Input: Very hard day and I fear more of the same tomorrow.” We also know that at 11:38 p.m., Clinton emailed State Department officials Cheryl Mills, Jake Sullivan and Victoria Nuland, to ask if the State Department should announce Stevens’ death that night or wait until the following morning. Update, June 24: Trump acknowledged in a June 23 interview with NBC’s Lester Holt that he had no evidence to support his claim that Stevens “was left helpless to die as Hillary Clinton soundly slept in her bed.” Trump said “who knows if she was sleeping … she might have been sleeping.” Jewels from Brunei Trump: Hillary Clinton accepted $ 58,000 in jewelry from the government of Brunei when she was secretary of state.

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Input: The Orlando shooter was a U.S. citizen purportedly inspired by the Islamic State militant group but with no direct ties to organized terrorist networks. White House aides said the president’s commitment to supporting the law enforcement investigation and helping calm public fears was clear in his reaction after news of the shooting broke early last Sunday. Obama made a statement to reporters that day in the White House briefing room, met with his national security team on Monday and Tuesday, and visited with shooting victims and their families in Orlando on Thursday. “The president’s response, the entire administration’s response, to tragedy last weekend has been pretty evident throughout the week,” White House spokeswoman Jennifer Friedman told reporters on Air Force One. Friedman declined to say whether the president or his advisers considered canceling or postponing the national parks trip, which began with a tour of the vast caverns of Carlsbad on Friday.

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Input: Later Atwater became a senior partner in Manafort's political consultancy firm. In another twist, on Sunday night The New York Times revealed Ukraine anti-corruption investigators have discovered a ledger that suggests the ousted pro-Russian administration of Viktor Yanukovych, who Manafort worked for in 2010, directed to him payments of $ US12.7 million. He has denied receiving any such payments. (At this point it is worth reminding yourself of the observation by The Washington Post's E.J. Dionne that one of the hardest things about observing Trump's campaign is staying shocked.)

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Input: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) THEN: Cruz, who was on board with the GOP loyalty pledge back in September, has called Trump a “fragile soul” on the campaign trail, hit him for embodying “New York values” and mocked the real estate mogul for whiffing on naming a Bible verse. NOW: Cruz grudgingly reiterated this weekend that he would still back the party’s nominee even if it is Trump, saying: “I will support the Republican nominee. Period. The end.”

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Input: In this case, he can revoke American participation in the biggest nuclear nonproliferation pact in almost 20 years: the 2015 agreement between six countries and Iran, which was formally implemented this weekend. And on that issue — the one that arguably matters most — Trump is n’t crazy. Of the three leading Republicans, he’s the only one who has n’t promised to revoke the Iran deal on his first day in office. Get Slate in your inbox. Trump bashed the agreement, too.

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Input: The documents we have obtained show the enquiry found betting syndicates in Russia, northern Italy and Sicily making hundreds of thousands of pounds betting on matches investigators thought to be fixed. Three of these matches were at Wimbledon. In a confidential report for the tennis authorities in 2008, the enquiry team said 28 players involved in these matches should be investigated, but the findings were never followed up. Tennis introduced a new anti-corruption code in 2009 but after taking legal advice were told previous corruption offences could not be pursued." As a result, no new investigations into any of the players who were mentioned in the 2008 report were opened," a TIU spokesman said.

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Input: The rate ranged from as little as 13.4 percent in 2009 to 24 percent in 2011. The Kaines’ income dipped as low as $ 153,000 in 2012, when he was running for the Senate. He won election that year, after serving as head of the Democratic National Committee, governor of Virginia and lieutenant governor. Clinton's team has been pushing Trump to release his tax returns — something presidential candidates have done for decades — since before he became the GOP's official nominee. Trump has refused, citing an ongoing IRS audit, among other reasons.

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Input: Their imprimatur helps shape government decisions that can be lucrative to corporations. But the examination identified dozens of examples of scholars conducting research at think tanks while corporations were paying them to help shape government policy. Many think tanks also readily confer ‘nonresident scholar’ status on lobbyists, former government officials and others who earn their primary living working for private clients, with few restrictions on such outside work.” http://nyti.ms/2b2RbDm FLASHBACK – WashPost’s Tom Hamburger and Alexander Becker, Oct. 30, 2014, “At fast-growing Brookings, donors may have an impact on research agenda” http://wapo.st/2baMuJl POLITICO’s MAYORS’ survey – “America’s Mayors: ‘We’re Afraid For Our Police,’” by Taylor Gee and Ben Wofford: “Two years after the unrest in Ferguson, America’s mayors have a newfound fear for their cities’ police officers.” http://politi.co/2aIqm6k

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Input: So-called liberals and “progressives” have caught the Mad Democratic Cow Disease, frothing at the mouth at those who would resist the coronation of the corporate warmonger, Hillary Clinton. They flail with McCarthyite fury at both Donald Trump and the Green Party presidential ticket of Jill Stein and Ajamu Baraka. “Liberals are now quite deranged and applaud a woman who will crush their feeble agenda as soon as she says the oath of office.” Freedom Rider: Liberal Hate for Stein and Baraka by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley

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Input: In Trump’s demonology, the press ranks right up with Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, the leaders of the Republican Party, illegal immigrants, Muslim migrants and multi-national corporations. And yet, somehow, he fails to take precautions against the most obvious pitfalls. His campaign showed new verve with its response on Tuesday, moving swiftly and of one voice to knock down the false narrative that Trump was calling for Clinton to be assassinated. But the key in politics, as you know, is not what you say, but what you do n’t say. On a day when reporters would have been forced to cover a twin bill of misery for Clinton -- scuzzy sounding emails between the State Department and her family foundation and the endorsement from the father of the perpetrator of the worst terror attack since 9/11 -- reporters were let off the hook and allowed to pick through a fresh bushel of Trump gaffes.

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Input: In a weird bit of rough justice, the political grief Clinton has suffered over the September 11, 2012, attack on a US diplomatic outpost in Benghazi that killed four Americans might never have occurred had Clinton not supported the US intervention in Libya’s civil war. While republicans have focused relentlessly on the terrible deaths of the US diplomats, the larger disaster is the ensuing chaos that left Libya without a functioning government, overrun by feuding warlords and extremist militants. In 2015, the suffering of desperate refugees who flee civil unrest — many of whom drown in the Mediterranean Sea — is a direct consequence of that disastrous operation. Libya was part of a pattern for Clinton. On Afghanistan, she advocated a repeat of the surge in Iraq.

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Input: Russian police have seized the assets of the doping whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov, the Interfax news agency reported Thursday. Rodchenkov, who fled Russia for the United States in November, is currently being investigated under charges of abusing his power while serving as head of Moscow’s anti-doping laboratory. Rodchenkov’s property was seized at the request of investigators examing the case, a court spokesperson announced Thursday. Rodchenkov accused the Russian government of funding, running and covering up a widespread doping programme at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics during an interview with The New York Times in May. Rodchenkov’s testimony was also used as key evidence in an independent report by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).

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Input: It was based on our desire to complete what has been a lengthy process of moving towards normalization with Vietnam," he said. Obama later added his visit to a former foe showed "hearts can change and peace is possible." In 2014, the Obama administration eased the decades-old arms embargo to allow its former Cold War enemy to buy maritime surveillance and "security-related" systems to strengthen it with China in mind. Now Hanoi will be able to buy a full range of U.S. weapons and military equipment. Immediate big-ticket purchases are not expected, but Vietnam's military strategists are likely to seek U.S. drones, radar, coastal patrol boats and possibly P-3 Orion surveillance aircraft.

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Input: The official said state security traced the family connections of all the employees and they were cleared." Any employee who shows sympathy to militants is prevented from going to work in any airport," he told Reuters. An Interior Ministry source also said no one had been arrested in connection with the crash." We are awaiting results of the investigation." Islamic State's online magazine carried a photo of a Schweppes soft drink can it said was used to make an improvised bomb that brought down the Russian airliner.

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Input: Hillary Clinton's support for violent regime change in Syria has thrown the country into one of the bloodiest civil wars anyone has ever seen, while giving ISIS a launching pad for terrorism against the West. [The Arab uprisings of 2011 included peaceful demonstrations in Syria. But President Bashar Assad's security forces began attacking protesters, and the clashes rapidly escalated into a civil war. President Obama was extremely wary of direct U.S. involvement, and his administration was criticized for not taking stronger action in the first few years. U.S. forces began bombing the Islamic State in Syria in 2014, well after Clinton left her post as secretary of state.

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Input: I want to go out alone, free and without having a guardian with me." "Nothing matters more than freedom," says Om Mohammad. Oum Mohammad, whose real name is something else, smuggled Expressen's camera into al-Raqqah. Foto: Expressen "I long for when I can take off both the niqab and the darkness that it brings", she says. Foto: Expressen She takes off ther coverture and says:" I long for when I can dress as I used to ".

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Input: With regard to “lone wolf” attacks in the U.S., Clinton proposes an “intelligence surge” that would help equip local and federal law enforcement with the information necessary to identify potential attackers before they carry out their plans. She also suggested “intensifying” relations between law enforcement and Muslim American communities around the country, implementing “no fly, no buy” policies to prevent those on terror watch lists from obtaining firearms, and enlisting U.S. tech companies in the fight against ISIS’ online recruitment efforts both in the U.S. and abroad. Clinton has also advocated for a no-fly zone over Syria, saying at a Democratic debate in April that “we need to put in safe havens for those poor Syrians who are fleeing both Assad and ISIS and so they have some place they can be safe.” Stand up to Russia and China Clinton, unlike Trump, has urged a firm hand with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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Input: She put climate change at the center of our foreign policy. (APPLAUSE) She negotiated the first agreement ever -- ever -- where China and India officially committed to reduce their emissions. And as she had been doing since she went to Beijing in 1995 and said women's rights are human rights and human rights are women's rights ... (APPLAUSE)

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Input: And as the fight for Aleppo intensifies, many more will try to come, posing Turkey the dilemma: does it give safe passage or does it decide a limit has been reached? In November, the EU clinched a deal with Turkey, offering it € 3bn (£ 2.3bn; $ 3.3bn) to care for Syrian refugees on Turkish soil. On Thursday, 60 donor countries meeting in London pledged billions of dollars to ease the plight of Syrian refugees. About 4.6 million people have fled Syria during the civil war that began in 2011. Another 13.5 million are said to be in need of humanitarian assistance inside the country.

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Input: “I do n’t know what [the ulterior motives] are, but to be honest with you I happen to agree with Trump on this that he’s a terrible leader and he’s not keeping our country safe and there’s something else there. I have a strong feeling that this guy is not a friend of America.” She also said that Clinton and Obama had “a lot to gain by having these attacks happen” and cited their pro-gun control stances. Khait, who was born in Russia and immigrated with her parents 23 years ago, also adamantly supports Trump’s immigration policies, including his Muslim ban, even though she said she favors certain legal immigration. “There’s a lot of safe and peaceful immigrants,” she said. “For example Russia.

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Input: It has set the stage for a situation that the regime and its allies have been working toward for years: a choice between ISIS — whose crimes are well-documented and publicized — and Assad, whose atrocities in torture chambers across the country were systematically covered up and largely unknown to the world. The regime has made no effort, on the other hand, to hide its practice of barrel bombing civilian targets such as schools, marketplaces, and hospitals. Whereas roughly 10% of civilian fatalities in Syria last year were at the hands of ISIS, the regime was responsible for at least 75% of all civilian deaths in Syria in 2015, according to humanitarian news group IRIN. Meanwhile, the regime's detention program — a squalid prison system where, according to the UN report, torture and summary executions are deliberate and commonplace — is ongoing. View photos A Syrian refugee child looks on, moments after arriving on a raft with other Syrian refugees on a beach on the Greek island of Lesbos, January 4, 2016.

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Input: Obama discarded that strategy while trying to keep enough U.S. influence there to prevent those two countries from crumbling. Obama’s approach may not have worked, but it’s not Bush-like “nation-building.” And while the Republican presidential nominee argued against nation-building in a foreign policy speech Monday, he advocated for something even more grandiose: seizing Iraq’s oil wealth in the aftermath of the U.S. invasion in 2003 that toppled Saddam Hussein. “I have long said that we should have kept the oil in Iraq,” he said in Youngstown, Ohio. “I said, ‘Keep the oil.

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Input: At one gas station in Mount Pleasant, S.C., the line of cars stretched a quarter mile. “We do n’t do voluntary or mandatory anymore. An evacuation is an evacuation,” Haley told reporters on Tuesday, urging people to move at least 100 miles inland. Matthew hit the southwestern coast of Haiti early Tuesday, unleashing 145 mph winds and torrential rains that threatened to wreak new devastation across a country still reeling from a ruinous earthquake six years ago. Watch more!

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Input: Clinton pivoted immediately back to Trump’s comments that emerged Friday where he boasted about using his celebrity status to sexually assault women. Trump dismissed his comments as “locker room talk” and denied that he had ever sexually assaulted a woman or done the things he bragged about doing in 2005. But at the very least, he still emerged as the type of guy who thinks it’s normal to brag in private about sexually assaulting women. Trump had hinted for days that he would try to shift away from his problems to Bill Clinton’s women troubles at the debate, but he could n’t even wait that long. With zero notice to the reporters traveling with him, Trump arranged a photo opportunity less than two hours before the start of the debate with three women who have accused Clinton of inappropriate sexual behavior, as well as the woman whose accused rapist Hillary Clinton represented in court decades ago.

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Input: On Wednesday, Cruz announced Carly Fiorina would be his running mate. And on Friday, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R) announced he would vote for Cruz in the state's primary Tuesday. “I'm not against anybody, but I will be voting for Ted Cruz in the upcoming Republican primary,” Pence said before also commending Trump for giving “voice to the frustration of millions of working Americans.” The survey was conducted among 400 registered likely voters in Indiana April 13–27 and has a margin of error of 4.9 percentage points.

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Input: I would say to the skeptics: we can have a real conversation here about what did or did n’t change in each party, but the history presented here, the changing Congressional seats over time, the changing voter base of the parties over time, and more show that there are many very real and important changes to discuss. Let us not rewrite the history of the South (or any other faction) for modern political expediency (the way Ted Cruz tried to with the KKK), American history is already well-documented (V. O. Key’s classic Southern Politics in State and Nation comes to mind; as does Calhoun’s 40 years in Government; as do the well-documented justifications for the Civil War.) Sure today we all want to identify with Lincoln the First Republican President, but does this not do a disservice to the half of the nation that succeeded in the name of States’ Rights and small government in response to that Republican won election? We might be tempted to look at the Union and Confederates as “bad guys” and “good guys”, but that view is overly simple. This is n’t about “good” vs. “bad”, this about different American factions, with different opinions on liberty and equality (with different “states” of mind), dealing with the reality of a liberal and Democratic Republic, ideally trying to find Unity and “Good Feelings” despite their differences … who sometimes “change parties”, including changing to third parties, often over single key voter issues, like Civil Rights and States’ Rights.

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Input: Now it's not just carpetbagging visitors to the Third World pushing this line of thought. Just as frequently, the argument is aimed at "low-information" voters at home. Maybe the slide started with 9/11, after which huge pluralities of people were suddenly OK with summary executions, torture, warrantless surveillance and the blithe disposal of concepts like habeas corpus. A decade and a half later, we're gripped by a broader mania for banning and censoring things that would have been unthinkable a generation ago. It seems equally to have taken over campus speech controversies (expanding the "fighting words" exception to the First Amendment is suddenly a popular idea) and the immigration debate (where Trump swept to the nomination riding a bluntly unconstitutional call for a religious test for immigrants).

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Input: PARIS-National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden says the exposure of malicious software allegedly linked to his former employer may be a message from Moscow, adding a layer of intrigue to a leak that has set the information security world abuzz. Technical experts have spent the past day or so picking apart a suite of tools purported to have been stolen from the Equation Group, a powerful squad of hackers which some have tied to the NSA. The tools materialized as part of an unusual electronic auction set up by a group calling itself "Shadow Brokers," which has promised to leak more data to whoever puts in a winning bid. In a series of messages posted to Twitter, Snowden suggested the leak was the fruit of a Russian attack on an NSA malware server and could be aimed at heading off U.S. retaliation over allegations that the Kremlin was trying interfere in America's electoral process." Circumstantial evidence and conventional wisdom indicates Russian responsibility," Snowden said.

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Input: The Security Council has denounced the latest test and said it would begin work immediately on a resolution. The United States, Britain and France-three of the five veto-wielding permanent members-have pushed for the 15-member body to impose new sanctions. However, China's foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said sanctions alone could not solve the North Korean nuclear issue. The crux of the issue lay with the United States, not China, she added, in an apparent reference to Washington's refusal to resume negotiations with North Korea until it commits to de-nuclearization. On Saturday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said a "creative" response was needed.

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Input: Clinton has called Kissinger, who according to one conservative estimate may be responsible for anywhere in the range of 3-4 million deaths, a “friend,” and he in turn called her an “outstanding appointment” for secretary of state and predicted she would be a “good president.” This week, Clinton demonstrated exactly why such a wide assortment of neocons and right-wing war hawks have been so quick to compliment her over the years. In a widely panned speech at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s (AIPAC) annual meeting on Monday, Clinton pledged her undying loyalty to Israel, promised to go to war with Iran if necessary, and implied the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement was anti-Semitic. The speech was interpreted as an attempt to move to the right of Trump on Israel. Perhaps nothing sums up Clinton’s foreign policy better than a recent photo of her warmly hugging George W. Bush at Nancy Reagan’s funeral — an almost too-perfect metaphor for Clinton’s embrace of neocon policies.

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Input: Thus, Debbie Wasserman Shultz, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton and every other top Democratic leader can act with impunity, and expect The Daily Banters and Beasts of the world to defend them, regardless of whether or not Democrats morph into moderate Republicans. I'm never voting for anyone who believed Bush's intelligence on Iraq, because Bernie Sanders used the same intelligence and voted against the invasion. I'm never voting for a political dynasty that incarcerated more Americans than any presidency in history, because unlike Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders doesn't take prison lobbyist donations and addressed prison reform long before 2016. I'm never voting for a person I consider a liar. If you consider me a liar for my support of Warren, Webb and O'Malley before Sanders, or even an article on a Republican I wrote simply to protest perpetual wars, then don't vote for me when I run for president.

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Input: Firs, the "treason" charge is absurd to the point where even Vox's Dylan Mathews had to explain that Trump's comments clearly did not warrant such a charge. According to Mathews, there are two types of prosecutions for treason:" Aid and comfort," where the individual provides aid to "a country presently at war with the United States." "Levying war," where the individual is literally waging war against a state or federal government. Not only is Trump, of course, not waging war against a state or the federal government, the U.S. is not currently "at war" with Russia.

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Input: Anti-corruption officials there say the payments earmarked for Mr. Manafort, previously unreported, are a focus of their investigation, though they have yet to determine if he actually received the cash. While Mr. Manafort is not a target in the separate inquiry of offshore activities, prosecutors say he must have realized the implications of his financial dealings. Advertisement Continue reading the main story

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Input: But at least 15 civilians are reported to have been killed in another location that day — and that location is one of those mentioned by Col. Warren. According to Rami Abdulrahman, head of the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, coalition jets destroyed a bakery in the early hours of Tuesday in the town of al Shadadi, south of the city of Hasakah in Hasakah governorate in northwest Syria." They killed 15 people that were waiting to get bread," said Abdulrahman, who added that 11 more civilians were injured in the incident. According to a daily strike list provided by the coalition's Combined Joint Task Force, two strikes "near al Hasakah" carried out in the 24-hour period that included the early hours of Monday morning hit "two separate ISIL tactical units and destroyed an ISIL building." In a release sent a day later, on Wednesday, the coalition reported "near al Hasakah, four strikes struck two separate ISIL tactical units and destroyed two ISIL vehicles, four ISIL buildings, and an ISIL fighting position."

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Input: Mass killer wins case against Norway over human rights They visited alongside troops from Nigeria, whose top military generals Amnesty say should be on trial for war crimes. The human rights group produced a 133-page dossier alleging Nigerian forces caused the deaths of 8,000 people through murder, starvation, suffocation and torture during security operations against Islamist militants Boko Haram. A senior military official told Amnesty that Nigerian solders respond to Boko Haram attacks by going “to the nearest place and kill[ing] all the youths” whether they were armed or not. Andrew Smith, of Campaign Against Arms Trade, said Britain should not be “colluding” with countries it was well aware were led by authoritarian regimes.

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Input: The strategies of a Sanders Doctrine would reject the drone wars, airstrikes, Special Forces’s attacks, and other military efforts that have failed to end terrorism, and have instead had the effect of driving more people into the arms of ISIS, Al Qaeda, and other terrorist organizations. The Sanders Doctrine would move away from militarism to concentrate on the difficult, less dramatic campaigns that privilege diplomacy, negotiations, humanitarian assistance, economic pressure — those things would come first, not as an afterthought. And they would all be based on the same starting point that every aspiring doctor learns on her first day of medical school: the Hippocratic Oath — first, do no harm. So what are the specific positions that would make up such a new democratic — small “d”—foreign policy? Here are just a few examples of what a Sanders Doctrine might look like:

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Input: One of the first people to interview him after his formal announcement was MSNBC’s Katy Tur. Tur called their 29-minute exchange in the lobby of Trump Tower “combative” and said that when the cameras turned off he was “furious.” According to an essay Tur wrote for Marie Claire, Trump told her, “You could n’t do this. You stumbled three times.” Over the course of his campaign, Trump’s insults toward Tur have become more pointed — he’s called her “little Katy” on more than one occasion, and when she pressed him on his apparent appeal to Russian hackers, he told her to “sit down.” He’s done the same to other women on the trail, calling CNN’s Sarah Murray “unemotional” and, just last week, Maureen Dowd “wacky” and a “neurotic dope.” That’s not to say he has n’t gone after male reporters, too.

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Input: Bayh has $ 9.48 million in the bank as of June 30, a huge advantage to start the campaign. “We’re going to defeat Evan Bayh,” McConnell said, arguing that Bayh has a “lot of vulnerabilities.” “It’s going to cost a lot more money than it would’ve cost to beat whoever the no-name was, who was originally the Democratic nominee.” 2016 will not be a “straight-ticket voting year,” McConnell said, adding that Senate Republicans were running better campaigns nationwide than Democrats in races that will be an “eye-gouging, shin-kicking contest all over the country” and similar to “knife fights in a phone booth.” “You’re going to have two candidates who we know for sure have very, very high negatives,” McConnell said. “Almost never does a candidate with high negatives have much of a coattail effect.”

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Input: Hillary Clinton’s troubled charity was taking in millions of dollars in contributions from the nation of Brunei, all while her State Department was citing the tiny Asian country for a multitude of human rights abuses, including, “restrictions on religious freedom; exploitation of foreign workers; and limitations on freedom of speech, press, assembly … and discrimination against women.” 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.

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Input: But the EU envoy told journalists at the anti-BDS conference: “I’m totally undeterred by allegations against me.” The event, which was organised by Israeli media Ynet and Yediot Ahronoth, also heard from the US envoy to Israel Daniel Shapiro, who echoed his EU counterpart. “One of our most effective tools to defeat boycotts and de-legitimisation is the presentation of a political process, negotiations or some political horizon that gives hope for a two-states-for-two-peoples resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” Shapiro said. The BDS movement recently claimed that a decision by British private security firm G4S to sell off assets in Israel was due to its campaign, but the firm denies this. Dutch and Norwegian pension funds as well as French water-management and telecommunications firms have also divested Israeli assets in recent years.

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Input: The information contained in the more than 800 pages of documents paints a deceptive picture of those within the government handling the Snowden revelations. From the White House press secretary to various leaders within the National Security Agency, there has been an effort to deceive the people about the handling of the entire situation. It’s not only disturbing the things Snowden revealed in the last few years, but also the lengths that various levels of power have gone to to protect power and deceive the people.

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Input: Germany did not understand the reason for Poland's sudden change of mind and decided to proceed with the terms of the arrangement agreed upon with Poland. That was the start of World War II. Great Britain knowingly deceived Poland when Great Britain actually promised military assistance to Poland if Poland were attacked by Germany. Great Britain could not come to Poland's assistance and Great Britain knew it when Great Britain's offer of military assistance to Poland was made. Poland fell into Great Britain's trap and discontinued negotiations with the Germans.

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Input: Beyond Russia, she answered questions about the ongoing controversy surrounding her use of a private email server while secretary of state, which Trump has used to cast doubt over her ability to protect classified information." I take classification seriously," she said. After a yearlong investigation, the FBI recommended against prosecution in July, and the Justice Department then closed the case. FBI Director James Comey said that while Clinton and her aides had been "extremely careless" in dealing with sensitive materials, there was no evidence they intentionally mishandled classified information. While Labor Day has traditionally been the kickoff to the fall campaign, both Clinton and Trump have been locked in an intense back-and-forth throughout the summer.

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Input: “Because of the proximity to Sidney Blumenthal and the activity involving Hillary’s emails, [the timing] seems to be something beyond curious,” the report quoted Ron Hosko, former assistant director of the FBI’s Criminal Investigative Division. Lazar was brought to the United States near the end of March and appeared at a Virginia federal court this week to face hacking charges, the report noted. The report added that the timing of his extradition is curious given the ongoing investigations of Clinton’s alleged use of a private, unsecured email during her time as secretary of state, and noted that Guccifer’s testimony could be a major blow to Clinton. In early 2013, news outlets including Russia Today and The Smoking Gun published memos from Guccifer, with excerpts of exchanges between Blumenthal and Hillary Clinton about Libya including details following the 2012 Benghazi terrorist attack. “In a 2015 prison interview from Romania with reporter Matei Rosca for Pando.com, Lazar told Rosca that, “I used to read [Clinton’s] memos for six or seven hours … and then do the gardening.”

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Input: Please understand this: I've never taken the Never Trump blood oath. I deeply respect this decision that many other conservatives have made, though. I understand it.

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Input: 5. The Clinton Foundation then spends some of this money for legitimate good works programs. Experts estimate that The Clinton Foundation has donated no more than 15 percent of the donations to charitable pursuits. Much of the balance goes to enrich the Clinton’s lavish salaries, and lavish lifestyle, particularly travel, and virtually all tax free. In one year alone, the foundation spent over $ 8 million in travel expenses.

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Input: This included its new Alpha line of rifles with high capacity magazines holding 30 rounds. The company obtained "light manufacturing" approval in July 2015 from Pompano Beach, which is located on the Atlantic coast between Boca Raton and Fort Lauderdale. The company also has licenses from Pompano Beach and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to import, but the licenses don't specify what it would be importing, or from where. The licenses do not allow the company to sell guns in Pompano Beach, or to make ammunition, so the Pompano Beach factory will be selling to retailers elsewhere. Related: Kalashnikov's business is booming

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Input: (Part III) Sometimes it seemed that they were, like me, just slightly spoiled Americans, imbued with unreasonable boomer expectations for autonomy, glory, and ascension, and that their grievances were more theoretical than actual, more media-induced than experience-related. Before the rally in San Jose on June 2nd, I talk to a group of construction workers, each of whom is in some state of layoff: current, recent, chronic. One, who’s hoping to get a job working construction on the Wall, rails against millennials, the unions, a minimum-wage hike for fast-food workers, and “these people” who get fired, then turn around and sue. I ask for examples.

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Input: But the truth is more nuanced. Trump’s pro-Putinism goes back to at least 2007, when he told CNN that the Russian strongman was doing “a great job” rebuilding Russia. Trump was pushing real estate deals in Moscow at the time and, according to one Moscow-based American businessman who negotiated with him, Trump’s admiration for Putin was rooted in “pure self-interest …. He was looking to make friends and business partners” among Russia’s politically connected elite. “Oligarchs aren't going to do business with anyone who bad-mouths the boss,” explains the real estate developer, who requested anonymity because of his ongoing Russian investments.

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Input: He also reiterated allegations of Russian involvement in an attack on aid convoy last month, prompting an accusation of “Russophobic hysteria” by the Russian defence ministry. On the ground in besieged eastern Aleppo, residents said air raids using powerful bunker-buster bombs resumed on Tuesday and continued into the early hours of Wednesday morning. Doctors said they had documented 34 dead and 216 injured on Tuesday alone, adding that the total number was likely to be higher as some families retrieved their dead from bombarded sites without taking them to local hospitals. Airstrikes on the largest market in eastern Aleppo on Wednesday killed at least 15 people, with fears for others who were trapped. In his BBC interview Sawers rejected calls for a no-fly zone to prevent Syrian helicopters or Russian planes from bombing Aleppo, saying this might have been an option three or four years ago but was not realistic today.

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Input: Interrogated: The second attacker was seriously wounded by Israeli security forces who repelled the two knifemen after the injured three tourists Killed: Security forces said they killed one of the attackers who had arrived by sea to launch the onslaught on the beachside Bella Vista Hotel, in the Red Sea resort of Hurghada Police have shot dead one of the gunmen and a second was injured Pictures reportedly from the scene posted by Egyptian media Youm7 shows the black ISIS flag and a suicide device (top left) Egyptian security services outside the entrance to Bella Vista Hotel, where the incident happened in the Red Sea resort of Hurghada

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Input: All diplomatic peace-building efforts between Syria and Russia and the international community have now totally collapsed. Aleppo residents plead for help as Syria fighting rages The renewed attack on Aleppo and Russia’s apparent decision to abandon the latest efforts to reinstall last week’s ceasefire appear to signal that the Syrian regime is more determined than ever to crush all opposition in the country. If Assad’s forces succeed in retaking Aleppo, there will only be pockets of rebels left in sparsely populated areas in the far north and south of Syria. Isis still holds on to vast swathes of north-east Syria and Iraq and several Islamist groups are operating in the country.

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Input: Read more: Little consensus within administration on how to stop fall of Aleppo to Assad Kerry urges war crimes probe into Syrian and Russian bombing of civilians

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Input: The French woman is arrested by riot police after she threw the bottle as fans clashed with other supporters and police in Marseille An England shouts out as fans sing the national anthem and chant outside bars in the Old Port district of Marseille A young English football fans hurls a bottle at police before during the violent clashes on the streets of Marseille The same supporter is then apprehended by police as they take him in for his part in inciting the violence on Marseille's streets An officer from the specialist dog team patrols the streets of Marseille as football fans drink and socialise outside one of the city's bars

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Input: "I don't think he's drawing on a deep reservoir of knowledge on these issues," said former American diplomat Christopher Hill." He comes across as someone with a lot of instincts and not a lot of reserve about acting on those instincts." Trump vows to champion U.S. economic strength and military power -- "to make America great again," as he says. He's giving voice to many voters ' frustrations and fears about America's place in the world. What he would do about them is sometimes less clear.

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Input: In addition, he contributed to their social mobility by raising the minimum wage by more than 20 percent. Clinton also pushed to expand reproductive rights, maternity leave and equal pay for women, despite the hypocrisy and sexism inherent in his affair with his intern. Although Clinton signed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996, he also enacted “do n’t ask, do n’t tell,” a critical (if problematic) step toward integrating gay service members into the military. In an important 2002 study, Ruy Teixeira and John Judis predicted an “Emerging Democratic Majority” that would result from the political realignment of minorities and working women, who began to coalesce around the party in the 1972 elections and gradually helped Democrats compensate for the defection of white working-class voters. For them, this shift constituted “George McGovern’s Revenge.” But it was also proof of just how powerful and pervasive the revolutionary sensibilities of the New Left proved to be.

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Input: Washington (CNN) Hillary Clinton's post-convention bump extends to enthusiasm about voting and trust on a slew of issues, according to a new CNN / ORC Poll. And on the most prominent foreign policy issue of late, Russia and its relationship with the US, nearly 6-in-10 see the country as unfriendly, and about half say they think the Russian government is attempting to influence the outcome of the US presidential election. Asked which is a bigger problem, that US intelligence believes Russia was able to hack into the Democratic National Committee's email or how Donald Trump reacted, suggesting that Russian hackers should get Clinton's emails, 61% said the hacking, 31% Trump. The hack itself is seen as a bigger problem whether voters say they think Russia is attempting to influence the election or not. JUST WATCHED How did Bush deal with criticism from Gold Star family?

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Input: [The Baltics’ tangled geography that has both sides feeling surrounded] However, even if the Baltic states did increase their spending dramatically, their small size means that their contributions would remain low. According to data from the U.S. Defense Department, all three countries currently contribute less than 0.5 percent of the funding for the NATO Security Investment Program, one of the alliance's three resource pillars. The United States contributes 22.1 percent. Although the militaries of all three Baltic states are also tiny, they have long committed troops to operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Kosovo as a way to demonstrate that they are willing to make sacrifices for the common good.

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Input: GETTY Around one million migrants arrived in Germany last year The migrant, known only as Ghazia A, fled Syria last year along with his family. He has since resettled in Germany with his four wives and 22 of his children. One of his daughters has since moved to Saudi Arabia where she has married.

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Input: Hillary Clinton’s FBI investigation may have just moved one step closer to an indictment for the Democratic front-runner, with experts saying the extradition of a Romanian hacker who revealed her unsecured email server could spell deep trouble for Clinton’s presidential campaign. Last week, U.S. officials moved to extradite the hacker known as “Guccifer,’ who is accused of accessing the email of Clinton adviser Sidney Blumenthal. It was that hack which brought to light Clinton’s use of a personal email during her time as secretary of state, reports claim. The hacker, whose real name is Marcel Lehel Lazar, will now be able to make the case that Hillary Clinton’s email server was unsecure and could have spilled secrets to America’s enemies, Fox News experts Catherine Herridge and Pamela K. Browne wrote.

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Input: With this grim record in mind, it is useful to look at strategic debates and planning. One chilling case is the Clinton-era 1995 STRATCOM study “Essentials of Post-Cold War Deterrence.” The study calls for retaining the right of first strike, even against nonnuclear states. It explains that nuclear weapons are constantly used, in the sense that they “cast a shadow over any crisis or conflict.” It also urges a “national persona” of irrationality and vindictiveness to intimidate the world. Current doctrine is explored in the lead article in the journal International Security, one of the most authoritative in the domain of strategic doctrine. The authors explain that the United States is committed to “strategic primacy”—that is, insulation from retaliatory strike.

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Input: That’s one example out of every 15 million possible voters. And again in August, the media group released new findings on voter fraud cases in five states — Arizona, Georgia, Kansas, Ohio and Texas — that examined hundreds of allegations and found few actual prosecutions. One of Trump’s most frequent suggestions surrounds urging his supporters to visit “certain areas” on Election Day as poll watchers to ensure Clinton supporters do n’t vote multiple times. He points to the two most recent presidential elections, in which President Barack Obama essentially skunked his GOP rivals in many urban areas. But the Philadelphia Inquirer, following the 2012 election, reported that Obama’s unanimous victory over Mitt Romney in 59 different majority-minority areas should n’t be a surprise considering the demographics of the region and the fact the country’s first black president was running for reelection.

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Input: When push comes to shove, it’s party over principle.” Advertisement The Stein protesters on Monday eventually sat down en masse in a public street, as close as they could get, given all the police roadblocks, to Hofstra University, where Clinton and Trump were preparing to debate. Their demand was that the Commission on Presidential Debates assign Stein a podium at the debate, and they intended to be taken away in handcuffs to make the point. Neither Stein nor Libertarian Gary Johnson met the threshold of 15 percent support in national polls for an invitation to the debate.

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Input: The bigger question is the one of causation that President Obama keeps pushing and the evidence on that can be found here and here. His claim on that is also clearly wrong. UPDATE: Politifact has discussion on fatality rates from mass public shootings, where they rank the US as the fourth highest country. Their analysis looks at data from 2000 to 2014, but it is clear that their analysis is flawed. They have a much broader definition of these attacks where they included cases where no one was killed.

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Input: (APPLAUSE) As secretary of state, she worked hard to get strong sanctions against Iran's nuclear program. And in what The Wall Street Journal no less called a half-court shot at the buzzer, she got Russia and China to support them. Her team negotiated the New START Treaty with Russia to reduce nuclear weapons and reestablish inspections. And she got enough Republican support to get two-thirds of the Senate, the vote necessary to ratify the treaty. (APPLAUSE)

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Input: -- Trump’s new campaign CEO, Steve Bannon, berated Speaker Paul Ryan on his radio show this March. The Hill’s Scott Wong and Jonathan Swan report that he repeatedly questioned whether Ryan was "manifestly unfit" to be president and said that the Wisconsin Republican was "rubbing his social-justice Catholicism in my face every second." -- THE CHECKBOOK: “Trump Jacked Up His Campaign’s Trump Tower Rent Once Somebody Else Was Paying It,” by the Huffington Post's S.V. Date: “After bragging for a year about how cheaply he was running his campaign, Trump is spending more freely now that other people are contributing ― particularly when the beneficiary is himself. Trump nearly quintupled the monthly rent his presidential campaign pays for its headquarters at Trump Tower to $ 169,758 in July, when he was raising funds from donors, compared with March, when he was self-funding his campaign.

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Input: When of course the Democrats’ solution every time there’s been a crisis in Social Security has been to cut benefits, raise taxes, never reform. So that’s a challenge but the good news is that for Republicans going forward and for Trump, is there have been a series of reforms proposed that do n’t effect anybody who is on Social Security — put Social Security aside — Medicare, Medicaid. They do n’t deal with anybody who is on Medicare now but would block grant Medicaid jobs programs, public housing and food stamps and block grant them just as Clinton did with aid with aid to children. You block grant them as aid to states and let them take different approaches and that gave you dramatic reductions in cost and dependency. But nobody cut any budgets.

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Input: 8% confident in their national government 5% say government doing enough to fight corruption WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Despite signs last year that Ukraine's then-new president was starting to rebuild Ukrainians ' trust in their leadership, President Petro Poroshenko is now less popular than his predecessor Viktor Yanukovych was before he was ousted. After more than a year in office, 17% of Ukrainians approve of the job that Poroshenko is doing. This approval rating is down sharply from 47% a few months after his election in May 2014.

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Input: READ MORE: Thousands on the streets to show support for Erdogan The Turkish president said he believed foreign countries might have been involved in the failed coup attempt, though he declined to name any. 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.

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Input: The United States and European Union also say there is no evidence it took place. Whether the plot is real or imagined, Moscow has cranked up its military activity in Crimea at the same time as holding a series of what it says are pre-planned war games and missile deployments in the area. Putin, who is expected to visit Crimea later this week in a show of support, convened his Security Council and canceled the next round of international talks meant to turn the shaky ceasefire in eastern Ukraine into a lasting peace. But his response-deliberately refocusing international attention back on eastern Ukraine and the lack of progress in implementing a peace deal there-suggests Putin is trying to milk the latest Crimean crisis as part of a diplomatic power play he hopes will eventually kill Western sanctions. TALKS RUN INTO SAND

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Input: The global Pokemon Go craze has prompted a slew of complaints, with religious sites arguing that it is disrespectful to play there and some countries imposing a complete ban. The game was recently updated to remove the Hiroshima and Berlin Holocaust memorials as Pokemon landmarks. A Russian blogger has been charged with offending religious believers and inciting hatred after filming himself playing Pokemon Go in a church. Topics: popular-culture, ancient-religions, rites-and-ritual, india

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Input: Russian media reported Monday that a woman working as a nanny in Moscow had decapitated a four-year-old boy and then held his head up while shouting at people near the entrance to a subway station before being arrested. Amateur videos posted online showed a woman in black, traditional Muslim dress, waving what appeared to be a child's head around while shouting "Allahu Akbar" (God is great) and threatening to blow herself up outside the station in northwest Moscow. The woman's ranting, recorded by several people who posted videos online, was largely nonsensical but included mentions of terrorism.

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Input: She is committed to, for instance, legalizing marijuana, moving quickly to end the militarization of the police force, ending civil asset forfeitures that target low-income people, ending the prosecution of people who film the police, and instituting "elected community oversight boards with subpoena and indictment powers." Clinton is n’t; while she has proposed solutions in six of Campaign Zero’s 10 issue areas, even those measures she has proposed are almost uniformly weaker than Stein’s. Stein wants to end drone strikes, pursue nuclear disarmament, stop supplying repressive militaries with US weapons, support nonviolent protests of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, withdraw troops and military contractors from Iraq and Afghanistan, and cut US military spending "by at least 50 percent." Clinton, on the other hand, has positions on foreign policy that are arguably to the right of Donald Trump’s and a record that is extremely hawkish. She has undermined democracy in other countries and helped foster aggressive military actions that have led to millions of deaths.

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Input: It soon emerged from prosecutor and witness testimony of the police officers in court proceedings that the trucks were alleged to have been accompanied by officials from the Turkish state National Intelligence Organisation (MIT). The testimony in court documents claimed that rocket parts, ammunition and mortar shells had been found in trucks delivering supplies to areas of Syria under the control of jihadist groups in late 2013 and early 2014. However, Erdogan’s government banned all Turkish media from further reporting on the court proceedings. The allegations, claimed the government, were part of a conspiracy to undermine Erdogan’s presidency — organised by the exiled Muslim cleric, Fethullah Gulen, who is resident in the United States. According to Ahmet Yayla, however, the allegations against Erdogan and IHH are accurate, and have nothing to do with a Gulenist conspiracy.

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Input: The relentless nasheeds underscored the real violence of the hostage takers, which the world would see later on Aug. 19, 2014, with the first beheading on video by ISIS of an American captive, journalist James Foley. AP Photo Death threats were common and credible since a Russian captive was the first to be shot to death." We realized that they were actually killers, that they would enjoy killing us," Saide said. Mueller told the three Doctors Without Borders women in the cell about her previous six months of confinement, held mostly in isolation except for brief periods when she cared for a 14-year -old Shiite girl and another woman affiliated with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime.

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Input: Now, for the first time in modern history, a major-party candidate rejects both sides of that equation. If he loses, Donald Trump says, it will be due to cheating that makes the result illegitimate. If he wins, he will imprison his defeated opponent. Many Americans may not have given much thought to what a breathtaking departure this represents, because until now we have had the luxury of never having to think about such things. We have been able to take for granted the quadrennial peaceful transition of power.

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Input: I feel proud to say that I am on my way to becoming a global super eco-heroine.” Her dad has some impressive credits as well. Born in the rural Afghanistan village of Shullana, Millatmal graduated from medical school in Kabul in 1976 but was forced to flee his country after spending a year jailed and tortured by the communist government, said one account. “He joined the Mujahadim to fight the Russian invasion, but his opposition to Islamic extremism within the freedom fighter movement compelled him to flee to Pakistan in 1980 where he worked with other Afghan refugees,” it said. A U.S. citizen since 1996, he became a founding member of the Afghan Doctors Society, Medical Education and Training for Afghan Women in Pakistan, and the Afghans Health and Social Assistance Organization.

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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: Kind of like a trampoline, the subterranean bubble forcibly undulates as Sokolov puts pressure on one side using his foot. According to the Russian scientists, a total of 15 blister-like patches were discovered on the island. The researchers who captured the strange footage said both methane and carbon dioxide poured out of the bubble when it was punctured. It's still unclear why or how these pockets of gas first formed, but it's possible that an unusual heat wave caused permafrost to thaw, which allowed trapped methane gas to escape. This wouldn't be the first time that leaky methane has been blamed for Siberia's wild anomalies.

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Input: 38 39 MALLS HAVE BEEN TARGETED IN THE UNITED KINGDOM-BUT NONE HAVE SUCCEEDED IN RECENT YEARS Britain's shopping malls have been targeted by terrorists – although none have succeeded in recent years. In 2007 police foiled an Al Qaeda plot to detonate a fertiliser bomb at the busy Bluewater shopping centre in Kent. Last year, Mohammed Rehman was convicted of plotting a bomb attack on the anniversary of the 7/7 attacks on London. He had asked his Twitter followers whether he should attack the capital's Westfield shopping centre.

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Input: Last week, photos emerged of President Barack Obama's Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter DAESH Brett McGurk meeting with former PKK member and current PYD spokesman Polat Can. He said Turkey would be mobilizing to ensure the PYD would be recognized as a terrorist group by all international organizations. Erdoğan said Turkey and the U.S. were in sync when it came to combatting DAESH, but Ankara expected a change in perspective from Washington on setting up safe zones in northern Syria. The president said modern cities that could be built in a safe zone would provide security for Syrians while addressing the huge refugee problem. It was time that coalition forces took the initiative to resolve the Syrian crisis, argued Erdoğan, citing the aggressive nature of Russian, Iranian and Assad regime policies that made things worse.

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Input: Another North Korea watcher said the statement might be better viewed as a warning to Pyongyang of what others might do, rather than Russian actions in particular. “Russia is pointing out to North Korea that its inflammatory rhetoric risks giving its opponents – primarily South Korea and the US – just cause to pursue military action against it,” said regional expert Christopher Green. Inter-Korean relations have worsened significantly in recent weeks, with Pyongyang showing particular sensitivity to the UN sanctions agreed last week. A version of this article first appeared on NK News – North Korean news

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Input: There were still 12 grueling miles left to travel before reaching the city’s outskirts. The struggle for Mosul … is the largest and most complex so far in the battle against [ISIS] militants, who have been digging in for a fight. Residents who have recently fled the area … say the Islamic State has been erecting concrete barricades and filling trenches with oil that can be set on fire to slow advancing forces. ‘It’s going to be a tough fight and a difficult fight,’ Obama said on Tuesday. ‘But my expectation is that ultimately it will be successful.’”

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Input: The Syrian military urged armed rebels in east Aleppo to "to leave their weapons, with assurances that they will benefit from the amnesty decree," according to a statement Wednesday from the General Command of the Armed Forces. Photos: Heartbreaking images following Aleppo airstrike A Syrian family leaves the area following a reported airstrike on Friday, September 23, in rebel-held east Aleppo. Following the airstrike, recovery teams from Syria Civil Defense, known as the White Helmets, began working to free the trapped and recover the dead, including small children. Hide Caption 1 of 7 Photos: Heartbreaking images following Aleppo airstrike Hide Caption 2 of 7 Photos: Heartbreaking images following Aleppo airstrike This photo was released by the volunteer group Syria Civil Defense of the bodies of a man, with his knee pulled up near his face, and a child covered in dust after they were killed in the airstrike. Hide Caption 3 of 7 Photos: Heartbreaking images following Aleppo airstrike The volunteers work to recover the bodies the man and child.

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Input: Some locals, particularly traders who worked with Isis, are being given weapons, though Ahu Jasim says they are not loyal to Isis whom they secretly betray. But up to the end, Isis is enforcing its regulations with savage punishments. He says that “last week I witnesses a public whipping of people who were caught watching satellite television”. Isis is evidently, taking such steps as it can to meet the coming assault on Mosul, but there are limits to what it can do against enemies enjoying overwhelming military superiority.

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Input: The disputed presidential election of 1876 was also resolved without resorting to federal court, though five Supreme Court justices served on a congressionally created commission to assist with the dispute. That move was controversial precisely because, sure enough, they split 3-2 along party lines. Rutherford B. Hayes was inaugurated to derisive cries of “His Fraudulency” and “Rutherfraud.” In the 20th century, federal courts were actually barred from scrutinizing a state’s vote-counting procedures. At the end of the 19th century, in litigation over the 1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election, the U.S. Supreme Court expressly precluded the federal judiciary from becoming involved in these disputes.

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Input: He is the former information technology expert, employed by the State Department to trouble-shoot any of Mrs. Clinton's email issues. Pagliano was also personally employed by Mrs. Clinton. She paid him $ 5,000 to migrate her regular State Department email account and her secret State Department email account from their secure State Department servers to her personal, secret, non-secure server in her home in Chappaqua, New York. That was undoubtedly a criminal act. Pagliano either received a promise of non-prosecution or an actual order of immunity from a federal judge.

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Input: State Department spokesman John Kirby said the 30 emails were identified “using broad search terms” and therefore are not necessarily related to the Benghazi attack. The emails could also be duplicates of what Clinton has already turned over to the State Department, Kirby said. The State Department said it will take until the end of September to complete a review of the emails handed over by the FBI, but the Trump campaign still jumped at the chance to hammer Clinton once again over her email troubles. Nolan D. McCaskill contributed to this report. Authors:

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Input: On the issue of “affordability”, Jill seems educable, and indeed better than Bernie (who always insisted on “paying for” any progressive proposal with tax increases or spending cuts). Financial affordability is not the question. What matters is our ability to provide useful jobs to the unemployed and to ramp up domestic production to meet the needs of the newly employed plus increased purchasing power of African Americans and Native Americans who receive reparations. Forgiving student loan debt, and fully funding public education through four years of college will actually increase our ability to produce. Still, her arguments about the technical details of implementing these policies have — so far — fallen short.

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Input: Ankara said it had killed 25 Kurdish "terrorists" and insisted the army was doing everything possible to avoid civilian casualties. But the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 40 civilians were killed in Turkish shelling and air strikes on two areas held by pro-Kurdish forces in northern Syria, the first report of significant civilian casualties in Turkey's operation. The bombardments came after Ankara suffered its first military fatality in the two-pronged offensive against IS and the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) militia. Addressing a rally in the southern city of Gaziantep, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to combat the jihadists and the US-backed Kurdish fighters "with the same determination." "We will make any kind of contribution to the work to clear Daesh (IS) from Syria," Erdogan told thousands of flag-waving supporters in the city where a suicide bomber suspected of IS links blew himself up at a wedding party last weekend.

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Input: Clinton campaign manager on DNC leak: Experts say "Russians are releasing these emails" to help Trump # CNNSOTU https://t.co/GwJhloosPs — CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) July 24, 2016 The theory gained some traction, particularly among Trump’s detractors, in part because the candidate has seemed obsessed at times with reminding crowds that Russian President Vladimir Putin once said something sort of nice about him (though not, as Trump falsely claims, that the American is “a genius”). Then last week, Trump’s campaign staff watered down a pledge to help Ukraine defend its territory from Russian-backed rebels and the candidate told the New York Times he would not necessarily honor the NATO treaty commitment that requires the United States military to defend other member states from a direct attack by Russia. Since Trump has refused to release his tax returns, there are also questions about whether or not his businesses might depend to some extent on Russian investors. “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets,” Trump’s son Donald Jr. told a real estate conference in 2008, the Washington Post reported last month.

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Input: Well, propaganda was an extremely powerful component. For years, Hitler inundated the German population with a stream of consistent messages that the German Aryans were the superior master race of all humans, and that Germany was under imminent threat of destruction by foreign enemies as evidenced by the Treaty of Versailles, which was the international peace treaty that ended World War I but that also imposed upon Germany the hardship of having to make enormous reparation payments to the foreign victors for having caused the war. The Nazi messaging also preached about internal threats from various segments of Germany's own population, like Jews, homosexuals, and communists. The German population began to adopt this perverse and paranoid worldview as truth, and a national war machine was born. A more contemporary example is the Bosnian War from the early 1990's that shockingly occurred in the heart of Europe right near Italy and Greece.

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Input: On Tuesday, televangelist Rodney Howard-Browne appeared on “Trunews” to chat with host Rick Wiles about the upcoming presidential election. Howard-Browne and Wiles are both vocal supporters of Donald Trump, and Howard-Browne said in the interview that he is now a member of the GOP presidential nominee’s faith advisory committee. “I know the polls are all skewed,” Howard-Browne said. “I personally believe it’s going to be a landslide victory for Donald Trump come November the 8th.”

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Input: President Wilson appeared irritated. Mr. Untermeyer considered the matter a few Moments and then volunteered a solution to President Wilson for his problem. Mr, Untermeyer volunteered to give President Wilson's former sweetheart the $ 40,000.00 out of his own pocket on one condition: that Wilson promise Untermeyer to appoint to the first vacancy on the United States Supreme Court a nominee to be recommended to Wilson by Untermeyer. Without further talk, President Wilson accepted Mr. Untermeyer's generous offer and Mr. Untermeyer promptly paid the $ 40,000.00 in currency to President Wilson's former sweetheart. The contemplated breach of promise suit was never heard of after that.

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Input: Such were the pictures making fun of Prophet Muhammad, terrorist attacks in Paris and the bombing of the Russian passenger jet over Sinai Peninsula. READ MORE: Russian lawmakers want Charlie Hebdo authors blacklisted over cartoons mocking Sinai air disaster The French satirical weekly came to international prominence after a group of gunmen attacked its Paris office on January 7, 2015, killing 12 people and wounding 11. The Yemen branch of the Islamist terrorist group Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the shootings, saying that it was a revenge for the cartoons mocking the Prophet Mohammed. According to a poll conducted about a week after the attack, many Russians disapproved of the terrorists’ actions, but thought that they were provoked by the French journalists.

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Input: Saudi Arabia and Iran are the key Sunni and Shia powers in the region and back opposing sides in Syria and Yemen. Bahrain is ruled by a Sunni Muslim king but its population is majority Shia. There are fears sectarian strife may spread in the region following the execution of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr and 46 others in Saudi Arabia on Saturday after they were convicted of terror-related offences. On Monday, two Sunni mosques in Iraq were bombed and an imam killed. Iran’s foreign ministry on Monday accused the Saudis of “continuing the policy of increasing tension and clashes in the region”.

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Input: “To be safe is most important.” Russians are decidedly not a key demographic in American elections, and only a sliver of the American population calls themselves Russian, either by birth or by ethnicity. Some fled Russia for political reasons during the Cold War, or were escaping religious persecution. Others past and present have migrated in search of economic prosperity and freedom. Trump has upended the normal Republican approach to Russia.

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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: In other messages, Clark relayed specific requests for the types of military aid desired by Ukrainian officials. In addition to radar systems and other forms of military equipment, Clark recommended that Breedlove “encourage Ukraine to hire some first rate pr firms and crisis communications firms in U.S. and Europe.” He added, “They need the right tools to engage in information warfare.” Ukraine did hire several D.C. lobbying and communication firms to influence policymakers. In June 2015, the government signed a deal with APCO Worldwide, an influential firm with ties to senior Democratic and Republican officials. In an email in February 2015, Karber told Breedlove that “Pakistan has, under the table, offered Ukraine 500 TOW-II launchers (man-portable version) and 8,000 TOW-II missiles,” adding that deliveries of the anti-tank weapons could begin by the end of the month.

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Input: He also said he would n’t “lecture” NATO ally Turkey about purges of political adversaries or crackdowns on civil liberties after the attempted coup in that country, saying the U.S. had first to “fix our own mess.” Turkey on Thursday imposed a three-month state of emergency as the government pursues those it sees responsible for the failed takeover that left almost 250 people dead. Thousands of army officers, judges and prosecutors have been detained, and a wider purge is under way that encompasses universities, schools and the civil service. Financial markets have been thrown into turmoil. Trump praised Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, giving him credit for seeing off the failed coup.

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Input: “As we gather here, three evolving threats — Iran’s continued aggression, a rising tide of extremism across a wide arc of instability, and the growing effort to de-legitimize Israel on the world stage — are converging to make the U.S.-Israel alliance more indispensable than ever,” she declared. “The United States and Israel must be closer than ever, stronger than ever and more determined than ever to prevail against our common adversaries and to advance our shared values. … This is especially true at a time when Israel faces brutal terrorist stabbings, shootings and vehicle attacks at home. Parents worry about letting their children walk down the street. Families live in fear.”

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Input: Fiat Chrysler spokesman Eric Mayne said the company would conduct a "thorough investigation" of Yelchin's accident." It is premature to speculate on its cause at this time," he added. Los Angeles Police Department spokeswoman Jane Kim said on Monday that investigators were aware of the recall issue with the Jeep and were looking at whether that played any role in the fatality. Yelchin, a 27-year -old Russian native, would be the first death reported to be linked to the defect. In 2014, a U.S. study said nearly 100 people were killed and 2,000 injured annually from vehicles that rolled away between 2008 and 2011.

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Input: "Four of the Russian soldiers were killed in Qasr al-Halabat west of Palmyra during an attempt to storm the area that ISIS forces foiled, while the adviser whose corpse was shown in a video distributed by the agency died (Thursday) in the Dawa area," Aamaq claimed. Aamaq also published a video, showing the bloodied corpse of a man in military gear that it claimed was the adviser. The footage also shows equipment presumably captured, including a customized AK-74 M rifle, a helmet and a compass. A packet of bandages was filmed with instructions written in Russian. ISIS seized Palmyra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in eastern Syria known as the "Pearl of the Desert," last May, sending shock waves across the world.

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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: 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." From a group of 30 islanders featured in the film, five had cancer and two have died in the last 18 months, Ruxton says.

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Input: So instead of having a thriving economy with the kind of opportunities that the children of the Palestinians deserve, we have a terrorist haven that is getting more and more rockets shipped in from Iran and elsewhere.” So, Clinton made clear – both at the debate and in her recent AIPAC speech – that she is fully in line with the neocon reverence for Israel and eager to take out any government or group that Israel puts on its enemies list. While waxing rhapsodic about the U.S.-Israeli relationship – promising to take it “to the next level” – Clinton vows to challenge Syria, Iran, Russia and other countries that have resisted or obstructed the neocon / Israeli “wish list” for “regime change.” In response to Clinton’s Israel-pandering, Sen. Bernie Sanders, who once worked on an Israeli kibbutz as a young man, did the unthinkable in American politics. He called out Clinton for her double standards on Israel-Palestine and suggested that Netanyahu may not be the greatest man on earth.

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Syria, Iran, Russia and other countries

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wish list” for “regime change


Input: “Memorial was holding a very important event at Dom Kino in central Moscow, but the guests and the participants were attacked by a group of aggressive protesters,” Zhemkova said. The protest was organised by the People’s Liberation Front nationalist movement, local media reported. Roughly 20 activists are said to have congregated outside, holding banners reading “we do n’t need alternative history” and shouting insults. Among those attacked was acclaimed Russian novelist Lyudmila Ulitskaya. The writer, who headed the jury of the school competition, was sprayed in the face with green disinfectant.

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20 activists

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Input: James Comey has ignited outcries from both sides of the aisle with his eleventh-hour bombshell. (Alex Brandon / AP) “If these are emails from Huma Abedin, we do n’t know if they are, but if they are, we assume they’d have to be redundant because she already turned over all of her emails,” Mook said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” Abedin herself, who separated from Weiner in August, reportedly said she had no knowledge that any of her emails would have been on that computer, according to CBS News. STASI: James Comey's Weiner probe sinks awful election to new low

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Input: "The Russians are trying to hack everything." The ban on the Apple Watch is by no means unusual. Mobile phones are already prohibited in cabinet meetings in the UK, and extending the injunction to smartwatches is logical. They contain the same basic electronics and thus the same vulnerabilities. It was also reported today that the Apple Watch has been banned from Australian cabinet meetings as well.

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cabinet meetings


Input: The study’s authors draw the wrong policy conclusions from the data, such as the idea that this justifies widespread taxation on all high earners, but if people of opposing political perspectives can agree that personal wealth earned by creating value for others is legitimate, and wealth obtained by taking things from others or exploiting loopholes is illegitimate, then we will have gone a long ways towards addressing the two-tiered society that is emerging in this country. The idea behind the methodology is an interesting one. After all, there is a huge difference between wealth that is earned by producing goods and services of value for others, and wealth that is acquired through rent-seeking, where profits are derived from government-granted privileges and subsidies. Often, these privileges are hard to spot. Many are obvious, such as the bailout of the auto industry or the Export-Import Bank, but some, like the proliferation of licensed occupations and tariffs on foreign products, are more subtle.

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this country


Input: Only one I know went to Russia.” If Clinton had criticized Bush’s use of a Houston hotel room as a legal residence, Bush was ready to hit back with another Russian reference: “Where is your legal residence, Little Rock or Leningrad?” But the Oct. 11 presidential debate – which also involved Reform Party candidate Ross Perot – did not go as Bush had hoped. Bush did raise the loyalty issue in response to an early question about character, but the incumbent’s message was lost in a cascade of inarticulate sentence fragments. “I said something the other day where I was accused of being like Joe McCarthy because I question – I’ll put it this way, I think it’s wrong to demonstrate against your own country or organize demonstrations against your own country in foreign soil,” Bush said.

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Bush


Input: We thought the easiest way to prevent harming women, children and other living things in Iraq was to stop a war of aggression, a war over weapons of mass destruction that UN inspectors on the ground could n’t find — which were, in fact, never found because they did n’t exist. Clinton, however, was steadfast in her commitment to war: She said it was our responsibility to disarm Saddam Hussein and even defended George W. Bush’s unilateralism, citing her husband’s go-it-alone intervention in Kosovo. Disgusted, CODEPINK cofounder Jodie Evans tore off her pink slip and handed it to Clinton, saying that her support for Bush’s invasion would lead to the death of many innocent people. Making the bogus connection between the September 11, 2001, attacks and Saddam Hussein, Clinton stormed out, saying, “I am the Senator from New York. I will never put my people’s security at risk.”

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Input: They might be right on paper, but make no mistake – the main beneficiaries of the Clinton Foundation are the Clintons. What percentage of Clinton Foundation money goes to real and actual charities? If you define “actual charities not controlled by the Clintons” as “programmatic grants,” then it appears the number is 15%. The Clinton Foundation argues the figure is much higher. They claim they hire their own staff to carry out humanitarian work, thus money that appears to be staying in the Foundation is actually being spent on charitable acts.

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Clinton Foundation

charities


Input: Democratic Nominee Hillary Clinton has remained silent after a second night of riots in Charlotte, North Carolina caused major damage in the city. Protesters angry about the killing of a black man, Keith Lamont Scott, by an African-American police officer terrorized the streets Wednesday night, beating citizens, looting, vandalizing, blocking interstate traffic and setting fires. advertisement But Clinton’s campaign has been silent, as she remains at her home in Chappaqua, New York preparing for her first debate with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.

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Charlotte, North Carolina


Input: The hack came on the same day that WikiLeaks held a much-anticipated press conference in honor of its 10th anniversary, where many expected the anti-secrecy organization to release files on the Clinton Foundation or U.S. election process. The organization had previously released nearly 20,000 internal emails likely stolen during the DNC hack. But WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said that the upcoming dump of U.S. election-related material would come at a later date. In Tuesday's Guccifer 2.0 post featuring Clinton Foundation information, the hacker referenced WikiLeaks." P.S.

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

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Input: But he said he did not want to detail military strategy because it would tip off potential foes." We will defeat radical Islamic terrorism just as we have defeated every threat we've faced at every age and before," Trump said, blaming his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state, and President Barack Obama for aiding the rise of Islamic State. In a speech in the swing state of Ohio, Trump also said that in implementing his call for a temporary ban on Muslims immigrating to the country, he would institute “extreme vetting” and develop a new screening test to try to catch people who intend to do harm to the United States. As president, he said, he would ask the U.S. State Department and Department of Homeland Security to identify regions of the world that remain hostile to the United States and where normal screening might not be sufficient to catch those who pose a threat. The Clinton campaign said Trump's plan to have immigrants submit to ideological tests was "a cynical ploy to escape scrutiny of his outrageous proposal to ban an entire religion from our country and no one should fall for it."

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Input: He’s given between $ 25,000 and $ 50,000 to the Clinton charity. Another link between Gulenists and the Clinton orbit was revealed in a lobbying registration disclosure filed last month with the Senate. It shows that a Gulen-aligned group called the Alliance for Shared Values hired the Clinton-connected Podesta Group to lobby Congress on its behalf. The group seeks to lobby for the “promotion of peace, tolerance and interfaith dialogue.” The group’s executive director is Alp Aslandogan, a former professor at universities in Texas.

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a Gulen-aligned group called the Alliance for Shared Values


Input: But let’s have some international context. Even in that extreme hypothetical situation, the U.S. would still be an incarceration outlier. Even without its many inmates who are convicted of drug charges, the U.S. still leads the world in imprisoning people. Next is the U.S. Virgin Islands, with a rate of 542 per 100,000 people, followed by Turkmenistan at 522 and Cuba at 510. Russia’s rate is 463.

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Input: For millennia, at least since the time of the Egyptian pharaohs, smallpox had ravaged its way around the world. Caused by the variola virus, it was an exceptionally painful and gruesome disease. Victims suffered from fever and other flulike symptoms before developing a rash of the pustules that gave the disease its nickname: the speckled monster. It killed a third of its victims and left survivors disfigured, sometimes blind. “Smallpox has been called one of the most loathsome diseases,” Dr. Henderson told The Washington Post in 1979.

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Input: He’s a bigot or is pretending to be one in order to win votes from people who hold “others” to blame for the country’s problems and theirs -- other races, other religions, other classes. He asks nothing of his supporters’ patriotism. Just elect him and he’ll keep out the Mexicans and the Muslims, start trade wars with China and Japan, confiscate Middle Eastern oil and hey, presto, America’s great again. He does n’t appeal to a single honorable quality or instinct in our society. He exploits fear and incites hatred.

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Input: They started from that little area, and now they’re in 32 different nations, Hillary. Congratulations. Great job.” What Trump does n’t mention is that he himself favored the pullout from Iraq as early as 2006, when he told CNBC, “I would like to see our president get us out of the war [in Iraq] because the war is a total catastrophe.” Trump professed himself to be unconcerned about what would happen after the U.S. pullout: “Somebody will take over Iraq, whether we’re there or not, but probably when we leave, will take over Iraq. … He will make Saddam Hussein look like a baby.” So Trump actually foresaw what a mess Iraq would be after the American pullout, but he was in favor of it just the same. Now he is attacking Clinton for taking the very same positions — in favor of the Iraq War and in favor of a pullout — that he himself advocated for. There is a word for someone who lies as repeatedly as Trump does and continues doubling down on his lies no matter how many times he is called out on his behavior: pathological.

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Input: “He talked about it in a way that made it sound real. He threw himself in.” (Baron has said privately that he never expected he would get the job.) Sulzberger met with each of them, but he was considering Baron and Keller most closely, according to people familiar with his thinking. A senior newsroom figure from back then countered, “I do n’t think there was any serious competition. It was Bill Keller, and that was it.”

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Input: The announcement of the changes said Manafort would stay on as chairman of the campaign. Manafort, 67, had drawn scrutiny after recent reports linked him to former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, a Vladimir Putin ally whose ouster led to the Russia's intervention in Ukraine. The New York Times reported on Sunday that secret ledgers showed $ 12.7 million in undisclosed cash payments had been designated for Manafort from the Yanukovych administration. In a statement Monday, Manafort called the report "unfounded, silly and nonsensical," and said he had never taken an "off-the-books cash payment" nor worked for the governments of Ukraine or Russia. On Thursday, The Associated Press reported that emails it obtained show that a firm run by Manafort orchestrated a covert Washington lobbying operation on behalf of Yanukovych's party to influence American public opinion between 2012 and 2014.

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Input: "I appeal to the consciences of those who govern to reach an international consensus to abolish the death penalty," the 79-year -old Pope said, addressing tens of thousands of people in St. Peter's Square on Sunday. Even the criminal “keeps the inviolable right to life,” said Pope Francis. Pope calls for an end to death penalty, asks for no sentence to be executed during the Holy Year of Mercy. pic.twitter.com/Z0wOoN6ig8 — Ines San Martin (@inesanma) February 21, 2016 The Argentinian pontiff urged Catholic leaders all over the world to work for a moratorium on executions during the Church's current Holy Year, also dubbed Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy, which ends in November.

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Input: That report by the Middle East Quartet — representatives of the US, UN, EU and Russia — released in early July, accused Israel of undermining a two-state solution by making it nearly impossible for Palestinians to build in Area C, while allowing the expansion of Israeli settlements in the area. Israeli authorities regularly demolish homes built by Palestinians in Area C, arguing they are built illegally without permits and outside areas zoned for Palestinian building. Israel does not balk at demolishing EU-funded structures, despite the open tension it causes with its powerful ally. While Israeli authorities did not immediately respond to an inquiry about Tuesday’s demolitions, the pro-settlement group Regavim praised the move, saying its complaint had led to the action. “This morning’s action comes after years of lobbying against the EU’s rampant illegal building across Area C in total disregard for international law,” the group said in a statement.

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Input: The suicide bombers were also killed. Bozdag said one attacker “first opened fire with a Kalashnikov then detonated himself” at the airport entrance. — In total three bombs exploded, the governor told TRT. – One of them was located just outside a terminal on the pavement, while the other was at the security gate at the entrance to the airport, Bozdag told CNN. — Authorities said no bombs exploded within airport buildings, according to the minister.

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Input: Rep. Ann Wagner (R-Mo. ): “I have committed my short time in Congress to fighting for the most vulnerable in our society. As a strong and vocal advocate for victims of sex trafficking and assault, I must be true to those survivors and myself and condemn the predatory and reprehensible comments of Donald Trump. I withdraw my endorsement and call for Governor Pence to take the lead so we can defeat Hillary Clinton." Rep. Mia Love (R-Utah):" For the good of the party, and the country, he should step aside."

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Input: Democratic Republic of Congo (383,100) Chad (369,500) The UK has said its policy is to provide aid money to neighbouring countries so that they can support refugees closer to home. But Amnesty criticised the approach in its report, saying rich countries should not "pay to keep people ' over there '". Refugees and migrants continue to risk their lives attempting to reach Europe.

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Input: She will focus on the full range of spectrum use policies — including new allocations for licensed mobile broadband, as well as unlicensed and shared spectrum approaches. She believes that creative uses of shared / non-exclusive uses of spectrum could unleash a new wave of innovation in wireless broadband technologies and the Internet of Things, much as WiFi did in the first generation of digital services. Foster a Civic Internet of Things through Public Investments: Hillary will dedicate federal research funding to test-bedding, field trials, and other public-private endeavors to speed the deployment of next generation wireless networks and a civic Internet of Things. Governments around the world are already investing billions of dollars in developing and commercializing 5 G technologies, and Hillary wants American companies to lead the world in wireless innovation. Her investments will aim at using advanced wireless and data innovation to drive social priorities in a range of areas, such as public safety, health care, environmental management, traffic congestion, and social welfare services.

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test-bedding, field trials, and other public-private endeavors to speed the deployment of next generation wireless networks and a civic Internet of Things


Input: O'Brien said leaflets dropped on rebel-held areas of Aleppo by Syrian and Russian aircraft made their intentions "chillingly clear." "This is your last hope .... Save yourselves," the leaflets read, according to O'Brien." If you do not leave these areas urgently you will be annihilated." O'Brien said he was "incandescent with rage" over the UN council's failure to stop the suffering." The buck stops with you," he told members of the powerful panel.

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Input: "We are going to get to a point where there just isn't enough real estate for him," Benenson said of Sanders." They've just got a deficit that's going to be very hard to make up." To take on Sanders in New York, Clinton will cast the Vermont senator as an overly-idealistic, pie-in-the-sky lawmaker who won't be able to achieve many of the things he is proposing. This, Clinton argues, is out of step with New York values." Some of his ideas for how to get here won't pass, other just won't work, because the numbers just don't add up and that means people won't get the help that they need and deserve," Clinton said to applause from the audience at the Apollo Theater.

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Input: She may well be sincere when she says, as she did in an interview in the current issue of Foreign Affairs, “Strategically there is no reason not to deepen relations with Russia. The only reason we do n’t is because the Americans forbid it.” But then again, it seems she was n’t asked about the money from Moscow. When she has been, she blames the French government for making it impossible for her to get loans in her own country. In any case the Russian criteria for supporting politicians in Europe and the United States, whether with money or propaganda or both, is not ideological in the old communist sense. It is, rather, based on the much older and more basic techniques of what used to be called “rabble-rousing.”

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Input: The US is “ready to de facto ally” with its archenemies from Al-Qaeda’s branch in Syria as part of its “obsession” by using “so-called moderate” groups to overthrow the Syrian government, former UK ambassador to Syria, Peter Ford, told RT in an exclusive interview. The US “is effectively siding with a branch of Al-Qaeda” in Syria, Peter Ford told RT, speaking of Washington’s recent request to Moscow not to target Al-Nusra positions with air strikes for the sake of moderate opposition groups located in the same area. Read more

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