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

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Input: Together, we should pray for his family. — John Kasich (@JohnKasich) July 31, 2016 Kasich also took to Twitter to criticize Russian leader Vladimir Putin after Trump-jokingly, he later said-urged Russians to hack Hillary Clinton's emails. When Trump suggested he might rethink NATO commitments, Kasich took to Twitter to stand up for NATO, using the hashtag # StandTogether. So far there have been no Kasich Tweets about crying babies.

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Input: Even if those hurdles do n’t come until long after the act of killing is committed. Some blame the rise of radical Islamic terrorist groups like ISIS on reasons spanning the gamut from economic inequalities, the Sykes-Picot Agreement, the availability of firearms, and religious misinterpretation. But these theories fail to account for the wellspring of hate required to kick an innocent child in front of a truck to set up an ambush, decapitate a helpless noncombatant for the sake of YouTube hits, or open fire in a Florida gay nightclub. If it took the U.S. military decades to learn how to get its soldiers to shoot to kill in combat, then what is the genesis of an equally effective, ongoing psychological conditioning campaign that has convinced thousands of Muslims living in the U.S., Europe, and around the world to join ISIS or launch attacks in the group’s name? Where does that kind of hate come from?

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Input: — Media Lens (@medialens) April 29, 2016 The pro-Iraq war clique have attempted to use political correctness to their advantage. As part of what Media Lens calls ‘demonising dissent’ -the fourth component of a’ Propaganda Blitz’,principled opponents of western foreign policy are smeared as ‘sexist’ ‘misogynist ‘, ‘racist’ ‘conspiracy theorists’ ‘genocide deniers’ and even ‘dictator apologists’ -in the hope that no one will draw attention to the ‘morally virtuous’ attacker’s support for wars which have led to over 1 m people losing their lives. Identity politics has played into the war lobby’s hands. The neocons and Blairites are able to pose as ‘progressives’ who care deeply about the rights of women and gay people- while all the time pushing for wars which will kill women and gay people in great numbers.

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Input: A Syrian army source said the air strike had allowed IS to gain ground in the area around the Syrian airbase, but that Syrian forces had regained most positions on the hilltop nearby with the help of Syrian and Russian air support. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad denounced the air strike as a "flagrant aggression". The attack has dealt a further blow to an already shaky ceasefire deal, which was agreed by the US and Russia on Monday. The terms of the deal include a nationwide ceasefire between the armed opposition and the Syrian government, but not jihadist groups. It will be renewed every 48 hours if it holds.

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Input: We have doubted this wisdom in the past and paid dearly for it. Take the case of South Korea. In January 1950, the United States appeared to write off defense of South Korea in Dean Acheson’s infamous “perimeter speech,” North Korea attacked that summer, and over the next three years, 36,516 Americans lost their lives reversing that attack and drawing a line for freedom on the Korean Peninsula. At a time when North Korea is conducting wargames for nuclear attacks on Washington and the Islamic State is planning terrorist attacks on the homeland, does it make sense for us to publicly throw into doubt our entire system of alliances and forward bases? Yes, America’s allies must do more to invest in their own defense.

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Input: Mr. Putin played upon Mr. Trump’s vulnerabilities by complimenting him. He responded just as Mr. Putin had calculated. Mr. Putin is a great leader, Mr. Trump says, ignoring that he has killed and jailed journalists and political opponents, has invaded two of his neighbors and is driving his economy to ruin. Mr. Trump has also taken policy positions consistent with Russian, not American, interests — endorsing Russian espionage against the United States, supporting Russia’s annexation of Crimea and giving a green light to a possible Russian invasion of the Baltic States. In the intelligence business, we would say that Mr. Putin had recruited Mr. Trump as an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation.

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Input: My friend Jonathan Weisman at the New York Times wrote last month about the “anti-Semitic hate, much of it from self-identified Donald J. Trump supporters,” he has received. “[Twitter user] Trump God Emperor sent me the Nazi iconography of the shiftless, hook-nosed Jew. I was served an image of the gates of Auschwitz, the famous words ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’ replaced without irony with ‘Machen Amerika Great.’ Holocaust taunts, like a path of dollar bills leading into an oven, were followed by Holocaust denial. The Jew as leftist puppet master from @DonaldTrumpLA was joined by the Jew as conservative fifth columnist, orchestrating war for Israel.” Bethany Mandel, a conservative who is Jewish, wrote that her “anti-Trump tweets have been met with such terrifying and profound anti-Semitism that I bought a gun earlier this month.”

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Input: It was no surprise to find out that O’Brien was a Clinton Foundation donor. O’Brien gave between $ 5 to $ 10 million to the Clinton Foundation. In October 2010, two months before Digicel was awarded the money for helping Haiti, the company sponsored an event in Jamaica where Bill Clinton got paid $ 225,000 to give a speech. Another person who profited from Haiti’s earthquake was Hillary Clinton’s younger brother Tony Rodham. In October 2013, he joined the board of VCS Mining.

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Input: These are the questions which should be answered by FSB decree, it’s internal documents and practice. The one organization that did provide comment on this situation struck a defiant tone. Tor, the American-based and funded anonymity network, is decentralized around the globe. “We encourage people to try anonymous, decentralized services based on Tor, like OnionShare to share files, or Ricochet for instant messaging,” Tor representative Kate Krauss told the Daily Dot after the law was passed.

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Input: The commission says that has not worked and that the casualties of that approach have been huge. The decision of the Calderón government in Mexico in 2006 to use the military in civilian areas to fight drug traffickers “ushered in an epidemic of violence in many parts of the country that also spilled into Central America”, says the report. “The increase in homicides in Mexico since 2006 is virtually unprecedented in a country not formally at war. It was so great in some parts of the country that it contributed to a reduction in the country’s projected life expectancy.” Prohibitionist drug policies have had serious adverse consequences in the US, too.

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Input: "The dominance by Senate Republicans could provide the roadmap for GOP strategists in other races, particularly future presidential campaigns,” Paul Kane explains. “They could also mean the overall weakening of the conservative movement’s ability to raise money and pressure senators to vote their way for fear they will draw a strong primary threat ... ' The culture of primaries within the Senate GOP campaign apparatus is where the entire party needs to go, ' said Josh Holmes, McConnell’s 2014 campaign manager whose firm, Cavalry, worked for McCain and several Republican incumbents. ' If your job is to win elections you do n’t just throw up your hands and say, gosh, I sure hope voters do n’t pick the guy who ca n’t possibly win. '" -- Republicans have had much less success at getting the candidates they want on the House side. The latest example is in an Arizona House district, where a right-wing sheriff tarnished by scandal won the primary in what would otherwise have been a pickup.

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Input: “We can not have a separate future,” he declared when president Vladimir Putin visited in 2012. Atambayev has been an assiduous courtier, extending Russia’s lease on its own military base outside Bishkek, before enthusiastically copying anti-western legislation in the Kremlin’s legal arsenal. First came a virtual clone of Moscow’s offensive on NGOs, with legislation demanding all groups receiving external funding declare themselves as “foreign agents”, targeted at human rights groups, including those advocating for the LGBT community. Then, in March 2014, MPs from the ruling coalition announced the “anti-gay propaganda” measures, with even harsher penalties on paper than the Russian version. They were necessary to “protect the rights of the majority rather than of the minority,” said one of the co-sponsors, Talantbek Uzakbaev, a member of the pro-Russian Dignity party.

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Input: The quota systems applied to all occupations. After the Emancipation Edict In 1822, Germany was the only country in Europe which did not place restrictions on Talmudists under a quota system limiting their civil rights. Talmudists throughout the world were informed by cable from London about the October 1916 London Agreement. That information transformed them from pro-German to pro-British. Great Britain placed at the disposal of Talmudists in London their secret codes and worldwide cable facilities to inform Talmudists throughout the world about Great Britain's pledge to turn over Palestine to them as compensation for railroading the United States into the war in Europe as Great Britain s ally in their war against Germany.

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Input: In July, two Russian airmen were killed in the central Homs province when their Mi-25 helicopter was shot down by what the defence ministry said were Isis fighters. Isis also claimed to have shot down a Syrian military jet near Damascus and another Syrian Air Force plane near the city of Deir Ezzor. It was one of several attacks on Syrian jets claimed by Isis, including an attack in July where they later hung a pilot's corpse on display in the streets.

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Input: According to the report, Shoigu said during a Defense Ministry board meeting that an investigative team from the Russian Pacific Fleet will be dispatched next month for a three-month mission to determine the feasibility of building a base somewhere on the islands. Shoigu also announced Friday that Bal and Bastion shore-to-ship missiles and Eleron-3 drones will be deployed on the islands before the end of this year, TASS said. The row over four Russian-held islands claimed by Japan has prevented the two countries from signing a peace treaty following World War II. The islands — Etorofu, Kunashiri, Shikotan and the Habomai group of islets — were seized by the Soviet Union following Japan’s surrender in August 1945. The islands are called the Northern Territories in Japan and the Southern Kurils in Russia.

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Input: For now, Governor McCrory has given no indication that he or his colleagues in Raleigh will ever ditch their new law. But he faces re-election this year and political circumstances can change quickly. The boycotting of his state is not of the order of United Nations sanctions. But combine the power of the state’s dismayed moderates and liberals with an increasingly alarmed business community and suddenly you will have a force that will be hard to resist. And then the HB2 law – whether you consider it a mere aberration from the national trend towards greater tolerance or the last twitching of a body opposition that is already dead – will be consigned to history.

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Input: They then fired shells at the crowd that had gathered in the town centre to receive the aid, killing two people and wounding five civilians, the Southern Front, an opposition coalition that controls the town, said in a statement. “Communities in Darayya are in need of everything, and it’s tragic that even the basics we were bringing today are being delayed unnecessarily. We must be able to provide aid impartially and safely,” said Marianne Gasser, head of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Syria (ICRC). “There must be minimum conditions for independent humanitarian action in Syria. Today those conditions were not met.

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Input: This is my read of our moment in a single sentence. The expansion phase is over, as the Russians, Chinese and others are in the process of telling us. The aggressions are not, surely, but it grows more difficult to aggress, and when we do it is defensive in character now, if this is not too much a paradox. It is all about denying where we are in history, and this is mostly what we hear and see when we consider our words as actions. *

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Input: It comes after widespread sex attacks on New Year's Eve in Cologne, Germany, shocked Europe. Anti-immigration politicians throughout Europe have used the attacks to justify opposing mass immigration. Poland is one of four central and eastern European countries to oppose a quota system for distributing asylum seekers among member states. Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic-known as the Visegrad Group-on Monday discussed helping Macedonia close its border with Greece, to prevent refugees travelling through the Balkans into Europe. The edition is dedicated to reporting "what the media and Brussels elite are hiding from the citizens of the European Union".

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Input: Therefore the recent statement by Julian Assange, head of Wikileaks, that his organization plans to release more of Clinton’s emails should not be dismissed out of hand. Although Assange is prone to flights of fancy, Wikileaks has long served as a front for Russian intelligence, as Western security services are well aware, so it may not be fantasy that he could get his hands on more of Hillary’s emails. It would be supremely ironic if the Kremlin demolishes Hillary Clinton’s presidential aspirations thanks to her own neglect of basic communications security when she was secretary of state. John Schindler is a security expert and former National Security Agency analyst and counterintelligence officer. A specialist in espionage and terrorism, he’s also been a Navy officer and a War College professor.

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Input: A Sputnik News report says that Russian TU-22M3 long-range Backfire bomber aircraft will now be armed with the new Russian Kh-32 cruise missile. The capabilities of this missile are astounding: it can fly at speeds of up to 600 mph to an altitude of almost 25 miles, and when it reaches the proximity of its target, fly downward at a speed of almost 3,000 mph with a total range of almost 600 miles. We already know that the Russians have been constructing bunkers for their citizens numbering in the thousands since at least 2012 in and around Moscow and throughout Russia. In addition to this, on August 27th All News Pipeline’s Stefan Stanford reported that some disturbing actions may be occurring at Russia’s “Doomsday Bunker” located beneath Yamantau Mountain in Russia. Here is a brief excerpt:

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Input: The Lebanese militant group has started ' locking on ' to Israeli jets using advanced radars Amid ongoing tension on Israel's northern borders, a new threat has emerged for Israeli fighter pilots conducting spying missions in Lebanon, Walla reports. Using radar technology it has acquired since Russia's entry into the Syrian civil war, Hezbollah has started using sophisticated radars to "lock on" to Israeli spy jets on reconnaissance flights over their northern neighbor. The new technology can identify all Israeli fighter jets, according to sources within Israel's security establishment. By locking on to the jets as targets, Walla says, Hezbollah can then fire missiles at them.

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

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Input: The program showed an anonymous blogger complaining about social media users who voiced their support for Ukrainian troops and were "ready to back a coup in Russia and take up arms and kill people as the Nazis did." The television report claimed that the blogger's complaint had prompted the prosecution of the electrician. On May 6, Bubeyev was convicted and sentenced to two years and three months in prison. Also this month, a court in the Caspian Sea city of Astrakhan sentenced a man to two years in prison for his social media posts urging Ukrainians to fight "Putin's occupying forces." In December, a court in Siberia sentenced a man to five years in prison for "inciting hatred" toward residents of eastern Ukraine in his video posts.

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Input: It was remarkable that she was able to do this, considering that she had had nothing to eat or drink in five days. Savchenko is a Ukrainian military pilot accused by Russia of having directed artillery fire that killed two Russian state-television journalists at the positions of pro-Russia forces in eastern Ukraine, in June, 2014. She has been detained by Russia for twenty months, and in that time she has become an icon. She has since been elected to the Ukrainian parliament — and has also been made a permanent member of the Ukrainian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. In the two years since it invaded Ukraine, Russia has never admitted that it is fighting a war there.

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having directed artillery fire that killed two Russian state-television journalists at the positions of pro-Russia forces in eastern Ukraine, in June, 2014


Input: (Stephen M. Dowell / AP) ORLANDO FALLOUT: -- The owner of a Florida gun store said his employees called the FBI after Omar Mateen attempted to purchase body armor and ammunition: Gun store co-owner Robbie Abell said his workers had a “gut feeling” about Mateen when he came to the store four or five weeks ago. Mateen reportedly asked for level 3 body armor but was told the store did not carry it, Abell said. He then made a phone call and spoke in Arabic before asking for bulk ammunition, but employees “did not sell it to him.” Abell said they contacted the FBI directly.

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Input: The more racial bias you harbored, the less likely you were to vote for Mitt Romney or John McCain. With Trump, the opposite was the case. The more a person saw black people as lazy and undeserving, the more likely they were to vote for the self-proclaimed billionaire. (Javier Zarracina) Tesler found similar effects on measures of anti-Hispanic and anti-Muslim prejudice.

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Input: Second-generation radicalization of Muslim immigrants is a problem, both in the US and in many European countries. A federal court in Minneapolis is currently hearing the case of three Somali-American teenagers accused of having become radicalized by ISIS. Many other young men (some of whom immigrated at a young age themselves, others of whom are second-generation Americans) have been brought up on similar charges. The question of how to prevent second-generation Americans (or Belgians, or Brits) from becoming radicalized is a tough one. It’s something that many people — specifically, Muslim community leaders — in both the US and Europe are working on.

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Input: And so, in retrospect, maybe some people are saying, well, among those 300 people, they made the wrong call. At the time, there was no reason in my view to doubt the professionalism and the determination by the people who work every single day on behalf of our country. WALLACE: Let's talk about the Clinton Foundation and allegations of pay-to-play, the argument, the allegation that foreign companies and foreign countries either donated big money to the foundation, or paid your husband for big money for speeches in order to influence your work as secretary of state. In the first 12 years after he left the White House, President Clinton made 13 speeches for which he got $ 500,000 or more. Eleven of those 13 were while you were secretary of state, and they were all paid for by foreign interests.

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Input: Biden "expressed sorrow at the tragic loss of American life." Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld tweeted that the attacker, a Palestinian from the West Bank, was fatally shot by police. 1 person murdered in Jaffa stabbing attack. 10 people taken to hospital being treated. Knife used by attacker found.

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Input: Instead of deterrence by punishment, the US should implement a policy of deterrence by denial. The goal is to deny adversaries the outcomes they seek -- in this case, by rendering cyber election hacks insignificant to our democratic process. The strategy starts by building better defenses, including legislating minimum cyber security standards for party, PAC, and campaign-related websites for presidential elections. That would include paper audit trails in every state, starting with large battlegrounds, so that our election process can be resilient even if attacked. Building resilience also requires changing minds, not just systems.

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Input: After that intervention in 2009, donations by UBS to the Clinton Foundation increased from less than $ 60,000 to a total of $ 600,000 by the end of 2014, according to the Journal’s report. Additionally, the bank lent $ 32 million to the foundation to jump-start its entrepreneurship and inner-city loan program, and Bill Clinton received $ 1.5 million to do question-and-answer sessions with UBS Wealth Management Chief Executive Bob McCann. However, the Journal’s report acknowledges that there is “no evidence of any link between Mrs. Clinton’s involvement in the case and the bank’s donations to the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, or its hiring of Mr. Clinton,” while characterizing it as a “prime example of how the Clintons’ private and political activities overlap.” “Any suggestion that she was driven by anything but what’s in America’s best interest would be false. Period,” a Clinton campaign spokesman told the Journal at the time.

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Input: Putin has been accused of poisoning Hillary (Photo by Sean Gallup / Getty Images) Trump has, in the past, expressed admiration for the Russian president – and his links to the Kremlin have been well documented. US student dies after he is released from North Korea with brain damage And while Omalu’s warning sounds a little far-fetched – and was treated with more than a bit of scepticism in the replies – Putin has been accused of having his adversaries poisoned in the past. Most prominently, an inquiry in January implicated Putin in the death of Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB operative who died in London in 2006.

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Input: “The Sharia Court accused Muhammad of apostasy for refusing to join prayers at the mosque,” a media activist told ARA News in al-Bab, speaking on condition of anonymity. “A Sharia judge decided to execute and crucify the man in public, claiming he was an apostate who refused to perform Sharia duties and violated the basic laws of the Caliphate,” the source reported. Muhammad was executed by gunfire, and his corpse was crucified on an electricity pole in central al-Bab. “The victims’ body will remain crucified for three days, and ISIS threatened people that anyone who would try to remove him will be mercilessly punished,” rights activist Ahmed al-Beik told ARA News, adding that hundreds of al-Bab residents gathered on Thursday afternoon to witness the execution. Reporting by: Chalak Haji

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Input: The units are no longer used, but astronauts now wear a similar backpack device in case of emergency. Hide Caption 18 of 21 Photos: Famous firsts in space Jan Davis and Mark Lee were the first couple to go into space together when the husband and wife were astronauts on the space shuttle Endeavour in 1992. Hide Caption 19 of 21 Photos: Famous firsts in space The private company SpaceX sent an unmanned capsule with supplies to the International Space Station on October 7, 2012. It was the first commercial space mission and the first of a dozen commercial cargo flights under a contract with NASA. Hide Caption 20 of 21 Photos: Famous firsts in space New close-up images of a region near Pluto's equator were released by NASA on Wednesday, July 15.

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Input: “Nobody is starving yet, but incomes are definitely down,” he said, noting that homes are colder, that neighbors turn on just two lamps after dark where they once used five and that people have stopped buying new clothes. Retail sales across Russia were down by 13.1 percent for the year ending in November, according to official statistics, with car sales off nearly 40 percent. The 100 or so workers at the giant Seydin Machine Tool Factory, once the pride of the city during the Soviet era, have not seen a paycheck for a year and recently received layoff notices. They, too, have on occasion gathered in the main square to demand their back pay. The workers “have to take to the streets!” they wrote in an open letter to Mr. Putin.

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Input: She reportedly warned President Obama against allowing America to "be left behind" by not joining the foolish war parade in North Africa in early 2011. She responded to Moammar Qaddafy's death with a joke, but the war left another failed state, host to Islamic State killers and convulsed by civil war. Her insistence on the ouster of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad discouraged a negotiated settlement, but the administration provided his opponents with no practical means to oust him. Clinton advocated lethal aid to rebels, who displayed a dismaying tendency to surrender and turn weapons over to radical groups, including ISIS. She later urged direct U.S. military intervention in the form of a "no-fly" zone.

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Input: Raised by their mother's relatives, the younger Simpsons rarely speak about their father … and have managed to lead remarkably normal lives. Sydney Simpson graduated from Boston University in 2010 with a degree in sociology. In 2014, she bought a St. Petersburg duplex for $ 84,000 under the name of a limited liability company. [And] her brother is here, too. ‘It's a great place to live, why not St.

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Input: Lock her up!” “And she’s being totally protected by The New York Times and The Washington Post and all of the media and CNN — Clinton News Network, which nobody is watching anyways so what difference does it make,” Trump said. Trump accused Clinton of “lies and lies” “How many people have acid-washed or bleached a tweet?” Trump asked the crowd. “How many?

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Input: Every American voter knows these things, and so does Hillary Clinton, which is why her campaign focuses so precisely on everything but the issues that actually concern the majority of American voters today. That’s what lends a savage irony to Madeleine Albright’s brittle demand that American women support Clinton even though, for all practical purposes, she’s offering them very little more than they got from George W. Bush. Albright’s is the classic voice of a senile plutocracy on its way down, demanding a loyalty from others that it has done precisely nothing to earn. I suspect we’ll see plenty of the same sort of irony as the current election season lurches toward its end. No doubt Clinton and her flacks will keep on trying to reintroduce her to voters who already know her quite well enough, thank you; no doubt we’ll hear all sorts of encomiums about what a nice person she is — as though that matters one jot to people who know that four more years of the policies she supports may well land them out of a job and out on the street.

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Input: French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, speaking through an interpreter as he and Kerry spoke to reporters before they met at the State Department in Washington said:" Tomorrow, will be a moment of truth-a moment of truth for all the members of the Security Council. Do you, yes or no, want a ceasefire in Aleppo? And the question is in particular for our Russian partners." Russia is expected to use its power of veto.

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Input: Cubans struggle every day to meet their basic needs, and Cuban President Raúl Castro’s incremental economic reforms to the communist system have n’t changed their lives quickly enough. Many want Obama to do more to lift the U.S. embargo on Cuba, hoping such a move will supercharge the transformation. Not far from the ramshackle mechanic shop where Hernandez spoke, a young mother staged an extraordinary protest that would have been unthinkable only a few years ago. The home she’d lived in her whole life was falling apart, but she never had the money to pay for its upkeep, and she said local officials would n’t help her. The rains in June were too much: Her ceiling collapsed.

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Input: The Iran deal was "disastrous," he said in the speech, but only because the Obama administration doesn't know how to negotiate: In negotiation, you must be willing to walk. The Iran deal, like so many of our worst agreements, is the result of not being willing to leave the table. When the other side knows you're not going to walk, it becomes absolutely impossible to win. Note that any facts about Iran itself are actively irrelevant to this analysis — little things like its political system or strategic situation just don't figure in Trump's critique.

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Input: And not in nearly as many circumstances as she obviously believes. Still, Clinton appears to recognize that war-mongering is a vote loser. So she recently proclaimed:" we must only send our troops into harm's way as a last resort, not a first choice. That must be our bedrock principle." Yet she never has followed that principle in deciding what positions to take.

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Input: MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Philippine police van rammed into protesters, leaving several bloodied, as an anti-U.S. rally turned violent Wednesday at the American Embassy in Manila. The van's driver, police officer Franklin Kho, told reporters he did not deliberately hit the protesters but was trying to drive away from them because they were hitting the vehicle with wooden clubs and he feared they would commandeer it and use it to attack other policemen." They were already trying to seize the vehicle," Kho told reporters. Associated Press TV footage showed the van repeatedly ramming the protesters as it drove wildly back and forth after activists surrounded and started hitting it with the wooden batons they seized from police.

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Input: “Mike Pence Ditches Donald Trump, Starts His 2020 Run at VP Debate,” The Daily Beast declared in its post-debate analysis. What changed? Pence turned in a steady and even-tempered performance — though notably one riddled with false and misleading statements — at the vice-presidential debate. Compared to Trump’s brash and blunt tone, Pence came across as polite and soft-spoken. When asked to answer for Trump’s insults, Pence acted as though they had never happened.

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Input: Apologies." Martin has not responded to requests for comment from CNNMoney Wednesday. In a telephone interview with CNNMoney on Tuesday, Brazile said she was choosing not to view any of the emails stolen by Wikileaks." This is exactly what the Russians intended to do. And they're doing it," she said.

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Input: -- CAN HE REBOUND? Trump today plans to contrast how he and the Clintons amassed their fortunes. From Philip Rucker: “In Colorado, Trump plans to argue that he built a global real estate empire and employed thousands of people, while the Clintons got rich delivering paid speeches to financial institutions and other corporate interests. ... ' We’re going to shine the spotlight very brightly on how the Clintons made their money, ' adviser Jason Miller said. ' They were so broke when they left the White House that they could n’t pay either of their mortgages … yet they’re [now] worth a couple hundred million dollars. '"

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Input: These close encounters of a military kind between the US and its allies and Russia have escalated significantly over the past two years, ever since Russia's annexation of Crimea and the substantial break down of relations between East and West. They take various forms. They can be violations of national airspace; narrowly avoided mid-air collisions, close encounters at sea and simulated attack runs. The incidents have taken place over a wide area-in and around the Baltic states; in the Baltic sea; the Black Sea and even close to Stockholm, when the Swedish authorities believed a Russian submarine had violated its territorial waters in 2014. They are regarded by defence analysts as a flexing of muscle-a reminder that Russia has military might and can not be pushed around.

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Input: Trump escalates claim that Obama founded ISIL And he gives Clinton credit for being the terrorist group's co-founder. Donald Trump on Thursday escalated his attack on President Barack Obama, doubling down on his accusation that he’s a founder of the Islamic State and claiming that both Obama and Hillary Clinton remain the terrorist group’s most valuable players. The inflammatory accusation comes as Trump has set off another round of hand-wringing within the Republican Party, returning to his freewheeling ways after the GOP convention with overtures for Russia to hack Clinton’s emails, attacks on the Muslim-American family of a fallen war hero, and a suggestion that “Second Amendment people” are the only ones who can stop Clinton. Story Continued Below On Thursday, Trump showed no signs of backing down or reining it in.

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Input: IS is also allowing Fallujah residents to pay $ 500 for the release of a detainee, the family in Fallujah told the AP, saying that they believed the new policy was put in place to help the group raise money — a system akin to bail. Mosul residents contacted by AP say IS has begun fining citizens who do not adhere to its strict dress code, rather than flogging them as before. The residents say they believe this is in response to financial problems in part because the group has already confiscated anything valuable, namely cars and other goods that are later resold in Syria. American officials have said fighters are more constricted in their movements and spending than they have been in months. But the group still controls a vast amount of territory, and they say the Syrian government has made few gains against the extremists themselves.

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Input: Photo: DPA Turkey on Monday strongly warned the German parliament against adopting a resolution recognising the mass killings of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire as genocide, saying it could have repercussions for bilateral ties. The German lower house of parliament is set to vote on Thursday on the resolution over the two years of slaughter from 1915, which carries the contested word "genocide" throughout the text." Germany is our friend and our ally where many citizens of Turkish origin live," said deputy prime minister and government spokesman Numan Kurtulmus." Germany must be careful concerning its relations with Turkey."

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Input: But when the Podesta emails reveal ongoing, systemic, baked-in wrong-doing on the part of anointed political favourites, the bogeyman of “Russian state-sponsored hackers” is trotted out, hell-bent on throwing the election and Obama (as per the aforementioned quote) starts talking about “folks needing some kinda Ministry of Truthiness”. As I also covered yesterday, Glenn Greenwald exhaustively back-traced where the ‘Russia-hacked-the-election’ meme came from and that it was pure spin. The original author who set the entire farce in motion later admitted it was all a mistake, and in his own ‘Mea Culpa’ revealed that according to the subtext of extensive emails from a Newsweek reporter pressuring him to allow the lie to live, it was US intelligence agencies pushing to spread this narrative. (NSA whistleblower William Binney said the hack itself was the act of a disgruntled employee within a US intelligence agency). The “17 agencies that actually confirmed” it was the Russians?

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Input: Former Palestinian peace negotiator Nabil Shaath said in an interview that he often asks Westerners whether Arabs have to “hijack your planes and destroy your airports again” to make the world take notice of the Palestinian cause. In a February 1 interview with the Palestinian Authority’s Awdha TV, translated on Sunday by MEMRI, Shaath slammed American efforts at Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking. Asked about a French proposal for an international peace conference, Shaath replied, “Well, anything is better than American control of the negotiations.

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Input: — Jessica Taylor] Already, hundreds of recent immigrants and their children have been convicted of terrorist activity inside the United States. [A 2015 Migration Policy Institute study found that just three resettled refugees had been arrested on terrorism charges, though this depends on the definition of "refugee" — for example, it did not count the Tsarnaev brothers of the Boston Marathon bombing because they had been brought to the U.S. as kids after their parents had been granted asylum. Politifact found that "about 140 migrants have been charged with or are credibly believed to have been involved in jihadist extremist activity in the United States since the World Trade Center attacks. Some number more  — up to a maximum of 184 additional individuals — are children of immigrants."

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Input: Earlier in the day, he and his team played football as the plane waited on the tarmac (click to watch): Pence plane grounded for an hour, so @mike_pence and his team are playing football pic.twitter.com/EAw0dEFfoI — Ines de La Cuetara (@InesdLC) October 27, 2016 The man who smashed Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame discussed Trump with the press: Justin Timberlake spoke about his voting booth selfie with Jimmy Fallon: Seth Meyers took a closer look at Trump's ObamaCare fail:

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Input: While secretary of state, Mrs. Clinton asked Russia's state-owned airline Rosavia to buy Boeing planes Boeing won the multibillion-dollar contract, and then made a $ 900,000 donation to a Clinton Foundation program rebuilding schools in Haiti A conservative activist challenged Boeing's CEO during a shareholder meeting, saying the move could open the company to prosecution The apparent conflict-of-interest is a black eye for Mrs. Clinton as she prepares to enter the 2016 presidential race During a Boeing shareholder meeting on Monday, a conservative activist accused the aircraft company's CEO of buying then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's ' commercial advocacy ' in Russia by making a $ 900,000 donation to the Clinton Foundation.

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Input: Reports of their response has sparked outrage in Belgium. Ostend Mayor Johan Vande Lanotte saying the migrants must be thrown out of the country when they have served their sentences. Theo Francken, Belgium's minister for asylum and immigration, added: ' Rapists won't be given asylum. They will be sent back to Iraq if they are found guilty. ' Police discovered the footage after the student from Ostend Technical Institute was reported for showing his friends a photo of himself wearing military garb and holding a sub-machine gun.

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Input: Russia is renowned for it’s open hostility to LGBT people. According to Human Rights Watch, Russia’s anti-gay propaganda law, passed in 2013, “openly discriminates against LGBT people, legitimizes anti-LGBT violence, and seeks to erase LGBT people from the country’s public life.” United Arab Emirates donated up to $ 11.5 million to the Clintons The tiny Arab nation was ripped by Hillary Clinton’s State Department for its many human rights abuses, including the government’s interference “with privacy and to restrict civil liberties, including usage of the Internet.” Despite reports of public floggings and a ban on “all sexual acts outside of heterosexual marriage,” the Clinton Foundation still accepted millions from the UAB. The Nation of Brunei donated $ 1,000,000 to $ 5,000,000 to the Clintons

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Input: Dmitry Gudkov, the lone liberal opposition deputy in Russia’s parliament, argued that if Russia had exchanged Savchenko earlier, Alexandrov’s Ukrainian defence lawyer, Yury Grabovsky, might not have been murdered near Kiev in March. “We would n’t have embarrassed ourselves before the whole world with the ‘trial’ of a deputy of the Rada and Pace. There would n’t have been another split in society over an artificial propaganda story,” Gudkov wrote on Facebook, referring to the fact that Savchenko was elected to the Ukrainian parliament and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe during her imprisonment. “It’s a good thing both sides had enough political will for the exchange. People should n’t be hostages,” the opposition Parnas party member Andrei Pivovarov wrote on Twitter.

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Input: “The ban of religiously motivated coverings in public is proportionate and violates neither freedom of religion nor expression. It does not constitute discrimination.” The proposed law would see paragraphs written into Switzerland’s federal constitution against the “concealing of one’s face” in public places, other than religious sites, with exceptions for health and safety, the climate and unspecified local customs. The issue could now be decided by the Swiss Council of States or by a public vote, if supporters gain the 100,000 signatures needed to trigger a referendum. Even if the petition succeeds and the public gave a “yes” vote, the proposals would still need to be made into law through approval in parliament.

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Input: “What a staff makes out of the available evidence depends upon the degree of optimism or pessimism prevailing among them, on what they want to believe or fear to believe.” The back and forth between Russia and the West grows in intensity as time goes on. The United States is threatening retaliation for “alleged” Russian cyber attacks. The United States government had better produce the evidence before taking any retaliatory actions otherwise it risks further embarrassment on the world diplomatic stage at the hands of the Russians, which can only bolster the Russian position at the expense of the United States international diplomacy. Escalation of minor incidents, diversion from other issues, and miscalculations of expected responses are some of the causes of the greatest conflicts in history.

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Input: MOSCOW (Sputnik) — A territorial dispute over the Kuril Islands has prevented Russia and Japan from signing a peace treaty after World War II behind Tokyo's claims to Kunashiri, Etorofu, Shikotan islands and the Habomai group of islets dividing the Sea of Okhotsk from the Pacific Ocean. Moscow maintains that the 1951 San Francisco Peace Treaty transferring control of the islands to the Soviet Union stipulates Russian sovereignty over the Kurils, which Tokyo classifies as its northern territories. “We are n’t doing this and we wo n’t do this, we wo n’t give the Kuril Islands and we wo n’t beg Japan for a peace agreement,” Lavrov said during a live linkup on kp.ru. After a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier in May, Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said that he suggested a new approach to Kuril Islands ' dispute.

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Input: As many as 50 senior officers including a Vice Admiral have been purged by Vladimir Putin amid reports they refused to confront Western ships. Getty Images 3 Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during celebrations for Navy Day in the Kaliningrad region in 2015. He has reportedly carried out a Stalin-style purge by sacking every commander in his Baltic fleet Other Russian news sites also speculated that attempts to cover up a crash between a Russian sub and a Polish boat may have been behind the bloodletting. But given the endemic nature of corruption and incompetence across the Russian military, Western analysts are scratching their heads as to the real reason behind the purge.

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Input: Or you could ask to meet with Secretary Clinton, but unless you had legitimate State Department business to discuss with her, you would n’t get in. That’s the pay-for-play scandal. [1] The example that sticks in everybody’s mind is the one involving Russian interests buying Canadian uranium mines. For complicated reasons, the U.S. State Department had to sign off on that deal, along with nine other government agencies that were n’t under Clinton’s control. People interested in the sale donated large sums to the Clinton Foundation — mostly well before the sale was negotiated — and the sale went through.

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Russian interests


Input: You’ve got one minute left. Are you confident, Mike Pence? MP: I am absolutely confident that Donald Trump will appoint Supreme Court justices in the tradition of the late and great Justice Antonin Scalia. And we were together at a public event the other day, and I’ll just say he made a point at a town hall meeting to say that I would be involved in that publicly. But we have talked extensively about that.

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Input: She is open to the world; Trump is not. Trump believes in only himself. As Khizr Kahn, the Muslim father of a slain U.S. Army captain noted at the Democratic Convention: Trump has “sacrificed nothing.” And if we ever see the contents of Trump’s tax returns, I believe they will demonstrate that he is not as rich as he says he is, has given only a pittance to charity and has played the IRS like an aria. The media should consider boycotting Trump events until he releases his tax returns, like every modern candidate for the presidency.

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Input: None will perform combat missions. President Obama has been very clear that American combat troops are not going to be fighting in Iraq again.” That August, when Obama announced plans to start carrying out targeted airstrikes against ISIS positions in Iraq, he emphasized that “as commander-in-chief, I will not allow the United States to be dragged into fighting another war in Iraq.” “And so even as we support Iraqis as they take the fight to these terrorists, American combat troops will not be returning to fight in Iraq, because there’s no American military solution to the larger crisis in Iraq,” he said. When in September he announced the launch of a coalition against ISIS, coupled with an additional U.S. troop deployment, Obama again stressed U.S. combat troops would not be “fighting on foreign soil.”

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Input: We call upon DPRK to refrain from such actions which adversely impact on peace and stability in the region. Our concerns about proliferation links between North East Asia and our neighbourhood are well-known." European Union Commission Vice President Federica Mogherini says:" If confirmed, this action would represent a grave violation of the DPRK's international obligations not to produce or test nuclear weapons, as determined by several United Nations Security Council Resolutions, and a threat to the peace and security of the entire North East Asia region." As NPR's Elise Hu reported for the Two-Way Tuesday night:

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Input: According to congressional disclosures signed by Burt and another member of the firm, the lobbying work consists of “monitoring and supplementing Washington discussion of EU energy security.” Initially, when asked about his input on the Trump campaign, Burt said it was limited to input on the April speech. But in August, he told a POLITICO reporter that he had advised Sessions and sent him white papers: “I’ve sent him some papers and given him some ideas and sent him some people. I wo n’t name them but they’re Washington types,” Burt told POLITICO in August. This week, Burt acknowledged, “I did write a one-pager on national security organization but it was for a think tank.

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Input: Who lied about a plan to debate Bernie Sanders for charity. Who lied about thousands of Syrian refugee terrorists being secretly admitted to this country; who lied about the Chicago police urging him to cancel a rally; who lied about the Chicago police saying they could solve crime there with "tough police tactics"; who lied about how there was no drought in California, how he never said Japan should have nuclear weapons, how he opposed the ouster of Egyptian president Mubarak, how the unemployment rate is 42 percent. Who lied about ISIS making millions a week selling Libyan oil; who lied about dozens of secret terrorist cases in this country; who lied that a protester who tried to rush onto his stage had "ties to ISIS"; who lied last May and again last week about refugees entering this country carrying cell phones with "ISIS flags on them" and phone plans pre-paid by ISIS! Can you hear me now? The Republican Party has actually nominated for president a man who congratulated himself in two tweets and a press release for predicting terrorist attacks like Orlando, while bodies still lay in the Pulse nightclub …

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Input: The poll was conducted Aug. 19–22 and surveyed 1,200 likely voters. The margin of error is 2.7 percentage points. In the Florida Senate race, Republican Sen. Marco Rubio Marco RubioOvernight Finance: Ryan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax reform | Warren targets Wells Fargo board | Senators raise concerns over Russian takeover of Citgo | Pelosi hits GOP for budget delays Senators ask administration to probe possible Russian takeover of Citgo Week ahead: Obama DHS chief to testify on Russian meddling MORE is leading his likely Democratic opponent, Rep. Patrick Murphy, by 5 points, 44 percent to 39 percent. Both candidates are leading in their respective primaries, which will be held next Tuesday. The race for a crucial Senate seat could be pivotal in determining which party gains control of the upper chamber next year.

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Russian meddling


Input: Story Continued Below Josh Schwerin, a Hillary Clinton campaign spokesman, called the letter “another baseless political attack from House Republicans who just spent two years and $ 7 million of taxpayer money on the sham Benghazi Committee and are now just regurgitating the debunked claims from the widely discredited book Clinton Cash." Former President Bill Clinton was paid $ 16.5 million to serve as honorary chancellor of Laureate International Universities, and Laureate has donated money to the Clinton Foundation, the letter says. In addition, it says that the International Youth Foundation, an organization focused on training and educating young people for the workforce, is “run by” Laureate founder Douglas Becker, and received over $ 55 million in USAID grants from 2010 to 2012. Given that USAID operates under “substantial guidance” from the Secretary of State, the letter states, it creates an appearance that millions in taxpayers dollars was channeled to the International Youth Foundation by Secretary Clinton’s State Department “as a kickback for her husband’s generous contract as an honorary Laureate chancellor.”

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Input: Vladimir Putin and the Russian state are being sued by families of those who died on Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 when it was shot down over Ukraine. Australian law firm LHD Lawyers co-associate Jerry Skinner, who also represented the Lockerbie bombing families, has filed a compensation claim in the European Court of Human Rights. The legal action seeks $ 10 m (£ 7 m) in compensation per passenger, Australian media reported.

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Input: Full stop. Period.” We urge you to abide by that promise, and let the chips fall where they may. Full stop. Period.

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Input: © Sputnik/ Sergey Malgavko Crimea Switches Away From Ukrainian Power Supply After Blackout In mid-December, Ukraine's cabinet of ministers approved a total ban on trade with Crimea, excepting a small category of ' socially significant products '. Ukrainian authorities then joined the Washington and Brussels-inspired sanctions against Russia, prompting Moscow to respond with a ban on the import of Ukrainian food products for six months. Kiev responded with an embargo against Russian food. Effectively, Kiev's measures against Crimea specifically and against Russia more broadly have transferred responsibility for the so-called ' food blockade ' of the peninsula (which affected Ukrainian farmers much harder than it had Crimeans) from the activists to the government.

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Input: He said he's hoping that independents in his district, 34 percent of the population, will register to vote for him in the Republican primary in June. Though he supports Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) for the Republican presidential nomination, Beinstein says real estate developer Donald Trump has "come closest to calling out what [the Saudis] have done." Trump has threatened to cut off U.S. purchases of oil from the Saudis until they pledge ground troops to battle ISIS militants and pay for U.S. military protection. He has also endorsed the idea that the Saudis are behind 9/11, aware that war-weary Americans are still questioning why Iraq was a target after the attacks. Questions over U.S.-Saudi relations have gained steam in recent months, in part because of voters ' and lawmakers ' perception that the kingdom wants the U.S. to be more involved in the Middle East -- notably in Yemen, but also in Syria -- than most Americans would like to be.

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Input: ' They took his life for literally no reason. ' So far, police have uncovered no clues to help solve his July 10 murder. A police report seen by Daily Mail Online also states the circumstances surrounding Rich's homicide are ' unknown '. The mystery has sparked a flurry of theories posted online, including claims he leaked DNC emails or that he was on his way to speak to the FBI when he was shot. Reddit user The_Donald also constructed a timeline that links Rich to the Clintons, as pointed out by Heat Street.

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Input: Advertisement Continue reading the main story In a chilling epilogue to Mr. Kara-Murza’s ordeal, a warning appeared in February on the Instagram account of Ramzan A. Kadyrov, the leader of Chechnya. It showed Mr. Kara-Murza outside the European Parliament building in Strasbourg, where he was speaking in favor of sanctions against Russia. He was in cross hairs, with a caption: “Those who have n’t understood will understand.”

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Input: The shooting in broad daylight of Abdulvakhid Edelgireyev – a key Chechen Islamist figure who fought with an al-Qaida affiliate in Syria – is the latest in a series of audacious killings of enemies of the Russian state in the Turkish city Abdulvakhid Edelgireyev survived for years hiding in the Chechen mountains, launching attacks on Russian security forces and evading capture. He survived the battlefields of Syria, and those of east Ukraine. But in November his life came to an abrupt end in a flurry of bullets: he was shot dead in broad daylight in Istanbul as he embarked on a shopping trip with his three-year-old niece.

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Abdulvakhid Edelgireyev

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Input: Lollapolooza festival will be held in park containing memorial for Soviet soldiers killed during second world war The Russian government has hit out at authorities in Berlin for allowing a music festival to be staged near a burial site for Soviet soldiers. Berlin’s Lollapolooza festival, headlined by Radiohead and Kings of Leon, is scheduled to take place on 10-11 September at Treptower Park, which also contains a large memorial site for Soviet soldiers who died during the second world war. “We express serious concern at the plans of Berlin authorities to allow a rock festival to take place in September at this memorial site,” the Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday.

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Input: It gives to charities that rent Trump’s ballrooms. It gives to charities whose leaders buttonholed Trump on the golf course (and then try, in vain, to get him to offer a repeat donation the next year). It even gives in situations in which Trump publicly put himself on the hook for a donation — as when he promised a gift “out of my wallet” on NBC’s “The Celebrity Apprentice.” The Trump Foundation paid off most of those on-air promises. A TV production company paid others. The Post could find no instance in which a celebrity’s charity got a gift from Trump’s own wallet.

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Input: The UN said "intentionally directing attacks" at hospitals and medical units would constitute a war crime. Monday's strikes hit two hospitals-including one for mothers and babies-and a school sheltering internally displaced people in Azaz, near the border with Turkey, the UN said. Thirty-four people were killed and dozens wounded. Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption International pressure is mounting on Russia, as Bridget Kendall reports Two hospitals were also struck in Maarat al-Numan, further south in Idlib province, killing at least 12 people and wounding about 36.

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Input: Minor injuries were reported. The attackers fled before police arrived and no arrests were made. Police briefly detained some cafe staff members for interrogation. Taken out of the context of recent events in Tbilisi, the incident could be dismissed by some as part of a backlash that has emerged on social media recently against anticarnivorous vegan rhetoric in Western counterculture. (That reaction is illustrated by a trending YouTube clip called If Meat Eaters Acted Like Vegans.)

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Input: From David Weigel: “Sanders cast his vote on the first of four gun safety amendments before most of his colleagues showed up, then ducked into the cloakroom. When he returned, he sat for a while with Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), the only colleague who'd endorsed him, and the two were occasionally, happily interrupted by well-wishers of both parties." Trump confers with Marco Rubio during the disastrous Feb. 6 debate in New Hampshire that essentially ended Rubio's 2016 presidential hopes. (Jewel Samad / AFP / Getty Images) -- Coming attraction: Rubio told a Post reporter on his way out of the Capitol last night that his announcement about running for the Senate again is coming "sooner rather than later."

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Input: They included a dent in the side of the launcher and even the pattern formed by soot around the exhaust pipe." We looked at all these details and we were able to establish the number of the missile launcher, which was 332," Higgins says. In other words, Bellingcat is saying that MH17 was shot down by a specific Russian missile launcher that was documented to be in eastern Ukraine at the time. Spokesperson for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, dismissed the Bellingcat report. She says it was the work of amateurs who ignored the information put forward by Russian experts and professionals.

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Input: Hackers could conceivably use intrusions into voter registration databases to delete names from voter registration lists, although in most states, voters can request provisional ballots at the polls, allowing time for discrepancies to be resolved, an official of the National Association of Secretaries of State told Yahoo News. Still, according to Barger, the cybersecurity expert, such attacks can be used to create havoc and sow doubt over the election results. As a result, the FBI alert urges state officials to take additional steps to secure their systems, including conducting “vulnerability scans” of their databases. In addition, the bulletin urges officials to sharply restrict access to their databases. “Implement the principle of least privilege for database accounts,” the FBI alert reads.

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Input: Russia has decided to freeze its shipment of S-300 anti-aircraft missile system to Iran, Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida reported on Saturday. Follow Ynetnews on Facebook and Twitter The paper quotes a highly reliable source as saying that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered to suspend delivery of the advanced aerial defense system because Iran failed to lived up to its promise not deliver advanced weaponry to the Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah.

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Input: Prior to Wednesday night, the Trump campaign clearly had handed over the whole effort to the unquiet ghosts of Bedlam past. There were the four ladies in St. Louis. Now, for the last debate of the campaign, the Trump campaign trotted out the president's crank of a half-brother, who actually is from Kenya; the angry mother of a man killed during the firefight in Benghazi; and Deney Williams, whose paternity claim against the former president was settled rather definitively by a DNA test in 1999. Getty George Frey Meanwhile, Trump political advisor Alex Jones hosted a segment with Larry Nichols, one of the all-purpose Arkansas con-men on whom so many influential reporters relied during the Great Penis Hunt of the 1990s.

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Input: According to Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, Saudi-led forces have dropped CBU-105 munitions in multiple locations across Yemen, including in the towns of Amar, Sanhan, Amran, and the Hayma port. Cluster bombs contain bomblets that scatter widely and kill or injure indiscriminately. Sometimes bomblets fail to detonate immediately and can kill civilians months or even years later. The weapons were banned in a 2008 international treaty that arms sales giants, including the United States and Russia, refused to sign. Responding to humanitarian concerns, the United States has scaled back exports of cluster bombs and demanded changes in the munitions’ performance, such as banning those with a higher fraction of submunitions that do not explode on impact.

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Input: Officers believe the money was taken from a clandestine cash reserve made up of bribes paid to party officials, but have yet to prove their theory. Some of the entries relating to Paul Manafort taken from the secret ledger of “under the table” payments The entries obtained by The Times were …

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Input: This week, Trump also repeated his support for torture, which would be a war crime under international law and has been opposed by every president since George Washington. Trump went even further and said he wanted to change the Geneva Conventions to allow torture, a view that would be aggressively opposed by every leader of every nation throughout the free world whether they come from the left or right. In recent months, Trump has taken a position of appeasement toward aggressive and illegal actions by Russia under Vladimir Putin to annex Crimea and destabilize Ukraine. On most of these issues, Pence — to his great credit — has already publicly stated his opposition to Trump's views, often with clarity and strength as matters of high principle and national security. Can Pence be a party to the election of a president who has had kind word for current-day dictators like North Korea's Kim Jong-un and retweets the words of Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, whose actions promoted the crimes that gave rise to the treaty that formed NATO in the first place — a treaty which Trump would violate so casually today?

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Input: Perhaps not coincidentally, one month after winning reelection, Cuomo banned fracking in the state. The million-dollar question hovering over Teachout’s campaign is whether her success in the district reflected genuine enthusiasm for Teachout or just the intensity of frustration with Cuomo. One issue that contributed to the Cuomo backlash could be less friendly turf for a liberal Democrat: the New York SAFE Act, a gun control law signed by the governor after the Sandy Hook massacre that banned high-capacity magazines, created a registry for assault weapons, and strengthened background checks. Teachout was critical of how quickly the SAFE Act was passed during her statewide 2014 campaign but said she was “largely in support of the act.” In January, however, citing her rural roots, she came out against it. With virtually no margin for error in the Democratic Party’s bid to retake the House, the 19th district is a must-win.

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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: “Jesus also suffered on his own skin indifference, because no one wanted to take on the responsibility for his destiny. “And I am thinking of so many people, so many on the margins, so many refugees” for whom “many don't want to assume responsibility for their destiny,” Francis said in a clear reference to Europe's migration debate. In an effort to fight the smuggling, EU and Turkish officials just made a deal to send back to Turkey migrants now arriving on Greek islands. The action was to begin Sunday, but it was not clear if that would be the case. After the Mass, Francis joyfully greeted tens of thousands of people as he toured the square in his white popemobile, and let some children aboard for a while.

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Input: The files, however, do show a back-and-forth debate over the merits of releasing the Snowden email, a seemingly innocuous communication that does not appear to show an employee deeply troubled by domestic and foreign spying. The discussion centered on how NSA employees viewed the email, and how others might spin it. Less than six weeks after he sent the April 2013 email, Snowden fled to Hong Kong with thousands of classified government documents. He is now in Russia. “To the extent Snowden was saying he raised his concerns internally within NSA, no rational person could read this as being anything other than a question about an unclear single page of training,” Robert Litt, the general counsel of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, told Vice News.

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Input: India is also looking at buying more MiG 29 K fighter jets for INS Vikramaditya, he said. India has already ordered 45 MiG-29K / KUB aircraft. The Russian envoy said that the deal for India producing 200 Kamov Ka-226 helicopters has been concluded. This will lead to India producing these light utility helicopters with Russian help under the present government's "Make in India" initiative.

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India


Input: Cluster bombs contain bomblets that scatter widely and kill or injure indiscriminately. Sometimes bomblets fail to detonate immediately and can kill civilians months or even years later. The weapons were banned in a 2008 international treaty that arms sales giants, including the United States and Russia, refused to sign. Responding to humanitarian concerns, the United States has scaled back exports of cluster bombs and demanded changes in the munitions’ performance, such as banning those with a higher fraction of submunitions that do not explode on impact. A 2009 U.S. law prohibits exporting cluster bombs that have a failure rate of above 1 percent.

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Input: Enforce the Bill of Rights by protecting the right to free speech and protest, to be secure from unwarranted search and seizure and invasion of privacy, as well as our other Constitutional rights. Terminate unconstitutional surveillance and unwarranted spying, close Guantanamo, and repeal indefinite detention without charge or trial. Repeal the unconstitutional provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act that give the president the power to indefinitely imprison and even assassinate American citizens without due process. America's youth should not be put in jail for offenses they commit. End discrimination against former offenders who have paid for their crimes and should get a fresh start.

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Input: Who would Trump appoint to the top positions in the Pentagon, at Strategic Command and at other U.S. combatant commands with nuclear responsibilities around the world? Once again, Trump’s nuclear tentacles could reach deeply into the world of nuclear operations. His own finger might be severed by a decapitation strike, but his hand-picked generals and advisers who survive him could ensure that the Trump "dead hand" kept a ghostly finger on the nuclear button. One can only speculate on Trump’s leadership if events conspire to embroil his presidency in a full-blown confrontation with a nuclear armed opponent. Although he has expressed very strong reservations about using U.S. nuclear weapons to settle any dispute, his views on crisis diplomacy, the military utility of nuclear weapons, nuclear strategy and many other subjects that bear on the question at hand — such as his likely picks for senior security positions in his administration — are unformed.

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Input: It’s the most explosive question of the 2016 presidential campaign: Could Hillary Clinton get indicted for her handling of sensitive materials through her home email server? A POLITICO review of dozens of recent federal investigations for mishandling of classified records suggests that it’s highly unlikely — but not impossible. Story Continued Below

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Input: Hillary Clinton received a pointed question during the final debate that echoed a criticism she has faced for months: Was her family's global charity a "pay-to-play" arrangement in which donors got special favors from her State Department? She did not initially respond with a direct yes or no." Well, everything I did as secretary of state was in furtherance of our country's interests and our values," she said as she went on to list a number of Clinton Foundation achievements such as distributing HIV medication.

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Input: Fellow passenger Sergei Gorbachev told the BBC that some of the fans on the bus had been separated from the rest, with police saying they were to be deported. Russian supporters from the bus were later transferred to a Marseille police station where the fans were expected to be held overnight. Thirty-five people have been injured-most of them England fans-while a total of 20 people were arrested after three days of disorder in Marseille. Football Association chairman Greg Dyke expressed "serious concerns" about security in Lille, where England fans and Russian supporters are set to gather over the next three days. Russia play Slovakia in the city on Wednesday, while England fans are expected to gather there ahead of Thursday's Group B match against Wales in the nearby town of Lens.

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Input: "We have some bad hombres here and we're going to get them out," he said. Clinton replied by saying she did not want to rip families apart, and Trump's "deportation force" would go "school-to-school, home-to-home, business-to-business" to round up undocumented immigrants." I voted for border security in the United States Senate," she said. Clinton then accused Trump of choking when discussing the wall with the Mexican president, then said Trump used undocumented workers to build Trump Tower." We either country or we don't.

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Input: Trump pointed out that the killer, Omar Mateen — who was born in the Unites States — has parents who immigrated here from Afghanistan. “The bottom line is that the only reason the killer was in America in the first place, was because we allowed his family to come here,” said Trump at the time. The FBI has said it can find no direct link between Mateen and ISIS, even though Mateen pledged allegiance to the terrorists’ leadership during 911 phone calls during the shooting spree. Trump was very clear, however, about his belief that the crime was both motivated by terrorism and hatred for LGBT people, which he blamed on radical Islam. “A radical Islamic terrorist targeted the nightclub, not only because he wanted to kill Americans,” he said, “but in order to execute gay and lesbian citizens, because of their sexual orientation.”

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Input: MOSCOW — Unidentified individuals vandalized Holocaust monuments in Russia and Estonia. The Baltic country’s Jewish community last week reported the drawing of swastikas on the Holocaust monument of the city of Kalevi-Liiva, which lies 10 miles east of the Estonian capital of Tallinn. “It is sad that such incidents are taking place in our country.

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Input: Photo MOSCOW — Prosecutors in southern Russia rested their case on Wednesday in the trial of a Ukrainian military pilot, asking for a lengthy sentence in the drawn out and highly publicized proceedings. The request to the judge for a 23-year prison term for the pilot, Nadiya V. Savchenko, suggested that the trial, the most talked about in Russia since the prosecution of members of the punk protest group Pussy Riot in 2012, could be drawing to a close. Ms. Savchenko, 34, is charged with murder in connection with the deaths of two Russian journalists who were reporting from eastern Ukraine.

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Input: It was smart to test Mr. Medvedev’s willingness to cooperate, and in fact the United States and Russia made progress under Ms. Clinton’s leadership, including in nuclear-arms control and in facilitating resupply of U.S. troops in Afghanistan across Russian territory. As Mr. Putin reasserted himself and Russia became more hostile, Ms. Clinton was clear-eyed about the need to adjust U.S. policy. She was similarly clear-eyed after winning election to the Senate in 2000. You might have expected her to hold some grudges, especially toward Republican legislators who had lambasted her husband in the most personal terms during his then-recent impeachment and Senate trial. But colleagues in both parties found her to be businesslike, knowledgeable, intent on accomplishment, willing to work across the aisle and less focused than most on getting credit.

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Input: On Sept. 13, 1987, a RNoAF P-3B had a mid-air collision in similar circumstances with a Soviet Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker over the Barents Sea. In Apr. 2012, whilst flying over the Barents Sea on a routine mission, a Norwegian P-3 Orion almost collided with a Russian Air Force Mig-31 Foxhound that had intercepted the patrol aircraft. On Jul. 16, 2014, between Gotland and Latvia, a Russian Su-27 Flanker, armed with 6 air-to-air missiles, intercepted one of the two Swedish ELINT jet, and flew as close as 10,7 meters of the spyplane.

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Input: They shadowed two Su-27 Flanker fighters and an IL-20 Coot-A reconnaissance aircraft north of Estonia before two more Su-27s were detected and met, the MoD said. A spokesman said the Russian aircraft “were operating without transmitting recognised identification codes, nor were they communicating with regional air traffic control centres”. It comes after an incident on Friday when Typhoons from Amari air base in Estonia intercepted three Russian transport aircraft approaching the Baltic in similar circumstances. Four RAF jets were last month deployed to join the Baltic air policing mission – which sees Nato members help others who do not have their own policing capabilities – and will remain there until the end of August. Michael Fallon, the defence secretary, said: “We will continue to secure the Baltic skies on behalf of Nato and our allies.”

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Input: In a series of videos, Alex Jones and his news service Infowars struck back hard, making a mockery of Clinton, her hatred, her lies, and her bizarre conspiracy theories. In one video, Jones pointed to the Clinton family's long history of friendship and support for late former KKK Grand Wizard Robert Byrd, a recruiter for the racist organization whom Clinton called her “friend and mentor.” Even the far-left Snopes “fact checking” website could not deny it. Separately, Clinton has lavished praise on racist eugenicist Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood who spoke to KKK gatherings about her efforts to “exterminate the Negro” and others she called “human weeds” from the gene pool. In another video, Jones pointed out that Clinton used shady tactics to steal the Democrat Party nomination, as evidenced by hacked e-mails. The popular radio host also noted that Clinton was in major trouble as more evidence of her brazen criminal activity continues to emerge — not to mention the destruction of Libya, the illegal support for jihad terrorism, and more.

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Input: Hillary Clinton is a liar. I do n’t mean this as political conjecture, but a proven, verifiable liar. She lied about the Irish peace process, her vote in favor of the Iraq war, her reason for illegally using a personal email server, that her family was dead broke when they left the White House, about landing under sniper fire in Bosnia, where Chelsea was on 9/11, who she was named after, Benghazi … and the list goes on. We do n’t need a liar-in-chief. We tried that already.

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Input: Though revered by his supporters as an unpretentious man of the people, some Russians disliked him, associating him with the 1990s, an era of political turmoil and painful reforms, when he served in the government of then-President Boris Yeltsin. The authorities forbade the marchers from passing the spot where he was killed, on a bridge near the Kremlin. But many went there after the march to lay flowers at an improvised memorial that the authorities have repeatedly tried to destroy. Opposition-minded Russians accuse the Kremlin of waging a campaign to erase Nemtsov's memory. The Kremlin has downplayed Nemtsov's significance, calling his murder a "provocation".

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Input: Clinton said his wife has been standing in for him for a long time, and it's about time that he did the same for her. He took her place at fundraising events in California and at a rally Wednesday at the College of Southern Nevada in North Las Vegas. Hillary Clinton was diagnosed with pneumonia last week and stumbled when she left a Sept. 11 memorial event in New York over the weekend. The former president's Nevada speech focused on Hillary Clinton's economic plans and the need for immigration reform. _ _ _

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Input: The man swore fidelity to Baghdadi before the shooting spree in a posting made on what was apparently his Facebook page. The attack is believed to have been inspired by ISIS. June 26, 2015 -- A man on France's terror watch list shoots selfies with the decapitated body of his boss before -- A man on France's terror watch list shoots selfies with the decapitated body of his boss before launching an attempted suicide attack at a U.S.-owned chemical factory near Lyon in southeastern France. Photos made with suspect Yassin Salhi's phone may have been intended to become part of a social media propaganda campaign for ISIS, said Paris prosecutor Francois Molins. The head was tied to the factory's fence, along with two flags bearing "the Islamist profession of faith," authorities said.

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Input: In an exclusive interview with The Independent, a senior Syrian Kurdish official says that the Kurds will fight to the death to stop Turkey “invading the region” and speaks of possible reconciliation between Damascus and Ankara on the Kurdish question. The Syrian Kurds, who have been the most effective US ally in the war against Isis in Syria, now see themselves as possible victims of international betrayal. The US support for the Turkish military intervention in Syria on 24 August and demand that the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), who had just captured the strategic town of Manbij from Isis after a hard-fought siege, should pull back east of the Euphrates river, were bitter blows to the Kurds. Without whole-hearted US support, they are vulnerable to attacks by the numerous enemies who encircle them, notably Turkey and possibly, in future, the Syrian government. Turkey denies reaching ceasefire with Kurdish forces in Syria

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Input: Firs, the "treason" charge is absurd to the point where even Vox's Dylan Mathews had to explain that Trump's comments clearly did not warrant such a charge. According to Mathews, there are two types of prosecutions for treason:" Aid and comfort," where the individual provides aid to "a country presently at war with the United States." "Levying war," where the individual is literally waging war against a state or federal government. Not only is Trump, of course, not waging war against a state or the federal government, the U.S. is not currently "at war" with Russia.

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Input: Until his polling gap began to narrow again last week, Trump had been forced back to a dwindling number of swing states, while Clinton eyed Republican territory in Utah, Arizona and Georgia. Renewed optimism among Republicans has created an unusually vast national battleground, particularly as Trump’s economic populism scrambles traditional demographic dividing lines. Michigan and Wisconsin have both been hit hard by the loss of manufacturing jobs and were the scene of surprise defeats for Clinton in the Democratic primary, when large numbers of blue-collar workers favoured Bernie Sanders. Signs of Democratic nervousness in Wisconsin became apparent last week when the Clinton campaign suddenly announced an advertising blitz. Sanders has been dispatched to help campaign for Clinton in the state on Wednesday.

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Input: There is also the issue of what President Obama meant by “mass violence.” If you include bombings, many countries face many more bombings than the US does. On March 22nd, 2016, Belgium had a bombing attacks at an airport and subway that killed 31 people and wounded 180. That is worse than any mass public shooting in the US in terms of fatalities and woundings. Or take just the bombing cases in Russia. Russia had few mass public shootings, but it suffered from numerous bomb attacks, with 1.31 mass bombing murders per million people.

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Input: As the executive director of the largest American Muslim group, CAIR, said yesterday: “For many years, members of the LGBT community have stood shoulder to shoulder with the Muslim community against acts of hate crimes, Islamophobia, marginalization, and discrimination. Today, we stand with them, shoulder to shoulder.” Muslims who work to make Islam more open to LGBTs deserve support, but those most eager to demonize Islam — for all sorts of tribalistic, nationalistic, and religious reasons — typically erase such people because their presence demonstrates how misleading the absolutist pictures of Muslims they want to paint are. Despite all this data, the standard group of hateful polemicists who literally seem to devote their lives to exploiting every news event to attack Islam wasted no time yesterday — before any facts were known, while the bodies were literally still in the club — squeezing the horrific slaughter in Orlando to depict Muslims as uniquely hateful of LGBTs. Never mind that the suspect, Omar Mateen, showed no signs of religious fanaticism, was (according to numerous close sources) suffering from mental illness, had a history of wife-beating, worked for a major defense / mercenary contractor, had no known connection to extremist groups until his 911 call citing ISIS, and was obsessed with joining the NYPD. The opportunity to exploit LGBT suffering to fuel the standard anti-Muslim agenda was far too attractive to resist, no matter how many facts negate it.

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

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Input: “The Democracy forces do not side with either camp during these clashes. If there is a coup against democracy, it is the one carried out by the fascist AKP government,” it added. “Political power’s control over the judiciary, the implementation of fascist laws and policies through a parliamentarian majority, the removal of parliamentarians’ immunities, the arrest of co-mayors, the removal of co-mayors from their positions, and the imprisonment of thousands of politicians from the HDP and DBP constitute more of an actual coup,” the PKK said. “The latest coup attempt shows that Turkey needs to get rid of the fascist AKP government and have a democratic government. The recent developments make it urgent for Turkey to democratize and get rid of its monist, hegemonic and fascist government,” the Kurdish party said.

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Input: After allegations were raised that some of the emails in question fell into this category, an investigation was initiated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) regarding how classified information was handled on the Clinton server. In May 2016 the State Department's Office of the Inspector General released an 83-page report about the State Department's email practices, including Clinton's, but the FBI did not do so. The controversy continues against the backdrop of Clinton's 2016 presidential election campaign and hearings held by the United States House Select Committee on Benghazi. A plea bargain (also plea agreement, plea deal, copping a plea, or plea in mitigation) is any agreement in a criminal case between the prosecutor and defendant whereby the defendant agrees to plead guilty to a particular charge in return for some concession from the prosecutor. This may mean that the defendant will plead guilty to a less serious charge, or to one of several charges, in return for the dismissal of other charges; or it may mean that the defendant will plead guilty to the original criminal charge in return for a more lenient sentence.

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Input: What we need actually is a peace offensive in the Middle East.” She criticized financial support for Saudi Arabia and maintained the more America wages war, the more the country sows the “seeds for the next crisis and terrorist movement.” The audience responded with chants of “No More War,” as Stein said, “It’s time to shut it down.” Wounded veterans need health care, housing, jobs, mental health services, drug rehabilitation, etc, but as important, she said, is the fact that veterans and future veterans should not be put in “harm’s way in the first place.” Six trillion dollars have been spent on wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and it has produced “failed states, mass refugee migrations, and worse terrorist threats. So we say it’s time to start over.

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Input: Men work on the roof of a house under construction in the unauthorised Jewish settler outpost of Havat Gilad, south of the West Bank city of Nablus November 5, 2013. REUTERS / Nir Elias / File Photo Palestinian schoolgirls walk with a donkey as the West Bank Jewish settlement of Maale Adumim, near Jerusalem, is seen in the background November 13, 2013. REUTERS / Ammar Awad / File Photo Houses are seen in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Karmel, near Hebron May 24, 2016.

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Input: He once again defied the conventional rules of politics, and used his power and prominence to shape the campaign agenda and conversation. So far, Trump’s untraditional moves have only expanded his support, but his threatened boycott leaves him open to criticism that for all his tough talk he is ducking face-to-face confrontations with his opponents and scrutiny from the Fox moderators. Given Trump’s past flirtations with boycotting Fox, many will doubt his declaration until they see the other candidates take the debate stage on Thursday night without him. The Republican debates have become must-see television, in part because of the allure of Trump’s star power and unpredictable candidacy. But he said Tuesday that he thinks Fox and other television networks have been taking advantage of him by selling advertisements for their debates at a high premium.

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Input: Hillary Clinton Hillary Rodham ClintonTrump seeks tech's help for government IT overhaul What do Democrats stand for? THE MEMO: For Trump, danger signs in the polls MORE faces a major dilemma in the wake of her controversial “basket of deplorables” comment: keep hammering Donald Trump Donald TrumpOvernight Tech: Trump seeks tech's help for ' sweeping ' IT overhaul | FTC looks to block sports fantasy merger | Firm exposes nearly 200 M voters ' data Trump seeks tech's help for government IT overhaul Republicans and the lost promise of local control in education MORE on race or pivot to other issues. Democrats are divided on the best course of action following her remark last week that “half” of Trump’s supporters are “irredeemable” and fit into a “basket of deplorables” that includes racists, sexists, xenophobes, homophobes and Islamophobes. The former secretary of State subsequently said she should n’t have spoken in such sweeping generalizations but stopped short of apologizing and vowed to call out Trump’s “bigotry.”

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Input: Police then shot and killed the suspect. A Karl Gustav rifle was confiscated at the scene. (Scene of stabbing attack in Petah Tikva. Credit: Alon Hachman)Shortly beforehand, one Israeli was moderately wounded in a suspected terror stabbing in Petah Tikva. The assailant was also stabbed during the incident, after the haredi victim removed the knife from his neck and stabbed the assailant. The attacker was reported to have died. Magen David Adom paramedics provided initial treatment to the victim, a man thought to be around 35-years -old at the scene, before transferring him to Rabin Medical Center-Beilinson Campus. Dana Somberg and Yasser Okbi / Maariv HaShavua contributed to this report

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Input: In all, the couple released 10 years’ worth of their tax records, going back to the 2006 tax year. Over the decade, they earned a total of almost $ 1.6 million, paid total federal taxes of $ 142,343 and donated $ 119,500 to charity. Trump has departed from 40 years of tradition for presidential candidates by refusing to release any of his tax returns for public inspection. The billionaire businessman has said he’s under an audit by the Internal Revenue Service and wo n’t release his returns until that audit is concluded -- which may not happen before the Nov. 8 election. IRS officials have said there’s no law preventing taxpayers from releasing their returns to the public, even if they’re under audit.

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Input: Her decisions spread death, destruction and terrorism everywhere she touched." Everywhere? The statement cries out for a more substantive debate about Clinton's support for the raid that killed Osama bin Laden; the temporary ceasefire she negotiated between Hamas and Israel; and the Iran nuclear deal. But Trump's speech wasn't about debating policy points, it was an all-out trashing of Clinton designed to rally conservatives, predictably veered off the road from justifiable concerns into unfounded conspiracy theories. 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.

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Input: Rouhani is a political moderate who defeated a hard-line opponent. The Senate bill imposes mandatory sanctions on people involved in Iran's ballistic missile program and anyone who does business with them. The measure also would apply terrorism sanctions to the country's Revolutionary Guards and enforce an arms embargo. Russia's interference in the 2016 campaign has rocked Washington and led to multiple investigations, including special counsel Robert Mueller's inquiry into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian officials. Yet Trump hasn't sought to rebuke Moscow.

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Input: "If we’re going to make a major publication in relation to the United States, we do n’t do it at 3 a.m,” he said. By this point, it was around 4 a.m. in New York. The drawn-out nonrevelation instantaneously reverberated across the Atlantic, where Jones interrupted his livestream and broke into verse, quoting the rapper Ludacris as he urged Assange to, “Move, bitch, get out the way / get out the way, bitch / get out the way.” Later, when a Bloomberg Businessweek reporter asked about Assange’s apparent affinity for Trump, he smirked. “It’s an interesting question,” he said. “I feel a personal affinity for all human beings.”

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Input: It’s the epicenter of the refugee crisis.” “Got it, got it,” Johnson said, before outlining his policy on the Syrian civil war, which includes “joining hands with Russia to diplomatically bring the civil war to an end.” The last rebel-held hospital in Aleppo was destroyed by a Russian airstrike last month. Hillary Clinton could n’t resist piling on during a press conference Thursday morning. “Well, you can look on a map and find Aleppo,” she said.

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Input: Killing the people who are providing aid to your enemies is effective 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?

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