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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton checks her phone after attending a U.S.-Russia meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam on July 23, 2010. The revelation that Mrs. Clinton used an off-the-books email account during her time as secretary of state has raised fresh questions about her credibility heading into 2016. (Associated Press)

Judge says Hillary Clinton’s server is private

A federal judge said he will order the State Department to send a specific request asking former Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton to make sure she has turned over all of her official records, but said Wednesday he doubts he has the power to demand she actually preserve the documents.

October 7, 2015
The email scandal shows little sign of subsiding a year after the State Department first prodded Hillary Rodham Clinton to return some 30,000 messages from her four years as secretary.

State Dept. tells Hillary Clinton to search for more emails

The State Department has told former Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton to go back and search for still more emails, releasing a letter Tuesday urging her to see whether her Internet providers can recover any of the messages believed to be missing from a "gap" during her first months in office.

October 6, 2015
Rep. Daniel Webster, Florida Republican. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Daniel Webster kicks off bid for House Speaker

Rep. Daniel Webster officially announced his bid for House speaker Tuesday morning, two days before the House GOP is slated to vote on a replacement to retiring Speaker John A. Boehner.

October 6, 2015
Cristian, a 6-year-old immigrant who entered the United States illegally with his mother from Guatemala, eats breakfast at a respite house, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) ** FILE **

English isn’t main language at home for 21 percent in America

A whopping 21 percent of U.S. residents now speak a language other than English at home, according to a report being released Tuesday by the Center for Immigration Studies that raises questions about the country's ability to absorb the influx of immigrants.

October 6, 2015
Rep. Jason Chaffetz. (Associated Press)

House Speaker vote date buys GOP time for leadership choice

Speaker John A. Boehner set an Oct. 29 date for the full House to vote on his replacement, giving Republicans three weeks to get their troops in line and rally around Rep. Kevin McCarthy or whoever else emerges from this week's internal GOP vote.

October 5, 2015
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. will be put to conservatives' test again as he begins his second decade at the helm of the Supreme Court. He already has become a punching bag on the Republican campaign trail. (Associated Press)

John Roberts on hot seat as Supreme Court begins term

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. enters his second decade at the helm of the Supreme Court with his legacy very much in debate, as conservatives who had championed him now question whether their trust was misplaced.

October 4, 2015
Syrian rebels attend a training session in Maaret Ikhwan near Idlib, Syria, on Dec. 17, 2012. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Senators tell Obama to halt Syrian rebel training

President Obama's program to train Syrian rebels is a total failure and needs to be scrapped, a bipartisan group of senators said in a letter to the administration Friday, saying it's time the national security team acknowledge the disaster and come up with a new strategy.

October 2, 2015
Sen. Jeff Sessions, Alabama Republican, said the "doc fix" would cost taxpayers a net $141 billion over the next decade, and would bring Congress disrepute. (Associated Press)

Officials vow no shortcuts for Syrian refugees

Obama administration officials vowed there will be no "shortcuts" in admitting tens of thousands of Syrian refugees, though they admitted to Congress Thursday they won't be able to do the kinds of thorough checks like accessing local databases or visiting neighborhoods to verify applicants are who they say they are.

October 1, 2015
President Obama speaks to a group of state legislators in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in part of the White House complex in Washington on Sept. 30, 2015. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Obama vows troops-bill veto, demands domestic spending hikes

President Obama will veto the annual defense policy bill, the White House said Wednesday as it escalated a clash over spending into a major war-time deadlock that threatens everything from troops' pay raises to warship building plans.

September 30, 2015
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton checks her phone after attending a U.S.-Russia meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam on July 23, 2010. The revelation that Mrs. Clinton used an off-the-books email account during her time as secretary of state has raised fresh questions about her credibility heading into 2016. (Associated Press)

Hillary Clinton emails increasingly classified; 1 in 20 messages contained secrets

More than 5 percent of the latest batch of emails from former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, released Wednesday, contain classified information -- or twice the rate of the previous releases, raising tricky questions about whether the department is finding more secrets or being more thorough in screening the messages.

September 30, 2015
House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio leaves a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Sept. 25, 2015, after announcing he would resign from Congress at the end of October. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Boehner sets Oct. 8 leadership election

The House GOP will vote on its new leaders Oct. 8, Speaker John A. Boehner announced Wednesday, setting up a compressed window for Republicans to try to heal numerous scars that have developed in the wake of Mr. Boehner's surprise retirement.

September 30, 2015
In this Aug. 22, 2013, file photo, Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., is seen in Mesa, Ariz. Gosar says he boycotted Pope Francis' speech to Congress. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)

Paul Gosar, Arizona congressman, raises money off Pope Francis boycott

While most members of Congress were thrilled to be in Pope Francis' presence last week, one congressman is raising money off the fact that he boycotted the pontiff's address, saying he treated the head of the Roman Catholic Church the way he would any other "leftist politician."

September 30, 2015
Recovery from Superstorm Sandy became the focus of the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board in 2013 as the stimulus was winding down. (Associated Press)

Recovery board folding with mixed track record of stimulus plan

The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board will shutter its doors Wednesday, six years after it was created to monitor hundreds of billions of dollars that President Obama doled out in spending and tax breaks under his 2009 stimulus -- and some watchdogs are sorry to see it go.

September 29, 2015