Input: Others suggested he was helping the FBI expose wrongdoing in the presidential election, and that made him a target. On Tuesday, WikiLeaks shoved those conspiracy theories into the mainstream when it announced on Twitter a $ 20,000 reward for information leading to a conviction in Rich’s killing on July 10 in the 2100 block of Flagler Place NW. It adds to a $ 25,000 reward offered by D.C. police, customary in all District homicides. [DNC staffer killed in apparent robbery in Northwest Washington] Rich’s father, Joel I.

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Input: NATO's battalions are part of a wider deterrent to be approved at the Warsaw summit on July 8. It will involve troops on rotation, warehoused equipment and a highly mobile force backed by NATO's 40,000-strong rapid reaction unit. NATO hopes the complex plan can discourage Russia from orchestrating the kind of campaign used to annex Ukraine's Crimea peninsula in February 2014 and which has left eastern allies nervous of their former Soviet overlord. Berlin and Washington also said that they would send troops to the new force, which is expected to total about 4,000 soldiers, with contributions from other allies. France is sending a company of about 250 troops to Britain's battalion.

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Input: Putin’s message is that Russia will start acting as an equal, whether or not the U.S. wants to treat it as one. It’s a reminder to the presidential candidates that pacifying Russia will have a price tag, and that Russia’s starting position in any negotiations will be arrogantly high. Since the outgoing U.S. administration is unlikely to step up military activity in Syria, Russia is doing its best to make sure President Bashar al-Assad’s troops win a decisive victory at Aleppo before the next U.S. president is inaugurated. The U.S. decision to withdraw from talks means little to Putin, who has been playing for time rather than talking anyway. Clear thinking from leading voices in business, economics, politics, foreign affairs, culture, and more.

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Input: That is the source of this occasionally massive amount of propaganda,” he said. “But what is the West doing? It is doing nothing but vilifying Russia; it believes that we are threatening to attack. The situation is comparable to the crisis at the end of the 1970s and beginning of the 1980s.” The expert was referring to a massive build-up of intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe that could have easily led to an unintended nuclear war.

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Input: Washington (CNN) Donald Trump says he'd be willing to speak with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un -- a sharp departure from current U.S. policy toward the reclusive Asian nation. The presumptive GOP nominee made the comments in an interview with Reuters on Tuesday, the news service reported. Trump said he would talk to Kim to try to stop the country's nuclear program." I would speak to him, I would have no problem speaking to him," Trump said.

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Input: (The CIJA, which does n’t publicly identify witnesses, refused to acknowledge this.) “They spent three days here, asking me in very great detail about the work I did, details about how the meetings would go,” he said. They also photographed the smuggled papers, and Barakat promised them that he’d supply the originals if the case went to trial. As Barakat and I spoke through a video feed, he lifted up a heap of files, which are usually kept in a secure facility. “These are the meeting minutes for the Central Crisis Management Cell,” he said.

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Input: MOSCOW (AFP) -Russian state television aired the final words of the pilots of the Flydubai passenger jet which crashed in Rostov-on-Don last week killing 62 people, suggesting pilot error could be to blame. Russia's Rossiya-1 channel late Friday said it had obtained a transcript of the last words exchanged a minute before the Boeing 737 plunged to the ground from a source in the investigative commission with access to the plane's voice recorders. The plane, which was arriving from Dubai, exploded into a fireball last Saturday after missing the runway in the city in southern Russia while making a second attempt to land in heavy wind and rain. The transcript suggests that the pilot lost control of the plane immediately after switching off the autopilot.

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Input: Spy's younger brother Maxim has claimed British agents were responsible The widow of murdered Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko has described as ‘lies’ extraordinary new claims by his brother that the assassination was the work not of Russian agents but British intelligence. Alexander Litvinenko died of radiation poisoning in 2006 three weeks after ingesting polonium in a London hotel. His death triggered an international murder investigation implicating Russian president Vladimir Putin and naming two former KGB officers. The murder is to be the subject of a public inquiry, announced by Theresa May earlier this week.

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Input: At the National Tracing Center, they figured out where the guns came from, as well as who bought them — the slain assailants. Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, had purchased the handguns legally between three and eight years previously at Annie's Get Your Gun, an FFL in Corona, California. Farook and Malik were discovered to have posted an oath of allegiance to the Islamic State on Facebook just before the attack began. But what about the assault rifles — they were still a mystery. Turned out a former neighbor, Enrique Marquez, bought those during the same time period.

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Input: MOSCOW (AP) — The foreign ministers of China and Russia are opposing the possible deployment of an advanced American missile-defense system in South Korea. Amid escalating tensions over North Korea's nuclear arsenal, Washington and Seoul last week began formal talks on deploying the sophisticated THAAD system. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told a news conference Friday after meeting with Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov that putting the system in South Korea would "inflict direct harm to the strategic security interests of China and Russia." Lavrov said deploying the system would be an overreaction." The plans, which the U.S. has been nursing together with the Republic of Korea, exceed any conceivable threats that may come from North Korea, even taking Pyongyang's current actions into account," he said.

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Input: "The simplest answer is the truth: I am a campaign professional. It is well known that I do work in the United States and have done work on overseas campaigns as well. I have never received a single" off-the-books cash payment "as falsely" reported "by The New York Times, nor have I ever done work for the governments of Ukraine or Russia. Further, all of the political payments directed to me were for my entire political team: campaign staff (local and international), polling and research, election integrity and television advertising. The suggestion that I accepted cash payments is unfounded, silly, and nonsensical.

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Input: (2/2) — Rep. Alan Grayson (@AlanGrayson) July 13, 2016 In recent days Ginsburg has criticized Trump, calling him “a faker” and joking that she would move to New Zealand if he’s elected president. Trump has called on Ginsburg to resign, as have other GOP lawmakers. Speaker Paul Ryan Paul RyanRepublicans and the lost promise of local control in education Ryan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax push 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-Wis.) said her comments were "inherently biased and out of the realm." Rep. Randy Weber (R-Texas) also called for her to resign, while Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who suspended his own presidential campaign in March, said Ginsburg's comments “crossed the line.”

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Input: In April 2014 Rosatom "received a letter from the Office of the US Department of Energy at the US Embassy in Moscow, in which, referring to instructions from Washington, reported the suspension of nuclear energy cooperation in connection with the events in Ukraine," it said." In these circumstances, further cooperation with the American side, meaning tolerance of American citizens at Russian nuclear facilities, direct cooperation between Russian and American institutions, and the exchange of information and documentation between them, is impractical," it said. The agreement may be terminated by either party within 90 days after the other party provides written notice, it said. According to a 5 October statement by Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding Russia's decision to terminate the 2010 "implementing agreement" between Rosatom and the DOE, the 2014 suspension by the USA of nuclear cooperation and "other hostile steps and statements", mean that Russia "can no longer trust Washington in a sphere as sensitive as the modernization and safety of Russian nuclear power plants". It added:" If Russia makes the decision to convert particular research reactors to low-enriched nuclear fuel, we will conduct this work independently."

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Input: JILL STEIN: Well, what we would be doing is trying to preempt these conflicts before they occur through a vigorous policy of engagement. So, we would be sitting down to negotiate, to actually reduce conflict on the Korean Peninsula right now, because there’s never really been a cease-fire. Or there’s been a cease-fire, but there has n’t been a formal cessation of the war on the Korean Peninsula. JUDY WOODRUFF: That’s right. Jill Stein, I also want to ask you about — as you know, your campaign has drawn parallels with Ralph Nader in 2000.

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Input: The trade deficit with China was $ 367 billion in 2015. In his speech, Trump went on to say that “Clinton gave China millions of our best jobs,” and in a tweet on June 21, he directly linked a rise in the trade deficit to the loss of “millions” of jobs. As our fact-checking colleagues at the Washington Post wrote, “[a] billion dollars of exports is estimated to create about 6,000 jobs.” That’s according to a Commerce Department analysis of U.S. jobs supported by exports. So, if one wanted to run a back-of-the-envelope calculation using that formula, the $ 47 billion increase in the deficit over four years would amount to 282,000 jobs. That’s not “millions.”

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Input: Russian forces claim they have created four safe passages out of the blitzed city for civilians and two for fighters. They blame ISIS terrorists for stopping civilians leaving and holding them as human shields. They claim they are supplying stricken Aleppo with humanitarian aid from Armenia and Serbia to help the 275,000 residents trapped there-but say jihadists seize it before it can get through. They also claim they presented the Americans with a proposal to secure the road into Aleppo so other convoys can get through-but say America turned it down. (Photo: Getty)

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Input: In 2013, Hungary was able to kick out the International Monetary Fund; that July the government announced plans to repay the IMF bailout and by August of the same year, the Central European country had indeed arranged an early payment of its loan. Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, wanted to ease off austerity measures and prove to the world they could do it by themselves, something that many people believed they achieved in 2011 when they issued their first bond. And while they are now economically sovereign, things have not always been great, especially since borrowing € 20 billion to avoid becoming insolvent during the economic crisis of 2008. But, they paid back the loan early, saving them € 11.7 million worth of interest expenses they would have paid to the IMF, whom many believe is owned by the Rothschild’s. Which is very believable, because it seems that they have their fingers in almost every central bank in the world.

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Input: For each one, the USDS would redesign them to meet the needs of citizens in the 21st century; publish detailed performance and customer service metrics, including creating a “Yelp for government” that allows for easy citizen rating; and embrace the industry best practice of continuous site improvement. Hillary will make sure that government delivers on results for citizens. Eliminate Internal Barriers to Government Modernization: The federal government uses cumbersome processes for buying information technology and hiring technical experts. And it has outdated laws and rules which impose internal impediments to building modern digital services — i.e., it can take many months to make simple changes to a website or get a digital form approved. Hillary will streamline procurement processes and get rid of unnecessary internal red tape that prevents government from developing intuitive and personalized digital experience that they have come to expect from great consumer internet companies.

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Input: He spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly about the budget. The official said the Pentagon wanted a “heel to toe” rotational troop presence in Eastern Europe, meaning that there would always be the equivalent of a brigade in the region. Under a 1997 agreement known as the NATO-Russia Founding Act, both sides pledged not to station large numbers of troops along their respective borders. Administration officials said they were confident that the new deployments would not be seen as breaching that agreement. In any event, Poland and the Baltic States argue that Russia’s incursion in Ukraine was a clear violation of the act, and that NATO should no longer abide by it.

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Input: Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas was a Soviet spy in Damascus in the 1980s, Israel’s Channel 1 reports, blowing the lid off information uncovered in an archive smuggled out of the USSR. According to reporter Oren Nahari, the famed Mitrokhin archive, kept by KGB defector Vasily Mitrokhin, reveals that Abbas was a KGB spy in Damascus in 1983. The documents, obtained by Israeli researchers and scholars Isabela Ginor and Gideon Remez, are said to show that Abbas, who was code-named Krotov (mole), worked under Mikhail Bodganov, who was then station posted in Damascus and is now a top Russian diplomat in the Middle East.

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Input: Louisiana itself has the highest rate of new HIV diagnoses in the country for any state, at 36.6 persons diagnosed with the disease for every 100,000 living in the state. The state is second to Washington DC, which has a diagnosis rate nearly double that, at 66.9 diagnoses per 100,000 people. But Louisiana also tops the world with its incarceration rate of 816 people incarcerated for every 100,000 adults in the state, according to the National Institute of Corrections. The national average in the US is 392 persons per 100,000. Louisiana’s incarceration rate tops countries such as Turkmenistan (with a rate of 583 per 100,000) and Russia (with 442 per 100,000), according to the World Prison Brief.

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Input: 84 308 Istanbul June 29, 2016 Triple suicide bombing at city's Ataturk airport Three attackers arrived in a taxi and began firing at the terminal entrance. They blew themselves up after police fired back-with CCTV footage capturing the moment one wounded extremist detonated his explosive vest seconds after a hero officer tried to detain him. 41 230 Orlando June 12, 2016 Mass shooting at gay nightclub Pulse Lone gunman Omar Mateen-a 29-year -old American security guard-sprayed bullets across the dancefloor before taking hostages after entering the Florida nightclub in the middle of the night armed with an AR-15.

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Input: What’s hitting us is hitting them, arguably far worse. China has had absolute devastation from their fossil fuels as well as from their – from the impacts of climate change, and they’re having trouble in their economy, it’s not easy highrolling for the Chinese economy anymore and all of us would benefit from redirecting our resources from this needless militarization of conflict over fossil fuels into actually addressing all of our independence from fossil fuels. JO-ANN ARMAO, ASSOCIATE EDITORIAL PAGE EDITOR: When comments of your vice-president came up, you seemed to suggest “that’s him, this is me.” You seemed to be making a distinction. If you were elected president and God forbid something happened, are you comfortable with him assuming the office and does he have the qualifications to do the job? STEIN: So, when I say “that’s him”, I refer to the provocative language that he uses, but his ideas, and his vision are not different from mine.

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Input: Cuban has repeatedly blasted the GOP nominee, questioning everything from his net worth to his business acumen. Several months ago, Cuban was approached by dissident Republicans to mount an independent bid against Trump, but rejected the offer." Leadership is not yelling and screaming and intimidating," Cuban said." You know what we call a person like that in Pittsburgh? A jagoff!"

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Input: If you want to be honest and boil your support down to "You got ta pick the moderate Republican over the fascist Republican", that's fine, but don't try to convince me Hillary- > Clinton is any sort of principled progressive unless the polls show it's safe for her to be one. My point is that rewarding the Democratic Party for giving us our fifth straight corporate centrist (counting Gore and Kerry) as a nominee means that the future holds for us even more corporate centrists. Why should the Democratic Party even bother to listen to its progressive / liberal base if they can win elections without them? That's the point of # BernieOrBust -- holding fast to our end of the negotiation for the soul of the Democratic Party in the long term, not just one single election. If you want to elect yet another DNC centrist "Democrat", Milt, who'll oversee the next Middle East regime change, the next banking bubble bursting, the further enrichment of Big Health & Pharma, the solidification of a pro-business SCOTUS, and the further rightward slide of the Democratic Party from its base of labor unions, LGBT, young, and minorities, go right ahead, just don't flatter yourself with the pious notion that you're doing anything "progressive".

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Input: It took three more weeks, but on March 17, 2011, Secretary Clinton got her wish for a “no-fly zone” approved by the UN Security Council, acting under the military authority of Chapter Seven of the UN Charter. The vote was ten in favor, zero against, and five abstentions. The five abstentions were: Brazil, Russia, India, China and Germany; Russian and China, which as permanent members could have vetoed the motion, complained later that they were deceived as to the real purpose of the “no-fly zone,” not realizing that it was a pretext for another “regime change,” which involved slaughtering much of the Libyan army before driving Gaddafi from power. When Gaddafi was captured in his home town of Sirte on Oct. 20, 2011, he was tortured with a knife, which was used to sodomize him. Then he was murdered.

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Input: Thus and therefore, it is possible that Hillary will lose because of this fervent anti-establishment sentiment throughout America. She is, after all, pure establishment. Mussolini and Hitler won elections via anti-establishment sentiment. Back then, people felt abused and left out of the system, similar to today. Back then, people looked for a “mad voice.”

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Input: “IN THE INTEREST OF PUBLIC SAFETY” — Sheriff calls on McCain to stop airing ad: Navajo County Sheriff K.C. Clark is calling on GOP Sen. John McCain’s campaign to stop airing an ad featuring footage of Democratic Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick leaving a constituent event. The ad criticizes Kirkpatrick for “walking out on constituents when questioned about it. But Clark said in a statement put out by Kirkpatrick’s campaign that he asked Kirkpatrick to leave the 2009 event after an angry crowd gathered and he “felt the situation had gotten out of control.” If the McCain campaign continues to air the ad, he added, TV stations should stop running it “in the interest of public safety.” The McCain campaign responded by noting that Clark made no mention of any safety concerns in his comments to a local paper at the time. “Congresswoman Kirkpatrick and her political ally Sheriff K.C.

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Input: As of this writing, the United Nations has still not been able to provide significant aid to the people of Aleppo. The issue at hand is control of the Castello road leading into the city. Reuters reports that Syrian government forces and rebel groups have not withdrawn from the road, which is a key strategic asset in controlling the city. Zakaria Malahifji, an official in Aleppo-based rebel brigade Fastaqim, issued a statement to the press. “Today the withdrawal is supposed to happen, with aid entering tomorrow.

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Input: Sepúlveda’s head. The upper tattoo is a QR code containing an encryption key. According to Sepúlveda, his payments were made in cash, half upfront. When he traveled, he used a fake passport and stayed alone in a hotel, far from campaign staff. No one could bring a smartphone or camera into his room.

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Input: Air strikes continue pummelling rebel-held Aleppo as Syrian president says taking city is key to capturing other areas. Rebel-held areas of Aleppo have been hit by a new wave of intense aerial bombardment, according to opposition activists, as Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said the capture of the northern city would be a "springboard" to pushing "terrorists" back to Turkey. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday that dozens of overnight air strikes had struck east Aleppo, as fighting continued on the northern and southern edges of the city. According to The Aleppo Media Centre, a group of opposition activists in the city, the overnight air strikes killed and wounded a number of people, with some buried under the debris. A spokesman for the Civil Defence first responder group in Aleppo told Al Jazeera that at least six civilians had been killed in air strikes as of Friday afternoon.

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Input: No Trump scandal rises to the level of criminality associated with the Clintons As reported by The New York Times, the Hillary Clinton State Department allowed an elaborate transfer of nearly 50 per cent of U.S. domestic uranium output to the Russian government through various parties while the Clinton Foundation received millions of dollars in donations from the parties involved. In Clinton Cash, investigative reporter Peter Schweizer alleges that the Clintons used Hillary Clinton’s sway as secretary of state to obtain audacious sums of cash for numerous other brazen activities, among them allegedly awarding to Clinton cronies disaster-relief funds meant for Haiti after its 2010 earthquake, enriching the Clinton Foundation in the process. “On any fair reading, the pattern of behavior that Schweizer has charged is corruption,” wrote Lawrence Lessig, director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. “Bill and Hillary have mixed personal wealth, power, and influence peddling,” concluded Jeffrey D. Sachs, Earth Institute Director at Columbia University.

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Input: And a group of Turkish lawyers has reportedly filed a complaint accusing the MPs of "insulting Turkishness and the Turkish state". Earlier this month, Turkey recalled its ambassador from Berlin in fury after the German parliament voted overwhelmingly for the Armenian "genocide" resolution. The leader of Germany's Green Party, Cem Ozdemir-who initiated the debate on the Armenian massacres in the Bundestag-told a newspaper he had been sent emails saying things like:" We will find you anywhere." He said well-informed friends in Turkey had told him to take the threats seriously. Armenians say up to 1.5 million of their people died in the atrocities of 1915, during the Ottoman Empire's collapse in World War One.

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Input: Left: March 23, 2002, a relatively clear day. Right: April 8, 2002, a day of extremely dusty skies. Storms transport mineral dust from the deserts of China and Mongolia over great distances, as well as pollution from agriculture, industry and power generation. Asian dust has been detected as far away as Colorado. Thick clouds of dust block substantial amounts of incoming sunlight, which in turn can influence marine phytoplankton production and have a cooling effect on regional climates.

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Input: As our nation’s chief diplomat, Hillary did n’t back down when the stakes were high. As Hamas rockets rained down on Israel, Hillary went to the region immediately. Twenty-four hours after she landed, a ceasefire went into effect — and that year became Israel’s quietest in a decade. Wait just one moment. Clinton was secretary of state for President Obama’s entire first term, and her most significant accomplishment is helping negotiate the end of a week-long skirmish between Israel and Hamas?

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Input: Such was the thickness of these socks that it was impossible to wear them inside anything other than boots which were two sizes larger than the wearer's feet. The heavier degree of protection from the elements suggests the officer on the right is on his watch on the flight deck. The other two may only have emerged briefly to confer with him and thus are only wearing their coats over their uniforms. Unsurprisingly, dressing for Arctic conditions involved some time and a lot of layers of clothing 3/19 A US-supplied Grumman Martlet fighter taking off from the US-supplied escort carrier HMS Pursuer.

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Input: Kristensen, April 26: When the treaty entered into force in 2011, Russia was already below the limit in deployed launchers, so they have not been required to reduce that category. Instead they have reduced non-deployed launchers. In contrast, the United States was above the treaty limit for both deployed and non-deployed launchers, so it has been busy dismantling and denuclearizing so-called phantom launchers — that is, missile silos and bombers that were not actually used in nuclear planning but had not yet been destroyed or carried equipment that made them accountable under the treaty. … Overall, in the case of the United States, the reduction in launchers will have been most significant for phantom launchers versus actual nuclear committed launchers. As for deployed warheads, the two countries have made slight adjustments to their deployed warheads.

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

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Input: Its slogan was “Success Distilled.” -- The Associated Press, “Senate candidate bills campaign for family trip,” by Brian Slodysko: “A Facebook page belonging to the wife of [Rep. Marlin Stutzman] touted the family's visit to the Ronald Reagan presidential library in California … Although a caption on one of the photos describes the trip as a ‘family vacation,’ documents obtained by the AP show his Senate campaign paid more than $ 2,000 for the four airline tickets to L.A. and covered expenses for a van rental and Hilton hotel room ... The California visit represents just a small part of the over $ 300,000 in flights, vehicle charges, meals and hotel stays Stutzman's campaign fund has spent since the tea party-backed Republican went to Washington in 2010 on a pledge to oppose special interests … roughly three times more than Rep. Todd Young, his GOP Senate rival in the May 3 primary who joined the House about the same time.” -- The Tampa Bay Times," O.J. Simpson's children have put down roots in St. Petersburg," by Susan Taylor Martin: “In 1994, the siblings were just children when their father ... was arrested on charges of murdering their mother ...

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Input: Or his uncle. Or the pawnshop dealer who sold it to someone else. Tracing the gun beyond the initial point of purchase is on the cops.) This is the maddening, inefficient way gun tracing works, and there is no effort afoot to make it work any better. For all the talking we do about imposing new limits on assault weapons, or stronger background checks, nobody talks about fixing the way we keep track — or don't keep track — of where all the guns are.

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Input: All appear to be pre-agreed deals and suggest direct evidence of collusion between the Syrian regime and Islamic State chiefs. For the past 18 months Sky News has maintained contacts with a Free Syrian Army group originally from Islamic State's headquarters in Raqqa, but now living across the border in Turkey. The group operates a network to smuggle defectors away from IS. Some of the defectors openly admit their prior allegiance to the terror group and acknowledge that they only left because of internal disagreements with some of the IS leadership. In reality they remain wedded to the basic tenets of Islamic State: strict Sharia law, a caliphate and on-going war against anyone deemed to be an enemy.

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Input: "Given his long tenure in the House and Senate, he has more foreign policy experience than Ronald Reagan or Barack Obama did when they were running for office the first time." Related: Ahead of South Carolina, Clinton and Sanders Show Off Support from Prominent Black Leaders But Sanders has apparently struggled to form a team of foreign policy experts to help advise his presidential campaign. His team has been largely quiet about who is advising him on the issue and those experts that the campaign has cited, have denied advising the senator beyond one or two interactions. Even Korb admitted he was "surprised" when Sanders cited him as someone who had given him foreign policy advice, given that he had spoken to the senator only once since he declared his presidential run.

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Input: And the reality is that, yes, we need third parties. And you know what? I would defend the rights — I mean, I’ve gone to jail, frankly, in multiple states defending people’s rights to participate. I believe there should be third parties. I’ve fought for ranked choice voting.

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Input: If Mr. Trump wanted to wield the IRS against that Chicago family; if he tried to use U.S. diplomats to help his hotel business in Russia or Azerbaijan; if he barred disfavored reporters from the White House; if he ignored a judge who told him, say, that immigrants had to be given hearings before being deported — what recourse would Americans have? Yes, Congress has the power to remove a president who ignores the law. But given the easy GOP capitulation to such an obviously unfit candidate, how far would Mr. Trump have to go for a likely Republican House to impeach him? How much damage would he have to do? We have faith, ultimately, in the integrity of the federal workforce, the resilience of the U.S. system and the essential fairness of the American people.

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Input: Head of the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill denounced as "heresy" those human rights that he said contradicted the Bible, and proclaimed fighting them the goal of his church, the Interfax news agency reported Sunday." We are seeing how efforts are being made in many prosperous countries to establish by law the person's right to any choice, including the most sinful ones, those that contradict god's word, the concept of holiness, the concept of god," Patriarch Kirill said after a Sunday service at Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral, Interfax reported. He did not specify which human rights he found offensive, but called for Russian Orthodox believers to "defend" their faith, the report said.

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Input: Donald Trump says he would refine key foreign policy positions under a new tagline: “America first.” (Photo: Andrew Harnik / AP) Donald Trump says if elected president, he would consider a freeze on buying oil from Saudi Arabia unless the Saudi government provides ground troops in the fight against the Islamic State. “The answer is, probably yes,” Trump said when asked by the New York Times if he would halt U.S. oil purchases from the Middle East without military support from Arab countries in the region. “We protect countries, and take tremendous monetary hits on protecting countries. That would include Saudi Arabia, but it would include many other countries, as you know.

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Input: I would love in France for the Islamic community to organize itself for civil disobedience and have a dialog with the rest of the country, the rest of their fellow citizens, to improve their lot, but I do n’t see any of that going on. No, I’m not in any way suggesting that they’re right to use violence. I am suggesting there’s a reason for their resentment. Tavis: What you’re talking about now to me is the quintessential definition of diplomacy where you have issues, you have differences with your allies, and yet you have to find a way to express what needs to be expressed. What do you think of Mr. Trump’s potential as a diplomat?

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Input: Ryan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax push Dems step up attacks on GOP ObamaCare bill MORE (R-Ky.) that would give the FBI more power to get a customer's email records during terror investigations. (The Hill) A network of hijacked computers that was believed to be offline has resumed spamming its victims with ransomware. (The Hill) Hackers have hit the Indonesian and South Korean central banks ' public websites, after a recent pledge by the hacking group Anonymous to target the global banking industry, senior officials in both countries said.

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Input: Donald Trump’s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, slammed the New York Times Monday morning after the newspaper published a story reporting that secret ledgers in Ukraine show more than $ 12 million in cash earmarked for him. The report states that the political party of former Ukraine president and pro-Russia ally Viktor Yanukovych set aside $ 12.7 million for Manafort. Investigators say the money was part of an illegal, undisclosed payment system, the Times reports. Story Continued Below “Once again, the New York Times has chosen to purposefully ignore facts and professional journalism to fit their political agenda, choosing to attack my character and reputation rather than present an honest report,” Manafort said in a statement obtained by NBC News.

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Input: Instead, he mostly shone a spotlight on his own weaknesses and stumbled through unforced errors — feeding concerns about his treatment of women, his readiness for the presidency and his temperament for the job. [Fact checking and analysis of the final presidential debate] For Trump, the debates have been at the center of the most destructive two-month period of his campaign, when he has faced multiple accusations of unwanted sexual advances against women and blowback over his vulgar comments on a hot microphone about forcing himself on women sexually. He now trails Clinton by a wide margin in nearly all national and battleground state polls, and party leaders fear it is too late for him to recover. For the GOP, the debates have amounted to an enormous missed opportunity to mount its case against Clinton, which has been years in the making and which many Republicans were once confident would be their key to victory.

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Input: (The CIJA, which does n’t publicly identify witnesses, refused to acknowledge this.) “They spent three days here, asking me in very great detail about the work I did, details about how the meetings would go,” he said. They also photographed the smuggled papers, and Barakat promised them that he’d supply the originals if the case went to trial. As Barakat and I spoke through a video feed, he lifted up a heap of files, which are usually kept in a secure facility. “These are the meeting minutes for the Central Crisis Management Cell,” he said.

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Input: Despite that, it’s not clear that these missteps render Johnson “unfit” to run for president, as many have suggested. It’s easy to forget that former presidents and candidates alike have made similar mistakes. President Gerald Ford’s insistence that there was “no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe” ranks high among the most memorable blunders of past presidential debates, while Sarah Palin’s short-lived stint as John McCain’s running mate saw a plethora of errors, including the improbable assertion that Vladimir Putin might want to singlehandedly invade Alaska. This year’s election has seen foreign policy gaffes from both Republican and Democratic candidates, most notably Donald Trump’s highly questionable statement that there are no Russian troops in Ukraine. His campaign has been riddled with implausible plans and inaccurate assertions, from his belief that the United States should simply “take all the oil” in Iraq and Syria, to his contention that Hillary Clinton has spent her entire adult life fighting the Islamic State.

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Input: Next on the list is Mexico, with a homicide rate of 23.4, followed by Russia at 12.8. Then comes a tie for fourth place — Chile and the United States both have a homicide rate of 5.2. Estonia follows close behind with a homicide rate of 4.7....

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Input: Vox’s Jeff Stein: “Sanders needed to win Kentucky to maintain an increasingly far-fetched path to the Democratic nomination. The fact that he lost — albeit by what appears to have been a very small margin — will only dramatically increase the calls for him to exit the race.” Real-keeping: Sanders is grossly misleading his supporters about his prospects for winning the nomination. — Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) May 18, 2016 If Democratic race was a normal race, it would've been over a while ago.

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Input: Trump has called for a ban on Muslims entering the United States and wants to put some mosques under surveillance following the attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, Calif. Some of the Paris attackers reportedly posed as refugees to enter Europe. Earlier this month, he also kicked a Muslim woman, who stood up in silent protest, out of a rally." We haven't really learnt anything — I’m depressed by the current situation. The experience of the Syrian refugees is similar to what we went through," Schloss said in Newsweek.

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Input: Also the air intake was blocked, and this helped their preservation. ' In summer 2016, researchers are due go back to the site and search for remains of possibly one more cub, or even the lioness. Cave lions-Panthera spelaea (Goldfuss) -lived during Middle and Late Pleistocene times on the Eurasian continent, from the British Isles to Chukotka in the extreme east of Russia, and they also roamed Alaska and northwestern Canada. Research on the two cubs could help to explain why the species died out around 10,000 years ago, since the animal had few predators, was smaller than herbivores, and was not prone to getting bogged down in swamps, as did woolly mammoths and rhinos. One theory is a decline in deer and cave bears, their prey, caused their demise.

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Input: “President Bush and Iraq Prime Minister Maliki Sign the Strategic Framework Agreement and Security Agreement.” 14 Oct 2008. State Department Website. “Agreement between the United States of America and the Republic of Iraq on the Withdrawal of United States Forces from Iraq and the Organization of Their Activities during Their Temporary Presence in Iraq.” Arango, Tim. “Despite Difficult Talks, U.S. and Iraq Had Expected Some American Troops to Stay.” New York Times.

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Input: .. and boundless confidence in America's promise … that I accept your nomination for President of the United States! Now, sometimes the people at this podium are new to the national stage. As you know, I'm not one of those people.

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Input: Maybe it was the compliments they'd just given each other. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump shook hands after the debate ended, something they refused to do 90 minutes earlier. The debate was especially icy at the outset, replete with talk of sexual impropriety and Trump threatening to jail Clinton over her erased emails. But the St. Louis rumble concluded with a voter asking them to say something nice about each other. Clinton's and Trump's families quickly joined them on stage as the debate wrapped up.

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Input: The Clinton campaign has dismissed claims the server was compromised by a third party, including those of Romanian hacker "Guccifer." Fox News was first to report his claims that he accessed the server with ease in March 2012. The Justice Department extradited the hacker to Northern Virginia where he recently agreed in a plea deal to cooperate in future investigations and testify before a grand jury. An NSA whistleblower said the Assange claim should be taken seriously, given WikiLeaks’ track record of releasing authentic documents." It just says that she put all this material on a server that was insecure, that anyone in the world could access it and break in," said Bill Binney, a former National Security Agency specialist who spoke out against the agency's broad surveillance programs.

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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: He said most of the fighters surrounding the town belong to the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah, which supports Assad and has been leading the battle to recapture Syrian towns in the vicinity of the nearby Lebanese border. Hezbollah denied the allegations, saying that rebels were preventing residents from leaving. “Terrorist groups are exclusively responsible for starving out the civilians in the town,” said a report carried on the website of Hezbollah’s al-Manar television station. The towns of Foua and Kefraya also have not received aid, the report said. Although the reports of starvation deaths can not be independently confirmed, videos and photographs posted on social media showing emaciated people suggest that conditions are dire.

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Input: Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, said the evidence pointed to the Syrian Kurdish group. “Despite the fact that their leader says they have nothing to do with this, the information and documents obtained by our interior ministry and all our intelligence organisations shows that [the attack] was theirs,” he said. On Thursday morning a bomb detonated by remote control hit security forces travelling in a military vehicle on a road linking Diyarbakır to the district of Lice. The military said six people died and one was seriously injured. Turkish artillery in the south of the country shelled positions of Kurdish fighters in Syria for the fifth day in a row on Wednesday, despite calls from both the US and Russia to cease all hostilities towards the YPG in Syria.

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Input: Republican leaders, including former members of Congress, have called for the Republican National Committee to stop helping Trump and refocus its resources on helping candidates win down-ballot races for the House of Representatives and the Senate. Earlier this week, Trump reshuffled his campaign leadership while his campaign chief, Paul Manafort, faced increased scrutiny over his work with pro-Russian political groups in the Ukraine. Manafort resigned on Friday. The Reuters / Ipsos poll was conducted online in English in all 50 states. It surveyed samples of 1,119 and 1,118 likely voters, respectively, and has a credibility interval, a measure of accuracy, of 3 percentage points.

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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: Clinton Campaign Suggests DNC Email Leak Is Vast Russian Conspiracy to Elect Trump The Democratic National Committee's rules panel has decided that Rep. Marcia Fudge of Ohio will preside over convention sessions beginning Monday. Barney Frank, co-chair of the rules committee at the Democratic National Convention, says it was never expected that Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz would preside over convention proceedings this week. A DNC rules committee member says Fudge was voted as convention chairwoman as part of standard procedures. That makes clear that DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz will not act in that capacity; under party rules, the DNC head acts as temporary chair until a new one is voted in.

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Input: As secretary of state, Clinton was one of nine voting members on the foreign investments committee, which also includes the secretaries of the Treasury, Defense, Homeland Security, Commerce and Energy, the attorney general, and representatives from two White House offices — the United States Trade Representative and the Office of Science and Technology Policy. (Separately, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission needed to approve (and did approve) the transfer of two uranium recovery licenses as part of the sale.) Peter Schweizer — author of “Clinton Cash,” which Trump referred to in his speech — claimed in a TV interview last year that Clinton, as a committee member, had “veto power” and “could have stopped” the sale. But that’s not accurate. The committee can approve a sale, but it can not stop a sale.

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Input: There are real ethical questions about Clinton’s dealing with Clinton Foundation. The AP report shows that Clinton met with at least 85 of 154 people from private interests. Clinton apologists argue that it’s misleading because it ignores all the public officials that she met with, and thus conflating the numbers significantly. But Clinton’s meetings with public officials are a normal part of her daily job at the State Department. The AP correctly tried to analyze who Clinton chose to meet with that are from private interests.

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Input: He also downplayed his personal investment in the place, saying that he only made minor improvements to the property. “I cleaned it up a little bit, but not too much,” Trump told POLITICO. “The primary thing was, I painted it.” The implication, of course, would be that the price differential between his purchase and sale was almost entirely profit. Back when Trump was trying to flip the house at a dizzying price, however, he claimed to have done far more. “I bought the land and gutted the house,” Trump told a reporter in late 2005.

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Input: China and Russia have pushed for a resumption of six party talks on denuclearization in North Korea. The talks, which also involve Japan, South Korea and the United States, have been on hold since 2008. Washington has said it is willing to negotiate with the North if it the country commits to denuclearization, which Pyongyang has refused to do. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will seek Cuba's help in responding to North Korea's nuclear and missile programs during a rare visit to Havana next week, a spokesman said. (Editing by Lincoln Feast)

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Input: Snowden's comments are just the latest twist in the drama of an alleged hack of the NSA. A group calling itself The Shadow Brokers posted part of the software online earlier this week to entice bids for the rest of it. In a 13-tweet blast, Snowden said the auction may be a signal to the US to think twice before retaliating over the hack of two Democratic Party organizations. Those hacks were widely seen as attempts by Moscow to influence the US electoral process. Snowden wrote the "circumstantial evidence and conventional wisdom" suggested Russia was behind the alleged hack.

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Input: Falsely said, “Mosul is on the border of Syria.” (Mosul, in Iraq, is more than 100 kilometres from the border.) 4. Falsely said, of the D.C. v. Heller legal case about gun rights, “What the District of Columbia was trying to do was to protect toddlers from guns and so they wanted people with guns to safely store them.” (This contains a grain of truth but is more misleading than accurate. The case was about D.C.’s handgun ban. In its petition to the U.S. Supreme Court, the district listed the protection of children as one reason for the ban.

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Input: As secretary of state when the Syrian war began, Clinton knows all this perfectly well. She’s aware of all the implications. Perhaps she was taking such a position to create distance between herself and her Republic opponent Donald Trump, who’s in favor of the Assad regime remaining and takes the Kremlin’s line that in Syria “Russia is killing ISIS” rather than pulverizing civilians who just happen to live in rebel-held areas. Also, she may also believe that a tough stance will help her on November 8. But that’s unlikely, as she knows full well that the polls show that Americans have no appetite for another war in the Middle East, particularly young voters on the left – Bernie Sanders supporters whom she has not yet fully won over.

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Input: As a result of a sharp decrease in oil revenue, the terrorist group has turned to trade other kinds of contraband, which has even made its way to France, Frederic Encel, professor of International Relations at the Paris School of Business, told the French newspaper Atlantico. “Under French pressure after the Paris terror attacks in November last year, the Americans and Russians increased their airstrikes on the ' nerve centers ' of the Islamic State (also known as ISIS), that is, the transport routes which take oil to Turkey,” Encel said. “As a result, Daesh barbarians, like other criminal regimes, have increased other forms of trafficking. This includes facilitating the local production of goods: cigarettes, food, cotton, and of course weapons and drugs.” Encel also said that ISIS terrorists have earned millions of dollars from smuggling goods, some of which has ended up in France.

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Input: Two dozen videos posted online showed alleged and sometimes comical evidence of vote rigging at polling stations, mostly public schools, where election officials were seen stuffing ballots or allowing people to vote without proper documents. While turnout was low across the board, some polling stations in Russia-annexed Crimea were almost empty. Crimean Tatars, an indigenous Muslim minority, largely boycotted the vote, activists and independent media reports said. The city of Bakhchisaray, Crimea’s onetime capital, and adjacent villages with a Tatar majority, ignored the vote, they said." I am not going to the election, because this is not my government and not my country," Nariman Dzhelyalov, deputy chairman of the Mejlis, an informal Tatar parliament that was outlawed by Moscow, said in a statement.

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Input: It was, however, a campaign speech at heart, one that looked ahead to her general election foe. According to aides, the speech was designed to put the differences in temperament between Clinton and Trump in stark relief — and it appeared to do just that. Clinton lambasted Trump for his trademark Twitter tirades, saying he has few skills beyond “composing nasty tweets ... I’m willing to bet he’s writing a few right now.” Indeed, Trump waited only minutes before tweeting that Clinton appeared to be “reading poorly from the telepromter [sic]!” Clinton also touted her foreign policy experience while belittling Trump’s lack of it.

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Input: The annual report by Amnesty International calls for an end to capital punishment, saying it “breaches two essential human rights: the right to life and the right to live free from torture.” READ MORE: Global execution rate jumps by nearly 15% in 2013 As of July 2015, 101 countries had abolished the capital punishment for all crimes, according to the human rights group. However, Saudi Arabia executed more people in 2015 than it did in 2014. At the beginning of 2016, the country beheaded 47 people, including a prominent cleric.

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Input: Ukraine is engulfed in a months-long political crisis that has paralysed the government and delayed the release of vital Western aid Genya Savilov, AFP / File "Having become president, I stopped participating in the management of my assets, having delegated this responsibility to the respective consulting and law firms," he added. The tycoon-turned-president's attempts to distance himself from the scandal come with the war-torn country already engulfed in a months-long political crisis that has paralysed the government and delayed the release of vital Western aid. None of the three accounts associated with Poroshenko's offshore firm held more than 2,000 euros ($ 2,270). But the "Panama Papers" report said they may have been a haven used by the president to avoid paying taxes on his profitable candy empire.

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Input: BERLIN (Reuters) -German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday underscored her government's commitment to strengthening NATO's eastern flank, days after her foreign minister warned against "saber-rattling" that could escalate tensions with Russia. Merkel said Germany would continue to do engage in regular dialogue with Russia but also saw "new threats" close to Europe, and was determined to both increase its own military spending and strengthen the NATO alliance." The (German coalition) government as a whole has agreed to the NATO decision that over the longer term we should dedicate 2 percent of gross domestic product to defense spending," she told a news conference after a meeting with Polish officials." I think that will be supported by everyone in the government ... That is the position of the government."

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Input: Everything is black or dark. There is very little traffic. Occasional trucks, transporting oil tanks, drive through the city on their way to other ISIS areas or the Turkish border. It was one o'clock in the afternoon.

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Input: The rising sophomore studying exercise science is also accused of biting pieces of flesh off John Stevens ' face and stabbing the couple's neighbor, 47-year -old Jeff Fisher, who tried to come to their rescue. An autopsy showed that Mishcon was beaten to death, while her husband died of multiple knife wounds and was partially cannibalized. The wife had also been stabbed, but those injuries were not fatal. Online tutorial: Harrouff had posted bodybuilding tutorials on YouTube in the days and weeks leading up to the attack. In his latest video, posted just five days before the attack, the teen talks about why he does not want to take steroids

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Input: Leading Russian anti-doping official dies suddenly MOSCOW (AP) — The former executive director of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency has died, two months after resigning amid a doping scandal that triggered the suspension of the country's track and field program. In a telephone interview with The Associated Press on Monday, RUSADA spokeswoman Nataliya Koshel confirmed that Nikita Kamaev died on Sunday. He was 52.

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Input: Getty 7/21 Christine Lagarde faces court over £ 340 m Bernard Tapie payment-July 2016 The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde, must stand trial in France over a payment of € 403 million (now £ 340 m, then £ 290 m) to tycoon Bernard Tapie, a France's highest appeals court has ruled. The court rejected Ms Lagarde's appeal against a judge's order in December for her to stand trial over allegations of negligence in her handling of the affair. Ms Lagarde could risk a maximum penalty of one year in prison and a fine of € 15,000 euros if convicted. Reuters

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Input: The crash of FlyDubai Boeing 737 in Russia's Rostov-on-Don could occur after the commander of the aircraft deliberately sent the airplane into the ground, PravdaRu reported." During the preliminary investigation it was found that the commander of the Boeing 737-800, presumably giving account for his actions and adequately assessing both the situation and the position of the aircraft relative to the ground, was holding the control knob for 12 seconds, thus putting the stabilizer into the nosedive mode," Interfax news agency reported with reference to its source. Based on the data obtained from the flight recorder, the commander of the Boeing 737 was not answering questions from the co-pilot about the appropriateness of his actions.

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Input: By withdrawing from Iraq in 2011, Flynn said, “this administration decided, for purely political reasons not to sustain our victory over AQI and therefore we now face an even stronger global jihad movement of radical Islamists.” The August 2012 cable, which Breitbart said stated that “the Obama administration was actively supporting al-Qaeda in Iraq,” offers an Iraq-centric scenario of what was happening on the ground at the time but leaves out much detail and connective tissue in what subsequently became a complicated, multi-player battlefield. Most of its initial paragraphs, indicating who composed it and the circumstances under which it was written, are redacted. Instead, it begins by saying that events were taking “a clear sectarian direction” and that “the Salafist, the Muslim Brotherhood, and AQI are the major forces driving the insurgency in Syria..

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Input: Were these same “experts” the targets of the Russian strike? Considering that US lives were lost at the hands of the Russian military, it’s very telling that the Western media has refused to cover this story. Even though the corporate media loves to blame Russia whenever possible, their failure to cover the deaths of US military officers by a Russian missile strike strongly implies that the US and the other foreign officers killed in Aleppo were doing something that the US government does not want to be made public. The Russian airstrike may also have been a covert response to a US-led coalition airstrike less than two weeks ago that “accidentally” killed 62 and wounded over 100 Syrian soldiers. ISIS attacked within 7 minutes of the strike, implying that the terrorist group knew of the airstrike in advance.

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Input: “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets,” Trump’s son, Donald Junior reportedly said in 2008. “We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.” Trump’s campaign manager Paul Manafort also used to be a lobbyist for the pro-Russian president of Ukraine, who was ousted in 2014. The Clinton campaign has accused Moscow of trying to meddle in the US election and help Trump. Adviser John Podesta pointed to a “bromance” between Trump and Putin.

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Input: Democrats are asking the court to extend the consent decree for another eight years, and to bar the RNC from conducting “voter intimidation with the Trump campaign and its associates.” Earlier Monday evening, U.S. District Judge John Michael Vazquez issued an order requiring the RNC to turn over any agreements it made with the Trump campaign pertaining to poll monitoring or voter fraud by Nov. 2 at 5 p.m. EST. 10/31 1:53 p.m.: Dems sue Trump campaign over alleged voter intimidation in four states Democrats are suing the Trump campaign, Trump ally Roger Stone, and four state Republican parties, alleging illegal voter intimidation. The four lawsuits, filed Monday, charge that state parties in Arizona, Nevada, Ohio and Pennsylvania are teaming up with the Trump campaign and Stone to raise unfounded fears about voter fraud and intimidate minority voters.

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Input: Accounts of the controversial payments surfaced this weekend when The New York Times reported that Manafort's name appears on a list of payments amounting to $ 12.7 million from 2007 to 2012. A spokesman for the Ukrainian Anti-Corruption Bureau confirmed the details in the Times story. In the period covered by the payment list, Manafort worked for former Ukrainian President Viktor F. Yanukovych, who was supportive of Russia's President Vladimir Putin and was ousted in 2014. The bureau spokesman emphasized that so far it has not been confirmed whether Manafort received the cash, since the bureau has not yet been able to confirm if signatures in the recipient column are Manafort's or not. The spokesman said the Anti-Corruption Bureau is conducting an analysis of the signatures.

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Input: Hillary Clinton says she'll never be as flashy as rival Donald Trump. And that's ok, says the Democratic nominee. Clinton is pointing to Trump's Thursday interview about his health on the Dr. Oz talk show as evidence of what she calls his "showman" tendencies. Clinton says she focuses intensely on policy details — a trait she argues should be important to a president." Like a lot of women, I have a tendency to over prepare," she says.

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Input: A Supreme Council recently established by the Houthis has been denounced by the government of President Hadi and Riyadh as well. The latest round of peace talks between the Houthis and supporters of Hadi collapsed on August 6. The UN expected the sides to get back to the negotiating table in September, however that proposal was brushed aside by the rebels because the Saudis have since ramped up their airstrikes, AP reports. Meanwhile, after a meeting between Russian special representative for the Middle East, Mikhail Bogdanov, and Yemen’s deputy prime minister in Saudi Arabia, Abdulmalik Al-Mekhlafi, Moscow called on both sides to continue to seek a peaceful solution to the ongoing war. “During the lengthy conversation, we discussed in detail the military, security, and humanitarian situation in Yemen, stressing the need for an urgent peace solution form the crisis in the country,” Bogdanov was quoted by TASS news agency as saying.

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Input: I think she was better prepared than Trump," said Bruce Bittles, chief investment strategist at Baird." Whether the debate will mean anything (remains) to be seen." Key market issues such as drug pricing and breaking up the banks were not discussed at this debate. But both candidates agreed on the need to strengthen cybersecurity. Clinton focused more on combating terrorism in cyberspace, while Trump said hacking and cyberwarfare was a "huge problem."

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Input: The head of the Deir Ezzor political-security branch warned, “There may be a wave of assassinations.” Hamada, who was briefly detained twice, continued to organize protests, but he started spending nights in safe houses with other activists. One of his brothers had been arrested and had n’t been released. In a meeting with the security committee, Jameh warned that the detentions could be “a double-edged sword,” increasing the number of angry people demanding their family members’ release. In late May, Jameh sent several cables expressing his outrage that interrogators were giving detainees electric shocks, putting out cigarettes on their flesh, beating them “on all parts of the body, in a disgusting manner,” and sodomizing them by forcing them to sit on soda bottles.

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Input: He holds to conventional libertarian non-interventionism. But he understands America’s position in the world, and we are certain that once the weight of leadership is on his shoulders, he will meet that responsibility. He pledges to honor all existing treaties and obligations, and supports NATO, though he wants the European nations to live up to their commitment to pay 2 percent of GDP for the common defense; a reasonable expectation. Trump divides America Now consider again Donald Trump, and why this conservative newspaper with an established affinity for Republican presidential candidates can not consider supporting him.

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Input: Twitter Embed Trump Campaign Chair Denies Influencing Ukraine Section of GOP Platform 0:38 autoplay autoplay Copy this code to your website or blog Around the same time, companies controlled by another Russian billionaire, Oleg Deripaska, paid $ 7.35 million toward management fees for Manafort and his partners in connection with an investment fund, according to a court filing in the Cayman Islands. Deripaska once was denied entry to the United States because of alleged mafia ties, current and former officials told NBC News. Deripaska is considered by U.S. officials to be among Putin’s inner circle.

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Input: However, the “97% consensus” is a flawed statement. Only 32.6% of the papers examined in the infamous John Cook study actually stated a position endorsing anthropogenic global warming. However, 97% of those said that “recent warming is mostly man-made.” And so what we have is a misleading statement that has become misrepresented and cited as fact. (Interestingly, there is a website called The Petition Project that lists more than 30,000 scientists who have publicly declared their disagreement with the theory of catastrophic man-made warming.) 2015 was the hottest year ever, and now 2016 is even hotter.

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Input: People in Mosul call it “the Biter” or “Clipper” – a metal instrument newly introduced by Isis officials to punish women whose clothes they claim do not completely conceal their body. A former school director, who fled from the city earlier this month, describes the tool as causing agonising pain by clipping off pieces of flesh. Fatima, a 22-year -old house-wife who does not want to give her full name, said she had finally escaped from Mosul after several failed attempts because her children were starving and Isis had become more violent and sadistic compared with a year ago, especially towards women. “The Biter has become a nightmare for us,” Fatima said after reaching safety in Mabrouka Camp for displaced people near Ras al-Ayn in Kurdish-controlled north-east Syria. “My sister was punished so harshly last month because she had forgotten her gloves and left them at home.”

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Input: The killer whose rampage left 49 people dead also searched for "Pulse Orlando" and "Shooting" online on the morning of the carnage Sunday and said on Facebook:" America and Russia stop bombing the Islamic state," according to the letter. The Senate Homeland Security Committee sent the letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, asking the company to produce information on Mateen's online activity and to provide a briefing to the panel. The letter illuminating Mateen's state of mind in the final hours of his life was released as the long, sad procession of memorials and funerals for the victims began in Orlando and as the FBI appealed for the public's help in reconstructing the killer's movements. The FBI is also trying to establish how much Mateen's wife may have known about the attack at Pulse dance club." We need your help in developing the most complete picture of what he did and why he did it," FBI agent Ron Hopper said at a news conference.

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Input: This is difficult because the attacks are politically partisan, but it is essential. If foreign governments learn that they can influence our elections with impunity, this opens the door for future manipulations, both document thefts and dumps like this one that we see and more subtle manipulations that we do n’t see. Retaliation is politically fraught and could have serious consequences, but this is an attack against our democracy. We need to confront Russian President Vladimir Putin in some way — politically, economically or in cyberspace — and make it clear that we will not tolerate this kind of interference by any government. Regardless of your political leanings this time, there’s no guarantee the next country that tries to manipulate our elections will share your preferred candidates.

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Input: Cellphone footage shows the therapist laying on the ground with his hands in the air, trying to soothe his patient seconds before he is shot. (Michael E. Miller) Rep. Mark Takai (D-Hawaii), 49, died from pancreatic cancer. The Iraq war veteran had served in Hawaii's state house for 20 years before winning election to Congress in 2014. (Emily Langer) A 31-year -old D.C. man faces up to three years in prison for impersonating the chief of staff for Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.). He pretended to work for the civil rights legend to get special restaurant privileges and Redskins field passes.

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Input: Each house had its own SCIF. At Whitehaven — her brick Georgian-style house in northwest Washington — a State Department worker removed one of the regular doors on a third-floor room of the house, replaced it with a metal door secured by a key code lock, and outfitted the room inside with secure communications. A similar room was created at Chappaqua; while she rarely used the secure room at Whitehaven — preferring to just go into the office if she had work to do — she relied heavily on the one in Chappaqua when she was in New York, in part because cellphone coverage in the area was so poor that she needed the use of the SCIF’s phone. (The FBI interview reports differ on who precisely had access to Clinton’s home SCIFs — whether it was just Clinton herself or also top aides like Abedin.) Each secure room was also equipped with a secure fax, but while Clinton was supposed to pick up the faxes herself at home, she often struggled to use the technology and had to rely on staff for help operate the machines.

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Input: It also explains why, as millennial Jews like myself participate in the political process, we are beginning to feel less tied to Israel than ever before. “Younger Jews’ waning support for Israel in its dealings with Palestinians may not be so surprising,” explained Jason Horowitz recently in The New York Times. “Unlike their parents and grandparents, who grew up when Jews were still reeling from the Holocaust, they know Israel primarily as a powerful nation rather than an existential necessity.” From this progressive vantage point, humanist Jews find their religion actually motivating them to criticize their motherland. After all, why would we support any powerful entity that treats others in the same way that Jews were once treated?

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Input: Last month, a leaked letter from intelligence community Inspector General I. Charles McCullough III revealed the existence of "several dozen" cases of classified information originating from intelligence agencies, some of which, they said, should have been considered classified during Clinton's tenure. Those documents included information on so-called "Special Access Programs," a highly sensitive subset of information off limits even to most Top Secret clearance holders. Clinton's campaign has waded into the fray, suggesting the upgrades and intelligence agency disparities are the result of "over-classification run amok." Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon has also blamed political operatives in the inspector general's office and on Capitol Hill for leaking information about the normally secretive review process. JUST WATCHED Hillary Clinton: ' Nothing new ' on emails Replay More Videos ... MUST WATCH Hillary Clinton: ' Nothing new ' on emails 01:53

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Input: leader, says, “Somebody lied to you about successful and spontaneous non-violent revolution, that thing does n’t exist in the world.” Today, almost seven years after the Cairo speech, President Obama has destroyed Libya, oversaw the division of Sudan, is seeking to dismember Syria, continues to bomb Yemen and Somalia, and is still sending fresh US boots on the ground to Iraq. Libya is now destroyed and its residents consider themselves the victims of a holocaust. And I agree with them. On a recent trip, I witnessed two Sudanese women, one from Khartoum, the other from the new state of South Sudan, crying over what had happened to their country in 2011 on President Obama’s watch.

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Input: Would you argue all that under heading of content — intent? You would also be arguing the pervasiveness of the scheme, when it started, when it ended and number of emails, whether they were originally classified or up-classified, you would argue all of that under the heading of intent. “You would also, probably under common scheme or plan, argue the burn bags of daily calendar entries or the missing daily calendar entries as a common scheme or plan to conceal. Two days ago, director, you said a reasonable person should have known [that] a private email is no place to send and receive classified information. You’re right.

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Input: ASSANGE: We don't disclose sources, even dead sources. GREENE: We should remember Julian Assange received political asylum from Ecuador in 2012. He has been stuck in that country's embassy in London ever since, unable to leave because Britain would likely extradite him to Sweden, where he's wanted for questioning on suspicion of rape. I wanted to give you the chance to reflect on your four years, now, since getting political asylum. I wonder how you're holding up in there and if you're missing anything on the outside.

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Input: “Sergeant Andrey Timoshenkov, who was escorting a humanitarian convoy of the Russian Reconciliation Center, has stopped a car rigged with explosives by opening fire at it with small arms. Andrey received injuries incompatible with life in the explosion of the vehicle driven by a suicide bomber,” the ministry said. The doctors at Russian Khmeimim airbase in Latakia province fought for Timoshenkov’s life for over 24 hours, but he passed away on Thursday, June 16, it added. The command has presented Sergeant Timoshenkov with a posthumous state award. According to the Russian media, the deceased serviceman was a marine from Russia’s exclave Kaliningrad Region.

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Input: Nearly eight out of 10 Republicans are concerned that ineligible voters, including non-citizens, will illegally cast ballots. Four out of 10 Democrats feel the same way. Six out of 10 respondents, regardless of party, say they are concerned about issues such as voter intimidation and suppression. Atkeson said the level of concern and mistrust in the system, especially among Republicans, is unprecedented. “I’ve never seen an election like this.

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Input: Significantly, it thrives in environments where other radical alternatives to a discredited status quo have been suppressed by government repression. What’s corrupting the Islamic State’s volunteers is not ideology but by the end of ideology: they have grown up in an era with no alternatives to capitalist globalization. The organization has gained support, in part, because the Arab revolutions of 2011 were defeated, in many cases by regimes allied with and funded by the U.S. After 14 years of the “war on terror,” we are no closer to achieving peace. The fault does not lie with any one administration but with the assumption that war can defeat terrorism.

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Input: The level of spending is almost unbelievably low. The Army spends less on procuring wheeled and tracked vehicles in a year than generates in sales each week. Its $ 3.6 billion budget request for helicopter procurement, about eight hours worth of federal spending at current rates, is focused mainly on upgrading Reagan-era rotorcraft because it can't afford to buy new ones. Its ammunition budget ($ 1.5 billion) isn't much more than what Americans spend on fireworks each year (around $ 1 billion). So Army leaders aren't exaggerating when they say they have no major modernization initiatives planned until the next decade.

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Input: She said Security Council members must "have the courage to say who is responsible for this and in a single voice tell Russia to stop". But she added the US also believes it must do "everything in our power to find a way to halt the violence" and will "continue to look for any way possible to restore the cessation of hostilities." The three days of relentless bombing meant many bodies were buried under the rubble of their destroyed homes and hospitals were overwhelmed with the wounded. Meanwhile the water supply to an estimated two million people was cut off following a strike on a pumping station. Additional reporting by agencies

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Input: Team Obama sees themselves not just in terms of the crisis of the day but also in terms of a much broader, and more positive, arc of human history. They did n’t create these trends that make this, in their eyes, the best time in human history to be alive, but they see it as their job to safeguard them." Compare the era we’re living in today to the losses we suffered in World War II or even in the Vietnam War" This results in a foreign policy focused — to a degree most people do n’t appreciate — on protecting this system from threats. The long view causes them to focus on addressing long-term threats to the system’s stability, like climate change or a nuclear Iran.

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Input: Clinton will take a majority of the Empire State's 247 pledged delegates, building on her 244-delegate edge entering Tuesday's primary, according to The Associated Press. Clinton made a pitch for the Vermont senator’s supporters and called on the Democratic Party to unite. In recent weeks, Clinton and Sanders have stepped up their attacks on one another, worrying some Democrats that the animosity hurt the eventual nominee in the general election. “To those that supported Sen. Sanders, I believe there’s much more that unites us than divides us,” Clinton said. She also took a few shots at the leading GOP candidates, Donald Trump Donald TrumpLewandowski near ' high six-figure book deal ': report GOP fires opening attack on Dem reportedly running for Heller's Senate seat Overnight Tech: Trump seeks tech's help for ' sweeping ' IT overhaul | FTC looks to block sports fantasy merger | Firm exposes nearly 200 M voters ' data MORE and 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, and condemned a number of their proposals.

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Input: “The recognition that NATO is the cornerstone of American national security is a policy that the United States has pursued under every post-World War II president, Democratic and Republican,” he said. But Earnest acknowledged that Obama believes Europe needs to pay its “fair share.” He noted that NATO member countries have agreed to spend 2 percent of their GDP on defense by 2024. Sean Kay, who chairs the international studies program at Ohio Wesleyan University and informally advised Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) during his run for the Democratic presidential nomination, called Trump’s approach “more like a bull in a china shop.” “It’s in a long tradition, from the founding of NATO, to get the Europeans to defend themselves and be less reliant on the United States,” he said. “The problem is the way he’s going about it.

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Input: A Falcon 9 booster rocket exploded on the launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida, as tropical storm Hermine bore down on the area. An Israeli satellite that was to provide Facebook broadband to Africa was lost in the explosion, SpaceX confirmed. Moment of dramatic # SpaceX explosion A video posted by RT (@rt) on Sep 1, 2016 at 12:45pm PDT

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Input: But here is what Comey revealed this week:" Secretary Clinton used several different servers and administrators of those servers during her four years at the State Department." In other words, in just that short 4-minute segment, Clinton perjured herself not once but twice. Representative Jordan also did his best to pin Hillary down on her lying to the American people when she said an inflammatory Youtube video mocking the prophet Muhammad sparked a (non-existing) protest that led to the Benghazi attack. But in an email (below) she sent to her family the night of the attack, she revealed that she already knew it was Islamic terrorists. Jordan's full 11-minute grilling of Clinton below:

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Input: Hide Caption 32 of 43 Photos: Hillary Clinton's life in the spotlight Clinton ducks after a woman threw a shoe at her while she was delivering remarks at a recycling trade conference in Las Vegas in 2014. Hide Caption 33 of 43 Photos: Hillary Clinton's life in the spotlight Clinton, now running for President again, performs with Jimmy Fallon during a "Tonight Show" skit in September 2015. Hide Caption 34 of 43 Photos: Hillary Clinton's life in the spotlight Clinton testifies about the Benghazi attack during a House committee meeting in October 2015." I would imagine I have thought more about what happened than all of you put together," she said during the 11-hour hearing." I have lost more sleep than all of you put together.

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Input: In fact, I explain here that Bernie’s endorsement of Clinton was essentially an endorsement of Dr. Jill Stein. If Democrats lose to Trump, it would n’t be Jill Stein’s fault, and it would n’t be Bernie’s fault. I discuss in this segment that Clinton is barely above Trump in an average of polls. Look in the mirror Clinton supporters, and take a good look at Jill Stein. Clinton’s experience as Secretary of State resulted in a year-long FBI email investigation, so Dr. Stein’s wisdom overshadows questions regarding experience.

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Input: Watch video 01:19 Poland marks 1st anniversary of plane crash Now The committee head, Waclaw Berczynski, reiterated his theory that the Tupolev 154 exploded mid-air, without offering a stitch of evidence to substantiate his claim." We can say with great probability, practically with near certainty, that the aircraft broke apart mid-air," he told the Catholic weekly Gosc Niedzielny. But many, such as Rafal Grupinski, a lawmaker with the liberal opposition party Civic Platform (PO), which was in power at the time of the crash, say some people simply haven't come to terms with reality.

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Input: And yet all of his unhinged harangues have barely dented Trump’s support among his slavishly loyal base. A recent Fox News poll showed Clinton ahead of Trump by 7 percent overall, but Trump is still getting 80 percent of the Republican vote — only 10 points lower than John McCain, a war hero, received in 2008. A Washington Post-ABC News poll found 72 percent approve of his threats to imprison Clinton — a violation of the most basic norms of democracy. A survey by Public Policy Polling observed that among Trump supporters in Florida, 40 percent say Clinton is literally a demon — a claim advanced by the crackpot talk-radio host Alex Jones, who says the Democratic nominee “stinks” of sulfur. These surveys suggest that most of the GOP base is so disfigured by pathological, unreasoning hatred of Clinton — a flawed candidate, to be sure, but also a centrist Democrat with ample qualifications for the presidency — that they will embrace any alternative, no matter how vile.

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Input: The ceasefire is the second negotiated by Washington and Moscow since Russia joined the war in September 2015. But while it led to a significant reduction in fighting at the outset, violence has increased in recent days and aid has mostly failed to arrive. Plans to evacuate several hundred rebels from the last opposition-held district of Homs city have also overshadowed the agreement, with rebels saying it would amount to the government declaring the ceasefire over. The Homs governor said the plan had been postponed from Monday to Tuesday. Washington and Moscow back opposite sides in the war between Assad's government and the insurgents, while both oppose the Islamic State jihadist group.

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Input: And she reminds the audience that her father "loved to complain about big business and big government." The Clintons have made more than US$ 120 million (S$165 million) in speeches to Wall Street and special interests since Bill Clinton left the White House in 2001. Hillary Clinton typically earned US$ 225,000 for speeches, though she sometimes donated her fees to her family foundation." I kind of think if you're going to be paid US$ 225,000 for a speech, it must be a fantastic speech," Sanders said during the primary," a brilliant speech which you would want to share with the American people." As her race against Sanders-who now campaigns for Clinton-grew unexpectedly contentious and close, Clinton sought to portray herself as deeply skeptical of Wall Street and eager to punish its wayward leaders.

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Input: Donald Trump is again insisting he opposed the Iraq War before it started. But despite his repeated claims, the facts are clear: He did not. There is no evidence Trump expressed public opposition to the war before the U.S. invaded. Rather, he offered lukewarm support. The billionaire businessman only began to voice doubts about the conflict well after it began in March 2003.

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Input: “It suggests that his principles are pretty flexible when it comes to him getting paid.” A court document obtained by ICIJ indicates that Bank Melli’s rent on more than 8,000 square feet on the GM Building’s 44th floor may have topped half a million dollars a year. The legal ramifications of the Trump Organization taking rent payments from Bank Melli are unclear. At the time, the U.S. had a sweeping embargo in place which prohibited Americans from doing business with Iran, including receiving rent payments. However, some Iranian organizations were granted licenses exempting specific transactions from sanctions.

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Input: Russia hit back at the critique on Monday, with Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov calling the tone “unacceptable.” Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov dismissed the session as an attempt to distract from U.S. actions in Syria.. @AmbassadorPower urged UNSC members to call out Russia pic.twitter.com/dmQPINFNxZ — Abigail Williams (@Abs_NBC) September 26, 2016 While the meeting itself ended with no actions agreed or undertaken — Russia does hold a permanent seat on the council — its significance and tone ca n’t be overlooked, according Europe analyst Alex Kokcharov. “This is much more than the usual diplomatic chitchat,” said Kokcharov, who works for IHS Country Risk.

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Input: The Russian military official said that terrorists in the area are hampering the efforts of locals trying to flee the embattled eastern parts of the city. Read more “Terrorists are trying to prevent the population from fleeing the eastern part of the city of Aleppo the best they can, threatening to shoot civilians or publicly execute them. There are reports that children and women are being turned into suicide bombers to carry out terrorist acts,” Chvarkov stated. According to the Russian Reconciliation Center, the situation in Aleppo “remains difficult.”

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Input: * * * COMMERCIAL BREAK * * * CHUCK TODD: Our panel is here with us, Alex Castellanos, who is now advising Donald Trump's Super PAC, Hallie Jackson of NBC News, who covers much of the Republican side of this race, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian, Doris Kearns Goodwin and New York Times columnist, David Brooks. Well, where to begin? David Brooks, I just want to get your reaction.

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Input: Beginning three years earlier, he’d hired mobbed-up firms to erect Trump Tower and his Trump Plaza apartment building in Manhattan, including buying ostensibly overpriced concrete from a company controlled by mafia chieftains Anthony “Fat Tony” Salerno and Paul Castellano. That story eventually came out in a federal investigation, which also concluded that in a construction industry saturated with mob influence, the Trump Plaza apartment building most likely benefited from connections to racketeering. Trump also failed to disclose that he was under investigation by a grand jury directed by the U.S. attorney in Brooklyn, who wanted to learn how Trump obtained an option to buy the Penn Central railroad yards on the West Side of Manhattan. Story Continued Below Why did Trump get his casino license anyway?

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Input: SPECIAL AGENT LEE TARTT Lee Tartt Tartt, 44, an agent with the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics, was fatally shot on the morning of February 20 as he and other officers entered a home in Iuka, trying to end a six-hour standoff with a man inside, police said. Police had been called there on a report of a domestic disturbance. Tartt was a 22-year veteran of law enforcement and had been with the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics since 2000, CNN affiliate WREG in Memphis reported.

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Input: In Russia, opposition candidates absolutely can not get into any building. Not in winter and not in summer. Because either it’s a government building, or it’s private, but then there’s a “burst pipe” or some kind of inspection, if they try to schedule a rally. Also, Navalny ca n’t get on TV, so he does rallies outside. At least this way he can have some access to the voters.

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Input: "Everything he just said is absolutely false but I'm not surprised," she responded." It's just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country." "Because you'd be in jail," he interrupted. Mr Trump also said his Democratic rival "has tremendous hate in her heart" while criticising her for referring to his supporters as "deplorables". Mrs Clinton said she apologised for the comment, adding:" My argument is not with his supporters, it's with him, about the hateful and divisive campaign he has run."

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Input: How is it that Clinton still claims that she is “THE MOST TRANSPARENT CANDIDATE IN MODERN TIMES” when her Foundation Failed to Disclose 1,100 Foreign Donations. And this is on top of Clinton's Failure once again to disclose more than $ 26,000,000 in speaking fees "from foreign governments and corporations" Because you know … .“That’s what they offered”. In the years before Hillary Clinton became secretary of state, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia contributed at least $ 10,000,000 to the Clinton Foundation Just two months before a deal with Boeing to make warplanes was finalized with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Boeing donated $ 900,000 to the Clinton Foundation The Hillary Clinton campaign and Foundation have been raking in cash from Banks that have admitted Wrongdoing. So once again we see here that Hillary does not mind muddying the waters, Saying that she will be hard on these banking institutions while taking more money from these banking institutions that any normal person could ever hope to make in a lifetime.

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Input: ' Legal abuse ' A Russian foreign ministry statement said Finland decided "a few days ago" to extradite both men." We maintain our principled view that the practice of detaining Russian citizens following US requests to third countries all over the world is a legal abuse and violation of internationally recognised proceedings," it said." We confirm our categorical objections to the extradition of the Russians to the USA. We hope that the Finnish authorities will take into account our position, which has been repeatedly explained to them."

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Input: It brought the crime rate way down. But you take the gun away from criminals that shouldn't be having it. We have gangs roaming the street. And in many cases, they're illegally here, illegal immigrants. And they have guns.

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Input: He wants us to make our way in the world as he does: selfish, insecure, angry, scapegoating, small. His election would endanger the security of the United States and our standing in the world. The widely respected geopolitical analysis firm, the Economist Intelligence Unit, declared his election a top 10 global threat. I believe President Obama has been the worst foreign policy president in my lifetime. But he’s Winston Churchill compared to Donald Trump.

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Input: "But Putin is now trying to derail this process at the eleventh hour." Verhoeven's suspicions increased after a British media report cited the Dutch referendum in an article about clandestine Russian funding of European anti-establishment parties. Russia has a history of lending financial support to fringe far-right parties such as France's Front National. But the Dutch Foreign Ministry said in a statement there was no reason to believe Russia had been directly involved in the lead-up to the referendum, aside from "the structural presence of Russian intelligence and security services in the Netherlands." "The fact that some of the No campaigners are echoing Moscow's propaganda does not mean they are being supported by Russia," says Tony van der Togt, researcher at the Clingendael Institute, a Dutch think tank.

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Input: ' Yats is the guy ', Nuland said, referring to Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who indeed would become the new prime minister. Nuland and Pyatt then exchanged ideas how to ' glue this thing ' and how to ' midwife this thing '. This ' thing ' became the bloody Feb. 22, 2014 coup ousting elected President Yanukovych and touching off a civil war between Ukrainian ' nationalists ' from the west and Ukraine's ethnic Russians in the east." Crucially, Parry notes," when citizen Clinton weighed in on the Ukraine crisis, she compared Russian President Putin to Hitler." With neocons vowing "to ignore Russia's warnings against what it views as military threats to its existence," and proposing that NATO "incorporate Ukrainian army units into its expansion of military operations along Russia's border," it will be up to the next president to test whether the current downturn in Russia-US relations can get any worse.

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