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Clinton faces FBI probe as race enters final 10 days
By AFP Published: October 29, 2016
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Hillary Clinton embarks this weekend on the frenetic final 10 days of her White House campaign, determined to shake off renewed controversy over the FBI probe into her private emails.
The 69-year-old Democrat — vying to become America’s first female president — is still the frontrunner to win the November 8 election over her Republican rival Donald Trump.
FBI to review more emails related to Clinton’s private email use
Clinton has a clear lead in the polls, and voting has already begun in 34 of 50 states to choose a successor to President Barack Obama, who will hit the campaign trail again next week in defense of his onetime secretary of state.
But her momentum was threatened Friday by a renewed eruption in a scandal that has long dogged her in the race: investigations into her use of a private email server while at the State Department.
Trump gleefully seized on news that FBI agents are investigating a newly discovered group of mails sent to Clinton’s private address, to see if they exposed any US secrets.
The probe had been thought finished in July, when the Federal Bureau of Investigation had recommended that no charges be filed against Clinton, although it found her to have been “extremely careless” in her use of a private server.