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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at the American Legion's 98th Annual Convention at the Duke Energy Convention Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

FBI publishes notes on Hillary Clinton’s use of private email

Hillary Clinton didn't know how secret information got to be classified, she told the FBI in her interview earlier this summer, according to documents released Friday -- showing a striking lack of awareness for someone at the highest reaches of government.

September 2, 2016
Journalists are reflected on the tombstone of Chile's Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda after he was reburied at his home, now a museum, on Isla Negra, Chile, Tuesday, April 26, 2016. Neruda's body was exhumed in 2013 for a fourth time in an effort to clear up four decades of suspicion about how the poet died in the days after Chile's military coup. The results of the analysis will be delivered on May 5. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Government paid out benefits to deceased Americans

The government paid out more than $1.7 million in benefits to Americans who'd died years ago, and who the feds' chief personnel office knew were dead — but forgot to tell the Social Security Administration.

August 30, 2016
In this Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012, file photo, suspected illegal immigrants are transferred out of the holding area after being processed at the Tucson Sector of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection headquarters in Tucson, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

DHS ponders end to private prisons for illegal immigrant detainees

The Homeland Security Department may stop using private jails to detain illegal immigrants, Secretary Jeh Johnson said Monday, taking his cue from the Justice Department, which announced earlier this month it was phasing out the use of private prisons.

August 29, 2016
Syrian refugee Hamzeh Jouriyeh, 12, studies a map of the United States in the Amman, Jordan, office of the International Organization for Migration. (Associated Press)

10,000th Syrian refugee arriving in the U.S.

The U.S. welcomed its 10,000th Syrian refugee Monday afternoon, achieving President Obama's goal with more than a month to spare in the fiscal year -- and there are some 30,000 more waiting in the wings and ready to be resettled if the administration can handle them.

August 29, 2016
IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said his agency will stop targeting the nonprofit applications of tea party groups, and will process held-up applications. (Associated Press)

IRS vows to finally stop targeting tea party groups

The IRS is still holding up three tea party groups' applications, Commissioner John Koskinen admitted in a letter to Congress last week -- but he insisted he agents are finally about to begin processing them.

August 25, 2016