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The FBI is not investigating its Twitter account over documents released on President Bill Clinton's controversial pardon of Democratic donor and financier Marc Rich, an FBI official tells the BBC. 

The @FBIRecordsVault tweet,, external which was posted on Tuesday, raised questions about whether the agency was releasing prejudicial information against the Clintons before election day. The account had not tweeted for over a year before last Sunday, when there was suddenly a twitterstorm. 

The FBI official told the BBC that a complaint was referred to the FBI's Inspection Division, which is protocol, but no investigation was opened. 

The Twitter feed had not been working until 30 October and after it was repaired, began spitting out automated tweets built up over a period of time, the official said.

FBI Director James Comey came under fire last week for announcing a new inquiry into fresh emails which may be "pertinent" to its previous inquiry into Clinton's private email server, just 11 days before voters head to the polls.   

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Two former aides to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie have been found guilty in a 2013 political revenge plot involving the closure of a major bridge connecting New Jersey to New York City, which caused total gridlock for several days.

Bridget Kelly, Christie's former deputy chief of staff, and Bill Baroni, who was appointed to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey by Christie, were convicted in a plot to close part of a bridge over a mayor who refused to endorse the governor's re-election bid. 

Christie has denied knowing about the plan, but both Kelly and Baroni have testified he was aware of the lane closings. 

The New Jersey Governor had been considered a top Republican presidential contender at the time, and recently said the scandal probably influenced Donald Trump's decision not to pick him as a running mate.

The fall and fall of Chris Christie

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Donald Trump holds another three rallies today - this time in New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Ohio.

Clinton also holds three urban rallies - starting in Pittsburgh, then Detroit, and then Cleveland, Ohio, where she attends a Get Out the Vote concert hosted by rapper Jay Z.

Obama campaigns for Clinton in Fayetteville and Charlotte, North Carolina.

Mike Pence has three rallies starting in Michigan - then he heads to the swing states of North Carolina and Florida.

Tim Kaine will be speaking in Florida.

Joe Biden will address voters in Madison, Wisconsin.

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The BBC's Rajini Vaidyanathan, external found out on a recent flight to Las Vegas to cover the final debate, that even at 30,000 feet, it is hard to escape this election.

After striking up a conversation with one Trump supporter, others quickly joined in.

Betsey says:  "If I could vote for the third party guy I would, but it might help her, and I don't want to help her. I think her views are way too far left for me."

Guy woke up from his nap to offer:  "I have a severe disdain for Hillary Clinton too, and the inside politics she's been involved in for years".

"She hasn't driven a car for more than 20 years, external, she's so out of touch," said Jim of Secretary Clinton. "I don't think she has a moral compass," he added.

 Read Rajini's full piece

Anti-immigrant rhetoric in the presidential election has been affecting the lives of Muslim-Americans across the country, especially in the heart of the so-called Bible Belt. 

BBC Arabic, external went to Nashville, Tennessee, to ask Muslim-American rapper Mo Sabri about how a Trump presidency could affect him and his community.

BBC North America Editor Jon Sopel's latest podcast - where he speaks to Richard Painter, former chief White House ethics lawyer for President George W Bush, about FBI Director James Comey's pre-election bombshell.  

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The BBC's Nick Bryant looks back at his time on the campaign trail with Hillary Clinton and her humiliating low road to the White House. 

"Her road to the White House has been lined with anger, hatred and mistrust. And surely it must sometimes be painful to peer through the tinted glass of her armoured SUV to see demonstrators who would rather see her in jail. From bullets those vehicles offer a protective shell, but not the brickbats."

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey says it was made aware of a potential terror threat "around election day".

It manages all the transport hubs and routes in the heavily populated area of New York City and northern New Jersey. This was first reported by Reuters and confirmed by the BBC.

Earlier, CBS News reported, external that US intelligence had found evidence that al-Qaeda was planning an attack on the US on Monday, the day before the election.

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President Barack Obama should promise that he will not offer a pardon to Hillary Clinton for any crimes she might be charged with, “whether she’s elected or not elected", according to former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

The avid Trump supporter appeared on Fox News' Hannity on Thursday to reveal "Rudy's list", which included crimes for which he thinks Clinton could be charged. 

Hannity asked Giuliani if he thought Clinton would be cleared in the latest FBI investigation into her private email server without any indictment.

“No way. There’s one way. If in his lame-duck status Obama gives her a pardon," Giuliani said. "And he should promise the American people that he will not give her a pardon whether she’s elected or not elected.”  

As well as bringing you the latest from the campaign trail, we will be exploring the issues of national security, terror threat and law and order, and what part they are playing in this election.

Donald Trump has made border security central to his presidential bid and chants of "Build that wall!" ring out at his rallies.

His pledge to build a wall on the southern border is one of his most controversial policies, but a wall already exists on one-third of the US-Mexican border. 

But what does it do? The BBC's Brajesh Upadhyay explains in this video.

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The last pre-election jobs report showed the US economy added 161,000 jobs in October, down from 191,000 in September, the Labor Department said on Friday.

The number was lower than expected in the final economic snapshot before election day. 

But average hourly earnings rose 2.8% while unemployment also dropped to 4.9%, down from 5% in September. 

 Just over 40% of young women aged 14 to 17 say Donald Trump's comments about women have affected the way they think about their bodies, according to a national online by the New York Times, external.  

“That hits me hard when people like Trump say people who are skinnier than I am are too big,” Morgan Lesh, 15, in Moro, Oregon, told the paper.

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With just four days to go, 4.9 million pre-election votes have already been cast in the all-important state of Florida. 

President Barack Obama campaigned for Hillary Clinton in Miami-Dade and Jacksonville on Thursday to boost last-minute support and urge voters to head to the polls early. 

Early voting has spiked in the battlground state but it's still unclear which way it will swing in the presidential race.

A Univision poll released on Thursday showed 60% of Hispanics in Florida favoured Mrs Clinton, while 30% said they intend to vote for Mr Trump.

The Miami Herald notes the poll, external shows Mrs Clinton's popularity among Hispanics has reached the same level held by Mr Obama when he narrowly won the important battleground state in 2012. 

Donald Trump's sons Donald Trump Jnr and Eric are both scheduled to take to the podium in support of their father later on Friday, in Arizona and New Mexico respectively. How much do we know about them?

Here's our piece from earlier in the year - complete with family tree - asking whether the Trump family is America’s next political dynasty?

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Is voting for a candidate the same thing as endorsing them? No, says Utah representative Jason Chaffetz.

Having said in October that he wouldn't be able to look his wife and 15-year-old daughter in the eye if he endorsed Mr Trump, and then announced last week he would be voting for him - on Thursday he told CNN, external: "I think the endorsement is far different than who you actually vote for..."

"I will never support, condone, defend anybody's actions... to demoralise or take advantage of women in any shape or form. I want my daughters to understand that, I want America to understand that," Mr Chaffetz said. "But at the end of the day, you still have to make a choice." 

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Anthony Scaramucci is a close friend and adviser of Donald Trump. He has told the BBC's Today programme that if Mr Trump wins, "he knows he will have to cut a deal with the Democrats" and "bring a magnanimous side to his personality out".

There's word that Beyonce may be joining Jay Z, external performing in support of Hillary Clinton on Friday in Cleveland, Ohio.

The Democratic candidate and her husband seem to be having fun enlisting music stars to court millennial voters - here she is with singer Pharrell Williams in North Carolina on Thursday, while Bill Clinton appeared with DJ Steve Aoki in Nevada.

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Despite the fact that Mr Trump is leading in the polls in Arizona, on Wednesday Mrs Clinton told voters in the traditionally Republican state she believed they had a chance to "turn it blue" again.

With immigration a hot topic in the election, the BBC's James Cook met ranchers and Latinos in the US-Mexico border area to find out how they're voting.

Mike Huckabee - former Arkansas governor and once Trump's rival for the Republican nomination - weighs in on Twitter:

Basically, it seems no-one's very impressed - in the final New York Times/CBS News pre-election poll, external, more than eight in 10 voters surveyed said the campaign had left them repulsed rather than excited.

After Trump's claims the election is “rigged,” more than a quarter of his supporters say they won't accept the results as legitimate if he loses.  

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