Input: The crude oil could also be sold to nearby refineries that produce petrol and fuel oil, or directly to the local oil market. Yet the capacity of local buyers is limited, so smuggling oil to Turkey and other countries is more profitable. “Turkey is playing not a very clean game, especially with smuggling the Iraqi oil and Syrian oil through the borders and selling it in the black market in Turkey,” Iraqi MP Mowaffak Al-Rubaie, a former national security adviser, told RT, adding that a recent investigation by the Norwegian authorities exposed Turkey as having ties with Islamic State’s illegal oil trade. Most smuggled ISIS oil goes to Turkey, sold at low prices – Norwegian report https://t.co/ZsxKy1QEmVpic.twitter.com/Jjrc2VnoPf — RT (@RT_com) December 20, 2015 A political science assistant professor from the Northeastern University in Boston, Max Abrahms, told RT that it is exactly the illegal oil trade that has enabled Islamic State to become so strong after seizing vast territories in Iraq and Syria.

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Input: Syrians evacuated from Fuaa and Kafraya, two Shiite villages under rebel siege, are welcomed by pro-government forces as they arrive in Jibrin, on the eastern outskirts of Aleppo. Dec. 19, 2016 Syrians evacuated from Fuaa and Kafraya, two Shiite villages under rebel siege, are welcomed by pro-government forces as they arrive in Jibrin, on the eastern outskirts of Aleppo. George Ourfalian / AFP / Getty Images

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Input: “But that requires leaders, political leaders, religious leaders, business leaders, all of us to send a very clear signal that we are not going to be divided in that fashion. And I think the kinds of rhetoric that we’ve heard too often, from Mr Trump and others, is ultimately helping do [Isis’s] work.” In an interview with NBC, Trump not only stood by his proposed ban on Muslim migration to the US but suggested he might expand it to countries that have suffered terrorist attacks. “I actually do n’t think it’s a rollback. In fact, you could say it’s an expansion,” he said.

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Input: Thus, in National Socialist ideology, early German, white-skinned, Aryan noble savages paradoxically avoided a mongrelizing and enervating assimilation into the civilized Roman Empire — an outcome dear to the heart of Nazi crackpot racial theorist Alfred Rosenberg (The Myth of the Twentieth Century) and the autodidact Adolf Hitler. World War II was fought to restore the old Eastern European borders that Hitler and Mussolini had erased — but it ended with the creation of entirely new ones, reflecting the power and presence of Soviet continental Communism, enforced by the huge Russian Red Army. Few escape petty hypocrisy when preaching the universal gospel of borderlessness. Barack Obama has caricatured the building of a wall on the U.S. southern border as nonsensical, as if borders are discriminatory and walls never work. Obama, remember, declared in his 2008 speech in Berlin that he was n’t just an American but also a “citizen of the world.” Yet the Secret Service is currently adding five feet to the White House fence — presumably on the retrograde logic that what is inside the White House grounds is different from what is outside and that the higher the fence goes (“ higher and stronger,” the Secret Service promises), the more of a deterrent it will be to would-be trespassers.

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Input: In it, the former IS fighter reveals details about Turkey's alleged oil links to the terror group. “At the training camp in May 2015, our commander told us that the group sells fuel to Turkey. That income covers Islamic State's costs. The oil trucks crossing into Turkey every day carry crude oil, as well as petrol,” Tatar said, adding that the Islamic group has “enough oil to last them a long time.” URGENT: Russian intel spots 12,000 oil tankers & trucks on Turkey-Iraq border- General Staff https://t.co/WbIuUoMTKdpic.twitter.com/oxtnpu4a89 — RT (@RT_com) December 25, 2015

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Input: POWER PLAYERS IN THE NEWS: The Pope kicked off a six-day tour of Mexico by calling on its president to bring justice to a country racked by corruption and gangs. Francis offered an unvarnished assessment of Mexico’s troubles, including the country’s “drug trade, exclusion of different cultures, violence and human trafficking.” (Joshua Partlow and Gabriela Martinez) In Cuba, Francis met with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill -- the first time two such leaders have met in centuries. The pair urged the international community to protect persecuted Christians around the globe. (CNN) Jim Gilmore ended his presidential campaign Friday night.

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Input: “There is no data to retain and no central server to hack. Both are super easy to use and have a lot of fans.” The new “anti-terrorism” legislation was signed into law earlier this month by Putin. H / T Slon

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Input: Regardless of whether China follows through on its threat, Washington needs to be ready for a new normal in which the United States must defend against sanctions as well as impose them. China is taking a page from the sanctions playbook Washington developed against Iran. Between 2010 and 2015, the United States effectively gave companies a choice: If they did prohibited business with Iran, like buying oil, they would get cut off from doing any business in the United States. Forced to choose between access to the world's most important financial system and an Iranian market less than 1/30th the size, most companies stuck with Washington and avoided Tehran. China's threat mirrors this approach-trying to force U.S. companies to choose between defense sales to Taiwan and access to a Chinese economy that is nearly 20 times larger.

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Input: (The two countries have been negotiating for membership but talks have been suspended with Russia because of the Crimea crisis.) The OECD says the average homicide rate among the 36 countries is 4.1 per 100,000 people. According to the 2014 data, at the top of the list is Brazil, with a homicide rate 25.5, or six times the average. Next on the list is Mexico, with a homicide rate of 23.4, followed by Russia at 12.8. Then comes a tie for fourth place — Chile and the United States both have a homicide rate of 5.2.

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Input: A quarter of the town's 20,000 people work at the Crimea Titanium chemical plant, riding in dozens of identical green passenger buses to the factory from the town each morning, and back again in the afternoon. When Crimea was controlled by Ukraine, goods and services were affordable, and the plant's workers were able to treat themselves now and then, they say. But after Kiev blocked freight supplies last year prices soared." I can only buy food and it's hard to buy clothes," said Pavel, a technician, who said he was paid 17,000 rubles ($ 265) a month. That is only around half the average monthly income in Russia.

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Input: What else does n’t he know? While Trump has n’t mastered basic facts about the world, he has mastered Putin’s talking points on Crimea.” Asked about the removal from the GOP platform a call for supply of lethal weapons to Ukraine for defense purposes, Trump said: “I was n’t involved in that. Honestly, I was not involved.” Host George Stephanopoulos said: “Your people were.”

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Input: The United Nations estimated Friday that 40,000 people had already been displaced by fighting in Aleppo. It fears for another 300,000 civilians in the city's rebel-held east. JUST WATCHED Fierce fighting in Aleppo forces thousands to flee Replay More Videos ... MUST WATCH Fierce fighting in Aleppo forces thousands to flee 02:14 "Now 10,000 new refugees are waiting in front of the door of Kilis because of air bombardments and attacks against Aleppo," Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Thursday in London." My mind is not now in London, but in our border -- how to relocate these new people coming from Syria?

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Input: Moscow might ban soybeans from the United States over possible contamination, says Russia's food safety watchdog. Earlier this week, Rosselkhoznadzor said imports of US corn also face a possible embargo. Read more Regular supplies of the contaminated products may not only affect Russia’s food safety, but also increase the risk for other members of the Eurasian Economic Union, according to a statement from the regulator.

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Input: _ _ _ 5:10 a.m. Prime Minister Binali Yildirim, speaking to state-run Anadolu Agency, says more than 120 people have been arrested in a coup plot. He says:" Things are getting better every minute." Yildirim called on people to remain in the streets to support the government against coup plotters and appealed for patience.

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Input: They told them: “Cologne is 2,500 kilometers south of here.” The refugees tried to leave, but the Russians caught up with them and gave them a beating they wo n’t forget. Police arrived and had to transport 18 of the refugees to local hospitals due to their injuries. An additional 33 were arrested. One website is reporting that when law enforcement arrived, they “quietly assisted in the educational process” of the migrant gropers.

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Input: Today the Department of Homeland security and the director of national intelligence announced they are confident the leaks were orchestrated by Russia and were intended to influence the election: This is not proof that Trump is working in any conscious way with Russia. (Intelligence officials are investigating whether one of Trump’s foreign-policy advisers held clandestine meetings with Russian officials.) And, of course, the U.S. government, unsurprisingly for a counterintelligence operation, has n’t released proof for its conclusions. It might all be a massive conspiracy by American intelligence to fool the world into believing that a regime that constantly uses clandestine information to influence foreign elections is using clandestine information to influence a foreign election.

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Input: In the end, George H.W. Bush escaped any legal consequences from the passport gambit in large part because a Republican attorney, Joseph diGenova, was named to serve as special prosecutor. DiGenova’s investigation cleared Bush and his administration of any wrongdoing, saying the probe “found no evidence that President Bush was involved in this matter.” FBI documents that I reviewed at the Archives, however, presented a more complicated picture. Speaking to diGenova and his investigators in fall 1993, former President George H.W.

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

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Input: Image caption Khomeini calls on Iranians to expand their protests-on the same day Zimmermann told Yazdi the military was flexible about its future It was an artfully-crafted portrait of an Islamic Republic, mirroring what Carter had sketched at a conference of world leaders on Guadeloupe Island earlier that month: an Iran free of Soviet domination, neutral, if not friendly to America, one that would not export revolution, or cut oil flow to the West." We will sell our oil to whoever purchases it at a just price," Khomeini wrote." The oil flow will continue after the establishment of the Islamic Republic, except for two countries: South Africa and Israel," he added. To develop the country, Iran needed the assistance of others," in particular the Americans ", Khomeini wrote.

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Input: If you do n’t believe me, then just ask Fox News’ Chris Wallace who got the author of Clinton Cash to admit that there was n’t. And, by the way, according to a non-partisan website that simply tracks the ratings of charities, the Clinton Foundation has an “A” rating for their work helping people all over the world. So, for someone to honestly believe that Bill and Hillary Clinton use their foundation as a front for their international crime ring where they help set up arms deals, support illegal wars and a bunch of other illegal activity — that means they believe that they were capable of getting away with every outlandish conspiracy that they’ve been accused of for the last 20 + years — but were dumb enough to set up this highly complex international crime organization masquerading as a charity with their name on it where everyone would know that it was their foundation and who was donating to it. This all reminds me of a question I often ask these people — especially conspiracy theorists: Do you actually listen to the things you say? I know this much, the Clintons are smart enough to know that their foundation is the last place they would want to try to conduct any sort of shady behavior.

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Input: His attorney Steve Dickson, was flying him home from a healthcare meeting in Washington DC just eight months into the Clinton presidency. On the way to the capital from his home in Kansas, Dickson's small plane developed problems so he landed in St. Louis and rented another plane. That rented plane was the one that crashed in rural Virginia, killing both men. Jerry Parks, 47, shot to death, September 23, 1993. Parks was head of security for Bill Clinton's headquarters in Arkansas.

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Input: Shortly after arriving in Turkey, he crossed into Syria and joined an Islamist group that would later pledge allegiance to radical Sunni group Islamic State. Reuters has identified five other Russian radicals who, relatives and local officials say, also left Russia with direct or indirect help from the authorities and ended up in Syria. The departures followed a pattern, said Sharapudinov, relatives of the Islamists and former and acting officials: Moscow wanted to eradicate the risk of domestic terror attacks, so intelligence and police officials turned a blind eye to Islamic militants leaving the country. Some sources say officials even encouraged militants to leave. The scheme continued until at least 2014, according to acting and former officials as well as relatives of those who left.

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Input: Ms. Qiu should know that while the State Department must review and sign off on any CFIUS transaction, the president has final authority. Politifact Claim: Politifact implies that all interested parties in the deal other than Ian Telfer gave money prior to the deal in 2010: “So there’s evidence showing that one man involved with Uranium One (Telfer) donated millions to the Clinton Foundation at the same time as the deal.” FACT: Renaissance Capital, a company staffed by connected Russian officials, pays Bill for a speech in June 2010. Renaissance Capital is the very definition of “involved with.” As has been repeatedly reported, Renaissance Capital was pushing Uranium One stock at the time and is closely tied to the Russian government. Ms. Qiu never even mentions this payment despite the fact that it was reported not only by Clinton Cash but confirmed by the New York Times and the New Yorker.

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Input: ISIS’s black market oil trade has come under scrutiny from the international community amid turbulent oil prices, which have fallen to half their previous level in 2015. ISIL oil trade: step by step Crude oil extracted at Syria’s Deir ez-Zor and Iraq’s Qayyara oil fields, which remain under under Islamic State control, is being sold for as little as $ 25 per barrel to smugglers, independent Syrian and Iraqi traders who transport oil using their own trucks. The crude oil could also be sold to nearby refineries that produce petrol and fuel oil, or directly to the local oil market. Yet the capacity of local buyers is limited, so smuggling oil to Turkey and other countries is more profitable.

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Input: Looking at Assad and saying maybe he’s better than the kind of people that we’re supposed to be backing. And I think Russia can be a positive force and an ally. But, you know, whether you like Saddam Hussein or not, he used to kill terrorists. NERMEEN SHAIKH: Glenn Greenwald, in one of your recent articles, you suggest that Hillary Clinton has demonstrated comparable support for what you call, quote," the world’s worst despots." GLENN GREENWALD: Well, two things.

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Input: There is no denial and we have a 100% record for accuracy. — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) October 9, 2016 As for the veracity of the emails, that too is up for debate. The Clinton campaign has neither confirmed nor denied their authenticity, while WikiLeaks claims it has a 100 percent accurate track record for releasing legitimate documents. Assuming the emails are real, what have people found in them so far?

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Input: 2. Australia's shame The Northern Territory Chief Minister Andrew Giles is seeking advice on establishing a royal commission into the gut-wrenching, sickening footage the ABC's Four Corners broadcast on Monday night, which showed horrific conditions in the Northern Territory's Don Dale and Alice Springs Youth Detention centres. Advertisement An image from the Four Corners program showing a teenage boy strapped to a mechanical chair in an Alice Springs prison.

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Input: Solyndra, wind, solar, every damn one of these things. They got their money and then they went one of business. They got their federal grants, they got their subsidies, and then its hello bankruptcy, they’re gone. It was nothing but money laundering. It was nothing but a payback to donors.

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Input: At least one finalist grew up in the haredi Orthodox community. Several finalists told reporters they had struggled with the disapproval of family members — with some eventually finding acceptance and others not. Caroline Khouri, of the Arab town of Tamra, told NBC News her male relatives tried to murder her after learning of her plans to transition from man to woman. “My cousins, my father, my brother-in-law all came and beat me and took me by force and cut my hair, tied me to the bed and left me there for three days with no food,” she said. Rescued by the police, the 24-year -old said she remains estranged from her family.

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Input: “We would not know about this mass surveillance that’s going on right now.” While Holder did praise Snowden for opening up a public debate, Johnson did take his statement out of context. The former attorney general still maintains that Snowden broke the law and should face trial. “He harmed American interests,” Holder said." I know there are ways in which certain of our agents were put at risk, relationships with other countries were harmed, our ability to keep the American people safe was compromised ...

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Input: Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton Hillary Rodham ClintonGOP fires opening attack on Dem reportedly running for Heller's Senate seat Trump seeks tech's help for government IT overhaul What do Democrats stand for? MORE's bad week has ended and her resurgence began Friday. Former Vice President Al Gore Al GorePence calls hiring of counsel ' routine ' CORRECTED: Three members of Mueller's team have donated to Democrats OPINION: Don't repeat the mistakes of Clinton and 1998 with Trump MORE, Sen. Bernie Sanders Bernie SandersSanders to GOP on healthcare bill: ' What are you afraid of? ' Dems step up attacks on GOP ObamaCare bill Live coverage: Senate Dems hold talkathon to protest GOP health plan MORE (I-Vt.) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren Elizabeth WarrenSanders to GOP on healthcare bill: ' What are you afraid of? ' Dems step up attacks on GOP ObamaCare bill Overnight Finance: Ryan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax reform | Warren targets Wells Fargo board | Senators raise concerns over Russian takeover of Citgo | Pelosi hits GOP for budget delays MORE (D-Mass.)

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Input: The two convoys carrying necessary supplies of food have been stranded in a “no man’s land” since the start of the Syrian ceasefire, unable to proceed due to hostilities and a lack of permits from the Assad regime. UN humanitarian adviser Jan Egeland discussed the reasons behind the delay. “The reason we’re not in eastern Aleppo has again been a combination of very difficult and detailed discussions around security monitoring and passage of roadblocks, which is both opposition and government,” he said. The ongoing civil war, which has lasted five years and shows little sign of ending, has left some 300,000 people dead and 11 million displaced from their homes. The latest Syrian ceasefire has given little reason to hope for an end to hostilities, while the people of Aleppo are caught in the crossfire.

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Input: But when Russian president Vladimir Putin eyed the 49-year -old to become his personal adviser on the Internet, Klimenko really struck gold. Last week Putin signed a decree that officially enlisted Klimenko and it did n’t take long for him to address the issue of Internet piracy. However, instead of tough talk, Klimenko criticized web-blocking and suggested that copyright holders should wait for a better economic situation before “terrorizing” on the issue of piracy. “Consumption of copyright content increases with economic growth, and when the situation is very serious, I think people do not have to unnecessarily terrorize these issues,” Putin’s adviser said. “Pushing hard now on this topic, I think, is not worth it.

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Input: Stoltenberg said NATO had no choice but to respond In fact, the Baltic states would have liked NATO to commit more troops to their border areas, Gressel argued." Since 2009, Russia has trained its forces in scenarios of invading the Baltic countries," he said." For the Baltic countries, this is a real thing, this is not something that might at some point happen." Even though it is economically isolated and can ill afford to take new territory, Russia's political system requires shows of military power for its own population, Gressel argued.

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Input: In recent weeks, political tensions have risen and President Petro Poroshenko this week urged Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, a key figure of the 2014 protests, to resign along with his government. But Yatsenyuk survived a parliamentary no-confidence vote. At the observances for those who died in the protests, Poroshenko vowed that efforts would continue to bring to justice the snipers who killed demonstrators and asserted that despite the eastern conflict and severe economic difficulties “nonetheless, the country is changing and moving forward.” Ultra-right activists attack an Alfa bank office in central Kiev, Ukraine, Saturday, Feb. 20, 2016. (Efrem Lukatsky)

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

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Input: Many of these Bill Clinton speaking engagements in front of foreign companies and governments just so happened to coincide with U.S. policy decisions beneficial to said foreign entities, including $ 500,000 for a Bill speech from a Russian investment bank with shares in oil company Uranium One — days after Hillary's State Department approved a Russian majority stake in the company." These new State Department documents show Hillary Clinton and her State aides were involved in fundraising for the Clinton Foundation, said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton in an official statement." It is also incredible that the Libyan president would call and meet Bill Clinton through the Clinton Foundation before meeting Hillary Clinton about Benghazi." "Secretary of State Hillary Clinton worked hand in glove with the Clinton Foundation on fundraising and foreign policy. Despite the law and her promises to the contrary, Hillary Clinton turned the State Department into the DC office of the Clinton Foundation."

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Input: At first Trump did earn some laughs with his speech inside the famed Waldorf Astoria hotel. But it quickly deteriorated into an attack on Clinton that prompted jeers from the audience and shouts for him to stop speaking. “Hillary believes it’s vital to deceive the people by having one public policy and a totally different policy in private,” Trump said, invoking the emails of her campaign chairman John Podesta that were illegally hacked and published by WikiLeaks. “That’s OK,” Trump responded to the audible boos that followed. “I do n’t know who they’re angry at, Hillary, you or I?”

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Input: Schmitz served as inspector general at the Defense Department during the early years of President George W. Bush’s administration and has worked for Blackwater Worldwide. In a brief phone call Monday, Schmitz confirmed that he is working for the Trump campaign and said that he has been involved for the past month. He said he frequently confers with Sam Clovis, one of Trump's top policy advisers, and that there has been a series of conference calls and briefings in recent weeks. [Opinion: The foreign policy ' experts ' who will flock to Trump should scare you] Papadopoulos directs an international energy center at the London Center of International Law Practice.

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Input: In return Putin has praised Trump as “bright and talented.” Trump positively glows as he repeats reports that “Putin likes me.” The Trump-Russia links beneath the surface are even more extensive, as Franklin Foer has shown in Slate. Trump has sought and received funding from Russian investors for his business ventures, especially after most American banks stopped lending to him following his multiple bankruptcies. 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.

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Input: Advertisement While Clinton was severely injured, we also see that Commander Job W. Price was killed on that flight. Now, what is extremely interesting is the document shows that the Iranians acknowledge that they will keep this crash silent and report that there were technical difficulties that forced Hillary’s secret plane to land. The documents also indicate that the United States reported that Commander Price’s death was investigated as a possible suicide as he died from what the American Defense Department describes as “a non-combat related injury.” They lied to cover this up, and another death associated with Hillary Clinton is swept under the rug to save her politically. Why was she on a secret mission to Iraq and Iran in late 2012?

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Input: He was reunited with his mother at the Upper Merion Police Department on Thursday night, where the mother thanked the police for their efforts. Amoore, who was taken into custody Thursday night, told police she had not intended to steal a baby." I got up and walked away, I remember walking, it was like an out of body experience," she said, according to the criminal complaint." I can't wrap my mind around this, I am really sorry for what I did." lmccrystal@phillynews.com

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Input: North Carolina is shaping up as perhaps the single most important state in the race for the White House and control of the Senate. Voting rights advocates sued North Carolina earlier this year, alleging that the state has failed to process thousands of voter registration applications made through the DMV. Last week, U.S. Judge Loretta Biggs issued a preliminary injunction, saying North Carolina likely violated the National Voter Registration Act. Biggs ordered that voters who say they registered through the DMV but find they’re not on the rolls be allowed to cast a provisional ballot that must be counted unless the state can produce a signed form showing the voter declined to be registered. But Allison Riggs, a lawyer with the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, said the process the state announced for complying with Biggs’s order is badly flawed.

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Input: RUSH: Okay. So, again, it’s the same bunch of empty promises. “When I talk about creating new jobs and infrastructure,” Okay, infrastructure, advanced manufacturing, clean renewable energy, I think every clean renewable project Obama funded is gone. Solyndra, wind, solar, every damn one of these things. They got their money and then they went one of business.

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Input: DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS / AFP / Getty Images ‘So much anger against each other’ Among the eclectic addresses that line Lincoln Road is the U.K. headquarters of Radio Star, which broadcasts Polish news and music aimed at the 550,000 Polish speakers who live in Britain. The staff of Radio Star are an example of the EU at its best – young and multilingual, and believers in a Europe of free movement and free speech. But the Brexit debate, and the growing possibility of a Leave-side win, have rattled Radio Star’s broadcasters, who find themselves wondering if they’ll soon need to be applying for work visas to stay in the U.K.

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Input: But the pro-Kurdish HDP, the third-largest party in parliament, was not invited due to its alleged links to Kurdish militants, prompting anger on social media from its supporters. The brutality of July 15, in which rogue soldiers commandeered fighter jets, helicopters and tanks, shocked a nation that last saw a violent military power grab in 1980. Even Erdogan's opponents saw his leadership as preferable to a successful coup renewing the cycle of military interventions that dogged Turkey in the second half of the 20th century." Erdogan has been brutal and unfair to us in the past, but I believe he has now understood the real importance of the republic's values," said Ilhan Girit, 44, a musician and CHP supporter, carrying a flag of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of the modern secular republic. A convoy of nationalists on motorbikes passed as he spoke.

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Input: The Organization for Security and Cooperation In Europe issued a report in September saying that, since Russia's land grab, fundamental freedoms have "deteriorated radically" for many in Crimea, especially for pro-Ukrainian activists, journalists, and the Crimean Tatar community. In its annual human rights report issued last week, the U.S. State Department criticized what it portrayed as a broad range of rights violations against Crimean Tatars, including "systematic discrimination" and "physical abuse and beatings" by "Russian occupying forces." Russian President Vladimir Putin last year suggested that foreign countries were funding efforts to "destabilize the situation" by highlighting difficulties faced by Crimean Tatars, and said that Moscow would not allow this.

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Input: Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE Family, friends and students gather in Istanbul for the funerals of Huseyin Tunç, a 28-year old teacher killed in the attack on an Istanbul airport. Newslook Passengers embrace each other as they wait outside Istanbul's Ataturk airport on June 29, 2016, following their evacuation after a blast.

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Input: 5/15 Germany Syria has already missed several target dates to hand over or destroy its arsenal before a deadline and the United Nations-Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) mission called on Damascus to move faster. ' Nearly one third of Syria's chemical weapons material has now been removed or destroyed ' UN-OPCW coordinator Sigrid Kaag told a meeting of the watchdog at its Hague headquarters 6/15 Germany GEKA is federally-funded facility and its sole function is the destruction of chemical weapons from military arsenals. Syria agreed to give up its chemical weapons and disposal, which is already underway on an American ship in the Mediterranean, is scheduled to be completed 7/15 Germany A worker stands next to a container that will be used to destroy chemical weapons from Syria in Munster

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Input: Donald Trump turned the corner on a vicious presidential primary process Tuesday night, pledging to visit a new round of political horrors on Hillary and Bill Clinton. The Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting said that ' probably Monday of next week ' he would deliver a ' major speech ' featuring a discussion of ' all of the things that have taken place with the Clintons. ' ' I think you're going to find it very informative and very, very interesting, ' he said, sporting an impish grin.

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Input: It is also noted that the legal action does not exclude possibility of debt settlement through dialogues. Ukraine got a 3-billion -dollar loan in the form of Eurobonds from Russia in December 2013 to shore up its economy amid financial crisis. The loan matures on Dec. 20, 2015. The Ukrainian side stressed previously that no other terms would be provided to Moscow than the debt-restructing agreement reached in August between Ukraine and its other international creditors. Restrictive measures against Turkey also came into force on Friday, which were adopted by Russian side in retaliation for Turkey's downing of a Russian Su-24 attack aircraft in November of 2015.

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Input: A Russian agency employs hundreds of "trolls" to wreak havoc on the Internet, bolster support for the Kremlin and spread panic in the U.S., according to a report. The Internet Research Agency creates hundreds of online personas that support the Russian government and burn the Obama administration, the New York Times Magazine reported. Though the purpose of the agency — like its dealings — are shady, the IRA has been linked to hundreds of social media accounts that claim fake U.S. disasters are occurring: a chemical leak in Louisiana, an Ebola outbreak in Atlanta and a fatal police shooting of an unarmed black woman." I can't say they clearly explain to you what your purpose there is," former employee Ludmila Savchuk said." But they created such an atmosphere that people would understand they were doing something important and secretive and very highly paid."

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Input: Militarized police forces have become de rigueur, even in the nation’s smallest towns — but arming law enforcement with the weapons of war, rather than protecting civilians, has birthed a chasm of distrust and animosity on both sides. It is n’t as if this equipment is being produced by a marketplace intent on keeping civilians safe from an ostensible outside threat. As the report, which does not offer a breakdown of specific agencies it might be referring to (though may in its body which can be purchased for $ 2,500 here), definitively states: “Law enforcement agencies use riot control systems to maintain the public order and safety and to enforce laws. They are used to disperse, control, and arrest people involved in riots and protests.

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Input: The opposition armed itself, and led by radical Marxist groups, attacked army bases and police stations across the capital. The military leadership had no stomach for an all-out civil war. Behind the back of Bakhtiar, they convened an emergency meeting and declared neutrality. In effect, they surrendered. The Shah's prime minister ran for his life.

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Input: China's imports of North Korean coal are up 11.7 percent for the first eight months of the year compared to the same period last year, slightly below the 12.4 percent gain for total coal imports. So far, the big winners among coal exporters to China are Mongolia, with a 50.1 percent year-to-date increase and Indonesia at 18 percent. Top supplier Australia is down 3.6 percent for the first eight months of the year, as higher coking coal exports haven't been enough to offset lower thermal coal shipments. It's difficult to ascertain why China has decided to allow its coal trade with North Korea to continue, and indeed to grow. About 90 percent of Pyongyang's trade is with China, and coal accounts for nearly 40 percent of that in value terms, according to a Sept. 24 report in the Nikkei Asian Review.

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Input: Settlers in the Jordan Valley have refused to obey the new EU guidelines that call for consumer labels to be placed on their products clarifying that they were not produced in Israel. Its farmers were particularly taken aback over the last weeks by a request from a German company that they place the statement “Occupied territories by the Government of Israel” on the products, Jordan Valley Regional Council head Dudu Elhayani told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday. Relevant to your professional network?

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Input: Many believe that oil prices drive the rig count but it is really capital flow that drives rig count and production and that affects oil prices. When oil prices fall and oil-price volatility increases, the floodgates of capital open. Every genius-investor wants to buy low and sell high. Rig count rises with fresh capital, production increases and oil prices fall (Figure 2). The weekly change in tight oil horizontal rig count is the leading indicator of capital expenditures.

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Input: Less than a month after Roger Ailes was ousted as chairman of Fox News amid a growing list of sexual harassment allegations, Donald Trump has hired Ailes to help him prepare for the upcoming presidential debates against Hillary Clinton, the New York Times reports. Multiple sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, confirmed the alliance to the Times. Two of the sources told the paper that Ailes’ role could “extend beyond the debates” if Trump were to be elected president.

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Input: British Prime Minister David Cameron said he was "deeply saddened" by the news and added the UK was "ready to do what it can to support Japan's response in Kumamoto". The Indian Prime Minister also tweeted his thoughts: Distressed on the loss of lives & damage caused by the quake in Japan. My thoughts are with bereaved families & prayers with the injured. — Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) April 16, 2016

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Input: Daniel Bertossa, PSI’s director of policy, said: “Anybody who’s interested in maintaining democratic control of national institutions should be very concerned about the Trade in Services Agreement that is being negotiated in secret. “It will remove large sections of national sovereignty and the ability of any government, including the UK Government, to regulate important service sectors [on issues] such as energy, such as transport, such as privacy. “The Trade in Services Agreement is part of a radical project to limit governments’ sovereign right to regulate and freeze it almost in permanence in the interests of foreign corporations.” According to the European Commission, TISA is about "facilitating trade in services"." The EU is the world's largest exporter of services with tens of millions of jobs throughout Europe in the services sector.

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Input: Consider, for a moment, two people. One, as a young woman at the beginning of a promising legal career, went door to door searching for ways to guarantee an education to the countless disabled and disadvantaged children who had fallen through the cracks. The other, as a young millionaire, exacted revenge on his recently deceased brother's family by cutting off the medical insurance desperately needed by his nephew's newborn son, who at eighteen months of age was suffering from violent seizures brought on by a rare neurological disorder. What kind of a society treats these two people as equal in any way? What kind of society even considers the latter over the former for its highest office?

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Input: Assange was arrested one month later in London. He has lived in the Ecuadoran embassy since June 2012 after exhausting his British legal options. Assange has insisted the accusations are politically motivated and could lead to his eventual extradition to the United States, where supporters say he could face the death penalty. ' If an Afghan civilian helps coalition forces, he deserves to die, ' Guardian investigative journalist Nick Davies later recalled Assange saying in an argument over whether to remove names from the war logs. In 2013, former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden chose to leak documents exposing intelligence agencies ' mass surveillance programmes to selected journalists instead of offering the trove to WikiLeaks.

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Input: Aggressive atheism is sometimes attributed to me, but I think wrongly.” Although the decrease in church attendance indicates that “the tide is going in the right direction” from his point of view he thinks moderates have been pathetic about standing up to the extremists. “There’s been a tendency for decent liberal people to capitulate. I talked to a woman who was a schools inspector. She said she knew for a fact that there were many girls being sent to the north of England to be mutilated, that the police were turning a blind eye.”

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Input: 2014: ISIS marches into Raqqa and makes it the capital of the caliphate. Foto: Uncredited The two Syrian women who we shall call Om Omran and Om Mohammad, which are not their real names, were willing to wear Expressen's hidden cameras, which have been smuggled in." We want the world to know," they say. Over the course of several weeks, they have documented life in the completely isolated city of al-Raqqah.

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Input: © Reuters. A vendor sells potatoes and other vegetables to a customer in an open market in central Ankara MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia's Rosselkhoznadzor agriculture watchdog said on Thursday it plans to completely ban fruit and vegetable imports from Turkey next week." We are considering restrictions on the remaining fruit and vegetables products which have not yet been banned," Interfax news agency quoted Yulia Shvabauskene, deputy head of the agricultural body, as saying. Russia to ban all Turkish fruit and vegetable imports next week: Interfax

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Input: Hillary will also invest $ 20 billion in youth jobs and pathways for individuals from disadvantaged communities — through support for models like linked learning, P-Tech, apprenticeships, and Career Academies. Increase Access to Capital for Growth-Oriented Small Businesses and Start-Ups, with a Focus on Minority, Women, and Young Entrepreneurs: Technological innovation and job creation is often driven by smaller companies and start-ups — today, small businesses create two out of every three new jobs. [9] But the percentage of bank loans that have gone to small businesses has declined by one-third since 2000; venture capital funding is highly clustered — with 70% of all VC funding going to three states, 40% going to one region[10], 7% going to firms with women founders, and a mere 1% directed to African-American women founders. [11] The result is that too few Americans are benefiting from the opportunity to access capital and put their job-creating ideas to the test. Hillary will support entrepreneurship ecosystems in all parts of the country, with the federal government playing its part to increase access to capital for SMEs and start-ups, especially for minority, women and young entrepreneurs.

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Input: The two boxes affixed to the turret glow red when active, but in the February video it appears that the system is either turned off or not working. In the case of this strike, however, the tank’s crew was saved by the tank’s armored plating — known as Kontakt-5 reactive armor. The oddly shaped square panels are meant to defeat incoming projectiles by actually counter-detonating and disrupting the missile’s main charge from penetrating into the tank. The T-90 is one of Russia’s most advanced tanks, although the version in the video is an older variant from the early 1990s, according to War is Boring. The T-90 started to appear in Syria shortly after Russian forces arrived in northern Syria in September alongside a sizable detachment of aircraft.

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Input: Government forces cut off rebel-held eastern parts of Aleppo last month. Image copyright Reuters Image caption A tail section from the helicopter appeared to have broken off after the aircraft was struck Russia and Syria announced the opening of what they called humanitarian corridors for civilians and rebels wanting to surrender, but few people are reported to have used them, fearing they would be targeted. The child sitcom star killed in Aleppo Burning tyres to curb air strikes

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Input: But neither candidate to succeed Obama in the White House has shown much sign of sympathy. Hillary Clinton has said Snowden should not be allowed to return to the US without “facing the music”. In 2013, Donald Trump suggested Snowden should be executed. Snowden told the magazine he did not expect to die in Russia.

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Input: The president’s targeting of opposition parties has shattered any illusions that Turkey is a western-style democracy Any chance Turkey could join the EU by 2020, as Brexit campaigners have asserted, went up in smoke on Wednesday after the country’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, signed a draconian new law that in effect demolishes any notion that his country is a fully functioning, western-style democracy. EU rules dating to 1993, known as the Copenhagen criteria, insist all applicant states must adhere to a system of democratic governance and uphold other basic principles, such as the rule of law, human rights, freedom of speech, and protection of minorities. Turkey is struggling to meet these standards.

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Input: 27/40 2015-April Isis has claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan that killed at least 35 people queuing to collect their wages and injured 100 more. EPA 28/40 2015-April Isis’ media arm released a 29-minute video purporting to show militants executing Ethiopian Christians captives. The footage bore the extremist group’s al-Furqan media logo and showed the destruction of churches and desecration of religious symbols. A masked fighter made a statement threatening Christians who did not convert to Islam or pay a special tax.

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Input: "If this airstrike was caused by target location error, then this is a direct consequence of the U.S. side's stubborn reluctance to coordinate with Russia its actions against the terrorist groups operating in Syria," Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said today. U.S. Central command denied that claim, saying it voluntarily warned the Russians ahead of time about the impending airstrike." Coalition members in the Combined Air Operations Center had earlier informed Russian counterparts of the upcoming strike," Central Command said in its statement." It is not uncommon for the Coalition Air Operations Center to confer with Russian officials as a professional courtesy and to deconflict Coalition and Russian aircraft, although such contact is not required by the current U.S.–Russia Memorandum of Understanding on safety of flight." Nevertheless, the Russians are claiming their Syrian allies have been killed by the U.S. military, just as the U.S. and Russia are trying to maintain the fragile, nationwide cease-fire that went into effect Monday.

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Input: An internal memo reportedly hacked from the personal computer of Nancy Pelosi, the top Democrat in the US House of Representatives, shows how officials were briefed on how to respond to the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement – including "tactics" on how to answer questions by activists. 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.

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Input: State-owned Russian news agencies have quoted military officials as saying that Syrian rebels have violated the ceasefire agreement 55 times already. Rebels have alleged violations by Assad’s forces. Aid shipments into the devastated city of Aleppo have yet to be allowed to reach civilians. More than 470,000 people have been killed in the Syrian civil war since 2011, according to the Syrian Center for Policy Research. On Saturday, Putin blamed ceasefire violations and the aid blockade on resistance from Washington, saying Americans “still can not separate the so-called healthy part of the opposition from the half-criminal and terrorist elements.

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Input: Turkey – the successor of the Ottoman Empire – admits that many Armenians were mistreated at the time, but claims that the number of victims has been grossly exaggerated and that there was no “genocide” or official systematic effort to eliminate the Armenian minority. Acknowledging crimes against humanity would not only damage Ankara’s international reputation, but also leave it liable for reparations, which some Armenian human rights groups estimate should be worth trillions of dollars. READ MORE: Armenia, Turkey still at odds a century after 1915 massacre On April 25 of last year, Turkey held a celebration to mark 100 years since the Gallipoli Landings, the Ottoman Empire’s greatest success in World War I, in order to distract attention from the 100th anniversary of the genocide, angering many in Armenia.

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Input: Liberty Counsel, which will also be sponsoring a booth in the summit’s exhibit hall, backed Texas in the Lawrence case and defended a homosexuality ban in Malawi. Radical anti-LGBT activist Matt Barber said on a Liberty Counsel radio program he co-hosts that the U.S. should adopt a ban on “homosexual activist propaganda” similar to Russia’s. Fischer, the former AFA spokesman, also advocated enacting a similar law in the U.S. Many Religious Right leaders have rallied behind Trump because he has promised to give them their ideal Supreme Court justices and lower court judges. Very recent history shows that these groups are n’t just interested in using the courts to reverse marriage equality — which would be harmful enough on its own — but also to severely roll back years of hard-won legal protections for LGBT people.

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Input: Now 45, Assange is in his fifth year living quarantined inside the embassy. Clinton remains the Democratic nominee for the presidency of the United States. Hillary Clinton strategist Bob Beckel called for WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange to be assassinated. # DNCLeak pic.twitter.com/9L2ixl24Er — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) August 10, 2016 Perhaps Democratic political operative Bob Beckel was n’t a party outlier during this controversial Fox broadcast.

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Input: PARIS — Japanese banks drew on close commercial ties to Qatar when they lent funds that helped Doha pay last year’s down payment for Rafale fighter jets and missiles worth € 6.3 billion ($ 6.8 billion), financial specialists said. A bank loan to Qatar, a nation rich in oil and gas reserves, signaled an economic shift for the Arabian Gulf nation and its strong business ties to Japanese lenders and construction companies. “Qatar can borrow relatively cheaply on the international bank market as there is huge collateral with the Qatar sovereign fund,” said Stéphane Audrand of the consultancy Sylmaris.

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Input: There were six separate Raddatz interruptions in that question, including her actually arguing with Trump. That featured this stunning exchange: Trump: “Why do they have to say we're going to be attacking Mosul within the next four to six weeks, which is what they're saying? How stupid is our country? Raddatz: There are sometimes reasons the military does that.

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

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Input: He could not mention any details about it even if they were already publicly known through the Risen book. No evidence was ever produced in court demonstrating that any classified information ever passed between the two men, but Sterling, an African American, was nevertheless convicted by an all-white jury in Virginia based on “suspicion” and the presumption that “it had to be him.” The contrast between the copious evidence – some of it self-admitted – of Secretary Clinton’s demonstrable infractions, on the one hand, and the very sketchy, circumstantial evidence used to convict and imprison Jeffrey Sterling, on the other, lend weight to the suspicion that there is one law for the rich and powerful in the United States and another for the rest of us. Failing to take steps against a politically powerful presidential candidate and letting her off unscathed for crimes of her own making, while an institutionally unprotected Jeffrey Sterling sits in prison would be a travesty of justice not dissimilar to the gentle wrist-slap given Gen. David Petraeus for giving his mistress extremely sensitive information and then lying to the FBI about it. Your order to then-Attorney General Eric Holder to let Gen. David Petraeus off easy created a noxious – and demoralizing – precedent in the national security community indicating that, whatever the pains taken at lower levels to prevent compromise of duly classified information, top officials are almost never held accountable for disregarding well-established rules.

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Input: 69 year old Shirley Teeter, who wears an oxygen mask and lugs around a tank to support it, was protesting outside a Trump rally in North Carolina when a feral Trump backer turned on her and punched her right in the face. Cold-cocked her, as Shirley put it. Just to jump to a critical point: she seems bruised and a bit cut up but basically fine. Police now plan to arrest Richard Campbell of Edisto Island, South Carolina. Shirley is apparently a lifelong protester.

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Input: At the end of March, Syrian forces, with the aid of Russian military, seized control of the ancient town of historic Palmyra. What they discovered when they entered the city were monuments destroyed or harmed, thousands of bombs and booby traps, ready to level the whole city. Also, all over Palmyra, there were mass graves with dozens of tortured women and children, some only 500 meters from the ruins of ancient monuments. Last year, ISIS extremists bombed the historic Yezidi ancient minaret of the Shingal district in northern Iraq, and a year ago, they blew up the church of Virgin Mary in the Assyrian village of Tel Nasri in northeastern Syria.

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Input: And you know what we do? Nothing,” Mr. Trump said at a subdued rally here on the outskirts of Milwaukee. “Either they have to pay up for past deficiencies or they have to get out.” “And if it breaks up NATO, it breaks up NATO,” he concluded. The role of the United States in NATO has become a point of contention here between Mr. Trump and his chief rival, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, as the candidates battle to win the state’s 42 delegates in Tuesday’s primary.

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Input: Automobile products, wine and agricultural products made in France are expected to be imported to China via the train. Catering to the Belt and Road Initiative, the train is expected to further promote China's cooperation with Eurasian countries. Several Chinese cities including Chongqing, Wuhan, Zhengzhou, Changsha and Shenyang have rail freight services to Europe.

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Input: By Chip McLean "Why aren't I up 50 points," exclaimed an angry Hillary Clinton. The bizarre outburst came this week after nearly all polls showed the race to be basically even, with some swinging slightly in favor of Donald Trump. The Hildebeast has reverted to total shrill mode – a shrewish side of her that former Clinton staffers have alluded to on numerous occasions but is almost universally ignored by the sycophantic MSM.Hillary is angry because she believes it's "her turn" to be president but Donald Trump and his supporters keep getting in her way. Of course, she also believed that it was "her turn" in 2008, when (in her view), she was robbed after Democrats decided that the "black card" – pardon the expression – "trumped" the "woman card." So Hillary instead became the most horrific Secretary of State in the nation's history ... During her tenure, she compromised our national security with her illegal private email server. That would of course be the same server on which the emails were subsequently deleted with BleachBit – right after those emails were subpoenaed.

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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: Upon leaving Joint Base Andrews with the still unconscious Hillary Clinton, SVR intelligence analysts in this report say, her motorcade rushed to a nearby (57 kilometers/36 miles) private MedStar Montgomery Medical Center hospital in Olney, Maryland, where she was rushed into emergency surgery. The reason for Hillary Clinton’s security detail rushing her to the MedStar Montgomery Medical Center, this report explains, is due to this hospital having advanced non-invasive technology able to find blood clots in the brain — like an instrument surgeons their use to pick up light emissions from a digitized instrument, while a camera is placed above a patient's head. Performing the emergency brain surgery on Hillary Clinton at the MedStar Montgomery Medical Center on 30 June, this report continues, was the Islamic neurosurgeon Amjad Anaizi who is her private brain doctor whom she frequently visits at the MedStar Georgetown University Hospital near her home in Washington D.C.—and who, also, is the cousin of Hillary Clinton’s top aid Huma Abedin who is linked to the Muslim Brotherhood terror organization. Attending Doctor Anaizi in his operating on Hillary Clinton’s brain to remove the blood clot that had rendered her unconscious, this report says, was Doctor Sandeep Sherlekar who was the on call anesthesiologist at MedStar Montgomery Medical Center — but who, exactly 3 months later, on 30 September, was discovered dead. Latest Clinton Body Count victim: Dr. Sandeep Sherlekar (1965-2016)

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Input: "This attack was the first al Qaeda- or ISIS-related in the U.S. by a skilled shooter team using both guns and explosives." The attack is believed to have been inspired by ISIS. Photos: San Bernardino shooting Police officers stand guard as they investigate a suspicious vehicle in Redlands, California, on Wednesday, December 2, after a mass shooting in nearby San Bernardino in which 14 people died and 21 were injured. The shooting took place at the Inland Regional Center, where employees with the county health department were attending a holiday event. The two shooters -- Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik -- were fatally shot in a gun battle with police hours after the initial incident.

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Input: You call that store and you say, “To whom did you sell this Taurus PT 92 with this particular serial number on it?” By law, every gun dealer in America has to keep a “bound book” or an “orderly arrangement of loose-leaf pages” (some have been known to use toilet paper in protest) to record every firearm's manufacturer or importer, model, serial number, type, caliber or gauge, date received, date of sale. This record corresponds to the store's stack of 4473s, which some clerk has to go dig through in order to read you the information from the form. Or he can fax it. Congratulations. You have found your gun owner.

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Input: The drills, known as Foal Eagle and Key Resolve, routinely generate tension. Claims questioned The claim from Mr Kim was made as he inspected a nuclear facility on Wednesday." The nuclear warheads have been standardised to be fit for ballistic missiles by miniaturising them," state news agency KCNA quoted him as saying." This can be called true nuclear deterrent," he added.

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Input: The Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Homeland Security said they are "confident" the Russian government "directed" the hacking of e-mails of individuals and groups, including the Democratic National Committee (DNC). Leaked internal e-mails from the DNC and Clinton's campaign have embarrassed the Democratic candidate, though she continues to lead in most national polls. Trump, who has advocated repairing ties with Moscow battered over the conflicts in Ukraine and Syria, has cast doubt on the U.S. intelligence community's allegation of Russia's complicity in the cyberattacks. He has also spoken warmly of Putin, saying the Russian leader has been a better leader for his country than U.S. President Barack Obama has been for the United States. Clinton seized on Trump's positive assessments of Putin in her October 31 speech in Ohio, saying the Russian president "knows he can use flattery to get into Donald's head to make Donald the Kremlin's puppet."

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Input: “For someone to come and say, ‘I have a political organization to change your church to complete my political agenda or advance my agenda,’ I do n’t know how anybody could embrace that.” Earlier in the summer, internal Democratic National Committee emails were published publicly that appeared to show officials discussing using Sen. Bernie Sanders’s faith against him with voters, with one saying “my Southern Baptist peeps would draw a big difference between a Jew and an atheist.” Those emails were also published by WikiLeaks. Past polls have suggested Trump could have a problem among Catholics, many of whom have shifted from voting Republican to Democrat this election cycle. While they once voted primarily with the Democratic Party, they have become divided in recent years, with many voting Republican because of issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage. This time around, they are an important swing vote in such states as Florida, Pennsylvania and North Carolina.

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Input: Aid trucks carrying non-food items such as blankets on Monday entered Mouadamiya, a suburb of Damascus under siege by government forces, the Syrian Arab Red Crescent said. The United Nations and other agencies hope to deliver aid to more than 150,000 people in besieged areas over the next five days. Kerry said he was concerned by reports the Syrian government was creating obstacles for the delivery of humanitarian aid and hoped it would stop its officials and troops from taking medicine or other supplies from the shipments. GLOOMY ASSESSMENT Asaad al-Zoubi, head of the HNC's delegation to the peace talks, gave a gloomy assessment of the truce.

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Input: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's request to attend the funeral of former President Shimon Peres in Jerusalem on Friday was approved by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a senior Israeli official said. This will be Abbas ' first official visit in Israel since September 2010, and the first time he will have shaken hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu since last November. Read more on Shimon Peres: Peres pursued peace for sake of Israel's values, and Palestinians ' dignity | Hawk to dove, pro-settlements to pro-peace: Shimon Peres was it all | The countless contradictions of the late and great Shimon Peres | Obama, world leaders mourn Peres | Shimon Peres, the eternal immigrant | Peres ' quixotic battle for Israeli-Palestinian peace | Drop the kitsch: Shimon Peres had a dark side, too | Peres, 1923-2016: an interactive timeline

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Input: Mr Shapiro said he believed there was a 10 per cent chance of Mr Trump dropping out. He said the candidate had shown his love for the spotlight, and would miss it. Aside from his pride, he said Mr Trump might be even more loath to quit the race as it could hurt his business empire.

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Input: Isis does not have a major presence in Aleppo. Opposition groups in 2014 lost more than 1,000 men, pushing the jihadis back to a small stretch of territory near the town of Manbij, which is now under a concerted assault by US-backed Kurdish and Arab fighters. But many of the groups fighting there are conservative Islamists, and moderates are worried that for this assault they have gathered around Jolani’s group. It has shored up finances and power base as rivals splintered, and success in Aleppo would further entrench the group. “If the regime, Russians and other supporters had not brought a siege on Aleppo, we could have avoided the coalition of Nusra and the other groups joining it to fight,” said Bassma Kodmani, a member of the main opposition High Negotiating Council team for peace talks.

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Input: From the beginning, Trump’s most ambitious promise has been that he would remove 11.3 million undocumented immigrants through mass deportations and by pressuring people to leave on their own. “They have to go,” he said, and he predicted that he could accomplish this removal in two years. That would raise the pace of arrests twentyfold, to roughly fifteen thousand apprehensions per day. Trump explained his idea by praising an Eisenhower-era deportation program that “moved them way south; they never came back,” he said in a debate last November. “Dwight Eisenhower.

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Input: Sanders supporters would go nuts,” said the lawmaker, who requested anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the discussions. There is no indication Wasserman Schultz, who is also a Florida congresswoman, has any plans to leave her post. And Senate sources stress that a final decision wo n’t be made until Clinton and Sanders negotiate some type of deal aimed at healing the party. President Obama, who selected Wasserman Schultz as chairwoman in 2011, is expected to play a major role in any such talks. The Clinton and Sanders campaigns have already struck a deal with Wasserman Schultz to limit her role in the convention’s platform committee.

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Input: The real estate mogul has been accused of stoking violence at past rallies. Earlier this year, Trump said he wanted to punch a protester in the face. Other times, Trump has urged his supporters not to hurt the protesters that have interrupted his speeches. Trump leads Sen. Ted Cruz Ted CruzAccess to palliative care needs to stay in new health bill Dems step up attacks on GOP ObamaCare bill Overnight Finance: Warren to Fed: Kick out Wells Fargo board | Senators raise questions about Russian takeover of Citgo | Pelosi bashes GOP on budget MORE (R-Texas) in polls of the Hoosier State as he seeks to lock up the nomination and avoid a contested Republican National Convention. Cruz faces a do-or-die situation Tuesday in Indiana, and he's already mathematically eliminated from winning on the first ballot.

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Input: US suspends bilateral relations with Russia over Syria Turkish deputy prime minister Numan Kurtulmus said:" If this proxy war continues, after this, let me be clear, America and Russia will come to a point of war," the Daily Mail reports. He suggested the Syrian conflict could be the beginning of World War Three, saying it had put the world "on the brink of the beginning of a large regional or global war". Earlier this month a Russian newspaper warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin is playing an "astonishingly risky game" in the Syrian conflict that could lead to a Third World War. Popular tabloid, Moskovsky Komsomolets, ran an article that suggested hostilities in Syria could spark a “direct military confrontation" between the nations of a similar scale to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.

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Input: However, despite the court ruling and UN backing for the decision, some right-wing politicians have vowed to keep the ban in place. Ange-Pierre Vivoni, Mayor of Sisco in northern Corsica, said: “Here the tension is very, very, very strong and I wo n’t withdraw it.” Former president Nicolas Sarkozy who is running to return to office in 2017 vowed to impose a nationwide ban on the swimwear if re-elected to the post. He described burkinis as a "provocation" and said:" I refuse to let the burkini impose itself on French beaches and swimming pools ... there must be a law to ban it throughout the Republic's territory. Our identity is under threat when we accept an immigration policy that makes no sense."

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Input: Indeed, Clinton's use of a private email server during her time as secretary of state, and donations to the Clinton Foundation raise important questions about potential conflicts of interest that the campaign has not fully answered. But that's a long way from stating, as Trump did, that "to cover-up her corrupt dealings, Hillary Clinton illegally stashed her State Department emails on a private server," or that "While we may not know what is in those deleted emails, our enemies probably do. So they probably now have a blackmail file over someone who wants to be President of the United States." A more rational reading of Trump's accusations would have to acknowledge that Trump's repeated assertion that Clinton belongs behind bars is just false -- and Republicans know it. Paul Waldman wrote in The Washington Post earlier this spring that many of the emails deemed "classified" were only done so by intelligence agencies after they were sent.

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Input: Republicans have been working from this hymn book since at least the impeachment of Bill Clinton. Wayne Allyn Root, one of Trump’s introductory speakers in Vegas, was a huge hit with the crowd when he said that Obama was bringing in immigrants who wanted to hurt America and promised that Trump would prosecute both him and Clinton. Trump will “stop the madness of purposefully importing Syrian migrants and Muslim refugees into our country,” Root said to massive applause. He cited a notoriously shaky survey that said that 51 percent of Muslims in the U.S. support Sharia and argued that “liberal lawyers and Muslim sympathizers” were setting current U.S. anti-terrorism policy. Continuing to list the things he said Trump would do as president, Root arrived at “the big one”—prosecutions of Clinton and Obama:

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Input: During the negotiations Israel has demanded that Turkey close down Hamas ' military command post in Turkey. Turkey will however continue to allow Hamas offices to operate on its soil, but only for political activity. * In the agreement, Turkey waived its demand that the naval blockade of Gaza be lifted in its entirety. The Turks are thereby acknowledging that any aid they send to Gaza will have to pass through Ashdod Port for Israeli security inspection, only after which it will be taken by land to Gaza. The agreement sustains the naval blockade of Gaza, which is preventing Hamas from growing stronger, Netanyahu told the press, adding that he would not have compromised about that.

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Input: Guests at the May 2015 CGI summit — which was closed to the media — stayed at the five-star Selman-Marrakesh hotel, a posh lodging featuring a stable of Arabian horses and luxury amenities. The meeting was officially paid for by OCP, a Moroccan government-owned mining company that has been accused of human rights violations. Hillary Clinton supported the monarch when she was secretary of state, and the US-financed Export-Import Bank gave OCP a $ 92 million loan guarantee during her tenure, the Daily Caller reported. Politico reported in 2015 that Clinton “was seen by [the Moroccan capital] Rabat as among its staunchest supporters in the Obama administration.” The Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice charged OCP with “serious human-rights violations,” the Daily Caller said.

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Input: (June 29) AP 11 of 19 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE SUICIDE ATTACK AT ISTANBUL AIRPORT ' Like Hell ': Istanbul airport attack witnesses describe bloody scene | 1:27 The attack at Ataturk Airport on Tuesday killed 41 people and injured more than 200. Newslook 12 of 19 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE SUICIDE ATTACK AT ISTANBUL AIRPORT Anxious travellers react to deadly Istanbul airport attack | 1:07 A triple suicide bombing and gun attack at Istanbul's Ataturk airport has killed scores of people, including foreigners, with Turkey's prime minister saying early signs pointed to an assault by the Islamic State group. Newslook 13 of 19 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE SUICIDE ATTACK AT ISTANBUL AIRPORT France's Hollande condemns the Istanbul airport attack | 0:38 French President Francois Hollande condemns the Istanbul airport attack that left at least 41 dead. Video provided by AFP Newslook 14 of 19 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE SUICIDE ATTACK AT ISTANBUL AIRPORT Timeline of terror: Attacks across Europe since 2004 | 2:16 The deadly explosions in Istanbul are just the latest in a series of terror attacks on European soil in recent years. 15 of 19 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE SUICIDE ATTACK AT ISTANBUL AIRPORT Dozens killed in Istanbul airport terror attack | 1:18 The death toll continues to rise after multiple explosions rocked Istanbul's Ataturk International Airport. At least 3 suicide bombers were involved and officials suspect the Islamic State might be behind the deadly attack.

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Input: Her eight-year-old told her it must be a bad dream. And her 6-year -old said it could n’t happen because ‘that’s our guy.’ ‘(Emma Brown) Profile of his girlfriend who recorded the aftermath of the attack: “ ‘This is the brain on horror’: The incredible calm of Diamond ‘Lavish’ Reynolds.” -- Big picture: “Fatal shootings by police are up in the first six months of 2016, a new Post analysis finds." (Kimberly Kindy, Wesley Lowery, Steven Rich, Julie Tate and Jennifer Jenkins) -- U.S. employment rebounded in June.

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Input: Kilimnik and Manafort then teamed up to help promote Opposition Bloc, which rose from the ashes of Yanukovych’s regime. The party is funded by oligarchs who previously backed Yanukovych, including at least one who the Ukrainian operatives say is close to both Kilimnik and Manafort. Kilimnik has continued advising Opposition Bloc, which opposes Ukraine’s teetering pro-Western government, even as the party stopped fully paying Manafort’s firm, leaving it unable to pay some of its employees and rent, according to people familiar with the firm and its relationship to Opposition Bloc. All the while, Kilimnik has told people that he remains in touch with his old mentor. He told several people that he traveled to the United States and met with Manafort this spring.

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Input: She received several threatening phone calls, with one person playing her a Hitler speech over the line. She was also called by a homicide cleanup service, where she was told an order had been placed for her. Many of those who assailed her online referred to her as a “kike.” White supremacist website The Daily Stormer wrote a blog about her titled “Empress Melania Attacked by Filthy Russian Kike Julia Ioffe in GQ!” “It’s unsettling,” she told the Guardian on Thursday night. “I started the day off having a sense of humor about it but by the end of the day, after a few phone calls like this, with people playing Hitler speeches, and the imagery, and people telling me my face would look good on a lampshade, it’s hard to laugh.

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Input: Portland Public Schools’ transportation director Teri Brady sent the directive in March, instructing the drivers to stick with pop, country and jazz … ‘Colleen Ryan-Onken, a parent who starting circulating the memorandum … [said it] ‘leaves out two of our major communities in our music choices.’ ‘When you outlaw a kind of music that is very indicative of the modern culture of one group of people you’re basically saying that they’re not welcome,’ she said.” HOT ON THE RIGHT “Do n’t ask us for trigger warnings or safe spaces, the University of Chicago tells freshmen,” by Susan Svrluga: “University of Chicago students should not expect to get ‘trigger warnings’ before professors talk about sensitive topics, or ‘safe spaces’ where they can gather with others to avoid a speaker whom they find offensive, entering students were told this week. It is the first university to take such a strong, proactive stand … on an issue that has been divisive nationally. [And] … after a year of intense protests at campuses across the country, many involving raw emotions over conflicts about racial tensions and sexual assault, the letter’s direct language set off flares both on campus and far beyond with a debate about free speech, hate speech, student rights and students’ demands.” DAYBOOK: On the campaign trail: Clinton appears on "Morning Joe."

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Input: One of the officers wrote on the front page of the book: “From Adolph Hitlers [sic] apartment in Munich on May 2 1945.” The book, in which Hitler outlined his vision of the “thousand-year Reich” and also policy of exterminating whole peoples in Europe, is on sale at $ 12,000 -15,000. Except the Mein Kampf copy, several other artifacts are to be auctioned off, including Hitler’s dessert forks and plates as well as personal cocktail and water glasses. Letters and notes by SS chiefs Heinrich Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich, the main architects of the Holocaust, are on sale as well. Hitler's ' Mein Kampf ' published in Germany for first time since WWII https://t.co/IXriu5pvuEpic.twitter.com/iE57ueYfmU — RT (@RT_com) January 9, 2016

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Input: Clearly, Democrats – I should n’t say not just Democrats – but there are a lot of Bernie Sanders supporters who supported Bernie Sanders in part because they thought, on domestic policy, she was not progressive enough and, on foreign policy, she was a bit too hawkish. Obviously, Bernie Sanders clearly at this point has now endorsed her, but for those who think in advance of their convention next week that, on foreign policy, she is still a bit too hawkish, your thoughts? Clarke: Well, I disagreed with her when she voted for the Iraq War, and that’s why when Senator Obama started running for president, I supported him and I worked for him. I never thought he’d win, but he did, thankfully. But I could n’t back Secretary Clinton because of her support for the Iraq War.

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Input: A England fan is arrested by riot police after clashes outside a British pub in the Old Port district of Marseille After he is arrested the disgraced fan is led off by a five-strong group of riot police, equipped with batons, helmets and shields A French woman hurls a beer bottle at English fans after it is believed they tried to yank her flag away on the streets of Marseille The French woman is arrested by riot police after she threw the bottle as fans clashed with other supporters and police in Marseille An England shouts out as fans sing the national anthem and chant outside bars in the Old Port district of Marseille

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Input: The crash has called into question Egypt's drive to eradicate Islamist militancy and hurt its tourism industry, a cornerstone of the economy. Islamic State's Egypt affiliate is waging an insurgency in parts of the Sinai, although mostly far from the tourist resorts along its Red Sea coast. Russia and Western countries have long said that they believe the flight was brought down by a bomb smuggled on board. Egypt however has so far publicly said it has not found any evidence of foul play. Any formal charges or official Egyptian confirmation that a bomb brought down the Airbus A321 could potentially expose Egypt to compensation payments to the families of the victims.

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Input: The superpowers would therefore quickly be put on a path toward a never-ending offensive-defensive arms race, as each tried to balance its counterpart’s actions. Until Bush took office, the Treaty was referred to as a “cornerstone of strategic stability” because it facilitated later agreements, reducing U.S. and Russian strategic nuclear arsenals. The US, assuming that a weakened Russia will never again be in a position to counter US hegemonic power, proceeded to encroach on Russia’s borders through its manipulation of NATO objectives. Today, there is no instrument in international law that prevents the possibility of mutually assured destruction. Putin has been sending out warnings for over 10 years – all of which fell on deaf ears.

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Input: Photograph: Xinhua / Barcroft Images The New York Times said Rice had appeared “baffled and annoyed” that the president had been forced to leave Air Force One through a door normally reserved for high-security trips to places such as Afghanistan. In the lead-up to the final meeting between Obama and Xi, experts had predicted the pair would seek to part ways on a positive note with the announcement that the world’s two largest polluters would ratify the Paris climate agreement. However, Obama’s unconventional welcome – and a series of subsequent skirmishes and quarrels between Chinese and US officials and journalists – were a reminder of the underlying tensions. The Washington Post said Obama’s bumpy landing in China was “a fitting reflection of how the relationship between these two world powers has become frayed and fraught with frustration”.

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Input: A U.S. State Department spokesman said the eight-hour pause "would be a good thing," but cautioned that "it's a bit too little, too late." Spokesman Mark Toner, speaking to reporters in Washington, said the people of Aleppo "have been subjected to near constant bombardment and airstrikes" that have killed many civilians and leveled much of the city's civilian infrastructure. He said the goal is "to starve out and to drive out the opposition and civilians who've held on there for so long." Earlier this month, the United States suspended talks with Russia over the Syrian war and said that Moscow was committing war crimes by engaging in indiscriminate bombing of civilians in Aleppo. That suspension came on the heels of what the West and Russia had seen as a breakthrough over Syria that could have led to a full-time military cooperation and a renewed diplomatic effort to end the five-year conflict.

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Input: Russia may not be panicking, but it's clearly worried. Worried enough for the pro-Kremlin media here to admit there's a problem: a full-blown economic crisis. The state-controlled media blames the crisis, principally, on low oil prices and, to a lesser extent, on western sanctions. What you don't hear on TV is anyone blaming President Putin for the problem. Yet, in the decade and a half that Mr Putin has ruled Russia as president or prime minister, Russia failed to prepare for the possibility of low oil prices and did little to diversify its economy and reduce its reliance on energy exports.

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Input: Relevant to your professional network? Please share on Linkedin “The Muslim migrants arriving to Europe are for the most part not refugees but job seekers who belong to what is de facto an invasion,” Rom, nee Norbert Kurtzman, told JTA after the Russia premiere of the film “The Children of Tehran” in the city of Kazan during its Limmud FSU conference of Jewish learning. “The attempts to pass off the new arrivals, people who left and in many cases participated in a murderous civil war, as refugees and then to liken their experiences to what Holocaust survivors had to endure is false,” Rom, who survived the Holocaust with his sister, said last month. The rebuke by Rom, a supporter of the left-wing Meretz party and one of the founders of Kibbutz Afikim, followed the publication in August of an op-ed in The New York Times titled “Anne Frank Today Is a Syrian Girl,” in which the journalist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Nicholas Kristof argued that the reasons for the opposition to absorbing Jewish Holocaust refugees in the United States “were the same as they are for rejecting Syrians or Hondurans today. ”While some European Jews have repeated the analogy, others have been careful to avoid it amid the arrival to Europe of 1.5 million immigrants since 2015 from the war-torn Middle East and Africa. While many of those arriving file for refugee status, critics of EU immigration policies have argued for stricter screening against job seekers, citing the heavy presence among the newcomers of work-age men. The Tehran Children trekked a tormented 8,000 miles to Israel through Siberia, Uzbekistan, Tehran, India, Egypt and finally prestate Israel. Rom and his sister, Ziva, were given up for adoption in the Uzbeki city of Samarkand by their parents, Karol and Ethel, who were starving and opted to part with their two older children in the hope of saving their baby brother, Uzi. Karol died of starvation and disease in Samarkand.

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Input: Tourists and residents of Nice were among those who died. Two American citizens, a Ukrainian, a Russian and a Swiss woman are among the 84 victims. Mr Hollande said 50 injured people were in a critical condition "between life and death". Many of the victims were foreigners, he said. Fondation Lenval, the children's hospital in Nice, says it has treated some 50 children and adolescents, including two who died during or after surgery.

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Input: For example, during the 2004 general election, North Carolina’s Unilect e-voting machines “lost” 4,438 votes due to a system error. But cybersecurity researchers focus on the kinds of problems that could be intentionally caused by bad actors. In 2006, Princeton computer science professor Ed Felten demonstrated how to install a self-propagating piece of vote-changing malware on Diebold e-voting systems in less than a minute. In 2011, technicians at the Argonne National Laboratory showed how to hack e-voting machines remotely and change voting data. Voting officials recognize that these technologies are vulnerable.

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Input: At one point she admits she's a bit “out of touch” with the struggles of middle-class families — but, if anything, that suggests encouraging self-awareness. She says that the mere perception that “the game is rigged” in favor of the wealthy is harmful for the country, and that those guilty of wrongdoing need to be “held accountable.” She talks about how the Supreme Court has turned campaign finance into the “wild west,” which suggests she's a sincere critic of Citizens United. Even a seemingly incriminating bit about how Wall Street donors should exercise their power, shared at Goldman Sachs, turns out to be pretty benign on closer inspection: Secondly, running for office in our country takes a lot of money, and candidates have to go out and raise it. New York is probably the leading site for contributions for fundraising for candidates on both sides of the aisle, and it’s also our economic center.

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

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Input: Kaine co-sponsored legislation to expand the number of H-1B visas granted to highly-skilled foreign workers. Although Clinton had some oversight over guest worker programs when she was secretary of state, she hasn't discussed them much during her campaign. Clinton pledged to “staple” a green card to foreign-born scientists and engineers and Ph. D.s but in a recent Vox interview criticized certain employers for firing U.S. workers and replacing them with H-1B visa holders supplied by contractors. Kaine is generally pro-union, with a 96 percent lifetime Senate voting rating from the AFL-CIO. But Virginia has for decades been a right-to-work state, and Kaine has said," I strongly support "the law, which frees union nonmembers from any legal obligation to pay fees to a union that bargains collectively on their behalf.

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Input: One finger would be an active digit ready to point up or down for an attack to his nuclear commanders. Other fingers would shape the size and composition of U.S. nuclear forces and the strategy for their use. Additional fingers would determine nuclear actions taken in his absence or demise by presidential successors from his vice president, the Cabinet that he appoints or by generals to whom he may pre-delegate his launch authority. As with his predecessors, Trump’s power over the life and death of entire nations would be practically unbounded. Today, the nuclear deluge he could command would consist of thousands of weapons, each 10 or 20 times more deadly than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

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Input: So what we would like to see is Congress to act quickly, to act consistent with the urgent needs that our public health professionals say exist. So if there were a way to design a package that had strong bipartisan support that could be quickly and easily resolved that included pay-fors, I would n’t rule that out of hand. But given how long it has taken to just discuss the funding in and of itself, I find it hard to imagine a scenario in which there is n’t a protracted debate about the pay-fors. That protracted debate at this point is frankly not something that we can afford. The fact is there is no debating among scientists that Congress needs to act urgently so that we can prepare for this emergency.

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Input: Unfortunately, this manoeuvre carried her across the bows of the oncoming King George V. With no time to take evasive action herself, the battleship hit the destroyer, cutting the smaller ship in half. Incredibly, only 49 out of the destroyer's crew of about 250 were lost in this incident. This event clearly demonstrates the hazards of attempting to manoeuvre groups of ships in conditions of poor visibility, and it is a tribute to the seamanship of the naval and merchant crews that this was the only serious collision which resulted in a vessel being lost in this theatre 10/19 The catapult-armed merchant (CAM) ship Empire Tide circa 1942. Mounted on the ship's forecastle is an aircraft launching catapult, with its ' Hurricat ' fighter in position ready to be launched.

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Input: If you want to completely cripple your enemies and are not concerned with pesky things like basic human decency and morality, bombing hospitals and humanitarian aid convoys is a great idea. After all, they’re providing aid to your enemies. (Never mind the fact that they’re neutral and thus may also be providing aid to your own forces and innocent civilians caught up in the mix.) How are you supposed to eliminate your enemies or force them to surrender if all those meddlesome doctors keep fixing them up so they can go back out on the battlefield and fight another day? And how can you lay siege to a city if those obnoxious do-gooder types keep bringing in food and medicine?

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Input: Photo: Twitter / The Cairo Post "The negotiations with the hijacker have resulted in the release of all the plane passengers with the exception of the crew and five foreigners," the airline said in a statement. Egypt’s Foreign Ministry said the man behind the hijacking is ‘not a terrorist, he’s an idiot’. Mustafa surrendered after six hours. Photo: AFP / Getty Images

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Input: Sanders also adopted a Soviet sister city outside Moscow and honeymooned with his second wife in the USSR. He put up a Soviet flag in his office, shocking even the Birkenstock-wearing local liberals. At the time, the Evil Empire was on the march around the world, and threatening the US with nuclear annihilation. Then, in 1989, as the West was on the verge of winning the Cold War, Sanders addressed the national conference of the US Peace Council — a known front for the Communist Party USA, whose members swore an oath not only to the Soviet Union but to “the triumph of Soviet power in the US.” Today, Sanders wants to bring what he admired in the USSR, Cuba, Nicaragua and other communist states to America.

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Input: That would lead to despair and violence," he said. Palestinians say Israeli settlement expansion in occupied territory is dimming any prospect for the viable state they seek. Israel has demanded tighter security measures from the Palestinians and a crackdown on militants responsible for a string of stabbings and shootings against Israelis. The CIA Factbook online says about 371,000 Israelis live in settlements scattered among an estimated 2.7 million Palestinians in the West Bank, captured by Israel in the 1967 war. The figures exclude East Jerusalem, which both sides claim.

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