Input: Transportation officials are urging carpool and teleworking as options to combat an expected flood of drivers on the road. (Paul Duggan) -- A Baltimore prosecutor accused a police detective of “sabotaging” investigations related to the death of Freddie Gray, accusing him of fabricating notes to suggest that the state’s medical examiner believed the manner of death was an accident rather than a homicide. The heated exchange came in the chaotic sixth day of the trial of Baltimore Officer Caesar Goodson Jr., who drove the police van in which Gray suffered a fatal spine injury in 2015. (Derek Hawkins and Lynh Bui)

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Input: 2014: ISIS marches into Raqqa and makes it the capital of the caliphate. Foto: Uncredited The two Syrian women who we shall call Om Omran and Om Mohammad, which are not their real names, were willing to wear Expressen's hidden cameras, which have been smuggled in." We want the world to know," they say. Over the course of several weeks, they have documented life in the completely isolated city of al-Raqqah.

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Input: People who had just arrived at the airport in Istanbul after the blasts were pictured running as they tried to flee the scene Desperate passengers embrace as they gather in shock outside the terminal after the airport was evacuated and all flights were grounded Twelve months after that, he was found in Georgia, in the Lopota mountain valley following a battle between police and rebels which saw three policeman and 11 rebels killed. Chataev was injured and later detained-but said he had nothing to do with it. Chataev is also said to have led Chechen Islamist Doku Umarov's armed underground movement of Northern Caucasus from Turkey-perfectly placing him to plan an attack like Tuesday's.

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Input: Here she will sit, as she has for the past 18 years, turning a dial right while countless images zoom past. “I'm looking for a W,” she says. The images are the color of asphalt, and the writing on them looks like tiny pebbles, and they whiz by so fast, I begin to get actual car sickness. I ask her how she can possibly read anything moving this fast. “I'm looking for a W,” she says, picking up a magnifying glass and leaning in toward the upper left of the screen.

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Input: US Navy ships in the eastern Mediterranean were prepared to launch Tomahawk cruise missiles in a limited strike to cripple the regime. Russia deployed a separate air defense system, the S-400, to Syria after a Russian jet was shot down by a Turkish warplane last November. Since the S-400 deployment, the U.S. military has been careful about flying manned aircraft inside the range of the system, despite repeated pledges by the US military that its airstrikes in Syria are focused on ISIS, not the Assad regime. Monday, the Pentagon announced it conducted an airstrike potentially killing a “prominent” al-Qaeda linked operative in Syria. Officials said they were still assessing the strike and have not released the name of their target.

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Input: Armenians say up to 1.5 million of their people died in the atrocities of 1915, during the Ottoman Empire's collapse in World War One. Turkey says the toll was much lower and rejects the term "genocide". Armenian genocide dispute Image copyright AFP Image caption Arguments have raged for decades about the Armenian deaths in 1915-16 Hundreds of thousands of Christian Armenians died in 1915 at the hands of the Ottoman Turks, whose empire was disintegrating

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Input: I was shocked that I was n’t accepted like an ordinary person. I am very upset that today again so many countries are closing their borders. Fewer people would have died in the Holocaust if the world had accepted more Jewish refugees. Daily Emails and Alerts- Get the best of Newsweek delivered to your inbox Britain is not taking many refugees from Syria and it’s a problem.

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Input: 6:10 p.m. UVA Student Detained in North Korea Has Died Otto Warmbier came back to the United States last week in a coma, after being imprisoned in North Korea for 17 months. 4:58 p.m. Trump Brags About 100-Year -Old Canal He Did n’t Build to Panamanian President

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Input: Stephens I think answered for a lot of us here at RedState as to why that’s not really a very persuasive line of argument: HH: I wrote at great length yesterday what he has to do. But if it’s a binary choice, is there any reason to believe that Hillary Clinton, after Egypt, Libya, Syria, her failure to negotiate the status of forces agreement, her Russian reset, the fact that the Russian have every one of her emails for five years, if you believe Mike Morell, is there any reason to believe she would be different than President Obama? BS: No, I think she’s going to be a continuation of President Obama. People seem to be under the impression that I’m crazy about Hillary.

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Input: On a Friday in 1985, Christopher Lehman left his job at the National Security Council. The following Monday, he was flying with Manafort, his new boss, to the bush of Angola to pitch the Chinese-trained guerilla Jonas Savimbi, who wanted covert assistance from the U.S. to bolster his rebellion against Angola’s Marxist government. Savimbi briefly left a battle against Cuban assault forces and signed a $ 600,000 contract. The money bought Savimbi a revised reputation. Despite his client’s Maoist background, Manafort reinvented him as a freedom fighter.

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Input: “I think we were a very powerful, very wealthy country, and we are a poor country now. We’re a debtor nation.” Trump’s foreign policy team is led by Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions and includes retired General J. Keith Kellogg, Walid Phares, George Papadopoulos, Carter Page, and Joseph E. Schmitz. Papadopoulos previously worked at the Hudson Institute, a conservative think-tank in Washington that is often critical of Russia and its leadership, while Page was a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations focusing on the Caspian Sea region and the economic development in former Soviet states, according to the Post.

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Input: The Clinton Foundation, which continued to accept foreign donations even while the former secretary of State prepared to run for office, has raised a new round of scrutiny. The campaign has been forced to address a slew of stories including a Wall Street Journal report that the Clintons used the Foundation to help their friends; an International Business Times report that the State Department under Clinton approved increased arms sales to governments that had donated to the Foundation; revelations about the millions of dollars Bill Clinton has collected from Foundation donors; and the release of emails detailing the two-day appointment to a sensitive State position of Rajiv Fernando, a Foundation donor who stepped down after ABC News started asking about his qualifications. And The New York Times reported that then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton played a role in approving the sale of a uranium company to Russia while the head of the company secretly donated more than $ 2 million to the Clinton Foundation. The State Department said she was not personally involved. That donation was n’t disclosed, a violation of the ethics agreement the foundation struck with the Obama administration.

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Input: Why whitewash Putin when the Russian leader is threatening our European allies and committing war crimes in Syria? Does Trump's dream of real estate deals in Moscow blind him to Moscow's deeds? This week, a Dutch-led investigation concluded that the surface-to-air missile system used to shoot down a Malaysia Airlines civilian plane over Ukraine in 2014 came from Russia. Last week, Russian aircraft (or their Syrian allies bombed a U.N. humanitarian convoy entering Aleppo. There was no "fog of war"; the convoy's arrival had been cleared with the Syrian government and the convoy was clearly marked.

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Input: So she damn well knows that a “born classified” document is secret “when originated.” Markings or no markings, she understands that the confidential views of foreign leaders, reports from ambassadors, and updates on arms-control talks are all state secrets. Clinton’s flimsy claim never to have handled e-mails labeled classified imploded recently when an e-mail sent June 17, 2011, became public. That morning, Clinton’s aide Jacob Sullivan informed her that a document could not reach her via a secure fax. No sweat! Clinton replied, “.

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Input: But like the Syrian army, the rebels spoke of returning to the battlefield. The coordinator of Syria's main opposition group said on Monday the ceasefire never took hold and called on the world to put an end to the "criminality" of the Syrian government." There was no ceasefire to begin with for us to say whether it failed or succeeded," Riad Hijab, general coordinator of the High Negotiations Committee, told reporters. Aid was delivered to the besieged town of Talbiseh in Homs province on Monday, the Red Cross said, for the first time since July. The convoy brought in food, water and hygiene supplies for up to 84,000 people, it said.

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Input: More than half the people outside government who met with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state gave to the Clinton Foundation, the Associated Press reported Aug. 23. At least 85 of 154 from private interests donated as much as $ 156 million to the foundation, AP said. Some large donors are foreigners with shadowy pasts, such as Lebanese businessman Gilbert Chagoury, who was denied entry to the U.S. last year because of suspicion of links to terrorism. Sixteen foreign governments donated up to $ 170 million after their representatives had meetings with Secretary Clinton, the AP reported. “Why did the Saudi regime and other Gulf tyrannies donate millions to the Clinton Foundation?” wondered left-wing journalist Glenn Greenwald.

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Input: The MiG-29 K aircraft are also expected to serve on the homemade aircraft carrier INS Vikrant, which is still under construction. Arun Prakash, who served as chief of the Indian Naval Staff, evaluated the aircraft in 1999 before the purchase from Russia. The retired admiral said:" There are the only two fighters — MiG-29 K and Sukhoi-33 — in the world capable of operations from a Short Take-Off But Arrested Recovery, a system used for the launch and recovery of aircraft from the deck of an aircraft carrier like INS Vikramaditya. There is no better fighter available to replace the MiG-29K." However, Prakash is highly critical of what he called the "lethargy" by the Russians in the manufacturing and maintenance of the aircraft.

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Input: — Bruce Haynes (@BrucePurple) September 27, 2016 “She’s got experience, but it’s bad experience,” Trump summarized of his opponent, while Clinton said Trump is a fake who she’s glad her late window-drape-manufacturing father never entered into business with due to Trump’s purportedly fraudulent ways. Going hard for the fear vote, Clinton urged voters to cast a ballot “as if your future depends on it — because it really does.” During the Republican primary debates Trump’s commanding screen presence and cascade of biting one-liners grabbed the biggest applause, boos and attention, often leading to him being regarded as the winner. In an e-mail sent out Sept. 23 prior to the presidential debate Hillary Clinton accused Trump of “making good TV but not good arguments,” during the primaries and of being “graded on a curve” by pundits.

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Input: Yet Hillary will ruthlessly eliminate abortion restrictions. She indicated that her limit is “up until the third trimester,” but Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser believes this rhetoric signals that Clinton would allow abortion right up until birth. Not only will Hillary defend abortion, but she wants these deaths fully reimbursed by taxpayers. Instead of “safe, legal and rare,” the killing of unborn children will be convenient, widespread and free. The Democratic platform demands the repeal of the Hyde Amendment.

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Input: The Pentagon is mostly funneling resources to Kurdish troops in northern Syria, while the CIA is providing TOW missiles to rebel groups from its base of operations out of Turkey. Kurdish troops are mainly focused on taking out the Islamic State, but the CIA is covertly keeping the pressure on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Both groups are now skirmishing as they close in on Aleppo. Playing chess in Syria is n’t going according to Washington’s plans. After a wildly successful air campaign against rebel groups, the Russians have largely pulled their forces out of the region, leaving only key air support assets to support Damascus.

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Input: They had told themselves that WikiLeaks would be the deus ex machina of this election, exposing Clinton as a treasonous devil and delivering the White House, and all its broad powers, into the transgressive hands of Donald Trump. Now, having promised themselves scandalous gold, they re-imagine every dull pebble in the pan as a shimmering nugget. Americans for Tax Reform, an organization devoted to using the tax code to preserve and enhance the financial interests of the wealthy, packaged a leaked e-mail on gun regulation -- ATR leader Grover Norquist sits on the board of the National Rifle Association -- with a video that the group had unearthed of Clinton testifying on guns in 1993. “On April 14, 2016,” the press release stated, “ATR released previously unseen video footage from a non-C-SPAN camera showing Hillary’s visceral facial expression” as then Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey discussed a proposed gun tax. Not only is the video footage “previously unseen,” it emanated from a “non-C-SPAN camera.” Ooh-la-la.

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Input: Unease over illegal immigration also has stoked today’s fear that the government no longer belongs to the people, and it’s important to understand the separate but mutually reinforcing ways that it has done so. Once again, President Obama has made a bad situation worse — this time, by his contemptuous refusal to execute the laws faithfully. His catch-and-release policy for illegal border-crossers, as well as his ban on deporting young aliens brought here by their illegal-immigrant parents, are imperial, antidemocratic edicts that might have sparked impeachment proceedings, had not Congress’s silly move to impeach Bill Clinton for lying about his sex games with an intern tainted that weapon for years to come. The result of Obama’s diktat, as contrary to the spirit of the Founders’ Constitution as is the Administrative State, is that law-abiding taxpayers must pay for the kids’ welfare support, health care, and schooling — as they already do for “anchor babies” born to mothers who have sneaked over the U.S. border for the purpose of having a child eligible for “child-only” welfare benefits, scarcely less than ordinary welfare payments and vastly more than the income of Central American peasant families. No American voted to incur these costs, which, if current trends continue, are likely to persist for several generations of such families, so they amount to taxation without representation as naked as George III’s.

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Input: [Hundreds attend vigil for slain DNC staffer] Rich was shot twice in the back as he walked to his townhouse about 4:20 a.m. Nothing was taken, but police have said attempted robbery is their leading theory for a motive, noting a spike in robberies in the neighborhood in the preceding weeks. WikiLeaks released the trove of emails later that month, on July 22. Rich, 27, had worked for the DNC for two years and helped develop a computer program to make it easier for people to find polling places on Election Day.

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Input: The former secretary of state’s campaign blamed pneumonia for the incident after video of Secret Service agents lifting her into a van was posted online. “She was put on antibiotics and advised to rest and modify her schedule,” Dr. Lisa Bardack, Mrs. Clinton’s physician, said in a statement at the time. “While at this morning’s event, she became overheated and dehydrated. I have just examined her and she is now re-hydrated and recovering nicely.” Mrs. Clinton, 68, suffered a concussion after fainting inside her home in December 2012.

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Input: Investors in the deal made big donations to the Clinton Foundation, but “at least two years before the deal,” Politifact reports. And there is no evidence that Clinton was given a payment for the deal.) 9.Falsely said, “Crooked Hillary was given the questions to a debate. Right. You saw that.” (Clinton appears to have been given one question, not questions plural, to a CNN town hall during the Democratic primary, not a debate.)

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Input: “For the Pentagon to so blatantly follow the White House’s politics first approach is a depressing commentary on this administration’s utter disregard for our national security needs,” he said in a statement. Rep. Joe Wilson Joe WilsonOPINION: We must reject toxic rhetoric after violence in Virginia Labor Department falters on fiduciary rule House lawmakers pitch ban on North Korean tourism MORE (R-S.C.) said he was disappointed as a veteran. “As the son of a veteran, the father of four sons who have served in the military, and a veteran myself, I am deeply disappointed that our commander in chief would threaten to use a veto of the National Defense Authorization Act as a ‘weapon’ against Speaker Paul Ryan and congressional Republicans,” he said in a statement. Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-Ala.) said the memo is part of the administration’s history of politicizing defense issues. “The Obama administration has a track record of using our military men and women as pawns in their political game, but this memo makes clear they have no shame in doing so,” he said in a statement.

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Input: A large part of the success this diplomatic solution was due to Clinton successfully convincing both China and Russia to join the United States in its calls for stricter sanctions against Iran. These sanctions were approved by the UN Security Council in June of 2010 in what President Barack Obama called "the toughest sanctions ever faced by the Iranian government." By getting these sanctions in place and despite constant fear mongering and war cries from neo-Conservatives, Iran eventually did come to the negotiating table and the Obama administration was able to work out its historic Iran Deal in a case where diplomacy proved to be the correct course of action. And lastly, we would be remiss not to mention Hillary Clinton's involvement in opening up Cuba, something that has only now come to light. The reason, again, is that sometimes the seeds of democracy take several years to bloom.

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Input: Let me say a few more words about this. Snowden has long claimed that he took an oath to “support and defend the Constitution” (see here and here), and he has implied that he was fulfilling this oath when he stole and distributed the documents. “The oath of allegiance is not an oath of secrecy,” he told Bart Gellman. “That is an oath to the Constitution. That is the oath that I kept that Keith Alexander and James Clapper did not.” Let’s assume that Snowden is right that his oath to the Constitution trumps his employment agreement secrecy duties (but see here; cf.

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Input: U.S. investigators filed a final report that concluded its co-pilot switched off the autopilot and pointed the Boeing 767 downward. But Egyptian officials rejected the notion of suicide altogether, insisting some mechanical reason caused the crash. In March, an EgyptAir plane was hijacked and diverted to Cyprus. A man who admitted to the hijacking and was described by Cypriot authorities as "psychologically unstable" is in custody. Fox News ' Greg Palkot, Lucas Tomlinson, Catherine Herridge and The Associated Press contributed to this report

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Input: Donald Trump’s real estate organization rented New York office space from 1998 to 2003 to an Iranian bank that U.S. authorities have linked to terrorist groups and Iran’s nuclear program. Trump inherited Bank Melli, one of Iran’s largest state-controlled banks, as a tenant when he purchased the General Motors Building on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, according to public records reviewed by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and the Center for Public Integrity. The Trump Organization kept the bank on as a tenant for four more years after the U.S. Treasury Department designated Bank Melli in 1999 as being controlled by the Iranian government.

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Input: As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton was a hawk on the Iranian nuclear issue. In 2009-2010, when Iran first indicated a willingness to compromise, she led the opposition to any negotiated settlement and pushed for punishing sanctions. To clear the route for sanctions, Clinton helped sink agreements tentatively negotiated with Iran to ship most of its low-enriched uranium out of the country. In 2009, Iran was refining uranium only to the level of about 3-4 percent, as needed for energy production. Its negotiators offered to swap much of that for nuclear isotopes for medical research.

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Input: There is a unanimous opinion that gay “conversion therapy” should be rejected Let’s first be clear that whatever the origins of our sexual orientation, there is a unanimous opinion that gay “conversion therapy” should be rejected. These efforts are potentially harmful, according to the APA, “because they present the view that the sexual orientation of lesbian, gay and bisexual youth is a mental illness of disorder, and they often frame the inability to change one’s sexual orientation as a personal and moral failure.” Little wonder these therapies have been shown to provoke anxiety, depression and even suicide. In other words, the question of the efficacy of conversion therapies is a non-issue. We condemn these efforts not just because we do n’t think they work — perhaps anyone could be tortured into liking or disliking anything?

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Input: The media protects Hillary! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 14, 2016 Trump’s selection of Manafort, the man who has made a career teaching dictators how to win elections, is a brazen statement about where Trump stands ideologically, and what he’s willing to do to win. Nobody haphazardly hires Paul Manafort. More than anything, Manafort's involvement in a campaign serves as a smoke signal to communicate his client's desperation, and should serve as a serious warning to both the political competition and the people.

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Input: Advertisement Top secret information is another matter, but the stuff that showed up in Clinton’s private email was n’t so special. Seven of the eight email chains dealt with CIA drone strikes, which are classified top secret / special access program — unlike Defense Department drone strikes, which are unclassified. The difference is that CIA drones hit targets in countries, like Pakistan and Yemen, where we are not officially at war; they are part of covert operations. (Defense Department drone strikes are in places where we are officially at war.)

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Input: QUICK DOWNLOADS WikiLeaks says it has access to NSA source code and will be posting it for free, unlike an outfit known as the “Shadow Brokers” that had announced plans to auction off code they allegedly stole. Univision won the bidding auction for Gawker and will buy all seven of the company’s media properties for $ 135 million. Pay TV providers posted their highest subscriber loss ever in this year’s second quarter, with cable, satellite and telecom companies losing at least 665,000 subscribers, reports CNET. Sens.

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Input: The self-described “gray hat” hacker who calls himself “Jester” hacked the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs website Friday night. His message: “Stop attacking Americans,” according to CNNMoney. Anyone who visited the Ministry website after the hack first heard the intentionally loud, annoying, attention-demanding dial tone sound that plays just before American emergency broadcast civil alert messages. Jester’s letter to the Ministry displayed in full on the site’s homepage. The letter, which no longer appears on the site but was still visible Saturday, went into detail about the activities to which The Jester objected.

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Input: She later urged direct U.S. military intervention in the form of a "no-fly" zone. Clinton backed NATO expansion up to Russia's borders, a policy guaranteed to poison bilateral relations. She further advocated including both Ukraine and Georgia, which would turn their next confrontation with Moscow into a potential nuclear war involving America. After leaving office she made the overwrought comparison of Russia's annexation of Crimea with Nazi Germany and supported military aid to Ukraine, which would encourage Moscow to escalate accordingly. Of her belligerent record Trump observed:" Sometimes it seemed like there wasn't a country in the Middle East that Hillary Clinton didn't want to invade, intervene in, or topple."

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Input: Several officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss Russian capabilities and recent high-level White House meetings on Syria, Iraq and the Islamic State, including a Friday gathering of the National Security Council chaired by President Obama. The NSC session largely focused on the Mosul offensive begun against the Islamic State this week, and an upcoming operation against the militants in the city of Raqqa, their Syrian headquarters. Consideration of other alternatives, including the shipment of arms to U.S.-allied Kurdish forces in Syria, and an increase in the quantity and quality of weapons supplied to opposition fighters in Aleppo and elsewhere, were deferred until later, officials said. U.S. military action to stop Syrian and Russian bombing of civilians was even further down the list of possibilities. Another senior official dismissed what he called Moscow’s “yard sale approach” of displaying all available systems to attract potential purchasers, and said last month’s S-300 deployment did not much change Russian capabilities from where they have been over the past year.

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Input: The result was a spectacular expansion of the Administrative State, with some 150 new agencies and commissions created; no one knows the exact number. And these agencies purposely removed the Administrative State even further from government by the people. One agency, the Independent Payment Advisory Board — the so-called death panel — is so democratically unaccountable that Congress can only abolish it by a three-fifths vote in both houses within a seven-month period next year. After that, the law bars Congress from altering any of the board’s edicts, a provision as far from democratic self-government as you can get. When the administration finally confronted the financial crisis, lengthened by Obamacare’s disincentives to hiring, its reflex response was to expand the Administrative State still further with the Dodd-Frank Act, named for its two legislative sponsors, both of whom had been in bed with the mortgage racket, one figuratively and one literally.

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Input: Cruz and other critics had argued the transfer could lead to authoritarian countries taking control of the internet and eventually censoring content throughout the world." Imagine an internet run like many Middle Eastern countries that punish what they deem to be blasphemy," Cruz said at a congressional hearing on September 14." Or imagine an internet run like China or Russia that punish and incarcerate those who engage in political dissent." "When ICANN escapes from [US] government authority," Cruz said," ICANN escapes from having to worry about the First Amendment, from having to worry about protecting your rights or my rights." But ICANN said such fears were uninformed.

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Input: At night we would walk the vibrant, well-lit, happy streets of West Berlin until we passed through the Brandenburg Gate to the recently opened Soviet puppet-run East Berlin. It was like walking into a dismal, dark world of soulless economic and spiritual ennui. Russian soldiers I met who were still stationed there had one request: “We want to go to America.” This was just three years after your candidate chose to spend his honeymoon in the very Soviet Union that had inflicted such misery upon these hapless soliders of the imprisoned Eastern Block under the guise of a “worker’s paradise.” As wonderful and utopian as it sounds (who does n’t like free stuff?) socialism just does n’t work.

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Input: The IBD poll was not the most accurate poll in the last election.) 13. Falsely said, “Everybody had me winning the third debate.” (False. Trump lost in every scientific poll.) 14.

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Input: Inside the house, the FSB’s special forces detained 53 young men, at least one of whom was promoting the Islamic State terror group online. 50 + detained, explosives found in illegal prayer hall in southern Russia-reports https://t.co/0yvq4m81MBpic.twitter.com/UesK4V9FRk — RT (@RT_com) April 29, 2016 According to an FSB source, the arrests made at the illegal prayer hall triggered a series of house raids, which helped uncover more explosives, handguns, grenades and ammo. The same source said other known members of that particular Salafi community are currently fighting in Syria for the jihadists.

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Input: Trump proposes a 45 percent punitive tariff on China that will surely exacerbate tensions with that major power, and says he wants to bolster U.S. military forces in the tense South China Sea to give the United States a stronger bargaining position. Clinton may or may not ignore the terms of the Iran nuclear deal and use sanctions to try to extract further concessions from Iran. Trump has said his “number-one priority is to dismantle the disastrous deal with Iran.” The Republican platform says they do n’t recognize the agreement as binding. Trump has called for building up the U.S. military and accused Obama of allowing the U.S. nuclear arsenal to “atrophy.”” The Trump doctrine is simple,” declared The Donald. “It’s strength.

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Input: We just don't want to see it creep back up. We've had 25 years of very good cooperation." The Daily Wire debunked this, as the FBI recently released a report showing that violent crime increased by 3.9 percent from 2014 to 2015, including a 10.8 percent increase in murders, 5.8 percent increase in rapes and 4.6 percent increase in aggravated assaults. Clinton used 1991 as the baseline year to hide the recent increase in violent crime. 5.

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Input: AFP PHOTO Chris KLEPONIS (Photo credit should read CHRIS KLEPONIS / AFP / Getty Images) AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND-AUGUST 01: The United States Secretary of State, The Honourable Madeleine Albright, Hongi's (traditional Maori greeting) with Ngati Whatua's (people of the land) Eriapa Uruamo during her welcome to New Zealand at the Auckland War Memorial Museum on Saturday, August 1, 1998. (Photo by Phil Walter / Getty Images) French President Jacques Chirac (L) kisses US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's hand as he greets her 10 December before their meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris. Albright is later to sign a treaty boosting cooperation between France and the United States on legal matters including extradition, French and US officials announced. (Photo credit should read GERARD FOUET / AFP / GettyImages) WASHINGTON,: US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright points to a globe during her testimony 10 February to members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Albright testified about the State Department budget and other issues.

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Input: Detectives from the Ukrainian National Anti-Corruption Bureau have said that a further ten entries bring the total amount of payments designated for Mr Manafort to $ 12.7 million Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images Fresh details of alleged secret payments allocated for Paul Manafort by the pro-Russian party of Ukraine’s former president have emerged after 12 itemised regime accounting entries, totalling $ 7.61 million, were obtained by The Times. The payments designated for the man who would later become Donald Trump’s campaign chief were detailed in the “black” accounting ledger of Viktor Yanukovych’s ousted regime. The ledger was used to record $ 2 billion allegedly handed out “under the table” to political consultants, election commissioners, ministers, parliamentarians, judges and journalists from 2007 to 2012, according to Ukrainian investigators. Officers believe the money was taken from a clandestine cash reserve made up of bribes paid to party officials, but have yet to prove their theory.

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Input: As members of Congress, it our constitutional duty to provide oversight on behalf of the American people. In order to provide accurate information for our constituents we request that a briefing be made available to Congress as soon as possible to answer the following questions: At any point during the firefight did the current rules of engagement restrict the immediate use of assets on hand? Has there been any consideration in altering the current rules of engagement to be less restrictive in the future? Did the U.S. or ANDSF have any air assets available in the region to support the forces that were engaged on the ground?

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Input: The IG report also said Clinton, who was secretary of State from January 2009 to February 2013, “had an obligation” to discuss her email system with security and information technology officials, but she did not and, if she had, the request would have been denied. Clinton said “turning over my server” to the government shows “I have been as transparent as I could” about her emails. But she did so in August of 2015 after the FBI opened an investigation. Five months earlier, she rejected calls to turn over the server to a neutral party, saying “the server will remain private.” Clinton has said that previous “secretaries of State” did the “same thing” in using personal emails for government business.

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Input: “That leaves us in a very vulnerable position,” says Peter Piot, the director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. If yellow fever did take hold in Asia, he says, then the numbers at immediate risk would rise from tens of millions to 100 m or more. The world’s emergency stockpile of 11 m doses, which is held on top of normal supply to enable a rapid response to outbreaks, is already being depleted to control the one in Africa. If the disease takes hold in Asia, says William Perea of the WHO, there would be little choice but to limit inoculations to a fifth of a standard dose so as to make supplies of the vaccine stretch further. Small studies give reason to hope that this would protect adults, but the efficacy of a low dose for children is unknown.

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Input: emerged on news outlets on Wednesday after a report revealed that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had bribed the choosy lawmakers of the Republican Party so as to kill the accord. Cotton received $ 960,250 from the Emergency Committee for Israel, a right-wing political advocacy organization based in the United States, for his senatorial campaign. As the negotiations were continuing in March 2015, the freshman senator spearheaded an open letter, signed by 47 Republican lawmakers, to warn Iran that a GOP president would not remain committed to any agreement with Tehran. “I’m pretty sure Bill Kristol (the owner of the Emergency Committee for Israel) did write this letter,” American geopolitical commentator Dean Henderson told Press TV at the time. Kristol has been notorious for backing Israel and as a leading proponent of US military intervention in Muslim countries, including the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, in order to further the Zionist interests.

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Input: (CNN) When comparing yourself to world leaders or historical figures, there are perhaps less controversial choices than Adolf Hitler. Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday likened himself to the Nazi leader, saying he wants to kill millions of drug addicts, just as Hitler killed Jews during the Holocaust." Hitler massacred 3 million Jews. Now there is 3 million, what is it, 3 million drug addicts (in the Philippines), there are," he said in a speech in his hometown of Davao City.

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Input: The statement was part of medical information Clinton's campaign released Wednesday after her pneumonia diagnosis last week. The campaign says that Clinton's physician found that the remainder of the Democratic presidential nominee's complete physical exam was "normal" and she is in "excellent mental condition." Dr. Lisa Bardack adds that Clinton is "recovering well with antibiotics and rest" after she became overheated, dehydrated and felt dizzy at a 9/11 memorial ceremony on Sunday. Clinton's aides say she'll return to the campaign trail on Thursday. _ _ _

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Input: The statement added: “The coalition airstrike was halted immediately when coalition officials were informed by Russian officials that it was possible the personnel and vehicles targeted were part of the Syrian military.” Centcom said the coalition had struck the area in the past, and that its members had “earlier informed Russian counterparts of the upcoming strike”. “It is not uncommon for the Coalition Air Operations Center to confer with Russian officials as a professional courtesy and to deconflict,” the command center said, “although such contact is not required by the current US-Russia Memorandum of Understanding on safety of flight.” The statement added that “coalition forces would not intentionally strike a known Syrian military unit” and that they would “review this strike and the circumstances surrounding it to see if any lessons can be learned”. The US and Russia last week brokered a controversial ceasefire that made provisions for joint strikes on jihadi militants, even though the Kremlin stands accused of killing 2,000 civilians in six months of strikes.

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Input: The essence of democracy is not to criminalize political differences. That’s something that Trump does not seem to understand. It seems appropriate, then, that during the rest of the debate — while desperately trying to deflect attention from the “pussygate” scandal that has crippled his campaign — Trump alternatively expressed his admiration for dictators and emulated their “Big Lie” techniques for winning and keeping power. If we needed any more evidence, the debate showed just what an unprincipled power-seeker Trump is — how he is willing to say or do anything, to cross any line, to violate any norm of civilized behavior, in order to feed his insatiable ego. He came across as the kind of unscrupulous demagogue that has imperiled other democracies and that the United States has not seen since the heyday of Huey Long and George Wallace.

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Input: Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump calls Baltimore prosecutor Marilyn Mosby a "disgrace," following news that all charges would be dropped against the remaining Baltimore police officers in the Freddie Gray case. (Reuters) TRUMP: I do have a reaction to the prosecutor in Baltimore who indicted those police officers, I do. I think she ought to prosecute herself OK? That's my reaction.

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Input: Except sound bytes." When asked if she had any response to the New York Daily News report on Trump's remarks, the former secretary of state emailed CNN:" Can't wait until November 9!" -- Trump’s alleged misconduct has started a national conversation about sexual assault. From Katie Zezima: “The debate has been particularly painful for many victims of sexual assault, who now must endure nonstop coverage of allegations of groping and kissing without consent — along with backlash against the women who made the claims about Trump. But in the 2016 presidential election, the issue has become sharply divided along partisan lines, including claims by some Trump allies that the behavior described by Trump’s accusers … might not be considered assault.

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Input: Australian team members were now being told to wear casual clothing, rather than their Australian team outfits, outside their hotels, to hide their accreditation and to walk in groups of three or more." They seem to be picking off people in ones or twos," Tancred said. In the week leading up to the Games, a cycling official had a laptop stolen and thieves took some Zika-protective shirts when Australian athletes were evacuated from their rooms in the athletes ' village during a fire.

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Input: Initial reports by the organization claimed the convoy had been targeted by an airstrike. Russia denied the allegations, citing the destruction levels of the affected vehicles. “There are no craters, while the vehicles have their chassis intact and they have not been severely damaged, which would have been the case from an airstrike,” Konashenkov said. On Tuesday, the UN also retreated from its claims that the convoy was hit by military planes." We are not in a position to determine whether these were in fact airstrikes.

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Input: ... You find out that sometimes I'm not the best on technology and things like that." Her professed naivete collides with a set of now-disclosed 2011 emails. Aide Jake Sullivan, who's trying to send her a message — we don't know its sensitivity — tells her that staffers "say they've had issues sending secure fax. They're working on it." Clinton's reply:" If they can't, turn into nonpaper w no identifying heading and send nonsecure."

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Input: We expect our allies to back us on this, and not to support coup plotters if they were involved," the official said." UNFORTUNATE FAREWELL" Colleagues of those recalled and arrested suspect they are accused of being part of the military faction that seized bridges and roads and attacked Turkey's parliament on July 15. However, they say no charges have been made and no explanation given. They deny any wrongdoing.

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Input: Throughout the 90's and 00's, NATO continued to expand its operations, accept new member countries, and analyze new tactics. This year they officially recognized cyber warfare as an action of war, which could trigger member countries to come to the aid of others. Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, the section compelling member nations to provide aid, was invoked for the first time in the history of the organization in the wake of 9/11. NATO countries took over anti-terrorism operations in Afghanistan, and later spread to Iraq as well. More recently, in 2011, NATO was swept into controversy when it began an 8 month bombing campaign in Libya during its uprising.

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Input: But it will be too late for at least 23 men, women and children who have already starved to death, while photos show emaciated people resorting to eating leaves and grass in desperate attempts to stay alive. Madaya, a former holiday resort in mountains near the Lebanese border, has been under siege by the Syrian army and allies from the Lebanese Hezbollah militia for six months. Around 40,000 people remain trapped and reliant on next week’s shipment of food and medical supplies. Weakened, cold and starving to death in Syrian town As part of the pact, aid will also be allowed into the nearby town of Zabadani, which is also under siege, and Kefraya and Fua-two villages in Idlib province that have been surrounded by Islamist rebels since March.

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Input: 42/42 1 June 2017 French riot police signal to a migrant who is on his knees as French authorites block their access to a food distribution point in Calais, France REUTERS / Pascal Rossignol They said that on that basis, Pietro L’s sentence should be overturned without further deliberation. Similar cases around the world have raised eyebrows in recent years, including that of a Swedish man caught masturbating on a beach on Stockholm, who was acquitted of sexual assault on the basis his actions were not directed towards a specific person. In the UK, the standard sentence for masturbation in public is around 14 days in prison, though it can vary based on a range of circumstantial factors. The crime appears to based on Section 28 of the Town Police Clauses Act 1847, which states it is an offence for anyone to "wilfully and indecently" expose his "person" in a street or public place.

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Input: Tuvalu was once a pristine beauty spot. But the island lacks the infrastructure to dispose of the plastic it imports, which has become a serious hazard for the local population." People were just throwing plastic outside," says Ruxton." They were drowning in the stuff, and trying to burn it. There was a constant pall of black smoke, and people were always exposed to the gases that come out when you burn plastic, including two very scary ones that have been linked to cancer, dioxins and furans."

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Input: "The willingness to use government power to eliminate the threats — that is most clear among Trump supporters." Authoritarians generally and Trump voters specifically, we found, were highly likely to support five policies: Using military force over diplomacy against countries that threaten the United States Changing the Constitution to bar citizenship for children of illegal immigrants Imposing extra airport checks on passengers who appear to be of Middle Eastern descent in order to curb terrorism Requiring all citizens to carry a national ID card at all times to show to a police officer on request, to curb terrorism Allowing the federal government to scan all phone calls for calls to any number linked to terrorism What these policies share in common is an outsize fear of threats, physical and social, and, more than that, a desire to meet those threats with severe government action — with policies that are authoritarian not just in style but in actuality. The scale of the desired response is, in some ways, what most distinguishes authoritarians from the rest of the GOP.

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Input: “I’m not an alcoholic, and I’m not a drug addict, and I do n’t have mental issues. What I have is a backbone.” But the governor said he was seeking "spiritual guidance" after leaving a crass voicemail for a Democratic legislator and making racialized generalizations about crime and race. “I will no longer speak to the press ever again after today,” he vowed. New York Times) A former Islamic extremist who supported al-Qaeda and exhorted others to follow Osama bin Laden has joined George Washington University as a research fellow. Jesse Morton, who was born in Pennsylvania and said he became a Muslim when he was 20 after reading “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” while in prison for a drug offense argues that he can offer an insider’s perspective on Islamic radicalization — and how to counter that threat.

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Input: Syrian talks in Lausanne, Switzerland involving 20 nations ended with zero agreement reached (other than be open to meeting at an undisclosed hypothetical future time). US et al versus Russia et al are deadlocked completely at odds with each other as US Empire is unwilling to pursue diplomatic channels with Russia to prevent the larger war. The US led coalition airstrike on Syrian soldiers last month proved that much in reality. At this point Russia does not trust the West and for good reason. Russia's preparedness for nuclear war

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Input: “If this administration claims to be the ‘most transparent in history’ and Clinton the ‘most transparent person in public life,’ then they should prove it, release these records and allow the American people to hold her accountable,” he said. Clinton, the Democratic presidential front-runner, has faced repeated criticism for using a private email account during her tenure at State. Critics charge her personal email server could have put national security secrets at risk and violated laws on the treatment of classified information. Clinton’s email practices have been at the center of a dizzying number of lawsuits, which State Department officials say have overwhelmed their staffers. Last week, the department released the final batch of Clinton’s allegedly work-related emails, bringing to a close the 10-month process of monthly document dumps.

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Input: Kuwait donated $ 5,000,000 to $ 10,000,000 to the Clintons This oil-rich nation was also reprimanded by Hillary Clinton’s State department for its various “human rights problems.” And Kuwait’s policy to imprison gays for up to seven years notwithstanding, the Clinton Foundation still accepted its major donation. Qatar donated $ 1,000,000 to $ 5,000,000 to the Clintons According to Qatar’s penal code, the penalty for the crime of homosexual sex is up to seven years in prison. The Arab nation also has “continuing human rights concerns,” according to a report released by Hillary Clinton’s State Department.

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Input: The U.S., which has sold more than $ 100 billion in arms to the Saudis since 2010, and which continues to support the coalition with targeting and indispensable refueling flights and logistics, defers to the Saudis when asked about investigations into civilian casualties. When it was released on June 2, Ban’s annual Children in Armed Conflict Report confirmed what many diplomats had already seen when the text was distributed as a draft months earlier: that the coalition was responsible for 60 percent of child deaths — some 510 were killed by the coalition — and injuries in 2015. In the annex that accompanies the report, Ban added the Saudi coalition, along with other parties to the conflict in Yemen, including the Houthis and Al Qaeda. The response was quick: According to senior U.N. officials, several Gulf allies complained to the U.N. about the report, and Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir called Ban over the weekend to express his displeasure. Nevertheless, on Monday, Ban spokesperson Stephane Dujarric told journalists that no part of the report would change in any way.

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Input: 7:47 JA: Well, there's a question as to what sort of information is important in the world, what sort of information can achieve reform. And there's a lot of information. So information that organizations are spending economic effort into concealing, that's a really good signal that when the information gets out, there's a hope of it doing some good — because the organizations that know it best, that know it from the inside out, are spending work to conceal it. And that's what we've found in practice, and that's what the history of journalism is. 8:19 CA: But are there risks with that, either to the individuals concerned or indeed to society at large, where leaking can actually have an unintended consequence?

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Input: In an email titled," From time to time I get the questions in advance," Brazile appeared to tip off Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri to a question about the candidate's stance on the death penalty." Here's one that worries me about HRC," read the email sent by Brazile, who is currently serving as the acting chair of the Democratic National Committee. 19 states and the District of Columbia have banned the death penalty. 31 states, including Ohio, still have the death penalty. According to the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, since 1973, 156 people have been on death row and later set free.

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Input: Image copyright AFP Image caption Nagorno-Karabakh's military had images on its website reportedly showing a downed Azerbaijani helicopter Azerbaijan has announced a "unilateral ceasefire" in fighting with Armenian forces over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. A defence ministry spokesman said the Azeris were acting in response to international calls to halt violence. But the Armenia-backed Karabakh forces said this was false and Azerbaijan was continuing to fire shells.

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Input: “It is necessary to stop distributing any information about this magazine, any links to its materials or comments on them. We want to call for observation of professional ethics and international laws and to remind everyone about the urgency of protection for mothers and children,” committee chair Yelena Sutormina told Kommersant daily. The letters promoting the boycott will soon be forwarded to the Russian Journalists’ Union and to the European Federation of Journalists, she said. The appeal was prompted by the latest issue of Charlie Hebdo, which contains a cartoon that ridicules the attacks on women in Germany’s Cologne that took place on the New Year’s Eve. About 430 women told police that they were harassed by groups of young men, supposedly immigrants from North Africa and Middle East, and two women said they were raped.

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Input: Relevant to your professional network? Please share on Linkedin “The two terrorists stabbed them in the back multiple times, both in the upper body, and fled the scene toward the adjacent neighborhood of Jebl Mukaber,” police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said shortly after the stabbings. “Police and emergency units rushed to the scene and gave immediate medical assistance before transferring both women to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in moderate condition. While a forensics team searched the area, police set up roadblocks to find the terrorists. ”Roughly one hour later, Rosenfeld said, Border Police officers arrested two suspects matching the description of the assailants, but after extensive questioning, both young men were released without charges. “Police are continuing to search for the terrorists involved in the attack and hope to make arrests soon,” he said later in the day. Shortly after the attack, Shaare Zedek Medical Center spokeswoman Shoham Ruvio said both victims were in stable condition and expected to survive. “They are stable and conscious,” said Ruvio. “One, 86 years old, was stabbed in the back three times and is in the intensive care unit.

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Input: Panetta said the Obama White House did not press hard enough to reach a deal, and that the U.S. “had leverage” and could have “threatened to withdraw reconstruction aid” if Iraq did n’t agree to “some sort of continued U.S. military presence.” Clinton was involved in the negotiations as Obama’s secretary of State and, at least publicly, supported the president’s decision. Days after Obama announced he would withdraw all troops by Dec. 31, 2011, Clinton was asked on Meet the Press if critics had a point that such a withdrawal would “endanger recent success in Iraq by not having any residual force.” She replied: “They should have raised those issues when President Bush agreed to the agreement to withdraw troops by the end of this year.” She later defended Obama’s actions at a 2014 town hall meeting televised by CNN. This time, she blamed the Iraqi government.

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Input: Trump photo: EPA Donald Trump did not just call on a hostile state to hack a presidential candidate’s emails on Wednesday. He also said that, if elected US President, he would consider removing the sanctions against that same nation for its aggression against Ukraine and recognize Crimea, which Russia invaded and is occupying, as Russian territory. If his invitation to hack has understandably caused outrage and accusations of treason, the contempt the Republican Party’s presidential candidate showed for international law with respect to Crimea was taken far less seriously. Some journalists actually suggested that Trump had not understood the question put very succinctly by Mareike Aden.

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Input: January 29, 2016-An attack on a mosque in al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia, kills at least four people and injures nearly 30. The Shia mosque is attacked by two men wearing explosive belts, one Egyptian and the other Saudi. The Egyptian, identified as Talha Hesham Abdo, is detained. No claim of responsibility is made, but the attack is believed to have been carried out by ISIS or one of its affiliates. February 3, 2016-ISIS publishes photographs of executions of several men in Libya described as spies.

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Input: In 2013, Mr. Trump met with Russian partners to discuss building a replica of his SoHo residential development project in Moscow. “I have a great relationship with many Russians, and almost all of the oligarchs were in the room,” he told Real Estate Weekly. In 2013 he revealed plans to construct a skyscraper in Russia, similar to New York’s famous Trump Tower." The candidate's foreign-policy positions are conveniently aligned with his long-standing business agenda," Reuters noted." But what’s good for the Trump Organization is n’t necessarily good for America."

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Input: Members of a Ukrainian National Guard battalion named after General Serhiy Kulchytsky take part in a ceremony in honour of the second anniversary of the battalion's creation and to commemorate members killed in the pro-Russian separatist conflict in eastern regions, in Kiev, Ukraine, March 16, 2016. REUTERS / Gleb Garanich Russian President Vladimir Putin (C) talks to Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak (L) and head of the Federal Road Agency (Rosavtodor) Roman Starovoit as they inspect a transport passage across the Kerch Strait, March 18, 2016. REUTERS / Mikhail Klimentyev / Sputnik / Kremlin People attend a rally marking the second anniversary of Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol, Crimea, March 18, 2016.

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Input: Poroshenko's team argues that Moscow lent its ally the money on preferential terms as a bribe for Yanukovych's shock November 2013 decision to scuttle a free trade agreement with the European Union that Kiev has since signed. The new government wants Russia to accept a 20-percent debt write-down -- the same terms accepted last year by Ukraine's private creditors. Russia has refused and promised to launch legal proceedings against Ukraine in a London court by the end of the month. Poroshenko repeated that "Ukraine's position (toward Russia) can not differ from the restructuring conditions that we struck with other investors." But "we also demonstrate our utmost transparency and willingness to negotiate," the Ukrainian leader added.

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Input: “Ding-dong.” But campaigns offer a surprisingly accurate preview of Presidencies. In 1984, the political scientist Michael Krukones tabulated the campaign pledges of all the Presidents from Woodrow Wilson to Jimmy Carter and found that they achieved seventy-three per cent of what they promised. Most recently, PolitiFact, a nonpartisan fact-checking site, has assessed more than five hundred promises made by Barack Obama during his campaigns and found that, to the irritation of his opponents, he has accomplished at least a compromised version of seventy per cent of them. To turn intentions into policy, previous transition teams have produced confidential guides, known as “promise books,” that pull from the candidate’s words in order to shape the priorities of officials across the government. During the 2008 campaign, the Obama transition team distributed a memo to staff members on “what qualifies as a promise.” It explained, “Words like ‘will,’ ‘would,’ ‘create,’ ‘ensure,’ ‘increase,’ ‘eliminate’ are good signals of specific policy commitments.” When Trump talks about what he will create and what he will eliminate, he does n’t depart from three core principles: in his view, America is doing too much to try to solve the world’s problems; trade agreements are damaging the country; and immigrants are detrimental to it.

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Input: There are somewhere between 784 and nearly 1000 known white supremacist groups right now in the US, plus tons of followers of this ideology who don't belong to any group. And they're not underground -- they're active. Just this past week in California there was a KKK rally in Anaheim where three counter-protesters were stabbed and 13 others were arrested. A stark reminder that, yeah, racism and white supremacy are alive and well in the United States. And David Duke, a former Grand Wizard of the KKK, endorsed Trump for president -- and Trump did not reject the KKK and Duke outright.

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Input: Erdogan also reiterated Turkey would consider reinstating the death penalty after the failed attempt to overthrow his government." I will approve capital punishment if it's passed by parliament," he said. Turkey abolished the death penalty in 2004 under reforms aimed at obtaining European Union membership. Reinstatement would create further issues between the EU and Ankara in the already stalled membership talks. INSIDE STORY: Turkey-Witch-hunt or precautionary measures?

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Input: Everything one could hope for in a daughter, a prominent American, and a spokesperson for a Presidential candidate. The fact that her life has not been without its challenges is obvious. The year 1998 comes to mind, when her father’s affairs became gossip and headline fodder, when he had to publicly testify and was very nearly impeached. Yet the Clintons pulled together, and ultimately survived this debacle. They have fought off challenges after challenges for years that would have tanked a family with less steel in their backbones.

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Input: Saudi Arabia and Iran also are on opposing sides in the civil war in neighboring Syria, where fighting has killed more than 250,000 people and displaced millions. A blistering statement posted on the GCC website accused Hezbollah, a powerful Shiite Muslim movement, of “hostile acts” in the six states in the Sunni-led bloc: Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and Oman. The statement, citing GCC Secretary General Rashid al-Zayani, accused Hezbollah of recruitment to carry out terrorist attacks, and of smuggling weapons and explosives, “in flagrant violation of [GCC members’] sovereignty, security and stability.” All Hezbollah leaders and the group’s affiliated factions fall under the new terrorism designation, said the statement, which also charged that the militia is responsible for “terror and incitement” in Yemen and Iraq. There was no immediate response from Hezbollah.

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Input: Of course, these are precisely the kinds of policies that get American into trouble, leading to costly ground troop invasions and massive deaths and casualties to troops and civilians alike. Clinton is no Goldwater, of course, but the point is, neither is Trump — far from it. Of the two, Clinton is advocating a far more activist and adventurist and inherently risky foreign policy. Voters should well ask themselves who, of the two, is more dangerous and reckless. Goldwater never would have supported Trump’s restrained approach to the use of American military power.

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Input: “I never talk about politics … but one of the troops brought politics up,” Moulton, a former Marine, said. Jake Sullivan — the Clinton campaign’s top foreign policy advisor, who previously worked in Obama administration on nuclear negotiations with Iran — linked Trump’s behavior with other Republicans. He referenced particularly the letter Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) and 46 other Senate Republicans signed to the Iranian leaders warning them a GOP president might not honor the nuclear deal being negotiated between Iran and the Obama administration. “Even before Donald Trump came on the scene we were already sliding down a hill,” Sullivan said.

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Input: Frank Giustra, Canadian mining magnate who created a company that later merged with UraniumOne, gave $ 31.3 million and a pledge for $ 100 million to the Clinton Foundation Canadian mining magnate who created a company that later merged with UraniumOne, gave $ 31.3 million and a pledge for $ 100 million to the Clinton Foundation Frank Holmes, a shareholder in the deal who donated between $ 250,000 and $ 500,000 (the Clinton Foundation does n’t report exact amounts, only in ranges) and is a Clinton Foundation adviser, a shareholder in the deal who donated between $ 250,000 and $ 500,000 (the Clinton Foundation does n’t report exact amounts, only in ranges) and is a Clinton Foundation adviser Neil Woodyer, Frank Giustra’s colleague who founded Endeavor Financial and pledged $ 500,000 as well as promises of “ongoing financial support”, Frank Giustra’s colleague who founded Endeavor Financial and pledged $ 500,000 as well as promises of “ongoing financial support” Robert Disbrow, a Haywood Securities broker, the firm that provided “$ 58 million in capital to float shares of UrAsia’s private placement,” gave the Clinton’s family foundation between $ 1 and $ 5 million, according to Clinton Cash, a Haywood Securities broker, the firm that provided “$ 58 million in capital to float shares of UrAsia’s private placement,” gave the Clinton’s family foundation between $ 1 and $ 5 million, according to Clinton Cash Paul Reynolds, a Canaccord Capital Inc., executive who donated between $ 1 million and $ 5 million.

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Input: The malware server, known as FOXACID, has also been described in previously released Snowden documents. Other documents released by The Intercept today not only tie SECONDDATE to the ShadowBrokers leak but also provide new detail on how it fits into the NSA’s broader surveillance and infection network. They also show how SECONDDATE has been used, including to spy on Pakistan and a computer system in Lebanon. The top-secret manual that authenticates the SECONDDATE found in the wild as the same one used within the NSA is a 31-page document titled “FOXACID SOP for Operational Management” and marked as a draft. It dates to no earlier than 2010.

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Input: It comes as pictures emerged of the three suicide bombers-seen smiling together just moments before they carried out the deadly massacre, killing 42 and injuring hundreds Attack: CCTV shows the moment a deadly blast went off at Ataturk Airport in Istanbul late on Tuesday It comes as pictures emerged of the three suicide bombers-seen smiling together just moments before they carried out the deadly massacre, killing 42 and injuring hundreds. The men-wearing heavy jackets and carrying a holdall-were caught on camera as they walked into Ataturk Airport on Tuesday evening to begin their murderous rampage through the terminals. Security sources have claimed all three came from countries which once fell under the control of the Soviet Union, Dagestan, Kurdistan and Uzbekistan, and may have been part of ISIS ' Russian-speaking terror cell.

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Input: Democrats are suing the Trump campaign, Trump ally Roger Stone, and four state Republican parties, alleging illegal voter intimidation. The four lawsuits, filed Monday, charge that state parties in Arizona, Nevada, Ohio and Pennsylvania are teaming up with the Trump campaign and Stone to raise unfounded fears about voter fraud and intimidate minority voters. The lawsuits cite the Voting Rights Act and the Ku Klux Klan Act, which aim to prevent voter intimidation. “The campaign of Donald J. Trump, Trump’s close advisor Roger J. Stone, Jr., Stone’s organization Stop the Steal Inc., the Nevada Republican Party (“NRP”), and others are conspiring to threaten, intimidate, and thereby prevent minority voters in urban neighborhoods from voting in the 2016 election,” the Nevada complaint alleges.

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Input: Taken together, her responses to questions from FBI investigators reveal a high-level government executive who apparently had little grasp of the nuances and complexities around the nation’s classification system — a blind spot that helped allow classified communications to pass through her private email server. Story Continued Below While Clinton is clear that she never had any intention to mishandle classified documents, a fact that FBI Director James Comey noted as a factor in his decision not to recommend any charges against the former secretary of state, answers she gave to FBI agents during a July 2 interview are likely to reinforce the Republican campaign talking point that she lied to cover up her own recklessness with government secrets. Comey declared in his early July press conference that Clinton had been “extremely careless” in her handling of government secrets during her tenure as secretary of state, a description laid out more thoroughly in the FBI’s release. The newly-released documents do not include transcripts of Clinton’s interview but are instead summaries of the bureau’s investigation and meeting with the former secretary of state, essentially the long-form justification for Comey’s recommendation against pressing charges.

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Input: Weapon designers can easily boost the destructive power of an atom bomb by putting at its core a small amount of tritium, a radioactive form of hydrogen. Lee Sang-cheol, the top nonproliferation official at the South Korean Defense Ministry, told a forum in Seoul last month that although Mr. Kim’s hydrogen bomb boasts might be propaganda for his domestic audience, there was a “high likelihood” that North Korea might have been developing such a boosted fission weapon. And according to a paper obtained by the South Korean news agency Yonhap last week, the Chemical, Biological and Radiological Command of the South Korean military “did not rule out the possibility” of a boosted fission bomb test by the North, although it added it “does not believe it is yet capable of directly testing hydrogen bombs.” For the Obama administration, which only six months ago defused the Iranian nuclear threat with an agreement to limit its capabilities for at least a decade, the announcement rekindles another major nuclear challenge — one that the administration has never found a way to manage. NORTH HAMGYONG 100 MILES CHINA Tremor site Kilju NORTH KOREA Sea of Japan Pyongyang Seoul Yellow Sea SOUTH KOREA

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Input: Twitter Embed Flashback: Edward Snowden Revealed as NSA Whistleblower 2:10 autoplay autoplay Copy this code to your website or blog "The purpose is to get legally established that Norway has no right to extradite Snowden to the U.S.," the law firm, Schjoedt, said in a statement." U.S. authorities have already asked that Snowden will be extradited to the U.S. if he was to arrive in Norway," Hallvard Helle, the lawyer representing Snowden, told Reuters. Related: Information Wants to Be Free: Famous Leaks Through the Ages

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Input: Before the NATO sessions even began midday Friday, Obama had delivered two statements about violence back home, as well as addressed continental anxiety about Britain's decision to leave the European Union. Aides said Obama recognized on his transatlantic flight to Poland that a more robust presidential response was needed in the wake of the killings of African-American men in Minnesota and Louisiana. He made a beeline for a podium in his hotel, arguing that African-Americans are more likely to be pulled over, arrested and shot at by police. But it was only 10 hours later when Obama was back at the podium, this time condemning the sniper attack on police officers in Dallas. Even amid back-to-back meetings with European leaders, Obama pulled away to phone the city's police chief.

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Input: The Russian and Syrian militaries say they will observe a "humanitarian pause" between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Oct. 20 to allow civilians and militants safe passage out of the city. A U.S. State Department spokesman said the eight-hour pause "would be a good thing," but cautioned that "it's a bit too little, too late." Spokesman Mark Toner, speaking to reporters in Washington, said the people of Aleppo "have been subjected to near constant bombardment and airstrikes" that have killed many civilians and leveled much of the city's civilian infrastructure. He said the goal is "to starve out and to drive out the opposition and civilians who've held on there for so long." Earlier this month, the United States suspended talks with Russia over the Syrian war and said that Moscow was committing war crimes by engaging in indiscriminate bombing of civilians in Aleppo.

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Input: Ecuador granted Assange political asylum in its London embassy three and half years ago to protect him from a relentless effort by Swedish authorities to extradite him for questioning over rape and sexual assault allegations arising from two affairs he undertook from invitations by women attending his featured speech at an August 2010 conference in Sweden. Assange submitted to questioning about the claims from the two women, who had separately invited him to stay with them. Authorities have never charged him with a crime but they have mounted an extraordinary campaign to extradite him to Sweden for further questioning after he left the country. Assange has denied any criminal violation. Also, he has argued unsuccessfully in British courts that the investigation has been a ruse to extradite him to Sweden so he could then be extradited to the United States to face reported but still-secret U.S. charges.

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Input: "And if that doesn't work out, I don't know, you know, at a certain point, when that sucker comes by you, you got ta shoot," Trump said." You got ta shoot. I mean, you got ta shoot. And it's a shame. It's a shame.

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Input: "If this is, as it appears to be, a Russian intelligence operation, that's how a blown operation was rapidly transitioned into an influence operation and a disinformation and deception campaign, which started to mitigate the blowback," The Grugq said." Given that the media is currently reporting that the cover hacker was responsible, and not Russian intelligence services after all, it seems the deception operation is working." Given all the evidence available, as well as the timeline of the events, it's "more likely than not" that the whole operation, including the Guccifer 2.0 part, was orchestrated by Russian spies, according to Thomas Rid, a cybersecurity expert." One of the most convincing details to me is how quickly this hacker apparently came out with this pretty sophisticated false flag operation, including leaking files and talking to various media outlets. It's too smooth for one hacker," Rid, who is a professor in the Department of War Studies at King's College London, told me in a phone call on Thursday.

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Input: Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, a Republican, had barred such voters from voting in state and local races because they did n’t provide documentary proof of citizenship when they registered. A controversial Kansas law, which Kobach pushed for, requires such proof — but a series of court decisions have punched major holes in it. “This ruling is a victory for Kansas voters and a stinging rebuke of Secretary Kobach’s repeated efforts to improperly use his authority to obstruct their access to the ballot,” said Sophia Lakin, a lawyer with the ACLU, which brought the case. “This decision recognizes that Kansans ' right to vote in state and local elections should be honored, no matter what registration form they used.” 11/4 3:05 p.m.: Judge to bar Trump campaign from intimidating Ohio voters

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Input: Donald Trump threatens to jail Hillary Clinton if he wins the election https://t.co/RXCwGVdnx4 # debate https://t.co/PMz2LDYPiy — CNN (@CNN) October 10, 2016 Donald Trump was brutally focused in his castigation of Hillary Clinton’s deleted emails scandal. Homing in on Clinton’s deletion of emails after she had been subpoenaed, Trump pointed out that anyone doing a fifth of what she had done would already be in jail. To that end, he promised to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Clinton’s misdeeds and the bizarre scenario involving a plane meeting between her husband Bill Clinton and US Attorney-General Loretta Lynch, who was the person most responsible for overseeing the investigation. Trump also highlighted reports that many FBI officials are bemoaning the leniency shown to Clinton.

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Input: Trump tells the crowd he’d like to punch a protester in the face or have him carried out on a stretcher. No modern politician who has come this close to the presidency has championed violence in this way. It would be disqualifying if our hyperdemocracy had n’t already abolished disqualifications. And while a critical element of 20th-century fascism — its organized street violence — is missing, you can begin to see it in embryonic form. The phalanx of bodyguards around Trump grows daily; plainclothes bouncers in the crowds have emerged as pseudo-cops to contain the incipient unrest his candidacy will only continue to provoke; supporters have attacked hecklers with sometimes stunning ferocity.

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Input: Many of them doubtless assume that he will lose and are hoping for a better position afterward — still, the very small show of backbone that would be required to resist his takeover seems unavailable. Even those who clearly fear and despise him, like the Bush family, seem able to register their opposition only in veiled language and cautiously equivocal formulations; Jeb Bush knows what Trump is, but still feels obliged to say that he would "feel sad" if Trump lost. What is genuinely alarming is the urge, however human it may be, to normalize the abnormal by turning toward emotions and attitudes that are familiar. To their great credit, the editors of most of the leading conservative publications in America have recognized Trump for what he is, and have opposed his rise to power. Yet the habit of hatred is so ingrained in their psyches that even those who recognize at some level that Trump is a horror, when given the dangling bait of another chance to hate Hillary still leap at it, insisting on her “criminality” at the very moment when it’s officially rejected, and attempting to equate this normal politician with an abnormal threat to political life itself.

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Input: But, Podesta observed, “he did n’t succeed in doing that.” In the alternative universe where Clinton runs against a generic Republican politician, the media might have turned the emails into a sensationalized feeding frenzy. A taste of what might have been can be found in this report from The Hill about a May 21, 2015 exchange: “Top Clinton aide in leaked email: ' Can we survive not answering questions ' from press?” As you learn from a close reading of the story, the headline is misleading. The aide proposed to Podesta “not answering questions from press at message events” – events designed to drive a campaign theme. The proposal was n’t a total media blackout.

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Input: Hillary Clinton isn't the only member of her campaign who has been sick with respiratory issues. Some of Clinton's top aides -- including those who travel with her -- have been felled with respiratory issues in the last month, sources tell CNN. At least three senior aides have been ill, including at least one of whom was hospitalized and treated for dehydration. Clinton's spokesman Nick Merrill said she was feeling better on Monday but was following her doctor's recommendation to stay home and rest. Aides said the Democratic nominee would work on debate prep for her debate clash with Trump -- and event that takes on even more significance in the light of Clinton's health episode.

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Input: ADVERTISEMENT "For weeks Republicans have said they trusted FBI Director Comey to lead an independent review into Secretary Clinton's emails, but now they are second-guessing his judgement because his findings do not align with their conspiracy theories," Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon said in a statement House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Jason Chaffetz Jason ChaffetzThe Hill's 12:30 Report Chaffetz: Trump administration ' almost worse ' than Obama's on transparency Utah GOP narrows field for Chaffetz seat MORE (R-Utah) has called Comey to testify before his panel on Thursday, saying," Individuals who intentionally skirt the law must be held accountable." The GOP-led House Judiciary Committee also said that Attorney General Loretta Lynch had agreed to testify about the Clinton probe before the committee next Tuesday. Comey announced on Tuesday that while Clinton and her aides were "extremely careless" in handling classified data, the FBI would not recommend charges against her over her.

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Input: "The return of another fragile Syriza-led governing coalition after the election in September will undermine efforts to implement the tough conditionality of the new agreement, as demonstrated by the watering down and deferral of a host of contentious reforms (including pension cuts) in December." What It Means: Greece narrowly avoided an expulsion from the eurozone last year, when it secured yet another round of bailout loans that ultimately were necessary to repay its existing debts. The country is hardly out of the woods yet, though, and still has billions of dollars to repay to European creditors as its people endure relatively harsh austerity measures that limit government spending. Should the government fail to come up with the funds it needs to complete its latest bailout deal, however, Greece could find itself back where it was last summer, and the unity of the eurozone could find itself imperiled once again.

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Input: Despite his forces being part of the truce, President Assad vowed to take back the country from "terrorists" -a term used to describe all opposition groups. Israel has largely remained on the sidelines of the fighting along its border, but has carried out reprisals on Syrian positions when errant fire has previously landed in Israel. The IDF is also widely believed to have carried out airstrikes on arms shipments destined for the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, a close ally of Assad. Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in the Six Day War of 1967, before Syrian forces led an unsuccessful counter-offensive in 1973, and Israel effectively annexed the vast majority of the occupied territory in 1981. The United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) was set up to monitor a ceasefire established in the region but fighting between the Syrian regime and rebels has frequently spilled over into the demilitarised area since 2012, sparking Israeli air strikes in Syrian territory.

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Input: Are n’t they the ones criticizing the prison system on the grounds that putting people in jail for small crimes and treating them as criminals can actually turn them into criminals by alienating them from mainstream society and giving them new criminal associates? How could it be so hard for them to see that they’ve helped create the growth of the Alternative Right through exactly the same kind of process? When the Left makes a great show about “racism” because a village emblem supposedly displays a white man strangling a Native American, and it turns out that it actually depicts a voluntary wrestling match in which a white man earned the local Natives’ respect,[20], or because of the use of the word “Redskins” for a sports team when it turns out that 9 out of 10 Native Americans do n’t really care,[21] the Left is crying wolf. They’re desensitizing us to the very sound of the word “racist,” and showing us that people who most loudly condemn it are, more likely than not, simply wasting our time with non-issues. But then we notice that non-issues like these are given great publicity whereas on the very week I’m writing this, Google can “honor” the birthday of a so-called “anti-racist” who claimed that the U.S. is “the main enemy of the world’s people” while praising Osama bin Laden as “one of the people that [she] admire[s]” — a “strong leader who brought consciousness to [his] people.

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Input: The resignation and fear expressed by the Senior Fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) is similar to that of diplomats, intelligence analysts and police officials also interviewed by CBS News. Facing distinct concerns over immigration, a poorly equipped police force and the simultaneous threats of unsecured nuclear material and porous borders, German cities are bracing for a terror attack." We are as vulnerable as Brussels," said Kaim, of the SWP, a think tank that advises the government and Germany's parliament in Berlin." We are as vulnerable as Paris. We are as vulnerable as London."

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Input: Below you will find some of the truth bombs over which Hillary Clinton will be having nightmares for weeks to come. Trump promised to get a special prosecutor to investigate Clinton’s email scandals Donald Trump threatens to jail Hillary Clinton if he wins the election https://t.co/RXCwGVdnx4 # debate https://t.co/PMz2LDYPiy — CNN (@CNN) October 10, 2016 Donald Trump was brutally focused in his castigation of Hillary Clinton’s deleted emails scandal. Homing in on Clinton’s deletion of emails after she had been subpoenaed, Trump pointed out that anyone doing a fifth of what she had done would already be in jail.

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Input: Midnight on the clock represents doomsday. The closer the minute hand is to midnight, the higher the chance of a global cataclysm, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the group of scientists who set the time on the symbolic clock. The clock's minute hand is assessed each year, and the clock's time "conveys how close we are to destroying our civilization with dangerous technologies of our own making," the Bulletin explained on its website. Last year, scientists announced the clock moved from five minutes to midnight to three minutes to midnight because of climate change and "extraordinary and undeniable threats to the continued existence of humanity" by the modernization of nuclear weapon arsenals. Cliff Owen / AP Photo

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Input: Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher were at first an unlikely succession to Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, but they won the Cold War, with allies, including Canada. Trump and Johnson seem unlikely successors to Reagan and Thatcher, but it could happen and it might work. While these dramatic events are occurring in the countries that most influence Canada, we should be more concerned about the Ontario deficit than Ottawa’s; it of equal size in a jurisdiction with only 40 per cent of Canada’s GDP and which does not have any influence on the money supply. These are consequences of the McGuinty-Wynne economic miracle. As I have written here several times, all Ottawa needs to do is to raise the harmonized sales tax on elective transactions and reduce income taxes, especially on small businesses and family incomes — the economy will grow and the deficit will shrink, and Stephen Harper will not turn into a toad.

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Input: Here’s how the New York Times described its interview with Trump on his plans for Asia: He also said he would be open to allowing Japan and South Korea to build their own nuclear arsenals rather than depend on the American nuclear umbrella for their protection against North Korea and China. If the United States “keeps on its path, its current path of weakness, they’re going to want to have that anyway, with or without me discussing it,” Mr. Trump said. Japan is already remilitarizing because it’s losing faith in America’s security guarantees. But Trump is fine with that going even further.

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Input: In June, a university in St Petersburg put up a plaque commemorating Carl Gustaf Mannerheim, Finland's most famous military officer and former president, who had served in the Tsar's army but later led Finnish armed forces in World War Two. The plaque quickly became a target for protesters who have called Mannerheim-regarded in Finland as a symbol of the country's struggle against the Soviet Union-a murderer and ruthless Nazi collaborator." The plaque's been shot at, hit with an ax and doused in red paint several times," Mantila said, noting that Finland had nothing to do with the plaque project in the first place. Mantila said he believed the whole episode was a follow-up to earlier reports that suggested that Lenin's Bolshevik administration had no right to accept Finland's independence. Finland celebrates its hundred years of independence next year, also the anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution.

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Input: We want him to go with substantive announcement. And in particular, we are pressing the president to announce the cancellation of this new Long-Range Standoff weapon, the new nuclear-tipped cruise missile. And eight senators sent him a letter, including both of our California senators, Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, urging President Obama not to put any money in the fiscal year 2017 budget request for this destabilizing new weapon. And he did. He put in money, $ 220 million, for Livermore Lab to design the warhead, more money in the Defense Department budget to actually design the cruise missile.

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Input: "As a result of the shelling there are a lot of dead and wounded among rebels and locals." Russia also said Damascus was shelled six times Saturday, adding that the attack came from territory controlled by moderate rebels including Eastern Ghouta, east of the capital." All in all, 20 mine and missile explosions have been recorded," Moscow said, adding two civilians were killed and eight wounded." At the request of the Russian centre for reconciliation, Syrian government troops did not open return fire," the ministry said. Moscow said its coordination centre had also received a US list of 69 armed groups who had confirmed their willingness to observe the ceasefire.

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Input: "He was an extremely sadistic and ruthless individual, feared by the locals and the jihadis alike. “The intelligence said that he was over six feet tall, had a long black beard and wore white robes which was unusual for ISIS fighters. NA TRAINING: The ISIS chief was teaching recruits how to decapitate prisoners “The SAS sniper was using a Dan.338 equipped with a suppressor which reduces the sound and eliminates any flash from the barrel. “He had to aim off by more than a foot.

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Input: Turkey has denied permitting oil smuggling by the Islamist militant group, which holds swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq. The United States last month rejected Russian allegations that the Turkish government and President Erdogan's family were in league with Islamic State to smuggle oil. However, US State Department spokesman Mark Toner said last month that ISIS was selling oil to middlemen who in turn were involved in smuggling the oil across the frontier to Turkey. Relations between former allies Turkey and Israel broke down in 2010 after an Israeli naval raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla killed ten Turkish citizens. Turkey has become the strongest critic of Israeli actions in Gaza, and reconciliation efforts between the two have repeatedly failed.

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Input: Speaking at the beginning of a private meeting with Turkish journalists and civil society representatives, Biden praised U.S.- Turkish cooperation. But “when the media are intimidated or imprisoned for critical reporting, when Internet freedom is curtailed and social media sites...

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Input: During the first six months of 2016, Israel razed 91 houses built with “support of the European Union,” up from 70 in all of 2015, he said. The EU has invested € 21 million in the last two years for development and humanitarian aid for Palestinian in the past two years, he added. Faaborg-Andersen said the EU would continue to provide aid to the Palestinians in Area C, despite the tension it generates with Jerusalem.

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Input: The photographs remained a secret until after he had spoken to a team of international prosecutors and forensic experts, the following January. Without a key connecting detainee names to the corpse numbers, identifying the dead is difficult. Many of the faces were thoroughly destroyed, or the eyes were gouged out. Syrian activists close to Caesar published several thousand pictures online, allowing family members to search for missing loved ones. The photographs also circulated in refugee camps.

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Input: The judiciary will look into the case in every aspect and evaluate.” Syria plan Turkey says the coup attempt was organized by supporters of U.S.-based cleric Fetullah Gulen and has called for his extradition, another source of Turkey’s exasperation with the West. The shooting down of the Russian jet led to a freeze in relations, including economic sanctions and a bar on Russian tourism to Turkey that only thawed in June when Erdogan wrote to his counterpart and the two later spoke by telephone. On June 30, Russia lifted a ban on tourist flights and Cavusoglu met Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in the Russian city of Sochi on July 1.

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Input: Bayrock’s CEO was Tevfik Arif, a Kazakhstan-born former deputy head of the Soviet Ministry of Commerce’s hotel department, who had made money running high-end tourist hotels in Turkey. The deal failed — in part because of Arif’s choice of Soviet-born Felix Sater (later Satter) to run Bayrock’s Moscow operation. Sater had served prison time for slashing a man’s face in a 1991 Manhattan brawl—“He got into trouble because he got into a barroom fight which a lot of people do,” Trump once said in a court deposition — and in 1998 was convicted for fraud over associations with White Rock Partners, a Mafia-connected New York stock brokerage. (Arif was detained in Turkey in October 2010 on suspicion of organizing sex parties for wealthy businessmen and Eastern European models aboard a $ 60 million yacht once used by the nation’s founder, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, according to charges filed by prosecutor Yusuf Hakki Dogan. Arif was cleared of all charges the following year.)

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Input: Brennan said Russian military forces have bolstered Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and are carrying out attacks against the U.S.-backed forces trying to unseat him. He said Assad is in a stronger position now than he was in June 2015 and that the agreed cessation of violence is "holding by a thread." TORTURE Brennan said individuals within the CIA have been held accountable for problems in the agency's former detention and interrogation program set up after Sept. 11. He said he could elaborate in a classified setting.

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Input: “As we have seen, such persons may be exceedingly dangerous, but they should be dealt with through tools of civilian law enforcement, not military action.” It was Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson who a year earlier set out the clearest criteria yet for how the war will end. Johnson, then the Pentagon’s general counsel, said in a speech that “there will come a tipping point … at which so many of the leaders and operatives of Al Qaeda and its affiliates have been killed or captured, and the group is no longer able to attempt or launch a strategic attack against the United States, such that Al Qaeda as we know it, the organization that our Congress authorized the military to pursue in 2001, has been effectively destroyed.” And the war would be expected to end. Perhaps, someday, it can. Or perhaps we will, one day, simply declare victory.

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