Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton campaigning in Philadelphia. Photo: AP/Andrew Harnik

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FBI clears Clinton over new emails

FBI Director James Comey has abruptly announced that Hillary Clinton shouldn’t face criminal charges relating to newly discovered emails from her tenure at the State Department, lifting a cloud of uncertainty that has shadowed the final days of her presidential campaign.

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Presidential foes hit final campaign week

Donald Trump has plunged into his final-week sprint to Election Day by unleashing a harsh new attack against Democrat Hillary Clinton in Michigan, a state that hasn’t favoured a Republican for president in nearly three decades.

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Poll trouble rising for Clinton

A voter survey shows Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and her Republican rival, Donald Trump, in a technical tie in the key battleground state of Florida. In further bad news for Clinton, the poll was taken before the latest email scandal emerged.

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"Unshackled" Trump attacks his own party

With the “shackles” gone, Donald Trump has stepped up his fierce attack on his own party leaders, promising to teach Republicans who oppose him a lesson and fight for the US presidency “the way I want to”.

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Top Republican abandons Trump campaign

Paul Ryan, the top Republican in the US Congress, has taken the extraordinary step of distancing himself from Donald Trump, risking a backlash from lawmakers and deepening a crisis over his party’s struggling presidential nominee.