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• Probe on Hillary Clinton's Emails Continue as Evidence Vanished; Justice Watch Aims to Get Clinton's Testimony Under Oath

  The probe regarding former secretary of the State Department Hillary Clinton and her emails from a private server in her home continues as Justice Watch seeks to have her testify about the issue. The investigation also took an unexpected turn after several emails of Clinton and an vital person in the case has disappeared.

• Judge orders to question Clinton aides under oath over private emails; Judicial Watch included in deposition plans

  Judge Emmet Sullivan ruled that Hillary Clinton's aides should be questioned under oath over her private email system. Judicial Watch and the State Department must agree on the deposition plans for the questioning.

• Judge orders Clinton's remaining emails released before Super Tuesday

  A federal judge ordered the State Deprtment to release Hillary Clinton's remaining emails by the end of this month, before the Super Tuesday. The State is expected to release 550 more emails on its website this Saturday.

• Clinton apologizes for using private email as U.S. secretary of state

  U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton for the first time apologized on Tuesday for using a private email server at her New York home for her official communications as secretary of state.

• Dozens of Clinton emails were classified from the start, U.S. rules suggest

  For months, the U.S. State Department has stood behind its former boss Hillary Clinton as she has repeatedly said she did not send or receive classified information on her unsecured, private email account, a practice the government forbids.

• Fugitive drug lord 'Chapo' Guzman likely still in Mexico: DEA chief

  The U.S. government believes fugitive Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is still in Mexico, and federal agents are working with Mexican authorities on his recapture, the acting head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration said on Wednesday.

• Lawmakers to demand full accounting on human trafficking report

  Senior U.S. lawmakers expressed concern on Tuesday about whether the State Department’s annual global report on human trafficking may have been watered down due to political considerations and vowed to demand a full accounting at a Senate hearing this week.

• Obama administration faces criticism over human trafficking report

  Several U.S. politicians sharply criticized the Obama administration on Monday over an annual global report on human trafficking in response to a Reuters article chronicling how senior U.S. diplomats had watered down rankings of more than a dozen strategically important countries.

• U.S. has begun to fix visa problems, big backlog to be processed

  The U.S. State Department said on Tuesday it has begun to fix a technical problem that had disrupted U.S. visa issuance around the globe, but it will take time to work off a big backlog.

• State Department sets January 2016 deadline for Clinton email release

  The State Department has proposed a mid-January deadline to finish its review and release 55,000 pages of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's work emails she sent through a private server and has since turned over to the department.

• State Department will not review Clinton ethics pledge breaches

  The U.S. State Department will not review the breaches of the 2008 ethics agreement Hillary Clinton signed in order to become secretary of state after her family's charities admitted in March that they had not complied, a spokesman said on Thursday.

• John Kerry: Secretary of State Lays Out Evidence of Chemical Attacks by Syria & Makes The Obama Administration's Case for Military Action (Video)

  U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday that unclassified U.S. intelligence revealed that the Bashar al-Assad Syrian government is responsible for the chemical attack in the suburbs of Damascus on August 21, laying out concrete evidence in an effort to support a potential military strike in the coming days,

• 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.