Input: He examined one island within Kwajalein Atoll and found that it will probably reach its tipping point within a few decades. He said the island on which the Space Fence is being built faces a similar threat. The flooding there will probably damage power cables, sewer lines and other electronics and hardware, he said. The seawater will erode land, he said, and eat away at everything from concrete to cars." When you get to the point where water is going over the top of the island annually, it will affect a lot of daily life, whether it's related to the Space Fence or other operations, like moving food around," he said.

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Input: The report said the "aircraft MiG-29 K is being technically accepted despite having discrepancies and anomalies." India ordered 45 MiG-29 K aircraft and equipment worth $ 2.2 billion in two separate orders — in 2004 and 2010 — from Russia. It is the primary combat platform on Vikramaditya, which was acquired from Russia when it was known as the Admiral Gorshkov. The MiG-29 K aircraft are also expected to serve on the homemade aircraft carrier INS Vikrant, which is still under construction. Arun Prakash, who served as chief of the Indian Naval Staff, evaluated the aircraft in 1999 before the purchase from Russia.

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Input: Whore of Babylon shreds Constitution, exposed as ultimate backer of massive U.S. land grab “The Whore is associated with the Antichrist and the Beast of Revelation by connection with an equally evil kingdom.” — Wikipedia PRINCETON, Ore. (INTELLIHUB) — As it turns out there’s a lot more to the story behind the Malheur Wildlife Refuge — a whole lot more — and this article is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg.

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Input: The Sanders campaign believes that the Saudis are the solution and are looking to the Saudis to fight our fight against ISIS. We're arguing for a peace offensive to stop ISIS in its tracks and end the wars for oil. And a peace offensive basically consists of a weapons embargo, because they're mostly coming from the U.S. We can begin this weapons embargo, and we can also impound the funding that is the bank account of the countries that are funding terrorism. As well, we believe we need to hold the Netanyahu government accountable, as all governments must be held accountable. Right now we are paying $ 8 million a day to maintain the Israeli army, which is in flagrant violation and committing war crimes in these periodic massacres.

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Input: Edith M. Lederer, The Associated Press Russia is accusing three Turkish foundations of supplying weapons and military equipment to Islamic State extremists in Syria and says $ 1.9 million worth of explosives and industrial chemicals were smuggled across Turkey's border to extremist groups. Russia's UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said in a letter to the UN Security Council circulated Friday that Turkey is the main supplier of weapons and ammunition to IS fighters. He said the transfers are overseen by the country's National Intelligence Organization and are delivered mainly by vehicles," including as part of humanitarian convoys."

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Input: As first lady, she worked with Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) and Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) to create the Children’s Health Insurance Program, which provides healthcare coverage to more than 8 million children. As a senator, she was instrumental in persuading a Republican president to deliver billions of dollars in aid to New York after September 11. As secretary of State, she led the charge to persuade nations around the world to impose the tough sanctions on Iran that led to the landmark nuclear agreement, and she negotiated a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas. Electing Trump could be catastrophic for the nation. Throughout her public career, beginning with her work in the 1970s for the Children’s Defense Fund, Clinton has advocated for women, children, the poor and minorities.

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Input: So what is shadow banking?" Shadow banking "refers to the performance of risky bank-like functions by institutions that are not as carefully regulated as banks. The most dangerous such function is that of borrowing short-term in order to invest in longer-term financial instruments, all while hoping that you will be able to" roll over "— renew or refinance — your short-term loans over the durations of those longer-term investments. When you can do that, you can make a great deal of money by investing in higher-end speculative financial instruments, because short-term borrowing costs are lower than long-term speculative yields. But you also put those who lend to you — notably bank depositors or counterpart small savers (more on them, below) — at great risk, for you're engaged in a" musical chairs "form of finance: You avoid bankrupting yourself and your lenders only as long as your speculative investments keep rising, bubble-fashion, in price.

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Input: While ISIS launched its campaign of mass rapes, beheadings, slaughters, and tortures of unimaginable brutality — and gained control over enormous portions of Iraq and Syria — Clinton and President Obama did absolutely nothing to thwart it.43 Moreover, the rise of ISIS coincided with the expansion of terrorism to unprecedented levels all over the world. According to the Global Terrorism Index, fatalities caused by terrorism increased from 3,361 in 2000, to 11,133 in 2012, to 18,111 in 2013, to 32,658 in 2014. More than half of the 2014 killings were carried out by ISIS and Boko Haram, the latter of which has pledged allegiance to ISIS.44 In other words, worldwide terrorism has spiraled out of control under Obama, Clinton, and Clinton’s successor, John Kerry. But hey, who cares?

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Input: (Jonathan Ernst / Reuters) OBAMA IN ASIA: -- “On historic trip to Laos, Obama aims to heal war wounds,” from the AP’s Josh Lederman: “Acknowledging the scars of a secret war, [Obama] said the U.S. has a ‘moral obligation’ to help this isolated Southeast Asian nation heal ... and vowed to reinvigorate relations with a country with rising strategic importance to the U.S. Making a first visit for a sitting U.S. president, Obama said too few Americans know of the United States’ covert bombing of Laos during the Vietnam War and that the campaign and its aftermath are reminders that ‘whatever the cause, whatever our intentions, war inflicts a terrible toll.’ For Obama, the visit is a capstone to his years-long effort to bolster relations with Southeast Asian countries long overlooked by the United States”: As a first sign of a new relationship with Laos, Obama said his administration would address the legacy of war. Obama announced he would double spending for unexploded ordnance, committing $ 90 million over the three years. The Lao government said it would increase efforts to recover remains and account for Americans missing since the Vietnam War.” At a luncheon a few hours ago, POTUS quoted a Lao saying: “Sweet makes you dizzy and bitter makes you healthy.”

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Input: Republicans on Capitol Hill seized on the message, arguing that it showed “intent” and indicated Clinton may have violated laws that cover how classified material is handled. Clinton’s campaign responded that she never would have instructed an aide to send classified information on an unclassified system. Regardless, the State Department said it found no evidence that the document was ever sent via unsecured fax. In an earlier, February 2010 email exchange, Sullivan had to explain to Clinton that he could n’t send her a Mideast peace-related statement from former British Prime Minister Tony Blair because it was classified. Clinton seemed irritated: “It's a public statement!

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Input: The suspected explosive device was found on Saturday in New York City near the site of a blast in the Chelsea neighborhood, Harry J. Wedin, chief of the New York Police Department's Special Operations Division, said in a message on Twitter. The police warned people to avoid the area of explosion. A possible secondary device has been located @ 27th Street, 6th — 7th Avenues.

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Input: The 2009 Goldstone Report of the UN found that Israel violated international humanitarian law in its war against Gaza in 2009. Palestine was gaining more support and sympathy internationally and was successfully putting to rest Israeli propaganda disinformation. After Hillary: Hillary Clinton rejected the Goldstone Report as “one-sided.” Clinton’s unbridled support for expanding Israeli settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem and its silence on the dehumanizing Israeli blockade of Gaza, emboldened Israel’s theocratic right-wing government to further encroach on Palestinian territories and cementing into place an apartheid-like series of Palestinian “Bantustans” in the West Bank and an open-air ghetto in Gaza. 18. Paraguay

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Input: This debate is an embarrassment. # GOPDebate — Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) February 14, 2016 This debate is actually pretty damned entertaining. Pig-pile on Trump, audience jeering, candidates straining voices to be heard. — Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) February 14, 2016

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Input: Interior Minister Efkan Ala said the attacker is linked to ISIS. The attack is believed to have been carried out by ISIS or one of its affiliates. March 22, 2016-Two explosions at Brussels airport and another at a subway station in the Maalbeek district of the Belgian capital leave at least 32 people dead and scores injured. In a statement posted online by several prominent supporters and by the ISIS-affiliated Amaq news agency, ISIS claimed that its fighters carried out the attacks. March 30, 2016-Two attacks in two days in the Russian republic of Dagestan are claimed by the ISIS affiliate.

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Input: ... AND WITH THAT “LEAKED” CNN QUESTION On March 12, Donna Brazile, then vice chair of the DNC and a CNN and ABC contributor, allegedly wrote an email to the Clinton campaign with the subject line “From time to time I get the questions in advance.” It continues: “Here’s one that worries me about HRC … Should Ohio and the 30 other states join the current list and abolish the death penalty?” Palmieri wrote back within three hours, seemingly not as worried: “Hi. Yes, it is one she gets asked about.

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Input: "Now we must learn from the troubling revelations Mr Snowden brought to light. Our intelligence and law enforcement agencies must be given the tools they need to protect us, but that can be done in a way that does not sacrifice our rights," Sanders wrote." While Mr Snowden played an important role in educating the American people, there is no debate that he also violated an oath and committed a crime," Sanders added. While he did not go as far as to suggest a full pardon, Sanders did say that in his view," the interests of justice would be best served if our government granted him some form of clemency or a plea agreement that would spare him a long prison sentence or permanent exile." Sanders ' note Wednesday is relatively consistent with his remarks on Snowden during a presidential debate last year, when he said Snowden should face a penalty, but added the lessons learned from Snowden's leak should be taken into consideration before the sentencing.

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Input: Russia's intervention has tipped the war President Bashar al-Assad's way, reversing gains rebels made last year. The last two days saw government troops and their Lebanese and Iranian allies fully encircle the countryside north of Aleppo and cut off the main supply route linking the city-Syria's largest before the war-to Turkey. Ankara said it suspected the aim was to starve the population into submission. Aleppo would be the biggest strategic prize in years for Assad's government in a conflict that has killed at least 250,000 people and driven 11 million from their homes. Video footage showed thousands of people massing at the Bab al-Salam crossing on the Turkish border.

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Input: Hide Caption 12 of 18 Photos: The week in politics Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton arrives at an airport in Middletown, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday, October 4. Hide Caption 13 of 18 Photos: The week in politics President Barack Obama makes a statement after being briefed on Hurricane Matthew on Wednesday, October 5." I want to emphasize to the public, this is a serious storm," Obama said, urging people to follow local evacuation orders. Hide Caption 14 of 18 Photos: The week in politics People in Akron, Ohio, wait for a speech by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Monday, October 3. Hide Caption 15 of 18 Photos: The week in politics Former US President Jimmy Carter sits in the stands for an Atlanta Braves baseball game on Sunday, October 2.

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Input: European Union foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini said the EU will "swiftly transpose this resolution into EU law." Britain and Germany also issued similar statements welcoming the resolution. Shortly after the resolution's adoption, the U.S. announced unilateral sanctions on the North, blacklisting 11 individuals and five entities for their alleged roles in nuclear and weapons proliferation, including Pyongyang's all-powerful National Defense Commission. The list also included Hwang Pyong-so, director of the general political bureau of the Korean People's Army (KPA), who is considered one of the closest aides to leader Kim Jong-un; Defense Minister Pak Yong-sik, and Ri Yong-mu, a vice chairman of the defense commission. Tuesday's resolution came 56 days after the North's nuclear test.

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Input: In countries as diverse as Nigeria, Ukraine, Brazil, Moldova, and Malaysia, people are contesting criminalized government and impunity for public officials — sometimes violently. In more than half a dozen countries in 2015, populations took to the streets to protest corruption. In three of them, heads of state are either threatened or have had to resign. Elsewhere, the same grievances have contributed to the expansion of jihadi movements or criminal organizations posing as Robin Hoods. Russia and China’s external adventurism can at least partially be explained as an effort to re-channel their publics ‘dissatisfaction with the quality of governance.

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Input: When they want an operation, they come to the United States to get the operation.” (It is very rare for Canadians to leave the country for any kind of healthcare. Even according to the conservative Fraser Institute, 99 per cent of patients stayed in Canada for care last year.) 1.Falsely said federal authorities refused to detain an Ohio illegal immigrant who allegedly committed a murder three weeks later “even though they knew he was very dangerous.” (There is no evidence the Border Patrol or anyone else knew Juan Emmanuel Razo was dangerous; local police said he was sweating and seemed suspicious, but “no crimes were discovered (i.e. burglary, theft, vandalism), and subsequent data base inquiries showed no criminal history.”) WASHINGTON — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump had a jam-packed day on Tuesday, Oct. 25.

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Input: A researcher in Russia has made more than 48 million journal articles-almost every single peer-reviewed paper every published-freely available online. And she's now refusing to shut the site down, despite a court injunction and a lawsuit from Elsevier, one of the world's biggest publishers. For those of you who aren't already using it, the site in question is Sci-Hub, and it's sort of like a Pirate Bay of the science world. It was established in 2011 by neuroscientist Alexandra Elbakyan, who was frustrated that she couldn't afford to access the articles needed for her research, and it's since gone viral, with hundreds of thousands of papers being downloaded daily.

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Input: Britain is right at the heart of this.” In a statement released after the hearing, the German MEP Michael Theurer, a member of the centrist Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, said he would be calling on British government representatives to give evidence. He said: “I recommend that we have a look at the influence of Great Britain on the former colonies and crown dependencies and the role that for instance the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man or Gibraltar are playing. “It would also be interesting to know if there could not be conditions attached to payments from London. For this I will suggest to invite the responsible representative of the British government.”

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Input: He said he had performed secret operations, and he could be a tool for the CIA too." Every time when FBI needed me for Russians, Romanians which they do a lot of bad things in U.S., I help them," Georgescu said." And with my help, a lot of government confiscated a lot of cash, a lot of houses, a lot of cars ... you know ... I bring some money to the Uncle Sam all the time." The CIA phone operator promised to look into the tip and thanked Georgescu for his help.

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Input: He also organized for a communist front, the United Packinghouse Workers Union, which at the time was under investigation by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. After graduating with a political science degree, Sanders moved to Vermont, where he headed the American People's History Society, an organ for Marxist propaganda. There, he produced a glowing documentary on the life of socialist revolutionary Eugene Debs, who was jailed for espionage during the Red Scare and hailed by the Bolsheviks as "America's greatest Marxist." This subversive hero of Sanders, denounced even by liberal Democrats as a "traitor," bashed "the barons of Wall Street" and hailed the "triumphant" Bolshevik revolution in Russia." Those Russian comrades of ours have made greater sacrifices, have suffered more, and have shed more heroic blood than any like number of men and women anywhere on Earth," Debs proclaimed.

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Input: Brandt, an 11-year veteran of the Fairbanks Police Department, was shot multiple times October 16 while responding to reports of gunfire. He was wearing body armor but was struck by bullets in a leg and shrapnel in an eye. He died October 28 of complications experienced during surgery. After the shooting, the father of four had been well enough to speak at a community council meeting, saying he had predicted to his family he would be shot. The suspect, who fled in Brandt's patrol car, was arrested.

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Input: “If anything, these statements reveal the Clinton campaign’s hostile attitude toward people of faith in general,” Mr. Ryan said in a statement. “All Americans of faith should take a long, hard look at this and decide if these are the values we want to be represented in our next president. If Hillary Clinton continues to employ people with biased and bigoted views, it’s clear where her priorities are.” Mr. Podesta and other officials have kept mum about the content of the emails and instead redirected attention toward Moscow, claiming Russian hackers are responsible for the entire incident as part of a broader effort to swing the Nov. 8 election to Mr. Trump. The Center for American Progress took a similar tack Wednesday, refusing to defend the incendiary words of its president and other employees.

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Input: We’re still investigating. But it was a massive DDoS attack, and it took place in the early evening just as prominent cable news programs were discussing Kurt Eichenwald’s explosive investigation into how Donald Trump’s company broke the law by breaking the United States embargo against Cuba. A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack came, the newsmagazine suggests, in response to its cover story, “How Donald Trump’s company violated the United States embargo against Cuba.” Details about the volume of the attack or what made it sophisticated were not immediately available. On Friday, Eichenwald described it as “a major attack on Newsweek.” Later in the afternoon, Eichenwald tweeted, “Lots of IP addresses involved.

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Input: A US official accused Israel of treating some Arab-Americans unequally after the Jewish state detained and denied entry into its borders five pro-Palestinian American activists. State Department spokesman Mark Toner on Tuesday reiterated the United States’ “concern” about “unequal treatment” following reports of the July 17 incident at Ben Gurion Airport. Upon their arrival on July 17, a US staffer for the organization US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation and four other members of the group — all carrying US passports — were “interrogated by Israeli border police about their backgrounds and political involvement,” according to a statement issued by the organization Tuesday.

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Input: First, she gave the instruction to erase those messages in late 2014, before she was subpoenaed. Second, she has maintained that the messages she ordered erased were supposed to be entirely personal in nature. It’s unclear, though, how thorough Clinton’s lawyers were when they separated her work-related messages, which were returned to the State Department, from those that were personal, which were later destroyed. Ultimately, the FBI concluded that if any work-related messages had been deleted, “there was no intentional misconduct in connection with that sorting effort.” Trump’s falsehoods

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Input: Conclusion. Obama liberals, vote for Trump: you wo n’t be disappointed. Or at least, stop preaching about Trump’s evils and the decline of the American democracy.

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Input: Trump wants to sanction and punish Iran, but he also wants to open up more trade with it, all within the same paragraph. This is the reasoning of a person who lacks something more fundamental than detailed policy knowledge — he lacks an understanding of how foreign policy itself, at a fundamental level, functions. This perhaps helps explain why he wants to actively undermine a post-WWII international order that is America's most valuable and important asset, wants to rent-seek and resource-extract from a world already inclined to favor American interests, and wants to sell off long-term American power in exchange for a little more money from our allies. Because he just doesn't get it. President Obama on the goal of his foreign policy

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

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Input: The company’s chairman at the time, Philip Purcell, wrote an apology to clients for not being “more sensitive to the strong feelings of our clients over Mr. Clinton’s personal behavior as president.” Purcell declined to comment on the matter. Controversy has surrounded a few other Clinton speeches as well. In 2008, Clinton was paid $ 125,000 to address a conference in New York hosted by Rodman & Renshaw, a bank that specialized in investing in Chinese companies. He spoke again to the firm in 2010 at a fee of $ 75,000. Two years later, amid inquiries from federal regulators, Rodman & Renshaw began to close down its securities business.

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Input: Facebook Twitter Pinterest General John Allen, former commander of US forces in Afghanistan, addresses delegates at the Democratic national convention last week. Photograph: Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty Images In every presidential election since at least 1988, retired senior uniformed support for presidential candidates has led to debate within military circles over propriety. A generation’s worth of commentary has warned that political endorsement risks compromising public perceptions of military independence from politics. Yet every four years, the involvement deepens: on the eve of the 2012 election, Mitt Romney received the endorsement of 500 retired generals and admirals.

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Input: In addition to their progressive political views, such transition team candidates have strong relationships with other accomplished progressives, not only in government and business, but in academia, nonprofit groups and community organizations. In a fast-moving transition from campaign to governing, transition team members tend to recommend the people they already know. Washington / corporate insiders, like those appointed so far to the Clinton transition team, are likely to recommend other Washington / corporate insiders who run in the same social / political / business circles. More politically and socially diverse transition team members are likely to know / recommend a more politically and socially diverse group of potential public servants who would bring new progressive thinking to the dominant Washington insider consensus which now dominates the Clinton transition team. Further, progressive organizations like major unions, MoveOn, the Campaign for America's Future, The Progressive Change Campaign Committee, Public Citizen, Democracy for America, among others-many of whom signed a recent open letter to Clinton calling for a politically diverse transition team and administration-should be assembling resumes and recommendations to submit for potential administration positions.

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Input: Dependent almost entirely on foreign aid, Afghan security forces are struggling to secure the country amid a rising insurgency. As the NATO-led coalition's military presence dwindled last year, Afghan leaders reached out to Moscow, which fought a war of its own in Afghanistan during the 1980s, for more Russian-made weapons, including small arms, artillery and attack helicopters." This donation represents a deep friendship between two nations," Afghan national security adviser Hanif Atmar said at an event marking delivery of the arms shipment." This important donation is from an important friend of Afghanistan in a crucial time for Afghanistan and the region." The guns and ammunition were provided under an existing security agreement between the two countries, he added.

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Input: Wednesday, Trump's campaign expressed support for a Cruz-backed, Internet-related proposal in government funding talks in the Senate. Friday, Trump released a new list of conservative judges likely to appeal to the former Supreme Court clerk -- including perhaps Cruz's closest friend in Congress, Utah Sen. Mike Lee. Cruz cited Trump's pledges on the judiciary in his Facebook post." We know, without a doubt, that every Clinton appointee would be a left-wing ideologue. Trump, in contrast, has promised to appoint justices ' in the mold of (the late Antonin) Scalia, ' Cruz wrote.

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Input: Meanwhile, ULA is under investigation by the Pentagon for possible corrupt bidding practices and is preparing to lay off 25 percent of its workforce. Its long-term viability is in doubt. Even the Pentagon’s acquisition chief grants that the creation of ULA — a monopoly criticized by the Federal Trade Commission when it was formed at the government’s behest a decade ago — may have been a mistake. “With the benefit of hindsight, you could say that,” Frank Kendall, undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics, told POLITICO. ULA’s unique situation has been brought into the spotlight by Musk, the Silicon Valley billionaire who founded Space Exploration Technologies Corp., in part to help humanity colonize Mars.

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Input: Trump’s support among blacks hovers near 5%, compared with nearly 89% support for Clinton. For all of Trump’s jabs at Clinton and President Obama as having failed black voters, African Americans overwhelmingly view Obama favorably, based on numerous polls. Since Trump launched his campaign last year, his inflammatory rhetoric about Mexicans — calling them “rapists” and drug runners — has been assailed by Democrats and Republicans alike as he’s also vowed to build a wall along the U.S .- Mexico border. On Monday, in a speech on foreign policy, Trump announced a new screening test, which he labeled “extreme, extreme vetting,” designed to keep out anyone who does not share “American values.” In his pitch to African American voters, Trump argued that blacks would be hurt by the immigration proposals of Clinton, saying immigrants living in the country illegally “come in and take everybody’s jobs, including low-income African Americans.”

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Input: That was n’t symbolic, although it could have been had someone set the trash on fire. Trump’s entire plan to create jobs relies on trade protectionism – the single most debunked economic fallacy of the last two centuries, an idea so bad that it has largely reduced Latin America, which bought into “dependency theory,” to poverty and food riots. Trump’s theory seems to be that if we increase the price of imports, make it more difficult for American companies to export, and punish American companies for locating overseas, this ridiculous combination of counterproductive policies will result in alchemist economic gold. Trump began by stating that the workers of America have been repaid for their hard work with “betrayal.” What, exactly, was the betrayal? Was it the corporatism Trump backs?

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Input: Turkey is at war, on and off, with Syrian Kurdish militias fighting Isis in northern Syria. Ankara fears they may try to create a separate political entity linked to the autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq and even Turkey itself. Signs of societal disintegration may also be seen in Erdoğan’s manipulation of the judiciary, repeated threats to prosecute pro-Kurdish MPs and politicians, curbs on media freedom and independent journalism, unchecked corruption, and his attempt to enact a new constitution giving him Vladimir Putin-style presidential powers. He is obsessed with a supposed “parallel state” conspiracy against him allegedly led by an exiled former ally, Fethullah Gülen, and has ordered mass arrests. At the weekend, the main opposition Republican People’s party leader, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, said Erdoğan’s ruling Justice and Development party (AKP) would stop at nothing to stay in power.

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Input: Diplomacy is often the only way to avoid a conflict that could end up exacting a much greater cost. It takes patience, persistence, and an eye on the long game — but it’s worth it. This includes: Preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. Hillary will vigorously enforce the nuclear agreement with Iran and implement a broader strategy to confront Iran’s bad behavior in the region, particularly the threat it poses to Israel. Read more here.

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Input: The leaked tape has sunk Trump’s poll numbers and sparked an exodus of support from more than two dozen establishment Republicans. He did n’t accept any responsibility for his flailing campaign, though. Rather, he attacked Republicans who abandoned him after he “annihilate[d] the enemy the other day,” referring to a promising debate performance last Sunday in St. Louis. Trump claimed the Commission on Presidential Debates slants left because a co-chair worked in Bill Clinton’s White House. The other co-chair, however, is a former Republican National Committee chairman.

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Input: Obama argues that those pardoned are part of the huge number unjustly locked up for minor drug-related offenses -- those “young people who made mistakes that are n’t that different from the mistakes I made.” This narrative is false. More than 90 percent of U.S. inmates are in state prisons; 95 percent of those locked up for “non-violent” crime have long rap sheets, averaging more than 9 prior arrests. Less than 4 percent of state-held prisoners are in jail for drug possession – and most of those have pleaded down from trafficking or are repeat offenders. Less than 1 percent of those convicted for drug-related crimes in federal courts in 2014 were locked up for possession, and generally that was the result of a plea deal. The liberal press will extol good news about the economy, and bury the bad.

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Input: His spokeswoman, Hope Hicks, did not respond when asked for this information. He decried outsourcing, not mentioning that his own Trump-branded merchandise is made in other countries and that he recently filed a petition for 78 visas to staff his resorts with foreign workers. “We’re not safe,” he then said, stoking fear of violence even though violent crime — murders, rapes, robberies, assaults — is down considerably from 2008. He went on to claim that Syrian refugees who come to America are unknown entities. “We have no idea who they are,” he said, which is false.

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Input: A Russian general has died of unknown causes just weeks after reportedly being sent to Syria to negotiate with President Bashar al-Assad. Colonel-General Igor Sergun was the head of Russia’s secretive GRU military intelligence service and Deputy Chief of the armed forces General Staff. The Ministry of Defence gave no information on how or where he died, saying he passed away on 3 January aged 58. Igor Sergun died suddenly of unknown causes in January But the Financial Times reports that Col-Gen Sergun had been sent to Damascus by Vladimir Putin on a sensitive mission to ask the Syrian President to step down.

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Input: Hide Caption 7 of 24 Photos: In the U.S. Air Force fleet A-10 Thunderbolt – The A-10 Thunderbolt jets, nicknamed "Warthogs," are specially designed for close air support of ground forces. Key to their armaments is a 30 mm Gatling gun. The pilot is protected from ground fire by titanium armor, and the plane's fuel cells are self-sealing in case of puncture. Hide Caption 8 of 24 Photos: In the U.S. Air Force fleet RC-135U – The RC-135U Combat Sent, based at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, provides strategic electronic reconnaissance information to the president, secretary of defense, Department of Defense leaders and theater commanders. Hide Caption 9 of 24 Photos: In the U.S. Air Force fleet An F-15 Eagle takes off from the Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, flight line as two E-3 Sentries are seen in the background.

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Input: Historical data are available in Gallup Analytics. Survey Methods Results for this Gallup poll are based on telephone interviews conducted Aug. 3-7, 2016, with a random sample of 1,032 adults, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. For results based on the total sample of national adults, the margin of sampling error is ±4 percentage points at the 95% confidence level. All reported margins of sampling error include computed design effects for weighting.

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Input: Three days later, Khomeini himself made a direct appeal to the White House." It is advisable that you recommend to the army not to follow Bakhtiar," wrote Khomeini in his "first first-person" message on 27 January. Khomeini, in effect, had three requests: smooth the way for his return, press the constitutional government to resign, and force the military to capitulate. The ayatollah also included a subtle warning that if the army cracked down, his followers would direct their violence against US citizens in Iran. Still, he made sure to end on a positive note, emphasising the urgent need for a peaceful resolution of the crisis.

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Input: A teenage model in Russia died after she was allegedly stabbed 140 times by her "jealous" older sister who was on drugs. The corpse of 17-year -old Stefania Dubrovina was found mutilated beyond recognition with her eyes gouged out and ears hacked off. Police have detained Elizaveta Dubrovina on suspicion of killing Stefania at an apartment owned by a 44-year -old male photographer in St Petersburg on 24 February. Police, however, have not disclosed the identity of the owner of the apartment. A police source said that before the killing took place, the man had left the apartment to get some alcohol.

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Input: An Iranian nuclear weapons capability would not only end that nuclear monopoly but could also prompt other adversaries, like Saudi Arabia and Egypt, to go nuclear as well. The result would be a precarious nuclear balance in which Israel could not respond to provocations with conventional military strikes on Syria and Lebanon, as it can today. If Iran were to reach the threshold of a nuclear weapons state, Tehran would find it much easier to call on its allies in Syria and Hezbollah to strike Israel, knowing that its nuclear weapons would serve as a deterrent to Israel responding against Iran itself. It is, Clinton continues, the “strategic relationship between Iran and the regime of Bashar Assad in Syria” that makes it possible for Iran to undermine Israel’s security. This would not come about through a “direct attack,” Clinton admits, because “in the thirty years of hostility between Iran and Israel” this has never occurred, but through its alleged “proxies.”

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Input: Meanwhile, Ecuador will hold a presidential election in early 2017, and the current head of state (and Assange’s main protector), President Rafael Correa, has indicated he wo n’t run for reelection. “That might provoke a deep fear for Assange,” says Birgitta Jónsdóttir, a former WikiLeaks contributor who is now a member of parliament in Iceland. Her theory is that Assange might worry that with Correa out, Ecuador could reject his asylum claim, effectively sending him into the arms of the U.S .. If that were to happen, Assange might prefer that the U.S. be run by President Trump rather than President Clinton. The Trump campaign declined to say whether a Trump administration would seek to pursue Assange.

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Input: On October 16, 2012, my vice presidential running mate and I were arrested. Our crime? Daring to try to attend a presidential debate. This year, I hope the American people will demand that Libertarian Gary JohnsonGary JohnsonMueller to give first speech since taking on Russia probe Poll: 85 percent of Clinton supporters would vote for her again Open primaries are the answer to America’s election woes — so what are we waiting for? MORE and I take our rightful places in the presidential debates.

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Input: Turkey blackmailed EU: either € 3bn per year & EU accession or we send buses full with refugees to Europe In internal EU memo obtained by Greek media reveals the blatant Turkish blackmail on the refugee crisis. The memo contains a summary of the dialogue between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan with European Commissioner Jean Claude Juncker and President of the European Council Donald Tusk on 16th November 2015 during the G20 Summit in Antalya, Turkey.

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Input: "Unless a permanent lifeline to Aleppo is opened it will be only a matter of time until we are again surrounded by regime troops, hunger takes hold and hospitals’ supplies run completely dry. Death has seemed increasingly inescapable." So not only does attacking medical facilities and personnel hamper the ability of that one facility and those personnel to provide aid to the regime’s enemies, it also deters people in other areas of Syria from providing aid. As documented in the UN independent inquiry commission report: Medical workers, including doctors, dentists, nurses, paramedics, ambulance drivers and laboratory technicians, have been attacked for attending to the wounded.

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Input: First-quarter exports were down 1.8 percent from the previous quarter, and were 5.3 percent below the same period a year earlier. Imports — Even so, imports have grown even more slowly, and are up only 15.8 percent under Obama. Lately, both exports and imports have been shrinking — but exports are going down a bit faster. Imports were down 5 percent in the first quarter of 2016, compared with the same period a year earlier. Exports, as mentioned, were down 5.3 percent.

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

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Input: Second, maybe he's not as charitable as he claims to be. CLINTON: Third, we don't know all of his business dealings, but we have been told through investigative reporting that he owes about $ 650 million to Wall Street and foreign banks. Or maybe he doesn't want the American people, all of you watching tonight, to know that he's paid nothing in federal taxes, because the only years that anybody's ever seen were a couple of years when he had to turn them over to state authorities when he was trying to get a casino license, and they showed he didn't pay any federal income tax. TRUMP: That makes me smart. CLINTON: So if he's paid zero, that means zero for troops, zero for vets, zero for schools or health.

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Input: He is very interested in this respect. To not meet Poroshenko is his way of showing that he supports not just Russia but whatever Putin wants right now. He even said recently he would meet with Putin even before he was inaugurated if he is elected. But he did not mention any other leaders. This is really strange.

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Input: It remains unclear if the Obama administration’s hold will affect a tranche of cluster bombs poised for shipment to Saudi Arabia, or simply all future requests. The United States concluded a contract for the manufacture of 1,300 CBU-105 weapons to Saudi Arabia in 2013. The final shipment of such weapons can take years to complete, but U.S. officials have repeatedly refused to clarify if the order’s final tranche was delivered. “Textron Systems does not comment on delivery dates with our customers,” said Matthew Colpitts, a spokesman for Textron Systems. The Saudi Embassy in Washington did not respond to a request for comment.

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Input: The leaked emails have also exposed the former top American diplomat for insulting Donald Trump as a “national disgrace and an international pariah”, as well as calling Hillary Clinton a “greedy, not transformational” politician. Trump Blasts Clinton Over Leaked DNC Emails In another twist, president Ronald Reagan’s former chief of staff, Ken Duberstein, had urged Mr Powell not to publicly support the deal, but Mr Powell wrote back to defend it being “good for the country”. “The Iran deal is a good one for the country and our alliances. Retired generals and admirals popping off.

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Input: Horrifying footage of the moment the truck turned into a deadly juggernaut were uploaded online within minutes, showing a trail of dead bodies left in its path. Bouhlel's wife was taken into protective custody by police this morning. Detectives had raided the 12th floor apartment she had shared with her estranged husband in the early hours of the morning and another rented property nearby. More disturbing facts emerged about Bouhlel's frame of mind in the hours leading to his murderous rampage on the Promenade des Anglais. NICE TERRORIST ATTACK: THE STORY SO FAR Here is what we know so far about the lorry attack in Nice.

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Input: "We now understand it is now being put out of action completely," he said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a UK-based monitoring group, said one person was killed in the latest attack, but could not immediately confirm if the victim was a patient at the facility or a member of staff. Our correspondent said there were reports of at least three fatalities." We spoke to a member of the White Helmets, they said there was around 60 people inside the hospital being treated at the time," he said." They say that those people have now been evacuated to a smaller clinic in this area."

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Input: Secretary, I did not take an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States until I got tired.” Well, we intelligence professionals also took an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic. There was no “until we got tired” – or even “until we retired” in that oath. It has no expiration date. Congressman Obey’s persistence and tenacity offer a model for patriots.

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Input: An English fan lays unconscious on the ground after the violent clashes with local gang members in Marseille last night A cafe is engulfed in flames as English fans were targeted while drinking on the terrace of cafe on the streets of Marseille's Old Port A furious England fan hurls a missile at his opponent while two flares continues to blaze behind him during violent clashes in Marseille The flare-attack was one of the most shocking sights of the clashes, which have seen arrests of English supporters, property damaged and a fan dumped into the sea by a French gang. Hooligans kicked the Englishman-wearing an orange T-shirt-on the floor before throwing him over the harbour wall and into the sea.

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Input: "I oppose it now, I'll oppose it after the election, and I'll oppose it as President," Clinton said earlier this year in Warren, Michigan. But in a 2013 speech, Clinton told an audience that her "dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders, some time in the future with energy that is as green and sustainable as we can get it, powering growth and opportunity for every person in the hemisphere." Clinton has publicly said that she believes in trade, but has made running against the way certain trade deals are enforced-including the North American Free Trade agreement-a key to her outreach to union and white working class voters." I am not satisfied with the status quo, I am not telling you everything is peachy keen," Clinton said about trade in a July speech in Philadelphia." I am telling you we have made progress but we have work to do."

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Input: The Russian fan leader also posted photographs of himself on Twitter, apparently standing outside the stadium. A French interior ministry spokesman told AFP:" Alexander Shprygin was arrested in the stadium this evening and placed in custody." His case will be examined ... and could lead to legal proceedings." Russia went on to lose their match against Wales 3-0 and have now been eliminated from the tournament. Image copyright Reuters Image caption There was a heavy security presence at the game in Toulouse but no reports of trouble

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Input: The institute – founded by her late father and currently directed by her mother – is backed by the Muslim World League, an Islamic organization in the Saudi holy city of Mecca that was founded by Muslim Brotherhood leaders. The 2002 Saudi manifesto shows that “Muslim Minority Affairs” – the mobilizing of Muslim communities in the U.S. to spread Islam instead of assimilating into the population – is a key strategy in an ongoing effort to establish Islamic rule in America and a global Shariah, or Islamic law, “in our modern times.” WND reported Abedin also was a member of the executive board of the Muslim Student Association, which was identified as a Muslim Brotherhood front group in a 1991 document introduced into evidence during the terror-financing trial of the Texas-based Holy Land Foundation. At her father’s Saudi-financed Islamic think tank, WND reported, Abedin worked alongside Abdullah Omar Naseef, who is accused of financing al-Qaida fronts. Naseef is deeply connected to the Abedin family.

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Input: Area C comprises more than 60 percent of the West Bank and is under complete Israeli military control, both for security and civil affairs. Estimates of the Palestinian population in Area C are a subject of mystery and debate. The U.N. agency that provides aid to Palestinians reported that there were 297,500 Palestinians in Area C in 2014. An Israeli human rights group, Bimkom, estimates that 150,000 to 180,000 Palestinians live there. The Israeli military division that controls Area C gives an estimate of 50,000 Palestinians.

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Input: Natalia, a 32-year -old doctor carrying a bunch of red carnations, praised Pavlov as "a hero of DPR, a hero of Russia." After the ceremony, militants from the Sparta battallion Pavlov commanded carried his coffin out to brass music as the crowd chanted "We will not forget, we will not forgive!" The coffin was then placed on the gun carriage of an open-topped truck, and the funeral procession slowly moved through streets lined with mourners to a local cemetery. Several people told AFP that state employees including teachers and doctors were "strongly recommended" to be present at the funeral." Lessons were cut for all the teachers to come here.

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Input: At any time was the use of air support not authorized out of concerns for collateral damage? How long did the firefight last? What was the distance between the location of the firefight and the nearest QRF? Why did it take so long for a QRF to reach the engaged US and Afghan personnel? What was the time between the request for additional support and the time that support was authorized?

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Input: As for how Washington will respond, U.S. officials told Reuters "they are considering tougher responses to the Russian-backed Syrian government assault, including military options, although they have described the range of possible responses as limited and say risky measures like air strikes on Syrian targets or sending U.S. jets to escort aid are unlikely." In 2011, the Syrian civil war began when President Bashar Al-Assad violently used force to crush dissent among hundreds of thousands of pro-democracy protesters who took to the streets to demonstrate against civil rights abuses. Since then, violence escalated, sectarian conflict emerged, and rebel brigades were formed to fight government forces, with the governments of Syria, Russia, and the United States all launching air strikes on various rebel forces on the ground, resulting in the death and displacement of thousands of civilians in the process. Eastern Aleppo, which was captured by rebel groups in cooperation with Al-Qaida forces now referring to themselves as Jabhat Fateh Al-Sham, is one of the key flashpoints in the Syrian conflict. Beyond Aleppo's status as Syria's largest city and a financial capital, the eastern half of the city also represents the largest victory of the entire conflict for rebel groups.

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Input: But the Campaign Legal Center details evidence that Correct the Record’s pro-Clinton activities go well beyond Internet political trolling. Citing multiple media reports and campaign filings, the group’s complaint charges that Correct the Record, among other activities, deployed so-called trackers to trail and record rival candidates (such as former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley during the Democratic primaries); hired a polling firm (which declared Clinton the instant winner after a debate with Bernie Sanders); set up a 30-person “war room” to do “rapid response” to attacks on Clinton during her appearance before the House Select Committee on Benghazi (including circulating a 140-page “opposition research” book that “impugns the character of Republicans” on the panel; paid $ 391,000 to an affiliated Brock organization, the Franklin Forum, to conduct media training for Clinton surrogates; committed to spend $ 1 million to “confront social media users who post unflattering messages” about Clinton; and received a $ 275,615 direct payment from the Clinton campaign in June 2015 for what was listed as “research.” View photos David Brock, founder of Correct the Record, during an interview with Yahoo News. (Yahoo News Video) More

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Input: Global elites It is not against US law or charity regulation to accept donations from non-US citizens, or from overseas accounts, but the Swiss ties of some high-profile donors arguably contradict stances taken by the Clintons and others on the broad issue of taxation of the rich. “One of the issues that I have been preaching about around the world is collecting taxes in an equitable manner, especially from the elites in every country,” Hillary Clinton told audience of the Clinton Global Initiative in 2012, when she was still secretary of state. “It is a fact that around the world, the elites of every country are making money. There are rich people everywhere.

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Input: After first writing to the accused hacker on April 19, Fox News accepted two collect calls from him, over a seven-day period, before meeting with him in person at the jail. During these early phone calls, Lazar was more guarded. After the detention center meeting, Fox News conducted additional interviews by phone and, with Lazar's permission, recorded them for broadcast. While Lazar's claims can not be independently verified, three computer security specialists, including two former senior intelligence officials, said the process described is plausible and the Clinton server, now in FBI custody, may have an electronic record that would confirm or disprove Guccifer’s claims." This sounds like the classic attack of the late 1990s.

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Input: Washington recognises the PKK as a terror group, as does the European Union. Davutoglu accused the PYD of cooperating both the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad -- who Turkey wants to see ousted -- and his Russian allies, as well as committing war crimes." We are expecting a clear and unambiguous stand from the United States -- who we believe to be our allies -- against this slaughter of humanity," said the premier. US State Department spokesman John Kirby said last week that the Kurdish fighters "have been some of the most successful" in fighting Islamic State jihadists inside Syria. He said the United States had supported the Kurdish fighters, mostly with air power," and that support will continue."

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Input: What they actually reveal is that a few foundation donors wanted access, but did n’t actually get it. Judicial Watch presumably highlighted the worst examples it could find, and came up with these (summarized by Waldman): A sports executive who had donated to the foundation wanted to arrange for a visa for a British soccer player to visit the United States; he was having trouble getting one because of a criminal conviction. [Top Clinton assistant Huma] Abedin said she’d look into it, but there’s no evidence she did anything and the player did n’t get his visa. Bono, who had donated to the foundation, wanted to have some kind of arrangement whereby upcoming U2 concerts would be broadcast to the International Space Station.

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Input: At the same time that it began to rely on other people’s money, the Trump Foundation sometimes appeared to flout IRS rules by purchasing things that seemed to benefit only Trump. In 2007, for instance, Trump and his wife, Melania, attended a benefit for a children’s charity held at Mar-a-Lago. The night’s entertainment was Michael Israel, who bills himself as “the original speed painter.” His frenetic act involved painting giant portraits in five to seven minutes — then auctioning off the art he’d just created. He painted Trump. Melania Trump bid $ 10,000.

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Input: (Renae Merle) Justin Trudeau moved to ban discrimination against transgender people in Canada. (Alan Freeman) World leaders renewed calls for a Syrian cease-fire following a meeting in Vienna. Diplomats urged all parties to allow immediate humanitarian access to blockaded towns and warned rebels they “might not be protected” from future airstrikes if they violate an ongoing partial truce. (Carol Morello) The Senate advanced a $ 1.1 billion Zika funding bill, clearing a key procedural step while House Republicans introduced vastly different legislation of their own. (Kelsey Snell) South Carolina lawmakers passed a bill prohibiting abortion after 19 weeks, becoming the 17th state to pass the restrictive ban.

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Input: FIFA has rejected requests for the Group A Asian group qualifier to be moved despite it clashing with the first night of Tasua and Ashura, a major two-day festival on the Shia Islam calendar. Officials wanted to play the match on Monday, but FIFA ruled that would n’t be be too short a turnaround for Korea to recover from Thursday’s match against Qatar. Clerics have also demanded that Iran forfeit what is expected to be an evenly matched clash, taking a 3-0 defeat. With the two sides level on points in second and third in their group, it is a key fixture in their bid for a place at Russia 2018. (Photo: Getty)

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Input: Video: UN says Aleppo suffering ' new height of horror ' Meanwhile, Mr Rycroft, Ms Power and French ambassador Francois Delattre walked out of the Security Council when Syria's ambassador was called to speak-in a show of anger and frustration by the West. Syrian rebels had declared the push for peace "futile" after Syrian government and Russian warplanes bombarded Aleppo in the worst surge of violence in the city for years. The 30 rebel groups-including the biggest faction backed by Turkey, Gulf states and the West-said the bombing campaign was "unprecedented", with more than 200 killed in recent days. Efforts to revive such an agreement are now a lost cause unless there is an immediate end to fighting and aid is forthcoming, rebels said.

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Input: [Text below from the site Diem25.org] Mr Assange been granted political asylum by Ecuador in response to the pending prosecution pending against him in the US in relation to Wikileaks publications, which include revelations of the US spying on allied governments, as well as the UN Secretary General and the UNHCR. After a 16 month investigation, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD) has found that Mr Assange has been unlawfully detained by the UK and Sweden and should be released and compensated. The US states that it continues its ‘pending prosecution’ against WikiLeaks. The case is being handled by the Department of Justice National Security Division & Criminal Division.

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Input: Breaking: The chief said the gunman who engaged in the standoff "said he was upset about the recent police shootings." He was killed when police detonated an explosive. -- Trump just issued a statement calling this "an attack on our country": “It is a coordinated, premeditated assault on the men and women who keep us safe. We must restore law and order. We must restore the confidence of our people to be safe and secure in their homes and on the street.

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Input: During the 1920s, in the lead-up to the great crash of 1929, shadow banking occurred largely through the relations between depository institutions of the kind in which most working Americans kept their money, and high-end securities firms — firms like today's J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs — through which mainly the rich invested. Securities firms borrowed short-term from depositories — hence from their depositors — then used the borrowings to purchase high-yield speculative financial products. The result was first a bubble-inflating binge of speculative buying of such products, then the massive failure of both the securities firms that bought them and the banks and depositors who lent the short-term money once the bubble had burst. For this reason, the Glass-Steagalll Act, passed shortly after the 1929 crash in 1933, put an end to these relations between depository institutions and securities firms. It ended, in other words, the 1920s version of shadow banking.

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Input: The pair had blamed the spill on energy company Lukoil, which has a facility in the Komi region. The journalists claimed that the company had asked Russia’s Internal Affairs Ministry to bring the pair in for questioning, and that Lukoil security guards had attempted to interfere with their work, 7x7 reported. Police also attempted to confiscate the drone, claiming that the device needed to be registered. Officers later relented when lawyers found that the journalists ' drone weighed less than 5 kilos. Under Russian law, only drones which weigh over 30 kilograms need to be registered.

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Input: The CNN delegate tally is based on the pledged delegates apportioned after coast to coast nominating contests this year and a project spanning the entire campaign to canvas superdelegates -- party officials and lawmakers -- on how they will vote at the Democratic National Convention. Clinton will remain the presumptive nominee until the convention in Philadelphia next month. Although Sanders is vowing to fight to try to get superdelegates to abandon Clinton, there are signs that the Democratic establishment is moving to shut the primary down after Tuesday in order to train its exclusive fire on Trump. Obama spoke to Sanders on Sunday, a Democratic source told CNN. And on Tuesday, House Democratic minority leader Nancy Pelosi endorsed Clinton on the day of her home state primary.

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Input: Indeed, if recent reports published largely (though not exclusively) by right-wing news media have any credibility, the controversy is about to re-erupt with redoubled fury. Some on the right are even predicting that Clinton will soon be indicted. The reason for the right’s breathless anticipation of Clinton’s demise is that the mysterious, eccentric and paranoid Romanian computer hacker who broke the email story back in 2013 was extradited to the United States last month pursuant to federal felony charges filed against him in 2014. The theory is that prosecutors will squeeze the hacker for incriminating evidence against Clinton. A trial date in the hacker’s case has been set for September, smack dab in the middle of the general election campaign, in federal district court in Alexandria, Va.

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Input: Korotyshkin added that concerned pals should not worry as “all is well with me”. The athlete, who won the silver medal in the 100 m butterfly during London 2012, lamented that his robbers did not have “more interesting things” to play with-than guns-and that they had been taught to steal. The retired athlete is in Rio to support Team Russia. ASSOCIATED PRESS Evgeny Korotyshkin shows off his gold medal during the ceremony for the Men's 100 m butterfly final in Hungary in 2010 Since the Games begun, there have been widespread reports of violence in the city including an attack on the Olympic security chief.

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Input: In the past few weeks, since she defeated Bernie Sanders, Mrs. Clinton has been impersonating a centrist. Her foreign-policy speech was crafted to contrast sharply with Trump’s illiterate eruptions. She praised NATO, upheld the importance of alliances with Japan and South Korea, defended John McCain’s heroism, stressed the centrality of American world leadership, and promised to harness allies in the war to defeat ISIS. The speech was miles to Trump’s right. A couple of weeks later, she recounted her fond recollection of the letter that President George H. W. Bush left for Bill Clinton on his first day in the Oval Office.

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Input: "Airstrikes have intensified lately. Foreign fighters set up temporary roadblocks and take the civilians ' ID cards. They confiscate them so they can use them when they flee to Turkey," says Om Mohammad. Om Omran and Om Mohammad are planning to leave the city, but it has been impossible so far. They have chosen to stay to help a friend who is in danger of being killed.

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Input: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump had a case of the sniffles during the first presidential debate on Sept. 26 – so we put them all in one supercut, with a few of his interruptions for good measure. (Gillian Brockell / The Washington Post) An ebullient Hillary Clinton reveled Tuesday in the strong reviews for her performance in the first general election debate of 2016, while rival Donald Trump kept the previous night’s controversies alive and suggested he might “hit her harder” in their next encounter by raising the subject of former President Bill Clinton’s infidelities. “I really eased up because I did n’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings,” Trump said on Fox News, saying he would have brought up “the many affairs that Bill Clinton had” but held back because the Clintons’ daughter Chelsea was in the audience. “I did n’t think it was worth the shot,” he said.

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Input: At the trial he was granted a translator, but his lawyer did not turn up, sending an assistant instead. The trial and sentencing took 15 minutes. Justo got three years in a Thai jail for attempting to blackmail a UK company out of $ 2 m. Life behind bars in Klong Prem Central prison, where Justo is incarcerated, is not for the fainthearted. In a city where temperatures rarely drop below 26C, Justo shares a cramped “VIP” cell with 25 other prisoners.

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Input: # Kabul-death toll climbs to 61 and 207 wounded-officials confirm-following deadly blast at mass rally in Kabul city — TOLOnews (@TOLOnews) July 23, 2016 Officials have confirmed to TOLOnews that at least three suicide bombers were present at the rally. The first detonated an explosives vest, the second was killed by police, while the third had a defective explosives vest. The fate of the third attacker is unknown. Warning: graphic video

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Input: Nevertheless, Wiley told me, the commission has also identified a number of “quite serious perpetrators, drawn from the security-intelligence services,” who have entered Europe. “The CIJA is very much committed to assisting domestic authorities with prosecutions.” Counting Syria’s dead has become nearly impossible — the U.N. stopped trying more than two years ago — but groups monitoring the conflict have estimated the number to be almost half a million, with the pace of killing accelerating each year. The war has emptied out the country, with some five million Syrians escaping to neighboring countries and to Europe, straining the capacities of even those countries which are willing to provide asylum and humanitarian aid. The chaos has also played a fundamental role in the rise of ISIS, the bloodiest of the jihadi groups that have used Syria as a staging ground to expand the reach of terrorism.

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Input: She stood up against sex trafficking of women and children, intervened in Saudi Arabia to prevent child marriage, and led the fight for a UN Security Council resolution to combat sexual violence against women and children around the world that passed unanimously. … And 3 more …. She oversaw negotiation and worked to ensure ratification of the New START treaty, which will make the world safer by reducing U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals to their smallest size in 50 years. She helped build the unprecedented global effort to combat climate change, joining with President Obama to stand up to the Chinese in Copenhagen and get them to take responsibility for the first time, resulting in last year’s major climate agreement. She stood up to Russia, China, and Iran on internet freedom and fought for the “freedom to connect” around the world.

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Input: “Trump has a hard-core base,” said Neil Newhouse, a Republican pollster. “They ought to spend less time figuring out how to reinforce those people and more time trying to add to his vote column.” Mr. Trump, at a rally on Wednesday afternoon in Ocala, Fla., called the hacked campaign emails “unbelievable” and urged voters to read the messages “released by WikiLeaks.” He said the emails “make more clear than ever, just how much is at stake in November and how unattractive and dishonest our country has become.” “It tells you the inner heart,” he said. “You got to read it.”

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Input: (Please see the letter here.) TOP SECRET / SAP classification goes well beyond the merely top secret and might include the names of American moles in foreign governments and other information whose disclosure could get people killed. This level of stealth is so intense, McCullough himself had to earn an even higher security clearance in order to inspect these SAP materials. “Several dozen” such e-mails occupied Clinton’s server as it ricocheted from Chappaqua, N.Y., to New Jersey to Colorado, unencrypted and wide open to hacking by Anonymous, Russia, Iran, or the terrifyingly tech-savvy folks at ISIS. Hillary Clinton has devolved in ten months from a fumbling former chief diplomat to a previously clear and present danger to U.S. national security.

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Input: Most people who have not had a lobotomy have no doubts that the Kremlin has been attempting to swing the election to Trump, however. The evidence is clear, ranging from the fact that none of the political material that hactivists have released was about Trump to the fact that the Russians ' buddy, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, chirped that he would deliver an "October surprise" that would knock Clinton out of the presidential race. (That hasn't occurred, an indication that Assange has embraced the Russians ' propensity to lie.) Despite mounting evidence of a concerted Russian campaign to throw the election to Trump, the Kremlin continues to deny involvement. But a just-released Associated Press story is likely to convince even those who have had lobotomies that Russia is trying to help Trump win.

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Input: advertisement “The Clinton Cash book by Peter Schweizer documents a level of corruption that may be unprecedented in American history — in fact, it almost certainly is,” Miller said on Breitbart News Sunday. The book, Miller explains, documents how under the Clintons, “the security of the American people was auctioned off to the highest bidder. You saw this, for instance, in the Uranium deal that the book documents, where U.S. uranium assets were given up to Russians while Bill [Clinton] was getting money from the interest groups affected. You’ve seen it in action relating to Iran.

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Input: “I would rather as president be dealing with Iran on all of those issues without having to worry as much about their racing for a nuclear weapon,” she said. Build on the Obama administration’s new Cuba policy Clinton has praised President Obama’s efforts to normalize diplomatic relations with Cuba, supporting his policies and calling for an end to the trade embargo with the island nation. “The Cuba embargo needs to go, once and for all,” she said in a speech in Miami in summer 2015. “We should replace it with a smarter approach that empowers Cuban businesses, Cuban civil society, and the Cuban American community to spur progress and keep pressure on the regime.”

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Input: BRUSSELS Turkey has fired hundreds of senior military staff serving at NATO in Europe and the United States following July's coup attempt, documents show, broadening a purge to include some of the armed forces ' best-trained officials. In a classified military dispatch seen by Reuters, 149 military envoys posted to the alliance's headquarters and command centers in Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Britain were ordered on Sept. 27 to return to Turkey within three days. Most were dismissed from service on their arrival, arrested and imprisoned, according to a Turkish military official at NATO and two farewell letters sent by departing Turkish officials emailed to colleagues at NATO and seen by Reuters. One of those letters wrote of a "witch-hunt" of senior air force commanders serving overseas. In total, about 400 military envoys have been fired so far, the Turkish military official said.

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Input: Would that do it? I doubt it. Here’s another question that worth asking: Do presidential candidates have to admit they intended to commit a crime for the FBI to recommend the Justice Department prosecute? In the case of Clinton, it seems so. The FBI does n’t believe there was intentional misconduct on the part of Clinton.

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Input: "We don't use cluster bombs in Sanaa, this is clear and definite," he said. But on Thursday, the European Parliament called on the European Union to impose an arms embargo on Saudi Arabia in response to allegations of human rights violations in Yemen." Our duty is to the civilians in Yemen, and given widespread and very valid concerns over the conduct of the war by Saudi forces, our call for an E.U .- wide arms embargo is proportionate and necessary," said Alyn Smith, one of the lawmakers who spearheaded the vote." The Saudis say they are investigating what they call incidents, and I welcome that scrutiny. But that is not enough -- humanitarian NGOs have asked for an independent inquiry that meets international law standards," he said.

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Input: Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Sarah Rainsford reports: ' ' She was a picture of calm as the judge mumbled his ruling ' ' A Ukrainian pilot has been found guilty in Russia of charges relating to the deaths of two Russian journalists. Nadiya Savchenko was sentenced to 22 years in jail after being convicted of directing artillery fire which killed them in eastern Ukraine in June 2014. She burst into a folk-style protest song in the courtroom as she was finally pronounced guilty after the judge's two-day reading of the verdict. She denied all the charges and her case has become internationally notorious.

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Input: Kerry says the U.S. views with gravest concern events unfolding in Turkey and officials are monitoring "a very fluid situation." Kerry says he spoke this evening to Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and emphasized the United States ' absolute support for Turkey's democratically-elected, civilian government and democratic institutions. He urged all parties to ensure the safety and well-being of diplomatic missions and personnel and civilians throughout Turkey. _ _ _ 2:50 a.m.

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Input: A screenshot from a video allegedly showing a loitering munition being used to kill Armenian "volunteers" recently. (YouTube / AZERBAIJANI ARMED FORCES Qarabag) Azerbaijan may be using a new kind of Israeli drone that explodes on impact in its ongoing conflict with Armenia. The Washington Post unearthed a video that appears to show an Israeli-made “loitering munition” fired by Azerbaijani forces at Armenians in the disputed region Nagorno-Karabakh. A loitering munition is a drone with a missile attached to it.

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Input: Israel’s police minister accused Facebook Inc. of complicity in Palestinian violence against his country after back-to-back attacks claimed the lives of a 13-year -old stabbed to death in her bed and a father of 10 killed in a drive-by shooting. Many young Palestinians incite against Israelis on Facebook and the social network fails to take down such posts, Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan said. Facebook also sabotages police efforts and turns down requests for collaboration, he said.

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Input: If Russia is indeed trying to influence our elections, it would be through Bernie or Bust authors like H.A. Goodman, or Jill Stein supporters who share Breitbart and Daily Caller articles as proof Hillary Clinton is just as bad as Donald Trump. As much as I enthusiastically supported Bernie Sanders during the primary, the rhetoric of the alt-left individuals backing him was rather concerning – especially those folks who said they would rather see Trump elected than Hillary. How is the alt-left anti-science and prone to conspiracy nonsense? Well, let’s use the claim that Jill Stein is n’t against vaccines as an example.

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Input: NEWS: Russian Meteor: Chelyabinsk Asteroid Had Violent Past The Mirror also wandered down the conspiracy path, questioning how NASA even recorded the Feb. 6 impact, highlighting Plait's analysis that the atmospheric impact was likely detected by classified military technology. Normally, atmospheric explosions are recorded by seismic monitors, microphones and/or satellite observations. As Plait pointed out, as the impact was in open ocean, it's not likely that seismic monitors would have been used to record the impact energy. As the military has pretty obvious reasons for monitoring atmospheric explosions, it seems likely the data came from a classified source, probably satellites.

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Input: “Russian cyber actors, who post disinformation on commercial websites, might seek to alter online media as a means to influence public discourse and create confusion,” Director of National Intelligence James Clapper warned in his 2016 threat assessment. The committee that would be established by the 2017 Intelligence Authorization Act would target Russian activities that are intended to influence either individuals or governments. According to the bill, that includes everything from the establishment or funding of a front group, covert broadcasting, media manipulation and disinformation campaigns. Experts cite the vast misinformation campaign that Russia — famous for its propaganda — has launched surrounding the situation in Ukraine, “which is being waged on an unprecedentedly large scale,” according to a Polish report on Russian information warfare strategy. But whether the Kremlin would use that apparatus to influence the U.S. election is still a matter of speculation.

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Input: Trump’s partners on a Panama project traveled to Moscow in 2006 to sell condos to Russian investors, according to litigation filed in Florida. Trump also sold a mansion in Palm Beach in 2008 for $ 95 million to Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev, according to property records. Trump had purchased the mansion at a bankruptcy auction less than four years earlier for $ 41.4 million, records show. In 2013, Trump found a new Russian partner for a Moscow real estate project, Aras Agalarov, an Azeri-born real estate developer who is sometimes called the "Trump of Russia" for his tendency to emblazon his name on his development projects. The Agalarovs are wealthy developers who have received several contracts for state-funded construction projects, a sign of their closeness to the Putin government.

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Input: One of the “overarching plotlines” Rhodes crafted credited Hassan Rouhani’s election in June with signaling a new willingness of Iranians to negotiate that the Obama administration then embraced. Obama, of course, would play the hero; the villains, however, numbered in the thousands, like the cast of “Ben Hur”: neocons, and those darkly loyal to Israel’s interests; partisan Republicans; knuckle-dragging warmongers, and other enemies of the peace. Of course, it was all a lie. Firstly, Rouhani is no sort of moderate. He has presided over a steady uptick of executions of Iran’s dissidents, as well as sexual and religious minorities.

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Input: "It's irrelevant," Assange said." That's not why we publish." "We don't have any concern as to whether Hillary is elected or Trump is elected," Assange said." We are concerned that the material we publish is always accurate, on the one hand, and that our sources are protected on the other." Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said late last week that, while U.S. intelligence services are facing a "version of war" with Russia, it's too soon to blame it for hacking the DNC.

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Input: Related: After 40-year ban, U.S. starts exporting oil "It's just cheaper to bring a tanker of light crude from the U.S. Gulf than to ship it from West Africa or North Africa," says Nilofar Saidi, an oil market analyst at ClipperData. The U.S. officially lifted its 40-year ban on exporting oil to other countries in December. Despite political tension between the two countries, Venezuela's state-run oil company, PDVSA, was quick to get in line for American oil. Friction between the U.S. and Venezuela runs deep.

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Input: Twitter Embed FROM JUNE 13, 2013: White House Says Syria ' Red Line ' Has Been Crossed autoplay autoplay Copy this code to your website or blog More than 250,000 people have died in the conflict, though the U.N. stopped keeping track of the toll. Efforts to negotiate peace have failed and cease-fires have broken down. Six years later Assad is still in power and stronger than ever — but not crowing about outplaying Obama.

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Input: As noted in “Partners in Crime,” the existence of WJC LLC as a corporation or as a shell bank account has never been mentioned in any Clinton Foundation audited financial statements or IRS Tax Form 990 since the foundation’s inception in 1997. Because the WJC LLC bank account never showed up with a positive balance in banking records reported to bank regulators, the Clintons also avoided disclosing the existence of the account in their income tax filings. A search of the ICIJ database of the Panama Papers for WJC LLC produced a list of hits that included 1,011 offshore entities, 446 officers, 72 intermediaries and 143 different addresses. Among the “offshore entities” that surfaced in the search for WJC LLC was the still active WJC Investment Group Ltd., a corporation registered in the British Virgin Islands on Oct. 6, 2005, by the Singapore-based Asian wealth manager Portcullis Trustnet, that the Panama Papers list as registered in the British Virgin Island as a trust company. The ICIJ reports that about a third of the offshore entities in the Panama Papers were incorporated through Portcullis Trustnet (now Portcullis) and Commonwealth Trust Limited, two offshore service providers that were made public as part of the ICIJ’s 2013 “Offshore Leaks” exposé.

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Input: Their cavalry and siege tactics were laying waste to the cities of Europe, and, perhaps more important, they brought along Chinese gunpowder. This series of unqualified successes brought the vast Mongol army to Hungary in March 1241. King Bela IV fled his palace in Pest (now part of Budapest), and Ogodei's armies slaughtered an estimated 1 million Hungarians: troops, clerics, nobles, knights, and peasants. It was one of the bloodiest defeats of the medieval period. In December 1241, Ogodei Khan died unexpectedly.

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Input: Each of those articles have been appended with updates. The one about the Justin Bieber ringtone, for example, now states," This bear was apparently not a Belieber." Leidig says this has harmed him in myriad ways: CEN clients have stopped using its service, other clients like the Daily Mirror will only use CEN stories when "absolutely necessary," and ad sales have plummeted by about 30 percent. Plus more." As a direct result of defendant’s publication, plaintiff CEN lost a potential high-six-figure investment that had been in the works for many months," states the complaint.

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Input: July 23, 2016 -- ISIS claimed responsibility for an attack on a peaceful demonstration in Kabul, Afghanistan, that killed at least 80 people and wounded more than 260 others. Two ISIS fighters detonated their suicide belts among the protesters, according to ISIS ' media wing, Amaq. A third attacker was killed by security forces before detonating his bomb, according to an Afghan security official speaking on condition of anonymity. The attack was one of the deadliest in months in Afghanistan.

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Input: WUHAN, April 6, 2016 (Xinhua) -- A freight train heading to Lyons of France sets off from Wujiashan Railway Center in Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province, April 6, 2016. The train, which is loaded with mechanical, electronic and chemical products, marks the opening of the Wuhan-Lyons freight train. The train will travel 16 days and run 11,300 kilometers before arriving at Lyons.

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Input: Internment camps. Death marches. Genocide. The reality of this situation is that America has done this before. We committed the mass genocide of Native Americans.

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Input: A spokesman for Israel’s Interior Ministry told NBC that three of the five campaigners were denied entry for “security reasons” but did not elaborate on what those reasons were. End the Israeli Occupation did not provide the names of two of the activists so Israeli officials could not provide information on their attempts to enter. The delegates, who included Bina Ahmad, a New York City public defender, were denied entry into Israel and then detained for hours before they were sent back to the United States. Calls to the US Consulate “resulted in no assistance for the delegates,” according to the organization. At a press briefing in March of 2014, State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki stated that “the Department of Homeland Security and State remain concerned with the unequal treatment that Palestinian Americans and other American of Middle Eastern origin experience at Israel’s border and checkpoints, and reciprocity is the base basic condition of the Visa Waiver.”

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Input: The Polish government plans to demolish about 500 Soviet monuments throughout the country, head of the Institute of National Remembrance Lukasz Kaminsky said in an interview with online portal Onet.pl, the RBC news website reported Thursday. Kaminsky — whose institute is responsible for investigating crimes against the Polish nation — said that plans for the demolition of the monuments, would be sent to local authorities in the coming weeks. These monuments should have been demolished in the early 1990s, he said, and called the preservation of the monuments “a fatal mistake.”

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Input: In fact, the proceeds of later investors were being used to pay off the investments of earlier investors, according to the Justice Department. Between September 2004 and October 2007, Miracle took in more than $ 65.3 million and paid out $ 36.7 million in the dividends. “The bulk of the remaining funds were used to develop oil and gas fields in Indonesia, as well as to pay for a lavish lifestyle for Miracle,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Western District of Washington said in a statement at time of his guilty plea. John Michael “Red" Crim was convicted in Philadelphia in 2008, along with two associates, for being part of a plot in which he recruited investors to use phony trusts to cheat the IRS out of $ 10 million in revenue. Crim, co-founder of the Texas-based Commonwealth Trust Company, “encouraged investors to place income and assets into trusts for the purpose of evading federal income taxes,” according the office of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

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Input: (CNN) As law enforcement officials sort through the rubble at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, and learn more about how America's deadliest mass shooting unfolded, the presidential candidates will be posturing to ensure that they use this moment wisely. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump don't want this event to detrimentally affect their respective claims to be America's best bet on national security. But while the kind of politicking that results will feel unsavory to voters on both sides of the aisle, it can also offer a real opportunity for a serious conversation about the choices the nation faces and what it will mean, in this dangerous world, to have either of these candidates in the most powerful position in the country.

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Input: In October 2015, a Russian plane crashed into the Sinai Peninsula after what may have been a terrorist bomb brought it down. In March, a passenger wearing a fake explosives belt hijacked a domestic EgyptAir flight and diverted it to Cyprus. The crisis was resolved within hours when the man, later determined to be psychologically troubled, surrendered. In May, EgyptAir Flight 804 plunged into the Mediterranean, en route to Cairo from Paris, killing all 66 people on board. The cause of the crash is still under investigation.

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Input: And sometimes folks, if they lose, they start complaining that they got cheated,” Obama said then, answering reporters’ questions just before his summer vacation. But only recently have Trump’s warnings about a rigged election become, for Obama, further evidence that the Republican nominee is unfit for office. Trump has repeatedly pinned the failings of the Obama administration — whether it’s fighting ISIS, standing up to Russia or negotiating trade deals — to Obama’s weakness. But now Obama is arguing that Trump is the weak one, more eager to deflect responsibility than buckle down and fix problems — in this case, his sagging electoral prospects. At a campaign rally for Hillary Clinton on Friday, Obama used it as a point of contrast between her and Trump.

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Input: Of those, 293 were carried out by government forces and 16 were conducted by Russian warplanes, it said. Hospitals in eastern Aleppo have been overwhelmed with casualties since the start of a government offensive last week after the collapse of a cease-fire. MSF, which supports all the hospitals in eastern Aleppo, said doctors have reported receiving more than 270 bodies and 800 wounded patients since last Wednesday.

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Input: Recently, heart wrenching photos have shown dead children and throngs of Syrians pushing past European borders to reach the Promised Land in Germany and elsewhere. Germany expects 800,000 this year. The Obama Administration, despite causing the refugee crisis with its overthrow of secular governments in the Middle East, has jailed twenty Iraqi Christians who managed to escape to the United States seeking asylum. The Austrian and German governments welcomed refugees. Austria has made an effort to bring into its borders the persecuted Christians of Syria.

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Input: Photos: The ISIS terror threat Shiite fighters, fighting alongside Iraqi government forces, fire a rocket at ISIS militants as they advance toward the center of Baiji, Iraq, on Monday, October 19. Hide Caption 12 of 68 Photos: The ISIS terror threat Smoke rises above a damaged building in Ramadi, Iraq, following a coalition airstrike against ISIS positions on Saturday, August 15. Hide Caption 13 of 68 Photos: The ISIS terror threat Iraqi men look at damage following a bomb explosion that targeted a vegetable market in Baghdad on Thursday, August 13.

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Input: They also brought in large generators to provide electricity. In much of eastern Syria, Isis’s draconian regulations were preferable to the criminality and insecurity which had flourished previously under other armed opposition movements. The testimony of refugees is inevitably biased against those who forced them to abandon their homes and flee and, while the accounts of their suffering are undoubtedly true, they can not speak for those who stayed behind. Isis still has fanatical supporters and there is no mass exodus of deserters from its ranks, even though they are being bombed by the two largest air forces in the world. Isis was always infamous for relating to the rest of the world solely through violence and, as the tide turns against it on the battlefield, it is not surprising that this violence is becoming steadily even more extreme.

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Input: Politifact, in its analysis of the Uranium One / Rosatom / State Department story first reported by the New York Times and based on research from the NYT bestseller Clinton Cash, ignores numerous key facts, conflates opinion for fact, deemphasizes other key facts, makes 13 errors, declares an incomplete donor record as complete, and takes the word of a major Clinton Foundation donor who has a demonstrable record of deceiving media outlets about basic facts in this deal. All of these errors curiously redound to the benefit of Hillary Clinton. The fact-check article was written by Politifact staff writer Linda Qiu, who took to Twitter and joked about her newly acquired skill for searching SEDAR, Canada’s version of EDGAR for publicly traded companies.

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Input: Because of what "might have been." Compared to the undeniable chaos of the last four years, a Republican presidency would have delivered a dramatically better reality for our citizens and for the world. Domestically, dozens of serious jobs bills would likely have been signed into law; the Environmental Protection Agency's war on American energy, especially coal, would likely have ended; the Keystone XL pipeline would surely have begun construction; comprehensive tax reform could have lowered rates for everyone and made our tax code fairer; corruption at the IRS would more likely have been properly condemned and punished; the Little Sisters of the Poor would no doubt have been left alone to keep caring for the elderly instead of being forced into court for their survival; and so much more. Abroad, the war on terrorism could have been waged with resolve, not reluctance; the Islamic State would have been taken seriously at its infancy and exterminated without restraint; the Iran nuclear deal would never have happened; Vladimir Putin's resurgent Russia would have been seen as the geopolitical threat it is, and likely would have been deterred before victimizing our ally Ukraine; even the situation in Syria may well have looked more positive than its current state of agony. Yes, these are hopeful hypotheticals.

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Input: Delegates listen to speeches during the ' International Russian Conservative Forum ' in St. Petersburg, Russia, 22 march 2015. ANATOLY MALTSEV / EPA Boris Reitschuster, a veteran German journalist who authored several books on Russia, claims that the ties date back to the first years of Putin's presidency — and his past as a KGB spy in East Germany in 1985-1990, where he developed ties to the Stasi, the secret police. “I think it started shortly after Putin came to power,” Reitschuster told the Voice of America in April. “He was a KGB man, and everything he is using now is the old methods of the KGB and the Stasi.”

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Input: Story Continued Below That was the year Putin’s friend and partner Gerhard Schroeder lost the German elections and resigned as chancellor. Schroeder and Putin, who spoke German after serving in the KGB in East Germany, understood each other well and established close diplomatic and personal ties. But in 2005, Schroeder was replaced by Angela Merkel, whom Putin did n’t understand — and does n’t understand to this day. In the intervening 12 years, he started suspecting Merkel of deceiving him, spinning intrigues and weaving conspiracies against him.

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