Input: Government officials are hopeful that the scheme helps to create an influx of more than 36 million people to the region. That optimistic estimate is especially important along the region's southern borders, where fewer than 6 million Russians currently face more than 90 million Chinese. The Kremlin is deeply concerned that China may one day find the need to annex large swaths of Russian wilderness." The vast expanses of Siberia would provide not just room for China's huddled masses, now squeezed into the coastal half of their country by the mountains and deserts of western China," writes Frank Jacobs for the New York Times." The land is already providing China, ' the factory of the world, ' with much of its raw materials, especially oil, gas and timber.

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Input: Read more: The stealthy, nefarious way an ex-KGB officer was murdered in London Full report: Russian President Vladimir Putin implicated in fatal poisoning of former KGB operative Russian tycoon found dead in Britain after falling out with Putin The ancient art of poisoning

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Input: Yet Air Force General Philip Breedlove, as with most of the Pentagon top brass, is leading America inexorably to historic defeat. Not deliberately mind you. But through incompetence and purveying a futile, crass worldview, which misleads America to grossly mis-spend its national resources. With a $ 600 billion a-year allocation, the Pentagon devours over half of the total US national budget. What could be spent on creating jobs, building civil infrastructure and providing top class public services in education and heath care is instead pumped into the dead-end military.

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

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Input: 17. And then a new candidate: Vice President Joe Biden Joe Biden Biden tops list of potential 2020 Democrats in new poll Biden on current political climate: ' We are better than this ' Biden kisses grad on the cheek during selfie video MORE? Former Secretary of State John Kerry John KerryTillerson: ' My view did n’t change ' on Paris climate agreement CORRECTED: Three members of Mueller's team have donated to Democrats Kerry: New Iran sanctions may be dangerous MORE? Sen. Elizabeth Warren Elizabeth WarrenSanders to GOP on healthcare bill: ' What are you afraid of? ' Dems step up attacks on GOP ObamaCare bill Overnight Finance: Ryan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax reform | Warren targets Wells Fargo board | Senators raise concerns over Russian takeover of Citgo | Pelosi hits GOP for budget delays MORE (Mass.)?

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Input: 6/14 Bombing in Aleppo Syrians evacuate an injured man amid the rubble of destroyed buildings following an air strike on a rebel-held of Aleppo on April 29, 2016. AFP / Getty Images 7/14 Bombing in Aleppo People inspect the damage at a site hit by airstrikes, in the rebel-held area of Aleppo's Bustan al-Qasr AP 8/14 Bombing in Aleppo A man leads a woman in tears and child out of the scene after airstrikes hit Aleppo AP 9/14 Bombing in Aleppo Civil defence members search for survivors after an airstrike at a field hospital in the rebel held area of al-Sukari district of Aleppo Reuters

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Input: On Tuesday night, vice-presidential candidates Republican Governor Mike Pence and Democratic Senator Tim Kaine faced off at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia, for their first and only debate before next month’s election. Democracy Now! aired a special "Expanding the Debate" broadcast Tuesday, where we gave major third-party candidates a chance to respond in real time to the same questions put to the major candidates. The Green Party’s Ajamu Baraka joined us live from Richmond, Virginia. Today we’re airing highlights from that "Expanding the Debate" special.

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Input: 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. In 2014, Clinton also has embraced the neocon-backed coup in Ukraine that has touched off a new and costly Cold War with Russia. Again showing her “tough-gal” side, Clinton likened Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler.

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Input: The age of American Triumphalism has caused more rot in the mainstream media. Not only with the Times but with other major outlets like the Washington Post, the Wall St. Journal and National Public Radio. A striking example occurred when the Times lent its front page to a fabricated and now thoroughly discredited story by Judith Miller and Michael Gordon in September, 2002 claiming that Iraq had WMD. That was just weeks before Congress took a vote to “authorize” George W. Bush to launch an invasion of Iraq. I still recall the day I looked at that article and thought it was fact free and source free and that any decent editor would turn it back.

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Input: See the most-read stories this hour » Online exhortations and blueprints for attacks that are pushed to followers on Twitter and via encrypted apps can inspire individuals to “embark on this path to destruction” while evading a surveillance net that tracks communications and travel for potential signs of terrorist plots, Brennan said. Intelligence analysts are concerned that Islamic State may try send terrorists into Western countries by hiding them among refugees, by using smuggling channels or by finding weaknesses in the security screening of legitimate travelers, he said. Gunmen and suicide bombers, including some who had returned from the war in Syria, killed 130 people in restaurants, a concert hall and a sports arena in Paris last Nov. 15. And on March 22, another terrorist team directed by Islamic State bombed the airport and subway in Brussels, killing 32 people.

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Input: Even Donald Trump admitted Friday he relishes denying things. Story Continued Below Speaking at a rally in Fletcher, North Carolina, Trump denounced what he hyperbolically suggested were “thousands and thousands of ads” run by Hillary Clinton’s “juggernaut,” which he said has raised “billions of dollars.” “I turned on the other day — I was in Florida, and I was in Pennsylvania — I turned on the television. It was ad after ad after ad,” Trump said.

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Input: (CNN) The United States and Russia have announced a plan to bring about a ceasefire in Syria, US Secretary of State John Kerry said." Today we are announcing an arrangement that we think has the capability of sticking, but it's dependent on people's choices," Kerry said Friday in Geneva, Switzerland, appearing alongside Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Kerry said the pact calls for the Syrian government and the opposition to respect a nationwide ceasefire scheduled to take effect at sundown Monday. The Syrian regime announced its support of the ceasefire deal Saturday, according to the state-run al-Ikhbariya TV. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov unveil the new plan Friday.

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Input: Trump and Ryan would also both repeal Obama’s health-care reforms and regulations on Wall Street. Democrats would be powerless to stop them. Trump could renounce the Paris climate accord immediately after his election, reversing international momentum toward green energy, and then quickly dismantle Obama’s regulations that enabled the pact to be negotiated in the first place. Democrats in the Senate may threaten to filibuster legislative action, but if Republicans continue to control the Senate (as they surely would after a Trump victory), they could abolish the filibuster with a simple majority vote (as they surely would if it were all that stood in their way). Even if Republicans uncharacteristically were to shy away from such an aggressive approach, Congress could, under existing rules, pass a budget bill that is exempt from the filibuster as long as it contains only tax-and-spending-related matters.

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Input: During the debate on Sunday, he was erratic, failed to land many blows, and humiliated his running mate on the Syria question. As for Clinton, her performance may not go down in the history books as one of the most sparkling debates, but it did n’t need to. She managed to remain above the fray, seeming calm, presidential, and poised as her rival roamed the stage and interrupted. Trump’s pugilistic performance may serve as a rallying point for his key supporters, but the Republican’s task right now is to staunch the bleeding and start winning over new voters, since he does n’t currently have enough to win. There’s practically no prospect he made progress on that goal Sunday night.

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

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Input: Instead of the vague creep of more boots on the ground, we should be clear about our long-term commitment to support allies and our willingness to ensure no new havens emerge. The announcement to maintain NATO troops and support in Afghanistan was an important step. With terrorists hiding behind encrypted communications, we should consider detaining high-value targets consistently to fill intelligence gaps. The Obama administration should also rethink whether this is the right moment to release the remaining detainees from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to various parts of the world. And we need to support and amplify voices and networks around the world confronting the ideology that animates terrorism — online and in the physical world.

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Input: Julie Bishop said Russia would likely veto any moves by the United Nations security council to bring to trial those responsible, so other legal avenues would be considered. An international team investigating the downing of flight MH17 released its preliminary conclusions on Wednesday. The two-year investigation found close to 100 people were linked to the transport and firing of the Buk 9M38 missile that brought down the plane in 2014. It found the missile had been driven from Russia into an area of eastern Ukraine controlled by Moscow-backed rebels. Russia has rejected all suggestions its military was involved in the incident.

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Input: Those UN sanctions were ultimately adopted in June 2010, and President Barack Obama declared them the toughest ever enacted on Tehran. But that assessment was soon outstripped by unilateral sanctions enacted by the U.S. Congress, which went beyond the U.N. punishment, and that Obama ultimately signed into law. Top Iranian officials have admitted that sanctions relief included in the Iran deal drove them to begin talks, backing up Clinton's claim that her push to enact sanctions brought Tehran to the nuclear negotiations. But while Clinton's role in pushing foreign countries to adopt the tough UN sanctions is clear, it's also evident U.S. lawmakers pushed for tough sanctions as well -- indeed, tougher sanctions than Clinton was lobbying for abroad. Verdict: Mostly true.

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Input: Victoria Widergren, a Republican from Chester Springs, Pennsylvania, agreed. The 46-year -old builder and architect was planning to vote for Trump, but changed her mind after Monday's debate. Widergren said she was particularly appalled to learn that the billionaire businessman hadn't paid contractors who worked for him. But as the 90-minute debate stretched on, she, too, grew frustrated with Trump's interruptions of Clinton, a view she said was shared by colleagues she'd spoken to after the debate." He just doesn't understand when to stop," she said.

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Input: Four months of Russian air strikes have tipped momentum Assad's way. With Moscow's help and allies including Lebanon's Hezbollah and Iranian fighters, the Syrian army is regaining areas on key fronts in the west. United Nations investigators called for new sanctions on Syrian officials as well as leaders of the two most hardline rebel groups, Islamic State and the Nusra Front, accusing the three of mass killings, torture and disappearances of civilians in custody. Speaking in Ankara, Merkel, under fire at home over the refugee crisis, said Europe needed to follow up quickly on pledges of aid to help Turkey cope with the Syria exodus, and also urged Ankara to act fast to improve the situation for refugees. (Additional reporting by Nick Tattersall in Istanbul, Yesim Dikmen and Ercan Gurses in Ankara and Stephanie Nebehay in Geneva; writing by Suleiman al-Khalidi and Philippa Fletcher; editing by Peter Graff and Pravin Char)

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Input: 9/14 Bombing in Aleppo Civil defence members search for survivors after an airstrike at a field hospital in the rebel held area of al-Sukari district of Aleppo Reuters 10/14 Bombing in Aleppo A Syrian boy is comforted as he cries next to the body of a relative who died in a reported air strike in the rebel-held neighbourhood of al-Soukour in the northern city of Aleppo Getty Images 11/14 Bombing in Aleppo A Syrian family walks amid the rubble of destroyed buildings following a reported air strike in the Bustan al-Qasr rebel-held district of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo Getty Images 12/14 Bombing in Aleppo Syrian civil defence volunteers and rescuers remove a baby from under the rubble of a destroyed building following a reported air strike on the rebel-held neighbourhood of al-Kalasa in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo Getty Images 13/14 Bombing in Aleppo Syrians help a wounded youth following an air strike on the Fardous rebel held neighbourhood of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo Getty Images

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Input: The Russian embassy in Pyongyang made the announcement this week that 2,394 tons of flour and other food items have been sent to the North Korean port city of Chongjin, Sputnik news agency reported Thursday. The flour was sent through the United Nations World Food Program and was made possible with a Russian donation, according to South Korean news agency Yonhap. This is the second time in 2016 Russia has delivered a shipment. In March, Moscow provided funds for the delivery of 2,500 tons of flour to North Korea. The flour is to be used to produce nutritious biscuits and cereals that can be distributed to child daycare centers in North Hamgyong and Kangwon provinces, according to the report.

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

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Input: Reports later emerged claiming that the apartment where the money was discovered belongs to Zakharchenko’s sister, which the arrested official confirmed, TASS reported. Zakharchenko’s lawyers proposed that bail be set at 70 million rubles ($ 1 million). “We are asking about two alternative measures: home arrest or 70 million rubles ($ 1 million) bail,” Zakharchenko’s lawyer Yury Novikov said, as cited by Interfax. According to TASS’ sources, the money belonged to NOTA-Bank, which had its license revoked in November of 2015.

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Input: A modern-day version of the United States ' 19th century western land rush is about to unfold in Russia, albeit on a much larger scale. On Monday, President Vladimir Putin signed into law a bill that would allow Russian citizens the opportunity to apply for a free 2.5-acre tract of land in the country's remote Far East. The vast region, stretching from Siberia to the Arctic region near Alaska, encompasses 3.9 million square miles but holds only 7.4 million of Russia's 143 million citizens. It is often referred to as one of the most sparsely populated regions in the world.

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Input: Exclusive: Before the Democrats lock in their choice for President, they might want to know if Hillary Clinton broke the law with her unsecure emails and may be indicted, a question that ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern addresses. By Ray McGovern A few weeks after leaving office, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton may have breathed a sigh of relief and reassurance when Director of National Intelligence James Clapper denied reports of the National Security Agency eavesdropping on Americans.

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Input: Pelevina and Kasyanov often met there during their long affair. She is 38 and single; he is 58, married with two children. They worked together in the trenches of Russia's battered opposition. Both were deep in preparations for this fall's parliamentary elections when the video emerged. Pelevina believes the secret surveillance of a private apartment owned by Kasyanov, a married father of two, was carried out by Russia's security services and lasted six months.

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Input: Share on Facebook SHARE Share on Twitter TWEET Link Whistleblower Edward Snowden is willing to return to the US, if given a fair trial. Photo: AP Mr Snowden has previously spoken of making offers to the government to return home and his willingness to discuss a plea deal and even go to jail.

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

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Input: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists says Pakistan is on course to have the world’s fifth-largest inventory of nuclear weapons, and is spending more than $ 2.5 billion on nuclear weapons annually. Given the Pakistani obsession with matching India weapon for weapon, it is likely Islamabad will try and develop a Made in Pakistan BMD. At the same time, it will attempt to buy systems from outside as a hedge against failure. Either way the impact on the Pakistani economy will be immense. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute lists India as the fifth largest military spender with an annual budget of $ 51 billion.

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Input: Iran does not accept that the U.N. resolution bars it from testing missiles, as long as it has no nuclear weapons to place on them. The standoff has turned into a diplomatic and political test for both Washington and Tehran, even as the lifting of sanctions under the nuclear deal draws closer. Early in the new year, the United States and European Union are expected to unfreeze billions of dollars of Iranian assets, allow Iranian firms access to the international financial system and end bans that have crippled Iran's oil exports. The deal was a risky diplomatic achievement for both Obama and Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, leaders of countries that have been enemies for nearly 40 years. Both men are under pressure from hardliners at home to demonstrate that they have not compromised on wider issues.

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Input: “There are plenty of fakes now — from counterfeit paintings of brilliant artists to quotations falsely attributed to famous people. It is no wonder we fell for it,” he said. Kiselyov did not apologize for misleading viewers, but used the situation to once again mention the fact that some Ukrainians fought alongside Nazi Germany and said he is thankful for “such artifacts, even if they are made in our time” for “reminding us about true history. “Last month, Kiselyov showed a trailer of the movie titled the “Browder Effect,” which portrays Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny as a paid agent of the British-American investor William Browder.

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Input: In the Tabqa, near Raqqa, ISIS fighters brought a civilian, Abdul-Hadi Issa, into the main square before dozens of onlookers and announced he was accused of spying. A masked militant then stabbed him in the heart and, with the knife still stuck in the man's chest, the fighter shot him in the head with a pistol. Issa's body was hanged in the square with a large piece of paper on his chest proclaiming the crime and the punishment. ISIS circulated photos of the killing on social media. According to al-Talawy, several other ISIS members were killed in the town of Sukhna near the central Syrian city of Palmyra on charges of giving information to the coalition about ISIS bases in the area as well as trying to locate places where al-Baghdadi might be.

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

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Input: And with the exception of Islamic State, it refers only to “armed groups” seeking to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad. But despite the neutral tone the findings are shocking. In an atmosphere of “coercion, fear and fanaticism”, blackmail, theft and smuggling have supported the continuation of armed conflict so that the Syrian economy has become “a black hole” absorbing “domestic and external resources”. Oil production continues to be an “important financial resource” for Isis and other armed groups, it says. Consumer prices rose 53% last year. But suffering is unevenly spread.

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Input: President Obama, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and others of the mainstream interventionist ilk continue to debate whether the terrorist problem that America is facing is due to radical Muslims or regular Muslims. Depending on where they come out on that question, their solutions inevitably encompass more destruction of American liberty and privacy, such as with gun control, immigration controls, or surveillance schemes. There is one big problem with their analysis, however: The terrorism problem America has been facing even before 9/11 is n’t due to Islam, Muslims, or the Koran. Instead, the anti-American terrorism problem is rooted in U.S. interventionism in the Middle East and Afghanistan, specifically the ongoing death and destruction that the U.S. military death machine has been wreaking in those parts of the world on an ongoing basis for the past 25 years.

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

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Input: Trumpism (or Breitbartism) can not win power without the Republican Party, just as the Republican Party can no longer win power without the extremists that define it. The overwhelming gravitational force of the American two-party system delivered to Trump an endorsement from a former rival he had once called “Liddle Marco,” taking care to spell out the insult to his jeering supporters. (“ L-I-D-D-L-E. Liddle, Liddle, Liddle Marco.”) And it brought the endorsement of another whose wife he labeled ugly and whose father he insinuated may have conspired to assassinate JFK. A party that can contain, on the one hand, a presidential nominee who denounces shadowy global financiers and media elites and, on the other, Sheldon Adelson (who has donated millions toward his election) can withstand enormous internal tension. Trump will probably lose.

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Input: Their go-to defense, however, has been to point out that Trump’s daughter Ivanka converted to Judaism to marry her Orthodox Jewish husband, Jared Kushner, and that their children are Jewish. Kushner, in turn, has publicly stood up for his father-in-law, penning an op-ed in the New York Observer (which he owns) arguing that the worst that could be said about Trump was “that he has been careless in retweeting imagery that can be interpreted as offensive.” Kushner tried to bolster his own case by noting that he was the grandson of Holocaust survivors, a comment that infuriated members of his own family. In a blistering Facebook post, one of Kushner’s cousins wrote that “for the sake of the family name, which may have no meaning to you but still has meaning to others, please don't invoke our grandparents in vain just so you can sleep better at night. It is self serving and disgusting.”

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Input: Tensions between Turkey and the US have escalated following the attempted coup against the Erdogan administration, with the country's leader demanding the extradition of a US-based cleric accused of orchestrating the violence. Another senior official has directly blamed the United States. The Obama administration has strongly denied any involvement or responsibility in recent events in the country.

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Input: "Forces are now searching the area for the assailant," the spokesperson said by phone on Friday afternoon. Threats Friday's violence came just a day after a Palestinian teen was shot dead after entering the Kiryat Arba settlement near Hebron and stabbing to death Hallel Yafa Ariel, a 13-year -old Israeli girl. Within hours, Israeli forces blockaded Bani Naim, the assailant's village near Hebron, activist Issa Amro told Al Jazeera on Thursday night. On Friday, the Middle East "Quartet" -the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations-published a report calling on Israel to stop building settlements.

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Input: “It’s clear that the attorney general, who serves at the pleasure of President Obama, is going to have very little incentive or intention to pursue the appropriate investigation,” Sen. John Cornyn John CornynDems step up attacks on GOP ObamaCare bill Overnight Finance: Warren to Fed: Kick out Wells Fargo board | Senators raise questions about Russian takeover of Citgo | Pelosi bashes GOP on budget Senators ask administration to probe possible Russian takeover of Citgo MORE (Texas), the No. 2 Senate Republican, said on the chamber floor this week. Other Senate Republicans, including Chuck Grassley Chuck GrassleySenate GOP shifts focus to Lynch Grassley welcomes Trump’s rescheduled Iowa rally Grassley rankles GOP with new Comey investigation MORE (R-Iowa) and Ron Johnson Ron JohnsonWeek ahead: Senate work on ObamaCare repeal intensifies Senators wrestle with transparency in healthcare debate ObamaCare repeal and the Senate: Where it stands MORE (R-Wis.) have launched their own investigations related to Clinton’s email. Some of their findings, Grassley said this week, were at odds with those of the State Department’s inspector general report. “I will follow up to get to the bottom of these discrepancies because misrepresenting the facts to Congress is unacceptable,” Grassley pledged.

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Input: Share on Facebook SHARE Share on Twitter TWEET Link Edward Snowden appears on a live video feed broadcast from Moscow at an event in Hawaii in February 2015. Photo: Marco Garcia Mr Snowden spoke Saturday US time at the New Hampshire Liberty Forum, heavily attended by libertarians.

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Input: You wo n’t need to spend Olympic gold to see the Games in person this summer. Demand for tickets to the Rio Olympics has been low in the months leading up to the events, which will run from Aug. 5 to Aug. 21. Ticket sales have been so slow that Rio organizers will now allow buyers from outside Brazil to purchase tickets at the same reduced prices as citizens, according to a report from the Associated Press. Previously, tickets were available through the authorized ticket resale site CoSport at an exchange rate of 2.35 real to the U.S. dollar with a possible 20% service fee added. Under the new local pricing, anyone can buy tickets from the official Rio website at the current exchange rate of 3.25 real to the dollar and no service fee.

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Input: "ISI[S] is a direct outgrowth of al-Qaeda in Iraq that grew out of our invasion," admitted President Obama. The U.S. military destroyed Iraq and disbanded without disarming its military. Then it divided Iraq along sectrarian lines and brutalized people for years in prison camps where they were able to organize and plot vengeance. The U.S. armed Iraq, and al Qaeda / ISIS seized those weapons. The U.S. overthrew the government of Libya, and its weapons spread all over the region.

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Input: Never mind that he has done everything within his power to damage the interests of the United States, in league with his quasi-ally, Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Rarely has “strange new respect" been stranger. It’s like conservatives embracing Kim Philby, the infamous British double agent who defected to the Soviet Union in the 1960s, if he promised to produce damaging information about LBJ before the 1964 election. Or welcoming Philip Agee, the anti-CIA activist from the 1970s who was allied with Russian and Cuban intelligence, if he demonstrated enough hostility to Jimmy Carter. The enemy of my enemy (or more properly, my domestic political opponent) can still be a reprehensible creep, and that’s what Assange is.

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Input: Seated next to Simonyan at the dinner and just two seats away from Putin himself was perhaps the most intriguing example of how the Russians have gone about recruiting disaffected members of that establishment: a rugged-looking man in a tuxedo who less than 18 months earlier had been head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon’s powerful in-house equivalent of the CIA. Michael Flynn, now a private citizen after a reportedly disgruntled retirement, was not there to gather intelligence. His attendance at the RT gala, before which he also gave a talk on world affairs, appeared to inaugurate a relationship with the network — presumably a paid one, though neither Flynn nor RT answered queries on the subject. Flynn now makes semi-regular appearances on RT as an analyst, in which he often argues that the U.S. and Russia should be working more closely together on issues like fighting ISIL and ending Syria’s civil war. “Russia has its own national security strategy, and we have to respect that,” he said in one recent appearance.

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Input: In actuality, the American sailors wandered or drifted (it's still not clear) into Iranian waters without warning, where Iran picked them up. They were returned in about a day after direct negotiations between the US and Iran. Though Iran published embarrassing photos of the Americans being detained, the effect of this was mostly wounded pride, and in all what could have been a dangerous incident was resolved quickly and peacefully." I would describe this as not outside of the norm," Robert Farley, a professor of international relations at the University of Kentucky, told me about the handling of the Iran-sailor situation." Polite powers manage to resolve these kinds of issues without actually arresting and seizing and pointing guns at each other."

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Input: Trump has repeatedly claimed that the United States has the highest murder rate in 45 years. This is false. Both the rate of homicides and violent crimes are back down to the levels they were 45 years ago, and are at about half the rates at their peak in the 1980s and early 1990s. (About our rating scale) Send us facts to check by filling out this form

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Input: Secretary Clinton broke all those rules. Then she spirited away all her emails in contravention of the law. Then she destroyed what she should not have destroyed, obfuscated and outright lied about all of it. That's what we know. We don't know if she or her close associates will be charged.

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Input: Myers did not estimate what percentage of the records or the data was classified or obtained from the NSA, where Martin worked under a Booz Allen contract. The New York Times said he was suspected of removing source code from the NSA developed to hack into the networks of foreign governments. In the wake of Snowden's disclosures about the NSA's snooping at home and abroad, the spy agency and other federal agencies sought to step up their controls on sensitive information. Limits were adopted on the use of digital media, such as thumb drives, in many workspaces. NSA announced it adopted new "two-man key" policies designed to prevent a single employee from absconding with a vast trove of data, as Snowden did.

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Input: “I do still plan to vote for the orange buffoon. He is a ridiculous egomaniac who has found the recipe for stirring up support among discontented voters,” said a manager from South Carolina. “My only regret is that I wo n’t be able to say that I cast a vote for the first woman to ever hold the presidency, but I have little doubt she will win. By the way, my 20-year -old self would be appalled by the complete political cynicism of my 52-year -old self,” he added. A 20-year -old Arab student from Missouri says he backs Trump because he’s flipped US politics.

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Input: For example, it took me all of about 5 minutes to find a list of donors and their email addresses, which I won't be sharing here, but I'm sure others can find as well. And, then, of course, you can find things like this discussion about a potential donor, Niranjan Shah, with "ties" to disgraced and convicted former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, noting that there were "pay to play" accusations associated with him. The DNC noted that they "could be ok" with Shah donating to the DNC, but that the administration might not want him to show up at their events. And, of course, there are emails detailing specific donations by specific people. There are claims that some emails contain credit card data, though I haven't seen that myself. Either way, it certainly appears that in the rush to "nothing to see here" the leak of the info, the DNC simply lied about what was leaked.

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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. I mean, it was bad.

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Input: Here’s a guy that used to call me, begging me to buy stock through him, with the implication that if I’d buy stock he’d give me positive comments.” “Are you accusing him of fraud?” I asked. “I’m accusing him of being not very good at what he does.” Congressman John Dingell of Michigan asked the S.E.C. to investigate the circumstances of Roffman’s firing. When I asked Roffman about Trump’s charges he said, “That’s the most unbelievable garbage I’ve ever heard in my entire life.” Roffman’s attorney James Schwartzman called Trump’s allegations “the desperate act of a desperate man.” Roffman is now suing Trump for defamation of character. “Donald is a believer in the big-lie theory,” his lawyer had told me.

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

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

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Input: "It's a practice of mine to figure out how I can minimize energy use." He was born in Norway into a long line of watchmakers, which may contribute to his own meticulousness. At 15, he and his parents immigrated to the United States. His father was a consulting engineer, but the younger Heede wasn't keen on "fixing problems that should not have been created in the first place"—which, he admits, is exactly what he's doing these days. Heede has spent most of his life in Colorado, and he has the solid build and weathered face of someone who has spent lots of time in the mountains.

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

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Input: Damascus has reacted harshly to the bombing of Kurdish militias in northern Syria on Thursday morning by Turkey’s air force, vowing to intervene next time Ankara sends its planes over its border. Read more In a statement, the Syrian Defense Ministry accused Turkey of “flagrant aggression, which targeted innocent citizens,” saying that it considers it “a dangerous development that could escalate the situation.”

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

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Input: According to this report, the Bank for International Settlements is the world’s oldest international financial organization and acts as a prime counterparty for central banks in their financial transactions; the Qatar Central Bank is the bank of that Gulf State nations government and their “bank of banks”; JP Morgan Chase & Company is the United States largest “megabank”; and the Clinton Foundation is an international criminal money laundering organization whose clients include the Russian mafia. With Hillary Clinton’s US presidential campaign Chairman John Podesta having longstanding ties to the Russian mafia and money laundering, this report continues, the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) maintains “complete / all times / all ways” surveillance of him and his criminal associates — including both Hillary Clinton and her husband, and former US President, Bill Clinton, and who are collectively designated as the “Clinton Crime Family”. On Saturday 15 October (2016), this report notes, the SVR reported to the MoF that Hillary Clinton and John Podesta met with JP Morgan Chase & Company CEO Jamie Dimon at Clinton’s Chappaqua Compound outside of New York City — and who, in 2009, both President Obama and Hillary Clinton allowed to break US laws by his, Dimon’s, being able to buy millions-of-dollars of his company’s stocks prior to the public being told his JP Morgan bank was receiving a Federal Reserve $ 80 billion credit line — and that caused JP Morgan’s stocks to soar and that have had an astonishing 920% dividend growth since 2010. Within 12 hours of the Hillary Clinton-John Podesta-Jamie Dimon meeting at the Chappaqua Compound, this report continues, the BIS registered the transfer of $ 1.8 billion from the Clinton Foundation to the Qatar Central Bank. To why the Clinton Foundation transferred this enormous sum of money to Qatar, this report explains, is due to the longstanding ties between this Islamic neo-patrimonial absolute monarchy and then US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who “oversaw / managed” the “massive bribery scheme” that allowed this Gulf State nation to secure the 2022 World Cup — and that the Qataris were so appreciative of they donated millions to the Clinton Foundation, and incredibly, in 2011, gave former US President Bill Clinton $ 1 million for a birthday present — bringing Hillary Clinton’s total “cash grab” from these Persian Gulf sheiks of $ 100 million — all occurring as recently released secret emails revealed Hillary Clinton’s knowledge that both Qatar and Saudi Arabia were, and still are, funding ISIS.

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Input: Among the documents Kendall sent was an affidavit that Broaddrick had submitted in a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by Paula Jones against Clinton, in which she indicated that she did not have “any information to offer regarding a non-consensual or unwelcome sexual advance by Mr. Clinton.” Kendall also attached a portion of the report from the Office of Independent Counsel Ken Starr, which investigated allegations against Clinton. Those allegations included one that Clinton had lied under oath in the Jones case by denying having sexual relations with intern Monica Lewinsky. After being given immunity for possible perjury charges by Starr, Broaddrick said her affidavit in the Jones case had been false and that she gave public interviews alleging the rape. Kendall explained to Podesta: “Starr was seeking more evidence against the President, any way he could, and he immunized Broaddrick to protect her from any prosecution for perjury if she now changed her story.

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Input: Argentina Mauricio Macri, president of Argentina (1) Georgia Bidzina Ivanishvili, former prime minister of Georgia Iceland Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, Anna Sigurlaug Pálsdóttir, Iceland’s prime minister Iraq Ayad H. Allawi, former prime minister of Iraq Jordan Ali Abu-Ragheb, former prime minister of Jordan Qatar Hamad Jassim J.M. Al Thani, former prime minister of Qatar Qatar Sheik Hamad Bin Khalifa Bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of Qatar Saudi Arabia H.R.H. Prince Salman, King of Saudi Arabia Sudan Ahmad al-Nirghani, former president of Sudan United Arab Emirates Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan, president of the United Arab Emirates and Emir of Abu Dhabi (2) Ukraine Pavlo Lazarenko, former prime minister of Ukraine, convicted of money laundering, fraud and extortion Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, president of Ukraine (3) 2 3

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Input: And we’re going to get a special prosecutor.” Trump seemed to be speaking about Clinton’s use of a personal email server to handle government business while she was secretary of state. That has already been the subject of an FBI inquiry, which ended with FBI Director James B. Comey calling Clinton and her staff “extremely careless” but recommending no criminal charges. His promise to use his executive power to reopen that case, and have it investigated again, was unlike anything in recent presidential debates. “It’s just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country,” Clinton said.

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Input: Efforts to reach Mr. Assange for comment were unsuccessful, and a Clinton campaign spokesman did not respond to an inquiry. In November 2010, when WikiLeaks and its news media partners began publishing the cables, Mrs. Clinton strongly condemned it. “In addition to endangering particular individuals, disclosures like these tear at the fabric of the proper function of responsible government,” she said then. Mr. Assange’s remarks last month received only scattered attention, in part because in the interview Mr. Peston appeared to mistakenly assume that WikiLeaks had obtained still-undisclosed emails from the private server Mrs. Clinton had used while secretary of state and kept cutting Mr. Assange off to ask about it. But it now seems clearer that Mr. Assange was trying to talk about the Democratic National Committee emails.

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Input: Where, they ask, is the M-F'ing love? What about those conservative principles we've spent decades telling you flyover-country hicks you're supposed to have?" Trump has also promised to use tariffs to punish companies," wrote David McIntosh in the Review's much-publicized, but not-effective-at-all "Conservatives Against Trump" 22-pundit jihad." These are not the ideas of a small-government conservative ... They are, instead, the ramblings of a liberal wanna-be strongman."

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Input: NATO member Turkey shares a 1,200 km (750-mile) border with Syria and Iraq and faces threats from Islamic State militants in both. But it is concerned that international efforts to destroy radical Islamists will leave new dangers in their wake. The Turkish army, its senior ranks purged following a failed military attempt to overthrow Erdogan in July, launched an incursion into Syria in August to push back Islamic State and prevent U.S .- backed Kurdish militia fighters from seizing territory. Ankara is wary of Washington's support for what it sees as a hostile Syrian Kurdish force. Erdogan suggested Turkey could take a similar attitude in Iraq, where expectations are growing of an assault to drive Islamic State out of the northern city of Mosul.

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Input: A critical time But in the past 30 years, Blackwill and Harris argue the U.S. has largely stopped using geoeconomics, preferring military force instead. The one exception is sanctions like those against Iran. It's a particularly critical time to change that approach, they say, as markets become more global (i.e., what happens with Brexit impacts the world), and countries are reconsidering which economic tie is more important to them: the U.S. or China? These ideas aren't Republican or Democrat, the authors argue.

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Input: The consensus requirement only produces warm water. And that does not put the GAC [ICANN's Governmental Advisory Committee] on the same footing as the other committees of ICANN." At the heart of the concerns are last-minute compromises reached at ICANN's meeting in Marrakesh earlier this month regarding how much influence governments should collectively have over ICANN's decision-making process. One of the main conditions that the US government put on the transition of the critical contract to run IANA was that its role would not be replaced with "a government-led or intergovernmental organization." Some governments feel that pre-condition led to the internet community unduly restricting the role of governments as a group and, by extension, giving too much power to "GAFA" – Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon.

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Input: 3/12 Donald Trump's wife Melania delivered a speech at the GOP convention in Cleveland that was later found to have been cribbed in part from Michelle Obama's 2008 convention address AP 4/12 Hillary Clinton talks to reporters aboard her new campaign plane on Labour Day, 5 September, her first ' press conference ' since 2015 (Getty Images) 5/12 Donald Trump held a joint press conference with Mexican leader Enrique Pena Nieto in Mexico City in August, hours before reiterating his harsh immigration plans at a campaign rally in Arizona Reuters 6/12 Bernie Sanders officially endorsed Hillary Clinton, saying his progressive vision for ‘a transformed America’ would be’ best served by the defeat of Donald Trump’ Reuters 7/12 Khizr and Gazala Khan appeared at the DNC to slam Trump for his stance on Muslim immigration, citing the case of their son Humayun Khan, who was killed in combat while serving as a Captain in the US Army in Iraq

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Input: One way to answer the question was to figure out how he even got on that list to begin with. One source suggested to me that Richard Burt, former U.S. ambassador to Germany, START treaty negotiator, and longtime lobbyist for Alfa Bank, was the nexus. It was Burt who helped draft Trump’s foreign policy speech in April, and had been advising the Trump campaign, via Senator Jeff Sessions, on foreign policy. But when I met Burt at his office at the McLarty Associates lobbying shop, he looked at me and said he had never even met him. “The only person I talked to about Carter Page is this guy at the Washington Post,” Burt told me.

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Input: ADVERTISEMENT WikiLeaks made waves on Friday by releasing a huge trove of internal emails from the Democratic National Committee (DNC). The hacked emails included what appears to be evidence of a concerted effort by DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz and other party officials to thwart the presidential campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders Bernie SandersSanders to GOP on healthcare bill: ' What are you afraid of? ' Dems step up attacks on GOP ObamaCare bill Live coverage: Senate Dems hold talkathon to protest GOP health plan MORE (I-Vt.) during the primary season. Wasserman Schultz resigned Sunday and will serve as an honorary chair on presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton Hillary Rodham ClintonGOP fires opening attack on Dem reportedly running for Heller's Senate seat Trump seeks tech's help for government IT overhaul What do Democrats stand for?

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Input: The U.S. level currently is below the treaty level at 1,538 warheads. Officials said that in addition to adding warheads to the new missiles, Russian officials have sought to prevent U.S. weapons inspectors from checking warheads as part of the 2010 treaty. The State Department, however, said it can inspect the new MIRVed missiles. Disclosure of the doubling of Moscow’s warhead force comes as world leaders gather in Washington this week to discus nuclear security — but without Russian President Vladimir Putin, who skipped the conclave in an apparent snub of the United States. The Nuclear Security Summit is the latest meeting of world leaders seeking to pursue President Obama’s 2009 declaration of a world without nuclear arms.

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Input: But the highest concentrations were discovered at the table where the three men were sitting, and in and around the teapot. The polonium, the inquiry finds, was manufactured in a nuclear reactor, suggesting the role of a government rather than criminal networks. The report conclusively rules out suggestions that Litvinenko poisoned himself, or that he was poisoned by others, as Russian officials have suggested. “The scientific evidence,” Owen, the judge, said at a Thursday new conference, “demonstrates conclusively that Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned by Andrei Lugovoi and Dimitry Kovtun.” But Owen said the two killers had no “personal reason” to kill Litvinenko.

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Input: This is about resurrecting the faded dream of a new American century. And what stands in the way of the type of the Neocon dream of global “full-spectrum dominance?” Russia’s nuclear arsenal. Russia is the only nation with an arsenal big enough to withstand the subtle nuclear blackmail of America’s trillion-dollar nuclear “upgrade.” That’s why Russia is concerned about the missile defense systems arrayed on their border. Those systems can knock down retaliatory strikes, thus making a first strike with new nuclear cruise missiles at least theoretically possible. The United States is also using NATO expansion to increasingly encircle a nation that once was America’s geopolitical equal.

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

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Input: The price of oil has rallied recently after oil ministers from Saudi Arabia and Russia agreed to keep production at January's levels on Tuesday. But that deal will only take effect if other major producers do the same. Many analysts are skeptical about Iran's willingness to freeze production just as sanctions are expiring and the country is eager to ramp up output and reclaim its share of the world's oil market. The impact of U.S. oil production on world market has taken away what used to be OPEC's strangle hold on the price of oil, Barton said." It used to be the 11 or 12 oil ministers could have a conference call and set the market.

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Input: Where the London-based activist group said that at least 42 ISIS fighters had died. In the onslaughts ISIS committed killings of whole families for their cooperation with Syrian Army troops, according to Reuters, with some of those killed being beheaded. The residents in the area of the massacre called al-Bagilya, had received Russian humanitarian aid earlier. Sputnik news quoted a local in the area as saying: “The horrific massacre carried out today by ISIL militants in al-Bagilya in Deir ez-Zor.

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Input: A week later, Arias texted Espinoza again. He wanted $ 1,000 in bitcoin, and they met at a Miami Haagen-Dazs. Over frozen treats, Arias told Espinoza that he used the bitcoin to buy stolen Russian credit-card numbers. During the next transaction, he offered to pay with those instead of cash. “I’ll think about it,” Espinoza replied.

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Input: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) VLADIMIR Putin’s presidential car has been involved in a deadly head-on crash in Moscow. The Russian president’s favourite chauffeur was killed in the horror collision, which was captured in shocking CCTV footage. CEN 7 High-speed collision … Putin’s presidential BMW was involved in horror crash in Moscow

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Input: However, those with loosing bids “Lose Lose,” it said, because they would not receive their money back. And should the total sum of the bids, in bitcoins, reach the equivalent of half a billion dollars, the group would make the whole lot public. While the “auction” seemed tongue in cheek, more like hacktivists than Russian high command, the sample documents were almost certainly real. The draft of a top-secret NSA manual for implanting offensive malware, released by Edward Snowden, contains code for a program codenamed SECONDDATE. That same 16-character string of numbers and characters is in the code released by the Shadow Brokers.

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Input: Donald Trump survived Sunday night's dark and bitter presidential debate but that's about all he did. The bar has now been set so low for the GOP nominee that he could do the following on stage in St. Louis and still receive passing grades: suggest that as president he would jail his opponent; defend Vladimir Putin and Russia over the hacking of the U.S. election; praise brutal Syrian tyrant Bashar Assad; admit to not paying federal income tax; and rebuke his own running mate for daring to criticize Russia over the indiscriminate bombing of Syrian civilians. That's a very partial list. Trump also lied with enthusiastic regularity, again saying he opposed the second Iraq war before it started (he didn't), claimed his opponent would jack up the tax rate on the middle class (she says she won't) and protested that he did not Tweet at 3 a.m. that people should check out a sex tape featuring a former Miss Universe (he did).

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Input: Her husband made money in a similar fashion: about $ 29,000 from his books, about $ 5.25 million from speaking engagements, and more than $ 1.5 million in consulting fees. Together, the Clintons donated a little over $ 1 million to charity, the bulk of which went to their family’s Clinton Foundation. Her running mate, Tim Kaine, and his wife, Anne Holton, reported over $ 300,000 in income. The way the Clintons made their money last year translates to their high tax rate, Gale said: They are “paying a much higher rate than, say, Mitt Romney did in 2012 or Warren Buffett does, because those people’s income is all in the form of capital gains.” Capital gains are generally taxed at a lower rate. Romney, the former Republican presidential nominee, took in $ 13.69 million in 2011 and paid $ 1.9 million in taxes, The Washington Post reported in 2012.

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Input: By the time Putin took power in 2000, the only vestige of his country’s superpower status was its nuclear arsenal, which was still the biggest in the world. So he began to use it as a crutch. “Even in the darkest days of the Russian military, when they were n’t able to afford to pay their soldiers and fly their airplanes, they paid close attention to the readiness and modernization of their nuclear forces,” says David Ochmanek, who served as a U.S. Air Force officer during the Cold War and, between 2009 and 2014, was the Pentagon’s top official for force development. “Their doctrine reflected this,” he says. Read More: Putin's Wily Syria Tactics Pay Off

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Input: ' I realised it wasn't a wig as I thought initially, but a head-that's why blood was dripping on her shoes and skirt. ' I stopped, had a cigarette, tried to get my breath back to normal because I was so shocked. ' She claimed a security guard and two policeman missed the chance to detain her. Alexandra added: ' People ran away from her. I saw five people fleeing.

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Input: These people are just protesting and not doing anything wrong. They shouldn't be hurt and removed, they're protesting for their right. The government should fulfill OROP demand. Prime Minister, who has promised, should give a date as to when he can bring in OROP, all this protest will end then," said Gandhi." They should have thought about the technicalities before promising it.

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Input: They’re importing not only oil, but wheat and historic artefacts as well.” Bilal Erdogan denies Russian allegations Bilal Erdogan this week denied continuous Russian allegations that he and his family were profiting from the illegal smuggling of oil from ISIS-held territory in Syria and Iraq, after Russia’s defence ministry said it had proof that the Erdogan family was benefiting directly from this trade. The Turkish government has already dismissed the accusations and on Tuesday the president’s son added his voice to the many denials. “We build offices in Istanbul ... We do not do business in the Mediterranean, in Syria or Iraq,” he was quoted as saying in Corriere della Sera newspaper, talking about his own corporate concerns, which have been called into question by Russian media.

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Input: Power did not disclose the pledges from other countries. But on Monday, China announced it plans to contribute an additional $ 100 million to refugee relief efforts. Canada pledged a 10 percent increase in its overall humanitarian assistance efforts this year. Refugee activists say the administration could still be doing more. “US leadership better if Syria refugees accepted (10 K) matched Canada (35 K) or Germany (500 K),” Kenneth Roth, the executive director of Human Rights Watch, tweeted Monday.

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Input: Trump lied when he s aid Hillary wants to sign TPP. Trump lied when he s aid Hillary talks, but does n’t get anything done. Trump lied when he s aid $ 6 billion went missing when Hillary was secretary of state. Trump lied when he s aid he started with a $ 1 million loan. Trump lied when he s aid his company is worth “many, many” billions of dollars.

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Input: Not only with the Times but with other major outlets like the Washington Post, the Wall St. Journal and National Public Radio. A striking example occurred when the Times lent its front page to a fabricated and now thoroughly discredited story by Judith Miller and Michael Gordon in September, 2002 claiming that Iraq had WMD. That was just weeks before Congress took a vote to “authorize” George W. Bush to launch an invasion of Iraq. I still recall the day I looked at that article and thought it was fact free and source free and that any decent editor would turn it back. It was clear at that moment that the fix was in and that we were on our way to a war which our Elite had decided upon.

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Input: ADVERTISEMENT "There are absolutely some carriers that are going to have to come in with some pretty significant price hikes to make up for the underpricing that they did before,” said Sabrina Corlette, a professor at Georgetown University’s Center on Health Insurance Reforms, while noting that the final picture remains unclear. Insurers are already making the case for premium increases, pointing to a pool of enrollees that is smaller, sicker and costlier than they expected. The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association released a widely publicized report last month that said new enrollees under ObamaCare had 22 percent higher medical costs than people who received coverage through their employers. “The industry is clearly setting the stage for bigger premium increases in 2017,” said Larry Levitt, an expert on the health law at the Kaiser Family Foundation.

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

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Input: 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. Nope. Every poll with a solid methodology showed a win for Hillary Clinton, in three cases by wide margins.

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Input: Finally, let us turn to Bill Blum, who wrote an article entitled, “American Exceptionalism and the Election Made in Hell (Or Why I’d Vote for Trump Over Hillary).” Again there is little doubt about the stance of Blum, who is the author of Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II, a scholarly compendium, which Noam Chomsky calls “Far and away the best book on the topic.” Blum begins his piece: “If the American presidential election winds up with Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump, and my passport is confiscated, and I’m somehow FORCED to choose one or the other, or I’m PAID to do so, paid well … I would vote for Trump.” “My main concern is foreign policy. American foreign policy is the greatest threat to world peace, prosperity, and the environment. And when it comes to foreign policy, Hillary Clinton is an unholy disaster.

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Input: While the two countries argue over a possible peace plan, a battle for eastern Aleppo has erupted. Zakharova spoke out as the United Nations said the United States and Russia were in intensive discussions to shore up Syria's collapsed nationwide truce with their military experts trying to agree a cooperation plan "that would unlock the entire solution." Zakharova criticised the United States over an incident the Russian military said occurred on August 2 in eastern Aleppo when rebels used poison gas, killing at least seven people. She blamed the Free Syrian Army's Nour al Din al-Zinki group, which has received US military backing, and said last month it was investigating the beheading of a young child in Aleppo after video footage circulated showing the boy being killed by a man whom activists identified as a member of the group." The United States is supporting these animals who used poison gas against the civilian population," Zakharova wrote.

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Input: It’s positioning itself as a scrappy dissenter to the old Western media’s monopoly on information, a theme Simonyan emphasized to me in a statement for this story. Americans, she said, watch RT for “stories, views and analysis they wo n’t find in the mainstream media.” As for criticism of RT’s coverage of the United States and the 2016 campaign, she sounded a positively Trumpian theme, saying RT’s critics are “mostly members of the U.S. political establishment, who are uncomfortable with losing the longtime monopoly on information.” Seated next to Simonyan at the dinner and just two seats away from Putin himself was perhaps the most intriguing example of how the Russians have gone about recruiting disaffected members of that establishment: a rugged-looking man in a tuxedo who less than 18 months earlier had been head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon’s powerful in-house equivalent of the CIA. Michael Flynn, now a private citizen after a reportedly disgruntled retirement, was not there to gather intelligence. His attendance at the RT gala, before which he also gave a talk on world affairs, appeared to inaugurate a relationship with the network — presumably a paid one, though neither Flynn nor RT answered queries on the subject.

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Input: Each of them is equipped with an iPad mini, strapped to their wrist, and they refer to them constantly — to review their digital “walk books” and determine the doors on which to knock, to bring up the script they read to the people who open those doors, and to tabulate the responses they get. All this creates ever more data points for the vast trove of voter information the Kochs are building. For Newsweek’s benefit, the three 20-something men are walking through this Upper Merion neighborhood. Usually, they run. Daily Emails and Alerts- Get the best of Newsweek delivered to your inbox

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Input: At the same time, lower down the ranks, at the operations level, one of the American military service personnel said quite frankly that they spent several days preparing this strike. How could they make an error if they were several days in preparation?” said Putin. “This is how our ceasefire agreement ended up broken. Who broke the agreement? Was it us?

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Input: At the heart of the operation are Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) cards, a government-issued debit card that replaced food stamps. There are more than 900,000 people who get government assistance through the EBT card in Alabama each year, and they are allowed to use the cards for food, non-alcoholic beverages, and other basic needs, mostly through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). The investigation began in February when Gardendale police arrested a man for shoplifting steaks and some other items at Walmart in that city. When they interviewed the suspect, he said he was boosting the items to give to two convenience stores, and he named the stores, authorities said.” As to why the State of Alabama became the only US law enforcement entity to crack down on Muhammad Tahir Javed, this report explains, is due to that State’s top judge becoming embroiled with the Obama regime over the rights of homosexual peoples to marry — and which this action was clearly meant to send a message to President Obama himself that they knew some of his darkest secrets.

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Input: However, on a five-leg Asia trip between May 22 and May 25, 2002, not a single Secret Service agent is listed. The U.S. Secret Service has declined to answer multiple Freedom of Information Act requests filed by FoxNews.com seeking information on these trips. Clinton would have been required to file a form to dismiss the agent detail, a former Secret Service agent told FoxNews.com. In response to a separate FOIA request from FoxNews.com, the U.S. Secret Service said it has no records showing agents were ever on the island with Clinton. A Clinton spokesperson did not return emails requesting comment about the former president’s relationship and travels with Epstein.

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Input: Paul Manafort and his deputy, Rick Gates, never disclosed their work as foreign agents as required under federal law. The lobbying included attempts to gain positive press coverage of Ukrainian officials in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Associated Press. Another goal: undercutting American public sympathy for the imprisoned rival of Ukraine's then-president. At the time, European and American leaders were pressuring Ukraine to free her. Gates personally directed the work of two prominent Washington lobbying firms in the matter, the emails show.

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Input: 280 victims, including women, children and old people. Reason – cooperation with the Syrian army,” The massacre is considered as one of the worst mass killings committed in Syria ever since the conflict began. Syrian news agency SANA reported that the massacre was committed in the contexts of daylong attacks on Deir el-zour since ISIS had gained advances in this region. ISIS controls most of the province, while the Syrian government controls a few neighborhoods in the northern part of the city.

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Input: 31 states, including Ohio, still have the death penalty. According to the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, since 1973, 156 people have been on death row and later set free. Since 1976, 1,414 people have been executed in the U.S. That’s 11% of Americans who were sentenced to die, but later exonerated and freed. Should Ohio and the 30 other states join the current list and abolish the death penalty?” In the CNN presidential town hall — which took place the next day, March 13 — Clinton was asked a question on the death penalty.

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Input: Bernie Sanders says his experience as mayor of Burlington, where he took on "everybody," shaped him into a "fairly tough guy" ready to stand up to Russian President Vladimir Putin. In an interview with MSNBC's Chris Matthews in Chicago on Thursday night, the Democratic presidential hopeful was asked, if elected, how he would convince foreign adversaries that he's not a person to be messed with." I've taken on every special interest in this country. I am a fairly tough guy.

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Input: In response to a report in the New York Times on Monday, Manafort denied any impropriety in a statement." I have never received a single ' off-the-books cash payment ' as falsely ' reported ' by The New York Times, nor have I ever done work for the governments of Ukraine or Russia," he said. The New York Times reported that he had received cash payments worth more than $ 12 million over five years that were itemized on secret ledgers belonging to Yanukovich's Party of Regions. Manafort, who resigned as chairman of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's campaign on Friday, had not been the focus of the probe, CNN said, citing the officials. The probe was looking at the work of other firms linked to the former Ukrainian government, including the Podesta Group, a lobbying and public relations company headed by Tony Podesta, whose brother John Podesta is chairman of the campaign to elect Democratic Party presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

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Input: Since November 2013, the Mejlis has been led by Refat Chubarov. Dzhemilev and Chubarov, both Ukrainian lawmakers, have been barred from entering Crimea for five years by Crimea's pro-Moscow leadership. The Organization for Security and Cooperation In Europe's (OSCE) Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights and the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities issued a report in September saying that since Russia's land grab, fundamental freedoms had "deteriorated radically" for many in Crimea, especially for pro-Ukrainian activists, journalists, and the Crimean Tatar community. Crimean Tatars have been reported abducted, and in some cases later found dead, while others have been arrested and charged with extremism since the annexation. Crimean Tatars are native to the Black Sea peninsula but were deported to Central Asia by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin in 1944.

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Input: Longtime Clinton operative David Brock has argued that when you get down to it, all of the scandals and allegations surrounding Clinton are little more than “nothingburgers.” Salon’s Gary Legum says there are simply “credulous people willing to believe any variation of legerdemain, no matter how irrational and absurd, if the name ‘Hillary Clinton’ is attached to it.” But a new report offers hard evidence that Clinton’s campaign is, in fact, engaged in some of the most underhanded and antidemocratic practices that afflict our political system. In fact, Clinton’s campaign is engaged in precisely the kind of money-driven secrecy and subversion that Democrats have long insisted were wrecking American politics. According to the Daily Beast, a pro-Clinton SuperPAC called “Correct the Record” has spent $ 1 million “pushing back against” Bernie Sanders supporters on social media, “addressing” thousands of people on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and Instagram. What this amounts to in practice is creating hundreds of fake accounts, which then place campaign propaganda all over the web as if it came from ordinary supporters.

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Input: The Observatory said the dead include three children and a pregnant woman. In Turkey, the private Dogan news agency reported that more than 30 of those wounded in Russian airstrikes in Azaz, primarily children, were transferred to a hospital in southern Turkey. It showed footage of ambulances arriving at the Kilis State hospital and medical personnel unloading children on stretchers and a girl wrapped in a blanket, as well as a handful of adults." They hit the school, they hit the school," wailed a Syrian woman who was unloaded from an ambulance onto a wheelchair. The Observatory and al-Halaby also reported an air raid on the village of Kaljibrin near Azaz.

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Input: Assange's decision – and it was a decision – to elide his Swedish case with any possible US prosecution was a cynical one. It led many to support his cause alongside those of Chelsea Manning or Edward Snowden. And yet it is more difficult, not easier, to extradite Assange to the US from Sweden than from the UK, should Washington even wish to do so. Assange coming to believe his own spin may be what's been behind six years of effective imprisonment for him. No one is keeping him in the Ecuadorian embassy – where he has fallen out with his hosts – but himself, and a fear of losing face.

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Input: MORE scores 6 percent in the poll, while Green Party nominee Jill Stein takes 3 percent support. ADVERTISEMENT In the same poll from mid-September — conducted before the first presidential debate — Clinton held only a 1-point lead. The candidates entered that debate, which was viewed by 80 million people, essentially locked in a tie. Since then, self-described independents have abandoned Trump in favor of Clinton. In the Quinnipiac survey from September, Trump led 42 to 35 among unaffiliated voters, while Johnson took 15 percent support. Clinton now leads 46 to 32 among independents — a 21-point swing — while Johnson’s support among the voting bloc has fallen to 10 percent. The Libertarian had been cutting into Clinton’s support, particularly among young voters and left-leaning independents. The trend alarmed Democrats, who feared a replay of the 2000 election, when Green Party nominee Ralph Nader was blamed for spoiling the election for

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Input: Something of a trade contest has emerged between the United States’ TPP initiative versus China’s countervailing RCEP initiative. The TPP represents an important component of America’s ‘Asian pivot’ as it aims to tie up key economic partners under rules which are favourable to the United States. Certainly, the United States’ hijacking of the TPP process, from initially being outside the negotiations to taking on a leadership role, suggests that there is a sense for the United States to use its power advantage before it is rivalled by China and others (possibly India, for example). China’s motivation for the RCEP is similarly about maximising its power. However, whereas the United States appears motivated because of its declining power, China’s motivation clearly stems from its rising power.

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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: This is about resurrecting the faded dream of a new American century. And what stands in the way of the type of the Neocon dream of global “full-spectrum dominance?” Russia’s nuclear arsenal. Russia is the only nation with an arsenal big enough to withstand the subtle nuclear blackmail of America’s trillion-dollar nuclear “upgrade.” That’s why Russia is concerned about the missile defense systems arrayed on their border. Those systems can knock down retaliatory strikes, thus making a first strike with new nuclear cruise missiles at least theoretically possible. The United States is also using NATO expansion to increasingly encircle a nation that once was America’s geopolitical equal.

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Input: Asked to explain the Algerian oversight, Clinton Foundation officials pointed The Hill to the foundation's public statement, which acknowledges the mistake. The foundation said that immediately following the Haitian earthquake, the Embassy of Algeria made an “unsolicited” donation to the foundation's relief fund. “This was a one-time, specific donation to help Haiti and Algeria had not donated to the Clinton Foundation before and has not since,” the foundation added in its statement. 4. The Clinton Foundation did n’t disclose $ 2.35 million of donations from a family foundation linked to a company with business before Clinton's State Department.

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Input: Clearly, he loves the semi-useful information hacked from Democratic officials, the Clinton Foundation, and state election systems. But Trump curiously refuses to acknowledge that this love originates with Russian criminals, and he still hasn't explained his pro-Kremlin sympathies. He hasn't explained why he repeatedly calls a kleptocrat a "stronger leader" than President Obama, other than poll numbers; why he claims Russia had not invaded Ukraine or annexed Crimea; why he hasn't denounced its intimidation of the Baltic states, or hasn't pledged his allegiance to NATO allies against Russian aggression; why he rejected Mike Pence's call for Putin's provocation to be "met with American strength"; and why he calls for Russians to commit more cyber-espionage. Nor has he acknowledged how he was bankrolled by Russian investors, when American banks closed the spigot after his multiple bankruptcies; and how his three advisors-Paul Manafort, Carter Page, and Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn-have connections to Russian oligarchs. The Clinton transcripts are interesting reading, but little else: She seems wobbly on fracking, trade and Keystone, but she largely comes across as a smart and pragmatic politician.

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Input: HILLARY CLINTON: Whew, OK. Let’s — let’s talk about two important issues that were briefly mentioned by Donald. First, NATO. You know, NATO, as a military alliance, has something called Article 5, and basically it says this: An attack on one is an attack on all. And do you know the only time it’s ever been invoked? After 9/11, when the 28 nations of NATO said that they would go to Afghanistan with us to fight terrorism, something that they still are doing by our side.

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Input: “I’ve been emancipated since I was 16 years old.” Now she is 24. After a stint living in a Baltimore women’s shelter, where she fled to escape an abusive relationship, she has returned to her hometown — Toledo, Ohio — where she is a manager at a retail store. Recently, she has been working as many hours there as possible there so that she could spend her week of vacation at the Democratic National Convention and still have enough money to eat and pay rent upon her return. She felt it was her civic duty to show up and make her dissent known. “I do not plan to vote for Hillary Clinton,” she told me Tuesday at a Bernie-or-Bust rally near City Hall, where hundreds gathered for speeches, songs, and chants extolling Senator Bernie Sanders and attacking his rival, who hours later formally became the first woman to win a major-party nomination for the presidency.

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Input: In 2008, Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr, told a New York Russian real estate investors conference that a “lot of money [is] pouring in from Russia”. “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets,” he added. A lot of the money was destined for the 46-storey Trump Soho hotel and condos project on Spring Street in New York City, which was partly funded by group of Russian and ex-Soviet state billionaires. After allegations of fraud by buyers, the project was embroiled in an investigation by the Manhattan district attorney. Trump and his partners settled out of court.

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Input: "Duterte has made extra effort to sell China as a benevolent partner but it's a tough sell," said Heydarian. Ties with China hit a low in July, when the International Court of Arbitration at The Hague ruled that China's historical claim to the disputed waters was invalid. China refused to participate in the tribunal's proceedings and, in the wake of the ruling, Chinese boycotted Philippines-grown dried mango. Instead, said Heydarian, Duterte has chosen to focus on China's deeper pockets in the hope of lucrative trade deals.

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Input: In one of more than 2,000 emails posted Friday night on the hacking website Wikileaks, Clinton’s research director Tony Carrk appeared to write to top campaign officials about Clinton’s now infamous paid speeches, saying, “Attached are the flags from HRC’s paid speeches.” The email goes on to include several text excerpts with dates and times. In this batch, Clinton makes sweeping statements about two areas that have consistently been an issue for her in this campaign: Wall Street reform and trade. According to one of the leaked emails, Clinton told Banco Itau in 2013, “My dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders … I think we have to have a concerted plan to increase trade already under the current circumstances.” The speech excerpt goes on: “There is so much more we can do, there is a lot of low-hanging fruit, but businesses on both sides have to make it a priority, and it's not for governments to do but governments can either make it easy or make it hard and we have to resist protectionism, other kinds of barriers to market access, and to trade, and I would like to see this get much more attention.” Clinton has faced serious skepticism from progressives throughout this campaign over her evolving and sometimes elusive stance on trade, specifically her flip-flopping on President Obama’s proposed transpacific partnership trade deal by initially showing and then withdrawing support for the plan.

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Input: ADVERTISEMENT Trump, who's led a remarkably provocative campaign since launching his bid last summer, has grown only more combative since solidifying the Republican nomination at the party's national convention in Cleveland last month. In recent weeks, the Manhattan billionaire has attacked the family of a slain U.S. soldier, defended Russian aggression in the Baltics, kicked a crying baby out of a campaign event and suggested that gun enthusiasts could somehow prevent Hillary Clinton Hillary Rodham ClintonGOP fires opening attack on Dem reportedly running for Heller's Senate seat Trump seeks tech's help for government IT overhaul What do Democrats stand for? MORE from appointing liberal judges. The episodes have defied the hopes and predictions of national Republican leaders, who were expecting Trump to soften his tone as he shifted his sights from the GOP primary to the bigger stage of the general election.

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Input: But, the perfect is the enemy of the good. It is our goal to throw our weight behind the candidate who has a reasonable chance of actually becoming President of the United States whose views are CLOSEST to libertarianism. Crippled America: How ... Donald J. Trump Best Price: $ 1.15 Buy New $ 6.49 When put in this way, it is clear that The Donald is the most congruent with our perspective. This is true, mainly because of foreign policy. And, of the three, foreign policy, economic policy and person liberties, the former is the most important.

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Input: — John Noonan (@noonanjo) September 8, 2016 3. Blaming Victims For Military Sexual Assault Trump stood behind his 2013 assertion that essentially blamed the epidemic of sexual assault in the military on the fact that women are now allowed to serve alongside men. 26,000 unreported sexual assults in the military-only 238 convictions.

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Input: In the neighboring Aleppo province, a missile struck a children's hospital in the town of Azaz, killing at least five people and wounding dozens on Monday. And in a nearby village, an air raid hit a school, killing seven and wounding several others." This appears to be a deliberate attack on the health structure, and we condemn this attack in the strongest possible terms," said Massimiliano Rebaudengo, MSF's mission chief." The destruction of the hospital leaves the local population of around 40,000 people without access to medical services in an active zone of conflict." The aid group said the hospital had 30 beds, 54 staff members, two operating theatres, an outpatients department and an emergency room.

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Input: The Bureau of Justice Statistics listed Maryland's imprisoned population at 19,977 in 1992. By 2002, that number had jumped to 24,162, but by 2012, the number imprisoned had dropped to 22,558. Maryland's population, meanwhile, had increased from 4.8 million in 1990 to 5.8 million in 2010, meaning the raw number imprisoned may have increased overall in that roughly 20-year span, but the rate itself decreased. Verdict: True. Hillary Clinton

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Input: “The Saudi-led coalition must move forward now on its commitment to investigate this incident,” Dion said in a statement on Sunday. He added, “Canada calls on all parties in Yemen to avoid an escalation of violence as a result of this incident.” Yemeni rescue workers pull out a victim from amid the rubble following a Saudi airstrike against a packed funeral site in the capital, Sana’a, October 8, 2016. (Photo by AFP) “Canada urges all parties to abide by their obligations under international humanitarian law, and to commit to political dialogue and to a lasting cessation of hostilities to halt the tragic loss of civilian life,” the Canadian foreign minister said.

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Input: Among the recipients of that report was Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, whose hacked emails were posted by WikiLeaks on Friday. In her remarks to Goldman Sachs, Clinton pointed to the Syrian government’s air defense systems, and noted that destroying them would take the lives of many Syrian civilians. “They’re getting more sophisticated thanks to Russian imports. To have a no-fly zone you have to take out all of the air defense, many of which are located in populated areas. So our missiles, even if they are standoff missiles so we’re not putting our pilots at risk — you’re going to kill a lot of Syrians,” she said.

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Input: At the same time, lower down the ranks, at the operations level, one of the American military service personnel said quite frankly that they spent several days preparing this strike. How could they make an error if they were several days in preparation?” said Putin. “This is how our ceasefire agreement ended up broken. Who broke the agreement? Was it us?

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Input: "The problem with Puerto Rico is they have far too much debt." Improving the GOP convention Trump no longer has to plan for the bruising prospect of a contested convention, but the now-presumptive nominee said he intends to inject his flair for show business into the party's summer convention in Cleveland. Knocking the 2012 convention as the "lowest-rated convention in the history of conventions," Trump said he would "like to add something that would make people happy." "We have to promote our country," Trump said.

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Input: By recognizing the genocide, it will force the Turkish government to take a brave step and look into its own history,” he said. Representatives from the Turkish and Armenian embassies were present in the German parliament while the vote was taking place. Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian praised the decision, saying it demonstrated “Germany's valuable contribution not only to the international recognition and condemnation of the Armenian Genocide, but also to the universal fight for the prevention of genocides [and] crimes against humanity,” AFP reported. Read more The ruling AK Party in Turkey responded by saying that the move by the German parliament has seriously damaged relations between the two countries.

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