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Indictment Looms For Hillary As FBI Declares 22 Home-Server Emails “Top Secret”

The leaking of the Clinton emails has been compared to as the next “Watergate”.

Democratic presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton gestures as she speaks during the Brown & Black Forum, Monday, Jan. 11, 2016, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Just as we warned, and she must have known, it appears at least 22 of the emails found on Hillary Clinton’s private email server have been declared “top secret” by the FBI (but will not be releasing the contents) according to AP. Clinton has insisted she never sent or received information on her personal email account that was classified at the

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France Warns Israel They Will Soon Recognize Palestine State

The French Foreign Ministry announced that if they failed to break an impasse in the peace talks between Palestine and Israel it would take the next step.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius speaks during a press conference with Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Maliki in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Sunday, June 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

France warned the Israeli government Friday that if Paris fails to break an impasse in the following weeks in the peace talks between Palestine and Israel, its government will recognize the state of Palestine, the Foreign Ministry announced. “If this attempt to achieve a negotiated solution reaches a dead end, we will take responsibility and

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Doctor Who Tried To Warn About Flint Water In August Attacked By Media, Government

Even now that the Flint water crisis is under investigation, Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha believes government officials are dramatically underreporting the number of victims.

Virginia Tech professor Marc Edwards shows the difference in water quality between Detroit and Flint after testing, giving evidence after more than 270 samples were sent in from Flint that show high levels of lead during a news conference on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015 outside of City Hall in downtown Flint, Mich. (Jake May/The Flint Journal via AP)

FLINT, Michigan --- Though widespread outcry has only recently erupted over the people of Flint, Michigan, being poisoned by lead in the city’s tap water, activists and local medical experts had been sounding the alarm about the issue well before it became a national headline. Lead poisoning leads to irreparable brain damage and may be linked to

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US Doubles Down On Labeling Law For Products Made In Israeli Settlements

The US Customs’ guidelines on labeling West Bank products initially originated alongside the Oslo Accords in 1993 and was intended to stimulate growth of the Palestinian economy by differentiating between Israeli and Palestinian products.

an Israeli worker inspects barrels in a winery in the West Bank settlement of Psagot

Following Israeli media furor, the US State Department has clarified that recently announced US guidelines prohibiting settlement products from being labeled 'Made in Israel' were not new, but a "restatement of existing requirements." US State Department spokesman Mark Toner made the clarification following confusion over a statement, released

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Report: US Teachers Beat Black School Children Twice As Much As Whites

A new report reveals black school children get beaten twice as much as whites in the U.S. with out-of-school-suspension rates four times higher.

Third graders Danielle Levin, 8; Paige Simpson, 8; and Daniella Gama-Diaz, 8; from left, work on a lesson at Eagle Elementary School in West Bloomfield Township, Mich., Thursday, March 9, 2006. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

There was at least 57,000 incidents of educators beating Black children in the United States in a single year, according to a recent study by the Brookings Institute, highlighting that "Black children are twice as likely as White children to be subject to corporal punishment" at school. The disproportionality in corporal punishment in the U.S.

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Documents Confirm CIA Had Rendition Flight Lurking In Europe To Catch Snowden

A Danish news website has published documents backing up the allegations that in June 2013 a US plane with a connection to CIA black site programs was on call in Copenhagen ready to snatch NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden as he was stranded in Moscow.

A small plane taxis at the airport in Szymany, Poland, Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010. Lawyers and rights activists believe that this was the airport used to ferry terrorism suspects in and out of Poland when the CIA ran a secret prison in the eastern European country. Former U.S. intelligence officials have said the spy agency operated the site code-named "Quartz" in northern Poland from December 2002 to the fall of 2003. Scottish Police are investigating possible CIA rendition sites in their own country.

The story of the private aircraft, a Gulfstream V with registration number N977GA, was first reported by The Register in June 2014. The plane previously used by the American intelligence to secretly transport terror subjects to clandestine detention facilities in Europe, flew from Washington, DC over Scotland to Copenhagen, the report

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