Input: In contrast, the United States was above the treaty limit for both deployed and non-deployed launchers, so it has been busy dismantling and denuclearizing so-called phantom launchers — that is, missile silos and bombers that were not actually used in nuclear planning but had not yet been destroyed or carried equipment that made them accountable under the treaty. … Overall, in the case of the United States, the reduction in launchers will have been most significant for phantom launchers versus actual nuclear committed launchers. As for deployed warheads, the two countries have made slight adjustments to their deployed warheads. The United States has reduced and Russia has increased slightly. The Russian increase is a temporary anomaly caused by their transition from Soviet-era weapons to modern weapons.

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Input: Photos: Cult of Putin While his nation waded deeper into the Syrian civil war, Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, spent his 63rd birthday on the ice Wednesday, October 7, playing hockey with NHL stars and various Russian officials and tycoons in Sochi. For years, Russia's leader has cultivated a populist image in the Russian media. Hide Caption 1 of 21 Photos: Cult of Putin Putin holds a cat as he inspects housing built for victims of wildfires in the village of Krasnopolye, in a region in southeastern Siberia, Russia, on Friday, September 4. Hide Caption 2 of 21 Photos: Cult of Putin Putin, left, and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev jokingly toast at a lunch during a meeting at the Black Sea resort in Sochi, Russia, on Sunday, August 30. Hide Caption 3 of 21 Photos: Cult of Putin Putin exercises during his meeting with Medvedev on August 30.

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Input: Clinton’s Supreme Court will redefine religious freedom so as to restrict it so that it only applies in the privacy of one’s own home. Her court will elevate homosexual behavior to a “right” that trumps the First Amendment with devastating consequences. Employers, for example, will have the right to fire employees if they hold religious beliefs defined as “homophobic.” Churches will lose their tax exempt status for preaching that homosexuality is a sinful behavior. And so on. If one thinks this is fantasy, just read the Obergfell opinion, which already makes clear that half the justices today actually consider homosexual behavior to be a more important “right” than the 1st Amendment.

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Input: Dear Secretary Carter: On Tuesday, January 5th, U.S. Armed Forces participating in a train and assist mission alongside Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan came into heavy contact with Taliban forces. After a prolonged firefight, two U.S. service members were wounded and unfortunately Staff Sgt. Mathew McClintock was killed in action. The ultimate sacrifice by Staff Sgt.

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Input: The Jupiter, Fla., Police Department said that the charge stemmed from Lewandowski “intentionally” touching Fields. Trump questioned Fields's explanation and questioned the legitimacy of the bruises on her arm in a photo she tweeted after the incident." How do you know those bruises were n’t there before?" he said." If you’re going to get squeezed, would n’t you let out a scream or something?

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Input: But she said she was shocked at her experience at Monday's Donald Trump rally that ended with the 69-year -old being punched by a South Carolina man, police say. Teter lives downtown and went to protest against the Republican candidate during his rally at the U.S. Cellular Center, where 7,000 attended and hundreds more protested. She has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and relies on an oxygen tank to help breathe, and after the punch Teter ended up in the hospital until 2 a.m. Tuesday, she said." People need to know what state of agitation he puts people in," she said of Trump. The Trump campaign did not respond to questions Tuesday about the incident with Teter or other violent encounters between protesters and supporters caught on video or reported by witnesses.

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Input: The campaign officials ' focus on diversity came in the same month that Clinton's advisers circulated data collected from her family's foundation that found only three of the foundation's 11 highest paid employees were women — and a Democratic consultant expressed concern about the political fallout from the gender discrepancy. Emails released last week about the Clinton Foundation highlighted a large disparity in the median salaries of the top-paid men and woman working for the organization. According to the emails, the median salary of the highest paid men at the foundation was $ 346,106, while the median salary of the highest paid women was $ 185,386 — roughly a $ 160,000 difference. The numbers came from the foundation's 990 tax forms for 2013, according to the emails." There are huge discrepancies, and it wouldn't surprise me if they (the media) went here next," Ian Mandel, a Democratic consultant, wrote.

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Input: A giant Turkey's national flag is seen during the Democracy and Martyrs Rally, organized by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and supported by ruling AK Party (AKP), oppositions Republican People's Party (CHP) and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), to protest against last month's failed military coup attempt, in Istanbul, Turkey, August 7, 2016. REUTERS / Osman Orsal A woman reacts as she attends the Democracy and Martyrs Rally, organized by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and supported by ruling AK Party (AKP), oppositions Republican People's Party (CHP) and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), to protest against last month's failed military coup attempt, in Istanbul, Turkey, August 7, 2016. REUTERS / Osman Orsal People wave Turkey's national flags during the Democracy and Martyrs Rally, organized by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and supported by ruling AK Party (AKP), oppositions Republican People's Party (CHP) and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), to protest against last month's failed military coup attempt, in Istanbul, Turkey, August 7, 2016.

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Input: AN SAS sniper blew the head off a terrorist commander while he was teaching Islamic State recruits how to decapitate prisoners. GETTY TARGET LOCKED: The marksman was using a special bullet which ' tumbles ' when it strikes The shooter fired at a range of almost 1,200 metres after his team sneaked into a terrorist-controlled enclave of northern Syria two weeks ago.

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Input: “We want to be friends with the Russians,” he said. “The problem is that Putin just does n’t seem like a guy we can trust.” Speaking about the fight against terrorism, specifically against ISIS, Nunes said the terror network continues to pose a major threat as it recruits more members. “I think we’re even worse today [than in 2015], I think the threat level’s even higher because the radical islamic problem — whether it’s ISIS or al Qaeda — they continue to add followers,” Nunes said. “They’ve spread globally now, they’ve moved fighters into Europe where our allies are having considerable problems.”

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Input: A senior defense official, speaking on background, added that, “It's our responsibility to be engaged in these issues.” The memo, first reported by Politico, goes on to detail the stances of key members of Congress and the various meetings, fact sheets and speeches Pentagon leaders should give to oppose the bills. For example, the memo advocates engaging with Sens. John McCain John McCainMcCain: North Korean regime murdered Otto Warmbier GOP defense spending battle delays Republican budget Otto Warmbier, US student held in North Korea for 17 months, dies MORE (R-Ariz.) and Thad Cochran Thad CochranDefense hawks gird for budget brawl Congressional politics hurts cotton farmers GOP senators dismiss Trump filibuster change MORE (R-Miss.), chairmen of the Senate Armed Services Committee and Appropriations defense subcommittee, respectively, since the Senate bills did not include the OCO tactic.

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Input: Over at CNN's “New Day,” a new Trump attack ad on Clinton's health was derided. Said analyst Errol Louis, “The problem with that particular argument is that it doesn't say anything about her character or her policies or her prospects or anything else.” Later, there was a real story via Christiane Amanpour in Moscow with both the Russian foreign minister's de facto denials to her of Russian hacking of the U.S. campaign and his dancing around Russian bombing of Syrian civilian enclaves. “Fox & Friends” was mired in the election muck and beckoned Clinton-bashing author Ed Klein, who is peddling his latest, “Guilty As Sin.” His claims included that Clinton purposely didn't go after Bernie Sanders ' age due to her own health ills (arrhythmia) and that President Obama and Valerie Jarrett offered to have Hillary go secretly to Walter Reed Army Medical Center, in part to procure an “inside” take on her health. “Crazy stuff,” was co-host Steve Doocy's admiring salutation when done. Well, he got the crazy part right.

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Input: As they seek to maximize gains before the talks, all sides are inflicting new pain on civilians. Even now, as the Syrian government promises to allow United Nations aid into Madaya as soon as Monday — as international outrage over reports of starvation mounts — government forces are tightening a new siege on another rebel-held town, Moadhamiyeh, a suburb of Damascus. “Surrender or you will be annihilated,” was the message residents say Mr. Assad’s negotiators delivered to Moadhamiyeh — which endured a chemical weapons attack in 2013 and a two-year siege that ended with a deal favoring the government. Using hunger as a weapon flies in the face of international law. Yet global and regional powers — like Russia, Iran, the United States and Saudi Arabia — are unable or unwilling to pressure their battlefield allies.

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Input: Planning a carrier visit to Taiwan “might make it less attractive for China to continue to treat the United States Navy the way they did in this particular situation,” said Mr. Forbes, who also co-chairs the Congressional China Caucus. “The time has come to consider these alternate locations going forward,” Mr. Forbes said. The Chinese denied entry to the Stennis amid increasing tensions with the United States over Beijing’s assertiveness in the South China Sea. The Stennis passed through the key waterway last month. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter went aboard the warship, which has been a symbol of U.S. power projection in a region where China has been seeking to expand its maritime control.

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Input: But reporters and producers who had been personally informed about Ivanka’s appearance Tuesday had not been told they would not be allowed to set foot in the room. Under Trump’s five-part plan, the federal government would guarantee at least six weeks of paid maternity leave without raising taxes; it would be paid for by changes to state unemployment insurance programs. The plan also calls for amending the tax code to allow working parents to deduct childcare expenses from their income taxes. And it would offer incentives to employers that provide childcare facilities at the workplace. The Manhattan real-estate mogul has struggled throughout his campaign to win over traditional conservatives.

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Input: Networks dispatched their TV stars to Brussels, where they remain. NPR profiled the lives of several of the airport victims. CNN showed a moving interview with a wounded, bandage-wrapped Mormon American teenager speaking from his Belgium hospital bed. You’ll almost never hear any of those victims’ names on CNN, NPR, or most other large U.S. media outlets. No famous American TV correspondents will be sent to the places where those people have their lives ended by the bombs of the U.S. and its allies.

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Input: Hassan Haj Ali is a rebel commander who told us his men have received weapons from the U.S. and are trying to fight off the assault." When the regime kills women and children," he said," they're telling Syrians to get out of rebel-held areas." As the regime and Russia bombard Aleppo Province, the battlefield there has become even more chaotic. Now there's evidence that groups supported by the U.S. have started to fight each other as they vie for territory. Hassan Haj Ali, along with other U.S .- backed commanders, said they're clashing with Kurdish fighters -- and the Kurdish group also receives American support.

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Input: Diplomatic officials working in Britain have allegedly used their immunity to avoid prosecution for serious criminal offences including child pornography and human trafficking, Boris Johnson has told parliament. The foreign secretary published a list of 11 “serious and significant offences” allegedly committed by people with diplomatic immunity in the UK in 2015, as well as an update on minor offences and traffic fines avoided by officials. A Mexican official is accused of taking indecent photographs of a child and threatening the child. Another allegation relating to the same country includes claims an individual showed a 13 to 15 year-old pornography. The Foreign Office would not confirm whether both incidents related to the same person.

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Input: The Clinton Foundation has hired an outside cybersecurity company to look at its servers after possibly being hacked. Sources close to the matter confirmed to Fox News that the foundation has hired cybersecurity firm FireEye. Fox News is also told the way in which hackers made entry into Clinton Foundation systems appears to be similar to the method used to breach the DCCC and Democratic National Committee. Reuters first reported Wednesday on the decision to hire FireEye, while noting that no files from Hillary and Bill Clinton’s organization have surfaced in the public.

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Input: Biden then concluded, “He woulda loved Stalin.” This, of course, is ridiculous. Stalin was as horrific a world figure as Hitler; he was responsible for the massacres of political opponents, the starvation of millions in forced land redistribution policies, the imprisonment of tens of millions in gulags. To suggest that Trump would have supported Stalin is a serious slur. More importantly, there’s a far better shot that Biden and Hillary Clinton would have supported Stalin.

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Input: Russia is set to blacklist a support website for LGBT teens that officials say violates the country’s ‘gay propaganda’ law. Deti-404, which translates to Children-404, acts as an online support system for LGBT teens in Russia, where homophobia and transphobia continues to thrive. The website‘s users often share their stories about the anti-LGBT prejudices endured in their everyday lives.

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Input: The Kremlin says the leak of the "Panama Papers" tax documents is an attack aimed primarily at Russian President Vladimir Putin (AFP Photo / Kirill Kudryavtsev) Moscow (AFP) -The Kremlin on Monday slammed the leak of the "Panama Papers" tax documents as an attack aimed primarily at Russian President Vladimir Putin, claiming that former CIA officials helped analyse the papers." Putin, Russia, our country, our stability and the upcoming elections are the main target, specifically to destabilise the situation," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists. The year-long worldwide media investigation into millions of documents leaked from a Panama-based law firm exposed a tangle of confidential financial dealings by close friends and aides of Putin. The documents analysed by Russian journalists from Novaya Gazeta opposition newspaper put Putin's close friend at the top of an offshore empire worth more than $ 2 billion that has made his circle fabulously wealthy.

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Input: ADVERTISEMENT The video ofcrowing that his celebrity status entitles him to assault women slightly eclipsed's leaked speeches. But we still learned that Clinton holds "public and private positions," that her populist promises regarding free trade, preserving Social Security, and checking the power of Wall Street probably won't survive Inauguration Day. Millions of voters have figured out that the two major parties don't represent them. They're right.

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Input: President Obama and the Pentagon have been giving priority to first weakening and then eliminating Isis, and have been having a fair measure of success. The Iraqi army backed by US-led air strikes have recaptured Fallujah and the self-declared Caliphate has suffered a series of defeats in both Iraq and Syria. But Hillary Clinton’s expected choice as Defence Secretary, Michèle Flournoy, has just co-authored a report by the Centre for a New American Security (CNAS) in Washington that recommends that the destruction of Isis should no longer be the overriding objective of the US in Syria, but that equal priority should be given to taking military action against President Bashar al-Assad and the Syrian Army. A new pro-US armed opposition would be built up to fight Assad, Isis, al-Nusra and other al-Qaeda clones, a process that the report admits could take years – and “during that time the dangers posed by Isis will remain”. This is not a marginal opinion among hawks in Washington, as a recently leaked memo from 51 serving State Department officials argued very much the same thing.

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Input: It applies to all statements, written and oral, sworn and unsworn, voluntarily given or required by law. The core of the offense is a false representation, or concealment, by willful non-disclosure, of a material fact through a “trick, scheme, or device.” While similar to perjury, a false statement under this statute is broader. In addition to not requiring the statement be made under oath, it does not require two witnesses, or one witness with corroboration. Clearly, both statutes criminalize lies (intentional and knowing false statements) before a committee of Congress. The hard evidence, however, shows that Hillary Clinton did not lie, rather those charging her have distorted her testimony, or claimed she had information she simply did not have at the time she testified.

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Input: The Palestinian people should be happy over the death of someone "whose hands are covered in Palestinian blood," said Hamas in the statement. Abbas ' attendance at the funeral will provide the event with a real diplomatic character. More than 100 presidents, prime ministers, foreign ministers and other senior officials from several dozen countries will participate in Peres ' funeral. More than 100 international leaders expected The United States will be represented by U.S. President Barack Obama, who will speak at the ceremony and will be accompanied by Secretary of State John Kerry and nearly 50 members of Congress.

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Input: 2:50 a.m. The state-run Anadolu Agency says a bomb has hit the Turkish parliament in Ankara. CNN-Turk television reported some police officers and parliament workers were hurt in the bomb attack. A resident living not far from the area told the AP he heard a massive explosion that shook buildings and saw a column of smoke but could not confirm if it was coming from parliament itself. The person, who spoke on condition of anonymity for security reasons, also said fighter jets were flying low in the area.

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Input: When offers of cash went unanswered, Dr. Henderson told The Post, “we knew we had done it, but we could n’t believe it.” Ali Maow Maalin, a Somali who died in 2013, contracted the disease in 1977 and was identified as the world’s last patient with naturally occurring smallpox. Three years later, the World Health Assembly certified that smallpox had been eradicated. Donald Ainslie Henderson was born in Lakewood, Ohio, outside of Cleveland, on Sept. 7, 1928. His mother was a nurse, and his father was an engineer.

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Input: They were freed as part of a larger deal which saw the last remaining Syrian rebels in central Homs city evacuate their positions and free captives in several locations in northern Syria 16/32 Syria crisis A Syrian woman and two children walk past heavily damaged buildings in the northern city of Aleppo 17/32 Syria crisis A man carries a wounded girl following a reported bombardment with explosive-packed "barrel bombs" by Syrian government forces in the al-Mowasalat neighborhood of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo 18/32 Syria crisis A wounded man sits as he is treated at a makeshift hospital following a reported bombardment with explosive-packed "barrel bombs" by Syrian government forces in the al-Sakhour district of the northern city of Aleppo 19/32 Syria crisis Debris rises in what Free Syrian Army fighters and Islamic rebels said was an operation to strike Al-Sahaba checkpoint, which is considered a gateway to Al-Dayf valley, and remove forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad in Maarat Al-Nouman, Idlib province

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Input: The sentiments of prominent German leaders were expressed in the Jewish Daily Bulletin of New York City on October 30, 1934, in an article reprinted on page three from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency dispatch from Berlin which stated:" The New Germany persists toward the complete extermination of the Jew because it was Jews who instigated the United States to enter the World War, accomplishing the defeat of Germany, and who later caused the inflation in Germany, Herr Richard Kunze, a leading Nazi Parliament figure, declared at a mass meeting in Magdeburg yesterday." Talmudists throughout the world made bad matters worse on August 7, 1933, when they declared their "holy war" to destroy the German nation "by destroying their export trade upon which their very existence depends." Under the leadership of Mr. Samuel Untermeyer, Talmudists of the world declared a world boycott on all German goods and services. They asked their "Christian friends" to join their worldwide boycott of German goods and services. Mr. Samuel Untermeyer arranged for the "International Boycott Conference" in Amsterdam in July 1933.

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Input: Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Marina Litvinenko: ' Russian spies must be expelled from UK ' Speaking earlier outside the High Court, Mr Litvinenko's widow, Marina, said she was "very happy" that "the words my husband spoke on his deathbed when he accused Mr Putin have been proved by an English court". She urged the UK government to expel all Russian intelligence operatives, impose economic sanctions on Moscow and impose a travel ban on Mr Putin. The view from Moscow Image copyright AP Image caption Andrei Lugovoi, left, and Dmitry Kovtun pictured in Moscow, in 2007

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

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Input: But the determination by many of Trump’s voters to whitewash the man in order to vote for him is astounding. An alternative universe has been constructed where Trump’s worst sins never happened, where anyone who refuses to back the lifelong big-government statist with a historic penchant for dishonesty is a traitor to conservatism. Some of the thinkers I most admire fall into this category — people who construct their own Fantasy Trump with whom to fall in love. These are the people who suggest that Trump must talk more about judges and Obamacare and the specifics of Clinton’s Egypt policy. That’s not who Trump is.

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Input: While calling it a difficult question, he appeared to condemn both leaders, saying "if someone is determined to drown you can't help them." "I would say, you can not save someone who has decided to drown. But of course we are ready to lend a helping hand and friendship to any of our partners, if they want to take it," he said, according to a transcript on the Kremlin's website. Later, when probed about his personal life, he said he understood the interest but didn't want to broadcast the details, joking that he otherwise risked moving foreign exchange rates and oil prices. The call-in program comes ahead of elections for the Russian parliament Duma slated for September 18.

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Input: “Ratcheting up sanctions pressure demonstrates that there is a cost to violating Security Council resolutions,” she said in an email. “However, sanctions alone are not going to change Pyongyang’s behavior. North Korea has complex illicit trafficking networks for evading sanctions, and not all countries in the region are adequately enforcing existing measures.” Advertisement Continue reading the main story The one time the United States did clearly get the North’s attention was when it cut off bank accounts in Macau that Kim Jong-il, the father of the current leader, used to finance the lifestyle of the North Korean elite.

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Input: [Danielle Allen: The moment of truth: We must stop Trump] Now it is faced with a front-runner who, in the interval between the two Priebus comments cited above, said of a protester, “I’d like to punch him in the face.” This is a front-runner with no credible agenda and no suitable experience. He wants the United States to commit war crimes, including torture and the murder of innocent relatives of suspected terrorists. He admires Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and sees no difference between Mr. Putin’s victims and people killed in the defense of the United States. He would round up and deport 11 million people, a forced movement on a scale not attempted since Stalin or perhaps Pol Pot.

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

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Input: "We continue to call on all South China Sea claimants to avoid actions that raise tensions, take practical steps to build confidence, and intensify efforts to find peaceful, diplomatic solutions to disputes," a State Department official said. STATE-OF-THE-ART SYSTEM Foreign officials and military analysts believe the launchers form part of Vietnam's state-of-art EXTRA rocket artillery system recently acquired from Israel. EXTRA rounds are highly accurate up to a range of 150 km (93 miles), with different 150 kg (330 lb) warheads that can carry high explosives or bomblets to attack multiple targets simultaneously. Operated with targeting drones, they could strike both ships and land targets.

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Input: Police have arrested a man on suspicion of trying to assassinate the chief expert witness in the investigation into the downing of the Malaysia Airlines jet MH17. Ukraine’s most senior forensic scientist, Oleksandr Ruvin, was shot in the leg late last year in an attack that the authorities suspect was linked to his role in the crash probe. In a short statement, the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office said the country’s chief military prosecutor, Anatoliy Matios, would hold a briefing later on Monday “regarding the arrest of the killer who attempted to murder the chief expert on the case of the downed Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777”.

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Input: Though they both acknowledged deep disagreements on these issues, the two leaders found common ground on the topic of the economic embargo on Cuba, which both want lifted. Obama went so far as to declare that "the embargo's going to end," though he couldn't say when. In an extraordinary sign of the shifting attitudes, Castro was willing to answer one question on why his regime was keeping Cubans incarcerated for expressing anti-government views. But his response only underscored the schisms between himself and Obama." Did you ask if we had political prisoners?

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Input: “To me, it’s pretty clear that this is over. Trump is the nominee. That’s why I disagreed with [Speaker] Paul Ryan Paul RyanRepublicans and the lost promise of local control in education Ryan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax push Overnight Finance: Ryan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax reform | Warren targets Wells Fargo board | Senators raise concerns over Russian takeover of Citgo | Pelosi hits GOP for budget delays MORE [R-Wis.]. I thought that the moment to say, ‘OK, we have the leader of the team, let’s pull the team together, let’s go beat Hillary,’ has arrived. “You’re either for Hillary Clinton or you’re for Donald Trump.

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Input: Trump says he’s never so much as shaken hands with Rybolovlev, his nearly $ 100 million man. “I never met him. He was represented by a broker,” Trump said in the interview. “I heard good things about him in many ways, and about his family.” Trump added that Rybolovlev’s nationality was not relevant to him. “He just happened to be from Russia.

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Input: This shocking footage shows the moment a gang of Marseille youths launched an unprovoked attack on England supporters sitting in a bar in the Old Port district. In the video, the England fans were seen sitting in the Baloo Bar and adjacent pizzeria when the group of around 20 French hooligans arrived at the scene. One then hurled a bottle at the England supporters, before the gang started chucking chairs and tables at their opponents. Amid the ugly scenes, the English fans retaliated and threw chairs back at the local hooligans-before two rival fans squared up to one another. Riot police then arrived on the scene and the French fans dispersed, before dashing down the Rue Fortia.

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Input: It is an irresponsible claim in a country where the majority of mass murders are carried out not by Muslims, but by white nationalists or random angry men – two key components of the Trump constituency. And it is a suspicious claim to make as he and his backers fall under scrutiny for their connection to an authoritarian government, Russia, which shares the xenophobic, anti-Muslim outlook. In the U.S., one is far more likely to be killed in a shooting by a lone white male than in a terrorist attack by an organized Muslim group. Even recent attacks by Muslim Americans – the Orlando shooter or the Boston marathon bombers, for example – were very loosely connected, if at all, to terrorist cells. Between September 11, 2001 and 2013, 33 Americans were killed in terror attacks by Muslims, while 180,000 Americans were murdered during that same period.

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Input: New York Times, WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Denies Rape in Detailed Account of Encounter, Dan Bilefsky, Dec. 7, 2016. Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, offered his most detailed and public account on Wednesday of events that led to a rape accusation against him in Sweden, saying he was innocent and had engaged in “consensual and enjoyable sex” with the accuser. Last month, questions prepared by Swedish prosecutors were posed to Mr. Assange at the Ecuadorean Embassy, where he has been living since 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden over the rape accusation. The questions were asked by an Ecuadorean prosecutor under an agreement made by the two countries in August. But in a move that is likely to irk Swedish prosecutors, whom Mr. Assange has denounced for forcing him to remain confined in the embassy for the past six years, the WikiLeaks founder on Wednesday released the answers he gave during the interview.

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Input: The action group is a super-PAC affiliated with — but functionally separate from — the nonprofit 501(c)(4) group American Future Fund, which is already blasting Trump with millions of dollars ' worth of attack ads, including its own $ 1.75 million Florida buy. The groups ' efforts are supported by a frantic last-minute campaign to defeat Trump by the Club for Growth, which on Monday announced a new $ 2 million ad campaign against Trump in Illinois; Our Principles PAC, run by former senior Mitt Romney adviser Katie Packer; and Conservative Solutions PAC, a pro-Marco Rubio Marco RubioOvernight Finance: Ryan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax reform | Warren targets Wells Fargo board | Senators raise concerns over Russian takeover of Citgo | Pelosi hits GOP for budget delays Senators ask administration to probe possible Russian takeover of Citgo Week ahead: Obama DHS chief to testify on Russian meddling MORE group. Republican mega-donors such as New York hedge fund magnate Paul Singer and the Ricketts family, which owns the Chicago Cubs baseball team, are major players in the last-ditch GOP effort to stop Trump from becoming the party's nominee. The anti-Trump groups are hitting the billionaire from a variety of angles: attacking him for being a "fraud" with his controversial Trump University, highlighting his past liberal views on abortion and taxes, and using decorated veterans to try to undermine Trump's tough-guy image. Of the new Florida ads, Roy told The Hill in an email, “Donald Trump’s repeated public reliance on profanities and vulgarities to express himself is one more piece in an ever-mounting pile of evidence that he does not have the temperament or moral integrity to lead the world’s greatest nation.

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Input: In late April I was among the 25 Vermonters who occupied Congressman Bernie Sanders’ Burlington office to protest his support of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia and the ongoing war against Iraq. Calling ourselves the “Instant Antiwar Action Group,” we decided to bring our outrage at

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Input: — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 1, 2016 The blast shook buildings some distance away, according to witnesses who reported it on social media. Thick black smoke could be seen rising from the pad, while secondary explosions continued. Explosion at space x pad pic.twitter.com/YNRrIqfjDh — Frank Jakubetz (@u2canbfmj) September 1, 2016 The plume of smoke was tracked on weather radar.

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Input: Between 239,000 and 250,000 people were imprisoned in the camp. About 56,000 died, including 11,000 Jews. Hide Caption 25 of 38 Photos: World War II in pictures President Franklin D. Roosevelt's funeral procession goes down Connecticut Avenue on its way to the White House. Roosevelt died on April 12, 1945, in Warm Springs, Georgia, just weeks before Germany's surrender. Hide Caption 26 of 38 Photos: World War II in pictures Harry S. Truman takes the oath of office on April 12, 1945, as he becomes the 33rd president of the United States.

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Input: Yakut scientists plan to withhold one of the cubs from any research-the better preserved of the pair, called Uyan. Pictures: Vera Salnitskaya He thinks they may have perished after the lioness hid her cubs in a cave to protect them from the hungry lions. ' Then the landslide covered it and they remained surrounded in permafrost. Also the air intake was blocked, and this helped their preservation. '

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Input: Ghazala Khan, whose son, U.S. Army Capt. Humayun Khan, was killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq in 2004, bristled at Trump's implication she was silent because she, as a Muslim woman, had not been allowed to speak. Khizr Khan, father of slain U.S. Army Capt. Humayun Khan, holds up a copy of the U.S. Constitution as his wife, Ghazala, listens during the final day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on July 28. (J. Scott Applewhite / Associated Press)

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Input: Read Olson’s entire statement on “building resilient communities.” Olson called this meeting and issued her statement ahead of the trial that ended up convicting Fazliddin Kurbanov, a Muslim refugee from Uzbekistan, of conspiring to blow up U.S. military installations with homemade bombs being made in his Boise apartment. An Idaho jury convicted Kurbanov on terror charges in August last year following a 20-day trial and two days of deliberation. Prosecutors also said he tried to provide computer support and money to the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, which the U.S. government has identified as a terrorist organization. Kurbanov, a Russian-speaking truck driver, is just one of dozens of refugees who have been tried and convicted on terrorism charges.

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Input: If he gets cut off, there's nothing he can do. -- Silicon Valley hates Trump, and major Republican tech donors are keeping their distance. On the front page of today's Wall Street Journal:" PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, who spoke in support of the Republican nominee in Cleveland last month and previously donated $ 2 million to Carly Fiorina's campaign, said he has no plans to donate or raise money for Trump. Others in Silicon Valley have faulted Trump’s campaign for not releasing a tech policy program (Clinton outlined hers in June), and said the Republican nominee has not reached out to discuss policy or fundraising. ' For Silicon Valley Republicans, this is just an extremely unattractive candidate, ' said Alex Slusky, founder of venture-capital firm Vector Capital, who previously donated $ 100,000 to a super PAC supporting Marco Rubio."

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Input: At the Bucks County Democrats’ first meeting since the April 26 Pennsylvania primary, one worry dominated: Donald Trump had done better than expected in this blue-leaning exurban expanse north and east of Philadelphia. At one polling place, these Democrats’ Republican neighbors — nice people, nothing like the Trump supporters they had seen throw punches at protesters — were proud enough to grab lawn signs. “It was stunning,” said Stan Durey, 67, a former security analyst who works at a car dealership. “I just stood there shaking my head, going, ‘Really?’ It was n’t two, it was n’t three — it must have been 20 or 30 people walking away with Trump signs.

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Input: The newspaper has since shared the documents with more than 100 news organizations and 400 journalists in 80 countries, who have pored over them for the past 12 months. McClatchy Newspapers, one of the group's U.S. partners, noted that the list of billionaires investigated included 29 featured in Forbes magazine’s list of the world’s 500 richest people. The investigative network Fusion noted that soccer fans "should n’t be surprised to learn" that several anonymous offshore entities using Mossack Fonseca are linked to FIFA, including a former FIFA secretary general, a former Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) president and FIFA presidential candidate, two "controversial Argentine sports and media marketers," and a Uruguayan lawyer who," ironically, advises FIFA on ethical issues." Among other revelations, the Mossack Fonseca documents show that Icelandic Prime Minister Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson and his wife bought an offshore company in 2007 that he did n’t declare when entering parliament in 2009. The offshore company was used to invest millions of dollars of inherited money.

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Input: Lacy’s slate order business is, he claims, the largest in the state of California, if not the entire country, and it wreaked so much havoc on California local elections that even Orange County residents revolted with a ballot requiring slate mailers disclose. Lacy fought to have the courts void the will of Orange County’s voters, and the courts agreed, saying that putting restrictions on how badly Lacy could deceive voters violated his First Amendment rights and constituted a form of tyranny. So both lawyers whose names are on Gary Johnson’s main campaign group since 2009 are not only associated with right-wing extremists and violent nativist vigilantes, but more importantly, both of them specialize in fraudulent vote schemes that help their Republican Party clients win elections by deceiving Democratic Party voters. Lacy has been poisoning American politics since his radical-right college years when he was national chairman of the Young Americans for Freedom. In recent years, Lacy has been a major backer of anti-immigrant Minutemen groups, Islamophobia, and "birther" conspiracy-theory outfits smearing Obama as a foreign-born Muslim.

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Input: "In response to Russia's actions, NATO has stepped up its support for Ukraine. Our level of political and practical engagement since 2014 is unprecedented," he said. Stoltenberg said Moscow continued to support the rebels in many ways, supplying equipment and advisors while it massed troops along the border with Ukraine to intimidate Kiev and built up its military presence in Crimea, home base for its key Black Sea fleet. He also called on Moscow to respect and help implement the Minsk ceasefire accords it signed up to between the rebels and Kiev but which were being violated "over and over again." The Minsk accords -- named after the Belarus capital where they were signed -- were the only way forward to a peaceful solution to the conflict, he added.

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Input: “They did n’t discuss any of this stuff.” Assange has been holed up at the modest embassy suite at No. 3 Hans Crescent for more than four years after skipping bail to avoid extradition to Sweden over sex crimes allegations, a position which-until now-has n’t prevented him from continuing to play a pivotal role in exposing state secrets and backroom trade deals. Peter Nicholls / Reuters WikiLeaks said unspecified “contingency plans” were in place and the site and its Twitter feed appeared to be working as usual.

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Input: "If they are fake, someone has done a lot of research. They would have to be a really smart hoaxer." If the documents are authentic, they would appear to contradict the claim by CrowdStrike, the security firm the DNC brought in to investigate suspicions its servers had been hacked, that the attackers didn't access financial or donor information. They would also cast doubt on other aspects of the report. For instance, they would suggest that either CrowdStrike misattributed the breach to the wrong groups or failed to detect that one or more additional actors had also gained high-level access and made off with a trove of confidential information.

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Input: The presidential candidates presented diametrically opposed visions for the country's future: calling for deeper ties and boosting trade with Moscow, or committing to the path toward Europe. Voters are leaning in opposite directions as well." We can't be without Russia, that's our export market "that could provide cheap gas, said Igor Lopukhov, 66, a Russian-speaking pensioner who voted for Socialist Party candidate Igor Dodon, a leader in opinion polls who has vowed to restore cooperation with Moscow. Former education minister Sandu, a strong proponent of EU integration who is supported by younger Western-leaning Moldovans, thanked her supporters and predicted a second-round run off between her and Dodon." See you at the second round," she said, after the polling stations closed but before any results were announced

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Input: Moscow began air strikes in Syria last September. The United States has called on Assad to step down but has refrained from directly targeting his forces. Communication between the United States and Russian militaries on Syria has been limited to contacts aimed at avoiding an accidental clash as they carry out separate bombing campaigns and small numbers of U.S. forces operate on the ground. Although no U.S. forces were in the area at the time of Thursday's strikes, the U.S. military activated the emergency communications channels with Moscow to tell Russia to stop striking the area, the official said. Some time passed after that communication but Russia carried out a subsequent strike, the U.S. official said.

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Input: Crowd still chanting despite final warning from police. pic.twitter.com/AmFg3zm319 — Terry L Jones (@tjonesreporter) July 11, 2016 Eventually, there was a spate of forcible arrests, even of protesters who had retreated from the streets onto sidewalks and, in one case, into the front yard of a woman who tried to shelter them. After 50 demonstrators were taken away, Lisa Batiste, the woman whose front yard was raided by the police, told the CBS News correspondent David Begnaud she was shocked and disappointed by the behavior of the police. Baton Rouge home owner "very upset" after police storm her yard arresting protesters who had permission to be there pic.twitter.com/gwE8aRGKfL — David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) July 11, 2016

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Input: He said I'm a genius. I said, ' Thank you very much ' to the newspaper, and that was the end of it. I never met Putin," Trump said, responding to the Democratic National Committee hack and charges the Russians were trying to meddle in U.S. elections. The Trump-Putin bromance of sorts has even become a meme. (Some NSFW.)

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Input: Though Brazil is at the center of an epidemic now affecting more than two dozen countries, many of the dubious claims about Zika are born abroad, their purveyors a well-known coterie of critics of genetically modified crops and creatures. With reputable-sounding names like The Ecologist and Global Research, they produce slick websites that weave facts, half-truths and pseudoscientific analysis into sinister assertions. They trace the hidden hand of “Big Pharma” spreading disease for profit and claim that billionaires like Bill Gates are closeted eugenicists seeking to address overpopulation by promoting poisoned childhood vaccines. Brazil, where mistrust of government is high, is fertile ground for such theories to gain traction. Nailma Souza, 40, who owns a nail salon in Salvador, a city that has been hit hard by the outbreak, is certain that Zika was concocted to divert attention away from a cure for cancer that the authorities want to keep secret.

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Input: There are all sorts of treaties that are ready to move forward. In fact the Soviets and the Chinese have been prime movers in expansion of treaties to prohibit weapons in space and to establish the rule of law in cyberspace." We can actually begin to rein in the Saudis with a weapons embargo and by impounding their bank accounts. So, what would President Jill Stein do about ISIS? She answered that question with no hesitation:" Number 1: we don't stop ISIS by doing more of what created ISIS.

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Input: Shuler broke the story Jan. 11 on his blog,” Lawyer for Assange Accusers Has Apparent Ties to CIA and Torture.” Professor’s Blog, Swedish PM Reinfeldt lies in London on Assange extradition, Marcello Vittorio Ferrada de Noli (Italy), Jan. 21, 2011. According to a breaking AP news 21/01 2001, Swedish PM Reinfeldt told reporters Thursday (in London) that "Sweden's policy is not to extradite people to nations with the death penalty. But he said Sweden's courts, not its government, would decide that." This is utterly untrue.

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Input: Some of them have already spoken about it in public, others prefer keeping silent but the work is going on." Putin made similar comments last year, but Russian officials subsequently denied that Moscow provided military aid to the Syrian opposition groups that Putin had mentioned. In the interview with Bild, Putin said the row between Saudi Arabia and Iran over Riyadh's execution of a Shi'ite Muslim cleric on Jan. 2 would complicate attempts to reach a solution to the Syrian conflict." If our participation were needed, we would be ready to do everything for the conflict to be resolved, and as soon as possible," he said, according to a transcript of the interview, sent to media by the Kremlin press office. (Editing by Richard Balmforth)

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Input: Six years later, they have expanded their infamous troll factories, and gotten serious about controlling and monitoring their citizens’ activities online, passing laws so restrictive that Facebook and Google thought about entirely abandoning the massive Russian market. It’s also clear that they've been figuring out how Western political systems work. That became obvious in 2014, when, in the wake of Russia’s two-pronged invasion of Ukraine, the Kremlin proved masterful at working to exacerbate divisions within Europe, getting friendlier countries, like Italy, to wobble in their support of sanctions; financially supporting far-right French politician Marine Le Pen; inviting the Greek finance minister to Moscow to talk bailout at the height of the Greek Euro crisis; and allegedly bankrolling Bulgarian protests against fracking so that Bulgaria would continue to buy Russian energy. With its entree into Syria in 2015, the Kremlin also began to exploit relations between the U.S. and its Middle East allies. For instance, Putin frequently invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Moscow, fomenting discussion in Israel that, in light of a reluctant and critical Obama, maybe Putin would be a better ally.

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Input: No-selfie zones have been established around some large religious gatherings (where organizers fear that selfie-induced bottlenecks could lead to a stampede), beaches, ledges and other treacherous spots where selfies might turn deadly. [More people died taking selfies in India last year than anywhere else in the world] In Russia, where a woman almost died after inadvertently shooting herself while posing for a photo with a gun she had found, Russia’s Internal Affairs Ministry published a brochure instructing citizens on safe selfie habits. “A selfie with guns kills,” read the warning next to an image of a stick figure holding a camera and a gun, slashed out by a red line. “Along with all the advantages of the modern world there appear new threats,” Russian official Yelena Alekseyeva said at a news conference, according to CNN.

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Input: He is the last foreign leader you should be praising. Abroad, Putin has interfered in the internal affairs of a host of nations on his periphery — through information operations, manipulation of elections and direct support, including providing weapons, to insurgent groups. Most significant, in the past decade, Putin has invaded two neighbors, Georgia and Ukraine — including annexing Crimea, the first major land grab in Europe since World War II. Putin’s goal in doing this is to keep the nations of the former Soviet Union from linking their futures to that of Europe and the West. Do you back these actions?

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Input: The dictionary definition of socialism is social control over the means of production. In a capitalist economy like ours, the means of production — factories, plantations, mines, etc. — are controlled by individuals and corporations who pay wages to workers who produce the goods and services. Socialists argue this arrangement is irrational. Workers, not capitalist bureaucrats, are the real producers in a society; therefore, they should control production democratically.

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Input: 7/15 Russia and England fans clash at Euro 2016 Russian fan smashes a chair over an England supporter as another attacks him on the ground as they clash ahead of the game against Russia GETTY 8/15 Russia and England fans clash at Euro 2016 Supporters clash at the end of the Euro 2016 Group B soccer match between England and Russia, AP 9/15 Russia and England fans clash at Euro 2016 Fans try and escape at the end of the Euro 2016 Group B soccer match between England and Russia, AP 10/15 Russia and England fans clash at Euro 2016 Supporters clash at the end of the Euro 2016 Group B soccer match between England and Russia, AP 11/15 Russia and England fans clash at Euro 2016 Flares are lit at the end of the Euro 2016 Group B soccer match between England and Russia, GETTY

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Input: Australia (Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull): All Australians today convey our deepest sympathy and condolences to the families of those who have been killed or injured in the shooting in Orlando, Florida overnight. An attack like this is not simply an assault on the people who have been killed and injured, it's an assault on every one of us. It's an assault on freedom-as President Obama described it-an act of terror and an act of hate. Australians are united with the people of the United States in defending our freedoms against the extremists who hate our free societies and seek to destroy them.

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Input: This would lay the ground work for further expansion in the future. Once the Arbitral Tribunal makes its finding public, China is likely to mount an international campaign challenging the legitimacy of the Tribunal. Australia got a foretaste of China’s likely propaganda offensive when leaders of the Australian Chinese community convened a forum on April 9 in Sydney. The Diplomat received a translated copy of an official statement released by Australian Chinese community leaders. It stated that:

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Input: THE HIDDEN TYRANNY The Issue that Dwarfs All Other Issues By Benjamin Freedman, Jewish Conspirator Emeritus Seven U.S. Presidents -- Masters of Deception -- Jewish Pawns The names of Presidents Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F.Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon will certainly be found one day inscribed in big red letters in the official annals of the rise and fall of the United states. These seven masters of deception incurred their guilt by debasing their solemn oaths of office on behalf of undisclosed domestic and foreign principals without any apparent qualms or misgivings, to enhance their political fortunes totally oblivious of the threat to United States security and survival. These seven masters of deception knowingly and willingly in effect and in fact "poisoned the wells" of security and survival for the United States. Without any evident scruples, they individually betrayed the sacred traditions enshrined in the letter and spirit of their oaths of office, that precious heritage bequeathed to each of these seven masters of deception as successors to that high office exalted by the immortalized first president of the United States, the venerated George Washington.

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Input: The Founding Fathers disdained the entitlement mentality and were very clear that you have a right to pursue happiness, but that’s as far as it goes. Sanders would have you believe that happiness (translation: free goods and services) itself is a “right.” He is sorely mistaken. You simply do not have a right to the fruits of others’ labor without compensating them for it. Otherwise you destroy the incentive for anyone to produce said fruits … and then where will you be? Review: empty shelves of USSR for a clue.

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Input: Chapman’s assignment to Hotel reflected the agency’s rapidly expanding relationship with the U.S. military, according to Henry Crumpton, the leader of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center task force that led the war in Afghanistan. It was a relationship born out of necessity in order to field an effective unconventional force in a new and entirely unconventional war. After purchasing thousands of dollars in outdoor supplies from area sporting goods stores and requesting the weapons and equipment the team would need in Afghanistan, the six men spent the remainder of October bouncing between the CIA’s Camp Peary — better known as The Farm — in Williamsburg, Va., and the agency’s headquarters. Chapman was responsible for assembling the team’s communications equipment. At the time, the process of interfacing satellite radios and computers was a new discipline, but it was something Chapman had already mastered.

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Input: As Chelsea Clinton already made clear in recent remarks, her mother will select justices who will destroy this sacred right. The court will simply declare the 2nd Amendment only applies to government-approved militias (the military), a ridiculous and inaccurate view but held by existing Justices such as John Paul Stevens. An individual’s right to possess a weapon will thus be nullified, thereby giving the federal government sweeping powers to confiscate guns from Americans and making it illegal for individuals to purchase guns. The 2nd Amendment was considered by our founders to be a check on tyrannical government but once this check is eliminated, there is no stopping Hillary from enacting police state tactics, with emphasis on monitoring and surveiling “right wing” groups and individuals, something the left has fantasized about for years. Let’s not forget that just a few years ago, Obama’s Department of Homeland Security issued a report listing “veterans,” “pro-lifers,” border security activists, etc, as potential domestic terrorists but of course, the report ignored radical Islamists.

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Input: Words, sticks and stones Second, a worrying number of non-state actors are enforcing censorship by assassination. Reporters in Mexico who investigate crime or corruption are often murdered, and sometimes tortured first. Jihadists slaughter those they think have insulted their faith. When authors and artists say anything that might be deemed disrespectful of Islam, they take risks.

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Input: And the damage would n’t end there. As Cruz has pointed out in the case of Libya, when regimes do n’t get rewarded for relinquishing their nuclear weapons programs, other countries are n’t likely to offer the same concessions. Last month, Cruz complained that the Obama administration had turned against Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi after he “voluntarily handed over his nuclear program and shut it down.” In an interview with MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, Cruz repeated this point and commiserated over the counterproductive message Obama had thereby sent to other regimes. Advertisement The far better approach is the one Trump described: Police the deal.

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Input: to train rebels trying to oust Mr. Assad. The decision was made in part to try to gain control of a chaotic situation in which Arab countries were funneling arms into Syria for various rebel groups with little coordination. The Qataris had paid to smuggle shipments of Chinese-made FN-6 shoulder-fired weapons over the border from Turkey, and Saudi Arabia sent thousands of Kalashnikovs and millions of rounds of ammunition it had bought, sometimes with the C.I.A.’s help. By late 2013, the C.I.A. was working directly with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and other nations to arm and train small groups of rebels and send them across the border into Syria.

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Input: Graffiti (R) sprayed by Islamic State militants which reads ' ' We remain ' ' is seen at theTemple of Bel in historic city of Palmyra, in Homs Governorate, Syria April 1, 2016. REUTERS / Omar Sanadiki PALMYRA, Syria Islamic State militants retreating from Palmyra laid thousands of mines that they planned to set off simultaneously as the army moved in, a Syrian officer told Reuters in the ancient city after its recapture from the jihadist fighters. The officer said main streets and side roads in Palmyra had been rigged with explosives weighing up to 50 kg. More than 3,000 had already been safely detonated since government forces, backed by Russian jets, retook the city on Sunday, he said.

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Input: Biden was on a one-day visit to Belgrade before travelling to Kosovo to encourage both countries to do more to normalise their relations. The United States is highly popular among Kosovars, who regard Washington as their saviour for the 1999 air strikes that halted killings of ethnic Albanians by Serbian forces waging a counter-insurgency war. But resentment remains high in Belgrade over NATO's air strikes, whose vestiges can be seen in battered ex-Defence Ministry buildings in the centre of the Serbian capital. Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008 but Serbia does not recognise its former southern province as sovereign." Trump is the alternative to globalisation.

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Input: Ukrainian member of parliament Anton Geraschenko told the Govorit Moskva radio station that Russian singers who vocalize their support "for Russia’s aggression against Ukraine" will not be able to perform in 2017, Russia's TASS news agency reported. He said only singers who do not support Crimea’s reunification with Russia will be able to take part, according to the news agency. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told TASS," It is early to rattle a sabre "when asked if Russia should boycott next year’s contest. Australia came second in the competition between 42 countries, which was held in Stockholm in Sweden on Saturday night. Russian singer Sergey Lazarev, who was the bookmakers ' favorite to win, came third with the song" You Are the Only One."

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Input: Bialowieza has been declared a Natura 2000 site, meaning it is a protected area under European law. EU officials say they are working with the Polish authorities to ensure that any new interventions in the forest are in line with their regulations, but it’s not yet clear what the result will be. The preservation of Bialowieza is such a sensitive matter that IKEA, which relies on Polish timber for 25 percent of its global furniture production, vowed years ago not to buy any wood from Bialowieza. “This forest is a Polish treasure but it is also the world’s treasure, and we could lose it,” said Katarzyna Kosciesza from ClientEarth, one of the groups that filed the complaint. “The logging would really threaten it.”

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Input: Even the threat to do so undermines democracy. — Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum) October 10, 2016 As Don Graham, the former owner of The Post, put it on Facebook: “Well, after 228 years -- the bitterest differences imaginable, the Civil War, the Depression, Vietnam, many more -- a Presidential candidate has threatened to throw his opponent in jail if elected. Dictators do this. American Presidents -- including some who hated their opponents -- have never dreamed of doing such a thing.”

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Input: Since a pro-Western uprising ousted a Russia-backed president in 2014, Ukraine has passed laws aimed at severing the former Soviet republic from its communist past-a move some have criticized as an attempt to erase history. Nearly 1,000 statues of Lenin have been removed since anti-government protesters tore down his Kiev monument in late 2013, but the 20-metre (66 ft) size of the Zaporizhzhya monument frustrated multiple attempts to pull it down this week." It would be easy to demolish it: place an explosive, blow it up and everything, but to take it down carefully and transport it to a storage place for totalitarian statues needs more care," a spokeswoman for the local mayor's office said." The papers on how it was built are all in Moscow, so it's being taken down with a method of trial and error," she said." Relations aren't so friendly at the moment that they (Russian authorities) would reply quickly to a query."

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Input: Jeffrey Goldberg has declared that “Hillary Clinton is running against Vladimir Putin,” and Mrs. Clinton, for her part, has issued a statement that does everything but accuse Trump of being a Manchurian candidate. Neocon Jamie Kirchick, in his bizarre piece for the Los Angeles Times advocating a military coup against Trump should he be elected, cites the Trump campaign’s successful effort to scotch a plank in the GOP platform calling for arming the Ukrainian government with offensive weapons as a reason to oust President Trump. Similarly, the Clinton statement attacks Trump for the same thing – as if the American people want to start a military conflict in Europe for the sake of a corrupt kleptocracy that came to power by overthrowing the elected President. We have n’t seen a smear campaign like this since the frigid winter of the cold war, when anyone who deviated from the “commies under the bed” paranoia of that era was denounced as a “subversive” and hauled before a congressional inquisition. Both wings of the War Party are united in their hatred for Trump’s “America First” policy of minding our own business and staying out of foreign wars.

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Input: "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. 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.

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Input: Perhaps even scarier is what a President Clinton would do regarding Iran and Ukraine, two countries where belligerent U.S. behavior could start much bigger wars. For instance, would President Hillary Clinton push the Iranians so hard – in line with what Netanyahu favors – that they would renounce the nuclear deal and give Clinton an excuse to bomb-bomb-bomb Iran? In Ukraine, would Clinton escalate U.S. military support for the post-coup anti-Russian Ukrainian government, encouraging its forces to annihilate the ethnic Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine and to “liberate” the people of Crimea from “Russian aggression” (though they voted by 96 percent to leave the failed Ukrainian state and rejoin Russia)? Would President Clinton expect the Russians to stand down and accept these massacres? Would she take matters to the next level to demonstrate how tough she can be against Russian President Vladimir Putin whom she has compared to Hitler?

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Input: The xenophobic rhetoric in response to the current refugee crisis is ironic given the GOP’s history. Ronald Reagan, viewed as an icon by most Republicans, famously granted asylum to hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing conflicts in Southeast Asia and Central America, and even invoked America’s generous refugee policy in his 1989 presidential farewell speech. Even George W. Bush, who ignited some of the conflicts that people are today fleeing, chose to restart the Refugee Resettlement Program after 9/11. “Some of the Republicans advocating against refugees today do n’t know that historically GOP presidents have had welcoming asylum policies toward people fleeing conflicts,” says Quigley. “The rhetoric in this presidential campaign is making it easier for legislation like H.R.

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Input: Many others on the list are open advocates of military escalation overseas. Mike Morell, the former acting director of the CIA, endorsed Clinton last month in a New York Times opinion piece that accused Trump of being an “unwitting agent of the Russian Federation.” The Times was criticized for not disclosing his current employment by Beacon Global Strategies, a politically powerful national-security consulting firm with strong links to Clinton. Three days later, Morell told Charlie Rose in a PBS interview that the CIA should actively assassinate Russians and Iranians in Syria. During his time at the CIA, Morell was connected to some of the worst scandals and intelligence failures of the Bush administration. In his book, he apologizes for giving flawed intelligence to Colin Powell about Iraq’s supposed weapons of mass destruction, but defends the CIA torture program as legal and ethical.

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Input: 6. He denigrated prisoners of war -- and never apologized "He's not a war hero," Trump said in July 2015 about Sen. John McCain, who was imprisoned and tortured for more than five years in a North Vietnamese prison." He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren't captured," Trump continued.

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Input: “One of the things we’ve seen when we talk to companies is they say, ‘Well, this is all good,’ but I ca n’t change things until I have something I can point to,” Cranor said. Now, they can point to NIST special publication 800-63, which still needs final approval. The government’s move was applauded by privacy advocates such as Christopher Soghoian at the American Civil Liberties Union. “The fact that NIST is clearly coming around to embracing modern, science-based policies is great,” Soghoian said. It’s possible the government could be the nimbler mover on this topic.

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Input: The most recent update published on July 25, 2016. (CNN) Since declaring its caliphate in June 2014, the self-proclaimed Islamic State has conducted or inspired more than 140 terrorist attacks in 29 countries other than Iraq and Syria, where its carnage has taken a much deadlier toll. Those attacks have killed at least 2,043 people and injured thousands more. It can be difficult to divine the precise role that international terrorists play in this or that attack. For example, the person who killed four U.S. Marines and a sailor in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in July 2015 was "motivated by foreign terrorist organization propaganda," FBI Director James Comey said, though he added that it's hard to say which terrorist group motivated the killer.

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Input: President Barack Obama authorised the covert arming programme in April 2013, after more than a year of debate inside the administration about the wisdom of using the CIA to train rebels trying to oust Assad. The decision was made in part to try to gain control of a chaotic situation in which Arab countries were funnelling arms into Syria for various rebel groups with little coordination. The Qataris had paid to smuggle shipments of Chinese-made FN-6 shoulder-fired weapons over the border from Turkey, and Saudi Arabia sent thousands of Kalashnikovs and millions of rounds of ammunition it had bought, sometimes with the CIA's help. By late 2013, the CIA was working directly with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and other nations to arm and train small groups of rebels and send them across the border into Syria. The specific motives behind the November shooting at the Amman police training facility remain uncertain, and it is unclear when the FBI will officially conclude its investigation.

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

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Input: The first batch of emails, made public on Friday evening, contained material that been the subject of speculation for months: excerpts from paid speeches she gave to financial institutions. During the contest for the Democratic presidential nomination, Bernie Sanders Bernie SandersSanders to GOP on healthcare bill: ' What are you afraid of? ' Dems step up attacks on GOP ObamaCare bill Live coverage: Senate Dems hold talkathon to protest GOP health plan MORE demanded that Clinton release the transcripts, and Trump has since taken up the call. She declined, saying she would only release them if candidates in both parties did. The emails released by WikiLeaks make clear that the transcripts contain statements that could be politically damaging.

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Input: He has been stationed in Turkey since at least 2000. He and his director in Langley, Virginia, by direct orders of the American President Obama, have been providing weapons, technology, training and satellite imagery to the FSA and their allies. The CIA program of support has been aided by hundreds of millions of dollars, coming by legal act of Congress, provided directly by the American taxpayers, who have paid the wages of the FSA and their allies. The FSA are called “moderate rebels” in the American media, and by the Obama government. However, those moderate rebels have beheaded, raped, tortured, murdered and kidnapped Syrian Christians in Kessab, and in the area near Homs and Tartus called historically, “The Valley of the Christians”.

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FSA and their allies


Input: It’s not clear yet how many current and future inmates would be affected by these bills — an analysis by the U.S. Sentencing Commission of the Sensenbrenner-Scott bill is expected in August or September — but let’s consider some extreme scenarios and the effect they’d have on the American prison population. According to the Bureau of Prisons, there are 207,847 people incarcerated in federal prisons. Roughly half (48.6 percent) are in for drug offenses. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, there are 1,358,875 people in state prisons.

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Input: A. As I said, it is not only about Syria, it’s about the rest of the world. First of all, Europe should lift the embargo on the Syrian people; they do n’t have an embargo on the Syrian government, it is against the Syrian people. Second, Turkey should stop sending terrorists to Syria. Third, as a government, we have to fight the terrorists, definitely, and we have to keep the living moving forward by any means in order to allow the Syrians to stay in their country.

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Input: In private encounters with other world leaders, Obama has argued that there will be no comprehensive solution to Islamist terrorism until Islam reconciles itself to modernity and undergoes some of the reforms that have changed Christianity. Though he has argued, controversially, that the Middle East’s conflicts “date back millennia,” he also believes that the intensified Muslim fury of recent years was encouraged by countries considered friends of the U.S. In a meeting during apec with Malcolm Turnbull, the new prime minister of Australia, Obama described how he has watched Indonesia gradually move from a relaxed, syncretistic Islam to a more fundamentalist, unforgiving interpretation; large numbers of Indonesian women, he observed, have now adopted the hijab, the Muslim head covering. Why, Turnbull asked, was this happening? Because, Obama answered, the Saudis and other Gulf Arabs have funneled money, and large numbers of imams and teachers, into the country.

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Input: Those figures were based on reports from functioning health centers and the true figures were probably much higher, spokeswoman Fadela Chaib said." As of yesterday, we have now only six partially functional hospitals that are in service, only one hospital that offers trauma care services," Chaib told the briefing. WHO still hopes to be able to evacuate sick and wounded from Aleppo, she said. The Syrian government has yet to respond to a U.N. plan for aid convoys in Syria during the month of October, U.N. spokesman Jens Laerke said. (Reporting by Tom Miles and Stephanie Nebehay, additional reporting by Jack Stubbs in Moscow and Michelle Nichols in New York; Editing by Ralph Boulton and Angus MacSwan)

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Input: Even conservative-leaning places such as Baylor University in Waco, the largest Baptist university in the world, last week announced it too would forbid guns on its premises. Ellen Spiro, a professor and Gun Free UT member, said the scale of the rejections by universities that had a choice showed that Texas politicians who backed the law are “extremist legislators” serving the gun lobby not the academic community. Critics also point to an apparent inconsistency in logic: if the professed aim of campus carry laws is to promote safety by giving students a tool to defend themselves and also to pursue their constitutional right to bear arms, why do the rules allow students to be treated differently depending on whether they are at the public University of Houston, or three miles west at the private Rice University? A representative for Brian Birdwell, the state senator who authored the bill, said on Tuesday that the Republican was unavailable for comment. During the law’s passage, Birdwell explained the get-out clause by saying he did not want to prioritise gun rights over the right of private entities to make their own decisions.

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Input: Mother Jones has reviewed that report and other memos this former spy wrote. The first memo, based on the former intelligence officer’s conversations with Russian sources, noted, “Russian regime has been cultivating, supporting and assisting TRUMP for at least 5 years. Aim, endorsed by PUTIN, has been to encourage splits and divisions in western alliance.” It maintained that Trump “and his inner circle have accepted a regular flow of intelligence from the Kremlin, including on his Democratic and other political rivals.” It claimed that Russian intelligence had “compromised” Trump during his visits to Moscow and could “blackmail him.” It also reported that Russian intelligence had compiled a dossier on Hillary Clinton based on “bugged conversations she had on various visits to Russia and intercepted phone calls.” The former intelligence officer says the response from the FBI was “shock and horror.” The FBI, after receiving the first memo, did not immediately request additional material, according to the former intelligence officer and his American associates. Yet in August, they say, the FBI asked him for all information in his possession and for him to explain how the material had been gathered and to identify his sources.

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Input: The leaked documents clearly demonstrated how party officials favored Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders. Directly from the old, tired, and dusty playbook of "how to dodge blame and responsibility," the former Secretary of State repeatedly deflects and redirects. She compared the security breach of her home computer (where she wrongfully stored extensive classified data) to modern-day version of Watergate. She has used Republican nominee Donald Trump’s remarks "urging the Russians to find emails her office had deleted," as if they were a specific instruction, representative of Trump's leadership. Although Trump’s campaign later said his comments were taken out of context, simple common sense shows that his remarks were press conference humor, typical of a casual conference. We Came, We Saw, He Died

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Input: The Kremlin has decided that some incidents in Russia are too incendiary to be shown on television. After police on Monday detained a woman who was brandishing the severed head of a child and threatening to blow herself up in northwestern Moscow, Russia's digital media and social networks were overflowing with updates on the story and expressions of horror and outrage. But none of the major television networks — including Channel One, Rossia-1, NTV and Moscow's TVTs — made a single mention of the incident in their newscasts, the RBC business news agency reported. RBC said its journalists watched all newscasts by these and other television channels following the woman's detention.

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Input: The files also include the FBI’s forensic investigative process and never-before-seen details of the staff decisions that led to the server, the mechanics of Clinton’s email system, and the confusing and balky State Department processes that led a technophobic Clinton to embrace her own BlackBerry. The FBI interviewed both those who supported her and those who questioned her decisions, as well as plenty of disinterested public servants who had no allegiance or beef with her either way. While the interviews were not technically conducted “under oath” — lying to federal agents is itself a crime, as is obstruction of justice — they do open a uniquely candid window into how the decisions around Hillary Clinton’s email server unfolded. They may be as close to the actual truth as we may ever get. The interviews — taken together and reconstructed for this article into the first-ever comprehensive narrative of how her email server scandal unfolded — draw a picture of the controversy quite different from what either side has made it out to be.

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

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Input: The body said Mr Ali was referred for mental health treatment a year before the alleged murder but that the illness was not mentioned in the court ruling sentencing him to death. In September, the first secretary of Pakistan’s permanent mission to the UN said the government was examining the country’s penal code to determine whether the death penalty could be “narrowed” amid criticism over Mr Ali’s case. More than 400 people have been executed since the government lifted a four-year moratorium on the death penalty in 2014, following the Taliban’s massacre at a school in Peshawar. Capital punishment was initially only restored for terror offences but later reinstated for kidnapping, murder, blasphemy and other capital crimes, leaving more than 8,000 prisoners on death row

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Input: On Thursday, judges ruled that the execution can go ahead, after finding that Mr Ali's schizophrenia is not a permanent condition and varies according to the “level of stress”. Reprieve, a UK-based legal charity, said the court claimed that “it is, therefore, a recoverable disease, which, in all the cases, does not fall within the definition of ‘mental disorder’ as defined in the Mental Health Ordinance, 2001”. The decision Mr Ali could be executed as early as 26 October, despite a medical assessment in September concluding his illness appeared to be “treatment resistant”. Human rights attacks around the world 10 show all Human rights attacks around the world

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Input: Denmark has publicly acknowledged for the first time that in June 2013 a US plane was waiting in a Copenhagen airport to extradite NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden to the US. At the time he was stranded in a Moscow airport. The allegations of Denmark’s complicity in the plan resurfaced last week after the news that website Denfri had published documents disclosed under a freedom of information request pointing to such a connection.

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Input: Pally went on to cite Canadian tax rules as the reason for the discrepancy. But as the Times reported: However, interviews with tax lawyers and officials in Canada cast doubt on assertions that the partnership was necessary to confer a tax benefit; an examination shows that for many donors it was not needed, and in any event, since 2010, Canadians could have donated to the foundation directly and received the same tax break. Also, it is not at all clear that privacy laws prohibit the partnership from disclosing its donors, the tax lawyers and officials in Canada said. The hidden $ 2.35 million in Clinton Foundation donations from the former Russian uranium chief were part of a larger $ 145 million given from nine uranium investors involved in the deal approved by Hillary Clinton to transfer 20% of all U.S. uranium to the Russian government.

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Input: 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. Students were also freed from classes," said Viktor, a 42-year -old history teacher.

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Input: Before Hillary: Under President Alvaro Colom, the nation’s first populist progressive president, the poor received access to health, education, and social security. After Hillary: Clinton authorized the U.S. embassy in Guatemala to work against the 2011 election as president of Colom’s wife, Sandra Torres. Colom was succeeded by a right-wing corrupt president who resigned for corruption and then was arrested. 11. Haiti

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Input: “This kind of progress is, frankly, stunning,” Harris said Wednesday. “We went from rarely talking only a few years ago to not only talking together, but doing together. Skepticism, suspicion, and doubt on both sides have been replaced by cooperation, dialogue, and trust.” Swift said there is also a desire to increase the number of amphibious ships he has in the region by one or two, which would allow Marines and sailors to train more with other nations in the region. They’d likely transport Marines who are based in Darwin, Australia, where they have been based on a rotational basis since 2013.

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Input: Rubio's short-term memory problem, the Trump-Bush mud-wrestling match, or registration for the draft? Here's a clue: the draft is slavery. It is short-term slavery at best, but it's possibly debilitating and even fatal. Thus registration with Selective Service is — surprise!—registration for possible enslavement. Anyone who supports individual liberty against state power would oppose conscription.

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Input: View all New York Times newsletters. He added, “If I win on Nov. 8, I could see myself meeting with Putin and meeting with Russia prior to the start of the administration.” Democrats have often assailed Mr. Trump for his comments about Mr. Putin, whom he has characterized as a stronger leader than President Obama. Mr. Trump, who has declined to make his tax returns public, has denied that he has business interests in Russia. But he has also refused to acknowledge that the United States intelligence officials have attributed the hacking of the Democratic National Committee to Russian hackers who they said must have had the approval of the Kremlin’s top leaders.

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Input: “We plan a multimonth, multistate campaign that targets not just undecided voters but core Democratic voters that too many times get taken for granted.” Priorities USA has spent $ 11.5 million in the presidential primary campaign and is sitting on some $ 94 million in donations and commitments. By contrast, Right to Rise, the super-PAC that supported Jeb Bush, spent $ 103 million before Bush quit the GOP presidential race in late February. Though Cecil says he has never taken the likelihood of Clinton’s primary victory for granted, his group has n’t spent a cent on negative advertising against Clinton’s rival, Bernie Sanders Bernie SandersWhat do Democrats stand for? Mechanic: Baseball field shooter ranted about Trump before attack Senate Democrats pressure GOP to hold healthcare hearings MORE.

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Input: A criminal investigation was launched after the discovery of the remains of a child aged three to four, whose body bore traces of a violent death, in a charred flat on Narodnoye Opolcheniye Street in north-western Moscow, it added." According to preliminary information, the child's nanny, a citizen of one of the Central Asian states born in 1977, waited for the parents and elder child to leave the flat and then, for reasons not established, murdered the infant, set fire to the flat and left the scene," it added in the statement. Police sources told Russian news agencies that the victim had been decapitated and the head removed from the scene by the nanny. ' I am your death ' The suspect has been named by Russian media as Gyulchekhra Bobokulova, from the former Soviet republic of Uzbekistan.

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Input: Nancy Reagan married Ronald Reagan in 1952, before he left his screen acting career for politics, and served as first lady from 1981 until 1989, during his two terms in the White House. She was perhaps best known for her “Just Say No” campaign against drug abuse, but she played an active role in many of her husband’s political efforts as well. She also spoke openly about surgery she had to fight breast cancer to encourage other women to get screened for the disease. After Ronald Reagan left office and later announced that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, Nancy Reagan became an advocate for increasing research into the degenerative brain disorder. In that effort she opposed limits on embryonic stem cell research backed by then-President George W. Bush.

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Input: Holy sites desecrated. Christians driven from their homes and hunted for extermination. ISIS rounding-up what it calls the “nation of the cross” in a campaign of genocide. We can not let this evil continue. Nor can we let the hateful ideology of Radical Islam – its oppression of women, gays, children, and nonbelievers – be allowed to reside or spread within our own countries.

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Input: Even ordering the use of torture — which Trump infamously once said he would do, insisting the military “wo n’t refuse. They’re not gon na refuse me”—imposes more legal constraints on a president than ordering a nuclear attack. If he were president, Donald Trump — who likes to say he doesn't spend a lot of time conferring with others ("My primary consultant is myself," he declared in March)—would be free to launch a civilization-ending nuclear war on his own any time he chose. The “nuclear button” is a metaphor for a complex apparatus that has the president’s brain at its apex. The image of a commander in chief simply pressing a button captures none of the machinery, people and procedures designed to inform the president and translate his or her decisions into coherent action.

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

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Input: No one knows this better than Gary Berntsen, the CIA officer in charge of the operation at Tora Bora who, with the Afghan forces he commanded, had managed to trap the chief perpetrator of 9/11, Osama bin Laden, and his fellow terrorists in their mountain redoubt in mid-December of 2001, only two months after 9/11. With a Delta Force officer standing by his side, Berntsen drafted a message to his superiors back in Washington that he told me ended with this line: “Let’s kill this baby in the crib.” Berntsen wanted to send in troops — fewer than 1,000 Army Rangers — who could have closed the noose (his position was backed by Marine Gen. James Mattis, who wanted to send in his own troops), but George W. Bush, on the advice of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney, turned him down, believing that Pakistani forces would trap bin Laden as the Afghans forced him southward into Pakistan. (In fact, the Pakistanis were likely helping bin Laden to escape.) Other opportunities presented themselves in the months that followed, in places like Shahikot. But rather than send troops into Afghanistan to eliminate Al Qaeda, the Bush administration began to massively shift men and resources to Iraq, where Al Qaeda did n’t then exist.

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Input: “The same thing can happen here.” At the evening rally, Farage added, “If I was an American citizen, I would n’t vote for Hillary Clinton if you paid me.” Trump’s appearance alongside Farage is the latest example of his campaign making common cause with ethno-nationalist political parties across the Atlantic. In June, Trump, while in Scotland to promote his golf resort there, proclaimed Brexit “a great thing,” and his affinity with Europe’s far-right runs deeper than their mutual dislike of the European Union. Farage shares Trump’s penchant for racially charged rhetoric, such as when he told an interviewer he would feel “concerned” if a group of Romanian men moved next door but suggested that he would have no problem if they were Germans. Trump has received glowing endorsements from many of continental Europe’s most controversial nativists and xenophobes — politicians championed by some of Trump’s most prominent supporters.

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