Input: — @KingJames: https://t.co/tTgeqxNqYm https://t.co/PcBChoxpf9 — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) October 3, 2016 Trump's new D.C. hotel was spray-painted with Black Lives Matter slogans: New Trump DC hotel vandalized;" Black Lives Matter "&" No Justice, No Peace "spray-painted on facade outside main entrance, via @AprilDRyan. pic.twitter.com/Z986vWCuMU — Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) October 2, 2016 Louisiana Senate candidate and noted anti-Semite David Duke criticized Lester Holt's moderation of the debate while noting that his wife is Jewish:

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Input: It is now at its highest rate since 1982 – when it was 1.51. The government has attempted to bolster the birthrate in the country through introducing family friendly policies, but it remains far short of the 2.0 rate needed to ensure the population replenishes itself. Almost 900,000 refugees sought asylum in Germany in 2015, with some 70 per cent of them Muslim, according to Reuters. Muslim families tend to be larger than secular European-born citizens – one reason why the influx of refugees has helped increase the average number of children. Stephan Sievert, Head of the Department for Migration and Labour market at the Berlin Institute for Population and Development told The Independent the increased rate was promising for the German economy.

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Input: "In future, get rid of" moderators "and let the candidates take the stage and have the debate without self-important media stars,” tweeted former Gov. Mike Huckabee." Will someone please tell Anderson Cooper and Martha Raddatz they aren't debating and just stick to ASKING the questions not adding rebuttal,” wrote Fox News host Eric Bolling. But despite Trump’s consistent complaints that Clinton was getting more time, a final count for speaking time by CNN showed that he got more time – though the split was nearly even: 40 minutes and 10 seconds for Trump, 39 minutes and five seconds for Clinton. It was a sign of the tight control that both Raddatz and Cooper exerted on a debate that often seemed just about to whirl into chaos.

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Input: Then, in October, the resort’s director said at an International Ski Federation meeting that Rosa Khutor plans to double in size by building around the upper Mzymta. According to a map Greenpeace claims it obtained from a June 2015 closed meeting between resort operators and the Natural Resources and Environment Ministry, Rosa Khutor and its sister company, Ober Khutor, plan to build two resorts in the valley that would occupy territory not only in the Sochi sanctuary, but also in the UNESCO-protected Caucasus reserve. The Rosa Khutor expansion, by some accounts, has already started: A “citizens’ inspection” by activists from the group Environmental Watch on North Caucasus (EWNC) in May 2015 revealed what it says is an illegal road going from Rosa Khutor through virgin territory toward the site of one of the planned resorts. The resort expansion threatens not only the leopard program, but also Sochi’s drinking water, which comes mainly from the Mzymta River, according to EWNC. The map obtained by Greenpeace also indicates that state gas giant Gazprom, which owns the Laura ski resort in Krasnaya Polyana, plans to build its own two resorts in the Caucasus reserve.

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Input: In the early hours of August 21st, the Syrian government launched rockets carrying sarin gas into densely populated neighborhoods in Damascus, killing more than fourteen hundred people. In response, President Obama, who had earlier committed to a “red line” should Assad use chemical weapons, announced, “I have decided the United States should take military action against Syrian regime targets.” He said he would wait for congressional approval, but, he continued, “what message will we send if a dictator can gas hundreds of children to death, in plain sight, and pay no price?” Shortly after the chemical attack, Hamada and many other prisoners were transported to al-Mezzeh, without explanation. Agents moved the detainees to a large, empty hangar on the base. At least one of the sarin-gas rockets is believed to have been launched from the base at al-Mezzeh — it was a logical target for an American strike.

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Input: It has only four sources: Sanofi Pasteur, a French drug company, and institutes in Brazil, Senegal and Russia. “That leaves us in a very vulnerable position,” says Peter Piot, the director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. If yellow fever did take hold in Asia, he says, then the numbers at immediate risk would rise from tens of millions to 100 m or more. The world’s emergency stockpile of 11 m doses, which is held on top of normal supply to enable a rapid response to outbreaks, is already being depleted to control the one in Africa. If the disease takes hold in Asia, says William Perea of the WHO, there would be little choice but to limit inoculations to a fifth of a standard dose so as to make supplies of the vaccine stretch further.

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Input: As Trump ranted in this rural Pennsylvania town, The New York Times reported it had anonymously received Trump’s 1995 income tax returns, which show he declared a loss of $ 916 million -- a loss that he could use to avoid paying any federal income taxes for up to 18 years. [Report: Trump could have avoided paying taxes for 18 years] A report in the New York Times says a $ 916 million loss in the ' 90s might have allowed Donald Trump to legally avoid paying any income taxes for almost two decades. (Sarah Parnass / The Washington Post) The evening capped one of Trump's worst weeks of the campaign season, one that started with his shaky debate performance on Monday night and went on to include a public feud with a former beauty queen, a middle-of-the-night tweet storm, attacks on the Clintons ' marriage and an examination of a decades-old adult film that briefly featured Trump fully clothed.

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Input: (Photo: Getty) Following the incident police said at least 11 foreigners, including Pakistanis, Guineans and Syrians, had been injured in revenge attacks. Read more: Russia sparks row with Germany over alleged rape of teenager in Berlin by ' Arabic looking men ' The right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has held protests against migrants entering Germany. One sign held by a protester read:" Rape refugees not welcome ".

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Input: Restore the National Guard as the centerpiece of our defense. Ban use of drone aircraft for assassination, bombing, and other offensive purposes. End the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, withdrawing troops and military contractors. Join 159 other nations in signing the Ottawa treaty banning the use of anti-personnel land mines. Lead on global nuclear disarmament:

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Input: Trump took the stage to a cheering crowd in New Hampshire shortly after the news broke. “They are reopening the case into her criminal and illegal conduct that threatens the security of the United States of America,” the Republican nominee said to loud chants of “lock her up”. He continued to assail his rival in deeply personal terms. “Hillary Clinton’s corruption is on a scale we have never seen before – we must not let her take her criminal scheme into the Oval Office,” Trump said. Trump, who has long claimed that the former secretary of state was only allowed to run for the White House because of a “rigged system”, added: “I have great respect for the fact that the FBI and Department of Justice are now willing to have the courage to right the horrible mistake that they made.”

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Input: Those goals are not new, but recent developments have made achieving them even more urgent and important, according to U.S. officials. Recent developments include military operations around the city of Aleppo, the entry of Turkey into the ground war, Turkish hostility toward U.S.-backed Kurdish rebel groups and the presence of American military advisers in widening conflict zones. Meanwhile, in a blow to the opposition, rebel forces and civilians in the besieged Damascus suburb of Daraya were to be evacuated on Friday after agreeing to surrender the town late Thursday after four years of grueling bombardment and a crippling siege that left the sprawling area in ruins. The surrender of Daraya, which became an early symbol of the nascent uprising against Bashar Assad, marks a success for his government, removing a persistent threat only a few miles from his seat of power. Referring to Daraya, Lavrov said:" This is an example I think will get some following."

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Input: The bill has drawn the backing of Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders and is co-sponsored by GOP candidate Ted Cruz. And Republican front-runner Donald Trump has said that Saudi Arabia should pay for more of its own defense. Meanwhile, another group of Republican and Democratic senators banded together last week to propose a bill to limit arms sales to Saudi Arabia to protest the way it's conducting the war in Yemen. The dynamic points to continued tension after Obama leaves office. There are areas where the U.S. and Saudi Arabia are in conflict, and political elites across the board "reflect those feelings," according to Weinberg.

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Input: 4 hospitals hit by air raids in Aleppo, doctors say Four makeshift hospitals and a local blood bank in Syria’s battered Aleppo city were hit by air raids in the past 24 hours, a group of doctors say. The bombardment killed a two-day-old baby in the children’s hospital in a besieged eastern neighborhood of Aleppo, says the Independent Doctor’s Association, a group of Syrian doctors that supports clinics in the city. The infant’s oxygen supply was cut after a strike on the hospital at 1:00 am (2300 GMT), the second strike on the hospital in about nine hours, according to the IDA.

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Input: Facebook Twitter Pinterest The scene of a car bomb attack in Istanbul that killed 11 people on Tuesday. Photograph: Sedat Suna / EPA In the latest of a series of attacks, 11 people died and many more were badly injured on Tuesday when a car bomb exploded in central Istanbul. On Wednesday, the PKK was blamed for another lethal bombing in Mardin province. Yet the new law, while officially justified as vital for the fight against terrorism, is widely seen as opening the way for Erdoğan’s contentious proposal to amend Turkey’s constitution and create a powerful executive presidency, which he will hold.

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Input: Through President Obama's intermediation, the apology was received. We have made serious progress on the compensation issue." However, when it came to the embargo, the issue had to be tackled in a comprehensive and humanitarian manner, said Erdoğan. The huge energy needs of the Gaza Strip could be satisfied with an energy generating ship, Erdoğan suggested, but added that there also was the need to establish the electricity infrastructure. The water problem could be addressed through digging wells and purifying sea water, he said, but this also necessitated the establishment of a water pipe system.

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Input: Merkel’s approval ratings have taken a nosedive and she has also received criticism from within her ruling coalition for her ‘open-door’ refugee and migrant policy, which saw an estimated 1.1 million asylum seekers arrive in Germany in 2015. Germany’s Economics Minister Gerd Muller stated in January that an estimated 8-10 million refugees could look to enter Europe over the coming years. In a message that would certainly appease the influential pressure group the National Rifle Association, Trump was highly critical of France’s strict gun laws, which he says played a part in the killing of dozens of people at the Bataclan Theater on November 13 by Islamist militant gunmen. advertisement "I always have a gun with me.

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Input: To that end, the Clinton campaign and its outside advisers have embarked on an effort to reach out to prominent moderate Republicans who could endorse Mrs. Clinton, largely making the case for foreign policy sure-footedness. Those calls have included to an aide of the 2012 Republican nominee, Mitt Romney, and to Nicholas F. Brady, who served as secretary of the Treasury under Mr. Reagan and the elder Mr. Bush, with plans to reach out to James A. Baker III, a White House chief of staff to President Ronald Reagan and secretary of state under President George Bush. In her debates with Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Mrs. Clinton has defended her foreign policy decisions, including urging the Obama administration to join a NATO-led coalition to oust Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi in Libya and her 2002 vote to authorize the use of force in Iraq, which she later said was a mistake. Video In an interview Wednesday night, Mr. Trump criticized Mrs. Clinton’s early support for the Iraq war, which he said he opposed, and questioned her judgment in Libya.

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Input: On a Wednesday conference call with reporters, Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway called on Clinton to “fire the staff who have engaged in this vicious anti-Catholic bigotry.” Another email that was released appears to suggest that Clinton’s campaign set up Catholic groups to organize on issues such as contraception. Sandy Newman, president of Voices for Progress, wrote in an 2011 email to Podesta that there needs to be “a Catholic Spring,” referring to the “Arab Spring,” a wave of demonstrations and protests in the Arab world. “There needs to be a Catholic Spring, in which Catholics themselves demand the end of a middle ages dictatorship and the beginning of a little democracy and respect for gender equality in the Catholic church,” Newman wrote. “Is contraceptive coverage [in health care] an issue around which that could happen,” he asked.

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Input: Rio would have been the third Olympics for Guthrie, whose baby is due in December. In April, NBC Sports announced that she would join Matt Lauer and Meredith Vieira to host NBC’s coverage of the Opening Ceremonies on Aug. 5. NBCUniversal typically dispatches close to 3,000 employees to the Olympics venue, and the Games have given NBC News, particularly the Today show, which broadcasts from the Olympic locale, an enormous platform and significant ratings lift. This year, that ratings shot in the arm could be even more critical, as Today is ahead of ABC’s Good Morning America in the 25-54 demographic for the season. (The Games will also mark the debut of Billy Bush during Today’s 9 a.m.

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Input: And what does she get for all of this work? As the debate wrapped up on Monday night, Clinton endured Trump's threats to mention her husband's adultery despite the fact he's had three marriages, and been accused of rape and is a known adulterer. As she eviscerated him on calling women pigs and dogs, Trump lied about his position on the Iraq War, lied about his reasons for not releasing his tax returns, lied about his belief that climate change is a hoax created by the Chinese, lied about his feeling that pregnancy is an "inconvenience" for businesses, lied during his defense of unconstitutional stop and frisk, lied that crime is getting worse in New York, and then lied when he said his temperament was his greatest quality. And what did Clinton get? On Fox News, they cut to their political analyst Brit Hume describing Clinton:" The TV audience saw the faces of the two candidates," Hume said.

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Input: “We asked him: ‘And his wife as well?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘And the children?’ ‘And the children too.’” She bows her head and shakes it as she adds: “We were dumbstruck.” She and her fellow secretaries set about cutting up white food sacks and turning them into a large surrender flag to present to the Russians. Discussing their strategy ahead of their inevitable arrest, Pomsel told her colleagues she would tell the truth, “That I had worked as a shorthand typist in Joseph Goebbels’ propaganda ministry.” She was sentenced to five years’ incarceration in various Russian prison camps in and around Berlin. “It was no bed of roses,” is all she will say about that time. It was only when she returned home that she became aware of the Holocaust, she insists, referring to it as “the matter of the Jews”.

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Input: Fast-forward to today, and Haiti is still in the grips of political crisis. In Martelly’s four years in office, Haiti never held a election, and as terms ran out on parliament members, only 11 elected officials were left in the country. A New York Times article documented the criminal activities of his friends and aides, who had been charged with crimes ranging from kidnapping to rape, murder and drug trafficking. Martelly stepped down at the end of this term in February amid violent rallies for his removal and disputed election results, without a successor in place. The country has postponed its elections yet again, and fresh political standoffs are underway, despite the United States spending $ 30 million on Haiti’s elections.

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Input: The manufacturer is owned primarily by the Russian government and controlled by several of Putin's closest confidants, according to the lawmakers. United Launch Alliance is under contract with the Air Force to launch military and spy satellites. The purchases effectively reward Putin's inner circle even as Washington continues to condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine's Crimea region, its continued support for Syrian President Bashar Assad, and other hostile actions, the lawmakers said. Yury Melnik, a spokesman for the Russian Embassy in Washington, said Russia considers congressional discussions about the RD-180 "an internal U.S. matter" and would not comment on "specific remarks by different lawmakers." United Launch Alliance spokeswoman Jessica Rye said the company had no comment.

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Input: The first U.S. LNG shipment will soon arrive in Europe, marking a new era for energy on the continent. Cheniere Energy’s newly completed Sabine Pass facility on the U.S. Gulf Coast recently sent a shipment of American liquefied natural gas, which should arrive in Portugal within a few days. “LNG coming out of the U.S. is probably the single most important thing that will transform the future LNG market,” Melissa Stark, energy managing director at Accenture, told Bloomberg. “It heralds the arrival of a global market.”

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Input: Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a Nice chauffeur known to police for petty crimes, accelerated the 19-tonne truck through dense crowds for more than a mile (2 km) along the esplanade before police shot him dead. The death toll is expected to rise. Of the 202 people who were injured, 80 of them were critical, and about 50 were children, many of them seriously wounded. No European attack in recent years has taken such a heavy toll on pre-teens. Le Figaro said 16 bodies were still unidentified and five children still critical, three of them on life support, quoting a hospital spokeswoman for the Fondation Lenval, Nice children’s hospital, which treated 30 children, the youngest aged six months.

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Input: Giustra, whose up-and-coming UrAsia merged with the South African company Uranium One in 2007, gave more than $ 31 million to the foundation in 2006 and pledged $ 100 million more. Rosatom took over 17 percent of Uranium One in 2009, increasing to 51 percent in 2010 and the rest of the company in 2013. Ian Telfer, who chaired Uranium One at the time of its acquisition by Rosatom, donated $ 2.35 million in four separate gifts through his family foundation." Whether the donations played any role in the approval of the uranium deal is unknown," the Times reported in the article." But the episode underscores the special ethical challenges presented by the Clinton Foundation, headed by a former president who relied heavily on foreign cash to accumulate $ 250 million in assets even as his wife helped steer American foreign policy as secretary of state, presiding over decisions with the potential to benefit the foundation’s donors."

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Input: Again, I’m not expecting that -- I’m not suggesting or in any way expecting that Chief Judge Garland should get a pass. He should just get what every other Supreme Court nominee has gotten since 1875, and that’s a fair hearing, a tough hearing. Every year since television was invented, those Supreme Court justices have gone on in front of the cameras to answer questions under oath, and those are tough questions that they’ve gotten from senators on both the right and the left. That’s all we’re asking for Chief Judge Garland to get. And I think the reason that Republicans do n’t want to give him that venue is they’re concerned that he’s going to actually perform well in that venue.

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Input: But an airstrike last month killed more than a dozen Somali government soldiers, who were American allies against the Shabab. Outraged Somali officials said the Americans had been duped by clan rivals and fed bad intelligence, laying bare the complexities of waging a shadow war in Somalia. Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter said the Pentagon was investigating the strike. Advertisement Continue reading the main story Some experts point out that with the administration’s expanded self-defense justification for airstrikes, a greater American presence in Somalia would inevitably lead to an escalation of the air campaign.

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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: He reportedly held a secret “First Contact Meeting” with ET visitors during the early hours of February 21, 1954, at Edwards Air Force Base in southern California. A series of follow-up meetings led to the signing of a treaty between the U.S. movement and the Gray aliens. Bassett went on to claim that he believes that the reason why other governments around the world have not made UFO and ET disclosures independently is that following the famous incident at Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947, when U.S. authorities reportedly recovered a crashed alien UFO from a ranch near the town, governments around the world agreed to a “truth embargo.” And despite the fact that several private individuals who witnessed the crash or had spoken with witnesses came forward over the decades to make critical disclosures, the “truth embargo” has remained in place. Obama ‘On The Brink’ Of Alien And UFO Disclosure: Before End Of Term: Steven Bassett https://t.co/Usj2snhpy3 pic.twitter.com/sqenNbUH1N — Alan Grey (@AlanGreyProject) May 23, 2016

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Input: North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho, formerly the country's chief nuclear negotiator, arrived in Beijing on Monday and was seen entering the country's embassy, Japan's Kyodo news agency reported. Ri left Pyongyang on Monday to attend a meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement countries in Venezuela and later the U.N. General Assembly, North Korea's official KCNA news agency said. A U.S. special envoy for North Korea, Sung Kim, met Japanese officials on Sunday and said the United States may launch unilateral sanctions against North Korea, echoing comments by U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday in the wake of the test. South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported that bad weather had delayed the flight of a U.S. B-1B bomber to the Korean peninsula, a show of strength and solidarity with ally Seoul, scheduled for Monday. The flight from the U.S. base in Guam would now take place on Tuesday, a U.S.

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Input: In both of their statements, Clinton and Obama took a vastly different approach than Trump, an effort to reassure born of shared liberalism and experiences with mass-casualty terrorism. They focused on the heroism of law enforcement, the emotional toll of the tragedy, and highlighted a tangle of other issues embodied by the killings — gun control, violence against the LGBT community and the broader societal issue of hate. In her statement, Clinton conflated “terrorists or other violent criminals,” infuriating even conservatives who detest their presumptive GOP nominee. “We know enough to say that this was an act of terror and an act of hate,” the president said a few hours earlier, in lockstep with the former rival he endorsed last week. “The shooter targeted a nightclub where people came together to be with friends, to dance and to sing and to live … This is a sobering reminder that attacks on any American, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation, is an attack on all of us.”

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Input: Democrats vow to burn the country down over Ted Cruz statement, ' The overwhelming majority of violent criminals are Democrats ' Russia's trend to sign bombs dropped on ISIS with "This is for Paris" found response in Obama administration's trend to sign American bombs with "Return to sender" University researchers of cultural appropriation quit upon discovery that their research is appropriation from a culture that created universities Archeologists discover remains of what Barack Obama has described as unprecedented, un-American, and not-who-we-are immigration screening process in Ellis Island Mizzou protests lead to declaring entire state a "safe space," changing Missouri motto to "The don't show me state"

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Input: Firefighters work to extinguish a fire at the Russian Defence Ministry's building in central Moscow, Russia, April 3, 2016. REUTERS / Maxim Zmeyev MOSCOW A fire ripped through a Russian Defence Ministry building in central Moscow on Sunday, sending plumes of smoke over the Russian capital as fire fighters battled to extinguish the blaze. Around 50 people were reported to have been evacuated from the administrative building, which dates from the end of the eighteenth century. Nobody was reported to have been hurt.

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Input: A major function of the Cold War was to maintain US political supremacy in Europe by cultivating an external threat on the European imperialist powers’ eastern flank. With the dissolution of the Soviet Union 25 years ago, this role has been transferred to capitalist Russia — still the second biggest nuclear power in the world. It is worth noting that today marks the 54th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s speech announcing to the American people that the Soviet Union had stationed nuclear missiles in Cuba and that the US government had instituted an embargo to intercept and search all Russian ships heading for Cuba. The Cuban missile crisis was the closest that human civilization had come to nuclear destruction. The reckless and incendiary war program of the United States has today brought the world closer to nuclear annihilation than at any time since those 13 days in 1962.

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Input: Bono, who had donated to the foundation, wanted to have some kind of arrangement whereby upcoming U2 concerts would be broadcast to the International Space Station. Abedin was puzzled by this request, and nothing was ever done about it. The Crown Prince of Bahrain, whose country had donated to the foundation, wanted to meet with Clinton on a visit to Washington. Abedin responded to Band that the Bahrainis had already made that request through normal diplomatic channels. The two did end up meeting.

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Input: pic.twitter.com/zp3v2GjTeI — Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) April 28, 2016 She received several threatening phone calls, with one person playing her a Hitler speech over the line. She was also called by a homicide cleanup service, where she was told an order had been placed for her. Many of those who assailed her online referred to her as a “kike.” White supremacist website The Daily Stormer wrote a blog about her titled “Empress Melania Attacked by Filthy Russian Kike Julia Ioffe in GQ!” “It’s unsettling,” she told the Guardian on Thursday night.

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Input: Clinton is her party’s nominee independent of anything that happened in the 10 Democratic debates and town halls, and with minimal effect from them on her financial, endorsement, and name-recognition advantages. Trump is his party’s nominee largely because of the Republicans’ 20-some debates, town halls, forums, and other live-television displays. If Trump can seem easily rather than angrily in command, the debates could be a turning point in this election. On the Democrats’ side, neither Clinton nor Bernie Sanders made a significant misstep, in word or bearing, through the debates. I asked former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, who was onstage with Clinton and Sanders for the first five encounters, whether he’d seen Clinton make any significant mistakes.

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Input: Willian Hernandez, a mechanic and a barber, loves his Cuban homeland. And he’s grateful to Barack Obama for restoring America’s ties with the communist-led island last year, a taboo-shattering move that many hope will bring prosperity to this time-capsule of a country. Many Cubans want President Barack Obama to do more to lift the U.S. embargo on Cuba, hoping such a move will super-charge the transformation. | Katie Ellsworth But Hernandez also believes Obama’s actions came too late, especially for his generation.

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Input: It is true that it is the responsibility of the Senate to provide "Advice and Consent" on presidential appointees. It is not the responsibility of the Senate to obstruct and destroy, to turn the Senate into a banana-republic institution that, by its odious behavior toward Garland, has renewed its status as a symbol of the kind of obstruction and dysfunction that has led almost 80 percent of the American people to express their disapproval of the Republican Senate, and the Republican House, according to summaries of polling from RealClearPolitics. When Sen. Mitch McConnell Mitch McConnellRyan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax push Dems step up attacks on GOP ObamaCare bill Live coverage: Senate Dems hold talkathon to protest GOP health plan MORE (R-Ky.) became Senate majority leader, he vowed to bring fairness and dignity back to the Senate. Instead, on the great matter of justice under law, he is acting more like Sen. Ted Cruz Ted CruzAccess to palliative care needs to stay in new health bill Dems step up attacks on GOP ObamaCare bill Overnight Finance: Ryan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax reform | Warren targets Wells Fargo board | Senators raise concerns over Russian takeover of Citgo | Pelosi hits GOP for budget delays MORE (R-Texas) by seeking to force a government shutdown of the Supreme Court in the same way that the only thing Cruz achieved in his short career in the Senate was to become known as the champion of the government shutdown in Washington. Garland has spent a career becoming one of the most respected jurists in America, praised by long lists of Republicans (as well as long lists of Democrats), including Senate Republicans who sang his praises and proudly supported his confirmation to the federal bench.

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Input: Earth's fever got worse last year, breaking dozens of climate records, scientists said in a massive report nicknamed the annual physical for the planet. Soon after 2015 ended, it was proclaimed the hottest on record. The new report shows the broad extent of other records and near-records on the planet's climatic health.

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Input: No way around it. Of course the same logic does not apply in reverse. If you support Clinton you are not supporting any of the questionable things she did as Secretary of State, like supporting a coup in Honduras, facilitating the record-breaking sale of weapons to dictatorships like Saudi Arabia that kill Yemeni children (and donate to her foundation), execute atheists and homosexuals, and deny human rights to women, or selling a large chunk of America’s domestic Uranium rights to Russia. No, those things simply wo n’t be mentioned because they do n’t fit the Orwellian liberal Democrat narrative. And if you do mention them, well that makes you a Nazi too; a Republican troll > Trump supporter > Nazi.

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Input: SS: What Kiev has on its hands right now is a burgeoning black market of firearms in Kiev. Do you see that becoming a serious problem? SR: Of course, anytime that you have an unpoliced society, and you begin the chaos, it’s much easier-because the patrols are less likely-it’s much easier for people to smuggle things in and out of places. Just look at the last three years in Syria how successful the foreign intelligence operatives and mercenaries that have been operating there, have basically destroyed Syria by the hands of foreigners. And this is what would be in store for Ukraine if the Russians do n’t protect the sovereignty of that nation from the foreign interventionists.

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Input: His nonprofit "OUR America Initiative" was chartered and incorporated by Jim Lacy, one of the main promoters of birther conspiracy theories, who also backed violent racist Minutemen causes, and who runs one of the largest slate-mail operations in the country, essentially a mass elections fraud business to trick voters into voting for the wrong candidate; The nonprofit papers that launched his campaign were filed by Maureen Otis, a central figure in the Texas Minutemen extremist movement, who also worked with Alan Keyes on nonprofits that smeared Obama as a foreign-born Muslim; Otis is also a supporter of Romney and has called for people to donate to the Romney campaign; And finally — Gary Johnson was a corrupt governor who privatized his prisoners with gruesome results, who wants to privatize the federal government and strip us of anything that might protect us from the Kochs and the rest of the oligarchy, and dismantle all the social programs including Social Security, Medicare, unemployment insurance, college grants, minimum wage laws, even child labor laws — and in return, he’ll let you smoke pot. If your state votes to legalize pot, that is. If your state still wants to put you in prison for smoking pot, or even stiffen those penalties, sucks for you.

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Input: And it's only the latest example of implications by critics of Bill and Hillary Clinton that they have a history of killing their enemies: In May, Trump suggested there was something "very fishy" about the 1993 death of Deputy White House Counsel Vince Foster, which was ruled a suicide. Allegations of foul play in that case have followed the Clintons ever since. Foster's sister, Sheila Foster Anthony, called Trump's allegations "beyond contempt" in a Washington Post column at the time, and the family of the slain DNC staffer, Rich, reacted just as strongly this week. A spokesman for the Rich family told Business Insider on Wednesday that they welcomed all efforts to find Rich's killer, but pleaded to keep his name out of conspiracy theorizing." Some are attempting to politicize this horrible tragedy, and in their attempts to do so, are actually causing more harm than good and impeding on the ability for law enforcement to properly do their job," the family's statement said.

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Input: Israeli archaeologists found the site of a fierce battle where the Roman army bombarded and breached the walls of Jerusalem before conquering the city and destroying the Second Temple almost 2,000 years ago, officials said Thursday. They said that the discovery, made last winter during an excavation of a construction site for the new campus of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design outside the Old City, also finally confirmed the description of the wall that was breached provided by the historian Josephus Flavius. During the dig, the archaeologists found the remains of a tower surrounded by scores of stones and boulders fired by Roman catapults at the Jewish forces guarding the wall, the Israel Antiquities Authority said in a statement.

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Input: And Assad's fight against non-terrorist rebel forces has had severe consequences for the people of Syria. Russia now appears to be aiding that fight. Dozens of people starved to death in Madaya, Syria, after the government enacted a blockade in July to cut off access to nearby Damascus. Russia has supported Syrian denials of the humanitarian crisis in Madaya, saying that reports from the town contain "fake pictures" and "phony news," according to the website Syria Deeply. The siege is ongoing.

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Input: The US establishment is sacrificing key bilateral relationships in order to win [a] domestic election, believes Copley. He added that neither Obama nor Clinton are interested in unifying the country, but they are rather interested in winning and engaging in what modern democracy seems to have become  the tyranny of the marginal majority over the marginal minority. When you think about the number of times that the Clinton campaign has brought up President Putin and the alleged Russian hacking of Hillary Clintons service, it makes you wonder just how desperate they are, Copley noted. President Obama has lost literally all prestige in an international community with the loss of prestige he has become desperate. Some of the alleged major donors (via Magafeed.com) Richard M. Lobo It appears Richard M. Lobos wife, Caren Lobo, donated $ 716,000 to DNC. Obama then nominated Richard Lobo for Director of the International Broadcasting Bureau. From BBG.gov: Richard Lobo was nominated by President Obama to be Director of the International Broadcasting Bureau in February, 2010, and was confirmed to the post by the Senate in September of that year.

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Input: It’s the price of sitting in the chair. Clinton can take tea with Kissinger all she likes, but she has always chosen activism over realism. That’s a political risk and every bit as dangerous as what Trump proposes. Image credit: National Archives / Melina Mara / The Washington Post via Getty Images / Foreign Policy illustration

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Input: The hijacker surrendered at Larnaca International Airport in Cyprus and all passengers were released safely. No one was hurt in the incident, which Cypriot authorities said was not terrorism related. A Russian passenger plane crashed in Egypt's Sinai peninsula in October, killing all 224 people on board. Moscow said it was brought down by an explosive device, and a local branch of the Islamic State claimed responsibility. Contributing: Jacob Wirtschafter in Cairo; Nikolia Apostolu from Lesbos, Greece; Maya Vidon in Paris; Melanie Eversley, Gregory Korte in Washington.

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Input: Sevgil Musayeva-Borovyk, the editor-in-chief of Ukrayinska Pravda, which has made its name exposing corruption, called him "very brave". It was not clear whether the bomb had been set off by remote control or a timer. NEMTSOV 'S FUNERAL Sheremet's friend Nemtsov, a vocal critic of the Kremlin, had been working on a report examining the Russian military's role in the Ukraine crisis when he was shot dead in central Moscow last year. Sheremet led tributes at his memorial service.

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Input: Furthermore, if Donald Trump has been campaigning on a big lie about the global economy, Bernie Sanders has been campaigning on two big lies. Sanders’s first lie, akin to Trump, is that he thinks trade protectionism will trigger a massive inflow of manufacturing jobs, when most of those jobs have disappeared from the face of the Earth. Sanders’s second lie is that he pretends that there would be no foreign policy consequences from a U.S. shift back to the days of Smoot-Hawley. The good senator from Vermont talks a lot about how his top foreign policy priority is addressing climate change. Indeed, his platform on climate change says the following:

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Input: Case in point: “The chief talked about the arrest of a man last week who she said was on home detention when his GPS tracking device became inoperable. Police allege the man then went on a crime rampage that started in Maryland and ended in the District. They say it included a robbery, a shooting and a car theft that resulted in a crash that left a bystander critically injured. ‘That person’s GPS went offline Aug. 12,’ Lanier said. ‘We did n’t know it.

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Input: But he has repeatedly criticized the U.S. for “regime change” policies that have toppled authoritarians in other countries, including Iraq and Libya, that Clinton supported. In the latter case, Putin was furious when a 2011 U.S. and European military operation billed as humanitarian — and advocated by Clinton — evolved into a de facto campaign against dictator Muammar Qadhafi. Putin reportedly obsessed over Qadhafi's violent death in Kremlin meetings. The graphic video of the Libya ruler’s bloodied body being dragged by a mob is often replayed on Russian television, along with Clinton’s wisecrack about the executed strongman: “We came, we saw, he died.” Since leaving government, Clinton has had almost exclusively tough words for Putin, especially following Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea.

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Input: 3. He feuded with the family of a slain US soldier Trump lashed out at the Gold Star parents of a slain Muslim US soldier who died in Iraq after they sharply criticized him at the Democratic National Convention. He said Humayun Khan's mother did not speak during the speech because she was not "allowed" and said the father had "no right" to criticize him. Trump's escalation of the feud prompted Sen. Susan Collins of Maine to announce that she could not support Trump.

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Input: Over a dozen of our surveillance aircraft, including drones, are working in the vicinity,” Army General Valery Gerasimov, the chief of Russia’s General Staff, said. The general said that the Russian military are particularly concerned with a scenario, in which militants from Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS / ISIL), who are currently holding the Iraqi city, would “try to escape Mosul or be granted safe passage out of it towards Syria.” “We hope that our partners from the international coalition realize, what would be the consequences of having bands freely roaming around the Middle East. Terrorist should be destroyed on sight, not chased from one country to another,” Gerasimov said. Read more

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Input: Another major challenge in the region, of course, is the Syrian Civil War itself – one of the worst humanitarian disasters in recent history. After five years of brutal conflict, the only solution in Syria will be, in my view, a negotiated political settlement. Those who advocate for stronger military involvement by the U.S. to oust Assad from power have not paid close enough attention to history. That would simply prolong the war and increase the chaos in Syria, not end it. In other words, we all recognize that Assad is a brutal dictator.

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Input: The U.S. said Russia was responsible for the airstrike, while Moscow vehemently denied any involvement. The Russian Defense Ministry flatly rejected suggestions that its forces were behind the attack on the convoy." Russian warplanes did not plan and did not deliver any airstrikes in the area of Urum al-Kubra," a spokesman told NBC News via email, referring to the town near Aleppo where the convoy was hit." They were not in the area at all." Lt. Gen. Igor Konashenkov added that a U.S.

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Input: He had occasionally, however, run afoul of the Russian authorities in his work. In 2011, he was investigated for trafficking in performance-enhancing drugs, and he said he fully expected to go to prison. His sister was convicted and imprisoned on similar charges. The investigation into Dr. Rodchenkov, however, disappeared. He said he could not be sure why, but he suspected that he had been spared punishment so that he could play a crucial role at the Sochi Games.

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Input: […] President Ronald Reagan and his advisors looked across the West’s public lands and saw dollar signs. Money was something they desperately needed in 1982, as the national deficit hit $ 128 billion. So James Watt, then U.S. secretary of the Interior, and John R. Block, the secretary of Agriculture, earmarked 35 million acres, or 5 percent of the nation’s public lands (excluding Alaska), for the auction block. The plan to privatize public lands was met with outrage and skepticism, not only from Western liberals such as Arizona Gov. Bruce Babbitt, but also from conservatives like Sen. James McClure, R-Idaho, who objected because the states were cut out of the deal.

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Input: So why are these attacks still happening? The answer is twofold: The attacks are effective, and the Russian and Syrian governments know they can get away with them. Killing the people who are providing aid to your enemies is effective If you want to completely cripple your enemies and are not concerned with pesky things like basic human decency and morality, bombing hospitals and humanitarian aid convoys is a great idea. After all, they’re providing aid to your enemies.

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Input: Moore believes we do not fully comprehend the damage caused by plastic pollution, largely as the gyres where it collects have been ignored." The gyres are 40% of the world ocean -- one third of the planet," says Moore." But these areas are not part of any exclusive economic zone, they are not used for the shipment of goods, they are not harvested for marine resources, and their welfare is no one's concern ... I'm convinced we haven't scraped the surface of the damage being done." From his own research, the volume of plastic has tripled in the gyres since the turn of the century, and plastic is disproportionately consumed by fish at the bottom of food chains, leading to rapid and deadly proliferation.

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Input: Speaking at a press conference he said his surgeon, Dr Sergio Canavero, will reveal more about the procedure next month And speaking at a press conference, he said his Italian surgeon-dubbed Dr Frankenstein-will reveal more soon. Mr Spiridonov said: ‘I continue the dialogue with Mr Canavero, we exchange information and as far as I know, he is preparing a portion of news this September.’ Severely handicapped, Mr Spiridonov received worldwide coverage when he volunteered as a guinea pig for the operation. He suffers from Werdnig-Hoffman, also known as spinal muscular atrophy, which can result in problems moving, breathing and swallowing.

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Input: Hide Caption 32 of 68 Photos: The ISIS terror threat A Yazidi woman mourns for the death of her husband and children by ISIS after being released south of Kirkuk on April 8. ISIS is known for killing dozens of people at a time and carrying out public executions, crucifixions and other acts. Hide Caption 33 of 68 Photos: The ISIS terror threat People in Tikrit inspect what used to be a palace of former President Saddam Hussein on April 3.

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Input: Ousted Iraqi Defense Minister Khaled al-Obeidi, seen arriving at an air base in Tikrit, is out of a job this morning. (Hadi Mizban / AP) -- Iraq’s parliament voted to sack its defense minister amid accusations of corruption. The move follows the resignation of the interior minister last month after that horrible bomb attack in Baghdad. This means the government’s two most important security posts are empty ahead of a planned offensive in Mosul, their biggest fight yet against ISIS militants.

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Input: An English supporter is bundled to the floor as local youths and football fans battle it out on the streets of Marseille last night A flare is let off as fans gather outside a pub in the Old Port, where they had spent the day drinking and chanting prior to England's opening Euro 2016 match against Russia Drunken English fans are captured hurling bottles at police and other fans during the violent clashes in the Old Port district of Marseille Drunken English football fans taunt French supporters in the Old Port area of Marseille ahead of the England's opening match in Euro 2016 England fans have blamed the heavy-handed tactics of the police for fuelling the violence.

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Input: “Do not share lies!” warns the website, which asks people to send the authorities the sources of wacky stories they see online. “That way, you’re helping to build a country based on truth and justice.” Some Zika skeptics have been especially focused on a British company that began releasing genetically modified mosquitoes in Brazil in 2011 in an effort to stem a deadly outbreak of dengue fever. The company, Oxitec, inserts a modified gene into male mosquitoes so that when they mate with females in the wild, they will produce offspring that die before they reach adulthood. Discover magazine is among the authoritative sources that have disproved the allegation that the engineered mosquitoes are behind the Zika outbreak, born last month on a Reddit board devoted to conspiracy theories.

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Input: For half a century, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has been the linchpin of U.S. Mideast policy. A guaranteed supply of oil has bought a guaranteed supply of security. Ignoring autocratic practices and the export of Wahhabi extremism, Washington stubbornly dubs its ally “moderate.” So tight is the trust that U.S. special operators dip into Saudi petrodollars as a counterterrorism slush fund without a second thought. In a sea of chaos, goes the refrain, the kingdom is one state that’s stable.

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Input: The dissent is a gift for her Republican rival Donald Trump, who was officially endorsed as the presidential candidate by his party last week. But the hack could damage Trump too, after Clinton’s campaign officials blamed it on Russian spies. A cybersecurity firm the Democrats hired after they realised they had been hacked, found traces of at least two sophisticated hacking groups called “COZY BEAR” and “FANCY BEAR” on their network — both had ties to the Russian government. Those hackers took at least a year’s worth of detailed chats, emails and research on Trump, a person knowledgeable of the breach told AP. Metadata associated with the file suggests that the documents passed through Russian computers.

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Input: "May his memory be a blessing," he said. Attack was near Biden visit The stabbing attack occurred along a popular oceanfront boardwalk in southern Tel Aviv not far from where U.S. Vice President Joe Biden was visiting." In these moments, terror attacks are taking place in streets adjacent to us," said former Israeli President and Prime Minister Shimon Peres during a meeting with Biden at the Peres Center for Peace. Biden "condemned in the strongest possible terms the brutal attack" that took the life of one of his countrymen at the same time, and around the same area, that he was meeting with Peres.

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Input: Rush Limbaugh says Russia could blackmail Hillary Clinton Hillary Rodham ClintonGOP fires opening attack on Dem reportedly running for Heller's Senate seat Trump seeks tech's help for government IT overhaul What do Democrats stand for? MORE with information from hacked emails like those obtained from the Democratic National Committee (DNC). “Hillary’s out there denying it right now, but she’s got ta be out there sweating bullets over this,” the conservative radio host said on his show Tuesday.

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Input: Even if someone does agree to work for him, does anyone, after this campaign, imagine Trump will be constrained by reasoned advice based on facts and logic? “Taxes.” Trump’s contribution to the tax debate has been a plan (even in its revised state) that would add trillions to the debt, deliver huge tax cuts for the rich and keep a big benefit for commercial real estate moguls like him. (He wo n’t be “ending the interest deductibility on new loans [that] would devastate the value of commercial real estate — which is a major business for Trump,” and therefore will be increasing the revenue loss by another $ 1.2 trillion.) Does anyone think anything like that is remotely viable? Even if it were, Democrats may have the Senate majority, or at the very least enough to filibuster such an absurd plan.

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Input: Mr. Trump said Mrs. Clinton was “fraudulent” in her misrepresentation of his foreign policy positions, explaining that he supported global alliances, but believed that the United States should shoulder less of the financial burden. “Our country ca n’t afford to protect the world anymore, and at least not get reimbursed for it,” he said. Mrs. Clinton has delivered a series of foreign policy speeches over the course of the nominating fight that included calling for accelerating the American-led operation to defeat the Islamic State, ending the economic embargo against Cuba, and pledging unwavering support of Israel. And she had already begun to lay the groundwork against what she called Mr. Trump’s “reckless actions” on foreign policy. The San Diego speech, to be delivered in a city known for its military presence at a time when Mr. Trump is facing scrutiny over his donations to veterans’ groups, will present a more sweeping — and fearsome — portrayal of Mr. Trump, one that the Clinton campaign will deliver like a drumbeat to voters in the coming months.

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Input: He said we should, quote, ' Get out of Iraq as quickly as possible. '" He poked the billionaire's credentials further, knocking him as a "TV star." "Trump has misled the American people over and over about his position on Iraq. He was for invading Iraq. And then he decided he wasn't.

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Input: Trump came out strong to capture the GOP vote, but once you gets the nomination do n’t be surprised to see him move towards a more moderate outlook. The true genius is the way Trump has presented himself throughout the campaign. While other politicians would be seen as flip flopping on early promises, Trump is simply making a deal and negotiating like he always has. The result is that he will pick up many democrats and moderates while keeping his loyal base. Trump will also begin to focus on his universal health care program to replace Obamacare.

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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: ' He was helped out by an Algerian family who had set up their market stall. ' He was wearing an orange shirt and he ran back to the English. ' England fans hurl chairs at French police as tear gas is fired outside bars to disperse crowds who had been clashing with Russian supporters and police English supporters clash with French locals during the troubling violence that erupted onto the streets of Marseille's Old Port A man's bleeding head is mopped up with a towel after he suffered a wound as football fans clash on the streets of Marseille

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Input: This is True. According to media reports and gun violence experts, there have been more than 3,000 shooting victims in Chicago so far this year. Clinton:" It's just a fact that if you're a young African-American man and you do the same thing as a young white man, you are more likely to be arrested, charged, convicted, and incarcerated." The research suggests that when you compare what happens to black and whites who are engaging in the same illegal activity and have the same criminal history, African Americans are more likely to be arrested, more likely to face tougher charges, and more likely to receive longer sentences than their caucasian counterparts. This claim is True.

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Input: Stand, and speak, and vote your conscience, vote for candidates up and down the ticket whom you trust to defend our freedom and to be faithful to the Constitution,’” Cruz said." After many months of careful consideration, of prayer and searching my own conscience, I have decided that on Election Day, I will vote for the Republican nominee, Donald Trump.” In July, Cruz told the Texas delegation at the convention in Ohio that his pledge to support the eventual GOP nominee was "abrogated" when the nasty primary fight between he and Trump's campaigns became personal." Neither he nor his campaign has taken back a word of what they said about my family,” Cruz said as he faced backlash over his convention speech telling Republicans to "vote your conscience." Trump and Cruz clashed heatedly as they battled for the GOP presidential nomination, with attacks often getting personal.

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Input: The Department of Homeland Security and the FBI said they were investing the issue and "all potential causes," but did not specify any possible suspects. Meanwhile, hacktivist groups Anonymous and New World Hackers claimed responsibility for the attacks-claims that multiple security researchers are skeptical about. WikiLeaks, on the other hand, urged its supporters over the weekend to "stop taking down the US internet." "Now, you can do the usual shrug, smirk, and say ' there's no evidence ' that points to Russia being behind any of this stuff," the Jester wrote." But let's get real, I know it's you, even if by-proxy, and you know it's you.

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Input: Her negligence disqualifies her from being commander-in-chief. She did not see the growing threat of radical Islam, but believed in an “Arab Spring.” She advocates for admitting more refugees from troubled Arab countries, despite the growing number of attacks in Germany and France (and no doubt elsewhere). She pushed for the Iran deal, which gives them $ 100-150 billion and no real incentive to stop its nuclear program. In 2009, three opponents of then-president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the election was fraudulent, so masses of people took to the street, yet Clinton and Obama affirmed the election results.

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Input: The cuts were part of 96 pages of cuts made to account for the paperback’s smaller size, according to a publisher’s note. But not all of them were cut: there’s still two pages praising the deal, or at least the idea of it." It's safe to say that the TPP won't be perfect-no deal negotiated among a dozen countries ever will be — but its higher standards, if implemented and enforced, should benefit American businesses and workers,” she wrote. Trump has adamantly opposed TPP since before his campaign began; there’s no indication that his remarks changed her mind. Play Facebook

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Input: There is no reforming the rotten old system. Best to “let the empire burn,” and have the fires purify the new society. True believers will not be dissuaded from this worldview, even if history tells us that almost no violent revolution in a major country has ever brought about a better, freer society without intervening years (and more like decades) of dictatorship and slaughter. Even our own revolution left the little matter of slavery for another day and the bloodiest war in our history. “Why visit Russia when you can go to Denmark?” the great jurist Louis Brandeis, one of the intellectual fathers of American liberalism, liked to say in the 1930s when friends told him they were off to see how the future would work.

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Input: The British pound fell 10 percent at one stage on Friday. The euro fell 3 percent. David Cameron announced he would quit as British prime minister. Scotland may start a new independence referendum. There are also calls in the Netherlands and France for a similar exit referendum.

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Input: O’Brien said the UN asked to deliver aid to nearly 1 million people in besieged and hard-to-reach areas in August, but the Syrian government approved less than 50 percent of the requests, denying aid to rebel-held eastern Aleppo and several other besieged areas. O’Brien said that not one aid convoy has moved yet due to fighting, insecurity and bureaucratic requirements, and the end of the month is just nine days away. Russia, a close ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government, said last Thursday it was ready to back the UN call for weekly 48-hour cease-fires in Aleppo, provided aid convoys travel to both rebel-controlled and government-controlled parts of the city. US deputy ambassador Michele Sison reiterated American support for the humanitarian pauses in her speech to the council, saying “it is imperative that all armed groups in Aleppo respect these pauses.” She urged Russia to follow its unilateral declaration “with genuine steps to support regular and sustained access to Aleppo.” O’Brien welcomed the Russian announcement but also stressed that “we need the agreement of all parties to let us do our job.”

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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: Its finances are also under strain. The group's tactics in Syria appear to reflect the strains, as it turns to suicide missions seemingly aimed at causing maximum casualties rather than sustainable territorial gains. The group said on Friday two of its members carried out suicide attacks against Kurdish fighters in at the Tishrin dam in Aleppo province, which Kurds and Arab rebel groups captured in December. Warplanes also hit areas of western Syria on Friday, the Observatory said. An air raid by the government side killed at least five people in a rebel-held area of Aleppo.

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Input: Thousands of Syrian government troops had defected by then, joining ragtag brigades of local farmers, students, and hairdressers. Some fighters made their own explosives and launched grenades from giant slingshots. The Syrian Army bombarded what little territory these rebels controlled. Several of the activists attending the training session in Istanbul lived in besieged areas; Wiley and his colleagues taught them to photograph and measure artillery craters, assess angles of impact, collect shell fragments, identify the types of weapon used, and calculate launching points. But, he said, “the big thing we wanted them to focus on was documentation generated by the regime,” which he called “the king or queen of evidence in international criminal proceedings.”

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Input: The president of Venezuela has created a new peace prize in honour of former socialist leader Hugo Chavez – and awarded it to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The award was given on the same day the annual Nobel Peace Prize was presented to Juan Manuel Santos, president of neighbouring Colombia, for his role in negotiating a peace agreement with Marxist FARC rebels. During a televised broadcast, Prime Minister Nicolas Maduro said: “I’ve decided to create the Hugo Chavez prize for peace and the sovereignty … I think President Vladimir Putin deserves this award.” This is why the White Helmets were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize

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Input: You tell me. Clarke: Well, I think Turkey is very important to the stability of the region and I think we have to be very hands on in our relationship with Turkey. We have as a national policy under law that we do n’t support military coups against democratic governments. I think that’s a good basic law, so we had to oppose that coups. But my sympathy personally is not with President Erdoğan because I think he has been doing his own version of a slow-rolling coups taking what was a secular state where there was constitutional separation between mosque and state, as we have separation between church and state, and he’s been eroding that over the course of the last five to seven years.

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Input: Saturday, Trump was apparently tricked into retweeting a Benito Mussolini quote from Twitter account “@ilduce2016” — set up, apparently, by the website Gawker — and brushed it off by saying of his demagogue forbear that “Mussolini was Mussolini” and that it was a “very good quote.” Demagogues know they’re getting away with something so shameless that even they sometimes experience it in the third person: Think of Louisiana governor and U.S. senator Huey Long telling an interviewer: “There are all kinds of demagogues. … Some of them deceive the people in their own interests.” Or the ancient Athenian demagogue Cleon, who berated an audience for being “victims of your own pleasure in listening” before telling them, “I am trying to stop you behaving like this.” Indeed. When it comes to Trump, my worry is too many voters wo n’t realize, until it’s too late to stop him, the four specific and very real dangers posed when someone like him comes to power.

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Input: If he’s smart enough to be branding Hillary Clinton as unstable, he could be doing it on purpose. He’s definitely playing into a lot of the genderized concerns that men across the country share.” Some of his male supporters have used the same types of gendered insults to intimidate the women who cover their candidate. “My Twitter mentions are a bastion of people telling me not only, ‘You should be raped, you should be killed,’ but also, ‘Oh honey, oh sweetie, let’s leave this to the experts,’” the reporter said. “I think a lot of people have trouble with women as a voice of authority about someone who presents themselves to be as macho as Trump does.”

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Input: As a 27-year -old, works for the DNC, who was shot in the back, murdered just a few weeks ago for unknown reasons as he was walking down the street in Washington,” Assange said on Nieuwsuur. BuzzFeed drew more attention to the interview in the U.S. Somewhat startled, news anchor Eelco Bosch van Rosenthal said, “That was just a robbery, I believe — was n’t it?” “No, there’s no finding,” Assange responded. “I’m suggesting that our sources take risks and they become concerned to see things occurring like that.”

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Input: Other reports have varied to cite the number closer to 200, while sources told the Independent the number was around 300. Russia and England fans clash at Euro 2016 – in pictures 15 show all Russia and England fans clash at Euro 2016 – in pictures 1/15 Russia and England fans clash at Euro 2016: An England fan kicks a tear gas canister as fans clash with police ahead of the game against Russia GETTY 2/15 Russia and England fans clash at Euro 2016: England fans throw bottles and clash with police ahead of the game against Russia GETTY

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Input: Samantha Power, US ambassador to the UN, called the use of chemical weapons "a barbaric tool, repugnant to the conscience of mankind," and urged the Security Council to take "strong and swift action" against the perpetrators. She accused the Syrian government of violating a September 2013 resolution which orders the council "to impose measures" under Chapter 7 of the UN Charter for "any use of chemical weapons by anyone in the Syrian Arab Republic". Those measures usually mean sanctions, and Chapter 7 can be militarily enforced. In pictures: Syria surrenders a third of chemical weapons 15 show all In pictures: Syria surrenders a third of chemical weapons

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Input: After Hillary: Clinton’s Arab Spring resulted in the rise of the Sunni / Wahhabist Islamic State in northern and western Iraq and Iraq’s plunge into failed state status. Shi’as, Kurds, Yazidis, Assyrian Christians, and moderate Sunnis were massacred by the jihadis in northern, western, and central Iraq. The Iraqi cities of Mosul, Kirkuk, and Nineveh fell to ISIL forces with non-Muslims being raped, tortured, and executed and priceless antiquities being destroyed by the marauding jihadists. 14. Kosovo

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Input: But that step -- unprecedented for a candidate loathe to ever admit a mistake -- may not be enough to rescue a campaign that is now in a full-fledged crisis. And Trump quickly attempted to pivot, criticizing Bill and Hillary Clinton in the video and suggesting he would take that argument to Sunday's debate." Bill Clinton has actually abused women and Hillary has bullied, attacked, shamed and intimidated his victims," Trump said." We will discuss this more in the coming days. See you at the debate on Sunday."

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Input: First, the FBI does not come calling upon her campaign or even upon her. The Department of Justice prosecutors will call upon her lawyers — and that has already been done, and Mrs. Clinton knows it. So her statements about the FBI not calling her or the campaign were profoundly misleading, and the FBI knows that. Mrs. Clinton's folks are preparing for the worst. They have leaked nonsense from "U.S. officials" that the feds have found no intent to commit espionage on the part of Mrs. Clinton.

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Input: The EU meanwhile is grappling with the worst migrant crisis since the end of World War II and the bloc wants increased cooperation with NATO to tackle the problem, notably in bolstering the UN-backed government in Libya where ISIL has recently gained ground. Russia's intervention in Ukraine and its 2014 annexation of Crimea stung NATO into action after years of complacency and defence cuts following the fall of the Soviet Union. Moscow says NATO's response is just a cover for encroaching on its borders, while Washington builds a European missile defence shield which undercuts Russia's nuclear deterrent." I think you have to remember where this started," said a senior US official." NATO took these measures because Russia chose to invade and occupy Crimea and then move into eastern Ukraine.

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Input: (Carolyn Kaster / AP) Powell’s emails are among the latest documents put on public display following a months-long hacking spree targeting high-ranking officials ahead of the November election. Authorities suspect a hacker known as Guccifer 2.0 — possibly linked to Russia’s military intelligence agency — is behind one chunk of email leaks that forced Dems chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz to resign amid Clinton’s historic party nomination. With News Wire Services

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Input: (Long-range nuclear weapons are considered “strategic,” while shorter-range weapons are considered “nonstrategic,” as explained in a March report by the Congressional Research Service.) The arms control treaty was approved by the Senate 71-26 on Dec. 22, 2010, and took effect Feb. 5, 2011. In addition to placing limits on deployed strategic nuclear warheads, New START requires “transparency and verification measures — including semi-annual data exchanges, notifications, and inspections” that provide “far more information about the other’s strategic forces than it would otherwise have,” as explained in a recent blog post by Steve Pifer, director of the Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Initiative at the Brookings Institution. But has New START resulted in “a massive reduction in nuclear weapons”? Not according to the data we reviewed and the experts we interviewed.

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Input: In fact, Hillary Clinton supports a radical 550% increase in Syrian refugees coming into the United States, and that's an increase over President Obama's already very high number. Under her plan, we would admit hundreds of thousands of refugees from the most dangerous countries on Earth – with no way to screen who they are or what they believe. Already, hundreds of recent immigrants and their children have been convicted of terrorist activity inside the U.S. The father of the Orlando shooter was a Taliban supporter from Afghanistan, one of the most repressive anti-gay and anti-women regimes on Earth.

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Input: The suit claims that Clinton's ' extremely careless ' handling of classified government data on a private email server also led to Smith and Woods ' deaths in the terrifying attacks, which were later recreated in the movie 13 Hours. The lawsuit references the Democratic presidential nominee's infamous email scandal multiple times, alleging that her ' reckless ' use of a private server to handle classified information meant it was compromised. ' It is highly probable, given Defendant Clinton's history of reckless handling of classified information, that Defendant Clinton, as Secretary of State, sent and received information about Ambassador Christopher Stevens and thus the U.S. Department of State activities and covert operations that the deceased were a part of in Benghazi, Libya. ' This information was compromised from the second that it left Defendant Clinton's private email server and easily found its way to foreign powers including, but not limited to Russia, Iran, China and North Korea, ' the lawsuit states. ' Having used a secret private email server that we now know was used to communicate with Ambassador Christopher Stevens with confidential and classified government information, and which we also now know was likely hacked by hostile adversaries such as Iran, Russia, China and North Korea aligning with terrorist groups, it is clear that Hillary Clinton allegedly negligently and recklessly gave up the classified location of the plaintiffs ' sons, resulting in a deadly terrorist attack that took their lives, ' Klayman said in a statement, the Boston Herald reports.

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Input: More for Pros here: http://politico.pro/2aSbt37. NO MUSIC STREAMING WITHOUT TAXATION — Pennsylvania has become the latest state to tax online music streaming and download services like Spotify, instituting a 6 percent online sales tax earlier this month. The state opted to impose the tax to cover budget gaps, following in the footsteps of Connecticut and Washington, which have enacted similar levies. As Billboard highlights, such taxes could prompt legal questions around whether music streaming constitutes a digital good. DROPBOX JOINS FAIR CHANCE BUSINESS PLEDGE — Dropbox is now on board with other tech giants in signing on Tuesday to the White House’s Fair Chance Business Pledge, becoming part of a new wave of businesses that are committed to offering individuals with a criminal record an equal shot at job opportunities.

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Input: He vowed to work closely with Germany in investigating the attack. One person was detained late on Tuesday as part of the investigation, Ala said, but gave no details. He defended Turkey's record in fighting Islamic State, saying 200 suspects had been detained just a week before the blast. Turkey has rounded up hundreds of suspected Islamic State members since launching what it called a "synchronized war on terror" last July, raids which continued on Wednesday. Since the attack, police have detained a total of 65 people including 16 foreign nationals in six Turkish cities, the Dogan news agency reported. The Russian foreign ministry confirmed three of those detained were Russian nationals, but it was not immediately clear whether there was any connection to the Istanbul attack, for which there has been no claim of responsibility. Ala said Turkey had detained 3,318 people for suspected links to Islamic State and other radical groups since Syria's conflict began. Of that number, 847 were subsequently arrested, most of them foreigners.

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Input: The question went to both Clinton and rival Sen. Bernie Sanders Bernie SandersSanders to GOP on healthcare bill: ' What are you afraid of? ' Dems step up attacks on GOP ObamaCare bill Live coverage: Senate Dems hold talkathon to protest GOP health plan MORE (I-Vt.). Brazile has faced scrutiny for another email in the leaks that suggested she had provided debate questions to Clinton in advance of a March 13 town hall event hosted by Roland Martin and Jake Tapper, also host of CNN's "State of the Union" and "The Lead." "From time to time I get the questions in advance,” she allegedly wrote Palmieri on March 12. Both Brazile and CNN have fiercely denied that Clinton was given any advance notice of questions.

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Input: She lied about having destroyed government emails, about having exposed classified U.S. government secrets to Russia, China and other hostile nations through an unsecured server in her own basement that, according to U.S. intelligence experts, almost certainly led to the outing of covert CIA operatives. She lied to the parents of murdered Americans in the terror attack at Benghazi, Libya, about the cause of their death, and her role in their death. She lied under oath when testifying to Congress, and she lied about FBI Director James Comey’s public indictment of her lies, which he delivered to the nation. Her lies are nothing new and they are legion. Hillary Clinton is a “congenital liar,” in the words of famed New York Times columnist William Safire, whose 1996 essay, “Blizzard of Lies,” explains that she lies “for good reason: To admit otherwise would be to confess taking, and paying taxes on, what some think amounted to a $ 100,000 bribe” allegedly arranged through some very suspicious-looking cattle-futures trades.

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Input: So why are these attacks still happening? The answer is twofold: The attacks are effective, and the Russian and Syrian governments know they can get away with them. Killing the people who are providing aid to your enemies is effective If you want to completely cripple your enemies and are not concerned with pesky things like basic human decency and morality, bombing hospitals and humanitarian aid convoys is a great idea. After all, they’re providing aid to your enemies.

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Input: Beijing worries the system's radar will be able to track its own military capabilities, and that the deployment will do nothing to lower temperatures on the Korean peninsula. Russian has expressed similar opposition. North Korea, which has threatened a "physical response" against the THAAD decision, has conducted a series of military technology tests this year, including a fifth nuclear test this month, in defiance of U.N. Security Council sanctions that were tightened in March. (Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Additional reporting by Ju-Min Park in Seoul; Editing by Nick Macfie)

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

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Input: However, the report does not list Mercury as being part of the probe. CNN cites law enforcement officials saying that prosecutors “have n’t ruled anything out.” The Podesta Group on Friday announced that it had hired a law firm to look into whether the former client misled it about its sources of funding. “The firm has retained Caplin & Drysdale as independent, outside legal counsel to determine if we were misled by the Centre for a Modern Ukraine or any other individuals with regard to the Centre’s potential ties to foreign governments or political parties,” said Podesta Group CEO Kimberley Fritts in a statement. Podesta's advocacy activities were disclosed under the domestic lobbying statute, the Lobbying Disclosure Act, but not FARA.

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

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Input: He questioned the value of massive military investments in Asia and wondered aloud whether the United States still was capable of being an effective peacekeeping force there. “South Korea is very rich, great industrial country, and yet we’re not reimbursed fairly for what we do," Trump said." We’re constantly sending our ships, sending our planes, doing our war games — we’re reimbursed a fraction of what this is all costing." Asked whether the United States benefits from its involvement in the region, Trump replied," Personally, I do n’t think so." He added," I think we were a very powerful, very wealthy country, and we are a poor country now.

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Input: “Of course, I condemn, of course,” Trump said. He went off on another long Putin tangent. “I never met Putin. This is not my best friend.” When Trump was done, Wallace reminded everyone where the conversation had begun.

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Input: Along that road are instructions to a subordinate to divert all her government emails through her private server. On the side of that road are emails instructing her aides to remove "secret" markings from documents and resend the documents to her via a non-secure fax machine. On that road are emails revealing the names of secret undercover intelligence assets, the locations of North Korean nuclear facilities, the transcripts of telephone conversations among foreign intelligence agents, and the travel plans of then-U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens in the days before he was murdered. Democrats who indulge in Clinton's false hopes will do so at their peril.

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Input: According to author Halper, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thought the information retrieved from the microwaves off the top of the White House was good enough to warrant Clinton advocating the release of Jonathan Pollard who was jailed for spying for Israel. In a meeting near Wye River, Maryland in 1998, Netanyahu told Clinton that the Israelis had indeed heard the hot sex talk and he offered a quid pro quo – they would throw away the tapes if Pollard was freed. Clinton lobbied for Pollard's release but CIA director George Tenet threatened to resign if the administration acceded to the request. In March 1997 Clinton called Lewinsky to the Oval Office and confessed this was to be their last sexual encounter-they oral sex in the study just outside the Oval Office. He had fallen down stairs at Australian golfer Greg Norman's house in Florida and was on crutches with limited movement.

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

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Input: Photo: DPA Turkey on Monday strongly warned the German parliament against adopting a resolution recognising the mass killings of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire as genocide, saying it could have repercussions for bilateral ties. The German lower house of parliament is set to vote on Thursday on the resolution over the two years of slaughter from 1915, which carries the contested word "genocide" throughout the text." Germany is our friend and our ally where many citizens of Turkish origin live," said deputy prime minister and government spokesman Numan Kurtulmus." Germany must be careful concerning its relations with Turkey."

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Input: The demolitions of the three shelters and two other structures took place in the Palestinian village of Umm el-Kheir, a small Bedouin village near the Israeli settlement of Carmel in the South Hebron Hills. It is in Area C of the West Bank, which is entirely under Israeli military control. The Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem said 27 people lived in the demolished structures, of whom 16 were minors. They all lost their homes in previous demolitions in the same village, its statement said. In April, six EU-funded modular homes were demolished in Umm el-Kheir.

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Input: North Korea is not a recipient of any U.S. funding, according to Yonhap. Other countries that have received the designation include Equatorial Guinea, Russia, Syria and Iran. North Korea is suspected of widespread human trafficking violations, involving the overseas deployment of forced laborers. In September, a South Korean government think tank stated North Korea's forced laborer population may be growing, and that there may be about 110,000 -120,000 North Korean workers earning foreign currency in 20-40 countries for the Kim regime. A separate estimate by the Seoul-based Database Center for North Korean Human Rights issued last December indicated Pyongyang was deploying at least 50,000 people to earn up to $ 300 million.

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Input: Describing one of the many executions carried out by ISIS fanatics, another woman in the film, who calls herself Oum Mohammad, reportedly said: ' I could see there was a man sitting on the ground. The executioners were lined up, they were dressed in black. ' They execute with bullets, desecrate the body, decapitate it, stick the head on a spike and put it on display at the roundabout or they will put the body on the road and force cars to run it over until nothing is left. ' Video shows how ISIS have turned the city's Armenian Catholic Church of the Martyrs into their police headquarters. The women describe armed guards patrolling deserted streets inside the terror group's Syrian stronghold (file picture)

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Input: At a cybersecurity conference in New York City Wednesday, FBI Director James Comey was mum about the DNC hack, but defended the value of the so-called name-and-shame appraoch." If we can't lock them up, we have to call them out," Comey said. One very prominent former NSA contractor, Edward Snowden, has already said he believes that spy agency’s snooping programs would “certainly” have spotted the DNC data as it made its way to Russia, if that’s what happened. It’s even possible the U.S. Government has some knowledge of internal Kremlin discussions about the hack, through surveillance or human sources, former intelligence officials say." Even if the attackers try to obfuscate origin, # XKEYSCORE makes following exfiltrated data easy.

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Input: But he also said that “given how vehemently Trump has denounced Bush’s national security team, it is striking how much of this speech depends on counterterrorism ideas developed by the Bush administration. It is not a perfect copy — we never contemplated seizing the oil for our own purposes and we were far more concerned about how anti-Muslim rhetoric might demoralize the moderate Muslim voices we were seeking to empower. But the good parts are not new — they are imported from the Bush approach — and the new parts are not good.” Mr. Trump did not explain how his vision of “extreme vetting” of immigrants, including an “ideological test,” would be enforced, or how it would be different from when prospective terrorists lie on questionnaires now. But he made clear that he views the recent terrorist attacks in the United States through the prism of immigration, pointing out that the common point between the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., and the mass attack in San Bernardino, Calif., was that they were carried out “by immigrants, or the children of immigrants.”

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Input: … I think there were a lot of dissenting voices before this war about the horrors of war, but I’m very concerned about this three-week TV show and how it may have changed people’s opinions. It was very sanitized. … War is ugly and it’s dangerous, and in this world, the way we are discussed on the Arab street, it feeds and fuels their hatred and their desire to kill themselves to take out Americans. In other words, the death, carnage, and destruction the U.S. invasion was causing was generating huge amounts of anti-American hatred and a desire to bring violence to Americans, even if it meant sacrificing lives to accomplish that. But the U.S. media never showed any of that, so Americans had no idea it existed, and were thus incapable of understanding why people were eager to do violence to Americans.

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Input: General Breedlove repeated concerns that Isis can exploit the crisis to send its fighters into Europe, as it did before November’s Paris attacks. He said that the flow of migrants crossing the Aegean Sea was “masking the movements of criminals, terrorists and foreign fighters”. “Within this mix, Isil (Isis)or Daesh is spreading like a cancer, taking advantage of paths of least resistance, threatening European nations and our own with terrorist attacks,” he added on Tuesday. The US Army in Europe (USAREUR) is working with American agencies and international allies to track returning fighters and share intelligence on suspected extremists. In his written evidence to the US committee, General Breedlove said public opposition to the welcoming of refugees in some European countries could also pose a security risk.

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Input: What type of person does that? I do not want that kind of person representing me or my nation. As a wounded warrior who has had to deal with very severe physical and mental challenges since being shot in the head in Iraq, your juvenile actions could not offend me more. As you read this article, is your first response going to be to make fun of the way I look now or laugh at the limitations I face on a daily basis? Would you imitate my military friends who limp due to their prosthetic legs or ridicule wounded warriors who need service dogs to navigate through their “new normal?” Reflecting on your philosophy that you do not like service members who are captured, how do you feel about me and the hundreds of thousands of wounded warriors from Iraq and Afghanistan who suffer from the visible and invisible wounds of war?

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Input: Once they think they, you know, “Well, let’s not take any more casualties,” they’ll just leave — do n’t think you’ve beaten them. I’m watching now a film coming out of Ramadi where Iraqi soldiers are looking through holes in the wall to snipe back at the ISIS people that are 100, 200 yards away, but we claim that Ramadi is now under our control. “My own experience with these kinds of insurgents over time is that they just do n’t bomb for the sake of bombing; it’s part of a greater strategy. Even if it’s just a car bomb in the street, it’s intended to terrorize; it’s intended to kill a particular person.” So we have a conflict now in which we’re fighting two different wars.

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Input: As for his decision not to use the term "radical Islam"--for which Trump and other Republicans have been highly critical -- Mr. Obama said it could discourage Muslim allies if they think the U.S. is willing to lump them in with terror groups like ISIS." The fact of the matter is that I've never been politically, or particularly concerned with the phrase," he said." What I've been more concerned about is how do we stop violent extremists from killing us." "The reason that I haven't used the particular phrase" radical Islam "on a regular basis is because in talking to Muslim allies, in talking to the Muslim American community here, that was being heard as if we were ascribing to crazy groups like I.S.I.L. or Al Qaeda, the mantle of Islam," he added, using an alternative acronym for ISIS.

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Input: Two children were killed and at least five others wounded by the napalm-like incendiary weapons, Nedal said. Photos showed the charred remains of two children, identified as Hamzah, a four-year-old boy, and Ayah, a seven-month-old girl." We have had two child fatalities and another five children were seriously wounded by the use of napalm," Osama Abou Zeid, the head of the Homs Media Centre, told Al Jazeera." At least 20 adults have also been injured by napalm," Abou Zeid said. Homs ' al-Waer neighbourhood has been under government siege for more than three years, with residents of the rebel-held area deprived of food and aid supplies while also being prevented from leaving due to heavy shelling and bombardment.

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Input: We'll begin with the "birther" issue because that was the beginning of Trump's political prominence. Trump in 2011 became the most important popularizer of the conspiracy theory that President Barack Obama was not born in this country and therefore is not an American citizen. Until just a few days ago, Trump refused to disown this blatant lie, which is an insult to all African-Americans. Even after Trump finally conceded that Obama is an American, he repeated the lie that Hillary Clinton started the birther conspiracy theory. Clinton was right during the first debate to label Trump's shameful "birther" behavior racist.

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