Input: Lindenbaum was given the City Planning Commission seat formerly held by Robert Moses, the power broker who built many of New York’s highways, airports, and parks. The following year, Lindenbaum organized a fund-raising lunch for Wagner, who was running for re-election. Forty-three builders and landlords pledged thousands of dollars; Trump, according to reporter Wayne Barrett, pledged $ 2,500, one of the largest contributions. The lunch party made the front page of the newspapers, and Lindenbaum, disgraced, was forced off the commission. But Robert Wagner won the election, and Beame became his comptroller.

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Input: She said she assumed Russia would veto any attempt by the United Nations Security Council to bring those responsible to trial, so Australia would consider other options. “There can be a Lockerbie-style prosecution, a tribunal that’s set up by the international community, or there can be domestic prosecutions in, say, the Netherlands,” she said. “As long as they had the powers of extradition and the like, a prosecution could be mounted successfully in a domestic jurisdiction, but that would cover the interests of the 298 victims aboard that flight.” “Both have positive and negative attributes. I think a domestic style tribunal would possibly be easier to establish but you’d have to make sure that it had all the necessary powers, for example extradition, to be able to absolutely hold those responsible for this atrocity to account.”

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Input: ' Looking at ' raising minimum wage Trump, speaking with CNN for the first time as the presumptive GOP nominee, offered a glimpse of how he will seek to expand his appeal beyond the Republican primary electorate to whom he has catered his campaign platform. Asked whether he would consider raising the minimum wage, Trump said he is "looking at that" and "open to doing something with it," despite claiming months earlier that he opposed raising the minimum wage because the U.S. needs to keep wages low to compete with foreign countries." I'm actually very different from most Republicans "on the issue, Trump said in the interview Wednesday. Republican lawmakers are overwhelmingly opposed to raising the federal minimum wage, which is currently $ 7.25 per hour, while Democrats have called for raising the wage floor to as high as $ 15 per hour.

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Input: She argued that Britain had already retaliated against Moscow in 2007 when preliminary inquiries into the killing suggested the hand of the Russian state. “It is in no sense business as usual” between Britain and Russia, she said, adding that Cameron would discuss the matter with Putin “at the next available opportunity.” [Full report: Russian President Vladimir Putin implicated in fatal poisoning of former KGB operative] That cautious stance is likely to disappoint Litvinenko’s wife, who called Thursday for Britain to expel Russian intelligence officials and enact new sanctions in response to the killing of her husband. Speaking before the government’s response became public, Marina Litvinenko said her husband’s dying belief had been vindicated.

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Input: More than 30 billion dollars (£ 21 billion) in assets overseas will become immediately available to the Islamic Republic. Official Iranian reports have set the total amount of frozen Iranian assets overseas at 100 billion dollars (£ 70 billion). A European oil embargo on Iran will also end. Already, some 38 million barrels of oil are in Iran's floating reserves, ready to enter the market, according to the International Energy Agency. Although many in Iran welcomed the deal, not everyone was enthused about the agreement, which limits Iran's nuclear programme in exchange for the lifting of sanctions.

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Input: Although Clinton has called for reforming the criminal justice system this election season, she once supported a crime bill that essentially created the era of mass incarceration. Bill Clinton's 1994 crime bill approached criminal justice reform with a "tough on crime" strategy. This bill expanded the death penalty, eliminated federal funding for educational programs in prisons, and encouraged states to increase prison sentences, among other things. The population of federal and state prisons increased by 673,000, and nearly 60 percent of those serving time in federal prison during this time were serving for drug offenses. Clinton has been criticized for supporting the 1994 crime bill and her use of the term "super predators."

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Input: "One should call it the way we see it. Why? Because we have prisoners of war referred to as illegally detained individuals, the fighting on the front lines is called the anti-terrorist operation, and the measures taken by the UN are called a humanitarian campaign. Therefore, we have a problem with the involvement of international security elements. It is only if we call a spade a spade when we can count on the honesty and openness of both European and international communities," the official said.

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Input: It’s what we’ve lost, it’s what we need back. Telling political opponents to sit down and shut up ca n’t always be the first recourse of our politicians. Kaine might just be the bipartisan bridge that allows Clinton to enact real change. If Kaine markets himself this way successfully, he may become an asset to millennial outreach instead of the vanilla placeholder he is now. Caraway is a radio host and Biomedical Sciences Senior at the University of North Florida, from Jacksonville, Florida.

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Input: Throughout the 1990s, “Saddam! Saddam! Saddam!” was the official lamentation being expressed by the American people, at the urging of the national security establishment. He was the new Hitler. He was going to conquer the world.

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Input: Litvinenko asked her what was wrong. She told him: “Alexander, I’m very afraid,” and said that every time she said goodbye to her daughter and son she had the feeling she was looking at them “for the last time”. He urged her to leave Russia. She said she could not – her parents were old, she had kids. In October 2006, Politkovskaya was shot dead in the stairwell of her Moscow apartment.

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Input: The buyer was Russian fertiliser billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev, who was reported in the Panama Papers leaks to have used offshore law firms to hide more than $ 2bn-worth of art works, including pieces by Picasso, Van Gogh and Leonardo, from his wife in advance of their divorce. Yanukovych, Gazprom and more Facebook Twitter Pinterest Viktor Yanukovych used to employ Paul Manafort, Trump’s campaign manager before being ousted as Ukrainian president in 2014. He is now exiled in Russia. Photograph: Ivan Sekretarev / AP

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Input: The researchers said the technology used was similar to lead-cooled thermal reactors used by Soviet submarines. The UK Government has expressed an interest in using small modular nuclear reactors, which could provide heat to local communities as well as generating electricity. But John Large, a British independent nuclear consultant who advised the Russian government after the nuclear submarine Kursk sank in 2000, dismissed the suggestion the Chinese reactors might be an option. “The lead-bismuth reactor, in my opinion, would n’t be developable to an acceptably safe point because it is fundamentally unsafe,” he said. World news in pictures

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Input: George W. Bush’s Justice Department pressured U.S. Attorneys to prosecute the widespread vote fraud they insisted must be happening and fired two of them when they reported none could be found. John McCain in 2008 accused ACORN, without credible evidence, of “maybe perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in voter history in this country, maybe destroying the fabric of democracy.” Studies have found that Republican-controlled states have enacted voting restrictions in response to higher levels of minority turnout. In North Carolina, Republican lawmakers and staffers requested racial breakdowns of different voting methods, then crafted a bill that would “target African-Americans with almost surgical precision,” a federal judge wrote.

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Input: I will pay for the legal fees. I promise." The next month, he said he was looking into paying the legal fees of a man who had sucker-punched a protester at a Trump rally. But when Trump was challenged on his apparent incitement to violence, he insisted that he’d never offered to pay for the man’s legal fees. A president who refuses to admit mistakes would be a disaster

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Input: Referring to areas in the West Bank and present-day Israel, Israeli Education Minister Naftali Bennett, a member of the ultra-nationalist Jewish Home party, said:" We will build in Sarona and Kiryat Arba, in Jaffa and Jerusalem, in Itamar and Beersheba." Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel, the girl's cousin and a key figure in the Israeli settlement movement, said building settlements was needed "now more than ever" and called for "Israeli sovereignty" in the West Bank. Yehuda Glick, a far-right Israeli politician, called for Israel to annex the West Bank and Jewish-Israelis to increase their excursions into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, the third holiest site for Muslims. More than 530,000 Israelis live in settlements-considered illegal under international law-across the West Bank, according to the Israeli rights group B'Tselem. Source: Al Jazeera

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Input: “That’s some of what I think is coming through. It’s her battle armor that’s on,” she added. “Each and everyone of us have experienced that issue,” said Sen. Tammy Baldwin Tammy BaldwinIn Wisconsin, Trump touts ' earn while you learn ' jobs push Dem senator presses Trump for combat ship funding Congressional Democrats going the wrong way on carried interest tax MORE (D-Wis.). Female senators say it’s ridiculous that Clinton gets maligned for shouting while Sanders gets a pass. When asked about the perception that Clinton shouts, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen Jeanne ShaheenSenate overwhelmingly passes Russia sanctions deal Russia sanctions deal clears key Senate hurdle Overnight Cybersecurity: Sessions denies Russia collusion | First agency gets ' A ' grade on IT | Feds out North Korean botnet | Unusual security update for Windows XP MORE (D-N.H.) quipped, “unlike Bernie Sanders who’s so relaxed.”

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Input: Gandhi was blunter – if anything, less tactful than Nixon. Kissinger later wrote that her tone was that of “a professor praising a slightly backward student,” which Nixon received with the “glassy-eyed politeness” that he showed when trying to muscle down his resentment. She ripped into US arms shipments to Pakistan, which had outraged the Indian people, despite her efforts to restrain her public. She hammered away at Pakistan’s “persistent ‘hate India’ campaign,” which she blamed for the two previous India-Pakistan wars. Then she gave an expansive denunciation of Pakistan.

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Input: Hide Caption 9 of 10 Photos: Aleppo photographer watches city die There is still fresh produce in the market stalls but it is more difficult to bring into the city, and much more expensive than even a few weeks ago. Hide Caption 10 of 10 The United States wants a nationwide ceasefire in Syria between the regime and the rebels to create the conditions for UN-led political talks to end the five-year civil war. The US-backed moderate opposition has refused to resume the UN-led talks unless a cessation of hostilities take hold and the regime and Russia end the siege and bombing of Aleppo." The opposition tells us they want to reach a deal with the Russians if in fact it would stop some of the worst forms of violence against the Syrian people," a second senior administration official said.

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Input: The inbound flights are getting rerouted to Krasnodar. The Emergencies Ministry has opened up a hotline while a team of psychologists has been sent to help the grieving relatives. Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed has expressed condolences to the relatives and loved ones of the crashed Boeing. “The Russian president feels deeply for all those who lost their loved ones in the Boeing 737 crash in Rostov-on-Don,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov announced on Saturday, stressing that the president has made it a priority to provide all possible assistance to the relatives of the victims. The Russian Defense Ministry has joined the recovery operation following the crash of the Boeing-737 -800, it said in a statement.

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Input: Increasingly, Chinese-owned factories in Siberia churn out finished goods, as if the region already were a part of the Middle Kingdom's economy." According to Reuters, Chinese firms already lease or control at least 1.5 million acres of land in Russia's Far East. Critics of Putin's land grab plan say it will only increase the amount of Chinese workers immigrating in masses across the border to work on newly-developed Russian farms. Countered one Chinese businessman:" I think the Russians need to understand that if they don't allow Chinese investment or Japanese investment or Korean investment here, they will actually lose the place."

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Input: Yet there is no doubt that she would take a very hard line toward Moscow. Among other things, Clinton recommended that the United States impose a no-fly zone in Syria despite the risk that it could mean shooting down Russian military aircraft that were operating at the request of the Syrian government. Anyone who is that reckless is not likely to retreat from confrontations in eastern Europe or other arenas. Indeed, she has already called for not only more financial assistance but more military aid to Ukraine. Even though Russia is now a weakened conventional power exhibiting little more than regional ambitions, rather than a malignantly expansionist totalitarian state with global ambitions, the bulk of the U.S. foreign policy establishment treats Moscow as though little has changed since the days of Leonid Brezhnev, if not Joseph Stalin.

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Input: “It’s really rare to find an intact burial like this, because an infant’s bones are so small and fragile,” says Jungklaus. Laid to rest not long after it turned six months old, the baby is almost perfectly preserved, its arms folded across its tiny chest. The bones and nearby soil are stained red from ochre pigment used to decorate the body for burial. The excellent preservation offers researchers a wealth of information. Chemical signatures in the bones, for example, could show whether the infant was breast-fed; DNA could establish links to other skeletons in the cemetery and determine the infant’s gender.

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Input: Calls for Obama to reconsider his approach have been stirred anew by the latest attacks, which included homemade bombs in New York and New Jersey and stabbings in a Minnesota mall. The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria took credit for the Minnesota attack on Saturday reportedly carried out by Dahir Adan, a 22-year -old Somali-American who worked at a private security firm. Nine people were wounded in the stabbings; Adan was shot and killed by an off-duty police officer. In New Jersey, Ahmad Khan Rahami, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Afghanistan, was arrested Monday in connection with bombs left in New York City and Seaside Park, N.J. The manhunt for Rahami, arrested after a shootout in New Jersey, instantly gave the GOP standard-bearer new fodder.

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Input: That may encourage Thailand, controlled by a military regime, to cooperate when China seeks out dissidents living in tropical exile. Thailand’s foreign minister, himself an army general, even gushed late last year that he would “fall in love” with his Chinese counterpart if only he were female. The hard-learned lesson for Chinese dissidents: If you plan to flee, try to flee farther than China’s backyard. Prominent classified intelligence leakers sought by America — namely Julian Assange and Edward Snowden — have sought refuge with the help of Ecuador and Russia, among a small number of nations willing to defy the world’s leading superpower. Likewise, as China ascends, it too is expanding the pool of countries willing to help capture dissidents on the lam.

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Input: He has for his entire campaign operated under the theory that all publicity is good publicity, that he’ll dominate at the polls if he can dominate each news cycle with his latest outrage — and, for a long time, it worked. But the act is wearing thin. He has faced building criticism from conservatives and fellow Republicans for encouraging Russia to hack Clinton’s emails, for apparently being unaware of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and for senselessly and repeatedly attacking the Muslim parents of a slain American soldier. His refusal Tuesday to support Paul Ryan or John McCain in their primaries (both men are supporting him) will surely heighten the criticism. Polls show Clinton rebuilding the substantial lead she had before the conventions and before the FBI director’s scalding comments on her emails.

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Input: Moreover, she says this would be in violation of international trade rules and Mexico and China would respond by going to the World Trade Organization, where they would win a judgment. Or they could retaliate against U.S. goods, such as agricultural products, which would "inflict great damage." Trump would impose tariffs on some goods from Mexico and huge penalties on imports from China, from 25 percent to 45 percent. These countries are cheating America on trade, he charges. But trade specialists note that he couldn't do this unilaterally.

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Input: In 1981 an epidemic of dengue hemorrhagic fever swept the island, the first major epidemic of DHF ever in the Americas. The United States had long been experimenting with using dengue fever as a weapon. Cuba asked the United States for a pesticide to eradicate the mosquito involved but were not given it. Over 300,000 cases were reported in Cuba with 158 fatalities. These are but three examples of decades-long CIA chemical and biological warfare (CBW) against Cuba.

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Input: There is no longer any such thing as a Republican who is not conservative. The collapse of the George W. Bush administration was greeted among his party not as an indictment of its fanatical tax-cutting, deregulatory agenda and failed effort to privatize Social Security, but as evidence that Bush was not conservative enough. During the Obama administration, a spate of right-wing primary challenges eradicated what was left of the party’s vestigial moderate wing and cowed its remaining mainstream members into submission. That the contemporary Republican Party shares a name with the Republican Party of the 1970s — or even of the’ 80s or’ 90s — has created massive confusion over just how distinct its worldview is. According to one measure of ideology used widely by political scientists, the most conservative Republican in the House 25 years ago, when the House attacked a Republican president for the heresy of increasing taxes, would be among the most liberal House Republicans today.

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Input: "There is no evidence of ' cash payments ' made to me by any official in Ukraine." This is not the first time Manafort has been accused of trying to take advantage of Ukraine's corrupt political environment for financial gain. Manafort also attempted to set up an offshore real-estate partnership with Dmitry Firtash, a notorious Ukrainian businessman who donated to Yanukovych's pro-Russia political party, according to documents uncovered in 2014. Firtash is wanted by the FBI on bribery charges. Manafort has also worked with the Russian oligarch and Putin ally Oleg Deripaska on investment deals in New York and Ukraine, The Guardian reported.

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Input: Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: In one of the most anticipated debates in U.S. history, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton sparred last night on race, terrorism, trade and jobs, in their first of three debates before the November election. Today we’re airing excerpts from the debate and expanding the debate by giving Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein a chance to respond to the same questions posed to the major-party candidates. Stein and Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson were excluded from last night’s debate at Hofstra University under stringent rules set by the Commission on Presidential Debates, which is controlled by the Democratic and Republican parties. On Monday afternoon, Jill Stein was escorted off the campus by Hofstra security and Nassau County police as she attempted to do an interview with MSNBC.

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Input: Sanders America will not have more people in jail than any other country when he is president. 9:34: Sanders says issues concerning the broken criminal justice system can not be swept under the rug. He says an African-American baby being born today has a one-in-four chance of being incarcerated. He says blacks and whites smoke marijuana equally but four times as many blacks get arrested for it. He says sentencing for blacks re: traffic offenses is four times as high for blacks than whites.

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Input: North Korea had tested a nuclear weapon on Thursday night, prompting an emergency meeting by the United Nations Security Council. “As a Senator I voted for every sanction that was put before the Senate against Iran, in our effort to try to prevent Iran from moving forward on a nuclear program,” Clinton said, speaking to reporters after convening a meeting on national security in New York. “They were able to acquire and put into operation a significant number of centrifuges, so our sanctions, despite our best efforts, were not enough and although we have international sanctions against North Korea ... they are n’t enough either.” Clinton said one reason that sanctions are not “enough” is because China has not recognized the threat that North Korea presents, and she said that working with China would be “on the top of [her] list.” The meeting, a “working session” that took place at the New York Historical Society in Manhattan, focused largely on the threat of the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, and other terrorist groups.

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Input: Investors from local farmers to billionaire tycoons are pumping money into the business. Russian wheat has crowded out U.S. supplies in Egypt, the world’s biggest buyer, and is gaining footholds in some other countries, such as Nigeria, Bangladesh and Indonesia. That’s four decades after the Soviet Union turned to U.S. shipments of wheat and corn to offset shortfalls in its own harvests. Over the last decade, Russia has been the biggest single source of growth in wheat exports, vital to meeting surging global demand. “Russia will be among the top exporters for a long time, especially given the potential advances in productivity there,” said Tom Basnett, general manager at Market Check, a Sydney-based commodity consultant.

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Input: Roughly 40% of the crude imported from Iran was refined at Essar Oil's massive refinery in the state of Gujarat. Now that the refinery is under new ownership, it's likely to be processing more shipments from Russia. Lalit Kumar Gupta, Essar Oil's chief executive officer, told Bloomberg in August that shipments from Iran would decline if Rosneft bought a stake in the Indian firm." When they are on board we will see how much to buy, what to buy," he said. Now, Iran might need to find new buyers in a global market already saturated with supply.

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Input: He even suggested that one leaked email, where a Politico columnist asked Podesta to fact-check part of a story he was writing, was evidence this is “a media-rigged election.” Unlike Clinton, Trump’s polling numbers have only nosedived for the last two weeks since The Washington Post reported he once bragged about grabbing women “by the pussy” without their consent. In the last presidential debate, he promised to try to incarcerate Clinton if elected and tried to make an issue out of Bill Clinton’s past sexual misconduct. He also said he had never sexually assaulted anyone — a remark that prompted ten women to publicly accuse him of sexual misconduct. His campaign’s circumstances have only grown more dire since then, which means he’s likely to feel completely liberated on the debate stage.

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Input: “For the Turks, this was a test of loyalty, and Europe failed it.” Yet Europe is right to fear that the crackdown on suspected Gulen sympathisers has spun out of control. Over 80,000 people have been arrested, sacked or suspended, including soldiers, judges, teachers, policemen, businessmen and even football officials. Nearly 100 journalists have been detained and more than a hundred media outlets shut down; ordinary criminals have been set free to make room for political cases. Many of those purged appear to have only tenuous links to the Gulenists.

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Input: Had Sanders lied to his supporters or was he making important compromises? We hear a lot about how smart Hillary Clinton is, but it’s important to point out that she has been caught in plenty of lies, too. Blaming the fact that we know about these lies on Russia is yet another sign of flawed thinking. It’s a classic example of a “red herring,” where you avoid dealing with an issue by creating a distraction. Since Clinton had to deal with a lot of false accusations, she used those unwarranted attacks to avoid talking about any of the valid concerns the public had.

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Input: But stepping into the human zone for even a few minutes backfired. The actor Mandy Patinkin, who played Inigo Montoya in the film, reacted with horror when he learned Cruz was doing his character's famous line "You killed my father, prepare to die." He accused Cruz of deliberately leaving out the key line in Montoya's speech, after he finally slays the man who killed his father:" I've been in the revenge business for so long, now that it's over, I don't know what to do with the rest of my life." Patinkin believed Cruz didn't do that line because Cruz is himself in the revenge business, promising to "carpet-bomb [ISIS] into oblivion" and wondering if "sand can glow." Related Meet the Canadian Welcoming Americans If Trump Wins Rob Calabrese sees an opportunity to solve Cape Breton Island's population crisis in America's presidential election

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Input: This is eerily similar to the situation faced by Franklin Delano Roosevelt when he took office in March of 1933, in the midst of the Great Depression. Europe was going fascist, but at this time Americans resisted fascism and supported FDR. After FDR died, J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI ran a terrifying witch hunt against everyone who collaborated with FDR, and later targetted President Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr, both of whom were assassinated. Today, after 15 years of Bush and Obama, in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks, it is the government of the United States which is fascist, and the American people who have become the legendary “good Germans” and accommodated themselves to an FBI and Wall Street dictatorship. Look at the world today.

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Input: Two of the four reasons refer to LGBT concerns: reason # 79 says that she lobbied for the first-ever resolution on LGBT rights before the U.N. Human Rights Council; reason # 80 says she made LGBT rights a priority of U.S. foreign policy. For the other two reasons, # 34 asserts that Clinton negotiated a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas "that ended the rain of rockets on Israel;" and reason # 100 gives her the distinction of being the only candidate who has actually "built international coalitions" that advanced American values and made the world safer, without giving any examples or details. These four are presented as her greatest foreign policy triumphs.

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Input: “At this time, I don't have any new insights or commentary to share beyond the facts that I presented [earlier],” he told NBC News. Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort dismissed allegations of Russian complicity in the leak of DNC emails Monday, as the FBI announced that it is investigating what it called “a cyber intrusion involving the DNC and are working to determine the nature and scope of the matter.” "A compromise of this nature is something we take very seriously,” said the FBI in a statement, “and the FBI will continue to investigate and hold accountable those who pose a threat in cyberspace.”

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Input: NATO member Turkey hosts American troops and warplanes at its Incirlik Air Base, an important staging area for the U.S.-led fight against Islamic State militants in neighboring Iraq and Syria. The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford tried to soothe strained ties with Turkey during a visit to Incirlik and Ankara just over a week ago. In Ankara he inspected the damage inflicted by the plotters’ fighter jets on the Turkish parliament building. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to visit Turkey on Aug. 24. Turkish authorities have said the country’s intelligence service has cracked into several smartphone messaging apps that Gulen’s followers used to communicate with each other in the years ahead of the coup attempt and was able to trace tens of thousands of people from the group.

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Input: The girls testified they were lured to Epstein’s home after being promised hundreds of dollars to be his model or masseuse, but when they arrived, he ordered them to take off their clothes and massage his naked body while he masturbated and used sex toys on them. The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida prepared charging documents that accused Epstein of child sex abuse, witness tampering and money laundering, but Epstein took a plea deal before an indictment could be handed up. On Sept. 24, 2007, in a deal shrouded in secrecy that left alleged victims shocked at its leniency, Epstein agreed to a 30-month sentence, including 18 months of jail time and 12 months of house arrest and the agreement to pay dozens of young girls under a federal statute providing for compensation to victims of child sexual abuse. In exchange, the U.S. Attorney’s Office promised not to pursue any federal charges against Epstein or his co-conspirators. Florida attorney Brad Edwards, who represented some of Epstein’s alleged victims, is suing the federal government over the secret non-prosecution agreement in hopes of having it overturned.

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Input: Its membership had been growing over years of prison raids freeing Islamist militants, while leadership was strengthened with the addition of military and intelligence officers who served under Saddam Hussein. Isis already held several towns and swathes of territory across Iraq and Syria but did not come to international attention until it captured Mosul, sparking the declaration of a state of emergency by the Iraqi government as soldiers fled their posts. The group’s subsequent advance and international expansion, marked by waves of brutal executions and terror attacks, has been well-documented. As well as international bombing campaigns in Iraq and Syria, the US-led coalition is attempting to throttle Isis’ revenue streams and resources.

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Input: I don't know if it was meant to be a compliment,” he said. Then he offered his own backhanded compliment. “I will say this about Hillary: She doesn't quit. She doesn't give up. I respect that.

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Input: She may be all of these things, because as we shall see, Huma Abedin has an interesting and complex career history. Politico and several other Beltway media outlets followed up on Stone’s previous appearance on Breitbart News Daily: “Trump Ally: Clinton Aide Could Be ‘Terrorist Agent’”: In the wake of Sunday’s deadly terrorist shooting in Orlando, Donald Trump’s longtime friend and informal adviser wants the presumptive Republican nominee to hit Hillary Clinton even harder, suggesting the former secretary of state’s top aide Huma Abedin could be a “Saudi spy” or a “terrorist agent.” Only Trump, Roger Stone said on Sirius XM’s “Breitbart News Daily,” will be able to draw the necessary amount of attention to the theories, which have drawn significant blowback from Democrats and Republicans alike. “I also think that now that Islamic terrorism is going to be front and center, there’s going to be a new focus on whether this administration, the administration of Hillary Clinton at State was permeated at the highest levels by Saudi intelligence and others who are not loyal Americans,” Stone said. “I speak specifically of Huma Abedin, the right-hand woman, now vice-chairman or co-chairman of vice — of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.”

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Input: But the weaker regulations also make it potentially easier for arms smugglers and human rights abusers to get their hands on US arms. For example, 36 US allies — from Argentina and Bulgaria to Romania and Turkey — will no longer need licenses from the State Department to import weapons and weapons parts from the United States. This will make it far easier for smuggling networks to set up front companies in such countries and get US arms and arms components that they can then pass on to third parties like Iran or China. Already a common practice, it will only increase under the new regulations. The degree to which the Obama administration has been willing to bend over backward to help weapons exporters was underscored at a 2013 hearing on those administration export “reforms.” Tom Kelly, then the deputy assistant secretary of the State Department’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, caught the spirit of the era when asked whether the administration was doing enough to promote American arms exports.

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Input: Blue Burmese, an anonymous blogger, described the social media comments as "protesting for the BBC to cover our protest", while Bryan Bastable – a trainer at assistive technology company Vocendi – questioned why the BBC was covering protests in Brazil, but not London. Moballeghi said:" I don't think it is surprising that the mainstream media don't give these protests the attention they deserve. While it's not the case they ignore it completely, they definitely fit it into an editorial that doesn't give the protest much weight." They could just as easily decide to run with a story like this and put pressure on the politicians to respond to these calls," she added." But that's just the nature of the mainstream press and I don't think anyone here would be surprised at the style or tone of coverage."

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Input: Over the past five millennia, politicians have repeatedly turned to large walls to solve problems. We should look carefully at the track record of this ancient technology before we invest what some estimates suggest could be $ 25 billion in construction costs for a 2,000-mile -long wall, plus millions more in annual maintenance. One of the earliest examples of a large-scale barrier wall was constructed by the rulers of the city of Ur, in what is now southern Iraq, at the end of the third millennium B.C. The kings of Ur faced a considerable challenge along their northwestern border from a semi-nomadic people known as the Amorites. Cuneiform texts suggest that Amorites not only pressed in on grazing lands but also for decades had moved into the cities of southern Mesopotamia, where they were regularly identified as foreigners.

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Input: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) A TOP scientist claims US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton may have been poisoned by her rival Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin – which caused her to collapse at a 9/11 memorial event. Bennet Omalu, an established forensic pathologist, warned campaign officials to get Clinton’s blood checked for possible poison after she was caught on camera appearing to faint at a 9/11 service. Getty Images 5 A well-established doctor claims Hilary Clinton is being poisoned

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Input: A mysterious online group calling itself “The Shadow Brokers” is claiming to have penetrated the National Security Agency, stolen some of its malware, and is auctioning off the files to the highest bidder. The authenticity of the files can not be confirmed but appear to be legitimate, according to security researchers who have studied their content. Their release comes on the heels of a series of disclosures of emails and documents belonging mostly to Democratic officials, but also to Republicans.

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Input: Wuhayeb asks each if he is Sunni or Shiite, and when they say Sunni, he quizzes them on how many times one bows during prayer. When they get it wrong, three of them admit to being Alawites, a Shiite offshoot sect, and Wuhayeb and his men lay the three drivers in the dirt and shoot them to death. After Wuhayeb's killing, ISIS killed several dozen of its own members in Anbar, including some mid-level officials, on suspicion of informing on his location, and other members fled to Turkey, the two intelligence officials said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the press. Some of the suspects were shot dead in front of other ISIS fighters as a lesson, the Iraqi officials said.

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Input: Sanders says he believes that comprehensive immigration reform needs to be passed and we have to move toward a path to citizenship. He agrees with Obama’s use of executive orders to enact amnesty. Sanders says he wants to “bring families together, not divide them up” re: his immigration agenda. Sanders says he will use executive orders to grant a path to citizenship for all of the country’s illegal immigrants. Clinton says she agrees with Obama’s executive amnesty.

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Input: (Photo: Andrew Medichini, AP) Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday warned that the United States would stop talking to Moscow about ending Syria's civil war unless it ends the onslaught in the city of Aleppo by Russian and Syrian government forces. Kerry's warning came as Pope Francis assailed the assault on civilians in what was Syria's largest city, saying the perpetrators will be held “accountable to God” for their actions. Over the past week in Aleppo, Russian and Syrian war planes have unleashed the worst aerial bombardment in the 5-year -old war. More than 200 people have been killed, according to human rights groups.

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Input: Humanitarian aid collected by Russian religious communities to be delivered to Syria In April 2017, the Council for Communications with Religious Communities that reports to the Russian President set up a workgroup for assistance to the population of Syria Putin to hold talks with Kyrgyz president in Kremlin The sides are expected to sign a document on stepping up the alliance and strategic partnership between Moscow and Bishkek Russian daredevil detained on rooftop after climbing Moscow skyscraper (VIDEOS) The self-styled "Russian Spiderman" conquering a 72-story building in the capital � s Moscow City business center has been met by police and emergencies services on the rooftop. The stunt Ve?er: Border ruling will have consequences in both countries The upcoming decision of the arbitral tribunal on the border between Slovenia and Croatia, regardless of the fact that Croatia's withdrawal from the arbitration agreement is null and void under in

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Input: She had less of a presence on TV in March and April 2017 but resurfaced to discuss Trump’s firing of FBI director James Comey. Though Conway had been notably missing from media (which SNL parodied in a recent skit," Where in the World Is Kellyanne Conway? "), she appeared on CNN with Anderson Cooper to discuss Comey's removal as FBI director. During her appearance, Conway reiterated that Comey's firing was not due to the current investigation into Russia's role in the recent election and Cooper rolled his eyes when she brought up winning Michigan in the election. (Conway later attributed his reaction to sexism.)

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Input: The deteriorating situation has been exacerbated by continued Russian and Syrian government attacks on hospitals, the water supply and other civilian infrastructure in Aleppo, he said. Lavrov countered that a number of anti-government groups described by Washington as “moderates” refused to follow the cease-fire and chose to side with al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, the Nusra Front, according to Russian state-owned broadcaster RT. The pope, speaking in St. Peter’s Square on Wednesday, said: “In expressing my deep sorrow and lively concern for what is happening in that already battered city — where children, the elderly, the sick, young and old, all are dying — I renew my appeal to everyone to commit themselves with all their strength to the protection of civilians as an imperative and urgent obligation.” More than 250,000 civilians are thought to be trapped inside rebel-held parts of Aleppo, which had a pre-war population of more than 2 million. Syrian government forces carried out the biggest ground assault yet in their new offensive Tuesday, Reuters reported.

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Input: Referring to areas in the West Bank and present-day Israel, Israeli Education Minister Naftali Bennett, a member of the ultra-nationalist Jewish Home party, said:" We will build in Sarona and Kiryat Arba, in Jaffa and Jerusalem, in Itamar and Beersheba." Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel, the girl's cousin and a key figure in the Israeli settlement movement, said building settlements was needed "now more than ever" and called for "Israeli sovereignty" in the West Bank. Yehuda Glick, a far-right Israeli politician, called for Israel to annex the West Bank and Jewish-Israelis to increase their excursions into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, the third holiest site for Muslims. More than 530,000 Israelis live in settlements-considered illegal under international law-across the West Bank, according to the Israeli rights group B'Tselem. Source: Al Jazeera

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Input: I see the similarities." Asked to imagine a President Trump, the women in Phoenix call out in a cascade:" doomed," "scary," "hang on" and "are you joking?" The women, participants in focus groups convened by pollsters Neil Newhouse, a Republican, and Margie Omero, a Democrat, talked about the major party candidates as reporters watched from an office in Washington. Election 2016 | Live coverage on Trail Guide | Sign up for the newsletter The sessions were part of a project sponsored by Wal-Mart that for eight years has examined the attitudes of what the company calls Wal-Mart moms, women who shop at one of the giant retailer’s stores.

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Input: Syrians are also able to report violations of the truce by other means, including texting, emailing, or contacting the State Department via Google Voice. According to Syria Direct, some have decided to report the breaches instead to a United Nations hotline, which is manned by a native Arabic speaker. The UN’s special envoy for the Syrian crisis, Staffan de Mistura, said yesterday that the ceasefire had so far been successful despite scattered incidents of violence in the Homs, Hama, Lataki and Damascus provinces. “Success is not guaranteed but progress is visible,” he told reporters in Geneva. State Department spokesman John Kirby said this week that US had not been informed of “any claims of any additional violations of any significance” since the truce took effect over the weekend, but Syrians were sceptical.

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Input: According to three Republicans familiar with that event, Trump was confronted by several supporters there, including mega-donor Rebekah Mercer, about news reports on his advisers’ desire to tame his personality. The three Republicans requested anonymity due to sensitivity of the campaign's transition and their relationships with Trump, Bannon and Conway. Trump was visibly infuriated at the news stories, the Republicans said, and he conferred with Mercer about potential steps he might take to remake his campaign and populate his inner circle with voices more like his own. Bannon’s name soon came up. Mercer, the daughter of hedge-fund titan Robert Mercer, spoke highly of him.

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Input: Related: Trump baffles Mississippi with ' Brexit ' rallying cry Beyond its pet issues and principles, like most "-isms," the term is best understood by looking at its adherents. You have put-on provocateurs like Breitbart "tech editor" Milo Yiannopoulos, who coasted to mini-stardom online by preaching against P.C. culture, deflecting all criticism with his identity as an openly gay man who dresses like Macklemore. You have über-libertarian and Sandy Hook and 9/11 Truther Alex Jones, who runs the Sovereign-Citizen-style news network InfoWars.com, which warns viewers about government-regulated water turning frogs gay.

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Input: "I have the information and facts that have never been published." Russia was suspended from international athletics in November after a special commission of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) exposed widespread state-sponsored cheating and corruption. Kamayev, who quit as executive director of Russia's Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) two months ago, died last weekend at the age of 52. A Taas news agency report said it appeared his death was caused by a heart attack. Kamayev stood down from his position, along with the rest of the senior RUSADA management, in mid-December as Russia began working on lifting the suspension in time for its athletes to compete at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in August.

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Input: More than two thousand of those deer have already died, all of them in the Yamalo-Nenetsky area. This territory is located above the Arctic Circle, and is generally known for a very long winter that lasts up to 8 months, and extremely low temperatures, reaching -70 degrees Celsius. A total of 90 people, half of them children, were taken to hospital after being evacuated from the remote area where the infection spread. Most of them tested negative for the disease. Yamal residents are collecting donations for the evacuees, who had to leave most of their possessions behind.

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Input: “It shows [Teeter] come up behind him and reach out her left hand and grab his shoulder. [She] was pulling him back, and he lifted up his right hand to get her off of him, and she fell.” The video, which is somewhat unclear, shows Campbell stumbling at about 0:35, and shows Teeter following him, then reaching out to him at about 0:55. It does not show the precise moment at which Campbell reacts and Teeter falls. Smith told Breitbart News that Teeter returned to protesting after the incident, and was later photographed smiling.

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Input: 10/15 Senator Al Franken was joined on stage by comedian and actress Sarah Silverman, with critics praising their double act Getty Images 11/15 Delegates danced joyously at the convention in the Wells Fargo Center as musical entertainment was provided Getty Images 12/15 Pop singer Demi Lovato told the DNC she was "living with mental illness" before performing her hit single ' Confident ' Getty Images 13/15 Legendary singer-songwriter Paul Simon was another high-profile performer to entertain the crowd on day one Getty Images 14/15 Anastasia Somoza, an international disability rights advocate, also delivered remarks on the first day of the convention Getty Images

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Input: Oil prices have dropped below $ 30 a barrel in recent months, a fall of 70 percent since 2014. Al Jazeera's Bernard Smith, reporting from Doha, said that the challenge would be to get other producing countries, including Iran, to freeze production as well. Iran's IRNA news agency said on Sunday the country had exported its first crude shipment to Europe since it reached a landmark deal last year with world powers. IRNA quoted Rokneddin Javadi, Iran's deputy oil minister, as saying the shipment, the first in five years, marked "a new chapter" in Iran's oil industry. Javadi said Iran had already reached an agreement to export oil to France, Russia and Spain.

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Input: And a lot of really smart, wealthy people know that, and they are saying," Hey, we need to do more to make the contributions we should be making to rebuild the middle class." I do n’t think top-down works in America. I think building the middle class, investing in the middle class, making college debt-free so more young people can get their education, helping people refinance their — their debt from college at a lower rate — those are the kinds of things that will really boost the economy. Broad-based, inclusive growth is what we need in America, not more advantages for people at the very top. LESTER HOLT: Mr. Trump, we’re —

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Input: But he added that "our campaign plan is predicated on providing support to and enabling indigenous ground forces, and so, that strategy and that approach has been working." So far, U.S. operations against ISIS have cost $ 6.5 billion since August 2014, about $ 11.4 million per day for 571 days, according to a new Pentagon estimate on Friday. Republicans in Congress have blasted the administration for not moving faster and not taking more action against ISIS. After Secretary of State John Kerry John KerryTillerson: ' My view did n’t change ' on Paris climate agreement CORRECTED: Three members of Mueller's team have donated to Democrats Kerry: New Iran sanctions may be dangerous MORE on Thursday formally labeled ISIS's crimes as "genocide," the first time since 2004 the U.S. has used that term — Republicans called upon the administration to do more to defeat the group." Now that our government is recognizing this crisis, it needs to do more to stop it," House Speaker Paul Ryan Paul RyanRepublicans and the lost promise of local control in education Ryan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax push Overnight Finance: Ryan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax reform | Warren targets Wells Fargo board | Senators raise concerns over Russian takeover of Citgo | Pelosi hits GOP for budget delays MORE (R-Wis.) said Thursday.

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Input: However, while the mainstream media pounced on this story, the same media sources have been largely silent about the many documents WikiLeaks released the same day that reflect badly on Hillary Clinton. As The New American reported last week, WikiLeaks ' Julian Assange promised to release a new batch of leaked documents each week for 10 weeks, descibing the troves of documents as “significant material on war, arms, oil, Google, the election and mass surveillance” that show “interesting features of U.S. power factions and how they operate.” The documents released Friday comprised the first batch of this material. That first installment includes the Podesta e-mails — 2,060 e-mails involving, among other things, evidence that Hillary Clinton, as secretary of state, approved her part of the deal to transfer control of a company called “Uranium One” to Russian interests — along with giving Russia “effective control of one-fifth of all uranium production capacity in the United States.” Meanwhile, the Clinton Foundation received millions of dollars in “donations” from “individuals directly connected to the deal including the Chairman of Uranium One, Ian Telfer.” Furthermore, though Secretary Clinton was required to disclose all donors to the Clinton Foundation, the “donations” from Tefler were not disclosed. And, just to top it off, when the New York Times reported on this scandal last year, Clinton Campaign spokesman Brian Fallon denied the allegations in an e-mail to the Times, saying:

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Input: However, it added that the plan was dependent on ending all sieges, allowing in humanitarian aid, releasing all detainees and ending bombardments by ground or air. The British foreign secretary, Philip Hammond, expressed scepticism about the ceasefire. Speaking to the House of Commons, he said: “Whatever the technicalities, the big picture is this: unless the level of Russian airstrikes dramatically decreases, this ceasefire will not hold because the moderate armed opposition can not lay down their weapons and will not lay down their weapons while they are being annihilated from the air. “The ceasefire agreement will allow continuing operations against Daesh [Isis] and al-Nusra, and no one would disagree with that. The problem is the Russians claim to date that all of their action has been against those groups, so on the face of it the Russians could be entering into this arrangement on the basis that they are not going to change their behaviour at all.

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Input: WATCH: Get a glimpse of the well-preserved, 8,400-year -old skeleton of a baby found in Germany. One possible explanation comes from hundreds of miles to the northeast. Standing burials similar to the one at Gross Fredenwalde have been found in a cemetery called Olenij Ostrov in modern-day Russia, from about the same time. Researchers have long assumed culture flowed into ancient Europe from the south, but these odd burials suggest that there was active migration or communication across northern Europe as well. “This man is an indication of such eastern influences,” Terberger says; DNA results from his bones might be able to tease out the connections.

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Input: Instead of spending a trillion dollars creating a new generation of nuclear weapons and modes of delivery, it’s time to instead change direction here and move as quickly as humanly possible towards nuclear disarmament. And instead of blaming the Russians, we need to acknowledge it was actually the Russians who tried to engage us in a nuclear disarmament process, again, several decades ago. We need to revive that proposal, take them up on it and move to nuclear disarmament — excuse me — as quickly as we possibly can, because this is sitting on an absolute catastrophe into which we could stumble at any point, particularly given the crazy circular firing squad that’s taking place now around Syria, where there are so many allies at cross-purposes with each other that any of us could be dragged into a larger, full-scale, and even nuclear, war at any moment. And it’s important to remember, not only is this a trillion dollars which has been proposed — actually, is underway, a trillion dollars’ worth of spending over the next decade and a half, approximately, on new nuclear weapons, but let’s look at our whole war budget, which is half of our discretionary budget. Nearly half of your income taxes are going to pay for these absolutely catastrophic wars.

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Input: We must act affirmatively to protect the Internet and the amazing engine for economic growth and opportunity the Internet has become, and I urge my colleagues to support this legislation.” The Texas Republican has been among the most vocal voices in Congress with regards to preventing the NTIA’s Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions from expiring, and urged the Government Accountability Office last September “to determine whether the agency has the legal authority to conduct such a transfer to a nongovernmental entity without congressional approval.” “The likes of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Chinese President Xi Jinping should not dictate what can be read, written, distributed, bought and sold on the Internet,” Mr. Cruz warned in a 2014 op-ed. “Countries that do not give their own people the right to speak freely deserve no say in what Americans can say and do on the Internet.” As the NTIA’s oversight role nears expiration, however, the former presidential hopeful’s latest push is being punctuated by fellow Republican members of Congress and conservative groups alike.

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Input: Surely the media critics do n’t expect the press to ignore all the indefensible nonsense, pluck out the least indefensible hedge across multiple appearances, and present that to the American people as what Trump really and truly meant? That would be hugely misleading! (The media critics are themselves misled. Note that Gobry, who accuses the media of twisting Trump’s words, purports to agree with Hemingway, though her complaint is that the media presents Trump’s words too literally.) Now, despite the challenges that the media face, there were better and worse ways to cover the ISIS story; some journalists excelled, while others stumbled or even failed.

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Input: Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu was reported as saying Saudi Arabia will send aircraft to Turkey's Incirlik air base to support the air campaign against Islamic State in Syria." Saudi Arabia is now sending planes to Turkey, to Incirlik. They came and carried out inspections at the base," Cavusoglu told the Yeni Safak newspaper, adding it was unclear how many planes would come and that the Saudis might also send soldiers. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Saturday in Munich there was no need to scare anyone with a ground operation in Syria. Two Syrian rebel commanders told Reuters on Friday insurgents had been sent "excellent quantities" of Grad rockets with a range of 20 km (12 miles) by foreign backers in recent days to help confront the Russian-backed offensive in Aleppo.

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Input: He’s not taking it, and recommending that Trump stop being Trump is making Republicans look daft. It creates the false impression that his faults are fixable. Trump’s idea of hiring the “best” people amounts to erratically hiring and firing one set of unqualified advisers after another, none with the skill set to run a presidential campaign. Second, he’s not trying to improve or run a new and improved campaign. He wants to do it his way, irrespective of whether he goes down in flames.

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Input: Syria’s Bashar Assad and Russia’s Vladimir Putin are not stoned college students; they did not swoon over Sen. Barack Obama and will not be stopped by a 74-year -old socialist. Once again Sanders left out any mention of Israel and Jews. He made full-throated promises to fight for blacks, gays, women and Hispanics. Every form of bigotry catches his attention, including the mythical Islamophobia. Anti-Semitism gets not one word.

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Input: The party can not be saved, but the country still can be." Learning to love Big Brother:" There are those who merely hope to survive. Their consciences wo n’t let them curry favor so shamelessly, so they mumble their pledges of support, like the victims in Stalin's show trials, perhaps not realizing that the leader and his followers will get them in the end anyway." Bonus Greek drama:" When the plague descended on Thebes, Oedipus sent his brother-in-law to the Delphic oracle to discover the cause. Little did he realize that the crime for which Thebes was being punished was his own.

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Input: JUST WATCHED Undercover in Syria: On Aleppo's ' Death Road ' Replay More Videos ... MUST WATCH Undercover in Syria: On Aleppo's ' Death Road ' 03:25 Syria's conflict started in 2011 and has raged on for years, with more than 250,000 killed, according to the United Nations. It started as an anti-government protest as Syrians nationwide demanded reform and the release of political protesters. Government forces fired on the protesters, killing scores. As the government crackdown intensified, the opposition got more organized.

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Input: Nine people were wounded in the stabbings; Adan was shot and killed by an off-duty police officer. In New Jersey, Ahmad Khan Rahami, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Afghanistan, was arrested Monday in connection with bombs left in New York City and Seaside Park, N.J. The manhunt for Rahami, arrested after a shootout in New Jersey, instantly gave the GOP standard-bearer new fodder. “Hillary Clinton Hillary Rodham ClintonGOP fires opening attack on Dem reportedly running for Heller's Senate seat Trump seeks tech's help for government IT overhaul What do Democrats stand for? MORE wants to increase what [Obama has] let in,” Trump said Monday on Fox News.

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Input: Most critically, his entire speech proceeded from a bigoted premise: that the primary threat to America’s public safety is violence committed by Muslims. The GOP nominee began his speech by cataloguing every high-profile act of violence committed by a Muslim in recent years, from Fort Hood to Paris to Orlando. At one point, he invoked a recent attack in Germany — not the shooting by an apparent white extremist that took ten lives — but the axe attack by a Muslim that wounded five. Jihadist terrorism is obviously a legitimate threat to our national security. But it is not the only one.

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Input: Bishop said on Sunday said the next step for investigators was to identify those responsible for the missile attack, including the chain of command in the Russian military and all those involved in firing the missile. “I expect that by the end of the year, maybe early next year, the list of those that we believe should be held accountable will be confirmed and then there must be a prosecution,” she told the ABC on Sunday. She said she assumed Russia would veto any attempt by the United Nations Security Council to bring those responsible to trial, so Australia would consider other options. “There can be a Lockerbie-style prosecution, a tribunal that’s set up by the international community, or there can be domestic prosecutions in, say, the Netherlands,” she said. “As long as they had the powers of extradition and the like, a prosecution could be mounted successfully in a domestic jurisdiction, but that would cover the interests of the 298 victims aboard that flight.”

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Input: Trump refused to admit his campaign manager grabbed a reporter On March 8, Trump’s then-campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, grabbed Breitbart News reporter Michelle Fields as she was walking next to Donald Trump. He pulled her hard enough that she had bruises two days later. While there was some initial dispute about what happened, video evidence soon left no doubt that Lewandowski had, in fact, grabbed Fields. If he had simply admitted to grabbing Fields and apologized, it might have been a one-day story.

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Input: Afghan officials have also reported the presence of militants from Tajikistan, Chechnya and Chinese Uighurs, many who relocated to Afghanistan from Pakistan’s tribal areas. Fighting drug trafficking rings that partially fund the Afghan insurgency had been an area of common interest for the Russians and the Americans, said Yuri V. Krupnov, an adviser to the head of Russia’s antidrug agency, Viktor P. Ivanov. But that stopped when the United States Treasury Department in 2014 imposed sanctions on Mr. Ivanov, a close associate of Mr. Putin’s. “Washington had no dialogue with us, and just asserted its interests and sovereignty, and was uninterested in the views of Russia or anybody else,” Mr. Krupnov said, adding, “The Obama administration buried this promising line of cooperation. All room for cooperation is exhausted.”

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Input: Rebel fighters and civilians inspect the wreckage of a Russian helicopter that had been shot down in the north of Syria's rebel-held Idlib province, Syria August 1, 2016. REUTERS / Ammar Abdullah Men inspect the wreckage of a Russian helicopter that had been shot down in the north of Syria's rebel-held Idlib province, Syria August 1, 2016.

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Input: A model of a fighter jet is displayed at the Vietnam People’s Air Force Museum in Hanoi. President Obama announced the United States is lifting its embargo on sales of lethal weapons to Vietnam. (Linh Pham / Getty Images) China warned President Obama on Tuesday not to spark a fire in Asia after he announced the lifting of a long-standing embargo on lethal arms sales to Vietnam.

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Input: Story Continued Below Some of the concerns raised by the former first daughter echo attacks that have been dogging her mother, Hillary Clinton, during her presidential campaign. Clinton’s GOP rival Donald Trump and other Republicans allege that the Clintons used their foundation and private business arrangements to enrich themselves by essentially auctioning off access to the powerful family and their associates in government — including during Hillary Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state. Teneo, in particular, did lucrative work for foundation donors and entities with business before Clinton’s State Department. And it signed a contract reportedly worth $ 3.5 million with Bill Clinton to serve as an adviser (though the former president ultimately kept only $ 100,000 of that, according to his tax returns and a source familiar with the arrangement).

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Input: Afghan officials have also reported the presence of militants from Tajikistan, Chechnya and Chinese Uighurs, many who relocated to Afghanistan from Pakistan’s tribal areas. Fighting drug trafficking rings that partially fund the Afghan insurgency had been an area of common interest for the Russians and the Americans, said Yuri V. Krupnov, an adviser to the head of Russia’s antidrug agency, Viktor P. Ivanov. But that stopped when the United States Treasury Department in 2014 imposed sanctions on Mr. Ivanov, a close associate of Mr. Putin’s. “Washington had no dialogue with us, and just asserted its interests and sovereignty, and was uninterested in the views of Russia or anybody else,” Mr. Krupnov said, adding, “The Obama administration buried this promising line of cooperation. All room for cooperation is exhausted.”

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Input: Chelsea Manning, then known as Bradley Manning, who is serving a 35-year prison sentence. WikiLeaks also provided the documents to news outlets, including The New York Times. Despite a criminal investigation into Mr. Assange, he has not been charged; the status of that investigation is murky.) In addition, Mr. Assange criticized Mrs. Clinton for pushing to intervene in Libya in 2011 when Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi was cracking down on Arab Spring protesters; he said that the result of the NATO air war was Libya’s collapse into anarchy, enabling the Islamic State to flourish. “She has a long history of being a liberal war hawk, and we presume she is going to proceed” with that approach if elected president, he said.

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Input: Emergency crews are working at the scene of the crash and have already put out the fire, according to a TASS source. IC spokesman Vladimir Markin said "no less than 50" experts and experienced investigators are at the crash site, collecting evidence. “Site inspection is actively underway. IC investigators are collecting the remains of the passengers for subsequent forensic, genetic examination,” Markin said in a statement published on the Russian Investigative Committee’s official website. There are some 25 psychologists currently working with relatives of the crash victims at the airport.

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Input: Trump talks of barring Muslims from entering the country -- which means everyone at our border crossings and airports, including Christians and Jews, would somehow have to prove religious affiliation. Clinton would impose no religious test, ever. Trump would offer the largest tax cut in our nation's history, skewed heavily towards the rich, a move that economists of every stripe warn would explode the national debt. Clinton would require the rich and corporations to pay more, and use the money mostly to help middle-class families cover the cost of college. This list goes on and on.

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Input: Priess said “it’s possible” that a candidate would receive “a more generic” briefing, but the point of the modern-day information session is to ensure that a candidate does n’t say anything that would damage foreign policy on the campaign trail – or box him or her in should the candidate win. Briefings do not include information about espionage, covert actions or nuclear information." Candidates are advised of the classified nature of the material, and operational and policy matters are not addressed," an intelligence official familiar with the matter told NBC News. Gov. Michael Dukakis said the two briefers who came to his home during his 1988 presidential run were then CIA Director William Webster and Robert Gates, then Deputy Director of the CIA.

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Input: He has also accused Erdogan of using the coup to amass greater powers. “POLITICAL DECISION” “Whether the U.S. extradites Gulen or not this will be a political decision,” Bozdag said. “If he is not extradited, Turkey will have been sacrificed for a terrorist.” A recent opinion poll showed two thirds of Turks agree with their president that Gulen was behind the coup plot.

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Input: When Hillary Clinton stated her "predecessors did the same thing" with email, this statement was rated "Mostly False" by POLTIFACT. Nobody in U.S. history, since the invention of email, has acted in the manner of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. Previous secretaries of state weren't investigated by the FBI, and never used a private server exclusively. Thus, a Democratic nominee at risk of indictment, or incited by the Justice Department at the request of the FBI, will lose to any Republican on November 8, 2016. I explain why Democrats need Bernie Sanders now, more than ever, in this YouTube segment.

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Input: The Republican-controlled House will be as conservative as ever, perhaps even more so. All the nice-sounding legislative programs Clinton offered up to soothe her restless base on the left — affordable child care and college, improvements to Obamacare, infrastructure — will be dead on arrival, making Clinton appear ineffectual. Or worse than ineffectual: Republicans will crank up the investigative machinery and produce endless media coverage of scandals, real or trumped up. (In fact, as the FBI melds its investigations into Clinton’s emails and Anthony Weiner’s sexting, we may be in for another Clinton administration defined by years of congressional sex investigations.) And then there is the likelihood that the current economic expansion, already one of the longest in American history, collapses into recession sometime during her term.

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Input: Officials and cyber security experts say recent breaches at the Democratic National Committee and elsewhere in the Democratic Party were likely carried out by people within the Russian government. Kremlin officials have denied the allegations of Moscow's involvement. Concerns about election computer security prompted Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson to convene a conference call with state election officials earlier this month, when he offered the department's help in making their voting systems more secure. The FBI warning did not identify the two states targeted by cyber intruders, but Yahoo News said sources familiar with the document said it referred to Arizona and Illinois, whose voter registration systems were penetrated. Citing a state election board official, Yahoo News said the Illinois voter registration system was shut down for 10 days in late July after hackers downloaded personal data on up to 200,000 voters.

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Input: And once in a while, if a foreign leader meets with the president, US arms sales to his or her country might generate an article or two. But the sheer size of the American arms trade, the politics that drive it, the companies that profit from it, and its devastating global impacts are rarely discussed, much less analyzed in any depth. Why do other major US exports garner regular coverage while trends in weapons exports remain in relative obscurity? So here’s a question that’s puzzled me for years (and I’m something of an arms wonk): Why do other major US exports — from Hollywood movies to Midwestern grain shipments to Boeing airliners — garner regular coverage while trends in weapons exports remain in relative obscurity? Are we ashamed of standing essentially alone as the world’s No.

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Input: Police in Istanbul and elsewhere have in the past months conducted similar raids on workshops that produce defective lifejackets sold to migrants. Turkey is under intense pressure to stem the flow of migrants to Europe. In November, it agreed to fight the smuggling networks and help curb irregular migration. In return, the European Union pledged 3 billion euros ($ 3.25 billion) to help improve the refugees’ conditions. The International Organization for Migration says 284 migrants have died so far this year trying to make the dangerous crossing from Turkey to Greece.

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Input: But stepping into the human zone for even a few minutes backfired. The actor Mandy Patinkin, who played Inigo Montoya in the film, reacted with horror when he learned Cruz was doing his character's famous line "You killed my father, prepare to die." He accused Cruz of deliberately leaving out the key line in Montoya's speech, after he finally slays the man who killed his father:" I've been in the revenge business for so long, now that it's over, I don't know what to do with the rest of my life." Patinkin believed Cruz didn't do that line because Cruz is himself in the revenge business, promising to "carpet-bomb [ISIS] into oblivion" and wondering if "sand can glow." Related Meet the Canadian Welcoming Americans If Trump Wins Rob Calabrese sees an opportunity to solve Cape Breton Island's population crisis in America's presidential election

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Input: Just hours before the first presidential debates, CNN writes “Clinton, Trump virtually tied headed into debate.” MSNBC states that “NBC / WSJ poll shows Trump deemed more trustworthy.” Yes, polls show Trump more trustworthy than Clinton. If that’s not bad enough, after all of Clinton’s years in government NBC News finds that “Trump Leads Clinton Among Military and Veteran Voters.” From the FBI criminal investigation where James Comey testified Clinton was “extremely careless” and “negligent” to Reddit’s “Sonetear,” all the advantages Hillary Clinton once had over Trump have now evaporated. President Trump might become a reality and H. A. Goodman warned everyone for over one year. Sadly, my detractors could n’t comprehend these warnings and focused solely on attacking the messenger.

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Input: In a 2010 New Yorker article, Jane Mayer documented the Kochs’ history of funding so-called grass-tops organizations — groups designed to look like they were fueled by grass-roots activists when they were actually fronts for corporate interests. The Kochs have gone to great lengths over the years to conceal the nature of their vast political operations, which has riled critics. One of the most relentless of those, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid, went after the brothers earlier this month yet again, complaining that “the Kochs and their dark money empire are flooding the airwaves with misleading and false advertisements” to push their “crooked oligarchy agenda.” The “dark money” epithet refers to the fact that the Koch network is made up almost entirely of 501(c)3 and 501(c)4 nonprofit organizations that can accept unlimited funds and do not have to disclose their donors. So when most people see ads funded by groups such as AFP, they do n’t realize that a coterie of wealthy donors and corporate behemoths with billions of dollars to gain or lose from policy decisions was behind it. Making things even more complicated, the Kochs have constructed a maze of nonprofits and trust funds with many different purposes and focuses, some which are not real organizations but essentially just conduits for cash, says Robert Maguire, an investigator with the Center for Responsive Politics, a political spending watchdog.

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Input: Image copyright AFP Image caption Julian Assange has been claiming asylum at London's Ecuadorean embassy since 2012 WikiLeaks says that Ecuador has shut down internet access for its founder Julian Assange. The transparency activist has sought asylum at London's Ecuadorean embassy since 2012 to avoid extradition over sex assault allegations.

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Input: Equally important, they’re not going to bring an end to anti-American terrorism. As long as the U.S. death machine is killing people in the Middle East and Afghanistan, there will be the continuous threat of anti-American terrorism here at home. Why do interventionists spend so much time discussing things like radical Muslims, regular Muslims, Islam, and the Koran? Here’s why: Their supreme goal is to maintain the U.S. national-security state’s continued intervention in the Middle East and Afghanistan. Nothing must interfere with that goal.

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Input: Investigators say nanny killed young girl and set flat on fire before being detained at metro station Police have detained a nanny on suspicion of murder after she was found at a Moscow metro station holding the severed head of a child. The woman, believed to be from central Asia, can be seen in video footage holding up what appears to be a severed head near Oktyabrskoye Pole station in north-western Moscow. In the video she is covered in black except for her face and she can be heard shouting “for a terrorist, for your death”.

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Input: Former CIA Director Panetta Calls Trump's Russia Comment ' Inconceivable ' Enlarge this image toggle caption Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty Images Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty Images Former CIA Director Leon Panetta blasted Donald Trump Wednesday night from the stage of the Democratic National Convention, calling his recent comment that Russia should "find" Hillary Clinton's emails "irresponsible" and "inconceivable." Panetta's comments were largely disrupted by the crowd chanting "No more war," but he continued his remarks. Earlier Wednesday, Trump urged Russian agents to "find" Clinton's emails and release them, an unprecedented move by a candidate for president encouraging such a foreign breach.

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Input: However, while the mainstream media pounced on this story, the same media sources have been largely silent about the many documents WikiLeaks released the same day that reflect badly on Hillary Clinton. As The New American reported last week, WikiLeaks ' Julian Assange promised to release a new batch of leaked documents each week for 10 weeks, descibing the troves of documents as “significant material on war, arms, oil, Google, the election and mass surveillance” that show “interesting features of U.S. power factions and how they operate.” The documents released Friday comprised the first batch of this material. That first installment includes the Podesta e-mails — 2,060 e-mails involving, among other things, evidence that Hillary Clinton, as secretary of state, approved her part of the deal to transfer control of a company called “Uranium One” to Russian interests — along with giving Russia “effective control of one-fifth of all uranium production capacity in the United States.” Meanwhile, the Clinton Foundation received millions of dollars in “donations” from “individuals directly connected to the deal including the Chairman of Uranium One, Ian Telfer.” Furthermore, though Secretary Clinton was required to disclose all donors to the Clinton Foundation, the “donations” from Tefler were not disclosed. And, just to top it off, when the New York Times reported on this scandal last year, Clinton Campaign spokesman Brian Fallon denied the allegations in an e-mail to the Times, saying:

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Input: “Historically speaking ... a barbarian is someone not belonging to an empire, and we have only one of those today,” she noted on her Facebook page. “As for the imagery ... the world has seen nothing more barbaric in modern history than Iraq and Libya done the Washington way.” Zakharova believes that Power's remarks were meant to draw attention from the American attack on Syrian troops near Deir ez-Zor, which happened amid the ceasefire and almost resulted in the Syrian Army's positions being overrun by the terrorist group Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS / ISIL), which the US is supposedly seeking to eradicate. Moscow blames the US for the failed truce, saying it was incapable of reining in rebel groups who would not commit to it, and would not agree to designating them as legitimate targets for counter-attacks. Power, who received her current appointment in 2013, was among the most vocal supporters of the concept of “humanitarian interventionalism” – the use of military force on humanitarian grounds.

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Input: Only at 8:00 p.m. — four hours after the original story posted — did her campaign distribute a 1 minute and 22 second video of Trump's comments, cut together with other statements he's made about women and testimonials from some of them about his treatment of them. Clinton herself has been off the trail all Friday, deep in New York debate prep ahead of her clash with Trump on Sunday. But her campaign made sure to keep itself in the news stream on a series of other topics throughout the day, issuing formal statements on news that the United States formally implicated Russia in election-related hacks and on the Republican nominee’s claim that he still believes the Central Park Five to be guilty — so the sudden silence on Friday afternoon was striking. Often when Trump’s past statements and actions catch up with him, Clinton’s operatives and her surrounding groups are quick to pounce, releasing web videos, tweets, and statements. But on Friday afternoon — as cable network after cable network picked up the story, Democratic Senate candidates sought to lash their opponents to Trump, and political groups focused on women ripped into him — none came, either from Clinton’s team or her super PAC.

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Input: They can transmit it, if they want. But I can say what I feel, too,” he said, as cited by Expressen. Hanson said that the message’s polite tone should not deceive the public, pointing out that while “the email is polite, the message can not be mistaken.” She sees the request as an attempt to prevent a Swedish media outlet from broadcasting an opinion that “the Turkish embassy would not appreciate,” according to Expressen. Surely not, in @Sweden of all places? -- > ‘Turkish embassy tried to muzzle Swedish media’ – TV4 https://t.co/PJaNqkXaWP via @TheLocalSweden — Tempus Fugit (@franosch) April 24, 2016

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Input: “Each and everyone of us have experienced that issue,” said Sen. Tammy Baldwin Tammy BaldwinIn Wisconsin, Trump touts ' earn while you learn ' jobs push Dem senator presses Trump for combat ship funding Congressional Democrats going the wrong way on carried interest tax MORE (D-Wis.). Female senators say it’s ridiculous that Clinton gets maligned for shouting while Sanders gets a pass. When asked about the perception that Clinton shouts, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen Jeanne ShaheenSenate overwhelmingly passes Russia sanctions deal Russia sanctions deal clears key Senate hurdle Overnight Cybersecurity: Sessions denies Russia collusion | First agency gets ' A ' grade on IT | Feds out North Korean botnet | Unusual security update for Windows XP MORE (D-N.H.) quipped, “unlike Bernie Sanders who’s so relaxed.” “He shouts the whole time. Give me a break,” she said.

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Input: It later came out that more than 900 of the 1,600 seats were given to local and national GOP officials. (Trump mentioned during the debate that he had only his wife and son there in comparison, but few picked up on what he was saying.) Pundits, meanwhile, lined up to congratulate Jeb for "assailing" Trump – "Bush is finally going for it," The New York Times wrote – but the exchange really highlighted many of the keys to Trump's success. Trump had said things that were true and that no other Republican would dare to say. And yet the press congratulated the candidate stuffed with more than $ 100 million in donor cash who really did take five whole days last year to figure out his position on his own brother's invasion of Iraq.

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Input: Perry urged further engagement with Russia on nuclear weapons." We do have a common interest in preventing a nuclear catastrophe," he said. Perry is advocating that the United States unilaterally eliminate all its land-based missiles and rely instead on nuclear missile submarines and bombers for deterrence. However, he said his advocacy of the policy "may be pursuing a mission impossible." "I highly doubt the Russians would follow suit" by eliminating their land-based missiles, the former secretary said.

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Input: So, we have had a major hand in the chaos of Syria and, indeed, the major hand instigating the chaos in the Middle East. So, being the wealthiest country in the world, it’s very important that we do our share in caring for the Syrian refugees. But, let me say, it’s also really important that we go back to this crisis in Syria and in the Middle East, and instead of continuing to pour gasoline on this fire, we need to take a stand on behalf of a weapons embargo to all parties, since our weapons are getting into the hands of all parties. We need to impose a freeze on the bank accounts of our allies that are continuing to fund terrorist enterprises, and to work with the Turks, who are our ally — in name, at least — to close down their border to the flow of terrorist militias across their border. That is the contribution that we need to make.

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Input: From this standpoint, Trump is less a freakish occurrence than something close to an inevitability. Photo: Mark Peterson / Redux Why, exactly, is Ryan, as well as senators Mitch McConnell, Marco Rubio, and Ted Cruz, enduring the reputational damage and personal humiliation of endorsing a presidential candidate who has belittled and mocked them? One reason is obvious: fear of the party’s voting base, which has fallen in line with its bullying presidential candidate and turned sharply against most Republican dissenters, who saw their approval ratings among their own base plummet. Another consideration, which has received far less media coverage, is something of the opposite of fear: lust.

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Input: The biggest ever donation made by Donald Trump’s charitable foundation was a $ 264,631 gift paid for the refurbishment of a New York fountain outside one of the billionaire businessman's own hotels, it has been reported. The claims come amid allegations he hasn't donated any money to the charity since 2008. The fee, which is thought to be the largest ever paid by the Donald J. Trump Foundation in its 29-year history, was used to renovate the monument outside the Plaza Hotel on the edge of Central Park, New York, according to the Washington Post. The donation was made in 1989 to restore the Pulitzer Fountain, which stands outside the front doors of one of Mr Trump’s flagship hotels – meaning such a ‘charitable donation ' would likely have benefited his own business, it has been suggested.

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Input: [break] AMY GOODMAN:" Wake Up Everybody "by Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes, here on Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report, as we return to our" Expanding the Debate "special. We break the sound barrier by bringing you the first debate, the presidential debate held at Hofstra University, between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, stop the tape after they have each of their two minutes, and expand it with the major third-party candidates. We are here with Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein. We invited the Libertarian presidential candidate, Gary Johnson, but Jill Stein accepted, and she is responding to the same questions posed to the major-party candidates.

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Input: “That does n’t mean that they’re going to take action sooner or later.” The administration insists it has improved its ability to respond quickly to cyberattacks, and officials increasingly say they support publicly calling out foreign nations that hack the United States. One administration official noted that it took just five weeks for President Barack Obama to impose economic sanctions against North Korea in response to the destructive late-2014 hacking of Sony Pictures. Yet current and former officials acknowledge that constructing a public response isn't an instant task. Merely preparing a declassified explanation of who perpetrated an attack or readying economic sanctions takes weeks.

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Input: For months, Clinton and her allies in the # NeverTrump movement have attempted to paint Trump as someone who couldn't do the job of the presidency. Tonight, Trump proved them wrong. Trump was particularly impressive when he passionately defended the success of the "stop and frisk" policy in New York City in lowering the number of homicides. By making the crime issue about the non-criminals who live in the impacted communities and are victimized, Trump showed that this issue isn't about arresting people, but instead about protecting the innocent. It was clear that Trump believed every word he said, speaking directly to African-American and Hispanic voters about the personal safety issue that dominates their lives with a passion that Clinton never mustered.

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Input: “We can look at possible illnesses, and perhaps determine the cause of death,” Jungklaus says. “Children are always the weakest link – they’re the first victims when the environment or living situation changes.” While the infant burial is remarkable, the body of a young man found nearby has excavators puzzled – and excited. Buried more than 1,000 years after the infant, the man was entombed standing up, together with bone tools and flint knives. The man’s skeleton suggests he lived a pretty easy life.

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Input: Then Elites run for president. Why run for president when already control country like dictatorship?” Then after what they call the “fun Cyber Weapons Auction” comes the real message, a serious threat. “We want make sure Wealthy Elite recognizes the danger [of] cyberweapons. Let us spell out for Elites.

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Input: When a Russian FSB agent and a Russian soldier were killed by a team of Ukrainian saboteurs, and one of the captured Ukrainians was shown on Russian media in handcuffs, US ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt tweeted “US government has seen nothing so far that corroborates Russians allegations of a ‘Crimea incursion’ & Ukraine has strongly refuted them.” Apparently two dead Russians do n’t count for much in Pyatt’s book: perhaps Putin personally killed them, and the whole thing is a set up.

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Input: “Then Elites runs for president. Why run for president when already control country like dictatorship?” “We want make sure Wealthy Elite recognizes the danger cyber weapons, this message, our auction, poses to their wealth and control. Let us spell out for Elites,” the group added. “Your wealth and control depends on electronic data.”

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Input: There’s no more doubting it, no more excusing it, no more defending it, no more trying to explain it away. We’re past the time when having a Jewish son-in-law makes it okay to spew paranoia and conspiracy theories. A line has finally been crossed, and we need to acknowledge a cold and very scary truth: Donald Trump is openly trafficking in the types of anti-Semitic slurs that have been used to justify the hatred of Jews for decades. I do n’t write those words glibly, or casually. They’re not words I ever thought I’d need to write about the nominee of a major American political party.

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Input: (Sarah Parnass / The Washington Post) In a statement, Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon said, “These materials further demonstrate why the Justice Department believed there was no basis to move forward with this case.” Republicans have been pressuring the FBI to make public more material from the investigation, which ended in July with a finding by FBI Director James B. Comey that Clinton should not be charged with a crime though she had been “extremely careless” with classified information. The documents include summaries of nearly four dozen interviews with top Clinton aides, tech workers, other state department officials, and even a Romanian hacker. Agents interviewed some multiple times, and some of the summaries are heavily redacted.

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Input: And remember: Under America’s system, they ca n’t arrest people just because they are suspicious of them. Under our criminal-justice system, a person can not be arrested until he actually commits a crime or attempts to commit a crime. America is not like totalitarian regimes or Guantanamo, where authorities can incarcerate anyone they want for as long as they want. So, as long as the U.S. death machine is killing people over there, there are going to be people over there or over here who are going to retaliate. Get used to it.

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Input: Syringe restrictions legislated during the 1980s war on drugs contributed to Danny Wilson's HIV infection. (CBC) The authors found the biggest factor driving higher rates of infection among drug users was that they were excessively incarcerated and excluded from HIV and hepatitis C prevention, treatment and harm-reduction programs. These include needle and syringe exchanges, safe injection facilities and opioid substitution therapies such as methadone. Russia is the opposite extreme, the authors said.

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Input: Gabbard is the first practicing Hindu in US Congress. AB Wire Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, the first practicing Hindu elected to the US Congress, and who quit the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to endorse Bernie Sanders as the party’s nominee, has ruled out squabbles with the DNC as the reason for her leaving as vice chairwoman of the DNC. “This had nothing to do with the DNC or DNC politics. This had everything to do with my decision that I could no longer stand on the sidelines as elections are taking place to determine who our potential next commander in chief could be,” Gabbard, the DNC’s vice chairwoman until her resignation Sunday, told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Monday.

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Input: Trump's aim here seems to be highlighting that Clinton deleted her emails, full stop. If Russia can find them, after all, maybe they will come to light, he seems to suggest. But that scenario could also very plausibly lend itself to the kind of cyberespionage — blackmail or otherwise — that Trump has already alleged Clinton is being subjected to. The emails were deemed personal and should not contain classified information. Yes, but many work-related emails Clinton said did not contain classified information were later proven by the FBI to have contained some.

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Input: As Hillary Clinton begins her final charge for the White House, her advisers are already recommending air strikes and other new military measures against the Assad regime in Syria. The clear signals of Clinton’s readiness to go to war appears to be aimed at influencing the course of the war in Syria as well as U.S. policy over the remaining six months of the Obama administration. (She also may be hoping to corral the votes of Republican neoconservatives concerned about Donald Trump’s “America First” foreign policy.)

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