10 things you need to know today: October 27, 2016

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1. Hacked emails show Clinton aides fretted over foundation donors

Hacked emails released by WikiLeaks indicate that Hillary Clinton's top aides exchanged concerns in the years before she announced her 2016 presidential bid that foreign donations to the Clinton Foundation and Bill Clinton's own money-making ventures could create problems for her. One top aide to Mr. Clinton, Douglas Band, said in an email released Wednesday that the former president had received personal income and "many expensive gifts" from some foundation donors. Chelsea Clinton hired an auditor to look at the foundation and accused some of her father's aides of "hustling" to win clients for their own businesses during foundation events.

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Harold Maass, The Week US

Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.