Input: This meant that certain classes of infantry weapons were not included, among them mortars, shoulder-fired rockets and powerful Mark 19 automatic grenade launchers that were mounted on many American vehicles and also used in outpost defense. That omission means the data offer no insight into a startlingly risky aspect of the Pentagon’s arming of local forces with infantry arms: the wide distribution of anti-armor weapons, including RPG-7s, commonly called rocket-propelled grenades, and recoilless weapons, including the SPG-9. Each of these systems fires high-explosive (and often armor-piercing) projectiles, and each was commonly used by insurgents in attacks. After the opening weeks of each war, the only armor on either battlefield was American or associated with allied and local government units, which made the Pentagon’s practice of providing anti-armor weapons to Afghan and Iraqi security forces puzzling. Why would they need anti-armor weapons when they had no armor to fight?

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Input: It’s, you know, no matter how you play these moves, it will end up with the same result. But it took some time." Almost 30 years later, Kasparov is an advocate of free-market capitalism — one who argues that competitive failure is a crucial component of creativity and innovation." A centrally planned economy can not imitate this engine of creative destruction because you can not plan for failure," he wrote in the Daily Beast." You can not predestine which two college dropouts in a garage will produce the next Apple."

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Input: In the government-held west, 49 children were killed by rebel shelling in July alone, the New York Times reports, citing the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. On Tuesday, the US pledged to provide an extra $ 364 m (£ 276 m) in humanitarian aid to people affected by the Syrian war. The World Health Organization (WHO) meanwhile called for the "immediate establishment of humanitarian routes" into Aleppo, where hospitals are running out of supplies and rubble-strewn streets are preventing ambulances from getting through.

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Input: Instead of peace, the result would be a vast escalation. Finally, Clinton’s reflexive Russia-bashing showed just how bellicose her worldview has become. If Trump was the first person in a presidential debate to threaten a rival with jail, Clinton was the first to label her opponent an agent of a hostile foreign power. Yet, Clinton’s efforts to blame Russia for the Syria debacle make little sense. After all, Russia did n’t enter the war until September 2015, more than four years after the blood had started to flow.

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Input: The US alleges he is the “personal banker” for many senior Russian government officials including Putin. The Panama Papers disclose that Kovalchuk and Bank Rossiya achieved the transfer of at least $ 1bn to a specially created offshore entity called Sandalwood Continental. These funds came from a series of enormous unsecured loans from the state-controlled Russian Commercial Bank (RCB) located in Cyprus and other state banks. There is no explanation in the files of why the banks agreed to extend such unorthodox credit lines. Some of the cash obtained from RCB was also lent back onshore in Russia at extremely high interest rates, with the resulting profits siphoned off to secret Swiss accounts.

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Input: Cohen told us he did n’t create the meme and pointed out it’s been widely shared on social media. But virality and retweets do n’t make a claim accurate, and this meme distorts the facts. Each claim is either misleading or outrageously wrong. We'll explain why. ‘$ 6 billion lost at the State Department’

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Input: "There is no notion or indication of seriousness of purpose with what is taking place right now." The Russian foreign ministry said a US refusal to co-operate would be a gift to "terrorists". The US and Russia have been negotiating for months to try to secure a cessation of hostilities but the latest truce collapsed last week after only a few days and attacks on eastern Aleppo have since intensified. The US warned on Wednesday it would end talks on military co-operation unless Moscow stopped the bombing. The recent cessation deal was meant to lead to joint Russian-US air strikes on so-called Islamic State and Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (formerly known as al-Nusra Front).

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Input: The head of security in Hadramout province escaped assassination when a second suicide bomber targeted his convoy, but six others were killed. The attack is believed to have been carried out by an ISIS affiliate. May 20, 2016-Two members of the Egyptian security forces were killed when a roadside bomb detonated close to their vehicle near the town of Al-Arish, in northern Sinai. ISIS claimed the attack in its daily bulletin of operations. The attack is believed to have been carried out by an ISIS affiliate.

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Input: BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Britain said on Wednesday it will send fighter jets to Romania next year and the United States promised troops, tanks and artillery to Poland in NATO's biggest military build-up on Russia's borders since the Cold War. Germany, Canada and other NATO allies also pledged forces at a defense ministers meeting in Brussels on the same day two Russian warships armed with cruise missiles entered the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Denmark, underscoring East-West tensions. In Madrid, the foreign ministry said Russia had withdrawn a request to refuel three warships in Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta after NATO allies said they could be used to target civilians in Syria.

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Input: "I want to make this clear, what is happening in Aleppo today is unacceptable. It is beyond the pale." If people are serious about wanting a peaceful outcome to this war, then they should cease and desist bombing innocent women and children, cease cutting off water and laying siege in medieval terms to an entire community, and work with the international community in order to be able to bring peace to people who are starving – literally starving, but also starving for the possibilities of a future without chlorine dropping on them out of the sky, barrel bombs, and indiscriminate bombing." Referring to the recent bombing of a U.N. aid convoy on its way to a rebel-controlled area west of Aleppo city, Kerry called on Russia to," set an example, not a precedent, an unacceptable precedent, I might add, for the entire world." While it's not clear who carried out the attack that hit the convoy, NPR's Alice Fordham reported that "American officials say the perpetrators could only be the Syrian air force or its Russian allies."

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Input: She was captured and put on trial in southern Russia, charged with complicity in the deaths of Russian journalists who were killed by artillery while covering the conflict. A Russian court in March sentenced her to 22 years in jail. While in Russian jail, she was elected a member of the Ukrainian parliament and is widely regarded in Ukraine as a symbol of resistance against Russia. Feygin tweeted on Wednesday that Savchenko was innocent of any crime, saying she had nothing to do with the deaths of the two journalists, Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin, who were working for state TV. Putin said he had pardoned Savchenko following a request from the journalists’ families.

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Input: Not only will you not be treated fairly, but the media will pull out all stops to celebrate President Obama, knowing that unpopular Hillary Clinton’s best shot at winning the Oval Office is to convince voters they want “four more years.” Puff pieces that show Obama thoughtful and so disciplined that his evening snack consists of seven – only seven – almonds (New York Times) will buff his image, and by comparison spotlight just how sloppy you are. The media will generously help Obama turn out black voters, some of whom are rightly disappointed in the past eight years. They will highlight targeted measures like Obama’s record pardoning of 214 convicts. The headlines will gloss over the reality that more than 50 of those commutations were for people convicted for firearms-related offenses, in addition to their drug crimes. Obama argues that those pardoned are part of the huge number unjustly locked up for minor drug-related offenses -- those “young people who made mistakes that are n’t that different from the mistakes I made.” This narrative is false.

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Input: Donald Trump speaks during an event at Trump SoHo Hotel on June 22, 2016, in New York. (Photo: Drew Angerer, Getty Images) Donald Trump’s once delayed, and much anticipated, speech on Hillary Clinton’s character included numerous false and misleading statements: • Trump falsely claimed that U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens “was left helpless to die as Hillary Clinton soundly slept in her bed.” Two emails from Clinton show that she was awake after it was learned that Stevens had died in the attack on the diplomatic facility in Benghazi.

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Input: US officials say that the CIA has trained thousands of rebels in the past three years, and that the fighters made substantial advances on the battlefield against Syrian government forces until Russian military forces-launched last year in support of Assad-compelled them to retreat. The training programme is based in Jordan because of the country's proximity to the Syrian battlefields. From the beginning, the CIA and the Arab intelligence agencies relied on Jordanian security services to transport the weapons, many bought in bulk in the Balkans and elsewhere around Eastern Europe. The programme is separate from one that the Pentagon set up to train rebels to combat fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS), rather than the Syrian military. That programme was shut down after it managed to train only a handful of Syrian rebels.

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Input: Embed White House Contractor's Leaked Emails Reveal Private Schedules, Michelle Obama's Passport 1:39 autoplay autoplay Copy this code to your website or blog A White House contractor's email appears to have been hacked, leaking material ranging from Michelle Obama's passport to the number of stairs the Secret Service anticipated Joe Biden would be climbing during a trip to Cleveland. The emails were sent from the Gmail account of Ian Mellul, who is a contractor employed as an advance associate at the White House, and include correspondences with other White House employees as well as with Mellul's friends and professors. In one, the staffer references still being in college. A senior U.S. intelligence official called the hack "the most damaging compromise of the security of the President of the United States that I've seen in decades, all caused by a careless staffer who compromised information outside government systems merely for convenience."

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Input: But it just bought a bunch of American crude. A ship carrying half a million barrels of oil that was pumped in the U.S. docked at a terminal owned by Venezuela last week, according to oil data research firm ClipperData. The shipment was sent to a facility located on the Dutch island of Curacao in the Caribbean. The fact that Venezuela is importing American oil is raising eyebrows because Venezuela has 298 billion barrels of proven oil reserves, according to the Energy Information Administration. That's more than Saudi Arabia, Russia or Iran and eight times the reserves of the United States.

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Input: It also has the added benefit of allowing federal authorities to crack down on civil rights and make all sorts of invasive controls over individual liberty, as in the latest controversy of the FBI demanding that Apple give them a digital key for unlocking phones and computers. The primary function, however, remains: the terror groups, whether they go by the name of al Qaeda or ISIS, give Washington the convenient cover to militarily invade any country on the globe. The real agenda being regime change or commandeering the natural resources of the target country for the gratification of Wall Street banks and other American corporations – in the exact same scam that pertained in the old days of Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler, who later confessed to being a henchman on behalf of US capitalism, by overthrowing governments in Central America and the Caribbean during the early 1900s. Admittedly, sometimes the terrorists do get whacked by the Pentagon. No doubt about it that Obama and his generals have killed numerous al Qaeda-linked operatives with assassination drone strikes in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen.

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Input: Future cyber attacks could alter the integrity of data so the truth will be hard to know. Today, when a breach occurs, we assume the information released must be true. In the future, we need to assume that anything leaked could be false, designed to deceive and manipulate. Because increasingly, it will. Finally, the US government needs to start attributing election-related breaches as quickly as possible unless there is a compelling intelligence reason not to.

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Input: 31/42 Rob Ford Rob Ford, the former controversial mayor of Toronto, has died following a battle with a rare form of cancer. The 46-year -old passed away at the Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto on 22 March 32/42 Joey Feek Joey (left) passed away in March after a two-year cancer illness. She was part of country music duo, Joey + Rory, with her husband Rory (right) Jason Merritt / Getty Images 33/42 Umberto Eco Italian writer and philosopher Umberto Eco died 19 February 2016 aged 84 EPA

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Input: To the naked eye, that looked a lot like a very deliberate attempt to shift an unflattering spotlight away from Trump. Why would Assange want to do that? Some speculate that Assange, who has said he fears the death penalty were he ever to be extradited to the US, hopes he would be treated leniently by a Trump administration. Others suspect the heart of the matter is the Russian connection: Assange, like Trump, seems strikingly comfortable with Putin. A former host of a talk show on Putin’s propaganda channel, Russia Today, Assange once requested his own private security detail within the Ecuadorian embassy, nominating Russians for the task.

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Input: What the president probably did n’t realize is that like de Tocqueville, D’Souza is a student of his surroundings and treats every experience like it’s going to be on the final exam. “I learned a lot in jail,” he said, “and I came out a much more hardened and realistic conservative. I used to see the 2.2 million incarcerated as simply criminals who had broken the law, but after meeting these people I realized the gangs inside are very much like the gangs in the White House.” For example, in the film we see how D’Souza learned that most major crimes follow the procedure of plan, pitch, take, and deny. You plan to fake out insurance companies. You create a fake corporation.

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Input: In passing, from the public record it is not clear that Secretary Clinton was given the oath before a properly constituted committee, which would require a quorum. Chairman Trey Gowdy mentioned in his opening remarks that Secretary Clinton had already been sworn. Later (and sparse) press coverage indicates that as a courtesy to Secretary Clinton, she was given the oath privately. Whether she was properly placed under oath, as well as whether the statements the Republicans are calling into question are material, will be set aside for purposes of my discussion, for two reasons. First, these are technicalities and it is clear from the record that she did not lie to the committee, so the technicalities of perjury can be passed over, and secondly because Secretary Clinton is also charged with violation of the false statement statute, which does not require an oath, and some of the other niceties of perjury, I will keep the focus on the truthfulness of her testimony.

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Input: He has used these finding to give cover to thinly sourced theories about Clinton’s health — in late August, he dug up an e-mail that showed that Clinton once received information about a Parkinson’s disease drug — and inventing new anti-Clinton theories out of whole cloth. After Clinton claimed that Russian hackers had been the source of the leak, Assange deflected the allegation in part by pointing out that a low-level Democratic Party staffer, Seth Rich, had been murdered weeks earlier while walking home from a bar in Washington. Although police believe Rich was the victim of a botched robbery attempt, Assange hinted at a darker possibility: that Rich was murdered for sharing documents with WikiLeaks. “Our sources take risks,” Assange said ominously. (The Rich family criticized Assange for “pushing unproven and harmful theories about Seth's murder.”)

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Input: :: An agreement with the Syrian regime to withdraw IS weapons from Palmyra.:: A deal between IS and Syria to trade oil for fertiliser and;:: Arrangements to evacuate some areas by Islamic State forces BEFORE the Syrian army attacked. All appear to be pre-agreed deals and suggest direct evidence of collusion between the Syrian regime and Islamic State chiefs. For the past 18 months Sky News has maintained contacts with a Free Syrian Army group originally from Islamic State's headquarters in Raqqa, but now living across the border in Turkey.

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Input: WASHINGTON — Top Army and Marine Corps generals warned lawmakers their combat readiness is ebbing and expressed concern they would be unable to fight and win another war in the midst of budget cuts, two wars and heightened global threats. Gen. Robert Neller, the Marine commandant, said his service is supplying trained and ready troops to regional combatant commanders but would be hard-pressed to rapidly respond to another major crisis — a significant statement as the US stares down threats from an aggressive Russia, a rising China, a belligerent North Korea and an extremist-sponsoring Iran. “Our ability to meet other regional requirements for major contingency plans, we would be able to do that, but we probably would not be able to do that in the time frame that the current plans call for us to arrive to participate in that conflict,” Neller told the House Armed Services Committee.

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Input: There have — there’s real danger. And there have been major, major accidents. Two of the three biggest accidents in the country with radioactive hydrogen, which is called tritium, happened at Livermore Lab, airborne releases of this radioactive hydrogen. Also, there have been airborne releases of uranium, of plutonium, etc. AMY GOODMAN: Well, here you have a situation where the scientists live in this community, this endangered community.

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Input: Trump’s de facto campaign manager, Paul Manafort, was a longtime consultant to Viktor Yanukovich, the Russian-backed president of Ukraine who was overthrown in 2014. Manafort also has done multimillion-dollar business deals with Russian oligarchs. Trump has sought and received funding from Russian investors for his business ventures, especially after most American banks stopped lending to him. Trump’s foreign policy advisor Carter Page has his own business ties to the state-controlled Russian oil giant Gazprom. He recently delivered a speech in Moscow slamming the United States for its “hypocritical focus on ideas such as democratization” and praising Russia for a foreign policy supposedly built on “noninterference,” “tolerance” and “respect.” (Try telling that to Ukraine.)

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Input: Employed to promote the shop, her loudspeaker advertising messages had annoyed some residents, according to the residents of the same block, but Galakhov admitted he took the law into his own hands. He did not issue any warning before shooting the single woman from a window in his flat. Keen sportsman Galakhov confessed to gunning her down with an unspecified weapon after being detained by police on suspicion of murder. The gun used to shoot Ms Nosova was found by police, it was later reported. Gunned down: The killing of Anna Nosova (pictured) stunned her co-workers and people on the crowded pavement

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Input: BuzzFeed flags CEN as "often" reporting stuff that is "inaccurate or downright false," and says that evidence suggests an "alarming proportion ... are based on exaggeration, embellishment, and outright fabrication." Leidig, who identifies himself in the lawsuit as an award-winning British journalist who is currently the vice chairman of the National Association of Press Agencies, says that he was approached by BuzzFeed reporter Alan White in advance of the article about CEN, which also reported about a Macedonian man who chopped his own penis off after his girlfriend told him it was n’t big enough. White is said to have emailed Leidig," As I mentioned previously, I understand that you are producing this viral content for sale in order to fund your laudable investigative journalism, such as your report into the issue of child trafficking in Europe, and I am keen to reflect this fact in the article." In its own article, BuzzFeed describes the genesis of its spotlight on CEN." After growing suspicious of the weird, wonderful, and exotic stories CEN has made a name for itself with – including a few picked up by BuzzFeed News – we decided to investigate," it wrote.

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Input: WASHINGTON-US President Barack Obama discussed the Syria crisis with Russian leader Vladimir Putin by telephone, including the importance of rushing humanitarian aid to that country and containing air strikes, the White House said on Sunday." In particular, President Obama emphasized the importance now of Russia playing a constructive role by ceasing its air campaign against moderate opposition forces in Syria," the White House said in a statement.

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Input: "North Korea's nuclear capability is growing and speeding to a considerable level, considering the fifth nuclear test was the strongest in scale and the interval has quickened substantially," Yun told a ministry meeting convened to discuss the test. The blast, on the 68th anniversary of North Korea's founding, drew global condemnation. The United States said it would work with partners to impose new sanctions, and called on China to use its influence-as North Korea's main ally-to pressure Pyongyang to end its nuclear program. In Beijing on Saturday, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Yesui told North Korea's ambassador to China, Ji Jae Ryong, that the test was "not conducive to the peace and stability of the Korean peninsula", China's Foreign Ministry said." China urges North Korea not to take any more actions that could exacerbate tensions, and return as soon as possible to the correct direction of denuclearisation," Zhang said.

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Input: The international charity said the last remaining open road out of Khan Eshieh, a Palestinian refugee camp near Damascus, was shut this week by heavy shelling and sniper fire. Save the Children said three youths were reportedly shot dead trying to escape the camp, while bombing has increased, with dozens of barrel bombs being dropped on the area. Red Cross aid convoy denied entry to Syrian city of Darayya Read more News of the siege emerged as an aid convoy carrying medicine, vaccines and baby milk to Darayya – a suburb of Damascus that has been under siege for more than three years – was prevented from entering the town by elite troops loyal to the president Bashar al-Assad’s brother, Maher, even though the Syrian government had agreed to the deal. There are more than a million people living under siege in Syria, the vast majority in blockades orchestrated by the Assad government.

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Input: Progressives are going to be on guard.” The WikiLeaks revelations have not influenced the hierarchy around Clinton or her feelings about trusted advisers like Podesta, Sullivan and Tanden, according to a source close to the campaign. Podesta and Sullivan helped Clinton prep for Wednesday’s debate here and traveled aboard the campaign plane with her to the debate, while Tanden is still listed as a co-chair of Clinton’s transition team. But it could pose a major problem for Clinton’s efforts to fill out a transition team and a prospective administration if Sullivan, Tanden, Podesta or other close advisers became widely seen on the left as unwilling to work in good faith with the Democratic Party’s left flank, which largely aligned behind Sanders during his bitter Democratic primary campaign against Clinton. Sullivan, who was Clinton’s lead policy adviser at the State Department, is believed to be a candidate to become her National Security Adviser.

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Input: Scarborough: But, again: He kills journalists that don't agree with him. Trump: Well, I think that our country does plenty of killing, too, Joe. A TV embargo would starve Trump’s ego, feed his vast insecurities, and rob him of the biggest crutch in his campaign — free media.

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Input: -- New York Times, “How Hillary Clinton Grappled With Bill Clinton’s Infidelity, and His Accusers,” by Megan Twohey: “Confronting a spouse’s unfaithfulness is painful under any circumstance. For [Hillary], it happened repeatedly and in the most public of ways, unfolding at the dawn of the 24/7 news cycle, and later in impeachment proceedings that convulsed the nation. Outwardly, she remained stoic and defiant, defending her husband as a progression of women and well-funded conservative operatives accused Mr. Clinton of behavior unbecoming the leader of the free world. But privately, she embraced the Clinton campaign’s aggressive strategy of counterattack … What is clear is that Mrs. Clinton was in a difficult spot. She was aware that her husband had cheated earlier in their marriage, but by her telling, she also believed him when he denied the accusations levied by Ms.

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Input: Here's FAIR's Adam Johnson: A FAIR analysis of all nine democratic debates over the past seven months shows that not one question was asked about poverty. By contrast, 30 questions were asked about ISIS or terrorism (almost half of them concentrated in the December 19 debate, which took place days after the San Bernardino shootings) and 11 questions were asked Russia. Ten questions were asked about socialism or communism, all of which were directed at Bernie Sanders. The candidates themselves have brought up poverty, either in their prepared remarks or in response to more abstract questions about the economy.

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Input: “He also said the foundation story was n’t breaking through with real people,” Palmieri wrote. But internal polls taken just two months later painted a different picture. “Secretary Clinton’s top vulnerability tested in this poll is the attack that claims as Secretary of State she signed off on a deal that gave the Russian government control over 20 percent of America's uranium production, after investors in the deal donated over $ 140 million to the Clinton Foundation,” a June report from the Benenson Strategy Group concluded. “Half of all likely voters (53 percent) are less likely to support Clinton after hearing that statement and 17 percent are much less likely to support her after that statement.” Sunday’s release was the ninth day of WikiLeaks’ steady disclosure of purported emails stolen from Podesta.

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Input: Earlier this month Russia bombers went on a run around Western Europe, forcing the air forces of four Nato members to scramble their fighter jets. President Vladimir Putin has been supporting embattled Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad with air strikes. The bombing of an aid convoy last month saw a fragile ceasefire disintegrate and put even greater strain on relations between the US and Moscow. Neighbour Turkey warned on Monday that Syria could become a proxy war for the two superpowers as they pile weapons and advisers into the Middle East. We pay for your stories!

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Input: "If this is legit, it could well be an example of ' hacking back '. As in a previous target of the Equation Group did some forensics and discovered a resource to go after. This" auction "seems an awful good way to publicly embarrass a political rival in a way that can't be positively attributed. (What country does that sounds like?)" But he adds:" Or: it could be a total scam."

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Input: This morning, at around 6:00 GMT, the Pulse nightclub, a popular gay bar in Orlando, was attacked by a lone gunman. Currently there are 50 confirmed fatalities, including the gunman, and 53 injured. This is now the worst mass shooting in US history. Ordinarily, /r / worldnews does not cover US news, and that rule remains.

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Input: No, not at all. I have tenants from China. I have the biggest bank in the world from China paying me rent. I mean, I have great relationships with China. I'm not blaming China for getting away with murder.

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Input: The British were upset, of course, but it all quickly dissolved. ' Meanwhile, along the Mediterranean coast, Northern Irish fans were involved in a ugly exchanges with locals in the city of Nice that left seven people injured. French riot police moved in after local Nice youths hurled bottles at Northern Ireland supporters in cafes near the central Place Massena. ' About 20 to 30 Nice youths started throwing bottles at the Northern Ireland fans. Some bottles were thrown back, some punches were thrown, ' a Northern Ireland officer said.

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Input: No one was ever shot and killed trying to scale the Berlin Wall to go east. I will say that you do have a right to be ticked off at the nation your parents and grandparents are leaving you. They conitnue to feast on a dollar’s worth of government largess, pay only 60 cents for it, borrow the rest, and stick you with their 40 cent tab year after year until over $ 19 trillion in debt has been left for you to sort out after we’re gone. Just remember, it was the expansion of government that socialism epitomizes, not private enterprise, that imposed this generational theft upon you and saddled you with the dismal future you hope Sanders will change. So, please know I understand that you are unhappy with the way things are going.

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Input: Fight another sex taboo!” Bernays’ influence extended far beyond advertising. His greatest success was his role in convincing the American public to join the slaughter of the First World War. The secret, he said, was “engineering the consent” of people in order to “control and regiment [them]according to our will without their knowing about it”. He described this as “the true ruling power in our society” and called it an “invisible government”.

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Input: Some media reported that four people were involved in the attack, which was called an attempted suicide bombing. Later the Stavropol department of the Interior Ministry said there were three attackers and that all of them were dead. The building and cars parked near it were damaged by gunfire and explosions during the clash, but no casualties were reported among police officers or civilians. “The professional and well-judged actions of the police helped prevent any harm to civilians and officers,” a spokesperson for the Interior Ministry said. A bomb expert team was deployed to the scene.

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Input: He’s been a businessman, and so I think this does provide some reassurance, and conservatives will find it encouraging.” The warm reception to Trump’s unprecedented move to release such a list provided yet another sign that Republicans are setting aside their doubts to rally behind Trump’s candidacy for the general election. During the primary process, Cruz and others assailed Trump over the Supreme Court, suggesting he could n’t be trusted to appoint a true conservative due to his past support for Democrats and abortion rights. The issue took on added urgency after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia in February, who had been a fixture of the court’s conservative wing. Seeking to counter those attacks, Trump in March promised he would release a list of potential Supreme Court nominees.

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Input: As the nuclear monarch, it would be his prerogative, but in fact a rationale exists for doing so. With the whiff of Cold War confrontation back in the air as Russia and NATO square off over the Baltic and the Black Sea and ramp up their global nuclear operations as well as their investment in new nuclear weapons systems, the security environment has deteriorated to the point of needing to strengthen the resilience of the nuclear command, control and communications and early warning network. Decades of neglect of this network coupled with a rollback of pre-delegated authority increased its vulnerability to a decapitation strike by a combination of kinetic and cybernetic assaults. If command and control fails, nothing else matters. To whom might Trump pre-delegate his launch authority to shore up the credibility of strategic deterrence and continuity of government, and what terms would he specify?

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Input: Earlier in the day, at Trump Tower in New York, the candidate met with nearly two dozen faith, civic, and business leaders who make up what the campaign calls its National Hispanic Advisory Council. Trump, whose proposed immigration restrictions include a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, polls poorly among Hispanic voters. During the Virginia rally, Trump drew his biggest cheers by saying," We're going to build a wall, don't worry," and demand that Mexico pay for it. The crowd responded with loud chants of "Build that wall! Build that wall!"

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Input: On Tuesday, the European Union border agency, Frontex, admitted that it can not fully track the massive wave of refugees pouring into Europe. The agency estimated 1.82 million illegal crossings into the continent last year, but said that number could be even higher." False declarations of nationality are rife among nationals who are unlikely to obtain asylum," said Frontex, adding that "there is a risk that some persons representing a security threat to the EU may be taking advantage of this situation." REUTERS "Since last year we've had hundreds of thousands of people who are not registered at the borders because Germany said, okay, this is a humanitarian catastrophe so we let them in," Kaim said.

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Input: Britain should withdraw from the European convention on human rights regardless of the EU referendum result, Theresa May has said, in comments that contradict ministers within her own government. The shadow justice secretary, Charles Falconer, said he was appalled by the home secretary’s comments, which he described as “so ignorant, so illiberal, so misguided”, while the Tory MP and former attorney general Dominic Grieve said he was disappointed by the intervention. May used a speech in central London to argue that it was the convention, rather than the EU, that had caused the extradition of extremist Abu Hamza to be delayed for years and that had almost stopped the deportation of Abu Qatada. “The ECHR can bind the hands of parliament, adds nothing to our prosperity, makes us less secure by preventing the deportation of dangerous foreign nationals – and does nothing to change the attitudes of governments like Russia’s when it comes to human rights,” she said. Theresa May shows Michael Gove to the other exit on the right Read more

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Input: The men sprayed "Pedophiles here" on the camp's gates. A spokesperson said it was the most violent attack on a Greenpeace expedition in Russia that they could remember. The Greenpeace volunteers were in the Kuban region helping local fire services battle grass fires and also educating local groups in fire prevention, an expedition a Greenpeace spokesman said had previously been carried out elsewhere without trouble. Local police have opened a criminal investigation into the assault, the Interfax news agency reported, saying officers were working to identify those involved. In the day before the assault, the volunteers suffered another confrontation when they were surrounded by a group of men describing themselves as local Cossacks, the storied horsemen who once served Russia’s tzars and who, under president Vladimir Putin, have been revived as nationalist vigilante groups.

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Input: Stability could be restored, America's interests and citizens in Iran would be protected. At the time, the Iranian scene was chaotic. Protesters clashed with troops, shops were closed, public services suspended. Meanwhile, labour strikes had all but halted the flow of oil, jeopardising a vital Western interest. Persuaded by Carter, Iran's autocratic ruler, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, known as the Shah, had finally departed on a "vacation" abroad, leaving behind an unpopular prime minister and a military in disarray-a force of 400,000 men with heavy dependence on American arms and advice.

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Input: North Korea's worst human rights abuses 11 show all North Korea's worst human rights abuses 1/11 Starvation A UN report said that policies leading to mass starvation in North Korea amounted to crimes against humanity. Deaths peaked during the 1990s North Korean famine. Al Jazeera

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Input: On Tuesday, hacked Democratic National Committee (DNC) files released by the Guccifer 2.0 hacker reveal circulated talking points intended to combat the Clinton Cash revelation that the former head of the Russian uranium company UraniumOne, Ian Telfer, made four undisclosed Clinton Foundation donations totaling $ 2.35 million — a clear violation of Hillary Clinton’s ethics agreement with the Obama administration to disclose all donations. advertisement In an April 29, 2015 memo titled “Friends and Allies Talking Points — Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership (CGEP),” Clinton surrogates were instructed to respond to questions about undisclosed foreign donations by Ian Telfer, a Canadian, accordingly:

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Input: Legal experts say some general counsels advise organizations against doing such assessments if they do n’t have the ability to quickly fix any problems the auditors find, because customers and shareholders could have cause to sue if an organization knowingly disregards such warnings. Papadopoulos said a risk analysis by his firm is designed to “help an organization’s senior leadership answer the questions, ‘What are our unique and most significant cyber security risks, how are we doing managing them, and what should we improve?’” The firm typically recommends that clients conduct a so-called breach assessment to determine whether hackers are already lurking in the network, Papadopoulos said. He would n’t confirm whether such a recommendation was among those delivered to the DNC. “We give recommendations on governance, policies, technologies and crisis management,” he said.

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Input: -- Former Obama economic adviser Jacob Leibenluft joined the Clinton campaign, signaling close coordination between the president and HRC. Leibenluft, who has served on Obama’s economic team since 2008, has focused heavily on job training, apprenticeships and the minimum wage, says CNBC’s John Harwood. Bernie Sanders departs his Capitol Hill house yesterday to walk with his wife Jane to his campaign headquarters. (Reuters / Jonathan Ernst) -- Sanders returned to the Capitol yesterday and cast his first votes since JANUARY 2!

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Input: Stone touted "the use of the Network to improve the quality of life of Millions of people in areas such as Education, Health Care and Security," something he would be pushing at Cisco." Pis contact Dave to set up a time for hm to come in to see me," Clinton wrote to an aide upon receiving Stone's request. Cisco has donated between $ 1 million and $ 5 million to the Clinton Foundation. The tech giant was nominated the same year as Clinton's apparent meeting with Stone for a prestigious State Department award, the Secretary's Award for Corporate Excellence, for its work in Lebanon, which fell under Stone's purview. Cisco won the award in 2010.

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Input: Fighting began between the militia and the Kurdish Asayish police force. The Syrian army supported the militia with heavy weapons and the YPG counter-attacked successfully and surrounded the city. The Syrian Air Force then bombed YPG targets, killing several Kurdish civilians while others fled the city. For over a year the Syrian Army had been co-operating in Aleppo and elsewhere against Isis and the Syrian armed opposition, but both sides now swiftly emphasised their deep-felt and undying hostility. Mr Dibo says the Kurds simply want a decentralised federal system giving them autonomy while the government is a “traditional dictatorship” that has carried out dozens of massacres.

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Input: At best, Comey combined extremely poor judgment with a decision to place a near-absolute priority on protecting himself from criticism over carrying out his professional and ethical obligations. It is quite telling that even at this late stage in the election, when partisan tempers are naturally running at their fiercest, former career DOJ lawyers, former high level DOJ appointees and legal experts on both sides of the aisle are lining up to say this was an extremely poor decision and may even have violated the law. (Note here: President George W. Bush’s top ethics lawyer suggests Comey may even have broken the law. Another example here.) As far as I can see, no one who actually understands Comey’s legal, professional and ethical responsibilities can find a basis to defend his actions.

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Input: The KGB, Russia’s espionage organization, recruited and ran spies among Israel’s Knesset members, senior army officers and intelligence community, as well as lower-level workers on classified projects, according to an investigation by journalist Ronen Bergman. The first part of his investigation will be published by Yedioth Ahronoth on Friday. The list of agents includes, according to the report, a major general in the Israel Defense Forces, since deceased, and three Knesset members. One was Elazar Granot, secretary general of Mapam (the United Workers Party) and a member of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee in the 1980s. Others, Yedioth reports, include a senior engineer in the National Water Carrier project (a canal leading fresh water from the Sea of Galilee in the north to Israel’s center); a person in a classified position at the Israel Aerospace Industries who was involved in handling or planning the Lavi, Israel’s version of a fighter jet (which never left the ground); and another agent engaged in maintaining Merkava tanks.

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Input: The release would, the messaging indicated, prove that Secretary Clinton had, in fact, laid open U.S. secrets to foreign interception by putting highly-classified Government reports onto a private server in violation of U.S. law, and that, as suspected, the server had been targeted and hacked by foreign intelligence services. All of these revelations have the feel of an October Surprise, and should the claims made by Julian Assange and the Russian government prove legitimate, this October Surprise could cause a November Defeat. Obviously aware of this, Clinton’s Republican challenger, Donald Trump, has ramped up his rhetoric regarding Clinton’s responsibility for the deadly assault on Benghazi and her failure to produce e-mails and to prove they were not sent on unsecure servers in violation of U.S. law. He may need the help, as the latest national poll has Clinton ahead of Trump nationwide by 12 points. Should Assange and Russia come through with their promise to publish evidence of Clinton’s willful disregard of federal law in the use of private servers to transfer classified data, Hillary Clinton’s lead in the polls could be very short-lived.

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Input: Related: Reindeer populations are declining worldwide — and it's mostly our fault The Washington Post reported earlier this week that more than 1,500 reindeer died from anthrax infections in the autonomous Yamalo-Nenets district. Governor Dmitry Kobylkin has declared a state of emergency and evacuated and quarantined the communities most at risk of infection, such as nomadic reindeer herders. Anna Popova, Russia's chief state sanitary doctor, told CNN that the quarantine may last until September. A mass vaccination of reindeer is also underway.

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Input: Other names mentioned by court insiders last night, per USA Today: Srinivasan's colleagues on the D.C. Circuit Patricia Millett and Merrick Garland, as well as California Supreme Court Justice Goodwin Liu. -- Scalia passed away at a luxury West Texas ranch close to the Mexican border called Cibolo Creek, which has hosted movie stars like Mick Jagger, Bruce Willis and Tommy Lee Jones. (Elise Viebeck) -- Read Barnes ' full obituary of Scalia, who died at 79, here.

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Input: I started off in Brooklyn, New York, not so long ago, with a small loan and built a business that today is worth well over $ 10 billion. [It depends on your definition of small. Trump says the loan was $ 1 million, which by most standards is not small. Additionally, the Washington Post Fact Checker finds that Trump benefited from significantly more help than that from his father, a successful real estate developer. — Tamara Keith]

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Input: Weichselbaum was indicted in Ohio on charges of trafficking in marijuana and cocaine. The head of one of Trump’s casinos was notified of the indictment in October 1985, but Trump continued using Weichselbaum — conduct that again could have cost Trump his casino license had state regulators pressed the matter, because casino owners were required to distance themselves from any hint of crime. Just two months later Trump rented an apartment he owned in the Trump Plaza apartment building in Manhattan to the pilot and his brother for $ 7,000 a month in cash and flight services. Trump also continued paying Weichselbaum’s firm even after it went bankrupt. Weichselbaum, who in 1979 had been caught embezzling and had to repay the stolen money, pleaded guilty to two felonies.

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Input: Donnie Wahlberg endorsed Republican presidential candidate 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, his campaign announced Sunday. Wahlberg, a Massachusetts-born singer and actor, said in his endorsement the country needs a leader like the Florida senator. ADVERTISEMENT

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Input: "The Siberian Candidate." Krugman’s insinuation is … a little hard to believe, even in light of Trump’s suggestion that Russia should hack Clinton’s server. There is no evidence that Trump has personal contact with FSB agents, that he has received payments from Russia, that he makes furtive calls to the Kremlin, or really anything else that we’d associate with secret agent behavior. Until some kind of evidence like this emerges, it’s best to think of "Agent Trump" as nothing more than wild conspiracy theorizing. And yet, you can see where the conspiracy theorists are coming from.

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Input: On Sunday, however, Clinton’s campaign manager claimed the emails were leaked, quote," by the Russians for the purpose of helping Donald Trump," unquote. We go now to London for an exclusive interview with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has been holed up in the Ecuadorean Embassy for more than four years. He was granted political asylum by Ecuador, but he fears if he attempts to go to Ecuador, if he attempts to step foot outside the Ecuadorean Embassy, that he will be arrested by British police and ultimately extradited to the United States to face, well, it’s believed, possibly treason charges for the documents WikiLeaks has released. Julian Assange, editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks, welcome to Democracy Now! Can you talk about this email — these emails, these 20,000 emails you have released?

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Input: In the days after a retreat, “there would be relentless shelling” at key sites, the CIJA’s chief investigator, a Syrian, told me. Water pipes would explode, destroying hundreds of thousands of pages before he and his colleagues could enter. Sometimes armed groups would call them to come and collect the files after a firefight ended. “Chain of custody is important, but it’s not a deal breaker,” Wiley said. “It’s not worth getting — Well, people have been killed and wounded moving this stuff.”

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Input: In October, the group published private emails from a top Clinton aide, John Podesta, which included quotes from Clinton’s speeches to big banks like Goldman Sachs. The group’s Twitter account has hyped Clinton’s health problems and suggested she broke the law: Clinton lied to FBI, smashed phones, deleted emails. So who was charged with obstruction? This journalist's mother: https://t.co/0V5WBXR4Pw — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) September 8, 2016

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Input: “We got so easily diverted into this cloak and dagger kind of nonsense, and people, and how people just took their story and ran with it. So, I say we have got to be a little more sophisticated if you will, and not allow ourselves to be so easily manipulated,” Baraka urged. As reported by Breitbart News, after the WikiLeaks email scandal, Hillary Clinton’s campaign blamed the Russians. “What’s disturbing to us is that experts are telling us Russian state actors broke into the DNC, stole these emails, and other experts are now saying that the Russians are releasing these emails for the purpose of actually of helping Donald Trump,” Hillary’s campaign manager Robby Mook said. The Kremlin denied any involvement.

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Input: It was a mistake, and I take responsibility for that." But she really hasn't taken any responsibility for it because no form of punishment has been handed out to her, and the fact that she tried to delete the evidence suggests that she never viewed it as a mistake. Instead, Clinton continues to repeatedly lie about it. Quotes from the debate were provided by a transcript from The Washington Post.

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Input: French President Francois Hollande said four people were killed. Hide Caption 2 of 18 Photos: Hostage situation at Paris grocery French police escort hostages away from the grocery store. At least 10 hostages managed to escape, according to a Paris police union spokesman. Hide Caption 3 of 18 Photos: Hostage situation at Paris grocery Coulibaly was one of two people wanted in connection with the deadly shooting of a police officer south of Paris on Thursday, January 8. French authorities released photographs of Coulibaly, right, and Boumeddiene after the shooting.

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Input: “That’s both necessary and appropriate.” But is n’t that unilateral disarmament, I asked, when countries like Russia and China are at least talking about autonomous weapons control? As Army War College professor Andrew Hill and retired colonel Joseph Brecher argued in a recent essay, no one may particularly want a world with independent killer robots, but if there’s a big tactical disadvantage to making your robots wait for slow-moving human brains to order them to fire, then the logic of the prisoner’s dilemma forces both sides to go autonomous. No less a figure than the Pentagon’s top buyer, Frank Kendall, has publicly worried that, by insisting on human control, the US will suffer a self-inflicted disadvantage against less scrupulous foes. Carter and his deputy secretary, offset architect Bob Work, advocate “human-machine teaming,” a symbiotic approach in which humans provide insight, objectives, and guidance to the computers that carry out their orders.

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Input: “I have spent almost all my savings,” he said. “Last year, $ 500 a month was enough for a family to live on, but now even $ 1,000 is not enough because prices are twice or even five times what they used to be.” Refugees speak of starvation spreading throughout the city under the impact of this economic siege. “For me, I could stand the bad treatment and lack of food, but when my toddler of 11 months began to starve it became impossible to stay,” said Fatima. Baby milk has not been available for six months and other foodstuffs are prohibitively expensive.

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Input: There have been a number of similar incidents involving Russia and the United States this year. In April, two Russian warplanes flew simulated attack passes near a U.S. guided missile destroyer in the Baltic Sea. The events are reminiscent of the Cold War, when a series of close calls led to a bilateral agreement aimed at avoiding dangerous interactions at sea that was signed in 1972. In July, NATO leaders agreed to deploy military forces to the Baltic states and eastern Poland for the first time and increase air and sea patrols to reassure allies who were once part of the Soviet bloc, following Russia's seizure of Crimea from Ukraine. The 28-nation Western defense alliance decided to move four battalions totaling 3,000 to 4,000 troops into northeastern Europe on a rotating basis to display its readiness to defend eastern members against Russia.

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Input: Open Society Foundations, the Soros group, reported the breach to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in June, said spokeswoman Laura Silber, who added that an investigation by a security firm found the intrusion was limited to an intranet system used by board members, staff and foundation partners. NATO Commander The biggest revelation on DCLeaks involves U.S. Gen. Philip Breedlove, who retired in May and was formerly the top military commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. E-mails from Breedlove’s personal account show him complaining that the Obama administration was n’t paying enough attention to European security. (“ I do not see this WH really’ engaged’,” he writes at one point, later wondering “how to work this personally with the POTUS.”) The Intercept subsequently wrote a story about the e-mails, picked up by some cable news channels, inflaming tensions between the U.S. and its European allies.

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Input: Although the description claims that the flags are limited to "Spanish speaking countries", the Russian flag is amongst those that are included. This is the type of globalist indoctrination we have come to expect from the public school system, but telling impressionably young American children that their loyalty should lie with some nebulous idea of a global community rather than their own nation is a new low. UPDATE: The auction site on which the flag was featured has taken down all images of the item as well as any description of it.

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Input: The official requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue. Earlier, a spokesman for Turkey's national intelligence agency, MIT, said that the attempt to seize control had been defeated. Presidential Spokesman Ibrahim Kalin told NTV television:" The military commanders have made it clear that the coup plotters violated the chain of command ... The people have shown that they stand in solidarity with democracy and the elected government." _ _ _

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Input: US Head coach Billy Walsh says Shakur Stevenson advances on W / o tomorrow. Nikitin's face a mess after Conlan @StiffJab — sarahdeming (@sarahdeming) August 17, 2016 Nikitin can't advance through to next round because of injury-@AIBA_Boxing should stick the winner @mickconlan11 back in! — Eddie Hearn (@EddieHearn) August 17, 2016 Guy who Mick battered has had to withdraw because of the beating he took, this just gets worse! @AIBA_Boxing — Paddy Barnes (@paddyb_ireland) August 17, 2016 The Russian, who is still guaranteed a bronze medal, is to fight Shakur Stevenson of the USA next.

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

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Input: It is thought to be around 20 years of age, relatively old for a golden eagle, and is thought to have died of natural causes. The eagle was a commonplace sight at Riggindale, near Haweswater in Cumbria, and for many birdwatchers was the only golden eagle they had ever seen. Staff at a local RSPB centre became concerned when they failed to spot the bird, which would usually be constructing a nest and attempting to attract a female at this time of year." When the eagle didn't appear last month we thought there was a chance he might be hunting in a nearby valley but over the past few weeks we've been gradually losing hope," said RSPB Haweswater site manager Lee Schofield." We will probably never find out what happened to him but as he was … an advanced age for an eagle, it's quite possible that he died of natural causes."

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Input: No matter who wins in November, the next president will bring enormous potential conflicts of interest to the Oval Office — and watchdogs say Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are n’t planning to do nearly enough to remove themselves from the entanglements that come with the two global brands stamped with their names. Americans could see a leader regulating the same banks that lend the Trump Organization millions of dollars, or one negotiating with foreign governments contributing millions to the Clinton Foundation. Story Continued Below Trump’s empire includes over 500 business entities, with hotels, real estate and branding deals scattered across five continents.

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Input: We probably disagree a little bit as to numbers and amounts and what we're going to do, but perhaps we'll be talking about that later. But we have to stop our jobs from being stolen from us. We have to stop our companies from leaving the United States and, with it, firing all of their people. All you have to do is take a look at Carrier air conditioning in Indianapolis. They left -- fired 1,400 people.

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Input: ‘ ‘It’s not that I ca n’t be fooled, but I’m not fooled often. ’’ Clinton took an instant liking to Keane, too. ‘ ‘She loves that Irish gruff thing, ’’ says one of her Senate aides, Kris Balderston, who was in the room that day. When Keane got up after 45 minutes to leave for a meeting back at the Pentagon with a Polish general, she protested that she was n’t finished yet and asked for another appointment. ‘ ‘I said, ‘OK, but it took me three months to get this one,’ ’’ Keane told her dryly. Clinton exploded into a raucous laugh.

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Input: This means voting machines with voter-verified paper audit trails, and no Internet voting. I know it’s slower and less convenient to stick to the old-fashioned way, but the security risks are simply too great. There are other ways to attack our election system on the Internet besides hacking voting machines or changing vote tallies: deleting voter records, hijacking candidate or party websites, targeting and intimidating campaign workers or donors. There have already been multiple instances of political doxing — publishing personal information and documents about a person or organization — and we could easily see more of it in this election cycle. We need to take these risks much more seriously than before.

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Input: Obama: ' If I had a daughter-in-law, she would look like Rachael Jeantel ' FISA court rubberstamps statement denying its portrayal as government's rubber stamp Every time ObamaCare gets delayed, a Julia somewhere dies GOP to Schumer: ' Force full implementation of ObamaCare before 2014 or Dems will never win another election ' Obama: ' If I had a son ... no, wait, my daughter can now marry a woman! '

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Input: Photo: AFP / Getty Images Cypriot authorities later determined that the belt worn by the hijacker did not contain explosives, Egypt’s Civil Aviation Ministry said. “Security in Cyprus confirmed that the explosive belt worn by the man who hijacked the plane was fake,” it said. Dramatic arrest The EgyptAir plane landed in Larnaca at 8:50 am (0550 GMT), after the hijacker had contacted the control tower 20 minutes earlier to demand the diversion.

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Input: facebook twitter email Share More Videos 1:28 Wake County school official excited to see comeback for Teaching Fellows program Pause 1:30 Governor’s School for top students could face budget cuts 0:53 Factcheck: Richard Burr claims uncommon transparency in Trump, Russia investigation 2:52 GOP's Hayes: Cooper doesn't have authority to call for special election 1:49 NAACP activists threatened with arrest while delivering letter to House speaker’s office 2:11 NAACP's Barber wants General Assembly to stop making laws 1:15 Black lawmakers call for quick redistricting 0:58 North Carolina GOP lawmaker: NC House budget plan eliminates Pre-K wait list 1:09 McKissick: Republicans circumvented Cooper's call for special session 3:17 Berger: Why Cooper's call for special session voted down Share Video Video link: Select Embed code: Select facebook facebook twitter

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Input: Since it declared a caliphate the group has increasingly been delivering services such as healthcare, and distributing aid and free fuel 14/74 Iraq crisis Iraqi security forces detain men suspected of being militants of the Isis group in Diyala province 15/74 Iraq crisis Mourners carry the coffin of a Shi'ite volunteer from the brigades of peace, who joined the Iraqi army and was killed during clashes with militants of the Isis group in Samarra, during his funeral in Najaf 16/74 Iraqi refugees An Iraqi Shiite Turkmen family fleeing the violence in the Iraqi city of Tal Afar, west of Mosul, arrives at a refugee camp on the outskirts of Arbil, in Iraq's Kurdistan region 17/74 Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi A photograph made from a video by the jihadist affiliated group Furqan Media via their twitter account allegedly showing Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi delivering a sermon during Friday prayers at a mosque in Mosul.

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Input: In an attempt to tout its military prowess on Wednesday, Iran threatened to "turn Tel Aviv and Haifa to dust" during a parade of the Islamic Republic's armed forces in Tehran. Iran marked the anniversary of its 1980 invasion by Iraq by parading its latest ships and missiles and telling the United States not to meddle in the Gulf. Relevant to your professional network?

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Input: The Senate voted to reject ratification of the nuclear test ban treaty on Oct. 13, 1999. It did so for sound reasons. For example, the treaty does not define what constitutes a nuclear weapons test. Russia and possibly China conduct hydro-nuclear experiments that allow them to explore new weapons designs and train a more proficient workforce in the national nuclear laboratories. Even worse, the treaty is not verifiable.

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Input: The House of Representatives voted Thursday against an amendment that would have blocked the transfer of American-made cluster munitions to Saudi Arabia. Cluster munitions, often called cluster bombs, scatter multiple explosive sub-munitions over a wide area. These sub-munitions, or "bomblets," often fail to explode upon impact and become de facto landmines, continuing to pose a threat even long after conflicts end, according to Human Rights Watch. Cluster munitions have been used by a Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, in attacks that have targeted large civilian populations, according to the United Nations. In a report titled "Children and Armed Conflict," U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon blasted the Saudi-led coalition for targeting children.

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Input: But the appropriations committees actually allot the money, and their actions can occasionally contradict what the authorizers decided. During a December floor speech, McCain said Shelby and Durbin, both senior members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, reversed a restriction on buying the engines in what McCain called a "triumph of pork-barrel parochialism." Their provision was added — "in secret, with no debate," McCain said — to a $ 1.1 trillion government-wide spending bill passed by Congress late last year and signed into law by President Barack Obama. United Launch Alliance, which uses the RD-180s on its Atlas V launch vehicle, has manufacturing facilities in Decatur, Alabama. Defense industry giants Boeing, based in Chicago, and Lockheed Martin formed United Launch Alliance as a joint venture.

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Input: If you are a democrat who does not want to send our brave men and women in uniform to endless interventionist wars of regime-change, vote for Bernie Sanders. If you are a democrat who thinks that foreign policy judgement is more important than foreign policy experience, vote for Bernie Sanders. If you are a democrat who believes the most important issue is beating the republican candidate and regaining democratic majorities in the U.S. House and Senate, vote for Bernie Sanders. He is the only candidate at the helm of a political revolution bringing in millions of new voters who have previously given up on the political process. Bernie has the overwhelming support of Independents, millennials and the progressive base, and one third of his supporters have reported they will not vote for Hillary if she becomes the nominee, even to prevent a Trump presidency.

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Input: It a techno-music stage that stays open until the early hours. A message on the camp’s Facebook page said electrical wires were cut, the site was flooded and trailer doors were glued shut during the raid. “A band of hooligans raided our camp, stole from us, pulled and sliced all of our electrical lines leaving us with no refrigeration and wasting our food and glued our trailer doors shut, vandalized most of our camping infrastructure, dumped 200 gallons of potable water flooding our camp." This year has been quite the challenge for our camp. We have felt like we've been sabotaged from every angle, but last night's chain of events, while we were all out enjoying our beautiful home, was an absolute and definitive confirmation that some feel we are not deserving of Burning Man.

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Input: There's a show, and when you see the show and how the show is put together, you want to make sure it's a good show. Then the rest of it is sort of the countries walking in, and the flag coming in, and the torches and the speeches. But when the torch gets lit, is it essential to see that live, or is it essential to see that in context? … The entire west coast [group of viewers] that watch on broadcast … prime time begins at 8 o'clock, not 5 o'clock [Pacific Time, which is 8 p.m. Eastern, when the online stream will start]. Historically, the west coast has always been 20 percent higher [in terms of viewership] than the east coast. People who have wanted to see things live, they say," Well, how is that possible?

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Input: who is not viewed favorably by the left or by other Latin American countries.” Ecuador granted asylum to Assange in August 2012, when he was wanted for questioning in Sweden on accusations of rape and sexual molestation. Correa has said that he wanted to protect the WikiLeaks founder from the possibility he might have his due process rights violated and face the death penalty if he were ever charged for his leaks in the United States. Politically, the move allowed Correa to flex his muscles on the international stage and burnish his anti-American credentials at home, according to Latin American political observers. “He thought this was a low-cost way of kind of poking the US without generating real consequences,” said J.D.

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Input: The key attribute of many great politicians is their ability to hide their true selves. Bill Clinton and FDR were legendarily good politicians and virtually every biographer backs up that judgment by pointing to their ability to convince any audience or adversary they spoke to that they were really on their side. (Bill Clinton is such a consummate performer, he famously made himself cry at Ron Brown’s funeral — only after he saw that he was on camera.) We are supposed to believe that Hillary Clinton lacks anything like this artifice, and yet she has somehow managed to hide her true self from the American public for more than a quarter century? That’s an impressive performance for a non-performer.

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Input: Of course, Capehart does not have any problem with this because his concerns about race generally lack a class analysis and are steeped in liberal politics, which have failed to uplift millions of people of color in the United States. The Post editorial board was not too pleased with Stein when she questioned American empire and advocated for closing hundreds of U.S. military bases. But then again, this is the same media organization that published stories that promoted the case for invading Iraq and claimed Iraq’s oil could be seized by America to pay for the war. Stein understandably asked the editorial board, “Do n’t people deserve to be informed? What is it that our institutions of the press and media are supposed to do?

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Input: The document, reportedly authored in November last year by a staffer called Troy Perry, states that Democratic Party candidates and members should never use the phrases "all lives matter" nor mention "black on black crime" as they are "viewed as red herring attacks" and "will garner additional media scrutiny and only anger BLM activists." The Black Lives Matter movement was formed in 2013 following the death of Trayvon Martin and has been at the forefront of alleged US police brutality ever since – documenting and protesting the slew of killings including, most recently, those of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile. The BLM-centric document was leaked online by Guccifer 2.0, the self-proclaimed hacker claiming to be responsible for infiltrating the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC). Many cybersecurity experts believe the persona is maintained by Russian intelligence to manage a disinformation campaign with the intention of influencing the upcoming 8 November election. Kremlin officials have denied the accusations.

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Input: Both China and Russia are overwhelmingly non-religious and also vehemently anti-gay; to the extent Russians are religious, they are loyal to the Orthodox Christian Church. In Cameroon, Catholic Church officials continue to spew the most vile and inflammatory anti-gay rhetoric. A prominent evangelical multimillionaire Brazilian pastor and congressman with a history of vile anti-gay rhetoric, Marco Feliciano, yesterday attacked the LGBT community for “using” the Orlando massacre for “self-promotion” and instead said that support for Palestinians was to blame. Over the last several years, Christian zealots in the U.S. have agitated with both activism and money — often successfully — for the implementation of severely repressive anti-LGBT laws in Christian Africa. That includes Uganda, where they tried to implement the death penalty for homosexuals.

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

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Input: As an Apple executive told The New York Times, “We do n’t have an obligation to solve America’s problems.” Donald Trump is right to worry about American sovereignty. But the real threat to our sovereignty is n’t imports or immigrants. It’s global money influencing our politics. Protecting our democracy requires two steps that Trump and his leading supporters oppose:

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Input: Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who has had an uneven track record of backing Trump, told the Guardian that he would give the Manhattan billionaire the benefit of the doubt. “My sense is those views will probably change once he understands better who Vladimir Putin truly is — that’s my hope,” Rubio said. But he also railed against Putin for his tight control on the media and the military and for the fact that his political opponents are often jailed or disappear. “I do n’t think what Vladimir Putin exhibits is leadership. I think what he exhibits is thuggery … and we should be clear-eyed about that,” he said.

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Input: But all the concessions made by the military weren't enough for Khomeini. On 15 February four senior military generals were summarily executed on the rooftop of a high school. It was just the beginning of a slew of executions. Many have come to believe that that the Carter administration-plagued by intelligence failures and internal division-was by and large a passive observer to the rapid demise of the Shah. But it's now clear that, in the final stages of the crisis, America had in effect hedged its bet by keeping a firm foot in both camps in the hopes of a soft landing after the fall of the Shah's regime.

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Input: His theme was the way that democracies die. He argued that democracy suffers from a lethal vulnerability, which is that it has no meaningful defenses against the influence of money. Since most citizens are more interested in their own personal, short-term advantage than they are in the long-term destiny of their nation, democracy turns into a polite fiction for plutocracy just as soon as the rich figure out how to buy votes, a lesson that rarely takes them long to learn. The problem with plutocracy, in turn, is that it embodies the same fixation on short-term personal advantage that gives it its entry to power, since the only goals that guide the rich in their increasingly kleptocratic rule are immediate personal wealth and gratification. Despite the ravings of economists, furthermore, it simply is n’t true that what benefits the very rich automatically benefits the rest of society as well; quite the contrary, in the blind obsession with personal gain that drives the plutocratic system, the plutocrats generally lose track of the hard fact that too much profiteering can run the entire system into the ground A democracy in its terminal years thus devolves into a broken society from which only the narrowing circle of the privileged rich derive any tangible benefit.

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Input: Cooper helped edit the president’s autobiography and then stayed on, attending Fordham Law School on the side, while helping to manage the day-to-day administrative details of the Clinton family, a job that included many of their financial details like credit cards and, according to a 2006 New Yorker profile of the former president, managing his bags and gifts while he traveled the world. In 2008, the Clintons had two primary email domains: wjcoffice.com, which was mostly a legacy domain that auto-forwarded emails to more modern accounts, and presidentclinton.com, which was used by the staff for their email accounts. The email domains were run off of a basic Apple server in the Clintons’ basement in Chappaqua that Cooper had purchased while Hillary was still running for president. Hillary Clinton, though, had never had an email account on either domain; Hillary@presidentclinton.com, after all, would have seemed at first presumptuous and, by late 2008, a mean joke of an email address to assign her. The Clinton's house in Chappaqua.

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Input: A new congressional letter circulating among lawmakers charges the William, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation is a “lawless, ‘Pay-to-Play’ enterprise that has been operating under a cloak of philanthropy for years.” The letter, obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation, is authored by Tennessee Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn who plans to send it to FBI Director James Comey, Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen and Federal Trade Commission chairwoman Edith Ramirez. The letter calls upon the three agencies to launch a “public corruption” investigation into the ties between Clinton Foundation donors and Hillary Clinton’s policies as secretary of state.

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Input: We also call for a very serious discussion with our allies — and Hillary Clinton herself identified the Saudis as still the leading source of funding for Sunni jihad around the world in a leaked State Department memo as secretary of state. So we need to have a frank discussion with our allies that we are turning over a new leaf, that we will stop our funding for such enterprises and that we expect our allies to do the same. So we’re proposing essentially a weapons embargo, a freeze on the bank accounts of countries who continue to fund terrorist enterprises and also we call on allies like Turkey to close their borders to the movement of jihadi groups. HIATT: So you shifted to the Middle East, of course NATO has been involved, but to come back to core NATO, Vice president Biden was in Latvia a day or two ago, and said that he believes the alliance is important he help preserve the independence of those Baltic states against possible aggression from Russia and that they should ignore Trump’s criticisms. What do you think about NATO’s role there?

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Input: For instance: The most egregious example of the administration’s effort to slow down the sanctions drive came in late 2011, when Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez openly chastised top administration officials for opposing an amendment to sanction the Central Bank of Iran that he had co-authored with Sen. Mark Kirk. Leading administration officials including Undersecretary of State Wendy Sherman publicly expressed “strong opposition” (PDF) to the amendment, arguing that it would anger allies by opening them up for punishment if they did not significantly reduce their imports of Iranian oil. Clinton’s top deputies fought the amendment at every step of the legislative process. Clinton’s # 2 at the State Department, Bill Burns, even joined an emergency meeting with top senators to urge them to drop the amendment.

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Input: (Photo by Toni L. Sandys / The Washington Post) WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING: -- Gunfire erupted outside a “teen party” at a nightclub in Fort Myers, Florida, early this morning, leaving two dead and at least 14 injured. Authorities say injuries range from minor to life threatening. At least one person of interest has been detained in connection with the shooting.

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Input: Russia is expected to use its power of veto. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told Interfax news agency Moscow had hoped talks with Ayrault, who was in Moscow earlier this week," would help to find a way forward "." Instead of that, in New York we now have an attempt at political blackmail by putting to the vote, possibly tomorrow, a French resolution on the Syria crisis which is unacceptable for us." ALEPPO FIGHTING The Syrian army and its allies clashed on Friday in the south of Aleppo with rebels seeking to oust Assad, part of a pro-government offensive to retake the city.

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Input: He is the only self-proclaimed socialist in Congress, and he is also the only Democratic candidate in the presidential race to oppose crony programs such as the Export-Import Bank of the United States. Hillary Clinton, a big supporter of the bank, and Sanders clashed quite vigorously on the issue during the recent presidential debate in Flint, Michigan. The Export-Import Bank is an outfit that mostly extends loans to powerful foreign companies in exchange for buying products from large and well-connected U.S. companies. As Sanders asked Clinton," Do you know what the other name of the Export-Import Bank is, what it's called in Washington? It's called the Bank of Boeing because Boeing itself gets 40 percent of the money discharged by the Export-Import Bank."

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Input: The view from Kiev: Tom Burridge, BBC News Image copyright AP Image caption Petro Poroshenko said Russian accusations were preposterous Russia says one of those detained is Yevhen Panov. Initial reports suggest he was a former military volunteer fighting for Ukraine in the east of the country. However he has apparently more recently been associated with a charitable organisation.

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Input: 10/40 2014-June Isis take Baiji oil fields in Iraq-giving them access to huge amounts of possible revenue. EPA 11/40 2014-August James Foley is executed by the group as concerns grow for second American prisoner, fellow reporter Steven Sotloff. AP 12/40 2014-August Obama authorises U.S. airstrikes in Iraq, helping to stall Isis’ along with action by Kurdish forces following the deaths of hundreds of Yazidi people on Mount Sinjar.

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Input: While the investigation continues, authorities have launched a criminal case into the “illegal entrepreneurial activity” of the church’s members. Russian news agencies reported that a number of members of the church were brought in for questioning. At least 10 were reportedly detained in St. Petersburg. Scientologists receive revenue by providing “consultation services” in fields such as education, “without any official registration,” therefore evading taxes, a source in the security services told RIA. READ MORE: Moscow-based Church of Scientology allegedly spied on visitors-report

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Input: We haven't really learnt anything — I’m depressed by the current situation. The experience of the Syrian refugees is similar to what we went through. I was 11 years old when my family first immigrated to Belgium [after Hitler annexed Austria in 1938]. We were treated as if we had come from the moon. I felt as if I was n’t wanted and that I was different to everybody.

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Input: I'm fully aware that its impoverished people have been ground up as empire fodder by everyone from Queen Victoria to Mikhail Gorbachev. All of these things add up to a long, bloody, and tragic history that should have been a caution to American policymakers. All of these things do not add up to a reason for the people of Afghanistan to keep slaughtering each other in the marketplace. We are trying to create and sustain a country among people who are not sure they really want one, and who are extremely sure that they don't want one that relies on outside support to survive. We've exchanged the British East India Company for Unocal, and the hatred of the oligarchical meddling by Western business interests has been constant and unchanging.

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Input: But there’s just one last formality: He needs to pass some minimum threshold, a basic job requirement – like proving he has a drivers license. Everybody agrees he’s got the job. It’s too late for Hillary to be sucking up to the hiring committee, reminding them, but I took driver’s ed seven times — yes, there were mistakes, but I was grilled for 11 hours about that vehicular homicide. Also, the Russians hacked my GPS. Trump showed up at the debate with his driver’s license.

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Input: "If this happens, the truce will collapse." US Secretary of State John Kerry told a Senate committee that it would be clear very soon whether Russia was serious about ending the conflict. Image copyright AP Image caption The Syrian government said "military efforts to combat terrorism" would continue "The proof will be in the actions that come in the next days," he said. He added that Mr Assad was going to "going to have to make some real decisions" about the formation of a transitional administration, as part of a UN Security Council-endorsed peace process, or the US would consider "Plan B options".

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Input: The Turkish claim to have a right to be involved in the Mosul offensive is a dishonest claim, since Turkey has been financing the ISIS forces through oil smuggling and other human trafficking operations in Syria. Russia has exposed this, and President Vladimir Putin has clearly shown this in the Russian intelligence exposing the Turkish, Saudi, Israeli, Persian Gulf states, and U.S. funding through Swiss Banks such as Union Bank of Switzerland — which was also confirmed by WikiLeaks cables from the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency and Central Intelligence Agency, and Britain’s MI6. Turkey’s real agenda is to carve out an area of Iraq that it can use to target Kurds and confiscate land belonging to Iraq and Syria -- all in the name of "countering ISIS”. Conveniently, Turkey has totally ignored the calls by Iraqi leaders to leave their country, and instead have positioned themselves in order to provide an escape route for ISIS forces to escape Iraqi forces. Iraqi PM warned certain countries, most significantly Saudi Arabia, of the possible outcomes of supporting DAESH for their own security.

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Input: at a bus stop in Moscow, Russia, April 6, 2016. REUTERS / Sergei Karpukhin A man walks past a poster depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin and reading ' Which Panama? ' at a bus stop in Moscow, Russia, April 6, 2016. In Russian ' panama ' also means a bucket hat.

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Input: An opposition media activist embedded with the rebels, Ahmad al-Khatib, posted photos he said showed rebels inside central Jarablus, standing next to buildings painted with the black jihadist banner used by the self-styled IS. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group, said that the rebels had almost fully taken Jarablus, noting that IS had now lost the last crossing on the Turkish border that it directly controlled. Turkey has vowed to "completely cleanse" IS from the border region, blaming it for a bomb attack on a wedding that killed 54 people in Gaziantep on Saturday. This is Turkey's first known ground incursion into Syria since a brief operation to relocate the tomb of Suleyman Shah, a grandfather of the Ottoman Empire's founder, in February 2015. The air strikes were Turkey's first inside Syria since the downing of a Russian jet in November.

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Input: The emails were hacked from Podesta’s account by WikiLeaks, but Clinton’s campaign — and Brazile — have all but claimed their contents have been falsified. But a check of the DKIM signature by the Daily Caller News Foundation against HillaryClinton.com’s key shows that Palmieri did, in fact, send the exact email to Podesta that WikiLeaks says she did. The email from Brazile had a subject line of “From time to time I get the questions in advance” and said “Here’s one that worries me about HRC,” followed by the full text of a question about the death penalty. Clinton was indeed asked the question at a debate by moderator Roland Martin. Do You Think All Emails Released By WikiLeaks Are Real?

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Input: Europe welcomes exports produced by Jewish settlers on occupied Palestinian land, the EU’s envoy to Israel has said, while insisting that the best way to stop boycotts would be to make peace between Israel and Palestine. Lars Faaberg-Anderson made the remark at an event in Jerusalem on Monday (28 March) where speakers were criticising the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement-a Palestinian-led international campaign to stigmatise Israel’s occupation of Palestine. If you already have an account click here to login.

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Input: But the fact is this is not just another four-yearly carnival during which you listen to a handful of candidates schmoozing you and saying things they don't mean and making promises they won't keep. This time you're toying with evil, and if you continue to swallow the rubbish fed to you by your leading populist candidate, you're bound to poison your entire liberal system and sever relations with the rest of the world. Anyone who blames Mexicans, Blacks and Muslims for the misfortunes of your country is deceiving you. They don't deserve you, and they sure as hell don't deserve your support. Anyone who tells you that only the rich can pull you out of misery after the banks ran your financial system into the ground is lying to you.

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Input: With anti-European sentiment on the rise across the continent, national governments outside Europe’s capital sought urgently to prevent any contagion from the UK vote, urging swift reforms to the 60-year -old bloc. Calls for similar referendums were made in France, the Netherlands and Sweden. Cameron, who had campaigned hard but ultimately unsuccessfully to keep Britain in the EU, emerged outside No 10 Downing Street just after 8 am on Friday to announce his departure, accompanied by his wife, Samantha. “I was absolutely clear about my belief that Britain is stronger, safer and better off inside the EU,” he said. “I made clear the referendum was about this, and this alone, not the future of any single politician, including myself.

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Input: Russia, in turn, said the US had derailed peace efforts by killing 63 Syrian soldiers in an accidental strike on a Syrian military base near Isis territory in Deir el Zour a few days earlier. (AFP / Getty Images) As the ceasefire crumbled, the Assad government announced a fresh campaign to seize Aleppo from the opposition for good. East Aleppo is the last major rebel stronghold in Syria’s almost six-year-long war. Retaking it would greatly consolidate Assad’s control over all of the country that is not held by Islamist factions such as Isis and Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, the al-Qaeda allied group also known as al-Nusra.

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Input: To defend that point, let’s look at where the race is, where the polls are, and what could plausibly be on the horizon. Trump hosted a Republican convention that was notable only for advancing the theme that Clinton should be indicted and that Trump was a law-and-order candidate. He did get a bounce out of that, but then fell disastrously after Clinton not only had a better convention but Trump picked a fight with the parents of a deceased war veteran. Trump did manage to crawl back into the race, helped by a more competent campaign manager and by mustering a few weeks of relative discipline. He then managed to undo any of those gains at the biggest moment, with an unprepared and chaotic showing at the widely watched first debate, where he managed to fall into every trap Clinton laid to defend the undefendable while barely landing a blow of his own.

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Input: And even got rebuked by Chris Christie for it 15. Was urged to apologize by Gold Star families (we’re still waiting for a response) 16. Accused fire marshals of having “political reasons” for not letting him pack an unsafe number of people into his rally

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Input: Panama papers show how world leaders hide wealth Panama Papers put ' global elites ' wealth in spotlight Iceland's PM urged to resign after ' Panama papers ' leak Unprecedented document leak shows how powerful people hide their money The Panama papers leak

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Input: Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Edward Snowden said he believed Russia to be behind the leak The whistleblower Edward Snowden believes Russia is behind a leak of malware allegedly belonging to the US National Security Agency (NSA). Hackers calling themselves Shadow Brokers started an auction for the malware last week. The security firm Kaspersky said it believed the original files were from Equation Group, which is thought to be linked to the NSA. A former NSA worker Dave Aitel pointed the finger at Russian involvement.

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Input: -Russian debt-Ukraine's standoff with Russia has most recently been accompanied by an escalating trade war and a heated disputed over an overdue $ 3-billion (2.8-billion -euro) loan that Moscow extended to Yanukovych and which cash-strapped Kiev now refuses repay in full. Poroshenko's team argues that Moscow lent its ally the money on preferential terms as a bribe for Yanukovych's shock November 2013 decision to scuttle a free trade agreement with the European Union that Kiev has since signed. The new government wants Russia to accept a 20-percent debt write-down -- the same terms accepted last year by Ukraine's private creditors. Russia has refused and promised to launch legal proceedings against Ukraine in a London court by the end of the month.

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Input: Trump has led nearly every reliable public poll of Republican primary voters in the Palmetto State for the past 200-plus days and I just don't see that changing. As for who will finish second, the edge goes to Cruz over Rubio, given that South Carolina is 62 percent evangelical Christian on the Republican side and Cruz has invested more than any other candidate in the ground game. But should Rubio eclipse Cruz and capture the silver medal, that would be an ominous sign for the senator from Texas with the "SEC primary" looming on the horizon; also, the calls for Bush to exit the race will be deafening. O'Connell is the chairman of CivicForumPAC, worked on John McCain John McCainGOP defense spending battle delays Republican budget Otto Warmbier, US student held in North Korea for 17 months, dies What the next round of American military base closures will look like MORE's 2008 presidential campaign and is author of the book "Hail Mary: The 10-Step Playbook for Republican Recovery." NEVADA DEMOCRATIC CAUCUSES

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Input: But where he did one in That grand Marxist Stalin did ten in. Conquest estimates Stalin probably killed not less than 13 to 15 million people — in pursuit of Marx’s socialism. Given socialism’s history, you might have thought Sanders would have come up with a different name for whatever his philosophy is. Margaret Thatcher famously said, “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.” Oscar Wilde said the problem with socialism was that it took too many evenings.

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Input: Donald Trump could be considering a lifelong Democrat as the No. 2 on the Republican presidential ticket: retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who once headed up the Defense Intelligence Agency and has informally advised Trump on foreign policy during the billionaire's primary campaign. The New York Post first reported Flynn's formal vetting earlier this week. In an interview, the 57-year -old former general did not deny that he was going through the process.

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