Input: But Assange, in an interview with a Dutch news program highlighted by the conspiracy website InfoWars, implied Rich was the source of the email and was killed for working with his group “Whistleblowers often take very significant efforts to bring us material and often at very significant risks,” Assange said in the interview, before bringing up, unpromoted, that Rich was killed “for unknown reasons.” When the interviewer pressed Assange by noting Rich’s death was “just a robbery,” Assange replied, “No. There’s no finding.” Asked what he was suggesting, Assange replied, “I’m suggesting that our sources take risks ... We are concerned about it.”

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Input: "I have always felt that Russia and the United States should be able to work well with each other towards defeating terrorism and restoring world peace, not to mention trade and all of the other benefits derived from mutual respect." During an interview with MSNBC’s “Morning Joe" on Dec. 18, 2015, Trump said he welcomed Putin's compliments: “When people call you brilliant, it’s always good, especially when the person heads up Russia.” Asked what he thought of the high number of Russian journalists who have been murdered during Putin's tenure, Trump responded, “He’s running his country, and at least he’s a leader, you know unlike what we have in this country." Pushed further by co-host Joe Scarborough, Trump compared Russia to the United States. “Well I think our country does plenty of killing also, Joe,” he said.

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Input: 9:10: And just like that, PBS takes a break and goes to commercial. 9:07: “I’m running for president to knock down all the barriers that are holding Americans back and rebuild the ladders of opportunity,” she says. She says she knows that a lot of people are angry about the economy, which Clintons says is “rigged.” I wonder if the moderators will ask her if the economy is rigged in favor of those like Clinton and those who donated to the Clinton Foundation. She says we need to get unaccountable money out of the political system. Clinton says she wants to go further to target barriers against African-Americans.

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Input: “It was hard when we started out.” Now he drives a late-model Ford pickup. His fleet includes a half-dozen imported tractors and four combines, along with a German machine to spread the fertilizer that’s helped him to victory in local wheat-yields contests. He owns 200 hectares (500 acres) of land and rents another 1,500. Farm Riches

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Input: | Getty A new Snowden? NSA contractor charged with stealing classified info The arrested contractor worked at Booz Allen Hamilton, the same company that employed Edward Snowden. The U.S. government confirmed a potentially wide-ranging breach of classified information Wednesday, raising serious questions about the steps federal agencies and contractor Booz Allen Hamilton took to prevent leaks in the wake of the Edward Snowden's seismic revelations about National Security Agency surveillance. The Justice Department announced that Booz Allen employee Harold Martin III was secretly arrested in August after the FBI allegedly found highly classified information at his Maryland home. Story Continued Below

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Input: The dump is more than 600 megabytes of information, but various reviews of the documents have yet to turn up any bombshells. ADVERTISEMENT The cache, if authentic, is primarily composed of information on Democratic donors, fundraising efforts and donor outreach. It also contains some years-old documents compiled for then-Virginia governor and DNC chair, who is now’s running mate. Guccifer 2.0, who has claimed credit for the DNC hack, is widely thought to be a front for Russian intelligence agencies.

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Input: Then the Pentagon helps negotiate the terms of the deal, notifies Congress of its details, and collects the funds from the foreign buyer, which it then gives to the US supplier in the form of a defense contract. In most deals, the Pentagon is also the point of contact for maintenance and spare parts for any US-supplied system. The bureaucracy that helps make all of this happen, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, is funded from a 3.5 percent surcharge on the deals it negotiates. This gives it all the more incentive to sell, sell, sell. In its first six years, team Obama entered into agreements to sell more weaponry than any administration since World War II.

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Input: This bit of light devilry sent the media turbines into overdrive. How did that happen? Well, the WikiLeaks revelations were clearly dangerous to the Clintons so a "dust up" had to be concocted to conceal and confuse the truth. Deep in some Clinton campaign war room-no doubt in sweat and panic -- A-team staffers and Washington insiders pasted together the bizarre "Trump is soft on Russia" narrative. That was to be the story.

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Input: Echoing Erdogan’s criticism of the West, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim on Tuesday repeated a pledge to bring Gulen back to Turkey. “That terrorist leader will come to Turkey and pay for what he did. We will hold him accountable for the blood of our martyrs and veterans,” Yildirim told a meeting of his ruling Islamist-rooted AK Party in parliament. “That religious, impudent, lying, bloody murdering nothing will be surely held accountable.” NATO member Turkey hosts American troops and warplanes at its Incirlik Air Base, an important staging area for the U.S.-led fight against Islamic State militants in neighboring Iraq and Syria.

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Input: The leaflets carried several messages to the citizens attempting to reassure them that the advancing army "would not target civilians," but warned them to avoid the known locations of Isis militants. The military operation is the most complex carried out in Iraq since US forces withdrew from the country in 2011. Last week, the UN said it was bracing itself for the world's biggest and most complex humanitarian effort following the battle, which it expects will displace up to one million people and see civilians used as human shields.

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Input: We have to force local and state governments to address this specific reality that face black youth and black working-class people in general. While we struggle, we have to build structures, and one of the structures there for the taking is, in fact, the Green Party structure. What I'm engaged in right now is a Green Party Southern strategy where we suggest to specifically black folks in the South that you have an instrument that can be used if you want to challenge the power of the Democrats in the various states to mount a real opposition to the control of the Republicans. Even in those states where you have Republican political control, there's still a lot of collaboration with the Democratic Party. People are comfortable playing that role and they're not really providing a real challenge to these Republican governors.

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Input: A government The fact that the minimal level of monitoring that is conducted by the Canadian government exceeds the export value of this industry by $ 2 million is certainly a strong indication that this hunt should be ended for economic reasons alone. We have a government that is well aware it’s pouring dollars into an economic sinkhole that will never recover. Recently, Justin Trudeau’s new government came under renewed pressure from animal rights activists to ban seal hunting as it has not yet announced a quota for 2016 hunting season that starts by the end of March and continues through April. Canada's annual commercial seal hunt, which mainly takes place during March and April, sees thousands of young seals clubbed to death for their furs. An estimated 95-98 per cent of the seals killed during the commercial hunt are three weeks to three months old, sparking calls for a ban on seal hunting from animal activists. Commercial hunt has shrunk in recent years as major export markets such as the European Union, the United States and Russia have banned import of seal-fur products over animal-welfare concerns.

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Input: A European oil embargo on Iran will also end. Already, some 38 million barrels of oil are in Iran's floating reserves, ready to enter the market, according to the International Energy Agency. Although many in Iran welcomed the deal, not everyone was enthused about the agreement, which limits Iran's nuclear programme in exchange for the lifting of sanctions. The deal is designed with so-called "snap-back" elements that can quickly restore sanctions if Iran is judged to be in violation of its obligations. Tehran newspapers largely welcomed the implementation of the deal.

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Input: Fighting drug trafficking rings that partially fund the Afghan insurgency had been an area of common interest for the Russians and the Americans, said Yuri V. Krupnov, an adviser to the head of Russia’s antidrug agency, Viktor P. Ivanov. But that stopped when the United States Treasury Department in 2014 imposed sanctions on Mr. Ivanov, a close associate of Mr. Putin’s. “Washington had no dialogue with us, and just asserted its interests and sovereignty, and was uninterested in the views of Russia or anybody else,” Mr. Krupnov said, adding, “The Obama administration buried this promising line of cooperation. All room for cooperation is exhausted.” The alliance between the foreign militants in Afghanistan may not be as threatening as Russia fears.

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Input: It passed unanimously, when they were refusing before, because people understood how heartfelt it was. A year and a half ago, what would you have never expected? I would never have expected that he would have won the vast majority of people who voted in the Democratic primary under age 45. Blacks, Latinos, Asians, whites, it didn't matter: he won the vast majority of people under 45. I was surprised at how fast they knew him on a gut level.

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Input: As a senator, she voted for the war in Iraq in 2003. She supported the troop surge in Afghanistan in 2009. As secretary of state, she advocated military intervention in Libya in 2011 and forceful measures in Syria (for example, the early arming of the moderate opposition and more recently the creation of safe or no-fly zones). Where others wavered, she supported the use of force to kill Osama bin Laden. On the campaign trail, she has supported President Barack Obama’s decisions to deploy more special forces and intensify air strikes against the ISIS.

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Input: We have bailed out the banks, pushed through programs of austerity. This has been a bipartisan effort, because they’ve both been captured by corporate power. We have undergone what John Ralston Saul correctly calls a corporate coup d’état in slow motion, and it’s over. I just came back from Poland, which is a kind of case study of how neoliberal poison destroys a society and creates figures like Trump. Poland has gone, I think we can argue, into a neofascism.

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Input: The IS research and development team has produced fully working remote controlled cars to act as mobile bombs, while they have fitted the cars with "drivers"; mannequins with self-regulating thermostats to produce the heat signature of humans, allowing the car bombs to evade sophisticated scanning machines that protect military and government buildings in the West. The group trained fighters from a variety of countries to carry out attacks and to train more jihadists in their own countries. An IS trainer with more than eight hours of unedited training videos was captured by the remnants of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) as he headed north through Turkey towards Europe. The FSA passed the material to Sky News but was not aware of the importance of the videos, described by a weapons adviser to the British military as an intelligence "gold mine". Using aerial and satellite imagery Sky News has identified the location of the "university" and pieced together the apparently random collection of video files to reveal the true extent of IS's sophisticated development and training team.

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Input: “Their doctrine reflected this,” he says. Read More: Putin's Wily Syria Tactics Pay Off In one of his first acts as President, Putin adopted a new military doctrine in the spring of 2000, one that rejected the Soviet pledge never to launch a nuclear weapon first. His reasoning was simple: only Russia’s nukes could counter the vastly superior strength of U.S. conventional weapons. So he lowered the bar for using nuclear weapons in situations “critical to national security.” This meant that if Russia ever felt badly outgunned in a military conflict, it could launch a nuclear missile to even the score and make the enemy back off.

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Input: Led by AFP, it has canvassers on the ground year-round in nearly three-dozen states, knocking on the doors of carefully targeted households. Those targets are dictated by a massive data operation built up in recent years under the aegis of Freedom Partners, the main funnel for money from Koch charities and affiliated donors to advocacy groups such as AFP. In 2014, the most recent year for which reports are available, the 501(c)6 nonprofit group made $ 88 million in grants to the group, its sister organizations and other Koch allies, such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Rifle Association Institute and the anti-tax Club for Growth. In 2015, the network created its Grassroots Leadership Academy, a boot camp on activism and Koch governing philosophy, run by another AFP affiliate, the Americans for Prosperity Foundation. In Florida, home to one of AFP’s largest chapters, the group now counts 14 field offices, nearly double what it had in 2014, and more than 200,000 volunteers (although an AFP representative says that includes everything from door knockers to people who’ve signed a petition on its website).

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Input: It may not have been the choicest of venues for Donald Trump, as he disputes the charge that he is being played by Russian President Vladimir Putin. But there he was Thursday, being interviewed on Russia Today, the network funded by the Kremlin. Trump’s campaign said it was all a big mistake. The interviewer was Larry King, whom Trump has known for years.

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Input: When were you most proud of Bernie this past year, if you can pinpoint one moment? There were so many moments where I was proud of Bernie. I probably sound silly, but that debate where he said," I'm sick of hearing about your damn emails," he didn't think of that [ahead of time]. It wasn't a plan. He's not a politician who thinks of things and plans it all out.

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

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Input: They include President Xi Jinping and two more, Zhang Gaoli and Liu Yanshan, who sit on the party's powerful seven-member Standing Committee. According to several reports, posts about the leak are being scrubbed from Chinese social networks including Sina Weibo and Wechat, after the topic started to trend on those networks early Monday. The so-called papers, which were comprised of 11 million documents leaked from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca and reported on Sunday, indicate that at least 140 current or former world leaders set up offshore accounts to conceal their assets. In total, the firm has set up more than 240,000 of those accounts. Several Western countries have begun investigations into whether the information warrants prosecution.

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Input: In the southern West Bank city of Hebron, a Palestinian woman was shot dead by Israeli forces during an alleged stabbing attempt, Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld wrote on Twitter. Outside Otniel, a nearby illegal Israeli settlement, an Israeli man died and three of his relatives were injured when their car flipped after allegedly coming under fire by a Palestinian assailant on Friday afternoon, Israeli media reported. Although unable to comment on the Qalandia clashes, an Israeli army spokesperson told Al Jazeera the three people injured in the crash near the settlement were evacuated to a hospital." Forces are now searching the area for the assailant," the spokesperson said by phone on Friday afternoon. Threats

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Input: Another foreign-policy “success” of Mrs. Clinton, which her swooning followers will ignore, the few that even know about it, is the coup ousting the moderately progressive Manuel Zelaya of Honduras in June, 2009. A tale told many times in Latin America. The downtrodden masses finally put into power a leader committed to reversing the status quo, determined to try to put an end to up to two centuries of oppression … and before long the military overthrows the democratically-elected government, while the United States – if not the mastermind behind the coup – does nothing to prevent it punish the coup regime, as only the United States can punish; meanwhile Washington officials pretend to be very upset over this “affront to democracy”. (See Mark Weisbrot’s “Top Ten Ways You Can Tell Which Side the United States Government is on with Regard to the Military Coup in Honduras”.) In her 2014 memoir, Hard Choices, Clinton reveals just how unconcerned she was about restoring Zelaya to his rightful office: “In the subsequent days [after the coup] I spoke with my counterparts around the hemisphere … We strategized on a plan to restore order in Honduras and ensure that free and fair elections could be held quickly and legitimately, which would render the question of Zelaya moot.”

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Input: Analysis also appears to reveal the Trump Foundation has received twice as much in funding from other donors as it has from Mr Trump. Tax records seen by the Post reportedly show the Foundation has benefitted from $ 5.5 million of donations made by the Republican candidate since it was founded in 1987, compared with $ 9.3 million from other donors, including world wrestling executive Vince McMahon. Mr Trump has not donated to his foundation since 2008, the records appear to show. The billionaire businessman has repeatedly boasted about his charitable giving. In one of his books, The America We Deserve, he wrote of his family: “We’ve benefited from the American Dream and we feel the duty to give back to the community … Those who do n’t are nothing more than parasites.”

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Input: “Without this admission there can not be forgiveness and reconciliation. Suffering does not know temporary boundaries. Genocide will never remain in the past. 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.

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Input: Trump and VP nominee Mike Pence have asked whether Clinton’s emails led to the execution of a former U.S. defector from Iran. This is among the stupidest claims made so far in this campaign. A check of newspaper clips shows that the saga of Shahram Amiri, the executed scientist, was well-covered by the media in 2009 and 2010. Iranian officials could have learned everything they needed to know about Amiri’s defection from reading The Washington Post — and there was little to be learned from the cryptic messages in Clinton’s emails. It seemed like such a sweet story — Donald Trump sending his personal plane down to Camp Lejeune, N.C., when 200 Marines were stranded after fighting in the 1991 Persian Gulf War.

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Input: Lt. Brian Rice faces counts of manslaughter, reckless endangerment, and assault and misconduct in office in connection with Gray’s death last year. (Derek Hawkins) -- A Prince George’s County ice cream truck driver was shot on Independence Day, in an incident that police believe to be a botched robbery attempt. The driver remains in critical condition. (Justin Wm.

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Input: But Trump's comments earlier Wednesday suggested Russia might hand the emails over to the news media, as WikiLeaks did with hacked Democratic National Committee emails last week. As it did with the committee, that could cause major problems — except this time for a former top U.S. diplomat who could soon be president. And he has said previously in this campaign, without any evidence, that enemies of the United States "almost certainly" have accessed Clinton's emails and are using them to blackmail her. So he's clearly aware of that possibility. FBI Director James B. Comey said in rebuking Clinton's use of the email server earlier this month that it's indeed possible the server had been accessed — but that there was no evidence yet that it had happened.

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Input: We are not saying China is wrong in the claims. We are simply saying, ‘Resolve it peacefully; resolve it in the rules-based order.’” Relaxing an “out of the ordinary” arms embargo was neither out of order nor inflammatory, Kerry insisted. “I hope China will read this correctly.” Experts in China said they expected that U.S. warships would sooner or later be granted access to Cam Ranh Bay, a deep-water port that served as the key U.S. naval base during the Vietnam War.

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Input: Because Stalin’s purges and the reign of terror he invoked throughout Soviet society are actually pretty natural outgrowths of a system that puts too much power in the hands of too few people. That’s why. The current professed yearning for socialism — a system so conducive to corruption, cronyism, censorship, and coercion — just keeps rearing its ugly head. Yet the current professed yearning for socialism — a system so conducive to corruption, cronyism, censorship, and coercion — just keeps rearing its ugly head. One case in point is the open support for Stalin himself in today’s Russia.

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Input: Rebel fighters and civilians inspect the wreckage of a Russian helicopter that had been shot down in the north of Syria's rebel-held Idlib province, Syria August 1, 2016. REUTERS / Ammar Abdullah Men inspect the wreckage of a Russian helicopter that had been shot down in the north of Syria's rebel-held Idlib province, Syria August 1, 2016. REUTERS / Ammar Abdullah A still image taken on August 2, 2016 from a video said to be taken on August 1, 2016 posted on social media shows a man on a bed breathing through a mask being held by another man in what is said to be in Saraqeb, Idlib province, Syria.

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Input: Iran has repeatedly denied it is attempting to develop nuclear weapons and that all its nuclear activity is to build civilian power stations. In January, international sanctions on Iran were lifted in exchange for confirmation, verified by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), that the country is not attempting to build nuclear weapons. Mr Amiri’s execution follows the hanging of 20 people in Iran last week for alleged terrorism offences. World news in pictures 42 show all World news in pictures

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Input: The United States later vaulted past Russia to become the world’s largest natural gas producer. As a result, prices dropped to record lows, and America began to wean itself from coal, along with oil and gas imports, which lessened its dependence on the Middle East. The surging global gas supply also helped shrink Russia’s economic clout: profits for Russia’s state-owned gas company, Gazprom, plummeted by more than 60% between 2008 and 2009 alone. Clinton, who was sworn in as secretary of state in early 2009, believed that shale gas could help rewrite global energy politics. “This is a moment of profound change,” she later told a crowd at Georgetown University.

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Input: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange floated the possibility on Tuesday that a murdered Democratic National Committee staffer was an informant for the organization. “Whistleblowers often take very significant efforts to bring us material and often at very significant risks,” Assange said in an interview on to be aired Tuesday with the Dutch television program Nieuwsuur. “There’s a 27-year -old who works for the DNC and who was shot in the back, murdered, just a few weeks ago, for unknown reasons as he was walking down the streets in Washington.” Seth Rich, shown at left, a DNC employee who did voter outreach, was shot to death last month early in the morning in Washington, D.C. The case is unsolved and Washington, D.C., police have speculated it was an attempted robbery.

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Input: 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." This wasn't an example of "American weakness"; it was an example of diplomacy managing and defusing a bad situation. American power is collapsing ... except it isn't

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Input: And in another message, a staffer appears to suggest to Podesta that the campaign should set up specific chants from the crowd at a Clinton rally: “Wonder if tomorrow night, we should be more purposeful about generating the ‘U-S-A, U-S-A ' chants during her riff about the need for togetherness and unity … with people holding the little American flags.” “I really like that,” Podesta replies. One memo attached to an email from March 2016 is titled “Concept Paper” and outlines a proposal to “use young elected officials and entertainers to build a ‘grassroots’ movement of under 40 voters as a vehicle to migrate support for Bernie into activism for Hillary.” “The group should be branded separately from the campaign so people who engage with it feel like they created and own it,” the memo says. As the Democratic primary race with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders was tightening in early 2016, Clinton's team weighed options for responding to Sanders’ arguments that she was too close to Wall Street, including whether to focus on her plan for regulating the finance industry or trying to debunk Sanders ' claims.

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Input: This came after months of protests that had brought down the government of Putin-ally Viktor Yanukovich and replaced him with a more pro-Western government headed by Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko. The leaked correspondence includes a PDF with a list of vetted candidates for leadership of the Donetsk republic, sent in May 2014 by an employee of a company owned by Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeyev, who allegedly financed pro-Russian separatists. Pushilin was suggested for parliamentary speaker, and Igor Strelkov, the military commander of the rebel forces, was recommended for defense minister. Although there was no other evidence of interaction between Putin aide Surkov and Malofeyev’s employee, three days later — when the DNR government was announced — both Pushilin and Strelkov landed the posts suggested in the email. Surkov served as deputy chief of staff and then first deputy from 1999 to 2011 and was widely responsible for Kremlin ideology during that stint.

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Input: While I can't tell you exactly how many immigrants I favor, I can say with confidence that America can easily accommodate the people already living here and the levels of both legal and illegal immigration we're seeing now. It can do so without imposing significant costs on native born Americans. In fact, for the vast majority of native born Americans, the costs that their ancestors imposed on the existing population when migrating legally were much greater than the costs today's immigrants impose on anyone. The policies you sketch would, I think, lead to some "self-deportations." But they would also increase regulatory costs for all businesses; introduce new barriers and bureaucracies into even the smallest economic transactions; create an underclass of non-citizens who were born here, leading to the sort of disaffected ethnic enclaves seen in France; make criminals out of American citizens who just want to, say, keep the nanny who has helped raise their kids for their whole lives; expand federal power at the cost of localities; spark disruptive protests and riots in many major American cities; make impoverished people who rely on remittances even poorer, sometimes with deadly consequences; make our southern neighbor less stable as a second-order effect; and make the lives of millions significantly worse with small or non-existent benefits for the policy's ostensible winners.

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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: By the next day, Wednesday 22 November, doctors treating Litvinenko had scrapped their diagnosis. Their notes read: “We DO NOT feel this gentleman has or had inorganic thallium poisoning.” At midday, a top-level meeting was convened at the Met’s counter-terrorism command. It involved SO15 detectives, led by Det Supt Timmons, medical staff, a scientist from the UK’s atomic weapons establishment, the forensic science service and Dr Nick Gent from Porton Down, the UK’s military science facility. The latest urine test had revealed the presence of a new radioactive isotope – polonium-210.

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SO15 detectives, led by Det Supt Timmons, medical staff, a scientist from the UK’s atomic weapons establishment, the forensic science service and Dr Nick Gent from Porton Down

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Input: Donald Trump repeatedly defended his claim that the Mexican government is sending criminals and rapists to the United States. But a range of studies shows there is no evidence immigrants commit more crimes than native-born Americans. Moreover, the vast majority of unauthorized immigrants in prison do not belong in the category that fit Trump’s description: aggravated felons, whose crimes include murder, drug trafficking or illegal trafficking of firearms. Fox News host Megyn Kelly asked Donald Trump a pointed question about his verbal treatment of women. On the Sunday shows, Trump refused to apologize — and further asserted that Kelly lists things he did not say.

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Input: More than 275,000 civilians in the city are enduring daily bombing raids, alleged gas attacks, and the use of highly destructive barrel bombs from Russian and Syrian air strikes. Boris Johnson calls for protests outside the Russian Embassy over Syria conflict The battle to seize Mosul from Isis began on Monday morning, as convoys of troops began mobilising east of the city. US and French forces had already began bombing Isis targets in the city ahead of the offensive. Ahead of the battle, the Iraqi army dropped tens of thousands of leaflets over Mosul, urging residents to hide before the offensive beigns.

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Input: Fifteen days into Ravel’s tenure as chairwoman, former Koch brothers money man Sean Noble wrote an op-ed for the conservative site Townhall titled “FEC’s Latest Rule Regulating Online Speech Is Akin to Book Burning.” Noble’s article attacked the improbable specter of a regulatory framework that would require anyone discussing politics on the internet to register with the FEC. Such a framework might indeed reduce the amount of free speech conducted on the internet, hence “book burning.” In an email, Noble wrote that requiring the disclosures that Ravel advocated for would stifle free speech, and more generally, that “we have less political and public policy speech in the U.S. than we should because of regulations.” He continued: Requiring a blogger, stay-at-home mom, or college student to register with a government agency in order to write about candidates or political issues would have a chilling effect on free speech. If the goal of the FEC is to “get money out of politics”—which is an absurdity — this proposal actually goes in the opposite direction.

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Input: A pro-Russian political party in Ukraine advised by Donald Trump's campaign manager, Paul Manafort, designated $ 12.7 million in undisclosed cash payments for Manafort between 2007-12, according to secret ledgers uncovered by an anticorruption center in Kiev and obtained by The New York Times. While there is no evidence that Manafort has actually received the earmarked payments, he is "among those names on the list of so-called ' black accounts of the Party of Regions, ' which the detectives of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine are investigating," according to a statement from the bureau provided to The Times. The Party of Regions is the political party led by the Russian-backed Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych before he was driven out of power in 2014 and exiled to southern Russia. It is unclear what exactly the series of 22 payments designated for Manafort were for.

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Input: But at the moment, the American people appear to have decided that while they may not like Clinton very much, they find her qualified to serve as president while Trump is not. And Trump did just well enough in the second debate to stagger to the finish line of a race he is almost certain to lose. CORRECTION: Donald Trump faced a rape allegation from Ivana Trump, not Marla Maples. — Ben White is Politico's chief economic correspondent and a CNBC contributor. He also authors the daily tip sheet Politico Morning Money [politico.com / morningmoney].

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Input: On 9/11, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump’s hometown was attacked by the worst terrorist attack in the history of the United States. Young men and women — young men and women signed up to serve in the military to fight terrorism. Hillary Clinton went to Washington to get funds to rebuild her city and protect first responders. But Donald Trump was fighting a very different fight. It was a fight to avoid paying taxes so that he would n’t support the fight against terror.

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Input: While they do the same work as foreigners, they earn much more. Salaries for foreign crew start at $ 320 a month, while Saudis get $ 1,460, part of which is subsidized by the government. The company also gives Saudis more flexibility and has created fast-track programs to move them into management. Four Saudi workers gathered in a break room said they liked their jobs but worried that they would not be as successful as their fathers, all of whom worked for the government. They knew the government had less money to employ citizens, which meant their generation would have to work harder.

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Input: He now lives in Italy, allegedly to finish his dissertation. Along with his sister, he is suspected of corruption and bribery. Bild also took note of last year’s discoveries published by the British news outlet, The Guardian, which uncovered information indicating that Turkish businessmen are actively involved in various deals with Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIL / ISIS) terrorists, such as illegal oil smuggling. READ MORE: Turkey is key supplier of weapons, military hardware to ISIS-Russian envoy to UN “One of them according to [The Guardian] data is Bilal Erdogan,” Bild points out.

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Input: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/syria-civil-war-staff-manning-us-ceasefire-hotline-cant-speak-arabic-34511855.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/article34497762.ece/b9e1e/AUTOCROP/h342/PANews%20BT_P-61be2583-7b15-4f1b-8945-028152c2217e_I1.jpg Email The US State Department has admitted that its round-the-clock hotline service for Syrians to report violations of the recent ceasefire needs improvement, following reports that the volunteers manning the phones were unable to understand the Arabic speakers who called in. The hotline was set up on Saturday after the declaration of a tentative ceasefire in Syria’s devastating civil war. Witnesses on the ground have been encouraged to call and report any breaches of the agreement between rebels and the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.

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Input: “There’s a 27-year -old who works for the DNC and who was shot in the back, murdered, just a few weeks ago, for unknown reasons as he was walking down the streets in Washington.” Seth Rich, shown at left, a DNC employee who did voter outreach, was shot to death last month early in the morning in Washington, D.C. The case is unsolved and Washington, D.C., police have speculated it was an attempted robbery. On Reddit, his death has become the source of theories about whether he was involved in the leaks. WikiLeaks released emails and files from the Democratic National Committee last month.

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

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Input: The French foreign minister has said he will ask the International Court of Justice to investigate possible war crimes in Syria." We do not agree with what Russia is doing, bombarding Aleppo. France is committed as never before to saving the population of Aleppo," Jean-Marc Ayrault said. France and Spain drafted a resolution on resurrecting an agreement on cessation of hostilities in the Syrian conflict which was put before a vote at the UN Security Council on Friday.

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

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Input: To understand how we arrived at this point, we need to go back almost to the beginning of modern nutrition science. On 23 September, 1955, US President Dwight Eisenhower suffered a heart attack. Rather than pretend it had n’t happened, Eisenhower insisted on making details of his illness public. The next day, his chief physician, Dr Paul Dudley White, gave a press conference at which he instructed Americans on how to avoid heart disease: stop smoking, and cut down on fat and cholesterol. In a follow-up article, White cited the research of a nutritionist at the University of Minnesota, Ancel Keys.

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Input: The Democratic nominee made roughly $ 3 million off her books — the latest of which is 2014’s Hard Choices — and more than $ 1.4 million in speaking fees. 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.

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Input: But Bukharin knew he was finished. In that last letter, he requested poison to drink rather than a bullet to the head. (According to one report, he was made to watch the executions of 16 other defendants, then shot last.) He requested to see his wife and infant son. (Obviously, not granted or answered.

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Input: She also said the United States had admitted some 85,000 refugees over the past fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30. That figure included about 12,500 Syrian refugees, exceeding the administration's goal of 10,000, she said. State Department spokesman Mark Toner said the push for additional humanitarian aid funds came in part because of deteriorating conditions in Aleppo after the collapse of a ceasefire sponsored by the United States and Russia. The forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have launched a massive push against rebel-held areas of the city, where some 250,000 civilians are believed to be trapped. Intensive bombing has killed hundreds of people, many of whom died in buildings collapsed by bunker-buster bombs.

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Input: For decades, wages of the middle and working classes have remained stagnant in the United States while the top earners have seen their wages grow exponentially. In the United States since the 2008 recession, nearly 99 percent of all new generated income has gone to the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans. Current trends suggest these enormous disparities in wealth are expanding. Amid calls for reform to redistribute wealth in the United States to the middle and working classes, criticism has mounted, stereotyping such reforms as "handouts," "free stuff" or "socialist." What these criticisms of proposed reforms for wealth inequality fail to recognize is that socialism for the wealthy not only exists, but is prevalent throughout our current system of government in the form of corporate socialism.

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Input: In exchange, the U.S. Attorney’s Office promised not to pursue any federal charges against Epstein or his co-conspirators. Florida attorney Brad Edwards, who represented some of Epstein’s alleged victims, is suing the federal government over the secret non-prosecution agreement in hopes of having it overturned. Edwards claimed in court records that the government and Epstein concealed the deal from the victims “to prevent them from voicing any objection, and to avoid the firestorm of controversy that would have arisen if it had become known that the Government was immunizing a politically-connected billionaire and all of his co-conspirators from prosecution of hundreds of federal sex crimes against minor girls.” The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida did not respond to a request for comment about the deal. Other politicians, celebrities and businessmen, including presidential candidate Donald Trump, have been accused of fraternizing with Epstein.

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Input: Traditionally, Ukrainian-Americans have skewed toward the Republican Party which took a hard line toward the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Now, however, Ukrainian-Americans may abandon the GOP due to Trump's apologetic stance toward Putin and Russia. Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort's ties to former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, who in turn had sought to ally his country to Russia before he himself was ousted during the Maidan revolution, may also prompt Ukrainian-Americans to jettison the Republican Party. Currently, there are more than 20 million Ukrainians living abroad, of which one million reside in the U.S. In Ohio, Ukrainian-Americans are mostly congregated around Cleveland and some 45,000 people stateside trace their roots back to the Old Country.

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Input: Those gaps have confounded the inspectors’ attempts to verify whether or not Syria has fully abandoned its chemical weapons program, fueling suspicions by the United States and other Western powers that the government may be seeking to retain a limited capacity to use the nerve agents and other lethal toxins against the rebels working to unseat Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. In a confidential two-page summary of the report, OPCW Director-General Ahmet Uzumcu writes that the majority of 122 samples taken at “multiple locations” in Syria “indicate potentially undeclared chemical weapons-related activities.” Many of Syria’s explanations for the presence of undeclared agents, he added, “are not scientifically or technically plausible, and … the presence of several undeclared chemical warfare agents is still to be clarified.” The incomplete and sometimes misleading assertions by the Assad government have shaped the often rocky relationship between foreign inspectors and their Syrian counterparts, bedeviling international efforts to determine whether or not Damascus has abided by its obligation to destroy its chemical weapons. Assad promised to eliminate his stores in 2013 to avert promised U.S. airstrikes against regime targets. The findings of the OPCW’s Declarations Assessment Team report — which is marked “highly protected” — contrast sharply with Assad’s public insistence that Syria’s chemical weapons have been largely eliminated.

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Input: “We continue to witness these brutal executions in the streets of Iran, while the international community remains unable to take action against this totalitarian regime,” he said. This comes after several human rights organisations condemned brutal practices by the Iranian authorities, especially public execution of opposition figures and civil rights activities. According to reports, the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran has executed at least 2500 people in the past two years. Reporting by: Ehmed Sawes Source: ARA News

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Input: Turkey's disquiet has been heightened by the tens of thousands of people fleeing to the Turkish border after attacks by Russian-backed Syrian government forces, swelling refugee numbers in the area to 100,000. Turkey, which already hosts 2.6 million Syrian refugees, has kept the latest arrivals on the Syrian side of the border, in part to pressure Russia to cease its air support for Syrian government forces near the city of Aleppo. Davutoglu earlier condemned the attacks in Aleppo as "barbarity, tyranny, a war strategy conducted with a medieval mentality" and said hundreds of thousands faced the danger of starvation if a humanitarian corridor was not opened." We will help our brothers in Aleppo with all means at our disposal. We will take those in need but we will never allow Aleppo to be emptied through an ethnic massacre," he said.

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Input: Historically, there have been rare occasions of public protest against unbridled arms trafficking, as with the backlash against “the merchants of death” after World War I, or the controversy over who armed Saddam Hussein that followed the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Even now, small numbers of congressional representatives, including John Conyers, Chris Murphy, and Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, continue to try to halt the sale of cluster munitions, bombs, and missiles to Saudi Arabia. There is, however, unlikely to be a genuine public debate about the value of the arms business and Washington’s place in it if it is n’t even considered a subject worthy of more than an occasional media story. In the meantime, the United States continues to hold onto its No. 1 role in the global arms trade, the White House does its part, the Pentagon greases the wheels, and the dollars roll in to profit-hungry weapons contractors.

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

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Input: Weddings and funerals have been banned and Pyongyang is in lockdown as preparations for a once-in-a-generation party congress get underway in North Korea. The ruling Worker’s Party of Korea, headed by the country's leader, Kim Jong-un, is due to stage the first gathering of its kind for 36 years on Friday. Free movement in and out of the capital has also been forbidden and there has been an increase in inspections and property searches, according to Daily NK, which claims to have sources in the country. Life in North Korea captured with a mobile phone 30 show all Life in North Korea captured with a mobile phone

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

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Input: At the same time, Trump has exploited the foundation for self-dealing. In 2014, he drew on it to pay $ 10,000 for a painted portrait of you-know-who at a charity auction at Mar-a-Lago, his Florida resort and residence. The foundation also spent $ 20,000 for Melania Trump to purchase a 6-foot Donald portrait; $ 12,000 to buy a Tim Tebow helmet at a charity auction; and $ 258,000 to settle legal disputes and unpaid fines involving Trump’s businesses. In 2013, the Trump Foundation contributed $ 25,000 to an organization supporting Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, after Bondi announced she was considering whether to join New York Attorney General Schneiderman’s investigation of fraud at Trump University. It would be charitable to call Donald Trump a philanthropist.

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Input: 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 CEN 7 Moment cars collide on Kutuzovsky Avenue is captured in shocking footage

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Input: Because Trump’s statements are so various and self-contradictory, there will always be some phrase he has spoken that reflects better on him than his other words. Surely the media critics do n’t expect the press to ignore all the indefensible nonsense, pluck out the least indefensible hedge across multiple appearances, and present that to the American people as what Trump really and truly meant? That would be hugely misleading! (The media critics are themselves misled. Note that Gobry, who accuses the media of twisting Trump’s words, purports to agree with Hemingway, though her complaint is that the media presents Trump’s words too literally.)

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Input: August 2016. REUTERS / Djordje Kojadinovic U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (L) and Serbia's Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic during welcome ceremony inspect honor guards in Belgrade, Serbia, August 16, 2016. REUTERS / Djordje Kojadinovic BELGRADE Hundreds of Serbian ultra-nationalists protested on Tuesday against U.S. Vice President Joe Biden's visit to Belgrade by chanting their support for Donald Trump.

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Input: A spare granite archway stands between the skeletal dome of a onetime industrial exhibition hall located directly under the spot where the bomb exploded and a museum housing the charred belongings of victims and other evidence of devastation. Advertisement Continue reading the main story The park offers a victim’s narrative, illustrating in gut-wrenching detail how more than 100,000 people perished and thousands more were injured. It provides few of the historical reasons for the bombing, such as descriptions of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the savagery of Japan’s occupation of China, or the extraordinary death toll of soldiers and civilians in the invasion of Okinawa. A short inscription on the park’s memorial arch reads, in part, “We shall not repeat the evil.” What exactly the evil was — the bombing or the conflict itself — and who is to blame are left unsaid.

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Input: They are backed up by a "Spearhead Force" -- officially the "Very High Readiness Joint Task Force" -- which numbers about 5,000 troops ready to move within a couple of days. -' Feeling of intimidation ' -NATO has been working to prevent a repeat of Russia's Ukraine intervention and annexation of Crimea in 2014, with former Soviet-bloc members anxious they could be vulnerable should Moscow attempt additional land grabs. The alliance has mounted a series of exercises, especially in the eastern member states, to test readiness levels and reassure nervous allies, and it has also deployed extra aircraft to boost air policing, especially over the Baltic states. Further south, NATO is increasingly focusing on alliance members Romania and Bulgaria as they cast a wary eye across the Black Sea, where the Russians are building up their military presence.

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Input: Image copyright AFP Image caption The UN's secretary general denounced the attack as "savage and apparently deliberate" Analysis of satellite imagery taken after a deadly attack on an aid convoy in northern Syria last month shows that it was an air strike, a UN expert says. At least 18 people were killed when lorries unloading at a Syrian Arab Red Crescent warehouse in a rebel-held town outside Aleppo came under fire. The US believes Russian warplanes bombed the convoy. Russia, which backs Syria's government, denies the charge.

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Input: Bernie Sanders is the only self-proclaimed “Democratic socialist” running in the 2016 race for the White House. And some of his supporters have been trying to lecture Garry Kasparov, a former Soviet citizen and Putin dissenter, on the glories of socialism. Kasparov posted a rebuttal to his Facebook that's been shared over 40,000 times.

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Input: That’s out of context. Never said it in the first place. Donald Trump’s claim Friday that he was merely being “sarcastic” in accusing President Barack Obama of establishing a terrorist group was his latest attempt to blame others for the uproar over what he says. It’s an instinct that Trump’s opponents say a president ca n’t possess. Some Republicans seem to have the same concern.

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

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Input: Under the circumstances, it should be obvious that trends in the global arms trade are a major news story and should be dealt with as such in the country most responsible for putting more weapons of a more powerful nature into the hands of those living in “volatile” regions. It’s a monster business (in every sense of the word) and certainly has far more dangerous consequences than licensing a Hollywood blockbuster or selling another Boeing airliner. Historically, there have been rare occasions of public protest against unbridled arms trafficking, as with the backlash against “the merchants of death” after World War I, or the controversy over who armed Saddam Hussein that followed the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Even now, small numbers of congressional representatives, including John Conyers, Chris Murphy, and Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, continue to try to halt the sale of cluster munitions, bombs, and missiles to Saudi Arabia. There is, however, unlikely to be a genuine public debate about the value of the arms business and Washington’s place in it if it is n’t even considered a subject worthy of more than an occasional media story.

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Input: It was bad enough when Trump last year disparaged the war record of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who spent 5½ years as a prisoner of war of North Vietnam. “He’s not a war hero,” Trump said. “He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who were n’t captured.” Despite that indefensible comment, McCain eventually endorsed Trump. Now Trump has responded to Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the parents of U.S. Army Capt.

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

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Input: Vsevolod Chaplin said:" You probably don't need to ' circumcise ' all women, there's no need with Orthodox women as they don't fornicate anyway ". The Russian government has immediately distanced itself from the statements. The head of the health ministry's public health department Oleg Salagai was quoted by the RIA Novosti news agency as saying FGM is" mutilating and not positive in any way ". The comments by both religious leaders highlighted the contents of the original report by the NGO Russian Justice Group. It said the cutting of girls ' genitals in mountain villages in the North Caucasus region of Dagestan had carried on" without any attention whatsoever from the authorities ".

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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: In an angry and protracted meeting, they grappled one-on-one, with only Kissinger and Haksar attending their chiefs. It was explosive. He thought she was a warmonger; she thought he was helping along a genocide. Summits are often pretty placid affairs, but this was a cathartic brawl, propelled not just by totally opposite views of a brewing war, but by the hearty personal contempt that the president and prime minister had for each other. Nixon first emphasised US aid to the refugees, but then sharply warned that launching a war was unacceptable.

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Input: 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 CEN 7 Moment cars collide on Kutuzovsky Avenue is captured in shocking footage CEN 7 A Mercedes could be seen veering from the other side of the road before smashing into Putin’s BMW Reuters 7 President Putin, pictured yesterday at the G20 summit in China, was not in the car at the time

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Input: He has revived Clinton’s ethics and alleged illegality as the front-and-center question before the voters in the race’s final week. To assume Comey’s statement will have no effect, as many hopeful Clinton supporters do, is to assume the voters will respond in a way they have not responded before. Comey’s announcement is a shocking breach of a vital, decades-old law-enforcement norm prohibiting the announcement of charges against candidates in the closing stages of the race. Staffers at the Department of Justice tried to steer Comey away from his announcement. His decision has baffled and outraged law-enforcement veterans in both parties, like Democratic former attorney general Eric Holder, Democratic and Republican former deputy-attorney generals Jamie Gorelick and Larry Thompson, and Republican former chief White House ethics lawyer Richard Painter.

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Input: And they really need to stop.” The media is too busy trying to get Hillary Clinton elected to present the facts to the American people. Due to his lies and deflection, Weiner was forced to publicly apologize. Frankly, with the pickle she’s put America in, Hillary Clinton needs to go a few steps further than that. She’s the least qualified person ever to seek the Presidency and a woman whose political career is due almost entirely to having been married to Bill Clinton.

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Input: Russian jets however, reportedly attacked the base a second time 90 minutes later, despite warning signals sent from U.S. aircraft. U.S. officials and rebel leaders claim cluster munitions were used in the attacks and that four people were killed. According to Interfax's source in Moscow, the strike took place because the U.S. refused to provide Russia with information on their activities regarding the areas where moderate Syrian opposition were active and observing a cease-fire. Russia had warned the U.S.-led coalition of imminent Russian air strikes in the area of At-Tanf, the source claimed. “The Russian side has already given a full explanation on this matter," the source said.

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Input: The president will outline his vision during remarks at a refugee summit on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, a city struck by terrorism on Saturday. ADVERTISEMENT Calls for Obama to reconsider his approach have been stirred anew by the latest attacks, which included homemade bombs in New York and New Jersey and stabbings in a Minnesota mall. The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria took credit for the Minnesota attack on Saturday reportedly carried out by Dahir Adan, a 22-year -old Somali-American who worked at a private security firm. Nine people were wounded in the stabbings; Adan was shot and killed by an off-duty police officer.

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Input: In a series of tweets Wednesday, Warren challenged House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith’s (R-Texas) decision to subpoena communications between state attorneys general investigating Exxon's claims. Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey is one of the leaders in that effort, and one of the officials whom Smith’s committee subpoenaed last week. Warren tweeted that Smith’s push is “how giant corporations rig the system” by trying to “intimidate” Healy. “Now @exxonmobil got the Chair of the @HouseScience Committee — a TX Republican who has taken $ 675k from oil & gas — to subpoena @MassAGO,” she tweeted. “Yup, that’s right: House Republicans are interfering with a state AG’s ongoing investigation of a company violating state law.”

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Input: Mr. Trump has also questioned the merit of deploying troops overseas, including in Japan and South Korea, where a withdrawal of forces would profoundly affect security in Asia. Such a move would significantly reduce American influence at a time of increasing Chinese aggression. And he has said he would not press President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, a NATO ally who has suspended, detained or placed under investigation more than 60,000 people in a post-coup attempt frenzy, to respect the rule of law. Nor would he make promoting human rights abroad — a central tenet of American foreign policy under both Democratic and Republican administrations — part of his agenda, since he says America has no moral authority to make such a case. Newsletter Sign Up Continue reading the main story Please verify you're not a robot by clicking the box.

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Input: Reality check: Clinton on her role pushing sanctions on Iran By Kevin Liptak, CNN Clinton claimed she led efforts to enact new sanctions on the regime during her tenure as the nation's top diplomat." I spent 18 months putting together the coalition that imposed international sanctions on the Iranians that forced them finally to begin negotiating with us to get an end to their nuclear weapons program," she said. It's a line Clinton has used regularly in her bid for the Democratic nomination, and her campaign has pointed to her efforts pressuring foreign partners -- namely Russia and China -- to agree to United Nations Security Council sanctions on Iran.

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Input: We are not saying China is wrong in the claims. We are simply saying, ‘Resolve it peacefully; resolve it in the rules-based order.’” Relaxing an “out of the ordinary” arms embargo was neither out of order nor inflammatory, Kerry insisted. “I hope China will read this correctly.” Experts in China said they expected that U.S. warships would sooner or later be granted access to Cam Ranh Bay, a deep-water port that served as the key U.S. naval base during the Vietnam War.

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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: The Russian economy is likewise much smaller (only $ 1.3 trillion). That is around one-tenth the size of the U.S. economy. Moreover, Russia’s economy is both fragile and one-dimensional, with a heavy dependence on energy exports. In short, Russia does not have the features one usually finds in an aggressively revisionist power in the international system. Nevertheless, Russophobes have viewed Moscow’s annexation of Crimea and its support for pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine as the harbinger of much wider aggression, when there is almost no evidence of such an agenda.

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

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Input: Tax Policy When outlining her tax reform policy, Clinton has made clear that she wants to tax the wealthy and make sure they "pay their fair share." She has proposed a tax plan that would require millionaires and billionaires to pay more taxes than middle-class and lower-income individuals. Raising incomes for American families is crucial to Clinton's tax policy; she wants to give working families tax relief to increase the money they're actually taking home from work. Clinton also supports helping small businesses grow through providing tax relief and broadening their access to capital.

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Input: If you sell it and make a profit, it’s taxable as if it were a house or a share of stock. Last year, the Commodities and Futures Trading Commission defined virtual currencies as commodities for regulatory purposes. Despite its increasingly common use, many see bitcoin as inherently dirty, used when people have something to conceal. That is what Arias and Secret Service special agent Gregory Ponzi thought when they began their investigation in 2013. “There is unquestionably no evidence that the Defendant did anything wrong, other than sell his Bitcoin to an investigator who wanted to make a case,” Pooler wrote.

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Input: Police are still searching for Milhem, who managed to flee the scene. His father, Muhammad Milhem, a police volunteer, recognized his son in video footage of the attack and called the police. Muhammad Milhem urged security forces on Saturday to detain his son as soon as possible, fearing he would strike again. “What is important to me now is that they reach my son and arrest him, because he is still armed,” he was quoted as saying by the Ynet news website. “And just as he murdered two people, he can murder more.”

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Input: But at the moment, the American people appear to have decided that while they may not like Clinton very much, they find her qualified to serve as president while Trump is not. And Trump did just well enough in the second debate to stagger to the finish line of a race he is almost certain to lose. CORRECTION: Donald Trump faced a rape allegation from Ivana Trump, not Marla Maples. — Ben White is Politico's chief economic correspondent and a CNBC contributor. He also authors the daily tip sheet Politico Morning Money [politico.com / morningmoney].

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Input: Pence started his term with a large budget surplus. He tried to keep a big surplus — in my opinion, so he would look good in an eventual presidential run — so he was reluctant to spend money on needed programs. Budgets were cut to such a degree that many state workers quit because they could not get anything done. The roads got so bad that one interstate bridge sank and was closed for months. There were detours and accidents.

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Input: Deputy Moskalkova, who is a member of the A Just Russia party, was also supported by the ruling United Russia party for the post. The newly elected Human Rights Commissioner has distinguished herself in the State Duma for advocating particularly draconian legislation. In her post-election interview, Commissioner Moskalkova said she had to take a stand against human rights being used as a tool by the West to blackmail Russia.

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Input: Asked whether he would consider raising the minimum wage, Trump said he is "looking at that" and "open to doing something with it," despite claiming months earlier that he opposed raising the minimum wage because the U.S. needs to keep wages low to compete with foreign countries." I'm actually very different from most Republicans "on the issue, Trump said in the interview Wednesday. Republican lawmakers are overwhelmingly opposed to raising the federal minimum wage, which is currently $ 7.25 per hour, while Democrats have called for raising the wage floor to as high as $ 15 per hour. JUST WATCHED Donald Trump: Then & Now Replay More Videos ... MUST WATCH Donald Trump: Then & Now 01:48 Trump took fire from conservatives and Republican primary opponents earlier in the campaign when he told Fox News that" everything is negotiable "as he responded to a report that he suggested to The New York Times editorial board in an off-the-record meeting that his immigration views are in fact more flexible than the hardline positions he laid out during his primary campaign.

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Input: And, despite being explicitly told otherwise by the experts, Trump expressed doubt about U.S. intelligence findings that Russia had hacked into Democratic National Committee computers. It goes well beyond Putin. Speaking about Kim Jong Un, the ultra-absolutist dictator of North Korea who is starving his own people, Trump said: “If you look at North Korea, this guy, I mean, he’s like a maniac, OK? And you’ve got to give him credit. He goes in, he takes over, and he’s the boss.

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Input: Kissinger urged Nixon to be tough on her. “I think publicly you should be extremely nice,” said the national security advisor – and at this point the tape is bleeped out, to hide whatever words he used to urge being rougher in private. Kissinger recommended sternly telling her that her Soviet treaty had cast doubt on India’s ostensible nonalignment, and that “a war with Pakistan simply would not be understood.” Kissinger’s briefing set Nixon at ease. The president was impressed with what they had gotten the Pakistanis to do.

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Input: Israeli airstrikes in Syria have also been the topic of previous high-level meetings between Moscow and Jerusalem. A number of airstrikes in Syria have been attributed to Israeli efforts to prevent advanced weapons from reaching Hezbollah. Netanyahu was also expected to address Russian-backed peace efforts in Syria, which have reportedly become entangled with the status of the Golan Heights, an area effectively annexed by Israel in 1981 in a move not recognized by the rest of the world. The prime minister has previously gone on the record saying that Syrian peace talks needed to take Israel’s position into account. According to Israel’s Channel 2, the first clause of a draft agreement aimed at settling the brutal civil war in Syria, being worked on with the support of the US, Russia and other major world powers, specifies that the Golan Heights is Syrian territory and must be returned to Syria.

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Input: It has spent those years arming and supporting Middle Eastern dictators and religious fighters, while rejecting out of hand all Soviet proposals to leave the region free to govern itself. In 1956, the CIA tried another coup in Syria, arming and funding Islamic militants, but without success. For years, the CIA kept trying -- perhaps less comically than with its efforts to assassinate Fidel Castro, but certainly with greater consequences. This history is relevant not only as a guide to what not to do, but also because the people of Syria and the region know this history, so it illuminates how they view current events. Wesley Clark says Syria was on a Pentagon list of governments to overthrow in 2001.

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Input: 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. Al-Halaby said the air raid hit a school, killing seven and wounding others while the Observatory said five were killed.

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Input: But Huma is more, much more than that. She is the person closest to the most powerful woman in American politics and perhaps the next President. Huma has been described variously as Hillary’s “body woman,” a sort of glorified go-to personal maid, gentle confidant, and by others as an Islamic spy. She may be all of these things, because as we shall see, Huma Abedin has an interesting and complex career history. Politico and several other Beltway media outlets followed up on Stone’s previous appearance on Breitbart News Daily: “Trump Ally: Clinton Aide Could Be ‘Terrorist Agent’”:

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Input: Warmbier was on the dean's list at the University of Virginia, CNN affiliate WCPO-TV reported. He was also part of a student organization that "trains young professionals for careers in investment management and other functions within the financial markets," according to the group's website. Kieren Thomas, a friend of Warmbier's younger brother, told CNN in January that the detained student was a star soccer player in high school, outgoing and loved to travel to out-of-the-way places." Otto was one of the smartest guys I've ever met," Thomas said." I've never met a person that had a bad thing to say about him."

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Input: In 1999 a Cuban lawsuit demanded $ 181.1 billion in US compensation for death and injury suffered by Cuban citizens in four decades “war” by Washington against Cuba. Cuba asked for $ 30 million in direct compensation for each of the 3,478 people it said were killed by US actions and $ 15 million each for the 2,099 injured. It also asked for $ 10 million each for the people killed, and $ 5 million each for the injured, to repay Cuban society for the costs it has had to assume on their behalf. Needless to say, the United States has not paid a penny of this. One of the most common Yankee criticisms of the state of human rights in Cuba has been the arrest of dissidents (although the great majority are quickly released).

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Input: In his letter on Friday, Comey wrote that the FBI “can not yet assess whether or not this material may be significant” and refused to describe how long the additional work might take. However, it is sure to loom over the remaining 11 days before Election Day, offering Republican nominee Donald Trump Donald TrumpLewandowski near ' high six-figure book deal ': report GOP fires opening attack on Dem reportedly running for Heller's Senate seat Overnight Tech: Trump seeks tech's help for ' sweeping ' IT overhaul | FTC looks to block sports fantasy merger | Firm exposes nearly 200 M voters ' data MORE ammunition to hammer the former secretary of State. Comey had previously been the target of criticism from both sides this summer, when he held a news conference outlining the FBI’s decision not to recommend charges against Clinton or her aides and then detailed the thinking repeatedly on Capitol Hill. Critics accused him of betraying a double standard by refusing to charge Clinton, while some legal scholars warned that he had set a dangerous precedent by outlining evidence against a person who was not charged with a crime.

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Input: To the Left what Trump did is a grievous offense against civility and social norms, yet Clinton’s communistic blueprint It Takes A Village, calls for the state “to teach, train and raise children,” adding that “[p]arents have a secondary role.” Put Hillary in the White House and she’ll solve the problem of crying babies by terminating parental rights. After all, that’s what she says in her book. And do n’t forget that the Left deems this crying baby incident to be far worse than Clinton’s strident, unconditional, unapologetic support for the taxpayer-funded human body parts trafficking concern known as Planned Parenthood. During the Democratic National Convention last week CNN and the New York Times pushed out the lie that at a presser Trump had invited Russia to somehow hack Hillary Clinton’s emails which are far as anyone can tell no longer exist. The party of sedition and treason went nuts calling Trump a traitor.

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

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Input: Trump and Clinton will reportedly begin receiving classified briefings after this week’s convention. House Speaker Paul Ryan had previously asked Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to deny Clinton classified briefings, due to her use of a private email server as Secretary of State, but Clapper has said that briefings would be provided for both candidates on a nonpartisan basis. This month, FBI Director James Comey announced that while Clinton would not be charged for having classified information on her server, it was “possible” that hostile foreign governments had gained access to her email account. Rep. Devin Nunes said in a statement that Trump’s comments addressed unanswered questions from that investigation. “Most likely, Donald Trump was simply making light of Hillary Clinton setting up her own homebrew email server that trafficked in classified information and her sending insecure emails from the soil of known foreign adversaries.

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Input: Carsten Koall / Getty Images 9/10 Dawood al-Marhoon was arrested aged 17 for participating in an anti-government protest. After refusing to spy on his fellow protestors, he was tortured and forced to sign a blank document that would later contain his ‘confession’. At Dawood’s trial, the prosecution requested death by crucifixion while refusing him a lawyer. Getty Images

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Input: Ambassador Samantha Power told reporters:" We will ensure that the Security Council imposes serious consequences. DPRK's (North Korea) latest transgressions require our response to be even firmer." The United States and China began discussing a U.N. sanctions resolution after Pyongyang's Jan. 6 atomic test. North Korea had initially given a Feb. 8-25 time frame for the launch but on Saturday changed that to Feb. 7-14, apparently taking advantage of clear weather on Sunday. North Korea's National Aerospace Development Administration called the launch "an epochal event in developing the country's science, technology, economy and defense capability by legitimately exercising the right to use space for independent and peaceful purposes".

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Input: I want to speak to her.” The loss of the three girls, who followed a friend who had earlier left for Syria, was a major blow to the Muslim community in east London and a powerful indication of how strong the lure of Isis can be. They plotted the trip together, according to material recovered by investigators, making a shopping list of items to take with them and then deceiving their families. Latest video footage reportedly shows London teenagers en route to Syria Read more The items for their escape to Syria ranged from a mobile phone to underwear, makeup and an epilator.

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Input: But beyond politics, there are the potential real-world consequences of a presidential candidate — one who has spent the past week boldly asserting that the election itself may be “rigged” against him — speaking openly about citizens bearing arms as a response to Clinton presidency, especially in a country that is enduring a prolonged period of mass shootings by troubled, disaffected individuals and domestic terrorists, and rising violence enflamed by urban unrest and a fraying social fabric. Bernice King, the daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., criticized Trump on Twitter. She wrote: “As the daughter of a leader who was assassinated, I find # Trump’s comments distasteful, disturbing, dangerous. His words do n’t # LiveUp. # MLK”

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Input: The research took 8 years. Money from the original grant ran out, and after the crash of 2008 Heede's consulting business collapsed. He maxed out his credit card, borrowed against his Colorado house, and scraped by, enlisting graduate students in several countries to photocopy and send him papers, which he checked and double-checked with a watchmaker's precision. He filled shelves with binders of information and spent thousands of hours entering it into spreadsheets, working alone, often until midnight." I take pleasure in that kind of stuff," Heede says.

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Input: We checked with Scott Clement, polling manager at The Washington Post. He cited four polls that have been completed on the debate between Trump and Hillary Clinton at Washington University in St. Louis on Oct. 9. Clement said that the best-quality post-debate poll so far was CNN’s immediate post-debate survey, which was conducted by calling back respondents to its previous national telephone survey who said they would watch the debate. That survey was conducted among a national random sample of cellular and landline phones, so it has the best claim of representativeness. The result?

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Input: Employment conditions and pay have deteriorated and women work less because of security concerns. About 13.8 million Syrians have lost their source of livelihood. Madaya again facing starvation as report warns of extent of sieges Read more “The common characteristics across all regions are lack of security, the allocation of all resources to the fighting, the creation of violence-related job opportunities and imposition of authority by force.” The shrinking of the population by 21% helps explain the waves of refugees reaching Turkey and Europe.

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Input: In May 2011, Iranian media abruptly stopped covering news about Mr Amiri and plans for a film about his alleged kidnapping were scrapped. He was then arrested in Iran and was reportedly tried for treason. His fate remained unknown until Saturday when his family said he had been executed and his body returned with rope marks around his neck indicating he had been hanged, the BBC reports. Iran has repeatedly denied it is attempting to develop nuclear weapons and that all its nuclear activity is to build civilian power stations. In January, international sanctions on Iran were lifted in exchange for confirmation, verified by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), that the country is not attempting to build nuclear weapons.

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Input: Clinton maintains that she never sent or received information marked as classified while using the private server. She has also claimed the server was never breached by hackers. Despite her claims, a Romanian hacker known as “Guccifer” (true name Marcel Lehal Lazar) plead guilty in May to federal charges for hacking Clinton’s server. He has described the server as “completely unsecured” and compared it to “an open orchid on the internet.” He also noted that “10 others” of unknown origin had access “from other parts of the world.”

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Input: READ MORE: ‘You can go your way’: Erdogan rejects demands to change anti-terror law for EU visa deal Erdogan has yet to appoint Davutoglu’s successor, but as the President will no doubt want his replacement to be more malleable, it is speculated that Erdogan’s son-in-law, Energy Minister Berat Albayrak, might have what it takes. Albayrak’s appointment as the government’s leader would benefit the whole Erdogan family, especially Bilal, who has been accused of involvement in illegal oil smuggling in Syria and Iraq. Bild states that Albayrak might be “that firm part of the clan” that the Turkish head of state wants to see by his side. READ MORE: ‘Merkel threw me to a despot’: German comedian fights back against probe for insulting Erdogan

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Input: Five of them measured 2.0 and above, according to a spokesman. The remaining too-4.5 and 5.2, respectively. Rescue crews are searching and inspecting buildings, TASS quoted an emergency services spokesperson as saying. “There have been no reports of damage yet,” Yulia Ananyeva said. “We saw furniture and doors shake as well as swinging chandeliers.

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Input: Bernie Sanders Bernie SandersMechanic: Baseball field shooter ranted about Trump before attack Senate Democrats pressure GOP to hold healthcare hearings Georgia GOP district chairman: Shooting will win us the special election MORE won a huge upset in Michigan on Tuesday night, giving his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination a jolt of momentum even as Donald Trump Donald TrumpOvernight Regulation: Trump focus turns to scrapping regs | FTC moves to block fantasy sports merger | Pelosi wants net neutrality hearing in San Francisco Trump calls out Ossoff for living outside of Georgia district CNN's Acosta: Spicer is ' kind of useless ' MORE tightened his grip on the Republican nomination by scoring victories in Michigan, Mississippi and Hawaii. Entering Tuesday, not one public poll had shown Sanders leading in Michigan, and most had him down by double-digits, creating expectations that Hillary Clinton Hillary Rodham ClintonTHE MEMO: For Trump, danger signs in the polls McAuliffe touts buildup of cyber defenses in the states Senate GOP shifts focus to Lynch MORE would cruise to victory. ADVERTISEMENT But Sanders took the lead from the moment polls closed in the state and never let go.

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Input: You're one of his closest advisers — what are you, personally, the most proud of this campaign? I can't claim credit for this: My daughter told me about Oak Flat, and then we had a meeting in Arizona — a rally — and a 14-year -old girl stood up and talked about the sacred site. I went to Flagstaff around the same time, and met with the Navajo Nation, met with the Apache-Stronghold, and came back and talked to Bernie about all this and said," We have to do something, we have to do something." And he said," OK." And since then, we met [with Native Americans] every single time we could. We have the strongest Native American platform.

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Input: As Hillary Clinton supporters fret about a WikiLeaks “October surprise,” dozens of defense and security experts from both parties are urging the Obama administration to take tough action if it concludes that Russia orchestrated a series of cyberattacks on the Democratic Party. But based on past U.S. handling of foreign-sponsored cyberassaults, it could take months or even years to mount such a response — action that could encompass anything from public shaming or economic sanctions to indictments or retaliatory hacking. Even the most optimistic timeline, according to interviews with former security and law enforcement officials, could delay a forceful U.S. reprisal until just weeks before the very presidential election that the hackers may be trying to influence.

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Input: Key Names / Issues: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Mike Pence, Bernie Sanders, Jill Stein, Gary Johnson, Kellyanne Conway, Michelle Obama, Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Deval Patrick, Affordable Care Act, Great Recession, economic recovery, terrorism, Iraq / Afghanistan, climate change, race relations, Electoral College, Trump transition efforts, conflict of interest, ISIS, Washington DC, immigration, Russian hacking, Oct. 26, 2016 National Issues Poll with USA TODAY October 26, 2016 Poll Documents: Marginals (PDF) Tables (PDF) Press Release: Poll Shows Clinton Leading Trump by 9 Points Nationwide Paleologos on the Poll: Clinton's ' Electoral Sledgehammer ' and More Potential Superlatives Statement of Methodology: This survey of 1,000 likely voters was conducted between October 20 and October 24, 2016, and is based on live telephone interviews of adults 18 years of age or older, residing in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, who intend to vote in the general election in November 2016. Quota and demographic information -- including region, race, and age -- were determined from 2010 Census data. Samples of both standard landlines and cell phones were called using a probability-proportionate-to-size method, which means that the phone numbers assigned to each state were proportional to the number of adult residents in each state.

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Input: “POLITICAL DECISION” “Whether the U.S. extradites Gulen or not this will be a political decision,” Bozdag said. “If he is not extradited, Turkey will have been sacrificed for a terrorist.” A recent opinion poll showed two thirds of Turks agree with their president that Gulen was behind the coup plot. Turkey has been holding almost daily mass rallies since July 15 in support of democracy and the government and against the plotters.

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Input: It added that the net economic effects would probably be "negative and substantial". But economists for the Brexit campaign said the consensus that a UK exit would be bad for the economy was "based on flawed EU-centric models". Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused UK Prime Minister David Cameron of holding the referendum to "blackmail" and "scare" Europe, and France's economy minister says Britain would become as significant as Guernsey if it voted to leave. ' Substantial Brexit costs ' There are five days to go until the UK votes on whether to stay in or leave the European Union on 23 June.

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Input: “With all due respect to Ethiopia, I do n’t know of any contributions that Ethiopia has made to the making of America.” Story Continued Below President Lyndon Johnson, hoping to tamp down concerns about the immigration act at a time when Congress was engaged in an even more ferocious debate over the voting rights act, sought to downplay the implications of the proposed immigration law: “This bill that we will sign today is not a revolutionary bill,” he said upon signing it. The president, like many other of the law’s supporters, sincerely believed that Europeans were most likely to take advantage of less stringent U.S. immigration policy. He was wrong.

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