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Donald Trump says his judge attack is ‘misconstrued’

Donald Trump said Tuesday that his attack on a federal judge is being "misconstrued," insisting it's not an attack on all Mexicans, as he sought to tamp down on the first major crisis of his post-primary campaign.

June 7, 2016
In this Thursday, May 19, 2016 photo, Rep. Renee Ellmers listens while facing off with Dr. Greg Brannon and Rep. George Holding during the 2nd Congressional District Republican primary debate at WRAL studio in Raleigh, N.C. (Travis Long/The News & Observer via AP, Pool)

Donald Trump endorses Renee Ellmers in North Carolina, shocking his supporters

Donald Trump's endorsement of Rep. Renee Ellmers in North Carolina sent shock waves through the likely GOP presidential nominee's supporters over the weekend, stoking new fears about his political reliability after the first person he backed has a record diametrically opposed to him on immigration.

June 6, 2016
This April 13, 2014, file photo shows the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) headquarters building in Washington. Millions of taxpayers face a midnight deadline Monday, March 18, 2016, to file their tax returns, while millions of other Americans seek more time, a six-month extension. The filing deadline was delayed three days beyond the traditional April 15 deadline, because Friday was a legal holiday in the District of Columbia. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File) — FILE

IRS: White House never asked for secret information on taxpayers

The White House never requested any secret taxpayer information from the IRS, the tax agency said in a sworn statement filed with a federal court on Friday, hoping to put to rest lingering questions about whether political operatives tried to peek at confidential records.

June 3, 2016
In this Dec. 8, 2011, file-pool photo, then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton hands off her mobile phone after arriving for a meeting in The Hague, Netherlands. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, Pool, File)

Hillary Clinton’s chief email defense is false

Hillary Clinton's chief defense of her email behavior is that she tried to forward her messages so they were captured by the State Department -- but a Washington Times analysis found she clearly did that only a quarter of the time when she was corresponding with someone outside the department.

June 1, 2016
Cheryl Mills, in sworn testimony ordered by a federal judge taken last week and released Tuesday, said Hillary Clinton and her team were occupied with too many other things to think about going through their official records and making sure they remained with the department — a requirement of multiple federal laws and agency policies. (Associated Press)

Cheryl Mills blames Clinton email bungle on Benghazi terrorist attack

Cheryl Mills, the former chief of staff at the State Department, partly blamed the Benghazi terrorist attack for former Secretary Hillary Clinton failing to turn over her emails as she left office in 2013, saying there was "a lot going on" that distracted them from fulfilling their obligations under open-records laws.

May 31, 2016
Former government contractor Edward Snowden revealed the NSA phone-snooping program's existence in 2013, spawning a massive public backlash that forced Congress to curtail the program. (Associated Press)

NSA phone-snooping metadata still in government hands

The National Security Agency's phone-snooping program ended six months ago this Saturday, but the government is still holding on to the mountain of data it piled up over the previous five years, worrying civil liberties advocates who say it's time to start expunging the legally questionable information.

May 26, 2016
Supporters of fair immigration reform gather in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, April 18, 2016. The Supreme Court is taking up an important dispute over immigration that could affect millions of people who are living in the country illegally. The Obama administration is asking the justices in arguments today to allow it to put in place two programs that could shield roughly 4 million people from deportation and make them eligible to work in the United States. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

DHS admits it’s still violating judge’s order on immigration amnesty

Homeland Security has discovered more three-year amnesty applications it approved in defiance of a federal judge's firm injunction, lawyers told the court late Wednesday -- less than a week after the judge delivered a vicious spanking to the administration for repeatedly bungling the case.

May 26, 2016
In this Oct. 18, 2011, file photo, then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton checks her Blackberry from a desk inside a C-17 military plane upon her departure from Malta, in the Mediterranean Sea, bound for Tripoli, Libya. (AP Photo/Kevin Lamarque, Pool, File)

Hillary Clinton failed to report several hacking attempts: IG

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did break her department's rules by setting up her own secret email server, the inspector general concluded in a report sent to Congress on Wednesday that says she failed to report hacking attempts and waved off warnings that she should switch to a more official email account.

May 25, 2016