The State Department published Huma Abedin's emails from Anthony Weiner's laptop

Huma Abedin and Hillary Clinton
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The State Department on Friday published about 2,800 work-related emails from Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton's top aide during her tenure as secretary of state and on the campaign trail.

Abedin's messages were sent from a private email address and were found on a laptop belonging to her husband, former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.), with whom she has filed for divorce. Weiner's computer was searched by the FBI as part of an investigation into his lewd messages sent to an underage girl, for which he is now in prison. Five of the emails include redacted classified information.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.