Input: (Scott Morgan / Associated Press) Gary Johnson's long-running battle with talking about foreign policy continues. During a new interview with the New York Times's Maggie Haberman and Alexander Burns, he likened U.S. intervention in Syria to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad slaughtering his own people: Attacking Hillary Clinton over what he criticized as her overly interventionist instincts, Mr. Johnson pointed to the hundreds of thousands of Syrian civilians killed by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, as well as civilian deaths caused by the American-backed coalition, and said Mrs. Clinton, the former secretary of state, bore at least partial responsibility. But when pressed four times on whether he saw a moral equivalence between deaths caused by the United States, directly or indirectly, and mass killings of civilians by Mr. Assad and his allies, Mr. Johnson made clear that he did.

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Input: Most experts were not anticipating a bumper crop of thyroid problems. For starters, the potential radiation exposure of Fukushima residents was slight compared with Chernobyl victims. Moreover, the day after the meltdowns, Japanese authorities evacuated some 150,000 people living within 20 kilometers of the plant, and a week later they started screening for contaminated food. Also, a limited number of Fukushima residents were offered iodine tablets after the accident to block absorption of radioactive iodine from breathing contaminated air or eating contaminated food. In 2013, WHO estimated that the 12 to 25 millisieverts (mSv) of exposure in the first year after the accident in the hardest hit areas might result in minuscule increases in cancer rates.

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Input: Hillary Clinton arrived in New Hampshire a winner, although her Iowa margin of victory in delegate strength — 49.86 percent to Bernie Sanders ' 49.57 — fell short of landslide. Now she'll try to win the state that saved Bill Clinton's candidacy in 1992, and that threw her a lifeline in 2008 after Barack Obama humiliated her in Iowa. After next Tuesday she's off to South Carolina, Nevada and beyond. But she doesn't know the date of the most important primary that confronts her candidacy.

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Input: But she got the wrong car! Watch the security camera footage: Finally, watch a tribute to Schlafly assembled by C-SPAN (click here).

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Input: This would include land grabbing — in which private corporations and governments work in concert to seize large areas of land and natural resources — in the list of crimes on which it will place more of an emphasis. The court made the announcement in light of a land grabbing case filed by a group of Cambodians. Since 2002, plaintiffs say that a cadre of government, military, police, and courts have been complicit in a land grabbing scheme that has effectively forced over 300,000 people to leave their homes. In a rush for natural resources and land, activists say that these kinds of events have seen “an area the size of Germany leased to investors in developing countries since 2000,” Global Witness said in a release. The human rights organization adds that as a result of these land grabs, millions of people have illegally and violently been evicted from their land in countries whose national courts can not provide a legal remedy to these wrongs.

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

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Input: The reports emerged on Tuesday when some observers digging through the recent WikiLeaks release of Clinton campaign chair John Podesta's leaked emails noticed similarities between a private email sent from the then-CNN contributor and DNC vice chair to Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri saying that she "gets questions in advance" a day before a CNN town hall debate. In the email to Palmieri, Brazile flagged a question she received from CNN about the death penalty in the body of an email to Palmieri titled "from time to time I get the questions in advance." "Nineteen states and the District of Columbia have banned the death penalty. Thirty-one states, including Ohio, still have the death penalty. According to the National Coalition To Abolish The Death Penalty, since 1973, 156 people have been executed on death row and later set free.

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Input: Nonetheless, the contrast was jarring — quietly supporting a military that used child soldiers while loudly decrying the use of child soldiers. In a September 25, 2012, speech before the Clinton Global Initiative, Obama spoke about an issue that he said “ought to concern every nation. … I’m talking about the injustice, the outrage, of human trafficking, which must be called by its true name — modern slavery.” The president added, “When a little boy is kidnapped, turned into a child soldier, forced to kill or be killed — that’s slavery. … It is barbaric, and it is evil, and it has no place in a civilized world.” Applause predictably followed. Three days later, and with much less fanfare, the president issued a CSPA waiver for South Sudan.

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Input: "This is a conflict, there should be no doubt," said Matthew Rojansky, director of the Kennan Institute at the Wilson Center, on the US-Russia confrontation. On Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said the US was considering a "range" of "proportional" responses to alleged Russian hacking of US political groups. Washington publicly accused the Kremlin of cyberattacks on election systems and the democracy itself last Friday. That came after talks on a Syria ceasefire broke down as US officials suggested Russia be investigated for war crimes in the besieged city of Aleppo. Moscow has steadfastly denied that it's meddling in the US presidential election.

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Input: Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton Hillary Rodham ClintonGOP fires opening attack on Dem reportedly running for Heller's Senate seat Trump seeks tech's help for government IT overhaul What do Democrats stand for? MORE also earned numerous endorsements from the military and intelligence communities, including a list of 110 retired officials in September." I now have more endorsements from retired flag officers than any Democrat other than an incumbent president has ever had," Clinton said following the endorsement." Compared to where Trump is, where both [Mitt] Romney and [John] McCain were, they had between 300 and 500. I am doing better than any Democrat, he is doing worse than recent Republicans.

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Input: Clinton's campaign says she'll resume campaigning on Thursday. Trump made the attack on a day when both candidates ' health was at center stage. Clinton released detailed medical records in the wake of her illness while Trump handed a one-page summary to Dr. Oz on his show — but his campaign declined to release details. _ _ _ 7:32 p.m.

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Input: Drew Angerer for The New York Times “Obviously, we are concerned about the risk of proliferation from North Korea,” the White House press secretary, Josh Earnest, said on Monday. “And the proliferation threat from Iran has, of course, been significantly diminished because of the international agreement to prevent them from obtaining a nuclear weapon.” “If you were ranking them on the list and if at one point Iran were ranked above North Korea,” Mr. Earnest said, “that’s certainly no longer the case.”

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Input: Finicum on January 26 was shot dead by Oregon police while allegedly resisting arrest, the only casualty of the occupation. The Oregon state police say they have received death threats against the officer responsible …. Rep. Jeff Barker, the Democrat who chairs the Oregon House Judiciary Committee, says “The whack jobs — the militants — they were demanding to know the name of the officer that killed LaVoy, and they were going to kill him ….” In a 2014 face-off at militia leader’s Cliven Bundy’s ranch in Nevada, officers stood down after armed people on bridges “took sniper positions behind concrete barriers, their assault rifles aimed directly at the officers below,” according to the Post …. Bundy’s cause won support from two U.S. senators — Rand Paul, the libertarian Kentucky Republican who ran for President, and Dean Heller of Nevada, who referred to Mr. Bundy’s supporters as “patriots” …. After Bundy suggested that “the Negro” would have been better off to be a slave than to be shackled by government subsidies, he was widely repudiated.

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Input: Confronted with the full, disturbing array of evidence indicating Trump’s unseemly coziness with a hostile foreign power, the Republican nominee’s left-wing sympathizers revert to a timeworn tactic: accuse his critics of “McCarthyism.” While this accusation was once hurled at right-wing demagogues who flung irresponsible accusations of dual loyalty at liberals, today it’s being hurled at liberals who cite very real evidence of dual loyalty on the part of a right-wing demagogue. A Nation editorial entitled “Against Neo-McCarthyism” faults liberals for “promoting the narrative of a devious Russian cyber-attack” against the DNC, which all available evidence indicates it was. (Accusing Trump of asking the Russians to hack Clinton is “such unmitigated bullshit,” says Greenwald; the candidate was merely “trolling.”) Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel elsewhere warns that Democrats “are on the verge of becoming the Cold War party,” and admonishes her fellow progressives against “turning the Orange Menace into a new Red Scare.” A recent Paul Krugman column raising concerns about Trump’s ideological consonance with Russian policy priorities constitutes, in the eyes of the World Socialist Web Site, “a mission on behalf of the US military and intelligence complex in defense of Washington’s core imperialist war strategy,” probably the first time that the reliably liberal New York Times columnist has ever been accused of such calumnies. Vanden Heuvel’s husband Stephen Cohen, a former professor of Russian Studies at Princeton and New York Universities, has long been the Putin regime’s loudest apologist in the United States, and so it’s predictable that he would join his wife in rationalizing Trump’s alarming amenity with Moscow. Recently on CNN, Cohen defended Trump’s chumminess toward the Russian president by asserting that “Vladimir Putin wants to end the new Cold War.” If that’s the case, Putin has a very strange way of showing it, considering how his regime invaded and occupied two of Russia’s neighbors, launched massive military exercises simulating nuclear strikes on NATO capitals, funds an assortment of extremist political parties across Europe, and pumps out virulent anti-Western propaganda 24/7.

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Input: Just five months ago, Clinton was bragging about her support for that wall. “I voted numerous times when I was a senator to spend money to build a barrier to try to prevent illegal immigrants from coming in,” Clinton boasted at a New Hampshire town hall in November. Asked at a debate last month to distinguish her wall from Trump’s, Clinton pointed to size. “As I understand him, [Trump’s] talking about a very tall wall,” she said. Clinton is a huge fan of Israel’s separation wall that effectively annexes Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank and has suggested using it as a model for the US border with Mexico.

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

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Input: While Israel and Turkey's representatives are hard at work on normalizing ties, Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon on Tuesday accused Ankara of encouraging terrorism by buying oil from the Islamic State group. Follow Ynetnews on Facebook and Twitter "As you know, Daesh (Islamic State) enjoyed Turkish money for oil for a very, very long period of time.

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Input: It’s simply not clear that Donald Trump would do the same. While there have at times been real conflicts between different branches of government — especially the Presidency and the Supreme Court — the country’s checks and balances have never been put to the test in quite the way that Trump now threatens to do. To understand how the American government might buckle under this kind of stress, it’s worth asking exactly what such a collision might really look like. What if a President Trump really did decide to impose big penalties on critical newspapers, or prosecute Hilary Clinton, or refuse to comply with a Supreme Court ruling? If you game it out, there are at least three likely scenarios that lead to a crisis.

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Input: But while Washington and Moscow have both expressed hope they can find a way to cooperate against IS, Kerry's proposal was already in trouble due to the competing objectives of the Cold War-era foes as well as resistance from U.S. military and intelligence officials. U.S. officials questioned Russian and Syrian claims that their aim in evacuating civilians from Aleppo was to clear the way for humanitarian assistance to reach the besieged city, where 200,000 -300,000 civilians remain with only two to three weeks of food on hand." Why would you evacuate a city that you wanted to send humanitarian aid to?" asked one official." At first glance, that would appear to be a unilateral effort by Moscow and Assad to pre-empt Kerry's demand for ending the siege of Aleppo before starting negotiations on the larger issues.

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Input: are the same people who are writing analyses of the Syrian opposition on which decisions are based on the future of that program?” the first U.S. official said. Amid the setbacks in Syria in recent months, key figures in the administration have advocated prioritizing the fight against the Islamic State, rather than against the Assad government. But agency officials disagree with this rationale, saying that the Islamic State ca n’t be eradicated until a new government emerges capable of controlling the terrorist group’s territory in Raqqa and elsewhere. “You ca n’t defeat ISIL without removing Assad,” the second U.S. official said, using an alternative name for the Islamic State. “As long as there is a failed state in Syria, ISIL will have a homeland.”

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Input: teleSUR was included in packages of more than 90 cable operators and had agreements with five television stations in different Argentine provinces. Until Feb. 29, 2016, it reached more than 20 million viewers in addition to more than 8 million subscribers. On the same day as Macri's announcement, thousands of journalists and dozens of media workers ' unions protested against massive layoffs in Buenos Aires, calling on the government to prevent the closure of newspapers and television stations. According to a study conducted by the Buenos Aires Press Union, more than 1,000 media workers have lost their jobs in the city since December 2015, when Macri took power. The Press Workers’ Federation, one of the umbrella unions of media workers, reports that more than 2,500 media employees have lost their jobs across the country over the same period.

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Input: We could probably learn some things from Cuba, like how it manages every year to have better outcomes than we do, in fact the best in the Western Hemisphere, in areas like overall literacy, basic healthcare, infant mortality. And while we’re talking about Cuba, a Sanders Doctrine would use whatever methods are available (including executive action if congressional approval is still impossible) to close the US prison at Guantánamo Bay and to open discussions with Cuba over return of Guantánamo to Cuban sovereignty. * On the new global “free trade” treaties: US leadership in negotiating and advocating passage of the Trans-Atlantic Trade & Investment Partnership (TTIP), the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), and other corporate-privileging trade deals has made passage of these agreements far more likely. A Sanders Doctrine would recognize the danger of such deals, particularly in the way they empower corporate “rights” even over national sovereignty of countries around the world, and would immediately end its support and pull out of the negotiations. “Free trade” agreements would be replaced by “fair trade” agreements based on protection of workers, the environment, indigenous communities, and democracy.

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Input: "[Y]our ignorant anti-immigrant opinions, your border wall rhetoric, and your recent bigoted attack on an American jurist are just plain despicable," Vela wrote." Your position with respect to the millions of undocumented Mexican workers who now live in this country is hateful, dehumanizing, and frankly shameful." The second-term lawmaker noted his own Mexican roots and pointed out that his family immigrated to the U.S. before Trump's grandfather did from Germany." Before you dismiss me as just another ' Mexican, ' let me point out that my great-great grandfather came to this country in 1857, well before your own grandfather. His grandchildren (my grandfather and his brothers) all served our country in World War I and World War II.

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Input: 2016/04/21 02:09 By Chang Jae-soon WASHINGTON, April 20 (Yonhap) -- North Korea's failed launch of its Musudan intermediate-range ballistic missile last week sparked a huge fireball that damaged the launcher and could have also injured or killed missile technicians on the ground, a news report said Wednesday. The missile blew up about 300 feet above the ground, shortly after Friday's launch, and U.S. strategic defense surveillance systems, both airborne and space-based, videotaped the explosion, the Washington Free Beacon reported, citing U.S. defense officials. Two road-mobile Musudan launchers were set up for the test, but the second was not fired after the explosion, the report said.

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Input: THE DAILY HILLARY: -- Former FBI agent Brian McCauley pushed back on allegations of a “quid pro quo.” He confirmed that he spoke to a top State Department official about changing the classified status of one of Clinton's emails, as well as a long-standing FBI request for additional staffing in U.S. embassies, but he denied that any inappropriate collusion ever took place. In an interview with Matt Zapotosky, McCauley acknowledged that he offered to do a favor in exchange for another favor, but before he had any inkling of what Kennedy wanted. “I said, ‘Absolutely not, I ca n’t help you,’ and he took that, and it was fine,” said McCauley, who was the FBI’s deputy assistant director for international operations from 2012 to 2015. McCauley said that when he learned the missive concerned the attack on the U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya, he told Kennedy he could not help him.

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Input: ' God knows what would have happened to us if my family had decided to go that shopping mall half an hour later. We might not be alive now. ' Police officers search a residential area near the Olympia shopping centre after the shooting Policemen arrive the Olympia shopping centre in Munich, where a number of people have been killed and several more injured An earlier video purporting to show the shooter, dressed in black, firing 20 shots has been posted on Twitter. The footage shows him outside a McDonald's directly outside the shopping centre. Police have confirmed that there a multiple deaths as a result of the incident and German media have reported there may be up to 15 killed.

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Input: A Russian yacht has been detained by North Korean coastguards in the Sea of Japan, Russia's foreign ministry says. Reports say the sailboat with five crew on board was intercepted as it was returning to Russia after participating in a competition in South Korea. Russian diplomats have demanded the crew's immediate release and an explanation.

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Input: Early reports suggest three gunmen could be behind the attack. Amid the horrific scenes, teams of medics are battling to save victims of the gun attack, as the number of people injured rises. Shocking video footage has shown several victims on stretchers following a horrific gun rampage in Munich this evening Teams of medics are battling to save and help victims of the gun attack, as the number of people injured rises A major police operation is ongoing around the city's Olympic Park, with the force warning people to stay in their homes and avoid public spaces as they admitted they don't know where the gunmen are. 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.

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Input: UN Ruling On Assange Guardian, Julian Assange is in arbitrary detention, UN panel finds, Esther Addley, Owen Bowcott, Jessica Elgot, Paul Farrell, and David Crouch, Feb. 4, 2016. A United Nations panel has decided that Julian Assange’s three-and-a-half years in the Ecuadorian embassy amount to “arbitrary detention,” leading his lawyers to call for the Swedish extradition request to be dropped immediately. A Swedish foreign ministry spokeswoman confirmed that the UN panel, due to publish its findings on Friday, had concluded that Assange was “arbitrarily detained.” The WikiLeaks founder sought asylum from Ecuador in June 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden to face questioning over rape and sexual assault allegations, which he denies. Martin Fredriksson

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Input: But Ankara views the group as an extension of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has waged a three-decade-old insurgency for autonomy in south-east Turkey. Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Saturday the shelling had taken place under "the rules of engagement against forces that represented a threat in Azaz and the surrounding area". He demanded the Menagh base be evacuated and said he had spoken to US Vice President Joe Biden to make that point and stress that the YPG, the military arm of the PYD, was an extension of the PKK and a direct threat to Turkey. The shelling intensified at 2:00am (local time) before dying down but not stopping, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group, which reports on the war using a network of sources on the ground. Washington has been relying on the YPG as one of its few effective allies on the ground in the fight against the Islamic State group.

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Input: Pardon me while I sit back and enjoy the panic of the Republican – and media – elites as the GOP frontrunner takes up that old left-wing antiwar slogan: “Bush lied – people died!” That’s the essence of what Donald Trump said at Saturday’s South Carolina GOP presidential debate when moderator John Dickerson – who smirked his way through the entire debate – asked Trump if he still thought George W. Bush should be impeached as he supposedly said in a long ago interview: “George Bush made a mistake. We can make mistakes.

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Input: Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that military units were put on combat alert early Monday, marking the launch of the exercise that involves troops of the Southern Military District. The district includes troops stationed in Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula that Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014, as well as forces in the North Caucasus and southwestern regions near the border with Ukraine. Shoigu said the maneuvers will also engage airborne troops and military transport aviation, as well as the navy. He noted that the drills are intended to check the troops ' ability to respond to extremist threats and other challenges. According to Shoigu, who spoke at a meeting with the top military brass, the war games would include redeployment of air force units to advance air bases and bombing runs at shooting ranges.

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Input: It was not immediately clear if any Turkish or Turkish-backed Syrian opposition forces crossed the border to take part in the operation. The news agency said the operation aims to clear Turkey's border of "terror organizations" and increase border security, as well as "prioritize and support" Syria's territorial integrity. The assault followed Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu pledge on Tuesday of "every kind" of support for operations against IS along a 100-kilometer (62-mile) stretch of Syrian frontier.

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Input: This report deserves continuous monitoring, especially in light of last week’s military maneuvers and movements conducted by Russia’s infantry and airborne forces, as well as their naval assets and air force in and around the borders of the Baltic nations, primarily Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, as well as Ukraine and Poland. Recent reliefs of command (and/or purges) of several senior members of the Kremlin and the Russian military suggest (as can be read in detail in other articles) that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin may be clearing out any of his advisors that may oppose future military operations in Europe. To increase tensions further, it has been reported that on Wednesday, August 24th, Turkish military forces have invaded Syria. The offensive has been comprised of Turkish armored units, special forces teams, and aircraft supported by “coalition” aircraft of the U.S. The purported objective was to dislodge ISIS from proximity to the Turkish border and to stem advances made by Kurdish militia.

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Input: “They put it on my penis, and started tightening it.” Hamada recalled Suhail asking, “Are you going to admit it, or shall I cut it off?” Hamada agreed that he had carried a Kalashnikov, so Suhail released the clamp and asked how many clips of ammunition Hamada had carried. “How many clips do you want me to have?” Hamada asked. Suhail reminded him that he had to confess on his own, so Hamada said, “I had five bullets.” That was n’t good enough, Suhail told him: “I need two magazines.” The torture escalated until Hamada confessed to everything they asked. In hundreds of witness interviews, the CIJA found consistent patterns in interrogation practices across all branches of the security agencies. People were detained following the Crisis Cell’s policy.

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Input: Swedish police issued an arrest warrant so that Assange could answer to allegations of rape and several less severe sexual crimes. He disputes that he committed rape, and the time to prosecute Assange in connection with the other allegations has now expired under Swedish statutes of limitations. Assange has characterized the investigation as part of a broader conspiracy on the part of the U.S. government to incarcerate him, extradite him, and have him killed in prison—“Jack Ruby style,” as he put it to the Guardian. A former WikiLeaks employee suggests that this scenario is a fantasy. “The way he is selling the situation is completely overblown,” says Daniel Domscheit-Berg, who worked at WikiLeaks for three years and later wrote a tell-all book about the organization, Inside WikiLeaks.

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Input: "It is not uncommon for the Coalition Air Operations Center to confer with Russian officials as a professional courtesy and to deconflict Coalition and Russian aircraft, although such contact is not required by the current U.S.–Russia Memorandum of Understanding on safety of flight." Nevertheless, the Russians are claiming their Syrian allies have been killed by the U.S. military, just as the U.S. and Russia are trying to maintain the fragile, nationwide cease-fire that went into effect Monday. That cease-fire calls on the Syrian regime to cease all airstrikes over U.S.-backed opposition forces and limits it to striking ISIS targets. It also calls for increased military cooperation between the U.S. and Russia after a seven-day period of calm and the sufficient delivery of humanitarian aid. Six days since the start of the cease-fire no aid has been delivered.

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Input: In Arizona, a state that has voted Democratic once in nearly 70 years but has a growing Hispanic population, his lead has slipped to 44% to 42%. Marco Rubio: women with Zika should not be allowed abortions Read more Trump’s broader polling numbers have plummeted in a period during which, among other controversies, he again refused to release his taxes, insulted the family of a war hero, claimed that Russia had not invaded Ukraine – two years after it had, said his daughter should “find another company” if sexually harassed and briefly claimed to have seen a nonexistent video of cash shipments to Iran. Republicans have tried to tie Clinton’s foreign policy to that money, $ 400 m owed to pre-revolutionary Iran for a failed arms deal in the 1970s, describing it as “ransom” for hostages who were freed in January, around the time of delivery and sanctions relief for a nuclear arms deal. Clinton began tentative nuclear talks with Iran but the money dispute predated her and was concluded by her successor as secretary of state, John Kerry, who also oversaw the hostage release.

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Input: In this period, the Armenians spied for the Russians, they fled from their military service, by not obeying the mobilisation orders, and those Armenians who were taken under arms joining onto the Russian Army, with their arms, and they thus committed collectively the guilt of being “treacherous to the land “. The paper’s decision to publish the ad met with criticism online, with frequent comparison to a hypothetical ad denying the Holocaust. The WSJ would not print an ad from a group denying the Holocaust, which is equally well established. Awful judgment. https://t.co/WuilThB9Zy — Popehat (@Popehat) April 20, 2016

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Input: Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump Donald TrumpLewandowski near ' high six-figure book deal ': report GOP fires opening attack on Dem reportedly running for Heller's Senate seat Overnight Tech: Trump seeks tech's help for ' sweeping ' IT overhaul | FTC looks to block sports fantasy merger | Firm exposes nearly 200 M voters ' data MORE leads rival Marco Rubio Marco RubioOvernight Finance: Ryan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax reform | Warren targets Wells Fargo board | Senators raise concerns over Russian takeover of Citgo | Pelosi hits GOP for budget delays Senators ask administration to probe possible Russian takeover of Citgo Week ahead: Obama DHS chief to testify on Russian meddling MORE in the senator's home state of Florida by 20 points, according to a News 13 / Bay News 9 poll released Tuesday. ADVERTISEMENT Trump takes 42 percent of the vote, with Rubio receiving 22 percent, according to the statewide poll.

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Input: You cherrypick what he says and you want to talk about it for days on end with a breaking news tag on it. I do n’t think that counts as breaking news.” Trump was widely criticised for his remarks at the debate, with many commentators saying they were evocative of “tinpot dictators” and authoritarian regimes where political opponents are arrested and incarcerated. Speaking at a rally in Pueblo, Colorado, Clinton assailed Trump’s “scorched earth” strategy as a sign of desperation from a campaign in turmoil. “That just shows how desperate they are,” Clinton said on Wednesday.

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Input: I promised I would deport the illegals. I have done that. The vice-president is being transported to the Canadian border later tonight. My fellow Americans, we are now a month into the Trump presidency. One month.

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Input: But it is clearly on the scale of tens of thousands. For example, in 1991, 47,276 Jews immigrated to Israel from Russia, while 10,196 left to resettle in the United States, according to Mark Tolts, a demographics researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. These numbers do not include Jews who immigrated to other countries such as Germany, nor do they include non-Jewish immigration. Journalist Masha Gessen said thousands of people could lose their citizenship as a result of the new regulations, which she described as “really bizarre,” “insane” and “amazing.” “There can not be such a thing as a person who was born on Russian territory and is not a Russian citizen,” she said.

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Input: Immigration. Trump supporters are not wrong to say that elites of both parties have basically conspired to keep both immigration and trade off the agenda. Nor are they wrong to be annoyed when any opposition to increased immigration, or to legalizing people who are here illegally, is immediately dismissed as racist. No one who wrings their hands about gentrification can reasonably dismiss “I like my community the way it is” as an inherently racist and illegitimate sentiment. Moreover, in a country with birthright voters, immigration means importing your future electorate; this, of course, sounds splendid to people on the left who think that this electorate will be more friendly to social democratic programs, but it is perfectly reasonable for people who prefer a more conservative government to oppose greater immigration for the same reason.

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Input: Nonetheless, the sophistication of Israel's fighter fleet means they are equipped to deal with such threats, which enables them to detect and follow radars that threaten to lock onto them ahead of launching missiles. In such an event, pilots can change their plane's route, especially when they are simply on an intelligence-gathering mission. Israeli security officials believe Hezbollah has acquired the technology through its ties with Russia, forged as a result of their mutual fight against Islamic State in Syria, Walla reported." The connection between Hezbollah, Russia and Syria have greatly changed the rules of the game in the region," a security official was quoted as saying in Walla." Hezbollah is indicating to Israel that it is ready for the next stage."

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Input: But the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 40 civilians were killed in Turkish shelling and air strikes on two areas held by pro-Kurdish forces in northern Syria, the first report of significant civilian casualties in Turkey's operation. The bombardments came after Ankara suffered its first military fatality in the two-pronged offensive against IS and the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) militia. Addressing a rally in the southern city of Gaziantep, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to combat the jihadists and the US-backed Kurdish fighters "with the same determination." "We will make any kind of contribution to the work to clear Daesh (IS) from Syria," Erdogan told thousands of flag-waving supporters in the city where a suicide bomber suspected of IS links blew himself up at a wedding party last weekend. Regarding "the PYD (Democratic Union Party) terror group in Syria, we have just the same determination," Erdogan said, referring to the main pro-Kurdish party in northern Syria and its YPG militia.

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Input: Under current legislation, those guilty of insulting officials including the president can be sentenced to up to a year's hard labour. But Khudyakov wants to revive a law, introduced during the dying days of the Soviet Union in 1990, which would make the offence of insulting the president punishable by up to six years imprisonment. Under Putin's presidency there has been a steady crackdown on dissent in Russia, with independent media outlets closed down and critics imprisoned on spurious charges. A cult of personality has emerged around Putin, with T-shirts and other items bearing his image sold throughout the country, and polls showing he enjoys record levels of public approval. In June, independent pollsters the Levada Centre found that 89% of Russians approved of Putin.

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Input: Robert Miracle of Bellevue, Wash., is in the files. He was indicted for a $ 65 million Seattle-area Ponzi scheme involving investment in Indonesian oilfields, with new investors’ money allegedly used to pay off past investors. Miracle was sentenced on May 13, 2011, to 13 years in prison after pleading guilty to wire fraud and tax evasion. Miracle’s company was called Mcube Petroleum, and it remained an active shareholder in several offshore companies in the British Virgin Islands up until he pleaded guilty. The offshores were created by Mossack Fonseca.

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Input: Could not name a single leader. They coached him up, and in the second debate he did nothing but spout off names of foreign leaders. The bottom line is that I know Gary Johnson is getting a lot of this protest vote, mostly from Republicans, but the man is painfully, painfully ignorant. We’ve already been through eight years of George W. Bush where we had a painfully ignorant president, so do not waste your protest vote on someone like Gary Johnson in the off chance that maybe he could win something, maybe. I do n’t know, but it’s so not worth it, because that man is dumber than a box of hammers that have already lost their handles.

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Input: Hide Caption 8 of 93 Photos: Mosul operation: Iraqi-led forces push into key city An Iraqi soldier searches a home for ISIS militants after Iraqi forces retook the village of Al-Qasr on Wednesday, November 30. Hide Caption 9 of 93 Photos: Mosul operation: Iraqi-led forces push into key city Iraqi soldiers transport a comrade who was injured during a battle near the village of Haj Ali on Tuesday, November 29. Hide Caption 10 of 93 Photos: Mosul operation: Iraqi-led forces push into key city A man mourns during the funeral of four Iraqi paramilitary fighters who were killed in battles in the town of Tal Afar. Hide Caption 11 of 93 Photos: Mosul operation: Iraqi-led forces push into key city Displaced civilians return to the village of Tall Abtah on Friday, November 25, after Iraqi forces retook the village from ISIS. Hide Caption 12 of 93 Photos: Mosul operation: Iraqi-led forces push into key city Mosul residents are seen through the windshield of an armored truck as they flee the city, while Iraqi special forces battle ISIS fighters in the northeastern district of the city on Thursday, November 24.

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Input: STEIN: There are a couple of things, you know there are a couple of very important things the president can do under executive orders that are not part of the discussion that we’ve just had. For example: Breaking up the big banks. I do n’t know if you’re familiar with Bill Black, who wrote the book “The Best Way to Rob A Bank Is to Own One”. You can take a look at his ten-point platform for how the president right now could actually break up the big banks and return the rule of law to Wall Street by essentially restoring the “cops on the beat” who have been laid off from Wall Street – the FBI agents, the SEC, Securities and Exchange Commission agents, etc., Department of Justice appointees, who should be regulating Wall Street. And he makes the point that Wall Street does not regulate itself and that through the agencies the president could essentially ensure that regulatory requirements are put in place that would make the so-called “cash on hand” requirements commensurate with the level of risk undertaken by the banks, and that that would enable the banks to downsize, which would profoundly change the way of things.

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Input: SANDERS: No, they would n’t. Look, here’s where we are. Let me reiterate. We have a global crisis. Pope Francis reminded us that we are on a suicide course.

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Input: Over 200 air strikes hit the rebel-held city of Aleppo over the weekend, killing more than 100 people and injuring hundreds more, according to Ammar al-Selmo, the head of the Syria Civil Defense group, a volunteer emergency medical service. On Sunday, top UN officials described the Syrianm regime's brutal offensive against areas of the besieged northern city of Aleppo as "barbaric." Following the collapse of a short-lived, US and Russia-brokered ceasefire, Syrian forces pounded eastern Aleppo on Sunday, killing at least 85 people and wounding more than 300 others, an activist group reported. JUST WATCHED Syrian government launches "comprehensive offensive" Replay More Videos ... MUST WATCH Syrian government launches "comprehensive offensive" 03:26 Etaky's young son has been suffering with a fever but he says he has been unable to get him treatment with the city's resources brutally stretched.

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Input: "Proper representation and a bigger voice for the developing countries are the need of the hour. For instance, being the world's third-largest economy and the largest foreign reserves holder, China should get its due place in the monetary body." Another idea Yi raised was that the U.S. and Europe should give up their traditional privileges of appointing the heads of the World Bank and the IMF. The idea of a creating a new global reserve currency isn't new. But analysts say the proposal isn't likely to gain much traction because it faces major obstacles.

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Input: The driver has been named as Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a 31-year -old who lived in the French Riviera city and was described by neighbours as a loner who never responded to their greetings. A source close to the probe told the AFP news agency Lahouaiej-Bouhlel visited the Nice promenade with his rented truck on the two days before the massacre. He sent a text message just before the attack in which he expressed "satisfaction at having obtained a 7.65-millimetre pistol and discusses the supply of other weapons", the source said. During the attack Lahouaiej-Bouhlel fired at police who sprayed his rampaging truck with gunfire, eventually killing him. An Albanian suspected of providing the driver with the pistol was arrested in Nice on Sunday.

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Input: “If Donald Trump ca n’t take a stand against the KKK, we can not trust him to stand up for America against Putin, Iran or ISIS.” Scott’s stand against Trump now can be seen as an early storm warning. As Labor Day approaches, the awful reality of what Trump has done to the GOP goes beyond polls showing Trump is on track to lose more than 90 percent of the black vote and around 80 percent of the Latino vote. The real issue for the GOP is that the latest polls have him losing white women with college degrees. That is devastating to the Republican brand.

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Input: So, happy birthday! The first hour of the event was dedicated to reviewing WikiLeaks’ biggest document leaks, and a review of the legal pressure and threats the organization has received from the United States. Founder Julian Assange, currently trying to avoid extradition for a rape case in Sweden, is currently a refugee at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. After the first hour, Assange finally appeared at the event via a livestream. And he began his remarks by offering his thoughts on the impact WikiLeaks has had.

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Input: According to the Clinton campaign, her tweet was viewed more than 2 million times. The Clinton campaign says it teed up that tweet hours before her speech, assuming — correctly — that Trump would take the bait. And that's actually a strategy that Twitter advises the campaigns to follow: gaming out future events and storing up especially savvy tweets, including GIFs and video, that might match those situations. “The Clinton campaign is particularly good at planning to be spontaneous,” says Twitter spokesman Nick Pacilio. Her campaign also recently began tweeting short clips, set to “Hail to the Chief,” featuring Trump in his own words on topics like pregnancy (“ an inconvenience for a business”) and prisoners of war (“ I like people who were n’t captured”).

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Input: Lonina and her friend are naturalized U.S. citizens from Russia, O'Brien said, and the comments on the Periscope video were in Russian. Lonina is also charged with a felony for photographing her friend nude while she was at her house Feb. 26, the night before the assault, O'Brien said. If convicted, Lonina and Gates could face sentences of more than 40 years in prison, O'Brien said. Contributing: The Associated Press Read or Share this story: http://usat.ly/1ShnrQ6

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Input: The study’s authors draw the wrong policy conclusions from the data, such as the idea that this justifies widespread taxation on all high earners, but if people of opposing political perspectives can agree that personal wealth earned by creating value for others is legitimate, and wealth obtained by taking things from others or exploiting loopholes is illegitimate, then we will have gone a long ways towards addressing the two-tiered society that is emerging in this country. The idea behind the methodology is an interesting one. After all, there is a huge difference between wealth that is earned by producing goods and services of value for others, and wealth that is acquired through rent-seeking, where profits are derived from government-granted privileges and subsidies. Often, these privileges are hard to spot. Many are obvious, such as the bailout of the auto industry or the Export-Import Bank, but some, like the proliferation of licensed occupations and tariffs on foreign products, are more subtle.

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Input: You know, the Republican elite, as it were — the big donors, the political leaders — they hate Trump, I think in large part because they ca n’t control him and because Trump has taken left-wing positions on a whole range of issues, in some cases actually taking more left-wing positions than many in the Democratic Party. Trump wants to renegotiate a lot of these big trade deals, after the Democratic Party has even endorsed the TPP or going back all the way to NAFTA. Trump has promised to take on pharmaceutical companies, promising to have Medicare negotiate for lower drug prices. On a whole range of issues, Trump promises to bully big corporations and to be actually a neutral arbiter on issues like Israel-Palestine. So, that’s kind of the fascinating part of this election to me, that Trump — you know, part of his appeal is that he’s a self-funder, but he also is uniquely outside of the Republican donor class, and that special interests ca n’t control him and force him to be on these orthodox Republican issues.

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

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Input: “We have countries that are rattling their sabers. We have rogue regimes. And we have quasi-states like ISIS, or individual cells that want to attack us.” MacArthur declined to address Trump’s repeated threat not to concede the election should he lose. “The American people are going to choose our leader in two and a half weeks,” he said.

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Input: But in the case of the American freighter Pipestone County, torpedoed off Cape Henry, Va., in April 1942, Heinicke surfaced near the lifeboats. He gave the survivors provisions and apologized for sinking the ship. There were no fatalities. U-576 had a young crew. No one was older than 29, according to a crew list provided by NOAA.

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Input: The defence ministry said violations were committed by moderate rebels as well as "terrorist organisations"." Over the past 24 hours, nine instances of violations of cessation of hostilities have been uncovered," the ministry said, citing its coordination centre at the Hmeimim airbase in Syria." On the whole, the ceasefire regime in Syria is being implemented," it said of the deal brokered by Moscow and Washington which took effect from 2200 GMT Friday." At the same time there are a number of violations by groups of ' moderate ' opposition and units of international terrorist organisations." The ministry highlighted an attack on the town of Tal Abyad on the border with Turkey.

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Input: But that would require action by the U.N. Security Council. China and Russia, which are veto-wielding members of the council, oppose such a move. The secretive North Korean government is accused of running a massive network of political prisons, as well as carrying out murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape, forced abortions and other sexual violence. In his latest report, Darusman said Pyongyang does not appear to have made any improvements on rights issues since the U.N. investigation ended two years ago. The U.N. Human Rights Council will review the report next month.

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Input: Daily Emails and Alerts- Get the best of Newsweek delivered to your inbox It’s easy to see why Putin views Trump’s ascendancy as a godsend — and why he mobilized his cyberspies and media assets to his aid, according to security analysts. “Trump advocates isolationist policies and an abdication of U.S. leadership in the world. He cares little about promoting democracy and human rights,” continues McFaul. “A U.S. retreat from global affairs fits precisely with Putin’s international interests.” Putin has been relatively reserved in his public support for Trump — calling him “colorful and talented,” which in Russian comes across as faint praise — but Kremlin-sponsored propaganda outlets like Sputnik and RT (formerly Russia Today) have lavishly praised Trump, tweeted # CrookedHillary memes and supported Trump’s assertion that Barack Obama “founded ISIS,” and Russia’s world-class army of state-sponsored hackers has targeted Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party.

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Input: Matador Clinton has now finally realized that Donald Trump Donald TrumpLewandowski near ' high six-figure book deal ': report GOP fires opening attack on Dem reportedly running for Heller's Senate seat Overnight Tech: Trump seeks tech's help for ' sweeping ' IT overhaul | FTC looks to block sports fantasy merger | Firm exposes nearly 200 M voters ' data MORE can be baited into his own undoing. And indeed he was. Clinton must have ultimately realized that asking Ghazala and Khizr Khan to speak, the Muslim parents of a slain American war hero, would fire up Trump. Khizr recounts how their involvement in Clinton’s campaign escalated over months since December- from being asked whether their public comments against Trump could be used in a tribute to their son at the Convention; to later being asked to join it; to finally being asked to give a speech. This is not to suggest that Clinton had this in mind from the start, rather that by now it’s not difficult to see how Trump would react to the Khans’ speech once it was confirmed.

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Input: Reports on social media say the Iraqi militias in Syria are armed with U.S. tanks and small arms they procured on the Iraqi side of the border. Those reports could not be independently confirmed. The presence of militias fighting on behalf of Assad — a dictator that the U.S. has pledged to depose — is yet another reminder of the tangled alliances that the United States must thread as it pursues seemingly contradictory policies in its battles against the self-proclaimed Islamic State. In Iraq, these Shia militias were battling on behalf of the U.S.-backed government. In Syria, they are fighting against an American-supported rebel coalition that includes forces armed by the CIA.

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Input: STEIN: So let me speak to that. Yes, and there’s another major policy program that you may want to talk about here, and that is the proposal that we bail out a generation of young people who are held hostage by student debt. This is $ 1.3 trillion and the broad brushstroke there is that we managed to come up with a whole lot of money for Wall Street, which Congress learned, when the audit was actually done and the reporting by the Fed, that “Oh my God, you managed to come up with $ 17 trillion or $ 16 trillion of near-zero interest or free money in order to bail out Wall Street.” Wall Street has the unique ability to turn around and quickly lend that low interest money for seven percent and recoup it, so Wall Street was able to pay much of that back, we know, but the point remains that if we can bail out the crooks who crashed the economy through waste, fraud and abuse and predatory lending and unethical bundling of extremely insecure financial packages – if we can find a way to bail them out to the tune of a whole lot of trillions, we can find a way to bail out a whole generation that has basically been thrown under the bus and does not have a future, that arguably does n’t have a way out. HIATT: And why do you include upper-income people in there? STEIN: Well, for one thing, we know that higher education pays for itself.

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Input: Bill and Hillary Clinton epitomize the use of public office in behalf of the office holder’s interest. For the Clintons government means using public office to be rewarded for doing favors for private interests. The Wall Street Journal reported that “at least 60 companies that lobbied the State Department during her [Hillary Clinton’s] tenure as Secretary of State donated a total of more than $ 26 million to the Clinton Foundation.” http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/02/hillary-clinton-exposed-part-1-aggressively-lobbied-mega-corporations-secretary-state.html According to washingtonsblog.com, “All told, the Clinton Foundation and its affiliates have collected donations and pledges from all souces of more than $ 1.6 billion, accoring to their tax returns.” According to rootsactionteam.com, multi-million dollar donars to the Clinton Foundation include Saudi Arabia, Ukrainian oligarch Victor Pinchuk, Kuwait, ExxonMobil, Friends of Saudi Arabia, James Murdoch, Qatar, Boeing, Dow, Goldman Sachs, Walmart, and the United Arab Emirates.

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Input: The three members of a British family beaten unconscious in a "drunken" attack at a Thai tourist resort have been identified. Lewis and Rosemary Owen, and their son Lewis-named after his father-were kicked and punched during an assault by a gang during celebrations for the Thai New Year. The couple are believed to be 68 and 65 and have been named by neighbours from Wenvoe, in the vale of Glamorgan in Wales. CCTV footage leaked online shows the attackers punch and kick the victims in the busy Soi Bintabaht district.

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Input: Jody Avirgan: More and more from Donald Trump, as he’s dropping in the polls — which I suspect is not much of a coincidence — we’re hearing talk of a rigged election. Trump has suggested that the election will be rigged. He’s urged his supporters to monitor polling sites; he’s suggested even that the polls are rigged. This morning, Monday morning, he tweeted, “Of course there is widespread voter fraud happening on and before election day.” There’s a lot to tease out here about the specific charges and about the long-term corrosive effect of sowing distrust in our electoral system. And I’ve got some data and some facts that will hopefully give us some context, but I also want to start with a basic question of definitions because I think there are some different definitions floating around of what the word rigged means.

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Input: Food prices rose 20 percent last year, according to official statistics, but often Russians say their grocery tab is up by a third or more, thanks in part to sanctions Moscow slapped on Western food imports in retaliation for sanctions the West imposed over Ukraine. Sergei Galustian, 65, a retired police officer, lives on a downtown street with just 27 houses, their proximity making it easy to assess change. “Nobody is starving yet, but incomes are definitely down,” he said, noting that homes are colder, that neighbors turn on just two lamps after dark where they once used five and that people have stopped buying new clothes. Retail sales across Russia were down by 13.1 percent for the year ending in November, according to official statistics, with car sales off nearly 40 percent. The 100 or so workers at the giant Seydin Machine Tool Factory, once the pride of the city during the Soviet era, have not seen a paycheck for a year and recently received layoff notices.

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Input: Such remarks are unacceptable and Moscow is disappointed to hear "new typically U.S. claims for being a global judge", Ryabkov said in comments to Interfax news agency published on Saturday. Referring to a resolution on Syria proposed by France for debate at the United Security Council later on Saturday, he said:" Unfortunately, we see less and less common sense in the actions of Washington and Paris ". The draft resolution demands an end to air strikes and military flights over Aleppo. Moscow has already said this draft is unacceptable. (Reporting by Dmitry Solovyov; editing by John Stonestreet)

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Input: Dr. Michael Feige, left, and Ido Ben-Ari (Photo: Ben-Gurion University, Danny Machlis) Multiple shots were heard at the open-air shopping center in the heart of Tel Aviv, adjacent to IDF and Ministry of Defense headquarters, the Kirya. Magen David Adom (MDA) arrived at the scene and declared multiple wounded, and their paramedics evacuated wounded persons to Ichilov and Tel Hashomer Medical Centers. Of the 16 wounded, four died, and three are still in the hospital. X

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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: Were they doing war games in the Caribbean? No they were not, but that’s what we’re doing right now to Russia. So from our point of view it may not seem so bad, but from Russia’s point of view, they’ve been encroached upon, there have been missiles that have surrounded them now. And this has been going on for years. Now there are war games going on and exercises, and our negotiations have absolutely broken down.

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Input: Facebook Email “It is absolutely outrageous – though not surprising – that the Syrian government has continued to bombard and starve its own civilians. And it is unacceptable that the UN and other influential international players are not doing more to address the critical situation in Daraya and other besieged locations.” Imprecise barrel bombs

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Input: You know, that may not be the model to go with. There are other forms of community-based decision-making, not unlike, you know, our elected bodies, except that the intention here is to exclude pay-to-play players from determining how these decisions are made. Nicholas Goldberg: As Jon pointed out, it’s not our elected bodies that make decisions about where jobs should be created, by and large. Jill Stein: That’s true, although decisions about public programs generally are made by them. Scott Martelle: What happens when you run into the same problem Obama did with the ACA [Affordable Care Act], where there’s no local buy-in?

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Input: NATO is obsolete … if we have to walk, we walk.” He believes we can treat the U.S. economy like one of his casinos and default on our debts to the rest of the world, which would cause an economic catastrophe far worse than anything we experienced in 2008. TRUMP: “I’ve borrowed knowing that you can pay back with discounts ... I would borrow knowing that if the economy crashed, you could make a deal.” He has said that he would order our military to carry out torture ...

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Input: Hassan Haj Ali, along with other U.S.-backed commanders, said they're clashing with Kurdish fighters -- and the Kurdish group also receives American support. CBS News "Our American friends said they'd put pressure on the Kurds to stop the clashes," he told us," but there's no sign that's happened." The glimmer of good news from Syria is that aid convoys carrying food and medicine made it to areas besieged by fighting on Wednesday. One of those towns is Madaya, where there have been reports of people starving to death.

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Input: Democratic Nominee Hillary Clinton has remained silent after a second night of riots in Charlotte, North Carolina caused major damage in the city. Protesters angry about the killing of a black man, Keith Lamont Scott, by an African-American police officer terrorized the streets Wednesday night, beating citizens, looting, vandalizing, blocking interstate traffic and setting fires. advertisement But Clinton’s campaign has been silent, as she remains at her home in Chappaqua, New York preparing for her first debate with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.

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Input: TOBIA: This election season, Heimbach is supporting Donald Trump. In March, he was caught on tape shoving a young African-American woman as she was being escorted out of a Trump rally. When he’s not on the road preaching white nationalism, Heimbach lives here, the southern Indiana town of Paoli. Just steps from the town square, Heimbach moved his family to this two-acre plot. Matt Parrott, Heimbach’s friend and co-founder of the Traditionalist Worker Party, bought the land in a bank repossession.

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Input: And some of the emails dealt with campaign messaging and strategy -- including the phrase “everyday Americans,” which Clinton and her campaign used frequently in the first few months of her candidacy. Speechwriter Dan Schwerin had sent out a draft of a speech he wrote for Clinton for an upcoming event in New Hampshire. After a few exchanges, Podesta recommended that the phrase “everyday Americans” get added in, even though he said Clinton does n’t like using it. “I know she has begun to hate everyday Americans, but I think we should use it once the first time she says I’m running for president because you and everyday Americans need a champion,” Podesta said. “I think if she does n’t say it once, people will notice and say we false started in Iowa.”

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Input: They're like 70 bucks a month to rent.’ So we put shipping containers out in the parking lot here.” He pushes open a heavy metal door and there they are, three red, one orange, and one blue, pinged with rust, sitting on the hot asphalt with weeds popping through. “See, now we fill these up. Um …” He yanks the latch on the orange one, bends his knees as he heaves open the door. Inside it's the same as the corridors: boxes. “Maybe 50 times a day a trace will come in for gun records in those boxes.

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Input: “We proposed a scenario that built on the existing FAA mission-approval framework," Richards said. NASA and other agencies, including the Defense, State and Commerce departments, ultimately agreed that no new law was necessary, Richards said. As part of the agreement, NASA will advise, but not regulate, Moon Express activities on the lunar surface. (Editing by Steve Gorman and Andrew Hay)

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Input: A list of Iranians submitted to U.S. authorities was “whittled down” to exclude any crimes related to violence or terrorism, said the official, one of several who spoke on the condition of anonymity under administration ground rules. Another official said the exchange was a “one-time arrangement because it was an opportunity to bring Americans home” and should not be considered something that would “encourage this behavior in the future” by Iran. The officials did not tie the release directly to the nuclear talks and said they had not wanted the detained Americans to be “used as leverage” in the negotiations. But, they said, completion of the nuclear deal last July greatly accelerated talks about the prisoners. In addition to Rezaian, the Americans freed Saturday included Saeed Abedini, 35, of Boise, Idaho; Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, 32, of Flint, Mich.; and Khosravi-Roodsari, U.S. and Iranian officials said.

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Input: “I’m not the diversity police but there is grumbling on the 4 white boys running the next presidential cycle,” she wrote. “So I recommend rolling out some people who look like the rest of America soon!” CAP was also home to supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, including senior fellow Lawrence Korb, who advised him on foreign policy. And CAP Action’s blog, ThinkProgress, published numerous flattering pieces about Sanders as his campaign gained steam. [U.S. government officially accuses Russia of hacking campaign to interfere with elections]

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Input: Feminist historians uncover ghastly concentration camps where so-called "housewives" were forced to live inauthentic lives slaving away in kitchens Dictionary of the future: Global Warming was a popular computer simulation game, where the only way to win was not to play "Anti-fascist" groups violently protest misspelling of their original name," aren't -we-fascists" Post-inauguration blues: millions of democrats distraught as the reality of having to find real jobs sets in "Journalism is the continuation of war by other means" is exposed as a fake quote by mainstream media journalists

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Input: Hide Caption 17 of 20 Photos: Orlando nightclub shooting Emergency personnel gather outside the nightclub. Hide Caption 18 of 20 Photos: Orlando nightclub shooting Bystanders wait at the scene. Hide Caption 19 of 20 Photos: Orlando nightclub shooting Police officers respond to the scene of the shooting. Hide Caption 20 of 20 While there was a fleeting moment of bipartisanship following the attacks of 9/11, Republicans have hammered away at Democrats ever since for underestimating the threats we faced.

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Input: New Zealand Olympic marathon swimmer Kane Radford told The Independent of his approach to the use of the bay:" We've got stuff afterwards if we feel even the slightest bit sick." So that way we know we'll be alright. And at the end of the day, if you get a little bit sick, it's after the race." You can worry about it then. It's the Olympics.

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Input: However, Commander John Harbour, a spokesman for the EU naval force in Somalia, told the BBC that the loss of navigation equipment would not necessarily be critical and that the signal from the beacon could vanish if the battery ran out or it entered a satellite blind spot. One Somali news website reported a conversation with an unidentified pirate who claimed the men were indeed dead – but said they had all been shot before they were loaded into the skiff. There is no evidence for this account, and photographs from the Moscow University seem to support Russian reports that marines killed one pirate in a firefight, and took the other ten captive. Commander Harbour observed that the Russian navy was within its rights to release the men as it did – and it is probable that the boat they were returned to was one of their own. He congratulated the Russians on a “brave” and successful action against piracy.

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Input: Mr. Comey, affirming a month ago to Congress, said that “we have no premise to close she deceived the F.B.I. “we have no basis to conclude she lied to the F.B.I.” But he additionally said he could n’t say whether Mrs. Clinton’s numerous open proclamations on the issue were honest. Mr. Trump, in a composed proclamation intended to react specifically to the president’s comments, 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. Mr. Trump’s statement said. “We need change now.

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Input: They all have human rights implications.” Ruggie, a respected expert in the field, who was responsible for drawing up the UN guiding principles on business and human rights during 14 years in senior roles at the organisation, said that Fifa’s human rights responsibilities went beyond those issues related to tournaments. Among others, he mentioned the risks to workers’ rights in Fifa’s own supply chain, alleged trafficking of young players and “endemic” discrimination against women in world football. He also called for Fifa to invest more resource in tackling the issue. “The HQ of Fifa is a surprisingly small entity.

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Input: He's now in a little bit of a quagmire. He ought to get out of it by -- by saying very clearly that what -- what he was doing was making a joke, but -- but -- but saying that -- putting the issue back into the dialogue by saying, it is a question of whether or not she’s being honest and trustworthy with the American people. If he were smart, he’d play off your interview today and use her words to indict her. She said, that’s not what I hear Director Comey say. Well, as the rest of America heard what Director Comey said, not what she thinks he said.

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Input: "We will of course appeal to the supreme court." The Ossietzky Prize is named after German journalist and pacifist Carl von Ossietzky, who won the 1936 Nobel Peace Prize for disclosing Germany's rearmament in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. He was jailed by Nazi Germany for treason and unable to attend the award ceremony in Oslo 80 years ago. Snowden won another Norwegian freedom of speech award-the Bjornson Prize-last year. He addressed that award ceremony via video link.

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Input: Prosecutors added 11 new counts in October 2014, including wire and bank fraud, hacking and identity theft. Sitting at his keyboard in Vladivostok, Russia, and using the online nicknames “Track2,” ‘’ Bulba” and “2Pac,” Seleznev masterminded a scheme dating to 2008, Assistant U.S. Attorney Norman Barbosa said during closing arguments Wednesday. The defense focused on challenging the evidence from Seleznev’s laptop, seized by Secret Service agents during his arrest. His lawyers claim the agents mishandled the computer and failed to adequately secure it while it was kept in a vault in Seattle. The defense’s only witness testified that the machine may have been tampered with, and the attorneys said any evidence taken from it was suspect.

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Input: Standing on the beach, I watched the emerald green of the Pacific fall away into a vast black hole. This was the crater left by the hydrogen bomb they called "Bravo". The explosion poisoned people and their environment for hundreds of miles, perhaps forever. On my return journey, I stopped at Honolulu airport and noticed an American magazine called Women's Health. On the cover was a smiling woman in a bikini swimsuit, and the headline:" You, too, can have a bikini body."

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Input: Join 159 other nations in signing the Ottawa treaty banning the use of anti-personnel land mines. Lead on global nuclear disarmament: Rejoin the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, which the US dropped out of in 2002 when it installed missiles and missile bases in Turkey, Romania, and Poland. Agree to Russia’s proposal to jointly reduce US and Russian nuclear arsenals to 1,000 nuclear weapons each. Also call for all countries to the table to negotiate a treaty for the complete elimination of nuclear weapons.

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Input: He signed a confession – without a lawyer present – which claimed that he had attempted to blackmail his former employers, and apologised to Mahony and Obaid “for the harm stress and anxiety I caused them”. According to Laura, a man who claimed to be a Scotland Yard detective – and later told her he had been hired by PetroSaudi – took down Justo’s confession. (PetroSaudi told the Guardian that Justo had “illegally obtained commercially sensitive, confidential and private documentation” and was in prison for “blackmail and extortion”.) Justo was sentenced on 17 August 2015 at Southern Bangkok criminal court. At the trial he was granted a translator, but his lawyer did not turn up, sending an assistant instead.

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Input: Thereafter she made Sevastopol the homeport for the Great Black Sea Fleet that has ever since been the fundamental bulwark of Russia’s national security. For the next 171 years, Crimea was an integral part of Russia — a span that exceeds the 166 years that have elapsed since California was annexed by a similar thrust of “Manifest Destiny” on this continent, thereby providing, incidentally, the United States Navy with its own warm-water port in San Diego. While no foreign forces subsequently invaded the California coasts, it was most definitely not Ukrainian rifles, artillery, and blood which famously annihilated The Charge Of The Light Brigade at the Crimean city of Balaclava in 1854; they were Russians patriots defending the homeland from Turks, Europeans, and Brits. Indeed, the portrait of the Russian “hero” hanging in Putin’s office is that of Czar Nicholas I. His brutal 30-year reign brought the Russian Empire to its historical zenith, but, ironically, he is revered in Russian hagiography for another reason—-namely, as the defender of Crimea, even as he lost the 1850s war to the Ottomans and Europeans.

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Input: But by the middle of the 20th century yellow fever was gone from the northern hemisphere, as fumigation was used to beat the mosquito back. In Cuba the same remedy, and more effective sanitation, also removed the source of many of America’s epidemics. Vaccination campaigns in France’s west African colonies between 1933 and 1961 caused yellow fever virtually to disappear from the continent — until decolonisation, when vaccination rates plummeted and the disease reappeared. In South American cities yellow fever was once kept at bay by mosquito-control measures. But international arrivals add to the threat from travellers who have visited remote jungle areas, in some of which the disease is endemic.

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Input: Deir al-Zour, where the airstrike took place, is far from the populated western region where the separate civil war that is the subject of the cease-fire is focused. The Islamic State controls much of the province, although there are some scattered Syrian military installations. The Central Command statement said that U.S. surveillance had been “tracking” an Islamic State fighting position “for a significant amount of time before the strike.” The Defense official, among several officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the developing situation, said that the militants appeared to have a number of vehicles and a tank. Coalition airstrikes against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria are coordinated through U.S. military planning cells located in the Middle East. Target tracking is done through a variety of means, including aerial reconnaissance by surveillance drones and communications intercepts.

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Input: Why? Why?’” Ilona Bogen, a 38-year -old nurse who immigrated from Lithuania about 15 years ago and who is one of the few likely to support Hillary Clinton, said she has no idea why Trump is currying favor with Putin. “Those two are like dictators,” she added. “I’m really scared.

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Input: Which brings us to Trump and his reintroduction of a baleful phenomenon long absent in American politics: violence. The United States has hardly been immune to the ravages of men who prefer to settle disputes not in representative chambers but by brawling in the streets. From the Founding Fathers (who fought a war against the world’s mightiest empire) through the era of political dueling to the anti – Vietnam War protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, violence has been a recurring feature of American political life. But for the better part of the past half century, we have thankfully been spared its depredations. Like our basic notions of decorum, civility, common sense, and much else that makes America great, the laudable facility for restraining one’s pugnacious impulses in the clash of political differences has been thrown out the window in this campaign season by the utterly debased personage of Trump.

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Input: By creating a "smoke curtain" they hope to impede visibility from warplanes that have been carrying out bombing raids. Image copyright unknown Image caption Children in Aleppo with a pile of burning tyres behind them Rebel-held parts of Aleppo have been heavily bombarded recently by pro-government forces. Rebels have launched an offensive to try to break a government siege. Russia is a key backer of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and is supporting pro-government forces with air strikes.

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Input: How was it that a passenger, described by the Cypriot authorities as "mentally unstable" was able to carry enough materials through Alexandria airport to resemble a bomb? And what is to stop any future airline passenger, similarly unarmed, from pretending that he or she has a real device strapped to them? For Egypt's battered tourism industry, that has yet to recover from the October airline bombing, this hijack is a further blow it can ill afford. The hijacker's surrender came shortly after several people were seen fleeing the aircraft. One-apparently a crew member-escaped by climbing out of the aircraft's cockpit window.

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Input: “That’s why a lot of moderate Republicans in Indiana are not all that thrilled with his reelection.” Earlier this year, a former top fundraiser for Pence, Bill Oesterle, left his position as CEO of Angie’s List to launch a group aimed at securing changes to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and stopping Pence from winning reelection. Other Republicans, believing Pence buckled under pressure, are furious that he backtracked by calling for changes to the bill that he had signed into law only days earlier. Penny Nance, president and CEO of Concerned Women for America, a conservative Christian women's group, said the jury is still out on whether the episode would “dampen enthusiasm” for Pence among social conservatives. “Social conservatives have known him for a long time, and unlike Donald Trump he’s a known quantity,” Nance said.

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Input: “And other people from the party, which is meant to be neutral, subverting the process in order to make sure Hillary Clinton won the campaign,” he added. Assange is the editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks, an organization which was founded in 2006. The DNC has come under fire after thousands of emails were released over the weekend that appear to show a concerted effort by DNC officials to undermine Bernie Sanders’ campaign in order to get Hillary Clinton elected. In a statement this afternoon, the DNC apologized for the “inexcusable remarks” made over email. JUST IN: DNC apologizes to @BernieSanders and Democratic Party over remarks revealed in DNC email hack: pic.twitter.com/dNas3dZUD0 — ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) July 25, 2016

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Input: The BDS movement recently claimed that a decision by British private security firm G4S to sell off assets in Israel was due to its campaign, but the firm denies this. Dutch and Norwegian pension funds as well as French water-management and telecommunications firms have also divested Israeli assets in recent years. Israeli settler exports to the EU are worth less than 1 percent of bilateral trade. The EU institutions have indicated they will not prosecute countries that ignore the retail labels regime, even though it is grounded in binding EU consumer protection laws.

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Input: But weirdly, nobody’s saying those kinds of things about Donald Trump, despite the fact that he is, without question, the most anti-American and un-American candidate in living memory. Not only does he have obvious disdain for the most fundamental American values like freedom of speech and religion, he is absolutely relentless in characterizing America as a miserable hellhole full of contemptible losers who barely deserve the prosperity and happiness he will shower down upon them through the force of his will (“ I alone can fix it”). Trump has also has publicly expressed his admiration for Vladimir Putin many times, and has suggested undermining NATO and perhaps not honoring our mutual defense commitment if countries that had failed to please him were to be invaded by Russia, to the horror of Democrats and Republicans alike. Trump also has extensive business ties in Russia, and favors a decorating style one might refer to as “Late Russian Mobster.” We have no way to know for certain what the motivation behind the DNC hack was and who ordered it, and we may never know.

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Input: Early reporting indicated that between 62 and 90 Syrian troops may have been killed in the U.S.-led airstrikes. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group with contacts across Syria, cited sources at the airport saying at least 90 Syrian soldiers had been killed and 120 wounded. Meanwhile, Anti-War.com's Jason Ditz described the massacre as perhaps "the single biggest blunder of the entire US war in Syria." "The latest US attack — this time on Syrian troops ostensibly surrounded by ISIS fighters — demonstrates once again why using war against terrorism fails. The inability and/or unwillingness to distinguish troops from other troops, or more often, troops from civilians, remains a hallmark of the US wars in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and beyond."

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Input: Because the odds of success for any individual are much higher in the aggregate than they’ve ever been. Rice’s support for this theory was a series of rattled-off metrics." More people are free of poverty than ever before, conflict between states is less than ever before, technology is providing extraordinary opportunities for advancement, and health and agriculture and well-being," Rice says." Compare the era we’re living in today to the losses we suffered in World War II or even in the Vietnam War, or compare the economic challenges we face now to the Great Depression." Rice is right on the evidence.

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

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Input: The danger they pose can be compared with the rise of totalitarian states and the Cold War's nuclear menace during the 20th century. Bill McKibben of 350.org has called for a global war on global warming. Clinton's support for drilling and fracking, promotion of free trade deals, and contributions from Big Oil tell us she'll fight a border skirmish. The GOP response to the climate threat is "We don't believe the ship is sinking." The Dem response is "The ship is sinking!

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Input: "But if it's rockets or something heavier, we respond with our own artillery. Or when I see that they are shooting at the homes of noncombatants, then I give the order to shoot at them. When they have killed or wounded one of our guys, I give the command to open fire with everything we've got." Vlasenko added that his soldiers were allowed, in some cases, to take the first shot." When we see them bring new equipment to the front, like they brought a tank yesterday, we open fire "to prevent them from using it, he said.

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Input: Recent developments include military operations around the city of Aleppo, the entry of Turkey into the ground war, Turkish hostility toward U.S.-backed Kurdish rebel groups and the presence of American military advisers in widening conflict zones. Meanwhile, in a blow to the opposition, rebel forces and civilians in the besieged Damascus suburb of Daraya were to be evacuated on Friday after agreeing to surrender the town late Thursday after four years of grueling bombardment and a crippling siege that left the sprawling area in ruins. The surrender of Daraya, which became an early symbol of the nascent uprising against Bashar Assad, marks a success for his government, removing a persistent threat only a few miles from his seat of power. Referring to Daraya, Lavrov said:" This is an example I think will get some following." He said the Russian military's reconciliation center in Syria has received a request from another area to organize a similar operation — with Russian mediation.

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Input: It had two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon. It exercises all the authority of the first beast in its presence, and makes the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose mortal wound was healed. It performs great signs, even making fire come down from heaven to earth in front of people, and by the signs that it is allowed to work in the presence of the beast it deceives those who dwell on earth, telling them to make an image for the beast that was wounded by the sword and yet lived. And it was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast might even speak and might cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be slain. Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name.

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Input: COLUMBUS, Ohio- An 18-year -old Ohio woman accused of livestreaming the rape of her 17-year -old friend with a social media app was trying to record the assault as evidence, the woman's attorney said recently in a defense a prosecutor flatly dismissed. Marina Lonina pleaded not guilty Friday to multiple charges including rape, kidnapping, sexual battery and pandering sexual matter involving a minor. A judge set bond at $ 125,000 for Lonina, a student at New Albany High School, outside Columbus.

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Input: The reason? Fundraising, the New York Times says. “Donald J. Trump’s campaign schedule is being driven by his fund-raising needs, prompting him to appear in heavily Republican states like Georgia and Texas and diverting his attention from battlegrounds where Hillary Clinton is spending her time. Mr. Trump’s aides, scrambling to raise money to compete against Mrs. Clinton’s cash juggernaut and extensive donor network, have scheduled fund-raisers in places like Georgia, North Carolina and Texas this week. The private events for donors were often scheduled first, followed by his campaign rallies, according to two people involved in Mr. Trump’s fund-raising who insisted on anonymity.” In fairness to Trump, he hits Nevada tomorrow.

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Input: for treason over a 2015 story they published with pictures of trucks alleged to have belonged to Turkey's MIT intelligence agency carrying weapons to Syria. At the time, in January 2014, the trucks were stopped by gendarmerie. The government first said the shipments were a national secret, then said they were carrying food and medicine. cw / jm (AFP, AP)

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Input: He said no: “Its likelihood of getting through Congress is nil. Second of all, I think it would be very divisive.” So, we can have free college education, a dismantling of Wall Street, a federal minimum wage of $ 15 by 2020, 12 weeks of family and medical leave and universal health care, but not even a dialogue about reparations? Even though Sanders himself has supported Holocaust reparations? Tatem, one of the former Sanders staffers, said that the few times he did get to speak with the candidate, he was a fast study whose heart was in the right place.

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Input: If Congress ca n’t delegate its legislative powers, it certainly ca n’t delegate judicial powers, which the Constitution gives exclusively to the judiciary. Nevertheless, after these administrative agencies make rules like a legislature, they then exercise judicial authority like a court by prosecuting violations of their edicts and inflicting real criminal penalties, such as fines and cease-and-desist orders. As they perform all these functions, they also violate the principle of the separation of powers, which lies at the heart of our constitutional theory (senselessly curbing efficiency, Wilson thought), as well as the due process of law, for they trample the citizen’s Fifth Amendment right not to lose his property unless indicted by a grand jury and tried by a jury of his peers, and they search a citizen or a company’s private papers or premises, without bothering to get judge-issued subpoenas or search warrants based on probable cause, flouting the Fourth Amendment. They can issue waivers to their rules, so that the law is not the same for all citizens and companies but is instead an instrument of arbitrary power. FDR himself ruefully remarked that he had expanded a fourth branch of government that lacked constitutional legitimacy.

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Input: Mr Steltner said that investigators now believe that she had had sex with two men in their 20s, “a Turkish citizen and a German of Turkish origin” who may now be charged. Police had initially said there was no evidence of a crime and appealed for people to “handle the subject sensitively” on social media as conspiracy theories spread, with videos and Facebook posts being viewed millions of times. Interest spiked after Russia’s state-owned Channel One television broadcast an interview with a woman identifying herself as the girl’s aunt, claiming police had orchestrated a cover-up and tried to silence the Russian family. Germany reacts to Cologne New Year's Eve attacks 13 show all Germany reacts to Cologne New Year's Eve attacks

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Input: The United States and European Union, which Turkey aspires to join, have both urged Ankara to exercise restraint in its crackdown on suspected Gulen supporters and to ensure those arrested have a fair trial. Amnesty International has said detainees may have suffered human rights violations, including beatings and rape-an accusation roundly rejected by Ankara. The EU has also bridled at talk in Turkey-from Erdogan down-of restoring the death penalty, a move Brussels said would scupper Ankara's decades-old bid to join the bloc. Tourism, a pillar of the economy, has been badly hit by a series of deadly bombings in Turkey, including one at Istanbul's airport in June that killed 45 people, and by tensions with Russia. Data showing a 40 percent drop year-on-year in June in the number of foreign visitors to Turkey is further bad news for the government.

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Input: In one 2009 murder, the weapon used was the Groza, a pistol developed for Russia’s special forces for use in assassinations – and rarely found on the open market. In the murders of three Chechens outside an Istanbul teahouse in 2011, Turkish authorities believed nine people were involved, including two alleged Russian agents who fled, leaving fake passports behind. The only man to be arrested for any of the killings is a shadowy figure who goes by the nickname “the Zone”. Believed to be Chechen, the Zone was apprehended trying to enter Istanbul on a fake Georgian passport in the name of Temur Makhauri in 2012. He is currently on trial in Istanbul for his alleged role in a number of the previous murders; the key evidence is secretly taped video of the Zone meeting with a man claimed to be an FSB agent and discussing the murders of Chechens.

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Input: In May 2016, the inspector general of the state department criticized her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state stating that she had not requested permission to use it and even if she had, she would not have been given permission. The controversy occurred against the backdrop of Clinton's 2016 presidential election campaign and hearings by the House Select Committee on Benghazi. Perhaps the plan is to quietly indict Mrs. Clinton, have her plead guilty to violation of email regulations, pay a $ 10,000 fine, and then move on with the presidential race. Bill Clinton was actually impeached for committing perjury in 1998, but simply went on with his presidency. He was disbarred by the Supreme Court, but that didn't really matter either.

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Input: The men independently chased down the truck. One began to climb in and hit the terrorist, who tried to shoot him. (New York Times) The British government announced it will separate radicalized prison inmates from other convicts, housing criminals who preach terrorism and other forms of extreme ideology in high-security “specialist units.” (The Telegraph) Federal prosecutors plan to argue in court that Dylann Roof “self-radicalized” by reading white supremacist tracts online before carrying out the massacre at a historically black church in Charleston. The feds are seeking the death penalty. The trial will start later this year.

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Input: But there is flexibility about wider EU sanctions on Russia that were imposed in response to the conflict in eastern Ukraine, where the Kremlin was accused of giving military aid to separatist rebels. Moscow denies that. Two EU diplomats said they thought the impact of Putin's widening charm offensive, accompanied by offers of lucrative trade deals and polite reminders of lost export revenues, could see those watered down next year." It's getting harder to hold the line," said one, from another country which wants the sanctions maintained." The sanctions would probably not all be lifted at once, but there could be a decision to lift them in one sector next year."

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