In qualified about-face, Clinton apologizes for email practices
After resisting giving an unqualified apology for using a private email server during her time as secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton conceded Tuesday that she was sorry. "That was a mistake. I'm sorry about that. I take responsibility," she said in an interview with ...
A former U.S. State Department information technology staffer who worked for Hillary Rodham Clinton is refusing to testify before U.S. lawmakers probing the former top diplomat and the 2012 attacks on U.S. installations in Benghazi, Libya, according to a letter sent by his lawyer ...
A U.S. State Department official welcomed the move by a special Lower House committee to pass the bills aimed at expanding the role of the Self-Defense Forces overseas for closer cooperation with the U.S. military. "We welcome Japan's ongoing efforts to strengthen the alliance and ...
U.S. rights report slams Japan on child abuse, prison conditions, asylum system
The U.S. State Department’s annual human rights report highlights serious problems in the way Japan deals with refugees and notes that domestic abuse and sexual harassment remain rife.
Judge: Clinton's State Department emails must be released on rolling basis
Hillary Rodham Clinton's State Department emails must be made public on a rolling basis instead of waiting for a mass release in January, a federal judge ruled, rejecting a government proposal for releasing about 55,000 pages of the correspondence early next year. U.S. District Judge ...
Clinton admits it would have been better to have second email address
Likely Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday it would have been better if she had used a government email account and a separate mobile device as U.S. secretary of state, but said the vast majority of her correspondence went to employees using ...
Hillary Clinton may have broken federal record-keeping laws: report
Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton may have violated federal records laws by using a personal email account for all of her work messages, the New York Times reported on Monday. The newspaper said the likely Democratic presidential candidate conducted all her official ...
FBI probes State Department hacking tied to White House breach
The FBI is investigating a hacking attack that forced the U.S. State Department to disable part of its email system and may be linked to a previously disclosed intrusion of the White House network. The FBI on Monday said it opened investigations into the State ...
Lawmakers want U.S. to bar entry of West Africans over Ebola fears
More than two dozen lawmakers want the United States government to ban travelers from the West African countries hit hardest by the Ebola virus until the outbreak is under control. Twenty-three Republican and three Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives signed a letter ...
A former U.S. State Department official who had been tasked with overseeing sanctions on Iran is urging Japan to refrain from engaging in economic activities there for now in line with steps aimed at curbing Tehran's nuclear activities. "I think for this six-month period, it ...
