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Benghazi investigator calls out Clinton
port control regulations under the International Emergency WASHINGTON — The Economic Powers Act. Prosecutors said thatbeRepublican chairman of a House panel investigating tween June 2009 and March the 2012 attack in Benghazi, 2014, Ahmed shipped more than 200 items from his Libya, criticized Democratic presidential candidate HillSchaumburg, Ill.-based comary Clinton for seeking to pany to Pakistan, in many limit her testimony before his cases without obtaining the panel to one appearance. necessary license from the "Secretary Clinton is U.S. Commerce Department. insistent she will appear The items included a FLIR once and only once before the HRC-U thermal imaging camera, carbon fiber to make select committee," Rep. Trey bulletproof vestsand microGowdy ofSouth Carolina, chairman of the House Select wave laminate, according to Committee on Benghazi, said Ahmed's plea agreement with Thursday in a statement. prosecutors. Among the enti'The committee must be ties Ahmed's Trexim Corp. did equally insistent that her business with was Pakistan's appearance is thorough and Space and Upper Atmosphere fully productive," Gowdy said. Research Commission. "This requires the record to 58 dead aRer be complete so the members Philippines factory fire can effectively base their MANILA, Philippinesquestions on documents." Gowdy also released a let- The death toll in a fire that ter to Secretary of State John razedafootwear factoryin Kerry on what he said was the Philippines has risen the department's failure to to 58, with at least 13 still missing, a local official said produce emails and records fortop department off icials Thursday. more than six months after The fire broke out on they were first requested. Wednesday after an explosionbelieved tohave been Salmonella risk fell caused when sparks from a significantly in 2014 welding machine hit a conThe risk of infection from tainer of chemicals used in eating food tainted with a making rubber slippers. common type of Salmonella Search for missing or a dangerous strain of E. soliders continues coli fell significantly in 2014, The search for a helicopter according to a report published Thursday by the U.S. from Camp Pendleton carCenters for Disease Control rying six Marines and two and Prevention. Nepalese soldiers missing in That's the good news. The Nepal will enter its third day bad newsisthatratesof Friday, military officials said. infection with other types of The Marine helicopter was pathogens — including bacon a disaster relief mission in teria like Campylobacter and a rugged, mountainous area Vibrio — areon therise. near Charikot on Tuesday Overall, the incidence of when it disappeared without food-borne infections in the sending any message indicatU.S. was about the same in ing trouble. 2014 as it was for 2006-08, a The search for the UH-1Y baseline period that coincidHuey involves U.S., Indian ed with an E. coli outbreak and Nepalese aircraft. Also tiedto tainted spinach that assistingare Nepalese sickenedatleast205people groundtroops,a special-forcand caused three deaths. es platoonand a battalionsize unit, officials said. Boehner cuts off The missing Huey was dereporter in briefing livering supplies to stranded WASHINGTON — House villagers. So far, Marine Speaker John Boehner Huey and Osprey aircraft on Thursday dismissed a have delivered 174,706 reporter's question about pounds of relief supplies, Amtrak funding as authoriincluding blankets, food, ties continued investigating water, medical mater ialsand the Tuesday derailment shelter kits, officials said. that killed eight people near
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Patientunder watch for Ebola symptoms HARTFORD, Conn.— A person who had just returned from Liberia is being m onitored forpossible Ebola at UConn Health's John Dempsey Hospital. 'The patient is at a very low risk for Ebola," Chief of Medicine Dr. Paul Skolnik said at a news conference Wednesday."In fact, he probably has another illness or infection." Skolnik said the patient arrivedfrom Liberia on April 30 and was admitted to the hospital by ambulance shortly after 7 p.m. Tuesday with a fever and muscle aches. The patient is currently doing well and is in stable condition, he said.
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U.S. President Barack Obama hosts a working lunch with members of six Persian Gulf nations during the Gulf Cooperation Council-U.S. summit at Camp David on Thursday. Obama hosted leaders from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Oman to discuss a range of issues including the lran nuclear deal.
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"Are you really going to ask such a stupid question?" said Boehner, R-Ohio, cutting off the reporter mid-question during a briefing at the U.S. Capitol."They started this yesterday, it's all about funding, it's all about funding." 'The train was going twice the speed limit," Boehner said. Republican and Democratic lawmakers clashed Wednesday over a vote to cut more than $200 million from the rail system's budget.
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WASHINGTON — Attorney General Loretta Lynch reached into the ranks of top FBI administrators Tuesday for new leadership at the troubled Drug Enforcement Administration. Chuck Rosenberg, currently chief of staff to FBI Director James B. Comey, is expected to shake up DEA management practices and focus less on marijuana enforcement and more on heroin and other major Man sentenced for drugs, a senior administrabreaking export laws tion official said. CHICAGO — ABolingFormer DEAAdministrabrook, Ill., man was sentenced tor Michele Leonhart was Thursday to two years in asked to resign last month prison for violating U.S. export due to dissatisfaction within laws by trying to ship a therthe Obama administramal imagingcamera and other tion over her handling of items to Pakistan without the a scandal involving DEA required federal licenses. agents hiring prostitutes and Bilal Ahmed, 34, pleaded another incident in which guilty earlier this year to one agentsforgota detainee in a count of willfully violating ex- cell for nearly five days with
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