Input: Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has begun back-channel discussions with congressional Republican leaders over the shape of a Clinton administration, according to several media reports Monday. Both CNN and CBS said Clinton has been calling former colleagues among Senate Republicans to discuss her agenda for the first 100 days of a new administration, based on the assumption that she will win the election two weeks from today. The plans under discussion likely include the appointment of Republicans to a number of key positions, including cabinet posts, as well as the nomination of a replacement on the Supreme Court for the deceased ultra-right Justice Antonin Scalia. Clinton is following in the footsteps of Barack Obama, who signaled the essential continuity between the administration of George W. Bush and his own by retaining Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and naming other Republicans to executive branch positions. Jeff Zeleny of CNN reported, “I’m told she’s been talking to Republican senators, old allies and new, saying that she is willing to work with them and govern.” Clinton has told these Republicans that she will be more approachable than Obama, Zeleny said, adding, “She will work with them.

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

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Input: Area C comprises more than 60 percent of the West Bank and is under complete Israeli military control, both for security and civil affairs. Estimates of the Palestinian population in Area C are a subject of mystery and debate. The U.N. agency that provides aid to Palestinians reported that there were 297,500 Palestinians in Area C in 2014. An Israeli human rights group, Bimkom, estimates that 150,000 to 180,000 Palestinians live there. The Israeli military division that controls Area C gives an estimate of 50,000 Palestinians.

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Input: 24-year -old Mahmud Ghazi Tatar says he joined Islamic State (IS, previously ISIS / ISIL) from the Turkish city of Adiyaman. Together with other recruits, he was transported over the border into Syria where he received terrorist training. Having taken part in the civil war in Syria, he was captured by Kurdish forces last June and is now imprisoned. RT obtained interview footage with the captive from Sputnik news agency. In it, the former IS fighter reveals details about Turkey's alleged oil links to the terror group.

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Input: Please try again later. View all New York Times newsletters. • A reporter shouted a question about Gary Johnson, the libertarian candidate who appeared not to know what Aleppo, a war-torn Syrian city, was in an interview earlier in the day. “Well, you can look on the map and find Aleppo,” Mrs. Clinton said, smiling. • Defending her claim that terrorist leaders are hoping for Mr. Trump’s election, Mrs. Clinton cited a counterterrorism expert’s suggestion that a Trump win “would give even more motivation to jihadi.”

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Input: Isikoff wrote that investigators in the Cayman Islands questioned Manafort “in connection with” a $ 26.2 million investment from Deripaska for a failed telecommunications project in Ukraine. Isikoff said Manafort had “multiple business deals” with “another pro-Putin oligarch, Dmitri Firtash.” Just to make this strange stew more pungent, along comes Michael Flynn, the retired Army general and Trump supporter, who reportedly was vetted by Trump as a potential running mate. In an interview on Yahoo News on Monday, Isikoff asked Flynn why he had attended an anniversary celebration for RT, the Putin propaganda machine, last year, sat next to the Russian autocrat at the celebratory dinner, and delivered a speech. The purpose of the trip, Flynn said, was to try to persuade the Russians to get the Iranians to stop meddling in the Middle East.

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Input: The RAF has sent two further Tornado aircraft and six Typhoons to bolster aircraft now flying sorties to both Iraq and Syria The group has sent a memorandum outlining its questions and concerns to the US Department of Defence but said it has not yet received a reply. A survivor of an air strike that hit two houses where civilians were sheltering in Ayn al-Khan, al-Hasaka governorate, on 7 December last year described being woken by a huge explosion. “The house shook and began to crumble, the windows shattered,” he said. “I ran outside and saw my neighbour’s house completely destroyed.

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Input: The influence that allowed for the Dogans to attract Erdogan to the ceremonies has collapsed, and once again, a Trump partner became caught up in allegations of criminal activities. In March of this year, an Istanbul court accepted an indictment of Aydin Dogan, chairman of the Dogan Group, on charges he engaged in a fuel smuggling. Aydin Dogan has proclaimed his innocence, and critics of the action have proclaimed that the indictment was a politically motivated attempt to crush the company that has served as a journalistic opponent of the government. Erdogan also struck at the family’s business partner, Trump, for his anti-Muslim rhetoric. In June, Erdogan called for the Trump name to be removed from the complex in Istanbul and said presiding over its dedication had been a mistake. Still, that would leave a President Trump in a conflict: Dogan is his business partner, Erdogan is an essential American ally, and they both now are set against each other.

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Input: Monica, have a seat r: HRC motions toward a chair situated an appropriate distance from her preferred spot on the couch:: Monica: ll!!Sure!!!.: Monica proceeds to drag her chair within inches of the Secretary --leaning in even further: Interview proceeds, and about midway. Monica: Oh Hillary ... 2016 ' 16 ' 16:: Monica grabs HRO's knee:: HRC laughs awkwardly — glances at Philippe Monica::: leaning in further. Oh Hillary ... what do you eat?

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Input: In an statement on Thursday, the Hmeimim-based center said terrorist attacks that targeted different areas in Aleppo in the past 24 hours have left at least 54 civilians dead and 93 injured. It clarified that the casualties were caused by terrorist groups’ indiscriminate shelling of neighborhoods of al-Sheik Maqsoud, al-Midan, al-Muhafaza and al-Zahraa in Aleppo city and al-Nairab Airport and several towns in the countryside of Aleppo. Citing the incidents where the cessation of hostilities agreement was violated in the past 24 hours, the Center said there were three breaches observed in Damascus province committed by the terrorist groups. A 72-hour truce has been established in two towns in Idleb (Kfarhaya and al-Fouaa) and in two other towns in Damascus countryside (al-Zabadani and Madaya), the Russian center pointed out, noting that the truce will start as of Thursday midnight. The total number of towns that joined the cessation of hostilities agreement has reached 140, according to the Center.

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Input: Vietnamese soldiers inspect a metal ball which landed in the northern province of Tuyen Quang (AFP Photo/) Vietnam's military is investigating the appearance of three mysterious metal balls -- believed to be debris from space -- which landed in the country's remote north, a senior army official said Friday. Two metal balls were discovered in northwestern Yen Bai province on January 2, army spokesman Lieutenant General Vo Van Tuan told AFP.

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Input: Saddam protested, declaring, “A Canadian wrote this closing argument. I know he’s a spy.” It was clear that the court would convict Saddam, but Wiley argued that his life should be spared. Instead, seven weeks later, at a military base called Camp Justice, Saddam was hanged while Shiite guards taunted him. His body was delivered to the Prime Minister’s residence for display at a party. Wiley stayed in Baghdad for another two years, filing defense motions for former members of Saddam’s regime.

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Input: Read John Fund’s piece in National Review from Thursday. Trump refused to let his own campaign do an inventory of his skeletons. The guy who hires the best people was implored by the people he hired to do this basic form of due diligence and he refused. And now we’re supposed to be shocked that the Clintons found the skeletons in question? Or that the press is eager to report on them?

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Input: Sci-Hub represents the sum of countless different universities ' institutional access-literally a world of knowledge." That's all well and good for us users, but understandably, the big publishers are pissed off. Last year, a New York court delivered an injunction against Sci-Hub, making its domain unavailable (something Elbakyan dodged by switching to a new location), and the site is also being sued by Elsevier for "irreparable harm" -a case that experts are predicting will win Elsevier around $ 750 to $ 150,000 for each pirated article. Even at the lowest estimations, that would quickly add up to millions in damages. But Elbakyan is not only standing her ground, she's come out swinging, claiming that it's Elsevier that have the illegal business model.

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Input: Hide Caption 5 of 15 Photos: Gunmen attack Tunisian museum Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi leaves a Tunis hospital after visiting those injured in the attack. Hide Caption 6 of 15 Photos: Gunmen attack Tunisian museum Security forces patrol around the museum. Hide Caption 7 of 15 Photos: Gunmen attack Tunisian museum The museum is evacuated by authorities. There was a significant number of foreign tourists at the museum at the time of the attack -- something that's not surprising, given its prominence in Tunisia and the fact that at least two cruise ships were docked in Tunis. Hide Caption 8 of 15 Photos: Gunmen attack Tunisian museum A security officer holds his position near the museum.

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Input: Putin is expected to visit Crimea later this week, Reuters reported from Moscow. Schneider said another troubling sign of possible Russian military action was the recent firing of Putin’s chief of staff, Sergei Ivanov, a former official of the KGB and FSB intelligence services." Ivanov's firing could be related to Putin's desire not to have a powerful KGB / FSB general running the Kremlin when he is going to do something risky," he said. Phillip Karber, a former U.S. arms control official who has traveled extensively in Ukraine war zones, identified several new military units at the eight locations, including up to two brigades of the newly established Russian First Guards Tank Army at Yelnya and Klintsy in the north, elements of the 20th Army located to the south of those units, and forces from the 49th Army deployed further south near Rostov." The fact that a full scale Russian invasion is still a plausible scenario after 30 months of conflict is an abject repudiation of an American policy of ‘leading from behind’ and West European fetish for trying to find ‘off-ramps’ that Putin has n’t the slightest interest in taking," said Karber, now head of the Potomac Foundation.

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Input: "In all of the cases released today, assessments determined that although the strikes complied with the law of armed conflict and all appropriate precautions were taken, civilian casualties unfortunately did occur," it said. The casualties occurred between Sept. 10, 2015, and Feb. 2, 2016, according to the U.S. military. A majority of the dead came from two families wiped out in the airstrikes. The news comes a day after it was revealed that the U.S. has relaxed rules of engagement designed to reduce the risk of civilian casualties as part of its air war against the Islamic State group. According to USA Today, the Pentagon last fall began allowing lower-level commanders to call in airstrikes that threaten to kill innocents and attacks that entail "the probability of 10 civilian casualties are permitted," the paper reported.

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Input: The director of the FBI had contradicted her statements on whether information was marked classified, whether she emailed any of it and whether all work-related emails were returned to the state department, Christie added. “As to Hillary Clinton, putting herself ahead of America: guilty or not guilty? Hillary Clinton, lying to the American people about her selfish, awful judgment: guilty or not guilty?” Having summed up his case for the prosecution, Christie’s tirade continued: “Her focus group-tested persona, with no genuineness to be found, is a sham meant to obscure all the facts and leave you able to vote for her. “We can not promote someone to commander-in-chief who has made the world a more violent and dangerous place with every bad judgment she has made.

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Input: The US has warned Russia that it will not set up a promised military cooperation project until Syria's regime forces allow aid into besieged cities. America's secretary of state John Kerry and Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov reached a deal last week that included allowing the delivery of humanitarian aid to starving civilian areas such as Aleppo. Under the ceasefire, the US and Russia said they would set up a "Joint Implementation Centre" to share targeting information for airstrikes in Syria if the truce that took effect on Monday holds for one week. This would see the two Cold War foes fighting on the same side for the first time since World War Two.

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Input: An English fan lays unconscious on the ground after the violent clashes with local gang members in Marseille last night A cafe is engulfed in flames as English fans were targeted while drinking on the terrace of cafe on the streets of Marseille's Old Port A furious England fan hurls a missile at his opponent while two flares continues to blaze behind him during violent clashes in Marseille The flare-attack was one of the most shocking sights of the clashes, which have seen arrests of English supporters, property damaged and a fan dumped into the sea by a French gang. Hooligans kicked the Englishman-wearing an orange T-shirt-on the floor before throwing him over the harbour wall and into the sea.

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Input: Did Hugo Chavez appoint great judges? Did Putin, Mussolini, or Erdogan? Would it have mattered had they sort-of kinda suggested that they would? As much as I care about the courts, worrying about jurisprudential doctrine is a luxury for people living under basically free and stable governments, for people who have access to food and toilet paper. And absolutely nothing in Trump's history suggests that he'd honor his proposed judge list or otherwise pick decent judges, while each of his proclamations indicates that the Supreme Court would be among the least of our concerns under his regime.

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Input: But Mediaite notes that the question asked by town hall co-host Roland Martin was very similar to the message Brazile sent to Palmieri. “Secretary Clinton, since 1976, we have executed 1,414 people in this country. Since 1973, 156 who were convicted have been exonerated from the death row. This gentleman here is one of them,” Martin said in his introduction of Jackson, citing statistics that were included in the same email Brazile sent to the campaign. CNN’s Brian Stelter reported later Tuesday that when Martin, a host on TV One, was asked whether he or someone from his staff provided town hall questions to Brazile, he did not deny it.

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Input: Bush said he had encouraged then-White House chief of staff James Baker and other aides to investigate Clinton and to make sure the information got out. “Although he [Bush] did not recall tasking Baker to research any particular matter, he may have asked why the campaign did not know more about Clinton’s demonstrating,” said the FBI interview report, dated Oct. 23, 1993. “The President [Bush] advised that … he probably would have said, ‘Hooray, somebody’s going to finally do something about this.’ If he had learned that the Washington Times was planning to publish an article, he would have said, ‘That’s good, it’s about time.’ … “Based on his ‘depth of feeling’ on this issue, President Bush responded to a hypothetical question that he would have recommended getting the truth out if it were legal,” the FBI wrote in summarizing Bush’s statements. “The President added that he would not have been concerned over the legality of the issue but just the facts and what was in the files.”

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Input: Former CIA Director Michael Hayden, for example, has expressed strong reservations about Trump leading the nation's armed forces. Clinton's campaign featured Hayden and other conservative voices criticizing Trump's temperament and preparedness in a new 30-second ad out Friday titled "Unfit." Trump responded to the latest attack on his foreign policy chops with a statement directly blaming both Clinton and President Barack Obama for "destabilizing the Middle East, having let ISIS take firm hold in Iraq, Libya and Syria, not to mention their allowing Americans to be slaughtered at Benghazi." "Clinton’s home email server that she lied to the American people about was a profound national security risk, and it should come as no surprise that her campaign would push out another Obama-Clinton pawn (who is not independent) to try to change the subject in a week when Clinton’s role in putting Iran on the path to nuclear weapons and this Administration being called out for sending $ 400 million in cash to the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism is on every front page in the country," Trump said in a statement, in reference to the amount of money paid in cash to Iran earlier this year on the same day four American prisoners were freed." Hillary Clinton has bad judgment and is unfit to serve as President, ' he added.

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Input: Indian officials say a meteorite struck the campus of a private engineering college on Saturday, killing one person. If scientists confirm the explosion was due to a meteorite, it would be the first recorded human fatality due to a falling space rock. According to local reports, a bus driver was killed on Saturday when a meteorite landed in the area where he was walking, damaging the window panes of nearby buses and buildings. Three other people were injured.

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Input: Play Facebook Twitter Embed Do not pardon Edward Snowden, House panel urges Obama 0:31 autoplay autoplay Copy this code to your website or blog The U.S. House intelligence committee on Thursday unanimously approved a blistering report on the activities of Edward Snowden, saying his disclosures of top-secret documents and programs did "tremendous damage" to national security." The public narrative popularized by Snowden and his allies is rife with falsehoods, exaggerations, and crucial omissions," said the report by staff members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

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Input: Although Kennedy’s bid had its share of missteps and ultimately fizzled, his candidacy weakened Carter before his eventual defeat by Ronald Reagan in the general election that fall. Gregg suggested one possible way of threading the needle between competing political pressures. A President-elect Clinton could convene a meeting with the leaders of the Senate and House before even taking office, he said, and outline issues on which bipartisan agreement ought to be possible: infrastructure and reform of the Department of Veterans Affairs being two examples. This would not require Clinton to forsake her campaign pledges, he said. Instead, she could simply run them along “a parallel track.”

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Input: Her barbs may appear off the cuff but are sometimes planned and edited well in advance, making the Clinton-Trump war on Twitter an extension of the contrast between their distinct political styles: staff-driven and tightly scripted versus shoot-from-the-hip, aggressive and biting. Story Continued Below Thursday’s skirmish represented the peak Twitter moment of the 2016 campaign so far. When Trump tweeted out an attack on President Barack Obama's endorsement of “Crooked Hillary,” her campaign responded five minutes later with “Delete your account” — a time-honored social media jibe that quickly became her most popular tweet ever, with more than 420,000 retweets and over half a million likes by Friday afternoon. (That far surpassed the traffic of Trump’s infamous “Taco Bowl” tweet from Cinco de Mayo.)

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Input: Russia's official line is that it will not seek to get sanctions lifted, because it did not impose them. The EU has made lifting sanctions contingent upon Russia doing more to ensure that the Minsk peace accords, which introduced a shaky ceasefire in eastern Ukraine, are fully implemented. That requires Moscow to leverage its influence on pro-Kremlin separatists who still exchange fire-with often fatal results-on a regular basis with Ukrainian forces. Ukraine, which accuses Moscow of continuing to stir violence, has its part to play too. But despite numerous rounds of talks, there is little progress on either side.

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Input: (ELECTRONIC IMAGE) AFP PHOTO / Paul J. RICHARDS (Photo credit should read PAUL J. RICHARDS / AFP / Getty Images) Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak sits between Jordan's King Abdullah II and U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright as the latter signs on the landmark Palestinian-Israeli agreement late 04 September 1999. While Mubarak hosted the signing ceremony in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, Albright and King Abdullah attended as witnesses to the deal which put an end to a 10-month deadlock in the peace process, paving the way for talks on a permanent peace settlement. Also in the background are Israeli Premier Ehud Barak (L) and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat who signed the revised Wye River agreement. (Photo credit should read MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP / Getty Images) WASHINGTON,: US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright (R) testifies beore the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee 07 October, 1999, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The committee is conducting hearings on the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty that is expected to be voted on by the full Senate next week.

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Input: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Wednesday told a group of Polish-Americans that the European nation would have a reliable ally in the U.S. if he wins the November election. Trump at Chicago’s Polish National Alliance credited Poland with staying “up to date” on its payments to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. He has accused other U.S. allies of not paying their fair share of defense costs, raising the prospect the U.S. might not come to their aid in the future. Earlier in the event, Trump adviser and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani also sought to reassure the audience of about 100 people that Trump understands what “his solemn obligation” to NATO would be.

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Input: More options: Share, Mark as favorite In July, during the Republican convention, I pointed out here that Donald Trump’s questioning whether he would come to the defense of Central and Eastern European countries if Russia attacked them – and Trump’s changing the GOP platform to strip out the provision of defensive weapons to Ukraine – could cost him millions of once-solid Republican votes in key swing states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Florida. Well, it’s happening. Today, The New York Times reports that “Ukrainian-Americans, Long Fond of the G.O.P., Greet Donald Trump With Despair”:

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Input: 5/19 Jameel Mustafa Habboush, receives oxygen from civil defence volunteers, known as the white helmets, as they rescue him from under the rubble of a building following Russian air strikes on the rebel-held Fardous neighbourhood of the northern embattled Syrian city of Aleppo Getty 6/19 Civil defence members rest amidst rubble in a site hit by what activists said were airstrikes carried out by the Russian air force in the town of Douma, eastern Ghouta in Damascus, Syria Reuters 7/19 A girl carrying a baby inspects damage in a site hit by what activists said were airstrikes carried out by the Russian air force in the town of Douma, eastern Ghouta in Damascus, Syria Reuters 8/19 Civilians and civil defence members look for survivors at a site damaged after Russian air strikes on the Syrian rebel-held city of Idlib, Syria Reuters 9/19 Civilians and civil defence members carry an injured woman on a stretcher at a site damaged after Russian air strikes on the Syrian rebel-held city of Idlib, Syria Reuters

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Input: Of course, these are precisely the kinds of policies that get American into trouble, leading to costly ground troop invasions and massive deaths and casualties to troops and civilians alike. Clinton is no Goldwater, of course, but the point is, neither is Trump — far from it. Of the two, Clinton is advocating a far more activist and adventurist and inherently risky foreign policy. Voters should well ask themselves who, of the two, is more dangerous and reckless. Goldwater never would have supported Trump’s restrained approach to the use of American military power.

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Input: It is. A bloody line has been crossed that can not be ignored. At long last, Donald Trump has left the Republican Party few options but to act decisively and get this political train wreck off the tracks before something terrible happens. General Powell said at a meeting of the Long Island Association that he would be voting for Hillary Clinton, a spokeswoman confirmed Oct. 25. Powell added in an interview that he picked Clinton because I think she s qualified, and the other gentleman is not qualified.

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Input: She expressed hope that Russia would soon be able to produce affordable medicine of the same quality. The Russian government has tried to boost self-sufficiency in drug production by limiting imports of foreign substances for pharmaceutical companies. Moscow introduced new laws last year forcing Russian companies to import less from European companies in a bid to increase the amount of Russian-made drugs on the market from 30 percent to 50 percent by 2020. While there may be more domestically produced drugs in Russian pharmacies, many prices are, in fact, rising faster than those of imported medicine. According to a study by Moscow's Higher School of Economics, the price of Russian-made essential medicines rose by 28.9 percent in 2015, compared to just 4.9 percent for imported drugs.

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Input: News comes as warring sides take break from peace talks in Geneva Istanbul (CNN) Turkish forces aren't preparing to invade northern Syria -- and Russia's allegation that they are is an attempt to hide Moscow's crimes in the war-ravaged nation, a source within the Turkish Prime Minister's office told CNN on Thursday." Simply they are diverting attention from their attacks on civilians as a country already invading Syria," the source told CNN." Turkey has all the rights to take any measures to protect its own security." The comments come after Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov was quoted by Russian state news agency Ria Novosti as saying Moscow believes some activity on the Turkish side of the border with Syria indicates preparations for an incursion.

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Input: Rubio, speaking Sunday on ABC, redoubled his attacks against Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who supported the Freedom Act. “We are now at a moment in this country where we do n’t just need to keep the authorities we already have, we need to add to these programs,” Rubio argued. He invoked a recent shooting of a Philadelphia police officer by a man who allegedly pledged allegiance to the Islamic State. “This the kind of threat we now face in this country,” Rubio said. “We need additional tools for intelligence.”

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Input: After the Orlando shooting, these pastors claimed the Bible calls for death for gays. It’s not clear if an immigrant who cited Christianity to support death for gays would be returned home, since Trump was focused squarely on Islam in his speech. Trump called the distorted view of Islam that drives terrorism a “hateful ideology” that oppresses “women, gays, children and non-believers.” At times, he threatened to be “vicious” when combatting it. He called radical Islam, “This ideology of death which must be extinguished.” “My administration will speak out against the oppression of women, gays, and people of different beliefs,” he promised.

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Input: ” What would happen: Like with immigration, it unlikely that Trump could actually implement his main policy pledge. But the legitimacy that his campaign gives to racism and homophobia is still far from ideal. Women’s rights

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Input: Radio-carbon dating of the bones showed that the mammoth died about 45,000 years ago. This is about 10,000 years prior to the earliest known evidence of human activity the Arctic region, he said. “These finds allow us to understand that people were in the Arctic a really long time ago and they were migrating in the areas not too far from the Bering bridge area – which existed even 45,000 years ago,” Dr Pitulko said. “So the gate to the New World was open and they might have been using it. This tells us about the opportunity they had rather than the ability to do it.

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Input: It’s all there in Trump’s commentary on U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who is presiding over lawsuits against Trump University. Curiel was born in Indiana; previously, as a prosecutor, he risked his life while pursuing Mexican drug cartels. But Curiel's parents immigrated from Mexico and that, Trump stated, means the judge can not rule in the Trump University lawsuits fairly. When CNN's Tapper asked Trump whether such arguments were racist, Trump responded by saying, “This judge is of Mexican heritage. I'm building a wall.” Tapper pressed him on this a few times, and Trump kept giving versions of the same response.

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Input: Canadian officials did tell Russian media that the proposal was being studied. At least 27 air tankers and 15 helicopters are involved in fighting the wildfire that has driven over 88,000 people from their homes in the oil patch community. Goodale was also not prepared Sunday to call out the army to join the over 600 firefighters from Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba and New Brunswick who have been part of the effort to contain the blaze, the origins of which remain a mystery. Troops were deployed last year to help contain a massive woodland blaze in Saskatchewan, but Goodale said Sunday it was best to leave the current disaster to full-time firefighters." This is a beast of a fire and it needs the most professional fighters to contend with it," he said.

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Input: House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Jason Chaffetz Jason ChaffetzThe Hill's 12:30 Report Chaffetz: Trump administration ' almost worse ' than Obama's on transparency Utah GOP narrows field for Chaffetz seat MORE (R-Utah) has called Comey to testify before his panel on Thursday, saying," Individuals who intentionally skirt the law must be held accountable." The GOP-led House Judiciary Committee also said that Attorney General Loretta Lynch had agreed to testify about the Clinton probe before the committee next Tuesday. Comey announced on Tuesday that while Clinton and her aides were "extremely careless" in handling classified data, the FBI would not recommend charges against her over her. Republicans expressed shock at the decision, with Speaker Paul Ryan Paul RyanRepublicans and the lost promise of local control in education Ryan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax push Overnight Finance: Ryan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax reform | Warren targets Wells Fargo board | Senators raise concerns over Russian takeover of Citgo | Pelosi hits GOP for budget delays MORE (R-Wis.) later the same day announcing that Republicans would hold hearings over the FBI's decision not to pursue criminal charges. Clinton's campaign on Wednesday released a video of Chaffetz from just last month, in which he says Republicans would "probably" accept a decision by Comey, even one recommending no charges against Clinton.

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Input: Kerry said the U.S. wants to close a loophole in the current U.N. sanctions allowing coal exports from North Korea to support the livelihood of its people. Kerry said that provision was being abused and the "greatest amount" of coal and revenue has just passed between China and North Korea. The U.S. hopes that tighter sanctions can force impoverished North Korea to return to long-stalled negotiations on providing aid in exchange for denuclearization, but there appears to be little prospect of their resumption because of Pyongyang's determination to have nuclear weapons. North Korea's state-run Rodong Sinmun newspaper on Wednesday said the North would strengthen its nuclear capabilities in quantity and quality in response to the threat from its enemies." We have warned that South Korea will be engulfed in a sea of fire and the U.S. military units in the Pacific region and the mainland will be in chaos if the U.S. wages nuclear strikes against us," the newspaper said.

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Input: "It has always been like that, it is like that and it will be in the future.” But the findings aren't surprising given Russia's general approach in Syria and its policies toward radical Islamists at home. Putin and Russia-friendly Assad have long described the Syrian conflict as a fight between a government and an irredeemably extreme foreign-funded opposition, rather than the product of millions of Syrians ' frustration with violent authoritarian rule. Assad has done his best to make that false binary a reality. His forces have avoided attacking ISIS-controlled areas, even concluding land swaps with the militant group, as they have targeted more moderate groups in the opposition who present a viable alternative to Assad or ISIS for Syria's future.

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Input: Neither foreign affairs nor national-security policy are mentioned once. She praises Sanders’s domestic agenda, but argues that he will never be able to get it through Congress: The problem is that Sanders is actually in this to win it now, and that is where I get off the train. Not that I think he’d be a failure as president — the job is mostly about appointing judges and filling bureaucracies with the right people, all of which I’m sure he is capable of handling — but because Clinton is just better equipped for it. The presidency is an executive office. Clinton’s more pragmatic approach to politics means she’s more suited to that work, which is about executing the existing law in ways that best get you closer to liberal goals.

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Input: On Monday, State Department Spokesman John Kirby told reporters one email is being withheld from the public in full at the request of law enforcement. Kirby would not comment on the content of the email, but he emphasized it is not classified. Clinton's server is also the subject of an FBI investigation, which has allowed her Republican opponents on the presidential campaign trail to raise the specter of possible indictment. In an interview Monday with Fox News, Attorney General Loretta Lynch said the investigation is "being handled like any other review that we do into how any agency has handled classified information," but she had no updates on the time frame for its completion." What's most important is to follow the facts, follow the law, and come to an independent conclusion as to what may or may not have happened," she said.

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Input: The shocking footage shows a number of injured people being treated by paramedics at the scene of the incident. Terrified shoppers were seen running for their lives from the Munich Olympia Shopping Centre, in the district of Moosach, after hearing gunshots. Thamina Stoll, 22, of Durham, North Carolina, who is in Munich on a summer internship, filmed people fleeing the shopping centre during the attacks from her grandmother's apartment. She said some 50 terrified people ran towards her house, seeking shelter. A major police operation is ongoing in Munich, around the city's Olympic Park, with the force warning people to stay in their homes and avoid public spaces Ms Stoll said had just visited the shopping centre with her grandmother and a cousin for an hour before the shooting started.

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Input: He was sentenced to 12 years in prison. In his explosive bestseller, “Clinton Cash,” Peter Schweizer follows the Clinton money trail, revealing the connection between their personal fortune, their “close personal friends,” the Clinton Foundation, foreign nations and some of the highest ranks of government. Rachel Ehrenfeld, director of the American Center for Democracy, spelled out the problem with the Clinton Foundation receiving funds from the Alavi Foundation in a Jan. 5, 2009, article published by Forbes. “Alavi’s contribution [in 2008] to Clinton came just two days after the Treasury Department also designated Alavi’s partner, the New York-based Assa Corp., as a terrorist entity, and the New York Southern District’s attorney seized and forfeited its assets,” Ehrenfeld wrote. 19) Clinton Foundation: Scandals keep coming

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Input: The trouble began on Wednesday when, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Kurdish forces advanced on the pro-government National Defense Forces that controls portions of the city. When the NDF responded with arrests, the fighting took off. This is not the first time that Kurdish and government forces have clashed in Hasakah, which is divided among Kurds, Arabs, Aramaic-speaking Assyrians, and a small number of Armenians. But what makes the latest confrontation so serious is that the U.S. quickly upped ante by scrambling two F-22 fighters to intercept a pair of Syrian Su-24s bombing Kurdish positions. NBC News reported that the jets came within a mile of one another on Thursday and were in visual contact before the Syrian aircraft left the scene.

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Input: — Comstock airing first ad: Virginia Rep. Barbara Comstock’s first television ad, a 30-second spot featuring her daughter Caity, begins airing today in Virginia. The ad is backed by a $ 100,000 buy. “My mother has always been there for our family and brings the same commitment to all the families she represents in Congress,” Caity says in the ad before listing Comstock’s accomplishments on Congress on human trafficking, heroin and other issues. “People call her hard working … but I just call her, Mom.” Watch the ad: http://bit.ly/2ce1T9m POLLING DATA — In North Carolina … “Donald Trump holds a slight lead over Hillary Clinton in North Carolina, according to a new [Suffolk] poll released today that also gives incumbent GOP Sen. Richard Burr a modest advantage over Democrat Deborah Ross in the closely watched Senate race.

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Input: Over the course of 2014, she and Mills went back and forth with PRN repeatedly on various exports of the email archives. Samuelson described herself as “technically deficient,” and, according to her own statements to the FBI, paid little attention to the technical details of the queries and export of Hillary’s emails when she was gathering files to turn over to the State Department and the House Benghazi Committee, relying on PRN to execute tasks correctly. Samuelson, Mills, and PRN searched Clinton’s archives for emails used .mil and .gov, as well as the names of members of Congress, foreign leaders and other contacts, as well as keyword searches on terms like “Afghanistan,” “Libya” and “Benghazi.” To assemble the required emails, she used a Lenovo Yoga 2 laptop, but accidentally spilled water on it at one point and, worried that the laptop would fail, she purchased a second Lenovo laptop and copied the email files over to it. Throughout 2014, Samuelson and Mills struggled to fill in missing gaps in the email queries — many of which seem to have occurred when .gov emails were cc’d — and they made decisions about what to turn over for posterity based only on reading header information, not the body of the emails. They also did n’t have any system for removing duplicates — doing so only if they happened to realize they had duplicate emails.

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Input: During the debate, the candidates didn't shake hands or acknowledge each other before or after the forum. Trump, who spoke first, tried at first to keep things lighthearted, but quickly turned to harsh criticism of Clinton, who he described as “corrupt.” His remarks drew boos from the crowd, unprecedented in this event event. “Hillary believes it's vital to deceive the people by having one public policy. And a totally different policy in private. That's OK,” he said, to boos from the crowd.

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Input: FEMEN Shevchenko says she plans to spend 2016 targeting Islamists and members of far-right movements. While the violent attacks and death threats are unnerving, the activist insists she has “collaborated with the fear” and is channeling it into something bigger. “The choice is whether to let fear make you give up or to make fear help you act more,” she said." As activists, we are romantics and dreamers: We try to achieve revolution … We are in search of new system, new model of the world where the highest law will be equality."

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Input: You’ve got to have a close contest to get the tens of millions of people you want watching it. Mike McIntire wrote an unbelievably brilliant story on the front page of the New York Times that laid out the Trump SoHo [a Trump-developed building in Manhattan] and even showed that the district attorney of Manhattan had conducted a criminal investigation that included Ivanka and Donald Jr., who made all kinds of false claims about how many units had been sold, and, you know, that Trump had worked out a settlement that included a specific provision with the depositors who bought units in Trump’s SoHo. He had worked out a settlement in which they agreed that they would n’t cooperate with the district attorney, which sounds like obstruction of justice to, I think, anyone who read the story. And it could n’t get a minute of airtime. It never has gotten a minute of airtime, and so you would have, I think, some outstanding pieces of print journalism.

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Input: Kasyanov, who once served as prime minister under Putin only to become one of his biggest critics in opposition, said he hoped the Russian president would speak out against Kadyrov. The Kremlin said it had not seen the video but would look into it." I assess Kadyrov's move as incitement to murder a state or civil society leader," Kasyanov, who is chairman of the opposition PARNAS party, told the Ekho Moskvy radio station." It's a straightforward criminal offense." His lawyers would "probably" contact the police to ask them to press charges against Kadyrov, he said, complaining that pro-Kremlin forces had been waging a vicious campaign against the liberal opposition for the past two years which had included threats and poisonings.

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Input: They “fired” the top 1 percent of people who set the direction for society and created the basis for something different. Both countries had a history of horrendous poverty. When the 1 percent was in charge, hundreds of thousands of people emigrated to avoid starvation. Under the leadership of the working class, however, both countries built robust and successful economies that nearly eliminated poverty, expanded free university education, abolished slums, provided excellent health care available to all as a matter of right and created a system of full employment. Unlike the Norwegians, the Swedes did n’t find oil, but that did n’t stop them from building what the latest CIA World Factbook calls “an enviable standard of living.”

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Input: In 2013, he told an audience in London, “I am the author, or one of the authors, of the new Russian political system.” Mr. Surkov apparently received in his email inbox a letter from a Moscow magazine editor with a draft of an “open letter from residents of the Donbas,” ostensibly written by local people in Donetsk to describe the horrors of war. While it is unclear if Mr. Surkov edited it personally, the changes that appear in the published letter suggest a deft eye for trimming and sharpening a text. “Ukrainian soldiers and Donbas militiamen are dying,” the original read. “Few of them want to risk their lives and kill, most realize this is a fratricidal war.”

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Input: OTTAWA – The Trudeau government has yet to respond to an offer by Russia to dispatch massive water bombers and fire fighting specialists to battle the growing inferno around Fort McMurray, Alta. The proposal was made late last week by Vladimir Puchkov, the Russian minister of emergency measures. A spokesman for Russia’s embassy in Ottawa, Kirill Kalinin, said Sunday that they continue to stand “ready to help our Canadian partners to fight the ongoing wildfires in Alberta.”

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Input: Lazar, who was extradited to the U.S. before his Romanian jail term was complete, currently faces a September trial for separate hacking charges. The charges, made public in June 2014, include alleged hacking of accounts belonging to a member of George W. Bush’s family, former Secretary of State Colin Powell, and longtime Clinton confidant Blumenthal. A review of recent federal cases by Fox News found that Guccifer’s extradition appears to be an outlier. Hackers typically are extradited once their prison terms are over in their native countries -- and typically for major financial theft. The former Justice Department official said the U.S. government would not go to such extremes, “unless [Guccifer] has something they want.” Guccifer was effectively neutralized in a Romanian jail, when he was extradited to the U.S.

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U.S. government

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Input: Video taken inside the terror group's Syrian stronghold shows armed guards patrolling deserted streets and landmark buildings reduced to rubble after years of civil war. The women describe gruesome public executions with extremists shooting their victims, decapitating them and putting their heads on sticks and leaving their bodies in the road to be run over. The women describe gruesome public executions with extremists shooting their victims, decapitating them and putting their heads on sticks and leaving their bodies in the road to be run over (file picture) In one scene, video shows how the faces of female models used to advertise hair products have been scribbled out with black marker pens by shopkeepers terrified of their hard line ISIS rulers. One of the women in the video, which was commissioned by CNN's Swedish affiliate Expressen TV, told how ' everyone's left ' the city and foreign ISIS fighters are stealing ID cards from Syrians in an attempt to flee to Turkey.

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Input: He has since told local media: “I spoke out of turn and I apologise, I have a friend who died in the Bataclan attacks and wrongly mixed everything up. I do not truly believe the things I said, my comments did not reflect what I really think.” Members of the local Muslim community gathered outside the restaurant this weekend to demand an apology for the alleged incident. Some have called for a boycott of the restaurant. The CCIF (Committee Against Islamophobia in France) has issued a statement of support to the two women and pledged to give “emotional and legal support” to them.

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Input: WARSAW, Poland (AP) — It is the last remaining relic of an ancient forest that stretched for millennia across the lowlands of Europe and Russia, a shadowy, mossy woodland where bison and lynx roam beneath towering oak trees up to 600 years old. Conservationists believe the fate of the Bialowieza Forest, which straddles Poland and Belarus, is more threatened that at any time since the communist era due to a new Polish government plan for extensive logging in parts of the forest. The plan has pitted the government against environmentalists and many scientists, who are fighting to save the UNESCO world heritage site.

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the last remaining relic of an ancient forest that stretched for millennia across the lowlands of Europe and Russia, a shadowy, mossy woodland

the last remaining relic of an ancient forest that stretched for millennia across the lowlands of Europe and Russia, a shadowy, mossy woodland


Input: Watch their poll numbers-and elections-go down!” Meanwhile, President Barack Obama weighed in on the Trump tape for the first time, calling the Republican nominee “insecure.” “It tells you he is insecure enough that he pumps himself up by putting other people down. Not a character trait that I would advise for somebody in the Oval Office,” Obama said at a campaign event in Chicago. The Trump campaign began the day by pulling back planned Sunday show appearances from campaign manager Kellyanne Conway and Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus. Giuliani said on “Fox News Sunday” that Conway is still a strong Trump supporter and attributed her absence to “scheduling.” Conway later flew with Trump to St. Louis.

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Input: He has admitted that he does n’t prepare for debates or study briefing books; he believes such things get in the way of a good performance. No major presidential candidate has ever been quite as disdainful of knowledge, as indifferent to facts, as untroubled by his benightedness. It is little surprise, then, that many of Mr. Trump’s most celebrated pronouncements and promises — to quickly and “humanely” expel 11 million illegal immigrants, to force Mexico to pay for the wall he will build on our southern border, to defeat the Islamic State “very quickly” while as a bonus taking its oil, to bar Muslims from immigrating to the United States — are nativistic pipe dreams and public relations stunts. Even more disqualifying is Mr. Trump’s temperament. He is erratic, inconsistent and unprincipled.

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Input: “If both candidates are looking backward in the trade deal, how can the United States exert political leadership in the region?” an unidentified “high-ranking official” in the Japanese Foreign Ministry told The Japan Times. No reset in Russia Russia, which has welcomed Mr. Trump’s questioning of the NATO alliance and his professed willingness to work with President Vladimir Putin, may be one country where Mrs. Clinton is clearly not the first choice. The former first lady and senator is closely connected with the “reset button” on relations with Moscow early in her tenure as secretary of state, a policy that both sides now see as a failure. Foreign affairs analyst Vladimir Mikheev, writing on the news site Russia Beyond the Headlines (rbth.com), said Mr. Trump may not be able to reverse the anti-Russian bias of the American foreign policy establishment but “Trump’s treatment of NATO as a costly enterprise with little benefit to the U.S. … is a welcome change of tune.”

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Input: The Trump campaign says the WikiLeaks email show exchanges between the Clinton camp and the Department of Justice about that FBI investigation into Clinton's private server. The email in question is several months before that investigation even began. Press Secretary Brian Fallon refers to a conversation he had with, quote," DOJ folks "about legal proceedings surrounding the open records release of Clinton's emails. Again-not a conversation about an investigation, but when Trump's argument is that the FBI didn't recommend charges for political reasons, you know, any contact between the campaign and the Justice Department becomes fodder for Republicans. SHAPIRO: What else stands out to you in these emails?

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DOJ


Input: -- This is happening against the backdrop of rising public support for new laws: 61 percent of Americans now support stricter gun controls in the U.S., according to a new NBC / SurveyMonkey poll, while 38 percent remain opposed. Six in 10 said they support a nationwide ban on the sale of assault weapons, while 38 percent are opposed. -- The Post’s Fact Checker gives Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) three Pinocchios for his claim that states with “reasonable” firearm limitations have less gun crimes and homicides: The data Murphy was referring to (a 2013 National Journal chart) calculates the number of gun-related deaths by including all gun deaths, including homicides, suicides, accidental gun deaths and legal intervention involving firearms, Glenn Kessler explains. “We removed suicides from the totals and reran the numbers – and in some cases, it made a huge difference. Half of the 10 states with the lowest gun-death rates turn out to be states with less-restrictive gun laws."

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Input: With the U.S. public completely sold on the hopelessness of third-party bids, at least by non-multi-billionaires, what is Stein's plan for actually becoming president?" First of all," she says," there are 43 million young people and not-so-young people who are trapped in debt, in student debt. My campaign is the only campaign that will be on the ballot that will abolish student debt. We did it for the bankers who plunged us into this economic crisis that persists in spite of what they say. And they did that by way of their waste, fraud, and abuse.

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Input: Albin Lohr-Jones / Pacific Press / Zuma One afternoon during the Republican convention, I ran into one of the more nefarious members of the far right, longtime Trump consigliere Roger Stone. Nattily dressed in a seersucker suit and red suspenders, he was roaming the bar of Cleveland's Renaissance hotel, posing for fan photos. At one point, Stone briefly looked up at a shot of Clinton on TV." That evil witch," he said, narrowing his eyes.

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Input: The debate over the transition centers on internet freedom and the United States ' international interests." This is a solution in search of a problem that poses real risks to the liberties of Americans," Cruz said." Imagine an internet run like many Middle Eastern countries that punish what they deem to be blasphemy, or imagine an internet run like China or Russia, [which] punish and incarcerate those who engage in political dissent." However, proponents of the transition argue that such fears are unrealistic and rooted in a fundamental misunderstanding of the IANA function, which "is too limited in scope to be a tool for protecting internet freedom," NTIA Assistant Secretary Lawrence Strickling said." No one controls the internet. … To claim otherwise is simply not true, and people who really understand the internet know it is not true."

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China or Russia


Input: With the end of the Democratic primaries looming on June 7, Clinton turned the full force of her attacks from her Democratic rival, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, to Trump, using her harshest language to date. Beyond calling Trump divisive, she appeared to question his mental health. “I will leave it to the psychiatrists to explain his affection for tyrants,” Clinton said, referencing Trump’s praise for Russian President Vladimir Putin and his suggestion that the massacre of civilians in Tiananmen Square by the Chinese government showed “toughness.” If the speech was a sharpened attack on Trump, it was also a recognition of her commitment to an activist foreign policy, one that challenges formidable adversaries like Russia and exerts American power — diplomatic, economic and military — where needed. This was not the speech of someone trimming her sails to appeal to Sanders’s less hawkish voters.

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Tiananmen Square


Input: WASHINGTON ― Donald Trump will bring Michael Flynn ― a former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency who was paid by a Russian state-funded television network to speak at its 10th-anniversary gala ― to his first national security briefing on Wednesday. Flynn, a retired lieutenant general and high-profile adviser to Trump, has attracted attention since he was pushed out of government in 2014 for criticisms of what he says is the Obama administration’s failure to confront “radical Islam,” his role as an analyst on the Russian network RT, and his embrace of Trump. ABC News reported on Tuesday that Flynn, along with New Jersey Gov.

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Input: (Angelo Merendino / Getty) INSIDE TRUMP 'S FLAILING CAMPAIGN: -- THE STAFFERS: “Racism and talk of religious war: Trump staff's online posts,” by the AP's Jeff Horwitz: “Trump's paid campaign staffers have declared on their personal social media accounts that Muslims are unfit to be U.S. citizens, ridiculed Mexican accents, called for John Kerry to be hanged and stated their readiness for a possible civil war,” according an AP review of more than 50 current and former campaign employees. “A graphic designer for Trump's advance team approvingly posted video of a black man eating fried chicken and criticizing fellow blacks for ignorance, irresponsibility and having too many children. A Trump field organizer in Virginia declared that Muslims were seeking to impose Sharia law in America and that ‘those who understand Islam for what it is are gearing up for the fight.’”

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John Kerry


Input: The group is locked in an intensifying armed struggle against the Turkish state in a bid to win more rights for Kurdish people. Hakkari province in Turkey, where the incident took place, has a majority Kurdish population and was the scene of fighting yesterday. Russian fighter jet shot down by Turkey Turkish military official says fighter jets shot down ' Russian military plane ' after it violated country’s airspace, which Russia denies. 1 / 12 Getty A warplane crashes in Syria near Turkey's border It’s believed six Turkish soldiers died fighting the Kurds combat near Çukurca and the helicopter was on its way to support the military.

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Input: The Boeing 777, en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, crashed in rebel-held territory. The JIT interim report explains the progress of the criminal inquiry. The experts are studying a mass of tiny fragments retrieved from the crash site. Last year, a Dutch Safety Board report concluded that MH17 was downed by a Russian-made Buk, but did not say who fired it. Board president Djibbe Joustra said at the time that the rebels were in charge of the area from which it was fired.

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Input: The candidate and several of his top advisers have business connections to Russia. Campaign chairman Paul Manafort has made millions of dollars in business deals with pro-Russia oligarchs as well as advised the Putin-aligned president of Ukraine whose 2014 ouster triggered Russia’s intervention there. Trump seemingly played into Democratic hands on Wednesday by praising Putin’s leadership qualities and vowing that U.S. relations with Russia would improve if he is elected in November. “I do n’t think Putin has any respect whatsoever for Clinton,” Trump said. He added: “He has a total lack of respect for President Obama.

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Input: The short, bullet-pointed document hits Trump on issues including his praise for Russian President Vladimir Putin, his nonchalance about torture, being “fundamentally dishonest” and his anti-Muslim rhetoric. According to Bloomberg View and a recent Reuters report, Trump is being “informally advised” by retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn. Flynn was chief of the Defense Intelligence Agency under President Obama from 2012 to 2014 and has long advocated for a warmer relationship with Russia. [Gen. Ray Odierno: I disagree with Donald Trump on Iraq] “[Trump’s] vision of American influence and power in the world is wildly inconsistent and unmoored in principle.

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Defense Intelligence Agency


Input: A party that wastes millions of taxpayer dollars on eight separate Benghazi investigations — and shouts itself hoarse attacking an FBI director who served as a senior political appointee in a Republican administration when he concludes that no reasonable prosecutor would bring charges against Clinton over her emails — should n’t feign astonishment when its presidential nominee echoes their efforts to criminalize American politics. Democrats and Republicans disagree about a lot of issues. We both fight hard to win elections. But winning is n’t everything. Al Gore understood that when he stood down after the 2000 election.

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Input: A sampling of some of the more than one dozen Sinai-centered Islamic State videos provided by the Middle East Media Research Institute: • Two jihadis in Iraq, Abu Qaswara Al-Masri, an Egyptian, and Abu Omar Al-Maqdisi, likely a Palestinian from Gaza, urge Egyptians to join the Islamic State in Sinai. Al-Masri tells the Egyptian army: “We advise you to repent before we manage to find you. If we find you, there will be no other [fate] but beheading for you. There will be no mercy for you and you are aware of that.

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Input: Obama, Susan Rice and Sec. of State John Kerry. When word spread of the massacre and destruction of Kessab on March 21, 2014 the US Ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power, made a public statement, along with Victoria Nuland, that the US was concerned about the attack at Kessab, however those terrorists involved had no relationship with USA. However, this was proven false, as Pres. Jarba came to congratulate his troops, the FSA, inside Kessab.

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Input: The slogan also stirs memories of the tense atmosphere in the newly independent Caucasus country when Georgia's armed ethnic conflicts broke out during the early 1990s. In 2005, then-President Mikheil Saakashvili declared that "Georgia for Georgians" was a "poisonous nationalistic slogan." But since 2013, when violent threats against gay activists in Tbilisi forced them to cancel a gay-pride parade in the Georgian capital, the slogan has appeared as spray-painted graffiti near Heroes Square in the city center alongside Nazi swastikas and racist slogans. Kiwi Cafe said on May 30 that it was continuing to work and was "ready to accept all customers regardless of their nationality, race, appearance, age, gender, sexual orientation, or religious views." For now, it remains unclear whether the premeditated meat assault against the vegan cafe was merely a prank against an alternative culture hangout that turned violent.

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gay activists

Nazi swastikas and racist slogans

Tbilisi


Input: A bill submitted by the president’s office to the parliament on Monday states that the uranium agreement may be resumed, provided the US takes steps to eliminate the causes of the suspension. In particular, Moscow wants Washington to curb its military presence on the territories of NATO members which have joined the alliance after September 1, 2000, to the number at which they were at the moment of signing the agreement, Russian media report. The draft bill also mentions repeal of the so-called Magnitsky law and of sanctions against Russian regions, persons and companies introduced by the US over Ukrainian crisis, while also paying compensation for damages caused by them, including the damages caused by the counter-sanctions that Russia was forced to impose. The Magnitsky Act is a 2012 US law intended to punish a number of Russian citizens believed to be linked to the death in custody of Russian lawyer Sergey Magnitsky. Moscow also wants Washington to provide a clear plan how it is going to irreversibly reprocess plutonium under the agreement’s conditions.

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Russian regions


Input: The Alliance for Shared Values says "we condemn any military intervention in (the) domestic politics of Turkey." Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has launched a broad campaign against Gulen's movement in Turkey and abroad. The Erdogan regime has carried out a purge of civil servants suspected of ties to the movement, seized businesses and closed some media organizations. Gulen has been charged criminally with plotting to overthrow the government, and was placed on trial in absentia in Turkey earlier this year. _ _ _

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Erdogan regime

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Erdogan regime

Turkey


Input: "Our military gave all the explanations to the military attaché of the Russian Embassy in Belgium yesterday [Thursday] morning," he added. Russian Defense Ministry spokesman General Igor Konashenkov said on Thursday that Brussels’ obstinate denial of involvement shows that Belgian Defense Minister Steven Vandeput is either “deliberately deceiving people in Belgium and around the world, or his subordinates and the Americans are lying to the leadership of Belgium.” The airstrike on the village of Hassadjek in Syria’s Aleppo province reportedly killed six civilians on Tuesday. According to Konashenkov, the two Belgian F-16s were immediately identified by Russian and Syrian air defense radar and all of their movements were tracked. “Every aircraft type has a unique identifiable signature,” he noted.

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Hassadjek


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

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Input: And that vacuum was filled by the insurgency. I think it was a major, massive strategic error.” And then Sergio [Vieira] de Mello, our U.N. fellow, [the U.N. high commissioner for human rights and special representative of the secretary-general in Iraq], great guy, he was assassinated with this bomb. Then we started to get reports that an insurgency was growing, and then we started to get casualties. By the early fall of 2003, it was clear that it was time for the joy to be over.

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Input: Duterte on Wednesday said the South China Sea arbitration case would “take the back seat” during talks, and that he would wait for the Chinese to bring up the issue rather than doing so himself. Xi said issues that could not be immediately be resolved should be set aside, according to the Chinese foreign ministry. China has welcomed the Philippines approaches, even as Duterte has vowed not to surrender any sovereignty to Beijing, which views the South China Sea Hague ruling as null and void. China has also expressed support for his drug war, which has raised concern in Western capitals about extrajudicial killing. Additional reporting by Roberta Rampton, Arshad Mohammed and David Brunnstrom in Washington; Writing by Michael Martina and Ryan Woo; Editing by Nick Macfie, Alex Richardson and Grant McCool

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Philippines


Input: Chataev was assigned a leading role in training extremists that would then commit terrorist attacks in both Russia and Western Europe, the Deputy Chairman of the Russian Investigative Committee Andrey Przhezdomsky said, adding that, in Syria, Chataev also commands a unit consisting “primarily of immigrants from the North Caucasus,” Russia's Kommersant newspaper reported earlier this year. Read more Chataev turned out to be long wanted by the Russian authorities for terrorism-related offenses but he fled to Europe, where he was granted asylum, and successfully managed to escape extradition to Russia. Chataev joined Islamist secessionist militants that fought against Russia in the Second Chechen War between 1999 and 2000, where he lost an arm. Later, he was considered to be a representative of Dokka Umarov, once a “terrorist № 1” in Russia, in the Western Europe.

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Russian authorities

Chataev

terrorism-related offenses

Europe


Input: “I do n’t think it would have. … I think all of us in Minnesota are forced to confront that this kind of racism exists.” (Wesley Lowery, Lindsey Bever and Michael E. Miller) -- Castile’s mother noted that her son was killed just days before his birthday. Known as Phil, he graduated from St. Paul’s Central High School before going to work for the St. Paul public school system’s nutrition services division in 2002. “Two years ago, he earned a promotion to a supervisory position at a new school: J.J. Hill Montessori Magnet School, where he managed the cafeteria.

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son


Input: News from 2017: once the evacuation of Lena Dunham and 90% of other Hollywood celebrities to Canada is confirmed, Trump resigns from presidency:" My work here is done" Non-presidential candidate Paul Ryan pledges not to run for president in new non-presidential non-ad campaign Trump suggests creating ' Muslim database '; Obama symbolically protests by shredding White House guest logs beginning 2009 National Enquirer: John Kasich's real dad was the milkman, not mailman National Enquirer: Bound delegates from Colorado, Wyoming found in Ted Cruz’s basement

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Obama


Input: The United Nations said the Syrian government promised Thursday to allow aid to be delivered “in the coming days” to Madaya as well as the two northern towns surrounded by rebels. Read more: Videos appear to show starvation used as a weapon in Syrian town of Madaya Haunting images from Aleppo: ‘Syrian children are at the heart of this catastrophe’ U.N. Security Council approves plan for Syrian peace process

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starvation

Madaya


Input: In Malaysia, the response was immediate. On 1 March 2015, 1MDB’s management claimed that it had exited the joint venture in 2012, and that it had received back its investment in full, with an additional profit of $ 488 m. PetroSaudi claimed that the $ 700 m had all gone to “PetroSaudi-owned entities” – denying, in other words, that companies controlled by Jho Low had received payments in the deal. Not long before Rewcastle Brown’s story broke, 1MDB’s bonds had been effectively downgraded to junk. After another £ 200 m of Malaysian government funds were required to plug a hole in 1MDB’s finances, Najib bowed to the inevitable and ordered investigations by the country’s auditor general and the parliamentary accounts committee.

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PetroSaudi

companies

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Input: "The real muslims will never accept the filthy ways of the west," Mateen wrote, according to the letter from committee chairman Sen. Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican. Johnson did not say how he learned of the posts other than to cite "information obtained by my staff." As he did in his call to a 911 operator during the massacre, Mateen pledged his allegiance on Facebook to the leader of the Islamic State and, in his final post, warned:" in the next few days you will see attacks from the Islamic state in the usa." Omar Mateen, right, with his wife, Noor Zahi Salman, and their son. (Facebook) Omar Mateen, right, with his wife, Noor Zahi Salman, and their son.

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Input: In 2012, one year before Trump brought his beauty pageant to Moscow, then-Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney called Russia the United States’ top geopolitical threat — an assessment that has only gained currency since then. Trump has conveyed a different view, informed in part through his business ambitions. Since the 1980s, Trump and his family members have made numerous trips to Moscow in search of business opportunities, and they have relied on Russian investors to buy their properties around the world. “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets,” Trump’s son, Donald Jr., told a real estate conference in 2008, according to an account posted on the website of eTurboNews, a trade publication. “We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.”

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Input: Several officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss Russian capabilities and recent high-level White House meetings on Syria, Iraq and the Islamic State, including a Friday gathering of the National Security Council chaired by President Obama. The NSC session largely focused on the Mosul offensive begun against the Islamic State this week, and an upcoming operation against the militants in the city of Raqqa, their Syrian headquarters. Consideration of other alternatives, including the shipment of arms to U.S.-allied Kurdish forces in Syria, and an increase in the quantity and quality of weapons supplied to opposition fighters in Aleppo and elsewhere, were deferred until later, officials said. U.S. military action to stop Syrian and Russian bombing of civilians was even further down the list of possibilities. Another senior official dismissed what he called Moscow’s “yard sale approach” of displaying all available systems to attract potential purchasers, and said last month’s S-300 deployment did not much change Russian capabilities from where they have been over the past year.

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Input: Sure, the post-debate buzz is more about tone than substance — who looked more presidential, whether Hillary Clinton got “under Donald Trump’s skin.” But in between the barbs and interruptions, there was plenty of policy to chew over in Monday’s night’s presidential debate. Trump and Clinton tangled over trade, taxes, criminal justice and foreign policy, and while neither candidate — particularly Trump — provided many policy details, the back-and-forth was sufficiently substantive to expose stark differences between the candidates on a range of issues. On the economy, in particular, Trump and Clinton offered sharply different diagnoses of the problems facing U.S. workers, and were even further apart on how to address those challenges.

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Input: At least 10 of the victims were children, with young girls and boys lying dead covered in a blankets with their dolls and buggies still next to them. Footage taken at the time of the attack shows bodies piled up in the roads and people running from their lives as they tried to avoid the zigzagging lorry while paramedics treated the injured and dying in the street. Terror investigation: The French authorities say it is their third terrorist atrocity in 18 months and admit it could take some time to identify all the dead Atrocity: At least a dozen bodies of victims covered by sheets remain at the scene of the terror attack today as the authorities try to identify them United in grief: Parents of victims embrace each other near the scene of a truck attack in Nice where more than 80 were killed

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Input: Russia said it expected its ally Syria to attend, although Damascus has yet to publicly confirm it will do so. The Syrian foreign minister is expected to announce his government's position on the talks on Saturday. Peace talks convened two years ago collapsed because the sides were unable to agree an agenda: Damascus wanted a focus on fighting terrorism, the term it uses for the rebellion, while the opposition wanted to discuss a transitional government. A senior adviser to Assad, Bouthaina Shaaban, said on Friday Russia had done more to fight terrorism in Syria than the United States and its allies, according to a BBC interview cited by state news agency SANA. The latest talks are intended to focus on future political arrangements in Syria, a new constitution and elections, U.N. envoy Staffan de Mistura said.

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Input: As Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's verbal gaffes have mounted and his penchant for lashing out at his political opponents has continued to escalate, it's become in vogue for critics to earnestly raise questions about Trump's temperament and his mental stability. Terms like "narcissist" and "sociopath" have been attached to his name as routinely as Trump attaches that name to his buildings. Many of Trump's GOP allies have been publicly apoplectic about his unorthodox (some have argued virtually non-existent) campaign, his contradictory statements regarding Russian President Vladimir Putin and his critical remarks about the Muslim-American parents of a slain Iraq War hero. The Washington Post's Eugene Robinson even wrote a column this week asking:" Is Donald Trump just plain crazy?" Play Facebook

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Input: "So with that in mind, we are being careful to let the process play through and provide the space for there to be a unifying moment for Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders." The Democratic contest may march on but the party's infrastructure is already preparing for a Clinton nomination and the former secretary of state is starting to put general election plans into place. While Sanders will continue to campaign across the country -- including planned stops in West Virginia on Thursday -- pledging to fight until the convention, Clinton's aides said this week that she will pursue a two-prong strategy for the coming weeks: Campaign in every upcoming primary while also making trips to general election battleground states. That strategy, though, has not quelled the nerves of Democrats across the country, who are worried that without any GOP rivals, Trump will now turn his entire focus to Clinton, possibly defining her early and hurting efforts to rehabilitate her already dinged image. After Trump all but locked up the nomination on Tuesday night, Clinton surrogates and supporters asked the campaign's top aides whether they can use their TV and online platforms to start asking for the Vermont senator to get out of the way.

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Input: The agency has been widely reported in Russian media to be the brainchild of Evgeny Prigozhin, an oligarch and ally of Vladimir Putin. At the time, it employed hundreds of Russians in a nondescript office building in St. Petersburg, where they produced blog posts, comments, infographics, and viral videos that pushed the Kremlin’s narrative on both the Russian and English Internet. The agency is what is known in Russia as a “troll farm,” a nickname given to outfits that operate armies of sock-puppet social-media accounts, in order to create the illusion of a rabid grass-roots movement. Trolling has become a key tool in a comprehensive effort by Russian authorities to rein in a previously freewheeling Internet culture, after huge anti-Putin protests in 2011 were organized largely over social media. It is used by Kremlin apparatchiks at every level of government in Russia; wherever politics are discussed online, one can expect a flood of comments from paid trolls.

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Input: fit and recovered + President Obama + WASHINGTON: As if it was not already weird and wacky, the US Presidential election campaign descended into bizarre terrain on Tuesday with tattle about the use of a body double by Hillary Clinton, conjecture about Russia poisoning her, and more leaked emails, one of which had former Secretary of State Colin Powell calling Donald Trump a ' ' national disgrace. ' ' Loch Ness monster, Yeti, and UFOs have nothing on this election.- due to a bout of pneumonia, it was subsequently disclosed-has triggered a tsunami of speculation about her physical health, propelled mostly by right-wing internet conspiracy theorists operating on a nudge and wink from their iconTheir latest conjecture is that Hillary Clinton used a body double-following her collapse at the 9/11 memorial ostensibly due to heat exhaustion caused by pneumonia-to show that all is well. Various theories are being advanced to make the case from the video and photos subsequent to the fainting episode: She looks slimmer and is wearing dark glasses to hide her eyes as she emerges from her daughter's apartment building just hours after she collapsed; she has longer hair and smoother skin; she is not surrounded by Secret Service agents as she usually is because agents are meant only for candidates; and no doctor or aide with her despite her having collapsed only hours earlier. Camera angles, photo-shopping, and plain fantasist hyperbole and exaggeration could well explain the astonishing charge. But such is the conspiratorial atmosphere advanced by the hardline Republican laity that anything goes in the ' ' Hate Hillary ' ' cause-from attributing cancer and Parkinson's to her to accusing her of being in cahoots with foreign forces. On its part, the Clinton campaign has fueled this rumor-industry with lack of transparency, candor, and clarity, going back to secrecy, obfuscation, and delinquency on the issue of private mail servers and the Clinton Foundation On Tuesday, the liberal media, which has taunted the Trump brigade as wackos and conspiracy theorists, went the same route by airing the views of a Nigeria-born doctor who speculated that Hillary Clinton may have been poisoned, possibly by the Trump-Putin combine.

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Input: / AFP / Scanpix / Jens Astrup / Denmark OUT (Photo credit should read JENS ASTRUP / AFP / Getty Images) April Ross looks at a makeshift memorial outside the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts for the mass shooting victims at the Pulse nightclub June 13, 2016 in Orlando, Florida. The American gunman who launched a murderous assault on a gay nightclub in Orlando was radicalized by Islamist propaganda, officials said Monday, as they grappled with the worst terror attack on US soil since 9/11. The Islamic State group claimed slain shooter Omar Mateen was acting as ' one of the soldiers of the caliphate in America ' when he attacked the Pulse club in the Florida resort city, an assault that ended when police stormed the venue. / AFP / Brendan Smialowski (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / AFP / Getty Images) People lay flowers and light candles to commemorate victims of a mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando in front of the US embassy in Warsaw on June 13, 2016. / AFP / AFP PHOTO / WOJTEK RADWANSKI (Photo credit should read WOJTEK RADWANSKI / AFP / Getty Images) People commemorate victims of a mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando in front of the US embassy in Warsaw on June 13, 2016.

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Input: “And I think that — Trump's gotten pretty favorable coverage — back in Russia.” The president’s comments add considerable heft to mounting evidence that Russian hackers were behind the DNC hack. Obama said that the FBI is still investigating the origin of the hack, but he acknowledged that “experts have attributed this to the Russians.” “What we do know is is that the Russians hack our systems. Not just government systems, but private systems.

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Input: But she lied, and it’s a big story.” Mr. Comey, testifying last month to Congress, said that “we have no basis to conclude she lied to the F.B.I.” But he also said he could not say whether Mrs. Clinton’s many public statements on the issue were truthful. Mr. Trump, in a written statement meant to respond directly to the president’s remarks, called Mrs. Clinton “unfit to serve in any government office.” He also accused Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton of allowing Americans to be slaughtered in Benghazi, Libya; letting veterans die waiting for medical care; and releasing immigrants into the United States to kill innocent people. Advertisement Continue reading the main story “Our nation has been humiliated abroad and compromised by radical Islam brought onto our shores,” Mr. Trump’s statement said.

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Input: Vietnamese soldiers inspect a metal ball which landed in the northern province of Tuyen Quang (AFP Photo/) Vietnam's military is investigating the appearance of three mysterious metal balls -- believed to be debris from space -- which landed in the country's remote north, a senior army official said Friday. Two metal balls were discovered in northwestern Yen Bai province on January 2, army spokesman Lieutenant General Vo Van Tuan told AFP.

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Input: Thousands of terrorists of Russian origin are now thought to be operating in Syria. Putin's spokesman denied the revelations." Terrorists get annihilated in Russia," he told Reuters." It has always been like that, it is like that and it will be in the future.” But the findings aren't surprising given Russia's general approach in Syria and its policies toward radical Islamists at home.

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Input: And let’s not forget Trump first gained political prominence leading the charge for the so-called "Birthers." He promoted the racist lie that President Obama is n’t really an American citizen – part of a sustained effort to delegitimize America’s first black President. In 2015, Trump launched his own campaign for President with another racist lie. He described Mexican immigrants as rapists and criminals. And he accused the Mexican government of actively sending them across the border.

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Input: Stein simply did not “gush over Russian support for human rights.” To the contrary, in this very video, she criticized Russia for diverting scarce resources into military spending while its people suffered, and merely praised her fellow participants from around the world who attended an RT-sponsored conference. But no matter: Democratic operatives and journalists widely hailed it as proof that she, too, is some sort of Russia dupe or worse. One Clinton-supporting blog – while also lying by claiming that “she only criticized the US” – attacked Stein for criticizing the U.S. while standing on dirty foreign soil (“ with Red Square as her backdrop”), a long-standing trope used by the Far Right to attack liberals and Democrats for being unpatriotic by virtue of criticizing the U.S. while outside its borders. Commenting on that post, numerous Clinton supporters predictably denounced Stein as a traitor, saying “I do n’t think it goes too far to suggest these are acts of sedition and possibly treason,” while the blogger himself dismissed objections over his “red-baiting” by saying “Putin is former KGB!” Journalists from major media outlets used all this to announce that Putin now has not one but (at least) two presidential candidates he controls: So just like that, literally overnight, Clinton-supporting journalists and Democratic operatives converted Jill Stein into an agent of the Kremlin – all because she went to Russia and attended an event where Putin spoke. So that’s the Democratic Party’s approach to the 2016 election.

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Input: The Turkish decision, announced on Friday, to offer work permits for any Syrian in Turkey for more than six months was described as a game changer by Hammond. “If they are not allowed to work it, drives them into illegal work or looking to migrate,” he said. Before a London donors’ conference on Syria on 4 February that is seeking to raise $ 4bn, Hammond rounded on other EU members for not providing more urgently needed funds. He said: “The UK has given £ 1.1bn and America even more, but frankly others need to do more. France has given £ 34 m and we have got to get our partners to make a step change.

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Input: If you’ve ever, watching “The Apprentice,” entertained fantasies of how you might fare in the boardroom (the Donald, recognizing your excellent qualities with his professional businessman’s acumen, does not fire you but, on the contrary, pulls you aside to assign you some important non-TV, real-world mission), you may, for a brief, embarrassing instant, as he scans the crowd, expect him to recognize you. He is blessing us here in San Jose, California, with his celebrity, promising never to disappoint us, letting us in on the latest bit of inside-baseball campaign strategy: “Lyin’ Ted” is no longer to be Lyin’ Ted; henceforth he will be just “Ted.” Hillary, however, shall be “Lyin’ Crooked.” And, by the way, Hillary has to go to jail. The statute of limitations is five years, and if he gets elected in November, well...

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Input: 1) Falsely said “you’re wrong” when the moderator told him a judge ruled New York City’s “stop and frisk” program unconstitutional. (That happened in 2013.) Below is our complete list of false and misleading claims uttered by both of them: At their first presidential debate, on Monday night in New York, Trump made 34 false claims to Clinton’s four false claims, continuing his pattern of unprecedented serial lying. WASHINGTON — Again, there was no contest: Donald Trump was by far more dishonest than Hillary Clinton.

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Input: This is not getting better. It’s important to really take a good, hard look at what’s going on here. It’s not who’s better among the compromise candidates, because those compromise candidates are all plunging us headlong over a cliff right now on climate change, on the expanding wars. Are these wars actually working? I do n’t think they are by any standard, and the American people are not happy about them.

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Input: SS: What Kiev has on its hands right now is a burgeoning black market of firearms in Kiev. Do you see that becoming a serious problem? SR: Of course, anytime that you have an unpoliced society, and you begin the chaos, it’s much easier-because the patrols are less likely-it’s much easier for people to smuggle things in and out of places. Just look at the last three years in Syria how successful the foreign intelligence operatives and mercenaries that have been operating there, have basically destroyed Syria by the hands of foreigners. And this is what would be in store for Ukraine if the Russians do n’t protect the sovereignty of that nation from the foreign interventionists.

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Input: "We are dealing with this issue," the agencies quoted Pankov as saying in Russia's parliament. Russia lowered its flag at the Lourdes signals intelligence base in Cuba and the deepwater Cam Rahn naval base in Vietnam in the early 2000s as part of a drawing down of Russia's military presence around the world after the demise of the Soviet Union. But since then, Moscow's foreign policy has become more assertive, leading to tensions with the United States and its allies over, among other issues, the conflicts in Ukraine and Syria, and the presence of NATO troops in eastern Europe. Pankov said the Defence Ministry was currently "rethinking" past decisions on closure of the bases, but declined to go into detail. Vietnam’s foreign ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment and Cuban officials were not available.

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Input: You know, as you mentioned, in these speeches, Hillary Clinton talks about the benefits of single payer, the healthcare system used in places like Canada, that they provide better primary care using this system. It’s much better at holding down costs for both consumers and the government. But at the same time, you know, Hillary Clinton attacked single payer on the campaign trail this year as she was competing with Bernie Sanders, saying it will never, ever happen in the United States, kind of dismissing the idea, really sticking to the Affordable Care Act health reform system enacted by President Obama. So it’s tough to see where she actually stands on these issues, because, again, she’s kind of taken every position. AMY GOODMAN: Let me ask you about one of the recently released documents, where Wall Street donors use their influence to complain about Senator Elizabeth Warren’s influence over the direction of the Democratic Party.

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Input: We knew we could n’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did. The costly and ineffective prohibition must end.

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Input: More than half of likely voters, 57 percent, say they are bothered a lot by Trump’s mocking of reporter’s physical disability, the highest level of displeasure among three issues challenging Trump that were tested. Almost four in 10 say they are bothered a lot that Trump has not released his tax returns, while 40 percent say that about his charitable foundation’s illegal contribution to the Florida attorney general's political group as she was deciding not to investigate fraud claims against Trump University. Trump has paid an IRS penalty and reimbursed the foundation, his company said. Get the latest on global politics in your inbox, every day. Get our newsletter daily.

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Input: (CNN) Regime airstrikes on a school complex in northwestern Syria killed at least 35 people, including 20 children, the Syria Civil Defense volunteer rescue group said, in what could be one of the deadliest strikes yet on a school in the nation's five-year war, according to the UN. The death toll is expected to rise as dozens of others were injured in the Wednesday attacks, said Majd Khalaf, a communications officer with the rescue group, also known as the White Helmets. Another rescuer told the activist-run SMART News Agency that around 50 children were leaving the front door when the strikes hit.

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Input: 7/10 Palestinians look on after a protester is shot by Israelis soldiers during clashes at the Howara checkpoint near the West Bank city of Nablus EPA 8/10 A lawyer wearing his official robes kicks a tear gas canister back toward Israeli soldiers during a demonstration by scores of Palestinian lawyers called for by the Palestinian Bar Association in solidarity with protesters at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City, near Ramallah, West Bank AP 9/10 Undercover Israeli soldiers detain a Palestinian in Ramallah Reuters 10/10 Palestinian youth burn tyres during clashes with Israeli soldiers close to the Jewish settlement of Bet El, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, after Israel barred Palestinians from Jerusalem's Old City as tensions mounted following attacks that killed two Israelis and wounded a child The king has previously stated his opposition to Israel’s actions towards Palestinians and stated he believes “Israel is not interested in peace”.

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Input: Michelle Obama, a rare and reluctant presence at political events, also plans to become involved this week, appearing at a Friday rally at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., to exhort people to register before that state’s Oct. 17 deadline. On Tuesday in Philadelphia, Mr. Obama drew a sharp contrast between Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Trump, condemning the tenor of his campaign and denouncing him for his recent praise of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. “Their nominee is out there praising a guy, saying he’s a strong leader because he invades smaller countries, jails his opponents, controls the press and drives his economy into a long recession,” Mr. Obama said. “Think about the fact that that is Donald Trump’s role model.” In an apparent appeal to Republicans alienated by Mr. Trump’s candidacy, he marveled at how far the party had strayed from the principles espoused by Abraham Lincoln or Ronald Reagan.

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