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A.M. Links: FBI Investigates Hillary's Emails, Biden Weighs 2016 Run, Mets Beat Dodgers

Damon Root | 10.16.2015 9:00 AM


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    According to a new report, the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email address and server is now focused on possible violations of the "gross negligence" subsection of the Espionage Act.

  • "Vice President Joe Biden has personally made a series of calls this week to Democratic strategists from Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, asking a final round of detailed questions about how—not whether—to launch a 2016 presidential campaign."
  • Turkish forces shot down a drone in Turkish airspace roughly two miles from the Syrian border.
  • The New York Mets beat the Los Angeles Dodgers last night to advance to the National League Championship Series against the Chicago Cubs.
  • California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newson has put forward a gun control ballot initiative for the November 2016 state election.
  • The newly elected Greek parliament will vote on its first austerity bill today.

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Damon Root is a senior editor at Reason and the author of A Glorious Liberty: Frederick Douglass and the Fight for an Antislavery Constitution (Potomac Books).