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• Second federal judge grants legal discovery to Hillary Clinton's private emails

  A second federal judge ruled that a conservative legal watchdog group may question the State Department and Hillary Clinton about her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state.

• Report says White House is ready for Benghazi probe with playbook as secret weapon

  Yahoo News said that the White House will be using time-tested strategies to deal with the demands of a Benghazi probe led by an outspoken critic of US President Barack Obama.

• Democrats to decide on Benghazi committee on Friday

  US Representative Henry Waxman told reporters that it was important that Democrats participate in a GOP-led select committee that will probe on the US government's handling of the Benghazi attacks, Politico reported.

• GOP urges the White House to 'come clean' on Benghazi attack emails

  Representative Jason Chaffetz of the House committee investigating the attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi, Libya has demanded that the White House release all emails in its true, unredacted form pertaining to the purported terrorist attack that killed a US ambassador and 3 State Department employees, USA Today said.

• Ronald Smith: U.S. Teacher Shot Dead In Libya Days After Al-Qaeda Leader Tells Supporters To Take Revenge (Video)

  Ronald Smith, an American chemistry teacher working at the International School Benghazi, was shot and killed on Thursday, a school official confirmed to CBS News. "He was doing his morning exercise when gunmen just shot him. I don't know why. He was so sweet with everyone," said Adel al Mansouri, the director of the school

• 'Angry' Obama: IRS Behavior 'Inexcusable,' & U.S. President Accepts Resignation of Interim Commissioner Steven Miller

  President Barack Obama said that he was "angry" at IRS officials who targeted conservative groups for scrutiny, announcing that his administration sought and accepted Steven Miller's resignation as the interim commissioner.

• Benghazi Hearings:House Speaker Wants E-Mail That Shows U.S. Consulate in Libya Involved Terrorists; Talking Points Evolved (Video)

  House speaker John Boehner said that he wants an email released that showed the U.S. State Department believed that the U.S. consulate in Benghazi in Libya involved terrorists. "The State Department would not allow our committees to keep copies of this email when it was reviewed," Boehner said. "I would call on the president to order the State Department to release this email so that the American people can see it."

• Benghazi Hearings: Pat Smith, Mother of State Department Information Officer Sean Smith Killed in Libya Says I Blame Hillary Clinton (Video)

  Pat Smith, whose son Sean Smith, a State Department information officer killed along with three government employees at the consulate in Benghazi Libya on September 11 last year, has blamed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a CNN interview.