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FILE - In this July 14, 2016 file photo, FBI Director James Comey testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. The FBI informed Congress Friday, Oct. 28, 2016, it is investigating whether there is classified information in new emails that have emerged in its probe of Hillary Clinton's private server. The FBI said in July its investigation was finished. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Charles Grassley: James Comey made right call, but must reveal more

The lawmaker who oversees the FBI said Director James Comey made the right call in disclosing his renewed investigation into Hillary Clinton's secret emails, but said more disclosure is needed -- including assurances that the probe won't be hindered by the kinds of restrictions that constrained it before.

October 31, 2016
Donald Trump points the crowd as he walks off the stage at the end of his campaign at the University of Northern Colorado campus in Greeley, Colo., Sunday, Oct. 30, 2016. (Joshua Polson/The Greeley Tribune via AP)

Elijah Cummings demands FBI reveal Trump probes

A top Democrat demanded Monday that the FBI make public any investigations it is conducting into GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump or his associates, saying it's only fair now that the agency has confirmed it has renewed its probe into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emails.

October 31, 2016
In this Dec. 3, 20156 photo, President Barack Obama sits with FBI director James Comey in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, before making a statement on the mass shooting in San Bernandino, Calif. The U.S. government’s ability to review and analyze five years’ worth of telephone records for the married couple blamed in the deadly shootings in California lapsed when the National Security Agency’s controversial mass surveillance program was formally shut down, four days before the deadly California shootings. Under a court order, those historical calling records at the NSA are now off-limits to agents running the FBI terrorism investigation even with a warrant. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Democrats turn against FBI director, accused of meddling in election

Months after they declared James B. Comey an honest arbiter, Democrats are now mounting a full assault on the FBI director, accusing him of inappropriate meddling in the presidential election after he notified Congress last week that he has renewed an investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's secret email server.

October 30, 2016
FILE - In this April 11, 2016 file photo, farmers harvest raw opium at a poppy field in the Zhari district of Kandahar province, Afghanistan. Afghanistan saw an increase of 10 percent in opium poppy cultivation and 91 percent decrease in eradication across the country, according to a new joint survey released by the UN and Afghan government. The report released Sunday, Oct. 23, 2016, showed the total area under cultivation in Afghanistan at an estimated 201,000 hectares (496,681 acres) in 2016, a 10 percent increase from the 183,000 hectares (452,200 acres) in 2015. (AP Photos/Allauddin Khan, File)

Afghanistan sinks deeper into poverty, violence: IG report

Opium production is up 43 percent in Afghanistan, the economy is struggling and the government has lost ground to insurgents over the last year, according to an inspector general's report released Sunday that shows ongoing failures overshadowing the few signs of hope.

October 30, 2016
Appearing before Congress for yet another marathon session, FBI Director James B. Comey was badgered by Republicans who said the more they see, the less they understand his decision to clear Mrs. Clinton of criminal wrongdoing in her mishandling of classified information. (Associated Press)

James Comey, FBI director, reopens Clinton email investigation

The FBI has renewed its investigation into Hillary Clinton's secret emails, Director James Comey told Congress in a new letter Friday, heightening the stakes for the Democratic presidential nominee with less than two weeks before Election Day.

October 28, 2016
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton greets supporters during a campaign event at Saint Augustine's University, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2016, in Raleigh, N.C. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Hillary Clinton’s top techie in State Dept pleads the Fifth

John Bentel, the man who oversaw then-Secretary Hillary Clinton's technology at the State Department, refused to answer questions about his knowledge of her activities in a sworn deposition Monday, according to Judicial Watch.

October 24, 2016
This Monday Feb. 29, 2016, file photo shows Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, right, as he hugs Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton as she arrives to speak at a campaign rally in Norfolk, Va. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) ** FILE **

Trump campaign says Clinton-linked donations show ‘corruption’ at FBI

Donald Trump's campaign called for the FBI to explain itself Monday after reports that a top Clinton family political ally authorized more than $600,000 in campaign contributions to the wife of an FBI official who helped investigate Hillary Clinton's secret email account.

October 24, 2016