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The two candidates have fought a fierce battle to become the 45th president of USA, dogged by controversies ranging from FBI investigation into Clinton’s email use to sexual assault allegations against Trump. Now the two have set out on whirlwind to seize the final 48 hours of the bitterly fought election. The FBI said on Sunday it stood by its earlier finding that no criminal charges were warranted against Democrat Hillary Clinton for using a private email server for government work, lifting a cloud over her presidential campaign two days before the US election. “Since my letter, the FBI investigative team has been working around the clock to process and review a large volume of emails from a device obtained in connection with an unrelated criminal investigation,” FBI director James Comey told congressional leaders in a letter. “During that process, we reviewed all of the communications that were to or from Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state.” “Based on our review, we have not changed our conclusions that we expressed in July with respect to Secretary Clinton,” he concluded. “I am grateful to the professionals at the FBI for doing an extraordinary amount of high-quality work in a short period of time.” Clinton was on board her campaign plane when the news broke, as she had been when Comey’s delivered his first letter nine days earlier. As news broke, aides huddled toward the front of the plane, reading from an iPad, and spokeswoman Jennifer Palmieri entered Clinton’s cabin, shielded by a curtain, moments before she spoke to the press. “We are glad to see that [Comey] has found, as we were confident he would, that he has confirmed the conclusions that he reached in July and we are glad that this matter is resolved,” she told reporters. Leaving the plane in Cleveland, roughly 30 minutes after Comey’s announcement, Clinton did not respond to a reporter’s question about whether she had seen the letter. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was rushed off stage by security Saturday night during a disturbance at a campaign rally in Reno, Nevada, but returned to the stage after a few minutes and finished his speech. Some kind of disturbance occurred in the front of the room where Trump was giving speech. As Trump put up a hand above his eyes to peer out into the crowd, two security officials rushed to his side and escorted him off stage. Audience in the room suddenly scattered as law enforcement agents made their way into the crowd to apprehend an unidentified man. A Secret Service spokesperson said in a statement that there was an 'unidentified individual' in the crowd shouting 'gun', though no weapon was found after a 'thorough search.' A man in a blue hoodie was tackled before being escorted out by law enforcement and being held in a bathroom inside the venue. The man was reportedly released later and no charge was filed against him. Trump returned to the stage unharmed about five minutes later and continued to finish his speech. |
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