Input: Trump claimed that the fact that President Obama traveled to Saudi Arabia and Cuba and was not greeted at the airport by the country’s leader was “without precedent.’ But we found numerous examples of this happening under Obama – and previous presidents. We do n’t know where Trump comes up with this stuff, but once again he’s wrong, wrong, wrong. It’s unclear where Trump is getting this information but it appears to be a bungled reference to a list issued by a Senate office concerning 30 foreign-born individuals who were arrested on charges relating to terrorism in recent years. But the majority of the 30 cases involved naturalized U.S. citizens — people who came to the U.S. as children or had arrived before 2011. There is no evidence that “scores” of “recent migrants” are charged with terrorism.

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Input: He could have raised all the issues that he has raised. And I think there would have been a positive response to that,” Clinton insisted. Cooper followed up asking if Snowden should do jail time. Clinton replied, “he stole very important information that has unfortunately fallen into a lot of the wrong hands. So I do n’t think he should be brought home without facing the music.”

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Input: If ever there was a case that an information democracy is preferable to an information oligarchy, then this is it The nutritional establishment has proved itself, over the years, skilled at ad hominem takedowns, but it is harder for them to do to Robert Lustig or Nina Teicholz what they once did to John Yudkin. Harder, too, to deflect or smother the charge that the promotion of low-fat diets was a 40-year fad, with disastrous outcomes, conceived of, authorised, and policed by nutritionists. Professor John Yudkin retired from his post at Queen Elizabeth College in 1971, to write Pure, White and Deadly. The college reneged on a promise to allow him to continue to use its research facilities.

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Input: A federal court blasted him as it overturned Pence’s orders. Pence’s policies have hurt LGBT people. They have hurt minorities and women. What would Jesus say to a follower who hurts people in his name? What would he say to someone defending and apologizing for a misogynist, racist, and otherwise bigoted candidate in his name?

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Input: ' You have this formidable fighting force and they are all running away. I don't understand how you can have millions of military aged men running away from the battlefield. In Iraq, the bravery was heartbreaking — I had friends who refused to leave the country even though they knew they would die. They'd just tell you it's my country, I need to stay and fight, ' Clemente said. The obvious explanation is that the nation's moderates are fleeing a war that is not their war.

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Input: * DOES CLINTON HAVE ‘WALKING PNEUMONIA’? NBC News speculates that Clinton could be suffering from a “near-textbook case” of “walking pneumonia,” which entails this: Patients do n’t feel great, but they’re not sick enough to stay home in bed or to be hospitalized … .People often feel well enough to go about their business, especially once they start taking antibiotics … But the infection can take a toll, making patients prone to getting tired and dehydrated. Meanwhile, experts see no reason to think this will be debilitating for Clinton. * DEMOCRATS WORRY ABOUT HILLARY ’S PNEUMONIA: Reuters reports that Democrats are worried about Clinton’s Pneumonia for two reasons, beyond her well-being: First, does her campaign’s failure to divulge the illness for two days signal again that her penchant for secrecy is working against her?

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Input: he responds." Yeah I know you know it. But in case people feel intimidated in making direct comments to Hillaryland, I thought I'd let you know of the grumbling I'm hearing directly. But maybe that was my mistake," Tanden replies. While Podesta and campaign manager Robby Mook are white, Abedin, the campaign's vice chairwoman is Muslim, Marlon Marshall, an African-American, is the director of state campaigns, and Amanda Renteria, a Hispanic, serves as national political director.

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Input: Nick Suntzeff, a Texas A&M University astronomer told the online magazine Ars Technica that the 11 gigahertz signal was observed in part of the radio spectrum used by the military." If this were a real astronomical source, it would be rather strange," Suntzeff was quoted as saying." God knows who or what broadcasts at 11Ghz, and it would not be out of the question that some sort of bursting communication is done between ground stations and satellites," Suntzeff said." I would follow it if I were the astronomers, but I would also not hype the fact that it may be at SETI signal given the significant chance it could be something military."

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Input: Embed Full MTP Interview: Julian Assange on DNC Emails and 2016 11:29 autoplay autoplay Copy this code to your website or blog WikiLeaks, the controversial transparency organization that publishes classified government documents and other confidential materials, is fueling Internet conspiracy theories by offering a $ 20,000 reward for information on a Democratic National Committee staffer who was killed last month. Seth Rich, a 27-year -old data analyst at the DNC, was shot and killed early one Sunday morning last month in what police say was robbery gone wrong. He was killed while walking home in a Washington, D.C. neighborhood that has seen a recent uptick in crime. Rich's murder quickly became a fascination of right-wing conspiracy theorists, including longtime informal Donald Trump adviser Roger Stone, who told NBC News that he has been in contact with WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange.

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Input: Rami Abdurrahman, who heads the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said some ISIS fighters began feeding information to the coalition about targets and movements of the group's officials because they needed money after the extremist group sharply reduced salaries in the wake of coalition and Russian airstrikes on ISIS-held oil facilities earlier this year. The damage and the loss of important ISIS-held supply routes into Turkey have reportedly hurt the group's financing." They have executed dozens of fighters on charges of giving information to the coalition or putting (GPS) chips in order for the aircraft to strike at a specific area," said Abdurrahman, referring to ISIS in Syria. The militants have responded with methods of their own for rooting out spies, said the informant. For example, they have fed false information to a suspect member about the movements of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and if an airstrike follows on the alleged location, they know the suspect is a spy, he said.

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Input: (, 3/11/16) Millennials Like Socialism — Until They Get Jobs (Washington Post, 3/24/16) (3/24/16) New York’s Doped-Up Beatniks, Hippies and Freaks Love Bernie Sanders (Daily Beast, 4/14/16) Sanders was again grilled in the Disney / Univision debate in March by the unapologetically anti-communist panel: MARIA ELENA SALINAS: In 1985, you praised the Sandinista government and you said that Daniel Ortega was an impressive guy. This is what you said about Fidel Castro.

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Input: “If in fact you could definitively or strongly develop a case for attribution against Russia, that in fact the Russians should be confronted with it and we should confront them publicly with it,” former Obama administration National Security Adviser Tom Donilon said Thursday during a POLITICO Playbook breakfast. “I do n’t think countries are paying a price for this kind of activities,” Stephen Hadley, who held the same post under George W. Bush, said at the same event. Calls for action have also come from several congressional Democrats and Republicans who serve on defense, law enforcement or intelligence committees, as well as a bipartisan group of 31 security and counterterrorism experts who urged Obama to “take prompt actions” that would “deter foreign actors from pursuing such tactics in the future.” “This is not a partisan issue,” wrote the experts from the Aspen Institute Homeland Security Group, who included Bush Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and former CIA directors Michael Hayden and William Webster. They added: “Our president should be chosen by American citizens, not by foreign adversaries or interests.”

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Input: MIKE PENCE: The United States of America needs to begin to exercise strong leadership to protect the vulnerable citizens and over 100,000 children in Aleppo. Hillary Clinton’s top priority when she became secretary of state was the Russian reset, the Russian reset. After the Russian reset, the Russians invaded Ukraine and took over Crimea. And the small and bullying leader of Russia is now dictating terms to the United States to the point where all the United States of America, the greatest nation on Earth, just withdraws from talks about a ceasefire, while Vladimir Putin puts a missile defense system in Syria while he marshals the forces and begins — look, we have got to begin to lean into this with strong, broad-shouldered American leadership. It begins by rebuilding our military.

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Input: It is not the first time Russian officials have suggested that certain chapters of Russian history are sacred. In January 2014, independent liberal broadcaster Dozhd TV came under attack. It was accused of smearing the memory of WW2 veterans by asking whether residents of wartime Leningrad could have been saved by surrendering the city to Nazi forces. Image copyright Kommersant Image caption "Citing Nuremberg" -a court ruled that blogger Vladimir Luzgin was guilty of denying facts established by the Nuremberg Trials The public discussion of WW2 history has also been curbed by a controversial 2014 law against the rehabilitation of Nazism.

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Input: In pictures: Turkey coup attempt 17 show all In pictures: Turkey coup attempt 1/17 Turkish President Erdogan attends the funeral service for victims of the thwarted coup in Istanbul at Fatih mosque on July 17, 2016 in Istanbul, Turkey Burak Kara / Getty Images 2/17 Soldiers involved in the coup attempt surrender on Bosphorus bridge with their hands raised in Istanbul on 16 July, 2016 Gokhan Tan / Getty 3/17 A civilian beats a soldier after troops involved in the coup surrendered on the Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey, 16 July, 2016 REUTERS / Murad Sezer

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Input: Since then, Honduras’s human rights situation has worsened, driving thousands of children to flee northward seeking safety and leaving environmental and political activists at the mercy of death squads. Also, in 2009, Clinton joined with Bush-holdover Defense Secretary Robert Gates and neocon-favorite Gen. David Petraeus in pushing Obama into a major escalation of the Afghan War, a counter-insurgency “surge” that sent another 1,000 American troops to their deaths – and many more Afghans – but has since been abandoned as a failure. In 2011, Clinton joined with “liberal interventionists” in again pushing Obama into a “regime change” war in Libya that led to the overthrow and torture-murder of Muammar Gaddafi – which she gleefully welcomed with the quip, “We came, we saw, he died” – but has since turned the once relatively prosperous North African country into a failed state with the Islamic State gaining another foothold. Both as Secretary of State and since her departure in 2013, Clinton has pressed to escalate the “regime change” war in Syria, seeking a “no-fly zone” that would require the U.S. military to destroy the Syrian government’s air force and air defenses, apparently without regard to the risk that the U.S. intervention could pave the way for Al Qaeda’s Nusra Front and/or the Islamic State to march into Damascus. Though the Syrian “regime change” strategy that Clinton has advocated has failed to oust President Bashar al-Assad, it has transformed another reasonably functional Mideast state into a bloody killing field and driven millions of refugees into what is now a destabilized Europe.

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Input: He took his 30 pieces of silver and joined with a bankrupt liberal establishment on behalf of a candidate who is a tool of Wall Street, a proponent of endless war and an enemy of the working class. Sanders, like all of the self-identified liberals who are whoring themselves out for the Democrats, will use fear as the primary reason to remain enslaved by the neoliberal assault. And, in return, the corporate state will allow him and the other useful idiots among the 1 percent to have their careers and construct pathetic monuments to themselves. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) will be pushed through whether Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton is president. The fracking industry, fossil fuel industry and animal agriculture industry will ravage the ecosystem whether Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton is president.

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Input: “That’s not the kind of person I am. I am in this until the end. ”“We have tremendous support. I think a lot of people underestimate how loyal my supporters are,” he added. Trump also told the newspaper that he is "focusing on the debate, getting ready," and "focusing on talking to voters. ”Several high-ranking GOP members have already urged Trump to drop from the ballot after a video of him making lewd remarks toward women sparked outrage on Friday afternoon. The list includes Sen. Mark Kirk Mark KirkWhy Qatar Is a problem for Washington Taking the easy layup: Why brain cancer patients depend on it The Mideast-focused Senate letter we need to see MORE (R-Ill.), Sen. John Thune John ThuneThis week: Senate plots path on healthcare ObamaCare: Six key parts of the Senate bill Overnight Finance: Fed raises rates for second time in 2017 | GOP weighs keeping ObamaCare taxes | Tax reform becomes Wall Street obsession MORE (R-S.D.), Sen. Mike Lee Mike LeeOvernight 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 Senators offer bipartisan bill on retirement savings for grad students This week: Senate plots path on healthcare MORE (R-Utah), Sen. Ben Sasse (R-N.E.)

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Input: Ukraine has four special-forces regiments and a further unit of its Defence Intelligence Department – a total of 7,000 troops. It also has highly capable airborne troops, part of a mobilised army numbering 200,000, of which 40,000 are always on the country’s eastern front facing pro-Russian rebels. Russian air forces annihilate ISIS oil tankers in Aleppo province In terms of Russian language skills and combating Russian tactics, Ukrainians are world leaders. However, any troop deployment into Syria would be controversial in Kiev, and require a parliamentary vote, with some arguing that Ukraine needs to focus on the rebels who pose a continuing threat in its east, despite the current military deadlock.

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Input: "From the media we discovered that some local authorities we approached coordinated their negative decision with the federal government," it said." That is quite the opposite to what’s being told by the administration on independence of a decision-making process in the states." Reporters at the State Department's daily press briefing on Friday asked if U.S. officials had advised individual states not to allow in Russian observers. Department spokesman John Kirby said he was "not aware of any guidance that we gave to the states with respect to Russia specifically." Much of the diplomatic dust-up appears to revolve around terminology being used by both sides.

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Input: Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption The second ExoMars mission is a UK-assembled rover Image copyright MOLA Image caption Schiaparelli is being targeted at Meridiani Planum-the same place as Nasa's Opportunity rover Image copyright TAS Image caption The Trace Gas Orbiter was assembled by European manufacturer Thales Alenia Space Jonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos

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Input: I tried to ask Schultz those questions myself, but an interview I arranged with him through an RT publicist was abruptly canceled. Shultz has n’t spoken much these days about his change of heart about Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Nor has he discussed how a former lunch-pail populist feels covering stories like NATO’s strategy toward Eastern Europe and the global role of the (very much Putin-connected) patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, whom Schultz recently interviewed, then urged Congress to invite for a speech. Two years ago, on a radio show he then hosted, Schultz fumed at a Republican congressman who had described Putin as acting from a position of strength against Obama. “Can I ask you a question?” Schultz thundered rhetorically.

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Input: Goodman wrote on Huffington Post in October. Sometimes such sweeping pronouncements prove true; sometimes they are found to be folly. True, I predicted Bernie Sanders would win the nomination and the FBI would indict Clinton, but extraordinary things took place for my crystal ball to stop working. Comey made the case for indictment (admitting “we assess it is possible that hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton's personal email account”), but for some reason could n’t find “intent.” As for Bernie Sanders becoming nominee, just ask where Debbie Wasserman Schultz is now working.

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Input: Officials opened a criminal case the next day, following an autopsy of the patient's body, which revealed the presence of traumatic brain injury, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Belgorod region said in a statement. The doctor was fired and his actions are classified as negligence, since there is no evidence he intended to kill the patient, the Investigative Committee said. The incident was captured on surveillance video and went viral on the Internet. The committee said the criminal case was initiated before the video surfacing online. The patient entered the hospital and, in the course of a procedure, kicked a nurse, the Russian state news agency Ria Novosti reported, citing investigators.

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Input: Saudi Arabia follows the ultra-conservative Wahhabi strain of Sunni Islam, and the public practice of any religion other than Islam is prohibited. Its legal system is governed by Sharia law, and a 2015 study from Middle East Eye noted that Saudi Arabia and Islamic State prescribed near-identical punishments, such as amputation and stoning for similar crimes. The government is also renowned for carrying out public executions after trials that Amnesty International condemns as “grossly unfair”; Amnesty describes the Saudi “justice system” as “riddled with holes.” Given the two countries’ divergent values, the U.S.-Saudi alliance relies almost entirely on overlapping economic and national security interests.

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Input: The infection has resurfaced in western Siberia 75 years after the previous outbreak. The child died in hospital in the city of Salekhard, the capital of the Yamalo-Nenetsk Autonomous Area, where quarantine over the anthrax outbreak was declared last week. The boy was among several dozen indigenous people evacuated from the contaminated area. “We are 90 percent sure that he died from anthrax. He had the intestinal form of the disease, which is harder to diagnose,” the office of Yamal Governor Dmitry Kobylkin told TASS.

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Input: At one point Goldfarb made a movement with his arms, mimicking the flight of an angel flapping its wings. Litvinenko endorsed the statement in its entirety, confirming: “This is exactly what I want to say.” Litvinenko then signed and dated it – 21 November 2006, his signature trailing off into a black swirl. The statement accused Litvinenko’s one-time FSB boss of murder, and ended: “You may succeed in silencing one man but the howl of protest from around the world will reverberate, Mr Putin, in your ears for the rest of your life.” TV cameras and media had gathered outside the hospital’s main gate, waiting for news. Sixteen floors above them, Litvinenko asked Goldfarb if he was a big story.

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Input: Likewise, only Bernie Sanders has a strong movement on social media, but through flooding the internet with fake Clinton support, one can make it harder for the opposition to organize, and distort the impressions of how people actually feel (which will inevitably end up filtering into the resulting media coverage). This well-funded astroturfing campaign is not the only way the realities of social media have been manipulated to create favorable impressions of Clinton; an entire media narrative sprang up based on false instances in which Bernie Sanders supporters were supposedly engaged in acts of mass, coordinated harassment. But whereas that was done by individual Clinton-supporting journalists, the astroturfing efforts are being funded on a large scale with the approval of the campaign itself. Of course, ordinarily a campaign is n’t technically responsible for the actions of an independent SuperPAC. After all, SuperPACs are limited by rules that prohibit coordinating with the candidates themselves.

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Input: “We're not fans of data localization — the last thing the world needs is 193 members of the United Nations demanding that data only be stored within their own borders,” he said. “This is really a set of issues where the tech sector tends to be pretty united.” RECENTLY ON PRO CYBERSECURITY — The Democrats’ platform formally endorses a encryption commission that includes outside experts … Researchers say ISIL militants are shunning WhatsApp in favor of Telegram for encrypted communications … “A federal judge ordered a suspect in a sex trafficking case to unlock his iPhone using his fingerprint, but for unknown reasons the process did not work” … Three men were charged in what the Justice Department called a “sophisticated” cell phone hijacking scheme … A court denied Matthew Keys’ attempt to remain out of prison while he appeals. QUICK BYTES — Russia is worried about Pokemon Go.

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Input: While the ceasefire has reduced fighting, some violence has persisted across Syria. Meanwhile, there has been little movement on promised aid deliveries to besieged areas and both sides have accused the other of bad faith. Russia's Defence Ministry said conditions in Syria were deteriorating, adding that it believed the ceasefire had been breached 199 times by rebels and saying the United States would be responsible if it were to collapse. After the Deir al-Zor attack, it said Moscow had told the United States to rein in the Syrian opposition and make sure it did not launch a new offensive, adding that it had informed Washington about a concentration of rebels north of Hama. Insurgents say they only reluctantly accepted the initial deal, which they believe is skewed against them, because it could relieve the dire humanitarian situation in besieged areas they control, and blamed Russia for undermining the truce.

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Input: African-American — and voting for Trump It's no secret Trump has a thorny history with African-Americans. The billionaire's father’s real-estate company, helmed by The Donald at the time, was sued by the Justice Department in 1973 for allegedly refusing to rent properties to black tenants. In 1989, he memorably took out full-page ads in New York's daily newspapers — including this one — demanding that five black and Hispanic teens accused of raping a female jogger in Central Park be given the death penalty, though they later turned out to be innocent. To this day, he routinely tacks on an antiquated definite article (" the blacks ") when referring to the racial group.

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Input: Given the beating he's taken on this issue, it is obvious that the truth would be ferociously damaging if revealed. Trump earned his spot on the national stage with his racist claim that President Obama was born abroad. And just last month, he insisted that the five minority teens wrongly imprisoned in the infamous Central Park jogger case are guilty, despite undisputable DNA evidence that they are not. He misses no chance to inflame racial and ethnic hatreds, as long as he can play the divisions to his advantage. And now, in the final stretch, he is taking aim at our democracy itself, suggesting he might not honor the results.

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Input: How crazy is that! It was as if supporting the Iraq War was the new initiation rite to join the Establishment’s elite fraternity of worthies, a kind of upside-down application of rewards and punishments that would only make sense at the Mad Hatter’s tea party in Alice’s Wonderland. In a sane world, the publishers of The New York Times and The Washington Post would have purged their lead editorial writers who had advocated for the catastrophe. Instead, the Post retained its neocon editorial page editor Fred Hiatt and nearly all of its pro-war columnists and the Times even promoted liberal interventionist Bill Keller to the top job of executive editor after it became clear that he had been snookered about Iraq’s WMD. Similar patterns were followed across the board, from The New Yorker on the Left to The Wall Street Journal on the Right.

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Input: The stills offer a miraculous time machine, a journey into verisimilitude. Even modern CCTV has its limitations. Some parts of the Millennium were not covered by it – as Lugovoi, an expert in surveillance, and a former Kremlin bodyguard, would have noticed. One camera was fixed above the reception desk. Its footage shows the check-in counter; a bank of three computer screens; uniformed hotel staff.

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Input: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange took the offer a step further in an interview, suggesting that Rich was potentially a WikiLeaks source. In a statement to Business Insider on Wednesday, Brad Bauman, a spokesperson for the Rich family, thanked investigators and implored high-profile figures to stop attempting to politicize Rich's death by perpetuating unfounded theories about the shooting." The family welcomes any and all information that could lead to the identification of the individuals responsible, and certainly welcomes contributions that could lead to new avenues of investigation," Bauman said. He added:" That said, some are attempting to politicize this horrible tragedy, and in their attempts to do so, are actually causing more harm than good and impeding on the ability for law enforcement to properly do their job.

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Input: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan attends a joint news conference with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin (not pictured) following their meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, October 10, 2016. REUTERS / Osman Orsal ANKARA President Tayyip Erdogan warned Iraq's prime minister he should "know his limits" after he criticized Turkey's military presence there and said the Turkish army, shaken by a failed coup bid, had not lost so much standing as to take orders from him.

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Input: The Syrian pilots evidently managed to eject themselves from the plane and parachute into in Syrian territory. In April of that year, an Israeli fighter jet downed a drone that entered Israel from Lebanon. It was shot down over Israel's territorial waters.

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Input: Trump was apparently referring to emails from Clinton’s private email server that she did n’t turn over to the State Department because they involved personal matters. Trump’s incendiary comments came on the heels of the theft and leak of emails from the Democratic National Committee, an operation that, as The Daily Beast first reported, U.S. official believe was carried out by the Russian government and may have been designed to help Trump in the polls. Trump appeared to urge a U.S. adversary suspected of criminal activity essentially to go further and attack his opponent. The comments drew ire from across the national security community. Minutes later, Trump’s vice presidential nominee, Mike Pence, contradicted the candidate, calling for Russia to be held accountable should it be involved in the DNC hacking.

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Input: It did n’t just emerge out of thin air. And not to get into the details of how this conflict evolved, I think it’s important, though, to say that, you know, the U.S., their hands are not — are not clean, that this notion that the U.S. was standing on the side and not involved, that narrative is a false narrative. And this idea that the collapse of the last ceasefire can be put at the foot of the Russians is, in fact, a outright lie. Now, that may be painful for folks who are not following the situation very closely, but it is, in fact, a fact, that, basically, the Pentagon undermined the agreement, the ceasefire agreement, that was negotiated by John Kerry, when they attacked the Syrian army and killed 62 of their soldiers, when they attacked a known site. That was the effective collapse of that ceasefire.

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Input: Rebels have denied previous accusations of using chemical weapons. The SNC said of the reported use of poison gas in Saraqeb:" After shelling, besieging and killing civilians and perpetrating war crimes on them, the Assad regime has resorted once again, and in breach of UN resolutions 2118 and 2235, to using chemical substances and toxic gases." The daily reality confirms that all the international agreements and previous security council decisions, be they about chemical weapons or otherwise, are meaningless for the Assad regime." The Civil Defence spokesman said it was the second time Saraqeb had been hit by toxic gas. The group was aware of around nine suspected chlorine gas incidents across Idlib province since the conflict began, he said.

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Input: From that point, it became a funnel for tax-deductible contributions from other charities as well as from business associates, some of whom appear to have given the foundation money that they owed Trump himself for expenses like rent and TV appearances. At the same time, Trump has exploited the foundation for self-dealing. In 2014, he drew on it to pay $ 10,000 for a painted portrait of you-know-who at a charity auction at Mar-a-Lago, his Florida resort and residence. The foundation also spent $ 20,000 for Melania Trump to purchase a 6-foot Donald portrait; $ 12,000 to buy a Tim Tebow helmet at a charity auction; and $ 258,000 to settle legal disputes and unpaid fines involving Trump’s businesses. In 2013, the Trump Foundation contributed $ 25,000 to an organization supporting Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, after Bondi announced she was considering whether to join New York Attorney General Schneiderman’s investigation of fraud at Trump University.

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Input: Sign it!” “But I ca n’t look at this now, it’s Christmas,” Ivana said. Donald pressed her, according to Kennedy. Trump seemed extraordinarily concerned that she sign the papers, perhaps because an Atlantic City photographer was threatening to blackmail him with photos he had taken of him and Marla Maples. However efficiently Ivana ran Trump Castle, she seemed terrified of her husband. She signed the papers giving her $ 10 million and the mansion in Greenwich, Connecticut.

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Input: Here are (just some of) the most egregious lies he’s told during the three presidential debates. Trump lied when he denied praising Russian president Vladimir Putin. Trump lied when he claimed Hillary created the birther movement. Trump lied when he denied calling climate change a Chinese hoax. Trump lied about his support for the Iraq War.

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Input: Lavrov and Kerry will meet in the Swiss city of Lausanne, according to a Wednesday statement by the Russian Foreign Ministry. CBS News correspondent Elizabeth Palmer reported from inside Aleppo that kids are usually among the victims of the Russian and Syrian strikes, making life a hell for the few families left in the city. The U.N. and Doctors Without Borders are pushing for a ceasefire -- even a temporary one -- to allow the evacuation of seriously wounded people from besieged Aleppo. So far, the Syrians and Russians are saying no.

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Input: Trump campaign chief in voter registration irregularity In an apparent violation of election law, Donald Trump’s campaign chief, Steve Bannon, is registered to vote in an empty house in Florida where he does not live. Bannon, the chief executive of Trump’s election campaign, has an active voter registration at the house in Miami-Dade County, Florida, that’s scheduled to be demolished. Bannon, 62, formerly rented the house for use by his ex-wife, Diane Clohesy. Separately, a report emerged on Friday that Bannon was accused of domestic violence in 1996.

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Input: “It’s one of the great five-star hotels. It’s New York all the way.” > > > > The sultan had indeed expressed interest in the hotel package, analysts said, but was dealing with other issues: His Beverly Hills and Bel-Air hotels in Los Angeles had become the subject of boycotts after he instituted laws in Brunei that permitted the stoning of gay people and adulterers. This week, the Human Rights Campaign threatened to extend the boycotts to the Plaza if the sultan were to acquire the property. > > > > There had been whispers of other potential international buyers taking a look at the Plaza and the other hotels in Mr. Roy’s portfolio. Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal of Saudi Arabia — a billionaire investor who already owns a slice of the Plaza as well as stakes in the Ritz Carlton and Fairmont chains — was supposedly among those who were interested.

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Input: In the first Clinton-Trump debate, Trump disputed moderator Lester Holt’s comment that stop and frisk was ruled unconstitutional in New York. But he was wrong, resorting to word games to cover up the fact that while stop and frisk as a tactic is constitutional, the way the tactic was applied in New York City has been found unconstitutional. Also during the first debate, Trump tried to shrug off a racial discrimination lawsuit filed against his company in 1973 by arguing it was a federal lawsuit filed against “many, many other companies.” This is false. The Justice Department under then-President Richard Nixon though the case against Trump was one of the strongest ever for violations of the Fair Housing Act. Trump and his father eventually settled the suit – but they were back in court three years later, as the Justice Department in 1978 alleged that they had reneged on the agreement to allow minorities to rent properties.

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Input: Nixon first emphasised US aid to the refugees, but then sharply warned that launching a war was unacceptable. He said that the United States needed to maintain some influence with Pakistan, which explained a “most limited” continuation of military supply. Hitting his talking points, he recited the ways that the United States had ameliorated Pakistan’s positions: preventing a famine in East Pakistan, naming a civilian governor of East Pakistan, welcoming back refugees, talking to acceptable Awami League leaders, not executing Mujib, and now withdrawing some troops from India’s border. The United States could go no further. Gandhi listened, Kissinger later wrote, with “aloof indifference.”

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Input: — UnStumpable2016 (@UnStumpable_16) October 17, 2016 It’s all right there, if only you’d open your eyes to see it. And after the theory was floated by noted rape philosopher and scrotal-sociologist Roosh V, it was n’t long before it became a full-blown conspiracy about Anderson assassinating Assange at the Clintons’ behest. Unfortunately for them, their covert black-op of having one of the most recognizable actresses in the world deliver a poison sub in front of dozens of cameras and Anderson’s own social media account was swiftly exposed. Pamela Anderson brought “healthy” food for Julian Assange on Sunday.

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Input: Billado recalled Trump saying something along the lines of, “Do n’t worry, ladies, I’ve seen it all before.” According to CNN, Trump has also joked about it being his obligation to sleep with pageant contestants and how he was allowed to walk freely into their dressing room because he was the owner. “Well, I’ll tell you the funniest is that before a show, I’ll go backstage and everyone’s getting dressed, and everything else, and you know, no men are anywhere, and I’m allowed to go in because I’m the owner of the pageant and therefore I’m inspecting it,” Trump said in an interview on The Howard Stern Show. “You know, they’re standing there with no clothes. ‘Is everybody okay?’ And you see these incredible looking women, and so, I sort of get away with things like that” he said.

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Input: (Emily Langer) Pope Francis met with the parents of the 19-year -old American exchange student who was killed in Rome hours after arriving in the city. A spokesman said Francis expressed his “feelings of deep sympathy and compassion” to the grieving parents. (Peter Holley) Egypt announced it is “abolishing” daylight savings time this year, moving to cancel the time-change practice just three days before was is set to begin. The last-minute announcement could cost the national airline $ 2 million. (Adam Taylor) The UAE ambassador met with State Department officials to protest the treatment of an Emirati businessman in Ohio, who was handcuffed on suspicion of being an Islamic State terrorist when he tried to check into a hotel.

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Input: She will “stand up” to Bad Vlad. She’s targeted by Russian hackers because Putin prefers his “unwitting agent” Donald Trump. And Donald is, according to an emerging narrative, a latter-day Neville Chamberlain just inviting the Ruskies to take over the Baltic States, Ukraine, and God knows what else. The greatest irony of all is that Trump catapulted over the Neocons’ preferred presidential options by slamming their pet project – the War on Iraq. Trump’s criticism of that war and the chaos it unleashed resonated with the very voters the Neocons took for granted as pliable, fear-responsive bumpkins.

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the Baltic States, Ukraine, and God knows what else


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: There have been no material changes to our client engagements as a result of this matter. Booz Allen is a 102-year -old company, and the alleged conduct does not reflect our core values." Booz Allen had also employed Snowden when he abruptly departed his job at an NSA facility in Hawaii and revealed that he had removed a massive trove of records detailing NSA surveillance operations around the world as well as some programs gathering information in the United States. An NSA spokesperson referred all questions about the case to prosecutors. The delay since Martin's initial court appearance strongly suggests he is cooperating with the government.

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Input: Sept. 8, 2016 National Issues Poll with USA TODAY September 8, 2016 Poll Documents: Marginals (PDF) Tables (PDF) Press Release: National Poll Shows Clinton Leading Trump by 7 Points Paleologos on the Poll: Voters Want Third-Party Candidates on Debate Stage Statement of Methodology: This survey of 1,000 likely voters was conducted between August 24 and August 29, 2016, and is based on live telephone interviews of adults 18 years of age or older, residing in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, who intend to vote in the general election in November 2016. Quota and demographic information -- including region, race, and age -- were determined from 2010 Census data. Samples of both standard landlines and cell phones were called using a probability-proportionate-to-size method, which means that the phone numbers assigned to each state were proportional to the number of adult residents in each state.

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Input: State-owned Russian energy giant Rosneft is the lead investor in a $ 12.9 billion buyout of India's Essar Oil that was announced over the weekend. Russian investment group United Capital Partners (UCP) has also snapped up a stake. The purchase of the oil refiner gives Russia more muscle in India at a time when its demand for energy is booming." Rosneft is entering one of the most promising and fast-growing world markets," CEO Igor Sechin said in a statement. India is already the world's third-largest oil importer, and its demand will jump by more than 300,000 barrels per day this year, according to the International Energy Agency.

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Input: Here are some of Clinton’s foreign policy remarks Thursday, which take a consistently aggressive line toward Russia and Iran, in stark contrast to Trump’s “America First” messaging. The ‘Vacuum’ Clinton described a “vacuum” that could result if Americans withdraw overseas like America did during Clinton’s State Department term, when the U.S. pulled out of Iraq and gave rise to ISIS. Trump has criticized the decision to announce the firm date when U.S. forces would leave. “We are not a country that cowers behind walls,” Clinton said.

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Input: But North Korean viewers wo n’t be getting anything close to what Netflix offers. That’s right, The Interview, among other less controversial content, will not be landing on the service anytime soon. For movies made outside of North Korea, its citizens will have to continue to rely on smuggled material from activists like this guy who’s been using drones to carry USB drives loaded up with Western movies into the country. With its broadband infrastructure limited as well as tightly controlled, it’s not clear how many people will actually be able to access Manbang. It’s thought only a few thousand people in the country – population 25 million – have access to the internet, with special permission necessary needed to get online.

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North Korea


Input: A soldier fires a rocket launcher as other U.S. servicemen watch during the Exercise Noble Partner on May 14. ZURAB KURTSIKIDZE / EPA The equipment was shipped across the Black Sea and transported by rail to the military training area. For the Georgian military, the exercise has become a source of prestige." We are proud to have them here and it’s a unique opportunity to train with these advanced troops and this advanced equipment," Lt. Col. Beka Ambroladze said.

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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: Turkey's main opposition parties, too, condemned the attempted overthrow of the government. Prime Minister Benali Yildirim said 161 people were killed and 1,440 wounded in the overnight violence. He said 2,839 plotters were detained. Kerry said the U.S. had no indication beforehand of the coup attempt, which began as he and Russia's foreign minister were in a Russian government villa in Moscow, locked in negotiations over Syria. “If you're planning a coup, you don't exactly advertise to your partners in NATO,” Kerry said.

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Input: “I believe we’re adding some of the best talents in politics, with the experience and expertise needed to defeat Hillary Clinton in November and continue to share my message and vision to Make America Great Again.” The campaign played down the notion that Trump was reacting to the polls or saw his bid in crisis. “These announcements come at a time of significant growth for Mr. Trump’s campaign, with the first major TV ad buy of the general election slated to start later this week and with additional top-flight operatives joining the movement on a near-daily basis,” the campaign said in the statement. The Wall Street Journal first reported the moves. [Dana Milbank: The hypocrisy at the heart of Trump's campaign]

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Input: (“ I never said that,” Trump told me. “Yes, he did,” said Smith.) The Japanese bankers with whom Trump had negotiated a tentative sale suddenly backed off. “The Japanese despise scandal,” one of their associates told me. Several weeks later, Donald called Ivana.

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Input: Because Trump’s statements are so various and self-contradictory, there will always be some phrase he has spoken that reflects better on him than his other words. 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.)

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Input: Bernie wants to overhaul our corrupt political system. Representatives and Senators are bought by corporate donors. Bernie wants to repeal the Citizens United Supreme Court decision that allows unlimited donations into campaign-supporting Super PACs and move instead into public funding of campaigns so that anyone can run for office. Bernie wants to regulate corrupt corporations. Corporations often pay no taxes either by qualifying for tax breaks for "good behavior" or by moving their profits overseas to tax havens, move jobs overseas to low paying countries and lobby Congress while paying into campaign-supporting Super PACs as a result of Citizens United.

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Input: Maybe Ng figured all that stateside fuss about the Clintons was forgotten when he made a series of brief trips to New York with suitcases of cash on a total of 10 occasions between July 12, 2013, and July 5 of this year. The amounts ranged from $ 200,000 to $ 900,000, for a total in excess of $ 4.5 million. Ng may also have assumed that the feds could not prove otherwise when he told them the money was variously intended for gambling, acquiring real estate, and purchasing art and antiques. The FBI set to work. “In truth and in fact the more than $ 4.5 million in cash was not principally used for or intended to be used for these purposes,” the FBI concluded in the resulting criminal complaint filed last month.

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Input: But it’s a sentiment that could be shared by a lot of people given the FBI’s recent record. Bureau Director James Comey’s news conference, in which he laid out an extended record of misconduct by Hillary Clinton but then announced that he would n’t recommend prosecuting her, was just the latest in a series of very visible FBI failures. The FBI had interviewed Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, after being warned by the Russian government that he was a threat, but still did nothing. Three people were killed and more than 260 were injured as a result. The FBI also investigated in advance but failed to prevent mass killings by Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan and Arkansas shooter Carlos Bledsoe.

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Input: © AP Photo/ File Russian Presidential Envoy: Daesh Fighters May Use Migrant Labor Routes to Reach Russia Another reason that Saudi Arabian leaders will not intervene militarily on the ground in Syria is because they want to avoid direct confrontations with Iran and Russia, al-Ahmed claimed. US Department of State spokesperson John Kirby recently said the United States is discussing the parameters of Riyadh’s offer to deploy ground forces to Syria.

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Input: Andrew Weber, a former Obama administration official who served as the assistant secretary of defense for nuclear, chemical and biological defense programs, also cautioned against increasing the US atomic stockpile. He cited excessive costs and the unnecessary power of some US nuclear weapons. The US B83 gravity bomb, for instance, has a yield of over one megaton, roughly 75 times the catastrophic yield of the Hiroshima "Little Boy" bomb that killed nearly 150,000 Japanese civilians." It has no legitimate use today," said Weber at the Arms Control Association conference." We do n’t need nuclear weapons in the megaton plus range of yield."

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Input: NATO military vehicles with American flags that were put on display in a central square of Chisinau, Moldova’s capital, had to withdraw before Monday’s V-Day march and retreat outside the town after the show-off sparked fierce opposition from the locals. The exhibition of US military equipment on the city’s Great National Assembly Square on Sunday was presented as part of the V-Day celebrations, but instead provoked hundreds of protesters to take to the streets in outrage. Activists opposing NATO’s presence in the country waved banners that read “Go home,”“We do n’t need NATO,” and “Moldova is a neutral state.”

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Input: She has done nothing remotely illegal, and her paranoia may be largely explained by the baseless charges of her overheated critics. After several investigations into the deaths in Benghazi, Republicans hunting for Hillary's scalp came away with a whole lot of nothing. Trump's vow to throw her in prison is an unnerving reminder of his scorn for Constitutional restraint. In fact, we endorse Hillary Clinton not just because Trump is such a scary alternative, but because she is ready for this job, in experience and temperament. Her flaws are outweighed by her virtues, and it's not a close call.

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Input: America’s leviathan, blood-sucking, warmongering military needs to be sacked. The crass views of military top brass like General Breedlove show that this outsized excrescence is not only leading America to defeat; it is, ironically, the biggest threat to American and world security. If Americans do embark on a political revolution, as Bernie Sanders implores, they need to not only sack the big banks. They need to sack the big tanks and all the other elements of the freeloading military gravy train that is destroying the country.

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Input: The Koch network has enjoyed some sizable victories at the state and local level. “We’ve had more progress on ‘right to work’ in the last five years than in the previous five decades,” Phillips boasts. “We’ve seen a dozen and a half states do dramatic tax cuts.” But it’s unclear if the grass-roots operations are really what’s behind those gains, or if it has more to do with conservatives’ success in getting like-minded politicians elected as state legislators and governors. Since 2008, Democrats have lost nearly 1,000 legislative seats and a dozen governors’ mansions around the country. Incoming Florida House Speaker Richard Corcoran says AFP’s activists in that state reinforced his colleagues’ stand against the expansion of Medicaid in 2015 and against spending on corporate tax incentives this past spring.

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Input: Instrumental in passage of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. First Lady of the United States. Promoted nationwide immunization against childhood illnesses. Successfully sought to increase research funding for prostate cancer and childhood asthma at the National Institutes of Health. Worked to investigate reports of an illness that affected veterans of the Gulf War (now recognized as Gulf War Syndrome).

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Input: What Sanders knows is that winning would require fighting the fighter — just the way she fights. Thus far he has refused. But a judge on Tuesday ordered Clinton’s top aides to be questioned under oath about the private email server she set up as secretary of State that violated government policy and circumvented the Freedom of Information Act. She and her employees deliberately moved material from a classified system to her unsecure server, which is illegal and now the subject of an FBI investigation. Sanders can argue the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee is a damaged general election candidate who could face enough legal jeopardy to see her candidacy blow up in smoke.

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Input: A second rebel familiar with the preparations said around 1,500 fighters were now gathered at a location in Turkey to take part." The plan is to take Jarablus and expand south ... so as to abort any attempt by the Kurds to move north ... and so that Kurds don't take more villages," he said. The leader of the newly declared "Jarablus military council", set up with the aim of mounting its own campaign to seize Jarablus with SDF support, was assassinated on Monday, the Observatory said. A Kurdish official said two "agents of Turkey" had been detained over the killing. (Additional reporting by Suleiman al-Khalidi in Amman, Daren Butler and Asli Kandemir in Istanbul, Umit Ozdal in Karkamis, Turkey and David Alexander and Arshad Mohammed in Washington; Editing by Dominic Evans and Alistair Bell)

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Input: The U.S. Department of the Treasury added dozens of people and companies to the list, first introduced after Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine in 2014 and expanded over its support for separatist rebels in the east of the country. As well as multiple subsidiaries of Russian gas giant Gazprom (GAZP.MM) and 11 Crimean officials, the Treasury named seven companies directly involved in the construction of the 19 km (11.8 miles) road-and-rail connection across the Kerch Strait, dubbed "Putin's bridge" by some Russians. Chief among those were SGM-Most, a subsidiary of lead contractor Stroygazmontazh which is already under U.S. sanctions, and sub-contractor Mostotrest (MSTT.MM), one of Russia's biggest bridge builders." Treasury stands with our partners in condemning Russia's violation of international law, and we will continue to sanction those who threaten Ukraine's peace, security and sovereignty," said John Smith, acting director of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control, which levies sanctions. The Russian Foreign Ministry was not immediately available for comment, but Moscow has previously said sanctions levied over its actions in Ukraine undermine efforts to resolve the conflict.

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Input: said that the country did not need another lecture on “Islamophobia.” “We need a commander in chief who does everything necessary to defeat the enemy,” he said. Privately, Obama has worried that a large-scale terrorist attack in Europe or on U.S. soil could force him to plunge American forces into another large and costly war in the Middle East — something he has vowed to avoid. In the near term, this nightmare scenario could lead Obama to deploy more U.S. Special Operations forces to track and destroy the Islamic State cells involved in planning terrorist attacks in Europe and North America. If that is not enough, Obama could choose to speed up plans to drive the Islamic State from its major havens.

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Input: — Supported violent regime in Libya because Moammar Gadhafi intended to create a gold-backed currency for North African countries — Knowingly supported Al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria with the intention to create the Islamic State — Knowledge that Washington-backed rebels in Libya were massacring blacks and other war crimes while NATO forced regime change — Flagrant violations of numerous federal laws, illegal support for terror groups and revolutions, responsibility for mass death and destruction, and the inner workings of Libya and Syria were reduced to ruins The emails prove Clinton lied repeatedly to Congress and the media regarding all these issues.

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Input: The interview abruptly stops. It’s 5.16pm. Hyatt dials the long telephone number, reaches “Martin”, and tells him that Litvinenko is gravely ill in hospital, the victim of an apparent poisoning by two mysterious Russians. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Police investigate Litvinenko’s poisoning at the Millennium hotel in central London. Photograph: Alessia Pierdomenico / Reuters

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Input: Paying for legal and PR expenses — if it happened — suggests the possibility that Clinton sought to control her aides and others involved in the email scandal during interviews with Congress and law enforcement. In October, a website called Complete Colorado published an invoice from Platte River Networks, the Denver-based company that Clinton hired after leaving office to manage her server. The company maintained the server at a New Jersey data center until the FBI seized it last summer. The invoice indicated that Platte River Networks was billing Clinton for legal and public relations services related to its work during the email scandal fallout. Andy Boian, the CEO of dovetail solutions, the company that handles PR for Platte River, has declined comment to TheDC.

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Input: But North Korean viewers wo n’t be getting anything close to what Netflix offers. That’s right, The Interview, among other less controversial content, will not be landing on the service anytime soon. For movies made outside of North Korea, its citizens will have to continue to rely on smuggled material from activists like this guy who’s been using drones to carry USB drives loaded up with Western movies into the country. With its broadband infrastructure limited as well as tightly controlled, it’s not clear how many people will actually be able to access Manbang. It’s thought only a few thousand people in the country – population 25 million – have access to the internet, with special permission necessary needed to get online.

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Input: Trump lied when he s aid “you’re not going to find a quote from me” on Saudi Arabia and Japan having nuclear weapons. Trump lied when he s aid Hillary’s plan would double taxes. Trump lied when he s aid there will be a massive tax increase under Hillary’s plan. Trump lied when he s aid NATO countries have started paying since he’s been talking about it. Trump lied when he s aid he’s been given a lot of credit for NATO paying.

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Input: In June 2010, Mr. Hockey became Dr. Hockey when Howe received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. In 1998, he had double knee replacement. In 1999, he had surgery to remove a cancerous spot on his left shin at the Ohio hospital where son Murray was head of radiology. He had some heart problems in 2003. An irregular heartbeat was diagnosed and angioplasty was performed on the right coronary artery to relieve a blockage.

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Input: “I think the tape raises an awful lot of questions, and if you take that as Donald accurately describing his actions, then, yeah, it is a pattern of assaultive behavior,” Kaine said. [GOP consumed by crisis as more Republicans call on Trump to quit race] On the same program, Kaine was pressed about comments attributed to Clinton that were included in the hacked emails released by WikiLeaks. The emails included the apparent excerpts from closed-door speeches that she made to Wall Street and other corporate interests. Among other things, the apparent comments reflect her “dream” of a “hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders.”

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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: Photos: Hillary Clinton's life in the spotlight During the 1992 presidential campaign, Clinton jokes with her husband's running mate, Al Gore, and Gore's wife, Tipper, aboard a campaign bus. Hide Caption 9 of 43 Photos: Hillary Clinton's life in the spotlight Clinton accompanies her husband as he takes the oath of office in January 1993. Hide Caption 10 of 43 Photos: Hillary Clinton's life in the spotlight The Clintons share a laugh on Capitol Hill in 1993.

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Input: “He told me he is intending to call you on Monday to discuss the importance of CTR and their donation,” Bonner wrote. “He is interested in the fact that CTR is a coordinated PAC that does not do any paid communication.” (Simons has not donated to CTR.) In February 2016, Dennis Cheng, the lead fundraiser for the Clinton campaign, emailed other staffers to recommend that Podesta call certain donors to Priorities USA Action, the largest pro-Clinton Super PAC, to thank them for their six- and seven-figure donations. Cheng flagged three donor names, telling a colleague they were “very important Priorities USA calls that ideally John can make.” In a separate email, Guy Cecil, an official from Priorities USA, apologizes to Podesta for sending him to the wrong address for a meeting.

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Input: On Oct. 2, the Times ran a huge front-page spread featuring these tax returns and a detailed analysis of what they meant, how they got them and what the then-Trump accountant, Jack Mitnick, told the Times about their preparation. 9. Five days later, on Oct. 7 — just two days before the second presidential debate — the "Access Hollywood" live microphone tape was revealed by The Washington Post's David Farenthold, who later said he obtained it around mid-day; the video then soon appeared all over network news and upended the race. 10. Trump then began plummeting in the polls, and saw a mass retreat of endorsements and support.

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Input: He had no business writing to Congress about supposed new emails that neither he nor anyone in the FBI has ever reviewed.” "It is not the function of the FBI director to be making public pronouncements about an investigation, never mind about an investigation based on evidence that he acknowledges may not be significant," Akerman added." The job of the FBI is simply to investigate and to provide the results of its investigation to the prosecutorial arm of the U.S. Department of Justice. His job is not to give a running commentary about any investigation or his opinion about any investigation. This is particularly egregious since Secretary Clinton has no way to respond to what amounts to nebulous and speculative innuendo.”

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Input: A video recorded at the crash site reveals the Boeing-737 -800 disintegrated on impact. Tiny pieces of the aircraft are scattered over a large part of the runway at Rostov-on-Don’s airport. An eyewitness, Arina Kozlova, who was driving near Rostov-on-Don Airport at the time of the crash, said the blaze from the explosion was so bright it was like having dawn in the middle of the night. CCTV camera footage posted on YouTube claims to have captured the moment of the explosion as the aircraft impacted the ground. However, its authenticity could not be immediately verified.

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Input: They show that the recent policy – admittedly more in hope than expectation – of trusting Russia to restrain Assad is now buried in the rubble of Aleppo. This signals a new phase. Assad has calculated that US elections give him a free hand to massacre. We will now see whether or not he has underestimated US readiness to protect the most vulnerable.”

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Input: Gates, once much more hawkish himself but now tempered by the experience of recent decades, summarizes the realist critique: On the left, we hear about the “responsibility to protect” civilians to justify military intervention in Libya, Syria, Sudan and elsewhere. On the right, the failure to strike Syria or Iran is deemed an abdication of U.S. leadership. And so the rest of the world sees the U.S. as a militaristic country quick to launch planes, cruise missiles and drones deep into sovereign countries or ungoverned spaces. Though Gates may differ sharply with him on domestic policy, Sanders is by Gates’s own criteria probably the only foreign-policy realist left in the presidential race.

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Input: 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. From early analyses of his DNA and the grave goods he was buried with, it’s clear the young man buried standing up was a hunter-gatherer, like the infant he shared the cemetery with.

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Input: Saudi Arabia follows the ultra-conservative Wahhabi strain of Sunni Islam, and the public practice of any religion other than Islam is prohibited. Its legal system is governed by Sharia law, and a 2015 study from Middle East Eye noted that Saudi Arabia and Islamic State prescribed near-identical punishments, such as amputation and stoning for similar crimes. The government is also renowned for carrying out public executions after trials that Amnesty International condemns as “grossly unfair”; Amnesty describes the Saudi “justice system” as “riddled with holes.” Given the two countries’ divergent values, the U.S.-Saudi alliance relies almost entirely on overlapping economic and national security interests.

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Input: Edward Snowden, the man at the heart of the NSA information leaks, is nothing but a “traitor” — and America ought to recreate history in dealing with him, real estate mogul Donald Trump said on a “Fox & Friends” interview. In other words, execute him, Mr. Trump implied. “I think Snowden is a terrible threat, I think he’s a terrible traitor, and you know what we used to do in the good old days when we were a strong country — you know what we used to do to traitors, right?” Trump said, Politico reported. “Well, you killed them, Donald,” said fill-in host, Eric Bolling.

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Input: And this idea that the collapse of the last ceasefire can be put at the foot of the Russians is, in fact, a outright lie. Now, that may be painful for folks who are not following the situation very closely, but it is, in fact, a fact, that, basically, the Pentagon undermined the agreement, the ceasefire agreement, that was negotiated by John Kerry, when they attacked the Syrian army and killed 62 of their soldiers, when they attacked a known site. That was the effective collapse of that ceasefire. So, going into Syria and establishing a humanitarian zone, we’re talking about an act of war. Where is the legitimacy for that?

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Input: The Russian government is allegedly secretly paying young men to fight extremists in Syria, despite the Kremlin's repeated claims that the country's involvement in the war is strictly aerial, according to one report. On Wednesday, Britain-based Sky News reported that a private military company called ' Wagner ' — illegal under the Russian constitution — has been recruiting hundreds of men and flying them down to Syria on Russian military transport planes. The two men interviewed by Sky News, whose names have been changed to Dmitry and Alexander, claim they were paid the equivalent of $ 3,900 a month to fight against rebel factions, including the Islamic State. This, despite Russia's claims the only people it has on the ground are instructors and military advisors, and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev telling a German newspaper in February that the presence of foreign powers in Syria could unleash a world war.

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Input: "There is chaos. Some members and commanders are trying to flee," Darwish said. The U.S. -led coalition has sought to use its successes in targeting ISIS leaders to intimidate others. In late May, warplanes dropped leaflets over ISIS-held parts of Syria with the pictures of two senior militants killed previously in airstrikes." What do these Daesh commanders have in common?"

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Input: We’d better get acquainted with it if we’d like to avoid it, no? Nikolai Bukharin’s Wretched Ides of March Bukharin’s execution, as well as all of the wild show trials with forced confessions and executions of so many high-level Soviet leaders, caused shock and disillusionment among several prominent communists in the West. (One of them, Arthur Koestler, reflected on the impact of the show trials in his novel “Darkness at Noon.”) In that last letter, he requested poison to drink rather than a bullet to the head.

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Input: It's no secret Trump has a thorny history with African-Americans. The billionaire's father’s real-estate company, helmed by The Donald at the time, was sued by the Justice Department in 1973 for allegedly refusing to rent properties to black tenants. In 1989, he memorably took out full-page ads in New York's daily newspapers — including this one — demanding that five black and Hispanic teens accused of raping a female jogger in Central Park be given the death penalty, though they later turned out to be innocent. To this day, he routinely tacks on an antiquated definite article (" the blacks ") when referring to the racial group. And in February, when asked in a CNN interview whether he disavowed the support of former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke, he played dumb — later blaming his avoidance on a faulty earpiece.

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Input: A massive leak, coming from Mossack Fonseca, of 11.5 million tax documents exposed the secret offshore dealings of aides to Russian president Vladimir Putin, world leaders and celebrities including Barcelona forward Lionel Messi Panama's government vowed Sunday to "vigorously cooperate" with any legal probe that might be launched in the wake of the "Panama Papers" data leak." The Panamanian government will vigorously cooperate with any request or assistance necessary in the event of any legal action occurring," it said in a statement. The Central American nation is reeling from revelations that one of its high-profile but secretive law firms, Mossack Fonseca, allegedly helped major politicians and celebrities around the world hide assets from tax authorities, according to a data leak picked over by scores of media outlets.

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Input: But if we were going to do anything, it would be a very positive step to say that discrimination has no place in our law and to reaffirm the president’s actions in this area,” Maloney told The Hill. “Seems to me a pretty basic thing to do.” The shooting at Pulse nightclub on Sunday that killed 49 people and injured 53 more has been deemed by federal authorities as both a terrorist attack and a hate crime. FBI Director James Comey said the suspected shooter had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) during a 911 call before he was shot dead by police. Two centrist Republicans, Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (Fla.) and Richard Hanna (N.Y.), signed onto Maloney’s amendment as co-sponsors.

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Input: In 2003, he left the Rocky Mountain Institute to form Climate Mitigation Services, a consulting firm specializing in surveying and mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. One of his early clients was Aspen, Colorado, a rich and progressive ski town whose leaders wanted to act decisively to reduce emissions. They hired Heede to do a baseline greenhouse gas inventory with the broadest possible scope — including not only activities within the city, but the cars and airplanes that annually brought in hundreds of thousands of tourists … in short, Heede recalls," everything that uses energy as a result of Aspen's existence." The exercise raised fascinating questions, Heede says:" What is a community, and what is a boundary? There's leakage everywhere: airplanes, trucks, cars, visitors.

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Input: The samovar-engraved with the letters "FSB" and the organisation's logo-been presented to the head of the Investigations Committee's Internal Security Directorate, Mikhail Maksimenko, and was left sitting in his office, Moscow daily Izvestiya reports. The three were arrested in July, but details of the bugging operation have only just been revealed as their case comes to court. A court in Moscow detained Maksimenko and senior officials Denis Nikandrov and Alexander Lamonov over charges that they accepted bribes from a known crime kingpin, Kommersant reports. All three deny the accusations and claim that the FSB surveillance activities against them were "illegal" and didn't implicate them in bribe-taking anyway. Their conversations were "the prattle of tipsy men," Nikrandov told the court.

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Input: Her only competition is President Barack Obama." Trump first made the assertion in a speech on Wednesday night in Florida, saying," I call them co-founders "of Islamic State. In an interview on Thursday morning, Trump defended the remarks." Is there something wrong with saying that?" Trump told CNBC.

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Input: In an interview with CBC in February, Kasyanov said "the situation is worsening every day. Putin's pursuing a tough policy, squeezing the whole political environment in Russia. We have permanent blackmailing of the opposition. We face problems every day." Kasyanov's adultery wasn't the only "revelation" in the video.

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Input: REUTERS / Maxim Shemetov LONDON Nikita Kamayev, former head of Russia's Anti-Doping Agency, approached the Sunday Times before his death offering to expose the country's secret development of performance-enhancing drugs, the newspaper has reported. Ten weeks before he passed away, Kamayev said he wanted to write a book that would reveal the complete extent of doping in Russia, the Sunday Times said in a front-page article." I want to write a book about the true story of sport pharmacology and doping in Russia since 1987 while being a young scientist working in a secret lab in the USSR Institute of Sports Medicine," he told the newspaper in an email.

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Input: agents seized several electronic devices from Mr. Weiner: a laptop, his iPhone and an iPad that was in large measure used by his 4-year -old son to watch cartoons, a person with knowledge of the matter said. Days later, F.B.I. agents also confiscated a Wi-Fi router that could identify any other devices that had been used, the person said. While searching the laptop, the agents discovered the existence of tens of thousands of emails, some of them sent between Ms. Abedin and other Clinton aides, according to senior law enforcement officials. It is not clear if Ms. Abedin downloaded the emails to the laptop or if they were automatically backed up there.

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Input: He said such action had the potential to unnecessarily escalate tensions between the countries. In April, the U.S. military said Russian SU-24 bombers simulated attack passes near the USS Donald Cook in the Baltic Sea. Russia and the United States blame each other for unsafe manoeuvres in the June 17 incident which occurred less than two weeks after officials from the two countries met in Moscow to discuss ways to avoid incidents at sea. The Russian Defence Ministry said a U.S. destroyer approached dangerously close to a Russian ship, in what it said was a flagrant U.S. violation of rules to avoid at-sea collisions. A U.S. official countered that the Russian ship carried out "unsafe and unprofessional" operations near two U.S. ships.

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Input: TRUMP IN A SLUMP! cried the Daily News. One columnist even said Trump’s problems were the occasion for city joy, and proposed a unity day. “Ivana! Ivana!

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Input: Photograph: Menemsha Films / Everett / Rex Shutterstock The move against the historian comes as the nationalist Law and Justice government, elected in 2015, comes under European scrutiny for law changes that, critics say, threaten democracy. President Andrzej Duda signed into law a controversial move bringing the attorney general under the control of the justice ministry. Critics say this will put political pressure on the judiciary. Intellectuals who in the past few days have signed two open letters in Gross’s defence say the Law and Justice government wants to rewrite history, expunging any suggestion of Polish complicity in past horrors.

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Input: Early in her career, Clinton cultivated her hawkish reputation on the Senate Armed Services Committee, where she was “looking to hone hard-power credentials,” the Times writes. Eventually, she “become a military wonk.” One of the biggest influences on Clinton was Jack Keane, a retired four-star general whom the Times describes as “a well-compensated member of the military-industrial complex” and “the resident hawk on Fox News, where he appears regularly to call for the United States to use greater military force in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan.” Keane took an immediate liking to Clinton and took her under his wing. He tutored her on Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran and more.

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Input: Trump's fascination with Russia Trump has long been fascinated with Russia and, before its dissolution, the Soviet Union. During the early 1980s he told The Washington Post that President Reagan should give him the job of negotiating nuclear arms agreements with the USSR." It would take an hour and a half to learn everything there is to learn about missiles," he noted. He declined to say exactly what he would propose be done about arsenals with enough power to destroy the world several times over.

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Input: During the hiatus, borrowers would receive help and advice to save money, the preview material provided to education advocates said. Clinton frequently talks of the advantages of loan repayment plans that are tied to income, which would be one of the refinancing options along with help reducing fees and resolving delinquent debts. Clinton also plans to use the moratorium to crack down on for-profit colleges and loan servicers, whom she accuses of often taking advantage of borrowers.” She will use the setting, Atlantic City, to slam Trump's business acumen and poor record of running casinos. She'll also accuse of him "cheating workers." -- In good timing for HRC, USA Today fronts this story -- > “Trump casino empire dogged by bad bets in Atlantic City,” by Karen Yi: Records “shine light on an era marked by battles with regulators who often doubted statements by Trump, yet allowed him to keep operating.” The paper’s review “also found Trump’s casinos repeatedly broke state rules, leading to more than a million dollars in fines.

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Input: A recent opinion poll showed two thirds of Turks agree with their president that Gulen was behind the coup plot. Turkey has been holding almost daily mass rallies since July 15 in support of democracy and the government and against the plotters. Authorities have suspended, detained or put under investigation tens of thousands of people in the armed forces, the judiciary, civil service and elsewhere since the coup, in which a faction of the military commandeered warplanes, helicopters and tanks in an attempt to topple the government. On Tuesday Bozdag put the number of people now formally arrested awaiting trial at 16,000, adding that a further 6,000 detainees were still being processed. Another 7,668 people are under investigation but have not been detained, he said.

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Input: We must keep in mind that food is a human right (although the United States has repeatedly denied this. Washington maintained a blockade of goods and money entering Cuba that is still going strong, a blockade that President Clinton’s National Security Advisor, Sandy Berger, in 1997 called “the most pervasive sanctions ever imposed on a nation in the history of mankind”. Attempted to assassinate Cuban president Fidel Castro on numerous occasions, not only in Cuba, but in Panama, Dominican Republic and Venezuela. In one scheme after another in recent years, Washington’s Agency for International Development (AID) endeavored to cause dissension in Cuba and/or stir up rebellion, the ultimate goal being regime change. In 1999 a Cuban lawsuit demanded $ 181.1 billion in US compensation for death and injury suffered by Cuban citizens in four decades “war” by Washington against Cuba.

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Input: (Ruth Eglash) The University of Tennessee-Knoxville agreed to pay $ 2.48 million in a sexual assault suit involving student athletes, ending a dispute that pitted eight young women against the football program. It is the school’s third financial settlement involving the athletics department in just two years. (The Tennessean) A 60-year -old British woman has become the subject of a high-profile legal dispute over whether she can use her deceased daughter’s frozen eggs to carry her own grandchild. A London appeal's court sided with the woman last week. She says it was her daughter’s “dying wish.” (Lindsey Bever) Florida authorities are investigating a bizarre death in which they were called to the scene of a “burning mannequin” outside a craft store – only to discover that the body on fire belonged to a human man.

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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: Turkey has launched a series of mass purges of suspected Gulen supporters in its armed forces, other state institutions, universities, schools and the media since the abortive coup, prompting Western concerns for the stability of a key NATO ally. Erdogan, who was visiting Russia on Tuesday, has criticized the United States and the European Union for showing what he says is a lack of solidarity with Turkey over the coup and of caring more for the rights of people he views as traitors. “There is a serious anti-American feeling in Turkey, and this is turning into hatred,” Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said in an interview with state-run Anadolu Agency, broadcast live on Turkish television channels. “It is in the hands of the United States to stop this anti-American feeling leading to hatred.” Responding to Turkey’s demand for Gulen’s extradition, U.S. President Barack Obama has said Ankara must first provide clear evidence of wrongdoing.

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Input: — Supported violent regime in Libya because Moammar Gadhafi intended to create a gold-backed currency for North African countries — Knowingly supported Al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria with the intention to create the Islamic State — Knowledge that Washington-backed rebels in Libya were massacring blacks and other war crimes while NATO forced regime change — Flagrant violations of numerous federal laws, illegal support for terror groups and revolutions, responsibility for mass death and destruction, and the inner workings of Libya and Syria were reduced to ruins The emails prove Clinton lied repeatedly to Congress and the media regarding all these issues.

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Input: And where is Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), who has declared that he supports a man who seems to stand for everything McCain is against — and who callously belittled his war record? McCain has lived a life of service, with acts of courage that are beyond my comprehension. When the North Vietnamese offered to release him in advance of other prisoners of war (because his father was an admiral), he refused, preferring more captivity and torture to losing his honor. Years later, when he learned that Henry Kissinger had also refused to allow any special treatment for him, he thanked Kissinger for saving “my reputation, my honor, my life, really.” Today, all McCain needs to do to preserve his honor is to say two words: “Never Trump.”

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Input: There were obvious signs that pressure was building on Kasyanov — beginning in January, when Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov posted video of Kasyanov inside a sniper's crosshairs. A few weeks later, he was "pied" in the face at a restaurant, a favourite threatening tactic of provocateurs. Kasyanov is chairman of PARNAS, a liberal opposition party in Russia, and was prime minister before he fell out of favour and was ousted by Putin in 2004. Pelevina is his political assistant and was a member of the party executive until she resigned this week. (Corinne Seminoff / CBC)

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Input: On Wednesday, I wrote a contrarian piece on Bernie Sanders, who has a reputation as perilously weak on foreign policy, arguing that he has legitimate political reasons for ignoring the topic and that it's not as big of a deal as it might seem. Lots of presidents come into office inexperienced on foreign policy, many do just fine by taking steps such as hiring a smart and experienced team, and there is no reason to think Sanders can't do this, too. I argued that we — political and media elites — demand that candidates put themselves through a somewhat artificial ritual of proving their foreign policy credentials, that this ritual is more about reassuring establishment figures than about actual foreign policy, and we shouldn't write Sanders off on foreign policy purely because his political incentives do not line up with conducting this ritual as usual. On Thursday, in his MSNBC debate with Hillary Clinton, Sanders went ahead and put my theory to the ultimate make-or-break test, giving a cringe-a-minute performance on foreign policy that was near-universally panned.

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Input: PUSHED RUSSIA TO ARMS RACE IN NUCLEAR SPHERE Perhaps even more worrying are the comments from Obama administration officials declaration that war with Russia was all but inevitable (via AntiWar’s Jason Ditz), “With some Obama Administration officials openly advocating starting a war with Russia over Syria, it is noteworthy that a lot of top Pentagon officials are treating the conflict as all but inevitable. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley hyped Russian modernization efforts, but declared that they ‘will lose to the American Army. ‘ “Russian officials have been cognizant of the possibility, insisting that Russia ‘can now fight a conventional war in Europe,’ comments which Gen. Milley dismissed as ‘bluster, hubris, bravado.’ and insisting that war with other nation-states ‘is almost guaranteed.’

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Input: > > > > “It’d be a shame for anything to happen to the Plaza,” said Sumner A. Baye, a veteran hotel consultant who happened to be sitting at a table in the hotel’s mahogany-paneled Rose Room overlooking the lobby on Monday. “It’s one of the great five-star hotels. It’s New York all the way.” > > > > The sultan had indeed expressed interest in the hotel package, analysts said, but was dealing with other issues: His Beverly Hills and Bel-Air hotels in Los Angeles had become the subject of boycotts after he instituted laws in Brunei that permitted the stoning of gay people and adulterers. This week, the Human Rights Campaign threatened to extend the boycotts to the Plaza if the sultan were to acquire the property. > > > > There had been whispers of other potential international buyers taking a look at the Plaza and the other hotels in Mr. Roy’s portfolio.

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Input: His support of Trump is not a surprise for me because he wants to see an alternative world and he wants to be a world leader. And obviously, with Trump, it will be much easier for Putin to execute his internal and external policies — and quite brutal ones. When Mr. Trump says he wouldn't support NATO allies, such as the Baltic countries, this would give Putin much more freedom to annex those territories. Trump talks about making America great again — taking it back to an earlier time when things were supposedly better. Does Putin have any of that?

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Input: Election 2016 | Live coverage on Trail Guide | Sign up for the newsletter | The race to 270 “He jumped in with the devil and now he’s in a huge predicament here,” said Brian Howey, publisher of a website chronicling Indiana politics. “If the guy had any shred of integrity, he’d resign the ticket.” Pence has not reached that point. On Saturday, he issued a statement that leaves him room to maneuver and makes it clear that he would not defend Trump in the near term, as he has on so many other occasions in recent months.

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Input: He further says that deficient Russian institutions provide for the supremacy of arbitrariness and abuse. “Our [leaders] like to rule manually,” he said. Asked why, Gorbachev states: “Because they were not elected,” he comments, explaining that after the 1990, Russian elections became less free than they were in Soviet times. In the 1996 presidential elections, Gorbachev says that the one who won was Gennady Zyuganov [officially Boris Yeltsin won against the Communist leader, Gennady Zyuganov]. “He [Zyuganov] knew he had won the elections, and was scared,” Gorbachev said.

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Input: * DOES CLINTON HAVE ‘WALKING PNEUMONIA’? NBC News speculates that Clinton could be suffering from a “near-textbook case” of “walking pneumonia,” which entails this: Patients do n’t feel great, but they’re not sick enough to stay home in bed or to be hospitalized … .People often feel well enough to go about their business, especially once they start taking antibiotics … But the infection can take a toll, making patients prone to getting tired and dehydrated. Meanwhile, experts see no reason to think this will be debilitating for Clinton. * DEMOCRATS WORRY ABOUT HILLARY ’S PNEUMONIA: Reuters reports that Democrats are worried about Clinton’s Pneumonia for two reasons, beyond her well-being: First, does her campaign’s failure to divulge the illness for two days signal again that her penchant for secrecy is working against her?

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Input: Clinton campaign spokesman Josh Schwerin called Judicial Watch a "right-wing organization" that "has been attacking the Clintons since the 1990s," and added that Hillary Clinton "never took action as secretary of state because of donations to the Clinton Foundation." Questions about the relationship between the Clinton Foundation and the State Department have persisted for years. Republicans, citing her use of a private email server and her deletion of tens of thousands of emails she deemed personal, have accused Clinton of trying to conceal the potentially embarrassing connections. A 2011 exchange, released by the State Department this year, showed that Ukrainian steel magnate Victor Pinchuk, who has pledged more than $ 10 million to the Clinton Foundation in recent years, met that year with a top State Department official. Pinchuk spoke on behalf of Ukraine's president to try to soothe tensions with Washington over that country's human-rights record and its growing closeness with Russian President Vladimir Putin, emails showed.

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Input: UK Ambassador gives damning speech to UN after Russia's security council veto over Syria On Saturday, Russia vetoed the resolution, which called for an end to all air strikes except those against Isis and al-Qaeda affiliated terrorists-the fifth time the country has used its veto to block UN action in the almost six-year-long civil war. Russia's own rival measure on a truce which called for a ceasefire but did not mention airstrikes was also rejected. France has previously appealed to Russia to save rebel-held east Aleppo from total destruction. The besiged area, home to 250,000 people, has been subjected to unprecedented Russian-backed shelling by President Bashar al-Assad's forces since the breakdown of a US-Russian brokered ceasefire last month.

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Input: In a news conference responding to evidence suggesting Russian agencies hacked the email accounts of the Democratic National Committee, Trump insisted that he had no business dealings in Russia — with the single exception of selling a Palm Beach house to a Russian for $ 100 million. The problem with this account is that it is contradicted by other evidence suggesting the Trump Organization has long been interested in business in Russia. We documented the evidence and concluded Trump’s remarks are artfully deceiving. One of the most damaging attacks on Trump has been a Hillary Clinton ad that highlights his mocking of a disabled reporter who writes for The New York Times. Trump revisited the incident in a campaign rally, adamantly denying this was the case.

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Input: Just like being interviewed on the same episode of Sixty Minutes as Putin was is not the same thing as actually dealing with Putin. So the stakes in global statecraft are infinitely higher and more complex than in the world of luxury hotels.” Clinton mocked Trump’s claim that John McCain is not a hero because he was captured As Breitbart News reported, McCain said that no veterans should support Clinton for president. “I do n’t see how any veterans … could support her quest to become commander in chief,” McCain said on a conference call with reporters before Trump secured the Republican nomination.

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