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

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Input: That's the main problem." Fearing reprisals from his boss, Yevgeny declined to give his surname, as did other workers who spoke to Reuters. Armyansk, a sleepy Crimean town near the newly-established border with Ukraine, is not far from where Russia says it fought armed clashes with Ukrainian infiltrators last week. Kiev says the clashes never took place and Moscow fabricated the incident as a possible pretext for new military action against Ukraine. The alleged plot has dominated headlines in Crimea, distracting attention away from the region's own problems.

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Input: Mark Nolan, 36, arrived back from the Red Sea resort town of Hurghada on Tuesday, but told MailOnline he and his family spent the entire time on the resort as it was too dangerous to leave. ' We booked the trip just a few days before the Russian plane bombing, but when I contacted First Choice to cancel-they wouldn't listen and wanted to charge me 35 per cent, ' said Mr Nolan, an electrician from London. Kyle Hadden, 24 (right) and Mark Higgins, 43, (left) were walking on the beach in Hurghada when they heard gunshots Police and security forces have increased their presence at the scene in the wake of the attack A member of the hotel's management staff who witnessed the incident said the attackers sneaked into the Bella Vista from a hotel next door, accessing the facility from the beach

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Input: They failed when they encountered Alton Sterling. They failed when they lashed out at people protesting in peace. The ACLU stands with the protesters in Baton Rouge and urges the police to honor our constitutional rights instead of stomping on them. There were similar images of the apparent use of excessive force against Black Lives Matter protesters in other parts of the country. The arrest of one young woman late Friday in Rochester, New York, as she was giving an interview to a local news station, also drew widespread condemnation.

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Input: (VATICAN RADIO) Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law on July 7th a package of so-called anti-terrorism measures. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom strongly condemns these measures and says that, under the guise of confronting terrorism, they would grant authorities sweeping powers to curtail civil liberties, including setting broad restrictions on religious practices that would make it very difficult for religious groups to operate. Chair of the U.S. Commission, Jesuit Father Thomas Reese, said: “Neither these measures nor the currently existing anti-extremism law meet international human rights and religious freedom standards.”

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Russian President Vladimir Putin

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Input: Kreep won by just over 1,000 votes, and now they might have to someday face a judge who boasts of his pro bono work for the Minutemen. But Gary Kreep is just a warm-up act. Jim Lacy’s much more serious partner in political dirty tricks operations over the past two decades is Citizen United’s co-founder Floyd Brown, a Republican Sasquatch who gets a lot of credit for the notorious Willie Horton race-baiting ads in 1988, designed to scare whites into believing Dukakis would empty out the prisons on weekends and allow black inmates to rape and rob white women. The ad worked. As soon as Obama’s candidacy surged ahead of Hillary in 2008, Lacy and Brown unleashed a barrage of birther-propaganda, and they have n’t let up yet.

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Input: High school freshmen today are instructed to submit all their homework to a very specific website maintained by their high school. § 832. Participation in nuclear and weapons of mass destruction threats to the United States (a) “Whoever, within the United States or subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, willfully participates in or knowingly provides material support or resources (as defined in section 2339A) to a nuclear weapons program or other weapons of mass destruction program of a foreign terrorist power, or attempts or conspires to do so, shall be imprisoned for not more than 20 years.” Hillary worked, through her private server and Clinton Foundation, to aid Russia in gaining access to uranium. § 1001.

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Whoever, within the United States or subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, willfully participates in or knowingly provides material support or resources (as defined in section 2339A) to a nuclear weapons program or other weapons of mass destruction program of a foreign terrorist power

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Russia


Input: Launched: 1985 ISIS suffered further set-back on Sunday when the Iraqi town of Fallujah was declared fully liberated on Sunday. Only scattered signs of ISIS's self-declared ' caliphate ' remain in Fallujah, a city west of Baghdad which was seized by anti-government fighters in early 2014 and later became a key jihadist stronghold. Iraqi forces declared victory on the weekend after government troops routed the remaining ISIS fighters from the city's north and west under the close cover of US-led coalition airstrikes. The battle, which began May 22, was the latest in a string of territorial defeats for ISIS in Iraq over the past year.

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Fallujah, a city west of Baghdad

Fallujah, a city west of Baghdad

Fallujah, a city west of Baghdad


Input: (Scott Audette / Reuters) THE BIG IDEA: Good morning from an Amtrak train bound for Philadelphia. The Democratic National Convention was supposed to be the flawless, slickly-produced one where the establishment struck back. Now, it threatens to devolve into a mess, maybe not as untidy as Cleveland but probably not the celebratory coronation that the Hillary Clinton campaign has spent the seven weeks since California’s primary trying to orchestrate. Stepping on the message of unity and competence, Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned under pressure Sunday.

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Input: MATTHEWS: Let’s talk about something else. GIULIANI: Donald Trump knows how to use leverage in negotiations. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, never being in business, never really negotiating, give away for nothing things they should n’t give away. They gave away the defense of the Czech Republic and Poland to reset the relationship with Russia for nothing. The day they did that, Putin, who is a KGB killer, figured out I can push these guys around the world.

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Barack Obama


Input: Both Deng and Li had been previously named in another major investigation coordinated by the ICIJ and published in January 2014, on “secretive offshore companies in tax havens that helped shroud the Communist elite’s wealth”. Hong Kong Chinese-language newspaper Ming Pao was involved in the investigation. The newspaper’s then editor-in-chief Kevin Lau Chun-to was stabbed by two assailants in February 2014, raising questions whether the attack was related to the investigation. The assailants admitted receiving HK$100,000 each to attack Lau, but refused to say who paid them. They were jailed for 19 years last August.

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Kevin Lau Chun

Hong Kong


Input: In March, a passenger wearing a fake explosives belt hijacked a domestic EgyptAir flight and diverted it to Cyprus. The crisis was resolved within hours when the man, later determined to be psychologically troubled, surrendered. In May, EgyptAir Flight 804 plunged into the Mediterranean, en route to Cairo from Paris, killing all 66 people on board. The cause of the crash is still under investigation. EgyptAir employs in-flight security officers like Mr. Ali and Mr. Radwan to maintain order during flights and to ensure that planes are secure during stopovers at foreign airports.

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Input: Local officials had no interest in the grants, as they considered the shamble of cinder blocks long past the point of repair. The money flowed from HUD regardless, and developers paid Manafort’s firm a $ 326,000 fee for its handiwork. He later bought a 20 percent share in the project. Two years later, rents doubled without any sign of improvement. Conditions remained, in Mary McGrory’s words, “strictly Third World.” It was such an outrageous scam that congressmen flocked to make a spectacle of it.

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Manafort’s firm

$ 326,000

Manafort’s firm


Input: China is working on a floating nuclear power plant that could sail to specific sites and anchor offshore to produce power for various needs. China General Nuclear expects to complete construction of this small modular offshore multi-purpose reactor by 2020, and demonstrate its utility for a variety of purposes. Construction of the first floating reactor is expected to start next year with electricity generation to begin in 2020.

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Input: The 150 poorer nations all have weak tax systems, which means that tax evasion — the driving force for Americans and Europeans hiding wealth offshore — is a minor factor in the levels of flight wealth from those countries. Collectively the 150 poorer countries whose economic data Henry scrutinized owe $ 8.1 trillion of foreign debt. Statistically, that means that all of the money these nations borrowed externally, much of it from the United States and Europe, has been sent offshore. In addition, corrupt rulers looted $ 4 trillion from the national treasuries they control. Almost a third of the $ 12.1 trillion of poorer country flight wealth comes from Russia, China, Malaysia, Mexico, and Venezuela.

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Input: “Protectionism is destructionism,’’ he said in his 1988 State of the Union address. “Our goal must be a day when the free flow of trade, from the tip of Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic Circle, unites the people of the Western Hemisphere in a bond of mutually beneficial exchange.’’ Trump constantly declares that many of the free trade agreements vigorously supported by Republicans have led to the “rape” of the United States. He wants only “good deals,” while attacking Republican bastions like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for “selling out Americans.” What are those good deals? How will he achieve them?

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Input: In keeping with that pattern, Epshteyn has adopted some of the Russian government’s narrative about its annexation of Crimea, Ukraine’s southern peninsula, in 2014. The international community does not recognize Crimea as part of Russia, given the illegal nature of its acquisition of the territory. “Again, Russia did not seize Crimea,” Epshteyn said in an appearance on CNN on July 31. “We could talk about the conflict that happened between Ukraine and the Crimea, it’s an ongoing conflict, but there was no seizure by Russia. That is an incorrect statement, characterization, of what happened.”

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Input: "Trump has sided with Putin on all these issues," said Samantha Vinograd, another co-signer and former director for international affairs and Iraq at the National Security Council." If you look at how Trump will not condemn Russia's military takeover of Crimea, that's something that literally Putin was probably jumping up and down over when he said that." "This lets Putin off the hook for the first land grab in Europe since World War II," said Morell." That gift to Putin even has a bow on it." Sanctions against Russia: The European Union and the United States responded to the situation in Ukraine by issuing sanctions against Russia.

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Input: What he would do about them is sometimes less clear. The Wall The centerpiece of Trump's presidential campaign is the plan to build a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico as a barrier against illegal migration, criminals and narcotics trafficking. Whatever the ultimate source of the financing, it would almost certainly involve billions of dollars passing through the coffers of the U.S. government, which only Congress has the authority to approve. And there has been no rush by Washington lawmakers to embrace the plan.

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Input: The PKK is recognised by the United States as a terror group but not the YPG or PYD. The issue is causing increasing friction between the two NATO allies and complicating efforts to find a solution to Syria's almost five-year civil war. US State Department spokesman John Kirby said in a statement late on Saturday that Washington urged Turkey to cease its cross-border artillery fire. He said the United States had also urged the Kurdish fighters "not to take advantage of a confused situation by seizing new territory". Syria's military, backed by Russian air strikes, is fighting Syrian insurgents in the same area, trying to seal the frontier with Turkey and reclaim areas of Aleppo city held by rebels.

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Turkey to cease its cross-border artillery fire


Input: (It was also not permanent; the law authorizing it expires next year.) Worse — far worse — he also leaked details of basically defensible international intelligence operations: cooperation with Scandinavian services against Russia; spying on the wife of an Osama bin Laden associate; and certain offensive cyber operations in China. No specific harm, actual or attempted, to any individual American was ever shown to have resulted from the NSA telephone metadata program Mr. Snowden brought to light. In contrast, his revelations about the agency’s international operations disrupted lawful intelligence-gathering, causing possibly “tremendous damage” to national security, according to a unanimous, bipartisan report by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. What higher cause did that serve?

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Input: In 2014, the Marshall Islands – a Pacific Ocean territory with 55,000 people – accused nine countries of “not fulfilling their obligations with respect to the cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament”. They included China, Britain, France, India, Israel, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia and the United States. The government, based in the Marshall Islands capital of Majuro, said by not stopping the nuclear arms race, the countries continued to breach their obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) – even if the treaty has not been signed by countries such as India and Pakistan. The Marshall Islands had decided to sue the world’s nuclear heavyweights as “it has a particular awareness of the dire consequences of nuclear weapons”, it said. Between 1946 and 1958 the United States conducted repeated nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands, Majuro’s representatives said in papers filed in court.

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Input: But there were some problems, some unintended consequences. Too many young African-American and Latino men ended up in jail for nonviolent offenses. And it's just a fact that if you're a young African-American man and you do the same thing as a young white man, you are more likely to be arrested, charged, convicted, and incarcerated. So we've got to address the systemic racism in our criminal justice system. We can not just say law and order.

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Input: Among McAfee’s proposals are a voluntary month in jail for politicians in favor of new criminal penalties and abolition of drug testing for federal employees. But his primary campaign issue is a patriotic appeal for self-defense from cyber attacks from countries like China or Russia. He says enormous hacks of federal worker data and FBI contact information show the technological incompetence of the government to protect against potentially catastrophic cyber warfare, which he says could destroy the entire U.S. power grid and kill many Americans. Time will tell if he's sufficiently mainstream to attract Republicans disillusioned with Trump and liberals who backed Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont – should he lose to Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton. McAfee insists he will make no personal attacks on other candidates and sometimes catches himself mid-sentence making an unkind observation.

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U.S. power grid

cyber warfare


Input: -- The Coast Guard is searching for a caller in the D.C. area who has phoned in 28 fake nautical emergencies over the past two years. Officials say he has ran up a tab of nearly $ 500,000 with the calls, which are "a deadly and serious offense.” (Martin Weil) -- Police arrested a suspect in the killing of Alonzo Jackson, the 68-year -old who was murdered in cold blood as he pumped gas on the way to take his friend to a doctor's appointment. The suspect, 20-year -old Demarko Wheeler, was charged with first-and second-degree murder. (Faiz Siddiqui and Martin Weil)

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Input: “Rep. Knight has several important commitments in the district that week and will not be attending,” Rep. Steve Knight’s (Calif.) office said in an email. “He will be working hard in his own Congressional District, touring businesses and meeting with voters throughout the Central Valley,” Rep. David Valadao’s (Calif.) spokeswoman said. Rep. David Jolly (Fla.) also said he plans to work in his district, which is currently rated as leaning Democratic, instead of going to the convention. He told The Hill that he offered his convention credentials to local party officials, but so far there have n’t been any takers.

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Input: Again, these are easily verifiable facts that have been widely reported, are central to Ms. Qiu’s narrative, and yet she completely ignores them. Politifact Claim: FACT: Politifact is confusing commitments to donate with the actual dates of donations. Politifact Claim: “Third, most of their Clinton Foundation donations occurred before and during Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential bid, before she could have known she would become secretary of state.” FACT: The absurdity of this statement boggles the mind.

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Clinton Foundation


Input: The total debt remained huge, weighing down the reorganized company for years. In 2004, Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts — the new name for Trump’s casino holdings — filed for bankruptcy, and Trump was forced to relinquish his post as chief executive. The name of the company was then changed to Trump Entertainment Resorts; it filed for bankruptcy in 2009, four days after Trump resigned from the board. In his books and public statements, Trump holds up this bankruptcy as yet more proof of his business genius; after all, his logic goes, he climbed out of a hole so deep few others could have done it. He even brags now about how deep that hole was.

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Input: “What the president will be doing this weekend in Florida is essentially what the president would be doing back at the White House,” White House press secretary Josh Earnest said during that trip. “It’s just that the weather will be a little warmer.” A few months later, in August 2014, Obama was on Martha’s Vineyard when news came that the Islamic State had conducted a videotaped execution of American journalist James Foley, an act that shocked the American public. Obama made a brief statement to reporters but went golfing just moments later, a decision that drew criticism from Republicans. During that same week, Obama attended a private party on the island on the night that demonstrators and police clashed in Ferguson, Mo., after the shooting death of a black resident by a white officer.

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Input: Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE Former CNN contributor Donna Brazile has officially resigned from the network. Video provided by Newsy Newslook Donna Brazile warned Hillary Clinton’s campaign that she would be asked about lead poisoning in Flint, Mich., ahead of a primary debate, according to an email released by WikiLeaks Monday.

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Input: Kolion had "government backing," and he was asked by associates in China who "deal with" the government to consult for it, Chun was recorded telling an undercover FBI agent in 2015, the complaint said. According to the complaint, Chun told the agent that his Chinese associates sometimes paid for prostitutes for him and provided hotels when he traveled to China. He said his parents urged him to work with those individuals because they were investors in Kolion, the complaint said. Kolion did not respond to a request for comment.

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Input: 39) speaks of “that honorable determination which animates every votary of freedom to rest all our political experiments on the capacity of mankind for self-government.” Has n’t Donald Trump been a votary merely of wealth rather than of freedom? Has n’t he been animated by the art of the deal rather than by the art of self-government? William F. Buckley Jr. proclaimed, in the founding statement of this journal, that conservatism “stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.” Has n’t Donald Trump always been a man inclined to go along — indeed, impatient to get along — with history? In a letter to National Review, Leo Strauss wrote that “a conservative, I take it, is a man who despises vulgarity; but the argument which is concerned exclusively with calculations of success, and is based on blindness to the nobility of the effort, is vulgar.” Is n’t Donald Trump the very epitome of vulgarity? In sum: Is n’t Trumpism a two-bit Caesarism of a kind that American conservatives have always disdained?

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William F. Buckley Jr.


Input: Supercharging American anger over illegal immigration and its consequences is the politically correct ban on openly discussing it, with even the most reasoned reservation dismissed as racism and yahooism. And political correctness generates its own quantum of anger among citizens, who think of freedom of speech and debate as central to American exceptionalism. But elite culture stigmatizes plain speaking, so that now a rapist or a murderer is a “person who committed a crime” or an “individual who was incarcerated,” says the Obama Department of Justice, or, according to the latest humbug from the Department of Education, a “justice-involved individual.” Implicit in these euphemisms is the theory that “society,” not the criminal, is to blame for crime, a long-exploded idea aimed at blurring the distinction between right and wrong. That’s what makes it so disheartening to learn that the University of California has just deemed it a politically incorrect offense to declare America a land of opportunity, so as not to stigmatize those who’ve failed to seize it. It’s disheartening not only because such a retreat from our traditional culture will hold back immigrants, but also because our long cultural unraveling already has damagingly demoralized the native-born working class in the face of economic change.

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Input: U.S. law also mandates that cluster munitions only be sold if they demonstrate a failure rate -- i.e., leaving unexploded ordnance behind -- of less than 1%. Human Rights Watch's report said that reliability standard is not being met by those used in Yemen. U.S. military officials "have and continue to recommend to the Saudi military leadership to investigate all incidents of civilian casualties allegedly caused by airstrikes and has asked that the coalition reveal the results of these investigations publicly," according to U.S. spokesman Raines. But human rights groups have called for President Barack Obama to follow the EU Parliament's lead and take a deeper look at the United States ' role in the growing civilian death toll in Yemen." The Obama administration is basically tolerating civilian casualties in Yemen and giving lip service that they are concerned," said William Hartung, an adviser to the Security Assistance Monitor.

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U.S. military officials

Saudi military leadership


Input: Advertisement Continue reading the main story The exchange on Thursday was all the more striking in light of the past collaboration between Mr. Snowden and the group, which helped him as he sought to find a place to settle into exile. In June 2013, a WikiLeaks activist accompanied him as he made his way from Hong Kong to Moscow, a week after WikiLeaks’ founder, Julian Assange, encouraged the government of Ecuador to accept Mr. Snowden’s asylum request.

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Moscow


Input: Most people, according to the writer, were in the middle and could see both sides of the issue. Changes to asylum processes Speaking at Finlandia Hall for the official opening of parliament while the parliament building is undergoing renovation, Niinistö said that most asylum seekers were not fleeing immediate danger." The flow of immigration into Europe and Finland is largely a case of migration rather than a flight from immediate danger," said Niinistö, who was a lawyer before he entered politics." All estimates predict that the flow of people will increase this year.

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Europe and Finland


Input: But Øyvind Ravna, a law professor at the Norwegian Arctic university, told the paper the constitution did not apply to minor border adjustments, pointing out that Norway’s borders with both Finland and Russia had moved in recent times to reflect changes in riverbeds and the shifting position of sandbanks and islets. A Facebook page, Halti as anniversary gift, run by Harsson’s son from his home in the US and calling on supporters to allow “Finland, on its centenary, to rewrite both its history and its geography books”, has so far garnered nearly 14,000 likes. Public reaction has been overwhelmingly positive in both Norway and Finland, with the only objection so far coming from the indigenous Sami community, whose reindeer roam freely across the border and who argue that the land should belong to neither country. “Who knows?” Harsson told NRK. “It may really happen.”

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Input: Most of these machines are nearing the end of their expected life span, making them more vulnerable to problems. And Congress has not authorized money for upgrades since 2002, just after the disputed 2000 presidential recount battle in Florida highlighted flaws in aging punch-card and lever-voting systems. In some states, a divide has emerged between poorer areas that continue to use paperless touch-screen systems and wealthier areas that have bought new optical scan systems that process paper ballots, which many experts say are a better way to ensure accurate elections. In Virginia, for example, counties that still use touch-screen systems have a poverty rate of 23 percent, while those that have switched to optical-scan systems have an average poverty rate of 11 percent." I would have liked to have had the new machines, but the county says we don't have the money," said Patsy Burchett, the top election official in rural Lee County, which has been hit hard by the decline of the coal and tobacco industries and is the poorest county in the state.

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Input: The Greek government rebuked Austria for imposing the restrictions and for convening a meeting of western Balkan countries to discuss the migration crisis that excluded Greece. The foreign ministry described the meeting as a “unilateral move which is not at all friendly toward our country”. Meanwhile, a French judge deferred a ruling on a government plan to demolish part of a refugee and migrant camp in Calais near the entrance to the Channel tunnel. The Belgian government tightened controls on its border with France in anticipation of the Calais camp being closed and in an effort to prevent alternative camps being established inside Belgium.

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Calais


Input: In 2010, Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren said that during the first two years of the Obama-Clinton administration, “Israel’s ties with the United States” had reached “their worst crisis since 1975 … a crisis of historic proportions. ”60 Some may recall how Mrs. Clinton betrayed Israel in the aftermath of an infamous 2010 incident where terrorist members of a Turkish organization known as the IHH — which has ties to Hamas, Al Qaeda, and the Muslim Brotherhood — participated in a six-ship flotilla of pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel activists who sailed to Gaza for the purpose of breaking Israel’s naval “blockade” there. (That “blockade” was, in reality, a policy whereby Israel insisted on examining all imports passing through Gaza, so as to prevent the ruling Hamas government, which has sworn its permanent allegiance to the destruction of Israel and the genocide of Jews, from importing weaponry from abroad). The flotilla’s lead ship was owned and operated by IHH. When its crew refused to comply with repeated Israeli demands that it submit to an inspection of its cargo, Israeli commandos boarded the vessel and were violently attacked by IHH terrorists.

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Hamas government

weaponry

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Gaza


Input: Moving documents to the international borders is by far the most dangerous step in the CIJA’s operation. Paper is heavy and incriminating for the carrier; on the other hand, photographs, while more portable, can be difficult to authenticate in court. Bundles of up to fifty pounds typically arrive “in a dizzying array of crappy suitcases” smuggled across borders, Wiley told me, while large loads demand more intricate planning. “Think in terms of a box of paper that sits next to the photocopier,” he explained. “That box has five bricks, each with five hundred pages in it,” weighing a total of about twenty pounds.

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CIJA

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suitcases

across borders


Input: As of last week, 16,345 guardsmen remain called up under the legal authority involved by that proclamation, the Pentagon said. The emergency also gives the president — and his successor — the authority to "suspend the operation of any provision of law relating to the promotion, involuntary retirement, or separation of commissioned officers" of the armed forces. And he can appoint an unlimited number of new one- or two-star generals, waiving promotion requirements and legal limits on the number of officers. Wednesday, GOP candidate Donald Trump suggested he would use his authority as president to replace top generals, saying he would seek the advice of generals on the Islamic State, but "they’d probably be different generals, to be honest with you." Under the National Emergencies Act, national emergencies expire after a year, unless the president renews them by notifying Congress.

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Input: The Russian air force is the only one currently using this type of aircraft in Syria. Russia's Defense Ministry has stated that it does not attack areas where civilians are located. The director of HRW's arms division Steve Goose called on the Syrian and Russian governments to “immediately stop attacking civilian areas with incendiary weapons” and called on all countries to condemn their use.

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Syrian and Russian governments

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civilian areas


Input: "The Russians are trying to hack everything." The ban on the Apple Watch is by no means unusual. Mobile phones are already prohibited in cabinet meetings in the UK, and extending the injunction to smartwatches is logical. They contain the same basic electronics and thus the same vulnerabilities. It was also reported today that the Apple Watch has been banned from Australian cabinet meetings as well.

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Input: According to a Quinnipiac poll in June, twelve months after he began pledging to build a “big, beautiful, powerful wall” on the southern border, only forty-two per cent of Republicans believed that he would achieve it. “Ding-dong.” But campaigns offer a surprisingly accurate preview of Presidencies. In 1984, the political scientist Michael Krukones tabulated the campaign pledges of all the Presidents from Woodrow Wilson to Jimmy Carter and found that they achieved seventy-three per cent of what they promised. Most recently, PolitiFact, a nonpartisan fact-checking site, has assessed more than five hundred promises made by Barack Obama during his campaigns and found that, to the irritation of his opponents, he has accomplished at least a compromised version of seventy per cent of them. To turn intentions into policy, previous transition teams have produced confidential guides, known as “promise books,” that pull from the candidate’s words in order to shape the priorities of officials across the government.

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Input: Sadly, the Mendoza family is just one of thousands who have suffered the same fate. Here's an excerpt from Mrs. Mendoza's letter: Hillary Clinton, who already has the blood of so many on her hands, is now announcing that she is willing to put each and every one of our lives in harm's way. An open-door policy to criminals and terrorists to enter our country. Hillary is not concerned about you or I.

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Hillary Clinton


Input: Fatima said that a month after the use of this metal tool to punish her sister “the bruises and scars are still visible on her arm.” She quoted her sister as saying that “the biting punishment is more painful than labour pains.” Other witnesses describe the Biter as operating like an animal trap, or a metal jaw with teeth that cut into the flesh. It is difficult and dangerous to escape from Mosul, which Isis has held since capturing it from the Iraqi army in June 2014. But people from the city, who have had themselves smuggled across the border to Syria and then to Kurdish-controlled territory known as Rojava in the past two months, all confirm that living conditions have deteriorated sharply. There are serious shortages of almost everything including food, fuel, water and electricity. Timeline: The emergence of Isis

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Input: Ukrainian political experts say Manafort, 67, was first hired to work in Ukraine more than a decade ago by the country’s wealthiest businessman, Rinat Akhmetov. Akhmetov, (right), a steel and iron ore magnate, is worth an estimated $ 2.8 billion, according to Forbes. Officially, Manafort advised Akhmetov in 2005 on a corporate communication strategy for one of his companies, System Capital Management. Akhmetov, however, also was a supporter of Viktor Yanukovych, the country’s prime minister, a leader of the Party of Regions and an ally of Vladimir Putin. Yanukovych became president in 2010, but fled under escort to Russia after Ukraine’s 2014 revolution.

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Input: The Germans and a man called ' Curveball ' Germany’s political leaders vigorously opposed the war. German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder joined with the French in refusing to sanction the use of force." We can disarm Iraq without war," he declared in February 2003. Meanwhile, the United States was also absorbing information from the German intelligence service, or BND.

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Input: "We received the report just after Christmas," Wim de Bruin, a spokesman for the Dutch prosecutor's office said." We will seriously study it and determine whether it can be used for the criminal inquiry," de Bruin said. Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was downed over war-torn eastern Ukraine on July 17 2014 by a BUK surface-to-air missile, killing all 298 onboard, air crash investigators said last October. Western nations and Ukraine say the missile was fired from pro-Russian separatist-held territory, but Moscow denies the claim, pointing the finger instead at the Ukrainian military. The Netherlands have launched a criminal probe into those responsible for the shooting, but many experts doubt whether it will succeed.

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Input: ... What I also said many months ago is that, for a variety of reasons, Debbie Wasserman Schultz should not be chair of the DNC. And I think these emails reiterate that reason why she should not be chair. I think she should resign, period. And I think we need a new chair who is going to lead us in a very different direction. AMY GOODMAN: WikiLeaks has not revealed the source of the leaked emails, although in June a hacker using the name Guccifer 2.0 claimed responsibility for the hacking into the DNC’s computer network.

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Input: Related: Russia Denies ' War Crimes ' After Hospitals and Schools Were Bombed in Syria The spokesperson said that due to "operational security," they could not confirm details about ground operations involving the Syrian Democratic Forces, a predominantly Kurdish alliance that also counts Arab forces in its ranks. But Abdulrahman said the coalition strikes clearly coincided with fighting this week between Kurdish troops and Islamic State in Hasakah governorate. The Russian military has been criticized for killing civilians in large numbers in Syria, a claim it denies. At least 200 civilians were killed in just six attacks in Homs, Idlib, and Aleppo governorates between September and November, according to Amnesty International, while one Syrian rights group says more than 1,000 civilians have been killed by Russian warplanes since the start of its campaign.

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Input: Declaring a war on anything Islamic is not likely to enhance those alliances necessary for confronting ISIS on the ground. As part of the plan he touted on Tuesday night, Trump also calls for “new screening procedures” for immigrants from “volatile regions of the world that have a history of exporting terrorism.” Whatever the merits of this move, it would not affect the effort to break ISIS’s strongholds in Iraq, Syria, and Libya. Ditto for the provision in Trump’s proposal to establish a “Commission on Radical Islam to identify and explain to the American public the core convictions and beliefs of Radical Islam.” (By the way, a decade ago, Trump called for a quick pullout of US troops from Iraq, saying he did n’t care if this would lead to an increase in bloodshed and terrorism.) The core of Trump’s plan for blasting ISIS is exactly what’s already underway — and it’s also what Hillary Clinton proposes. On Clinton’s website, she outlines her approach for kicking ISIS in the teeth.

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Input: Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko (R) and Dutch ambassador to Ukraine Kees Klompenhouwer commemorate victims of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 outside the Dutch embassy in Kiev July 21, 2014. REUTERS / Valentyn Ogirenko A Malaysian air crash investigator inspects the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, near the village of Hrabove (Grabovo), Donetsk region July 22, 2014. REUTERS / Maxim Zmeyev A pro-Russian separatist shows members of the media a black box belonging to Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, before its handover to Malaysian representatives, in Donetsk July 22, 2014.

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Input: Whenever I tell people where I have been, they ask," Where is that?" If I offer a clue by referring to "Bikini", they say," You mean the swimsuit." Few seem aware that the bikini swimsuit was named to celebrate the nuclear explosions that destroyed Bikini island. Sixty-six nuclear devices were exploded by the United States in the Marshall Islands between 1946 and 1958 -- the equivalent of 1.6 Hiroshima bombs every day for twelve years. Bikini is silent today, mutated and contaminated.

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Input: Although no one was charged, FBI Director James Comey was unequivocal that Clinton and her aides acted “extremely carelessly.” “If a client came to me with these kinds of allegations related to their prior use of classified information, I would say, ‘You have less than a 20 percent chance of surviving,’” Moss said. Comey on Tuesday rejected criminal charges against Clinton or her aides, but he laid out a damning litany of violations, including the transmission of classified information through her private, unsecured email server. Two days after the FBI director's remarks, the State Department announced that it was reopening its internal investigation into how Clinton and her staff handled classified information. Republicans — outraged that Clinton appears to have escaped unscathed from the roiling scandal over her use of an unauthorized server — have seized on the security clearance issue as a fresh line of attack on the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.

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Input: The European Commission will propose this month granting visa-free travel to Ukrainians despite a Dutch referendum vote against an EU-Ukraine agreement partly motivated by hostility to migration, a senior EU source said. Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker promised Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in March that the EU executive would put forward the eagerly awaited proposal in April, offering Ukrainians the most tangible benefit of closer ties at a time when a free trade deal has not yet borne fruit for their economy. Ukraine has passed the major hurdles toward visa-free travel and now expects the EU to make its move.

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Input: New York Democrat Hakeem Jeffries called that episode, and the 25-hour sit-in over gun control, ' probably the two most dramatic moments that we’ve had in the House since the government shutdown ' in 2013." -- “How do you stop migrants? In Hungary, with ‘border hunters,’” by Anthony Faiola: “During a recruiting fair at a police proving ground here, a gaggle of teenagers ogled a display of machine guns, batons and riot gear. A glossy flier held out the promise of rugged patrols in 4x4s … night-vision goggles and migrant-sniffing dogs. Because that’s how Hungary’s new ‘border hunters’ roll.

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Input: "Today there's no bombardment on the neighborhoods in the city, until now. We don't know what will happen in an hour," said Ammar al-Selmo, head of the civil defense rescue organization in Aleppo. A Syrian military source said the army had captured several important positions on Sheikh Saeed's hilltop, but rebels said later those gains had been reversed and that insurgents still held the area. Later in the day a number of air strikes hit areas of Sheikh Saeed, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group reported. Syrian state TV meanwhile reported that rebel shelling of government-held neighborhoods killed four people and wounded many more.

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Input: The head of the center and several others were badly injured. KERRY 'S GAMBLE The week-old attempt at a ceasefire, negotiated by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, could be the final attempt by U.S. President Barack Obama to negotiate an end to Syria's civil war. Kerry called on Moscow to halt Syrian government airstrikes, including on aid convoys, and indicated that the United States had not received official word from Russia that the ceasefire deal was dead." The Russians made the agreement.

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Input: The movement stuffed with people who believe that sex is dirty and women who have it willingly should pay the price. Ideally by being forced to carry a pregnancy to term. If not, then by means of trans-vaginal ultrasounds, pointless enforced waiting periods, targeted domestic and professional harassment, and the real threat of jail if anything goes wrong. It’s about hurting women who have the gall to believe that they get to decide what happens to their bodies. Trump just had the grotesque decency to say it out loud for a hot minute.

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Input: He was a more forceful type, reported Sullivan to Washington, but "no fanatic". Three days later, Khomeini himself made a direct appeal to the White House." It is advisable that you recommend to the army not to follow Bakhtiar," wrote Khomeini in his "first first-person" message on 27 January. Khomeini, in effect, had three requests: smooth the way for his return, press the constitutional government to resign, and force the military to capitulate. The ayatollah also included a subtle warning that if the army cracked down, his followers would direct their violence against US citizens in Iran.

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Input: They hope to deprive him of the nomination on the first ballot, opening up a window of opportunity for some other candidate to swoop in. Their case has been buttressed by the turmoil that has engulfed the Trump campaign. The billionaire began Monday by firing his campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, and ended it with the release of dismal fundraising numbers. He lags presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton Hillary Rodham ClintonWhat do Democrats stand for? THE MEMO: For Trump, danger signs in the polls McAuliffe touts buildup of cyber defenses in the states MORE by around 6 points in most national polls, and many Republicans are gravely concerned about his lack of campaign infrastructure.

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Input: Update: Trump Jr. now says he was just joking with the plagiarism accusation: Trump Jr. is apparently learning from his father, as making ill-advised comments and then later characterizing them as jokes is something Trump Sr. has repeatedly done. In fact, he did it just this morning in response to controversy generated by a Wednesday news conference where he encouraged Russian hackers to find Hillary Clinton’s deleted emails. Other examples include Trump Sr. saying he was “obviously” just joking when he said he could “stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I would n’t lose any voters,” that time he said he was “just having fun” when he called Ted Cruz a “pussy,” and another occasion when he told Megyn Kelly many of the horrible things he’s said about women were just examples of him “kidding.”

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Input: The dispute over alleged conflicts of interest at the foundation ultimately degenerated into a highly personal dust-up between Chelsea Clinton and Band. Chelsea Clinton insisted that her goals in initiating the outside review were to “professionalize the Foundation, build it for the future and build it in such a way that supported his [Bill Clinton’s] work and mom’s.” However, she also complained that Band had agitated her father by pressing to preserve Teneo’s ties, including in a phone call on the day Hillary Clinton’s mother, Dorothy Rodham, passed away. “I can not believe Doug did this on the day my grandmother died,” Chelsea Clinton complained to several top Clinton advisers. Soon thereafter, Band complained to Podesta that Chelsea Clinton’s demands for changes at the foundation were causing undue stress to various foundation officials, including Clinton Foundation CEO Bruce Lindsey, who suffered a stroke around that time.

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Input: "What they are doing is a gift to ISIL (Islamic State) and (Nusra Front), the groups that they claim that they want to stop," she said. Russia has also accused the United States of "de facto support for terrorism" in Syria. As Washington threatens to walk away from talks with Russia on Syria unless the fighting stops, Britain's U.N. Ambassador Matthew Rycroft told reporters it was time "to move to a different form of diplomacy," pointing to the Security Council. Rycroft also dismissed a Russian proposal for a 48-hour humanitarian pause in fighting in Aleppo.

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Input: Perjury Trump has often stated that Clinton's controversial private email server was "criminal." It's unclear whether the server itself was, but some conservatives have argued that Clinton could have been prosecuted for perjury were it determined that she misled Congress on that matter or her handling of the 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya. The FBI and the Justice Department did not pursue charges against Clinton in July after an exhaustive months-long investigation into her use of the email server." She committed a crime," Trump insisted this month.

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Input: Among the G20 countries other than the United States, the only one where Mr. Trump bested Ms. Clinton was Russia. That Ms. Clinton would win in a global contest against Mr. Trump, despite the reservations some hold about her, partially reflects bigger concerns that many foreigners have about the billionaire businessman’s fiery rhetoric and policy positions. It is no coincidence that the G20 country where she received most support was Mexico, which Mr. Trump has widely assailed as part of his incredible proposal to build a border wall. Aside from the anti-Trump effect, however, many want Ms. Clinton as president given the strong role she played as secretary of state in the Obama administration in helping to restore the U.S. reputation in the world following George W. Bush’s presidency. In 2009, Mr. Obama and Ms. Clinton confronted a situation in which anti-U.S. sentiment was at about its highest levels since at least the Vietnam War, a situation that could be repeated if Donald Trump were elected in November.

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Input: The Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Turkey's democracy must be respected, according to the Kyodo news agency. Turkey closed the three border crossings with Bulgaria, the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry said, reiterating its appeal to Bulgarians to avoid traveling to its southern neighbor. Mexico, Japan, South Korea and India also urged nationals not to travel to Turkey, while countries including Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand urged citizens in Turkey to be vigilant, stay indoors and keep tabs on local media. (Additonal reporting by Parisa Hafezi in Ankara, Lesley Wroughton and Mark Hosenball in Washington, Kinda Makieh in Damascus, Tsvetelia Tsolova in Sofia and Vladimir Soldatkin in Moscow, Leika Kihara in Tokyo, Ben Blanchard in Beijing, Natalie Thomas in UlaanBaatar, Robin Emmott in Brussels, Editing by Mary Milliken, Lincoln Feast and Elaine Hardcastle)

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Input: While the rest of the nations lived by the sword, the ancient Hebrews exercised brotherly love and attempted to love their neighbors as themselves. And while the world nurtured individualism, the Hebrews fostered selflessness. Our ancestors were an eclectic “bunch.” They did not come from a specific tribe or locality, but were a collection of individuals who took to the idea that mercy and brotherly love were the tenets by which to live. Unlike their Babylonian and Canaanite contemporaries, they did not try to hurl ego against ego to see who was left standing. They had come from just such societies and no longer wanted to live this way. Instead, they acknowledged that the ego, which they termed “evil inclination,” is indeed evil, that it is an inherent trait (“ evil crouches at the door”), and that the one way to overcome it is to cover it with love.

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Input: That would be a mistake, McGeorge said. The public knows that programs like XKeyscore exist and what types of data they collect, but not precisely how they work. The NSA likely would n’t be able to reveal evidence of Russian involvement without also disclosing the specifics of their surveillance capabilities. “The NSA could say, ‘Yes we know the Russians did it.’ Would that be enough to satisfy the public? Or would they have to somehow say how they made that determination?” McGeorge said.

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Input: Republican legislators also asked about posts on Reddit by Paul Combetta, a Platte River Networks employee who worked on Clinton’s server, soliciting advice in 2014 about removing a VIP’s email address from archived messages. The legislators said that seemed obviously to refer to Clinton and might have been evidence of a coverup. Comey said investigators had looked at the posts, and he noted that nothing was deleted after the FBI began investigating. Combetta deleted a batch of emails in 2015 after a congressional committee investigating the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, had requested they be preserved, and Comey made clear Monday that Combetta wanted — and received — immunity because of that. “That’s why the guy would n’t talk to us without immunity,” Comey said.

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Input: Israeli archaeologists found the site of a fierce battle where the Roman army bombarded and breached the walls of Jerusalem before conquering the city and destroying the Second Temple almost 2,000 years ago, officials said Thursday. They said that the discovery, made last winter during an excavation of a construction site for the new campus of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design outside the Old City, also finally confirmed the description of the wall that was breached provided by the historian Josephus Flavius. During the dig, the archaeologists found the remains of a tower surrounded by scores of stones and boulders fired by Roman catapults at the Jewish forces guarding the wall, the Israel Antiquities Authority said in a statement.

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Input: “So I clearly relate to the thinking behind the Brexit vote, behind ‘leave.’” Britain’s stunning decision to leave the 28-nation EU roiled global markets and led to the resignation of Prime Minister David Cameron. But like he said in a statement last week, Ryan reiterated that the U.S. will stand with its close ally as it negotiates an exit from the EU. “What is important for us as Americans … is to show solidarity with the people of Great Britain, to demonstrate that they are still our ally, our indispensible ally, our special relationship is intact,” Ryan said Monday, “so that we can continue to have a peaceful landing here, so we can sort of settle down the jittery markets, because we do n’t want to see economic turmoil as a result of this.” President Obama opposed Brexit and urged British voters not to leave the EU during a visit earlier this year.

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Input: It was a year deep in the Cold War, a time when the world was closer to nuclear war than ever. There were myriad provocations, red lines were violated, airspace was infringed upon and a plane was shot down. The situation was such that an accidentally fired missile or a submarine captain losing his cool would have been enough to trigger World War III. It was 1962, the year of the Cuban Missile Crisis -- an incident the current Russian prime minister finds himself reminded of today.

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Input: “What I really want to see is Hillary Clinton talking about the issues. If she keeps talking about the issues, I think a lot of Sanders supporters could eventually get behind her.” Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE Reporters Maureen Feighan and Jonathan Oosting discuss the final two days of the Democratic National Convention Leesha Fagan of Grand Rapids said it was “beautiful” to see Sanders speak Thursday morning. She even brought posters she designed for Sanders and gave him one.

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Input: But that wo n’t happen. CHUCK TODD So you’re not doing a one-term pledge? DONALD TRUMP No, I’m not going to do a one-term pledge.

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Input: This approach leaves Syria as a broken country and a breeding ground for extremists for decades. Instead of focusing on Iraq in 2003, Obama should have thought more about what happened there in 1991. In the north, we protected the Kurds -- in the south, we were not intervening while the Shia were slaughtered and gassed by Saddam Hussein. To stay back from an intervention is not always a good solution. SPIEGEL: Meanwhile, structures of IS are being relatively successfully attacked in Iraq and Syria.

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Input: Turkey-US relations “are medium sugar now,” Prime Minister Binali Yildirim told journalists over the weekend, referring to a semi-sweet version of Turkish coffee. Noting that the US is a strategic ally and that “every family experiences problems,” he said Biden “is coming to Turkey to make the coffee sugary.” Top of Turkey’s agenda will be demands for the extradition from Pennsylvania of Fethullah Gülen, a cleric and friend-turned-foe of Erdoğan whose return to Turkey to face charges has become a litmus test for improving US-Turkey ties. During 16 years in exile in the Pocono Mountains, Mr. Gülen has marshaled a network of followers – accused of infiltrating all pillars of the Turkish state – who are widely blamed here for the coup attempt. Tens of thousands of Turks have been purged from the bureaucracy, judiciary, and military, with some 17,740 arrested at last count on suspicion of links to what Turks now call the “Fethullah Terrorist Organization,” or FETÖ.

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Input: In a strongly-worded statement, European football's governing body said it would not hesitate to impose sanctions on either Russia or England should such violence occur again. Measures included the potential disqualification of their respective teams from the tournament, it said. Image copyright PA Image caption Some Russia supporters had smuggled in flares which they set off at the end of the match Image copyright PA Image caption A number of Russia fans rushed towards England fans at the end of the match Image copyright AP Image caption Some wearing scarves over their faces, while others wore mouth guards and fighting gloves, one witness said

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Input: Bayrock’s CEO was Tevfik Arif, a Kazakhstan-born former deputy head of the Soviet Ministry of Commerce’s hotel department, who had made money running high-end tourist hotels in Turkey. The deal failed — in part because of Arif’s choice of Soviet-born Felix Sater (later Satter) to run Bayrock’s Moscow operation. Sater had served prison time for slashing a man’s face in a 1991 Manhattan brawl—“He got into trouble because he got into a barroom fight which a lot of people do,” Trump once said in a court deposition — and in 1998 was convicted for fraud over associations with White Rock Partners, a Mafia-connected New York stock brokerage. (Arif was detained in Turkey in October 2010 on suspicion of organizing sex parties for wealthy businessmen and Eastern European models aboard a $ 60 million yacht once used by the nation’s founder, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, according to charges filed by prosecutor Yusuf Hakki Dogan. Arif was cleared of all charges the following year.)

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Input: Donald Trump has denigrated Mexicans and Muslims, threatened to break international prohibitions on torture and shown a shocking disregard for the importance of a free press. But none of that may be as disqualifying for the presidency as his casual attitude toward the use of nuclear weapons ― particularly in light of a news report from Wednesday morning. The report came from Joe Scarborough, the host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” during a segment about national security issues that featured former CIA director Michael Hayden.

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Input: They yell and abuse and bully. And their most important quality is absolute loyalty to the great leader, the star of the show. … Trump, more than most, needs to surround himself with people who compensate for his alarming weaknesses. Instead, his choices demonstrate and amplify those weaknesses, becoming one more reason to utterly reject his leadership.” -- Shot: Maine Gov.

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Input: The protests were met with tear gas and bullets, but were soon attracting tens of thousands of people. On March 30, 2011, Assad addressed the nation from the rotunda of the Syrian parliament building. He had just sacked his cabinet, and many people expected him to announce liberalizing reforms. Instead, he declared his intention to suppress dissent in the brutal tradition of his father, Hafez al-Assad. “Syria is facing a great conspiracy, whose tentacles extend” to foreign powers that were plotting to destroy the country, he said.

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Input: Monitors at the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which tracks violence on all sides in the civil war, said barrel bombs fell on Saraqeb late on Monday, wounding a large number of citizens. Russia’s defense ministry said a Russian helicopter was shot down near Saraqeb during the day on Monday, killing all five people on board, in the biggest officially acknowledged loss of life for Russian forces since they started operations in Syria. Ammar Abdullah / Reuters Men inspect the wreckage of a Russian helicopter that was shot down north of Syria's rebel-held Idlib province. DENIALS The helicopter came down roughly mid-way between Aleppo and Russia’s main air base at Khmeimim in the western province of Latakia, near the Mediterranean coast.

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Input: But if Hillary Clinton gets elected, many top Russian officials believe that will make the possibility of nuclear war much more likely. For instance, just consider what Vladimir Zhirinovsky told Reuters earlier this week … Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a flamboyant veteran lawmaker known for his fiery rhetoric, told Reuters in an interview that Trump was the only person able to de-escalate dangerous tensions between Moscow and Washington. By contrast, Trump’s Democratic rival Hillary Clinton could spark World War Three, said Zhirinovsky, who received a top state award from Putin after his pro-Kremlin Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) came third in Russia’s parliamentary election last month. And anyone that watched the second debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump got to see the intense disdain that Clinton has for Russia.

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Input: They viewed Mr. Trump’s comments on NATO as an abandonment of America’s most significant alliance relationship. Mr. Trump has said throughout his campaign that he intends to upend Republican foreign policy orthodoxy on everything from trade to Russia, where he has been complimentary of President Vladimir V. Putin, saying nothing about its crackdown on human rights and little about its annexation of Crimea. The sharp split in the Republican Party raises the question of whom Mr. Trump will turn to for institutional memory if he is elected. The officials he denounced made plenty of mistakes, some of which they acknowledge and some they gloss over. But they are also the party’s repository of experience of economic, diplomatic and military strategies, both successful and failed.

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Input: The Guangdong coast is also believed to be home to some of China's most advanced missiles, including the DF-21D anti-ship weapon. The Pentagon last month called on China to reaffirm it has no plans to deploy military aircraft in the Spratly Islands after China used a military plane to evacuate sick workers from Fiery Cross Reef, where it has built a 9,800-foot (3,000 meter) runway. In April 2001, an intercept of a U.S. spy plane by a Chinese fighter jet resulted in a collision that killed the Chinese pilot and forced the American plane to make an emergency landing at a base on Hainan. The 24 U.S. air crew members were held for 11 days until Washington apologized for the incident. That encounter soured U.S.-Chinese relations in the early days of President George W. Bush's first administration.

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Input: And it’s worth noting that there is no corresponding right for labor unions or environmental groups or humanitarian nongovernmental organizations to issue the same kind of challenges. A more specific objection to the way the TPP has come together involves Malaysia, a linchpin partner in the trade agreement. The Southeast Asian nation is well-known on the world stage as being among the worst actors in terms of human trafficking and slave labor. Rather than use the TPP as the basis to force Malaysia to embark on much-needed reform, the State Department ― which previously ranked the nation as a “Tier 3” violator of human trafficking laws (a certification that would have prohibited it from being part of the partnership) ― conveniently reclassified the nation as a mere “Tier 2” violator, thus allowing it to participate. So, the U.S. government withdrew a vital human rights “stick” and fed Malaysia a bunch of “carrots” it had not earned.

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Input: The project was shelved following the November jet crisis. Turkey, which is the second biggest consumer of Russian gas after Germany, imports around 30 billion cubic meters of gas from Russia annually via two pipelines; the Blue Stream and the western line. The private sector in Turkey imports 10 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas per year, representing over 30 percent of Russia's gas exports to Turkey. Upon a question on Turkish-Russian joint investment funds, Cavusoglu said the idea came up during the Erdogan-Putin meeting to pave the way for businesspeople to take over major projects." Turkish businessmen have investments in Russia and Russian businessmen want to make business with Turkish businessmen in several countries," Cavusoglu said.

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Turkey


Input: Democrat friends of mine who are involved in the Clinton effort readily acknowledge the state is changing. Since 2012 there's been a 200,000 vote shift in registration in Pennsylvania away from the Democrats and towards the Republicans. Similarly in Florida, since 2012, there's been a 300,000 vote change in registration towards the Republicans and away from the Democrats, in a state that Barack Obama won by 94,000 votes last time around. These states are going to be in contention. But one of the reasons why they’re going to be in contention all the way to end is both major political parties are being disrupted.

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Input: RC: Well, you do n’t have a great belief in these international institutions. DT: No, because we seem to get ripped off by everybody. We seem to always be the one that pays the bill and gets the least. And we’re going to stop doing that. BW: But you’re talking about reform of NATO, are n’t you, rather than.

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Input: While Comey did n’t cite any specific country or group, U.S. officials and cybersecurity specialists have raised the possibility that foreign hackers -- particularly those linked to the Russian government -- might try to hack into voting systems, possibly to meddle with U.S. elections this November. FBI Alert The bureau is investigating hacking attacks on at least two state election boards, one of which resulted in data being stolen, according to an Aug. 18 alert from the agency’s cyber division. Hackers suspected of working on behalf of the Russian government have attacked political groups, including the Democratic National Committee, as well as think tanks and political operatives in Washington. Top congressional Democrats have asked Comey to investigate whether the Russian government is trying to undermine U.S. elections through hacking, and whether there is a direct connection between the attacks and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign.

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Input: And the Venezuelan government has accused Washington of inciting conflict so it can take control of the largest oil reserves in the world. This even as at it continues to sell oil to the United States, which means by its own logic it is filling the tank of its imagined invader. The truth is, though, that while oil imports from Venezuela represent only about 9% of American needs, the United States remains the biggest buyer of Venezuelan oil exports. Do the math and you can see why the government's rhetoric is divorced from economic reality. Cuba, which blames the infamous U.S. embargo for all its problems, has managed to restore diplomatic relations with the United States after some 50 years.

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Input: She lies to get out of trouble and fool the press and voters. But she also lies gratuitously — when it's not required to avoid trouble. Face to face with the parents of CIA commandos who were killed in Benghazi while protecting Ambassador Chris Stevens, Clinton lied. She said an anti-Islam video had prompted the fatal attack, which she knew wasn't true, when she could have simply expressed her condolences. Clinton has a masochistic relationship with the media.

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Input: McCain asked Defense Secretary Ash Carter to investigate Tobey’s remarks, and soon after, the Pentagon’s inspector general opened an investigation into the possibility that the Pentagon rigged the bidding to favor ULA. ULA has vigorously defended itself, and continues to tout its service. Bruno has said that record of consistency should count for something in bidding battles against SpaceX, and that the layoffs ULA announced in April are part of a bid to become more competitive. Representatives for SpaceX declined to comment on the record for this article. One thing ULA has going for it is powerful allies in Congress, particularly from the Alabama and Colorado delegations.

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Input: "It is the same member of this Council that has recently caused a new wave of massive displacement due to its continued aerial bombardments especially in north and northwest Syria." Those responsible for such abhorrent violations of international law are not in a position to lecture anyone," Çevik said." The Syrian regime continues to resort to all means to prolong its grip on power, keeps employing all instruments of force and violence available to itself, be it chemical weapons, barrel bombs, ballistic missiles, targeted killings, arbitrary detentions, torture, systematic abuse, starvation and forced displacement," Çevik added. He also raised concern about intensified Russian aerial bombardments targeting civilians in Syria, noting that such airstrikes had targeted hospitals and schools in the past 24 hours. The UN says up to 50 civilians, including children, were killed in attacks against five hospitals and two schools in Aleppo and Idlib on Monday.

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Input: Henry said the owners of this hidden capital were often so keen to secure secrecy and avoid their wealth being appropriated back home, that they were willing to accept paltry financial returns rather than investing it in ways that might promote economic development. Charging just 1% tax on this mountain of offshore wealth would yield more than $ 120bn a year, almost equivalent to the entire $ 131bn global aid budget. The TJN is urging Cameron to push for agreement on a series of issues at anti-corruption summit on Thursday, including a tougher crackdown on the banks, lawyers and other professionals who facilitate financial secrecy and an obligation on all politicians to make their personal financial situation transparent. The project is an update, for developing countries, on 2012 research which showed that, worldwide, more than $ 20tn was stashed away offshore. Henry said the number of tax havens had continued to increase over the period he studied, despite growing public pressure for action.

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Input: A Wada-commissioned report found urine samples of Russian competitors were manipulated across the "vast majority" of summer and winter Olympic sports from late 2011 to August 2015. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will decide on Tuesday whether to provisionally ban Russia from the Rio Olympics, which start on 5 August. IOC president Thomas Bach will host a telephone conference call to decide on "provisional measures and sanctions". The 62-year -old German lawyer and former Olympic fencing champion has promised the "toughest sanctions available". He said the findings of the report are a "shocking and unprecedented attack on the integrity of sport and on the Olympic Games".

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Input: The report included detailed satellite photos of disputed South China Sea islands where military facilities are being built. Last year, China sped up island building in the Spratly Islands, claimed by China, Philippines, Taiwan, and other states in the region. In early October, island building was completed and the Chinese began building infrastructure including three 9,800-foot runways, communications, and surveillance gear. The construction indicates China “is attempting to bolster its de facto control by improving military and civilian infrastructure in the South China Seas.” The airfields, harbors, and resupply facilities will allow China to “detect and challenge” rival claimants to the island and increase the military capabilities available to China and short their deployment times.

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Input: Still unclear, Gerwin said, is whether the duties would also apply to foreign competitors who ship similar products to the United States or if only American companies would be the victims of Trump’s ire. “It’s so incredibly poorly thought out,” he said. The WTO was created in 1994, as a successor to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade that governed global trade for nearly 50 years after World War II. But unlike the GATT, the WTO has a binding dispute settlement system that allows countries to bring their trade complaints before a neutral body for resolution. Countries have filed more than 500 disputes at the WTO over the past 22 years, including 110 brought by the United States.

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

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Input: The Pentagon is mostly funneling resources to Kurdish troops in northern Syria, while the CIA is providing TOW missiles to rebel groups from its base of operations out of Turkey. Kurdish troops are mainly focused on taking out the Islamic State, but the CIA is covertly keeping the pressure on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Both groups are now skirmishing as they close in on Aleppo. Playing chess in Syria is n’t going according to Washington’s plans. After a wildly successful air campaign against rebel groups, the Russians have largely pulled their forces out of the region, leaving only key air support assets to support Damascus.

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Input: "The democratic order in Turkey must be respected. Everything needs to be done to protect human lives," Merkel's spokesman Steffen Seibert said on Twitter. Ties between Turkey and Germany-vital partners in efforts to curb mass migration to Europe-have been strained since Germany passed a resolution in June branding the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman forces as genocide. Ankara recalled its ambassador and threatened unspecified retaliation. Iran, a Shi'ite Muslim nation which has long been a regional rival to Sunni majority Turkey, said on Friday it was deeply concerned about the crisis in the neighboring country.

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Input: Falluja was a key hotbed in the insurgency that raged in Iraq after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and saw two separate large-scale offensives by the US military in 2004 that destroyed much of the city. Isis may face Falluja bloodbath, but new offensive shows power to spread terror Read more This time, an estimated 50,000 civilians remain trapped and besieged, facing starvation. At the weekend, a local police chief told the media that Isis had been using residents of villages on the outskirts of the city as human shields, raising fears that the militant group could do the same again to slow the Iraqi military’s offensive. The UN high commissioner for refugees said 800 civilians had so far fled Falluja, often travelling on foot and escaping through disused irrigation pipes.

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Input: From the USSR to Venezuela, experience reveals Sanders ' policies wouldn't enrich anyone but a ruling elite. A man holds a model of an empty refrigerator to protest food shortages in Caracas, Venezuela, on May 14, 2016. (Photo: Ariana Cubillos, AP) It is a common misconception that socialism is about helping poor people.

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Input: Finally this campaign can get back on track with Paul Manafort in charge, said the arms dealer holding a briefcase of cash. — Rory Cooper (@rorycooper) June 20, 2016 Firing Lewandowski = big move by @realDonaldTrump 2 overhaul campaign. But doesn't account 4 fact that Trump's been running show all along. — David M. Drucker (@DavidMDrucker) June 20, 2016

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Input: Candidates Martin O'Malley, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders take part in t he final Democratic presidential debate before the caucuses. Candidates Martin O'Malley, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders take part in t he final Democratic presidential debate before the caucuses. Here are six takeaways from the final Democratic debate before the first votes are cast in Iowa and New Hampshire: Sanders = Trump It's not often you hear Sanders say the words "my good friend Donald Trump" -- but the two have something in common: Their tones match a moment of anger within the electorate.

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Input: They exploded nine seconds apart. Another explosion took place just over an hour later in the middle carriage of a three-carriage train at Maalbeek metro station. 35 340 Istanbul January 12, 2016 Suicide bomber detonates in the city's tourist-heavy historical centre Nabil Fadli, a Syrian member of the Islamic State walked up to a tour group standing in Sultanahmet Square and blew himself up. Most of the victims were German but also came from Peru, South Korea and Norway.

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Input: At a rally in Pennsylvania, the Republican nominee read from one alleged e-mail with the subject line “The Truth,” about the Benghazi attack, which was quickly debunked as a piece of Russian propaganda. Wikileaks, which has obtained several of its leaks from a hacker believed to be a front for Russian intelligence, has frequently been accused of acting in coordination with the Kremlin to tilt the U.S. presidential election in favor of Donald Trump. “It is absolutely disgraceful that the Trump campaign is cheering on a release today engineered by Vladimir Putin to interfere in this election, and this comes after Donald Trump encouraged more espionage over the summer and continued to deny the hack even happened at Sunday’s debate,” Glen Caplin, a spokesperson for the Clinton campaign, said in a statement Monday. “The timing shows you that even Putin knows Trump had a bad weekend and a bad debate.” But regardless of the motivations behind the Wikileaks dump, many of the leaked e-mails do appear to be genuine, based upon the reactions of the Clinton campaign, and do have the potential to slow the former secretary of state’s momentum at a time when she is surging in the polls.

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Input: These are all the Obama administration’s positions, so she hasn't moved right. And she did also defend the Iran deal and caution that Trump, if in office, could end up starting a war. But Clinton’s continuing centrism on foreign policy should n’t obscure what she’s proposing on domestic policy. On that front, this is an agenda that Sanders can — and did — enthusiastically sign on to. This is how Clinton is responding to a resurgent left.

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Input: The SEC returned to court demanding that he disclose all of his accounts, including “any entity associated with Mossack Fonseca Group.” The securities agency filed copies of emails between Kapur and a Mossack Fonseca affiliate, Mossfon Trust, in which he discussed buying a “vintage shelf corporation.” Mossfon offered Kapur companies for as little as $ 5,750. In July, U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer jailed Kapur for contempt until he pays the judgment. Engelmayer said the SEC “has developed compelling evidence that Kapur possesses and has access to significant assets” and ordered that he be “incarcerated until he purges the contempt.” Kapur is locked up in a federal detention center in Brooklyn. According to court records, Kapur testified that he did not purchase the companies for himself, but did so on behalf of ThinkStrategy clients so “they could avoid Know Your Customer requirements,” governing information financial firms must collect about their customers. Kapur’s lawyer did not respond to emails or phone messages on Tuesday.

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Input: “Hillary Clinton took me through hell,” she told the Daily Beast. 18) Hill ca$hes in: Iranian fundraising As WND recently reported, Hillary received funds from an arm of the Iranian government and hired a convicted Iranian-American multimillionaire with ties to Tehran as her national campaign finance director in 2008. The Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation accepted $ 30,000 between April 2005 and March 2006 and another contribution of between $ 25,000 and $ 50,000 in 2008 from the New York-based Alavi Foundation, which U.S. government prosecutors have identified as an arm of the Iranian government. For her 2008 presidential campaign, Clinton hired Hassan Nemazee as her national campaign finance director, who was known for his efforts to normalize relations with the theocratic Iranian regime.

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Input: On Monday, the FBI announced that it was investigating the hack into the Democratic National Committee. At about the same time, it was also reported that FBI officials believe that the hack was committed by the Russian government, and was undertaken with the intent of aiding Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. (The release of the stolen data by WikiLeaks has already caused discord in the Democratic Party on the eve of its convention in Philadelphia; over the weekend, the chair of the DNC, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, resigned from her post.) As Franklin Foer reported in Slate, Trump has a long history of cozying up to Russia and its leader, Vladimir Putin. (Trump recently stated that the United States may not honor its NATO obligations if a member state was attacked by Russia.)

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Input: “Our colleagues from Washington have tried to cover up their inability to fulfill their own obligations with verbal attacks on Russia,” he said. Russia on Friday is marking the one year since it launched its air campaign in Syria in support of Syrian President Bashar Assad. In light of that, the Russian Foreign Ministry issued a warning to Russians abroad about possible “provocations,” urging them to exercise caution. The diplomatic tension follows Kerry’s warning that the U.S. will stop coordinating with Moscow unless Russian and Syrian attacks on Aleppo end. Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov was quoted by Russian news agencies as saying of the U.S. that “a certain emotional breakdown occurred.”

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Input: Expect to see lots of appearances in battleground states such as Ohio, North Carolina, Florida and Pennsylvania Voters will go to the polls on Tuesday 8 November to decide who becomes the 45th president of the US The new president will be inaugurated on 20 January 2017 More on the US election

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Input: … Lewandowski quickly built a strong rapport with Trump by treating him with absolute reverence, unfailingly referring to him as ‘Mr. Trump’ or ‘Sir’ — even when Trump was n’t around — and encouraging him to act on his bombastic instincts. But he’d grown increasingly reckless in his power struggles … And he’d already told associates more than once in the past few months that he was on the verge of quitting. So when he was informed he was being relieved of his once-dream job, Lewandowski did n’t argue. ‘The gloves had come off a while ago, and Corey spent a lot of energy fighting, which took away from the campaign,’ said one Lewandowski associate.

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Input: But Texas is n’t where the presidential election will be won. Report: British gunman had ties to U.S.-based neo-Nazi group: “The man detained by police in connection with the killing of a rising star of British politics had longstanding ties to a U.S.-based neo-Nazi organization and, in the past, had ordered a how-to guide for assembling a homemade gun, according to a watchdog group that tracks extremist behavior,” the Washington Post writes. “The revelation came as police on Friday continued to investigate the motive behind the killing of the British lawmaker, Jo Cox, who was stabbed and shot midday Thursday in an attack that stunned the nation and led to a suspension of the European Union referendum campaign just a week before the vote. Cox had been a strong advocate of an inclusive and multicultural Britain amid a wave of hostility toward immigrants that is helping to fuel the anti-E.U. campaign.” Folks, this is a big vote -- for Britain, Europe, and the United States.

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Input: You avoid surprises by painstakingly planning for every possible line of questioning and attack. Debates are remembered for just one moment, and most of the time it is a moment that one of the participants was not prepared for. Michael Dukakis was ready to talk about his opposition to the death penalty, for example, but he was not ready for Bernard Shaw to ask whether he’d favor the death penalty for a man who raped and murdered his wife. -- That’s why good prep is less about mimicking Trump’s mannerisms and more about mirroring his personality. You’re not preparing for “Saturday Night Live.” Clinton needs someone in this role who can get in her head, interrupt her, throw her off her game, make her feel uncomfortable and angry, challenge assertions she’s not used to having challenged and make the best possible arguments against her.

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Input: In the Senate we worked together on efforts to clean up Lake Champlain and to help Vermont’s and New York’s family farmers. She was at the center of securing help for New York’s 9/11 first responders. We worked together in enacting the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which was the first bill signed into law by President Obama. I was chairman of the State Department’s budget committee when she was Secretary of State, and I worked closely with her — week to week, and sometimes day to day — on a wide, wide range of issues and challenges, from human rights to global health. We traveled together to Haiti as we worked to help that country recover from the devastation of the earthquake.

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Input: A reconnaissance check revealed that airstrikes destroyed nine trucks loaded with munitions, two armored vehicles and over 40 jihadists. In Daraa province, a Sukhoi Su-34 bomber wiped out a hardened terrorist position near Ghariyah settlement. The strike that destroyed the fortified strong point also eliminated two armored vehicles parked nearby.

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Input: He was sentenced to eight years in prison, but the sentence was eventually reduced to four years that were served in his villa in the seaside town of Aqaba. General Mohammad al-Dahabi, who ran the service from 2005 to 2008, was later convicted of stealing millions of dollars that GID officers had seized from Iraqi citizens crossing into Jordan in the years after the American invasion of Iraq in 2003. His trial showed that he had also arranged for money to be smuggled in private cars from Iraq into Jordan and had been involved in selling Jordanian citizenship to Iraqi businessmen. He was sentenced to 13 years in prison and fined tens of millions of dollars. President Barack Obama authorised the covert arming programme in April 2013, after more than a year of debate inside the administration about the wisdom of using the CIA to train rebels trying to oust Assad.

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Input: ! » turns out to have been more the start of a US defeat in an unprovoked invasion, than the start of a US victory against any authentic provocation by ‘the enemy’. Obama’s current plan to turn his defeat into victory there has no more reason to succeed than his predecessor, George W Bush’s plan to do likewise in Iraq did after he had, on 1 May 2003, declared victory there, aboard the warship USS Abraham Lincoln. Then, his famous 2007 « troop surge in Iraq » utterly failed to produce peace and to end the sectarian war the US and its allies had generated by their thoroughly counter-productive and shameful invasion against a nation that (like Libya) had n’t invaded nor threatened to invade the United States – nor its allies. There, as in Syria, too, America’s aggression produced only mass death and misery – and trillions of dollars in US federal debt, which has n’t yet resulted from America’s invasions of Libya and Syria, but might. And, of course, millions of refugees.

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Input: And the media say Trump is unfit to be president. I am absolutely not defending what Trump said eleven years ago, but if bragging about conquests with women were a disqualifier, at least Kennedy and Clinton would never have been president. Hillary should be declared unfit because she lies continuously, committed perjury, has taken kickbacks throughout her public life, tried to destroy women and any other people who got in her way, violated multiple security laws and other laws, and left Americans to die. Other people have been dispensable throughout Hillary’s and Bill’s lives. Basically, everything the Clintons have done is to increase the power and wealth for themselves.

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Input: "I grew up in the era of mass incarceration," Garza said." In particular, we had being demonized and being seen as a drain on government resources, and, you know, former Secretary Clinton and her husband, former President Clinton, really removed this very robust agenda around criminalizing Black people and they did that in a couple of different ways." "One was by passing and championing this landmark three strikes legislation, which actually incarcerated more Black people than any other time in history, right," she continued." They also did something which was overwhelming, which was to dismantle states supports for families to be able to thrive or just at the very least survive, right. And they did that under this notion, right, that people were taking advantage of the system and that people are not redeemable."

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Input: No. I have had to plea bargain, like when I was facing six months. I could n’t risk going to trial and losing because I would have had to leave The West Wing, and that contract came before the demonstration. I was protesting the Gulf War — the invasion of Iraq. What do you think about the current political landscape?

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Input: In February, a cessation of hostilities negotiated between Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov fell apart within weeks, and efforts to reach a political settlement in the war-torn country have been on the verge of collapse. Syrian men evacuate a victim from the rubble of a building following an airstrike on the rebel-held northwestern city of Idlib on September 10, 2016. People search for victims at the scene of the airstrikes. Skepticism over deal After five years, Syrians are weary of a war that has left more than 250,000 dead and forced nearly 5 million to flee the country.

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Input: The RNC did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The RNC is barred from conducting poll watching activities by a 1982 consent decree issued by a federal court after the RNC was accused of intimidating minority voters in a 1981 election in New Jersey. Democrats are asking the court to extend the consent decree for another eight years, and to bar the RNC from conducting “voter intimidation with the Trump campaign and its associates.” Earlier Monday evening, U.S. District Judge John Michael Vazquez issued an order requiring the RNC to turn over any agreements it made with the Trump campaign pertaining to poll monitoring or voter fraud by Nov. 2 at 5 p.m. EST. 10/31 1:53 p.m.: Dems sue Trump campaign over alleged voter intimidation in four states

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Input: A terrorist would have needed the code or a jackhammer to access the bomb itself. Even if it was only the last, or next to last, line of defense, it still worked. Another day without a nuclear holocaust. Who’s complaining? The other way to look at it is to see that the security failures were not independent.

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Input: However, Clinton has not specified how much she would be willing to spend on those refugees. The total authorized budget for “Refugee and Entrant Assistance” was $ 1.67 billion in fiscal 2016. And $ 948 million of that was not for refugees, but for unaccompanied minors who immigrate to the U.S. illegally. The fiscal 2016 figure was also when the ceiling for global refugee admissions, not just those from Middle East nations, was 85,000. It’s hard to see how Clinton’s proposal to add 55,000 Syrian refugees to the 10,000 authorized by Obama would add “hundreds of billions” to the budget for refugee assistance.

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Input: Hillary and Bill were ironically saved by Monica, who became the lightening rod drawing attention away to what at the time was perhaps the biggest scandal – Chinagate – in American history. 9) Travelgate: Always room for friends In the Travelgate scandal, the staff of the White House travel office was fired to make way for Clinton cronies, including Bill’s 25-year -old cousin, who was reportedly promised the position of office director. Hillary allegedly fired seven employees and gave the positions to her Arkansas friends. According to the Washington Post, there was an effort to award a White House airline contract to a Clinton friend.

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Input: Believers are forced to practise their faith in secret, and if caught, get sent to North Korea's notorious hard labour camps. One escapee told CSW that while he was detained, he met a prisoner who was sent to the camp simply because he had spent a month in China studying the Bible." A policy of guilt by association applies, meaning that the relatives of Christians are also detained regardless of whether they share the Christian belief," the report says." Even North Koreans who have escaped to China, and who are or become Christians, are often repatriated and subsequently imprisoned in a political prison camp." Despite intense persecution, there are 121 religious facilities in North Korea, the Database Center for North Korean Human Rights says, including 64 Buddhist temples, 52 Cheondoist temples, three Protestant churches, a Catholic cathedral and a Russian Orthodox church.

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Input: B’Tselem said Tuesday morning’s demolitions “demonstrate that the Israeli government continues its policy of destruction of Palestinian communities in favor of expanding [Jewish] settlements, a policy that drew international criticism in a recent Quartet report.” That report by the Middle East Quartet — representatives of the US, UN, EU and Russia — released in early July, accused Israel of undermining a two-state solution by making it nearly impossible for Palestinians to build in Area C, while allowing the expansion of Israeli settlements in the area. Israeli authorities regularly demolish homes built by Palestinians in Area C, arguing they are built illegally without permits and outside areas zoned for Palestinian building. Israel does not balk at demolishing EU-funded structures, despite the open tension it causes with its powerful ally. While Israeli authorities did not immediately respond to an inquiry about Tuesday’s demolitions, the pro-settlement group Regavim praised the move, saying its complaint had led to the action.

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