Capital Journal: Politics, Government & Policy News

Hillary Clinton’s Complex Corporate Ties

The Clinton Foundation and other family charities have collected donations from companies Hillary Clinton promoted as secretary of state.
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Foundation Rethinks Foreign Donations
State Department Can’t Root Out Hackers

Three months after the State Department confirmed hackers breached its unclassified email system, the government still hasn’t been able to evict them from the network, say three people familiar with the investigation.
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RNC Raises $7 Million in January

The 2016 fundraising race is on for party committees. Both the Republican National Committee and Senate Republicans’ fundraising arm announced their first hauls of the cycle on Friday, pulling in $7.1 million and $2.5 million in January, respectively.
White House Isn’t Shy About Its Own ‘Dynamic Scoring’

President Barack Obama's annual economic report delivered a lot of good news but also contained a fair dollop of wishful thinking—or what some might call the administration's own "dynamic scoring."
Obama: Stable Syria Needed to Defeat ISIS

President Obama suggested that U.S. and international efforts to degrade and ultimately destroy the Islamic State militant group may only be achieved after a political transition in Syria.
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