US drops Fed chair Powell probe

The US Justice Department has dropped a criminal investigation into the Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell. 

It removes a major hurdle in the nomination of the new Fed chair, whose tenure is due to start next month. 

Nick Harper reports from Washington.

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