State Department reopens investigation into Clinton emails

Hillary Clinton.
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The State Department said Thursday it has reopened its internal review of Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state.

The announcement was made one day after Attorney General Loretta Lynch said she accepted recommendations by the FBI and career prosecutors that no criminal charges be filed against Clinton regarding her use of the server. The FBI requested the State Department pause its probe in April so it could complete its own investigation, which started in March. "We will aim to be as expeditious as possible," State Department spokesman John Kirby said. "But we will not put artificial deadlines on the process."

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Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.