson Activist Deray McKesson, the Facts Don’t Really Matter

Black Lives Matter spokesman Deray McKesson was asked about the DOJ investigation into the death of Mike Brown, an example of the kind of fair, independent inquiry into police shootings the movement claims to support. McKesson’s response was to minimize

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New York Times Legitimizes Conspiracy-Mongering Ferguson Activists

To commemorate the one-year anniversary of Mike Brown’s death, the New York Times published a video in which three individuals–Johnetta Elzie, DeRay McKesson and Zellie Imani–discuss their history of Twitter activism inspired by the case.

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DNC Posts Sexist Attack on Carly Fiorina

Carly Fiorina was almost universally acclaimed the winner of the Fox News debate Thursday night. She was also the only candidate who drew the attention of the Democratic National Committee on Twitter during the debate.

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U.S. Has Photographic Proof Iran Is Trying to Cheat on the Nuclear Deal

Iran is sanitizing a military site believed to have been used for nuclear weapons research in the past. Testing of the site by the IAEA is one of the final hurdles Iran has to clear to gain sanction relief, and the U.S. intelligence community has evidence Iran is trying to cheat on those tests.

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White House Asking States to Cut Big Obamacare Rate Increases for 2016

The Obama administration is worried that proposed Obamacare rate increases for 2016 could further damage public’s perception of the Affordable Care Act. To combat this the administration is urging states to review rate increases requested by insurers with an eye toward keeping them down.

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Fact Checking FactCheck.org’s Look at the Planned Parenthood Videos

A fact check published 10 days ago by Annenberg’s FactCheck.org has become a touchstone for progressives writing about a series of Planned Parenthood sting videos. But the fact check only looks at the first of those videos and even then seems to miss some important facts.

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Vox Publishes 1,500-Word Review of ’13 Hours’ Trailer (and Gets It Wrong)

The first trailer for Michael Bay’s movie 13 Hours, based on a first-person account of the attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, was released Tuesday. Many sites—including Breitbart News—posted the trailer, but Vox went well beyond that, offering a 1,500-word review of the two-minute clip.

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Cecile Richards Claims Planned Parenthood Only Covered Its Costs, Dr. Gatter Says PP Didn’t ‘Do Anything’

In an appearance on ABC News’ This Week with George Stephanopoulos Sunday, Planned Parenthood’s President, Cecile Richards, claimed her organization never profited from the sale of fetal organs. Instead, she claimed PP only charged to cover its own costs. That explanation is directly at odds with statements made in undercover video by a doctor who works for Planned Parenthood.

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Hillary Clinton’s Abortion Extremism

Hillary Clinton has yet to speak up about videos which show Planned Parenthood executives discussing how they harvest fetal organs for money. That silence seems significant for a candidate who has often portrayed herself as less extreme on abortion than others in her party. In fact, Hillary has frequently used the phrase “safe, legal and rare” when talking about abortion policy.

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Cybersecurity Report: OPM Hackers May Have Added Data as Well as Stole It

A report on the breach of OPM’s computers systems by the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT) says hackers did not have to work very hard to gain entry. The report also raises a worrisome new possibility about what hackers might have been doing during the months they had undetected access: adding false data to the systems even as they were stealing from it.

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The Retail Value of Fetal Organs Harvested by Planned Parenthood

An undercover investigation of Planned Parenthood has turned up evidence that it sold “intact” fetal organs to at least one California company known as Stem Express. Stem Express charges $400 to $25,000 for stem cells grown from fetal organs.

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