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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is playing down reports that a senior State Department official had asked the FBI last year to reduce the classification of an email from Hillary Clinton's private server. Obama said in a Rose Garden news conference today that some of the "more sensational implications or appearances" related to the report "are not based on actual events." He said those types of interactions "happen a lot." Donald Trump has said the FBI records show a "criminal act." But Obama says that notion is "just not true."
WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department is denying a claim by WikiLeaks that the U.S. government was involved in cutting off internet access for the group's founder, Julian Assange. He has said his hosts at Ecuador's embassy in London cut him off from the Internet as he was releasing a series of damaging disclosures about Hillary Clinton. The group claims that Secretary of State John Kerry had personally intervened to get Ecuador to stop Assange from publishing documents about Clinton. The State Department says that's "simply untrue."
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump is claiming that if he doesn't win the presidential election, "history will remember 2017 as the year America lost its independence." Trump has repeatedly called for Americans to reclaim their independence and has linked his candidacy to the "Brexit" vote in which the United Kingdom chose to leave the European Union. His tweets today also come as he doubles down on his unsubstantiated claims that the election will be "rigged."
WASHINGTON (AP) — On the second day of an Iraqi government effort to take the city of Mosul back from the Islamic State group, President Barack Obama says it's going to be a "difficult fight." He told reporters today that there will be advances and setbacks, but added that driving the militants from Iraq's second-largest city "will be another step toward their ultimate destruction."
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — Thousands of mourners are expected at a memorial service today for two California police officers. They were shot to death this month after they responded to a domestic disturbance call at the home of the family of an ex-convict. Palm Springs officers Gil Vega and Lesley Zerebny are being honored at the Palm Springs Convention Center before being laid to rest.
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