Input: Major-General Igor Konashenkov, the Russian defense ministry spokesman, directly addressed the reports in a briefing on Thursday, when he warned that Russia may shoot down any aircraft attacking Syrian government forces. Although Konashenkov did not directly say Russia would shoot down American aircraft, his point was unambiguous. “I would recommend our colleagues in Washington to thoroughly consider the possible consequences of the realization of such plans,” Konashenkov said, before listing the array of anti-air defences deployed in Syria and saying they would be used if Assad’s or Russian forces were attacked. Konshenkov warned that Russia had deployed advanced S-300 and S-400 anti-aircraft missiles to its bases in Syria, noting that their range “can be a surprise for any unidentified flying objects.” “It follows to really be conscious that there will hardly be time in the calculations of the Russian air-defense units to clarify on the “direct line” the precise flight-plan of missiles and who they belong to,” Konashenkov said, referring to the hotline already established by the U.S. and Russia to prevent clashes between their aircraft conducting strikes in Syria.

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Input: Former Gen. David Petraeus, credited with helping restore stability in Iraq at the end of the George W. Bush administration before becoming Obama’s CIA director, last year received two years of probation and a fine after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor count of unlawfully retaining classified information. He had given the records to his biographer, with whom he was romantically involved, while she was writing the Petraeus biography “All In.” Whistleblower advocates howled that Petraeus received preferential treatment for distributing secrets without permission – a charge also hurled by some former government workers at Clinton, saying they would face career-ending consequences and perhaps jail time for putting classified records on a private and apparently unsecure email server. More than 2,000 emails from Clinton's private server contain classified information, according to the State Department's final review completed earlier this year. Some of the information is considered more sensitive than top secret, the intelligence community's inspector general told Congress in January.

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Input: Olson was appointed to her post in 2010 by President Obama and has a history of taking strong stands against “anti-Muslim bias.” DHS whistleblower ‘exposes government’s submission to jihad’ – Under Obama, Homeland Security watchword is “See Something, Say Nothing.” Ann Corcoran, the author of the Refugee Resettlement Watch blog and the book “Refugee Resettlement and the Hijra to America,” said Olson’s statement is reminiscent of Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s warning the day after the San Bernardino jihad massacre in which Lynch said she would take “aggressive action” to prosecute “anti-Muslim” rhetoric that “edges toward violence.” Lynch was forced to walk back those comments after outrage from free speech advocates. “This is threatening free speech,” Corcoran said of Olson’s statement. “It’s the federal government trying to intimidate into silence those citizens who do n’t have resources or connections.

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Input: In Greece, smugglers are peddling offers to take migrants clandestinely to Italy, either by boat from the Greek mainland or via a more precarious route walking through the mountainous terrain of Albania, where they can then cross the Adriatic Sea. Others are offering to take them on less guarded paths through Macedonian forests, or to Bulgaria to reach Serbia and beyond. In the camp at Idomeni, at the border with Macedonia, where more than 13,000 migrants have been stuck in muddy conditions after Macedonia sealed its border, talk of smuggling is everywhere. Migrants point to the Hara Hotel and to gas stations along the highway to Idomeni as places where smugglers loiter and operate. Video

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Input: Going against American foreign policy at the time, Bill Clinton expressed support for Nazarbayev's bid to lead an international elections monitoring group. Soon after, Giustra's company, UrAsia Energy (the predecessor to Uranium One) won stakes in three uranium mines controlled by Kazakhstan's state-run uranium agency. Months after the deal, Giustra reportedly donated $ 31.3 million to Clinton's foundation. After the legality of the Kazakhstan deal was called into question, Uranium One asked the American embassy in Kazakhstan for help. Uranium One's executive vice president copied then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on a cable saying he wanted an official written confirmation that the company's licenses in Kazakhstan were still valid, according to The Times.

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Input: This is entirely up to the department." Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump said it was "impossible for the FBI not to recommend criminal charges against Hillary Clinton." "It is impossible for the FBI not to recommend criminal charges against Hillary Clinton. What she did was wrong! What Bill did was stupid!"

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Input: AfD singled out While accepting that the AfD was a "challenge," Merkel warned other parties against who she accused of misleading the public. Merkel with her foreign and economy ministers She said if all MPs used the same tactics as the AfD, then "only those who rely on slogans and seemingly easy answers," would win.

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Input: Read more here. 11/5 5:47 p.m: Judge denies Democrats ' request to block RNC poll watching A federal judge denied Democrats’ request to issue an injunction against the Republican National Committee for violating a long-standing consent decree that bans the RNC from carrying out a range of poll-watching activities. Democrats had presented evidence that they said showed the RNC was conspiring with the Trump campaign to engage in poll-watching, in violation of the decree. That evidence included Trump’s frequent calls to supporters to closely monitor the polls in "certain areas," which have led to fears that minority voters in particular could be blocked form voting or intimidated.

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Input: (The Washington Post) Donald Trump told a group of military veterans on Monday that some members of the military develop mental health issues because they are not "strong" and "can't handle it." "When you talk about the mental health problems, when people come back from war and combat, they see things that maybe a lot of the folks in this room have seen many times over. And you're strong and you can handle it, but a lot of people can't handle it," the Republican presidential nominee told an audience of military veterans at an event in Northern Virginia on Monday morning." And they see horror stories, they see events that you could n’t see in a movie — nobody would believe it."

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Input: Significantly, Comey made no mention of this malfeasance during his announcement and limited his conclusions and recommendations to the email probe. Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) of the House Oversight Committee asked Comey directly whether such an investigation was ongoing and Comey refused to issue comment “on the existence or nonexistence of any other ongoing investigations,” leaving the door open to the possibility that this aspect is still actively being pursued. Clinton also faces the potential for perjury charges for lying under oath to Congress. Chaffets made this clear during another remarkable exchange with Comey. During her testimony to the House Select Committee on Benghazi, Clinton falsely testified that “there was nothing marked classified on my emails either sent or received.” Comey however, indicated otherwise prompting Chaffets to note that Congress would be submitting a perjury referral to the FBI.

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

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Input: Instead, her device of preference ended up being the BlackBerry Curve 8310, because the trackball feature was easier than the track pad on newer models like the BlackBerry 8700 G, which she tried and rejected. Thus, as the BlackBerrys were upgraded, it became harder to find the style Clinton liked. Hanley said she generally purchased the devices from the AT&T store in Dupont Circle, though one came from Pentagon City Mall, and, later, she started to purchase them proactively to help ensure Clinton’s preference would be available. (She even recalled at one point turning to eBay or Amazon to purchase one.) After buying a device, she’d file for a reimbursement from the Clintons’ personal funds, managed by Justin Cooper in New York.

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Input: His team is practically unique in the field of “architectural forensics”, using the designer’s spatial toolkit to build damning bodies of evidence used in both UN investigations and trials in the international criminal court. For Amnesty, the team began an intensive process of interviewing former detainees of Saydnaya prison who escaped across the border to Turkey, to build up a detailed picture of the facility. The prison is an echo chamber: one person being tortured is like everyone being tortured. You can not escape it Abu Hamdan “Architecture is a conduit to memory,” says Weizman, describing how an Arabic-speaking architect built a digital model on screen as detainees described specific memories and events.

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Input: The line that an aggressive prosecutor could get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich takes on new meaning in the New Jersey Bridgegate trial. More and more, it looks like the goal is to dirty the reputation of Gov. Chris Christie instead of convicting the actual defendants for causing a traffic snarls on the GW Bridge. Christie’s name comes up in almost every major testimony, yet he was never charged in what prosecutors say was political payback for a mayor who refused to endorse Christie. Moreover, the focus on the Republican governor by prosecutors as well as the defense could undercut the case against his two former aides.

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Input: [LIVE UPDATES: Sanctions lifted on Iran; Post reporter Jason Rezaian and three other Americans freed in swap] Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian has been freed from prison, according to U.S. and Iranian officials. He was arrested in Iran in 2014 and convicted of espionage last year. Here’s what you need to know about the case against him. (Monica Akhtar / The Washington Post)

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Input: Yanukovych’s party began training election observers. It’s an amazing coincidence, but these are exactly the same tactics that Trump has also deployed. And now, as Manafort’s replacement, Trump has selected a man from the closest thing to Sputnik News in the United States: Breitbart.com, a completely dishonest propaganda machine that seeks to sow information chaos under the guise of producing news. Massive, negative trolling operations; bots that repeat angry slogans; the constant repetition of fake stories — these are tactics used to excess in Putin’s Russia as well as Trump’s America. As a lobbyist and political consultant in the 1980s, Donald Trump’s campaign chairman Paul Manafort worked with international clients that included two dictators who were then allied with the United States.

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Input: Yesterday, Vladimir Putin appointed Evgeny Zinichev to serve as the new acting governor to the Russian exclave Kaliningrad. Zinichev previously worked in the Federal Protective Service and personally guarded Vladimir Putin on official trips as far back as 2006. According to Zinichev's official biography, he served in “various positions in state security agencies” from 1987 until 2015, when he took command of the Federal Security Service bureau in Kaliningrad.

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Input: "We should not expect any repentance from them, they will keep doing it anyway and the closer the elections, the more smear campaigns there will be," Putin said. In patriotic rhetoric, Putin boasted that Russia "can not be manipulated" and must be "spoken to with respect." He reiterated his defence of his cellist friend, insisting Roldugin spends all his money on costly musical instruments and is not corrupt." In Russia you can just about imagine a bribe paid in Borzoi puppies, but in violins and cellos? That's a new one to me," Putin said.

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Input: Every Fourth Turning has registered an upward ratchet in the technology of destruction, and in mankind’s willingness to use it.” [5] World War III will, in all likelihood, turn nuclear. The Nuclear weapons stockpiled today are 50 times more powerful than the two atomic bombs the U.S. dropped on Japan in 1945. In the next war they could cause 1,000,000,000 (one billion) military and civilian deaths, or more. It may happen sooner than we think.

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Input: The documents do not necessarily indicate illegal activity. But shell companies and offshore accounts can be used to mask the origin of financial transactions and ownership. The files include people and companies blacklisted by the U.S. government because of links to drug trafficking and terrorism, according to the ICIJ. They also suggest that the law firm in Panama, Mossack Fonseca, did not have adequate controls in place. According to the ICIJ, a 2015 internal audit found that the firm knew the identities of the real owners of just 204 of 14,086 companies it had incorporated in Seychelles, an Indian Ocean archipelago often described as a tax haven.

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Input: Hide Caption 16 of 19 Photos: Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Erdogan, right, attends an Iftar dinner during his visit to the Tank Battalion campus in the Cizre district of Sirnak, Turkey, on Saturday, June 25. Hide Caption 17 of 19 Photos: Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan From left, U.S. President Barack Obama, France's President Francois Hollande, Erdogan and German Chancellor Angela Merkel take their positions for a photo ahead of a working dinner at the presidential palace during the NATO Summit in Warsaw, Poland, on Friday, July 8. Hide Caption 18 of 19 Photos: Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and former Turkish president Abdullah Gul pray during the funeral of a victim of the coup attempt in Istanbul on July 17. In an interview with CNN's Beckey Anderson Erdogan said," The people now have the idea, after so many terrorist incidents that these terrorists should be killed, that's where they are, they don't see any other outcome to it. I mean, life sentence, or aggravated life sentence ... why should I keep them and feed them in prisons, for years to come, that's what the people say.

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Input: He had been political director of the DNC during Clinton's rise. Tully was on the left of the Democratic Party and usually worked for those who shared his views, however he agreed to work for Clinton because he was impressed with his oratory and thought he was the only Democrat who could beat President George Bush. Paula Gober, 36, single car accident, December 7, 1992. She was Clinton's interpreter for the deaf for several years and traveled with him while he was governor of Arkansas. Her vehicle overturned on a bend, throwing her 30 feet.

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Input: This will not surprise close poll watchers. Previous international surveys have found Trump to be exceptionally unpopular. -- Fear of an imminent terrorist attack is one of the top concerns of people across the globe, with most expecting extremist groups will acquire weapons of mass destruction, according to a new poll conducted in eight countries. From Carol Morello:" The survey, commissioned by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), showed that many people think their governments are not doing enough to combat violent extremism. And a majority in every country polled, including the United States, overwhelmingly approved all 21 options presented to them — among them, requiring identification cards for citizens and visitors; rigorous screening of immigrants; bans on incendiary religious speech; and monitoring of phone calls, emails and social media."

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Input: U.S. Central command denied that claim, saying it voluntarily warned the Russians ahead of time about the impending airstrike." Coalition members in the Combined Air Operations Center had earlier informed Russian counterparts of the upcoming strike," Central Command said in its statement." It is not uncommon for the Coalition Air Operations Center to confer with Russian officials as a professional courtesy and to deconflict Coalition and Russian aircraft, although such contact is not required by the current U.S.–Russia Memorandum of Understanding on safety of flight." Nevertheless, the Russians are claiming their Syrian allies have been killed by the U.S. military, just as the U.S. and Russia are trying to maintain the fragile, nationwide cease-fire that went into effect Monday. 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.

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Input: This is exactly what the police are doing now and there is nobody to defend us against this new criminal organization. Just stay out of Oklahoma at all costs. If other states follow, you better migrate to another country and fast. Look for a country not based on common law (English countries). This will destroy the freedom to travel for broke police have become highway criminals with guns.

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Input: Hopes for progress in the UN-brokered peace talks due to start between the regime and opposition on Monday are slim, with the continued presence of President Assad just one of many points of conflict. Barack Obama, David Cameron and allies have repeatedly said that the leader, who stands accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity during the five-year Syrian civil war, has no future and refused to co-operate with regime forces. Isis has seized huge swathes of Syria, including its de-facto capital of Raqqa, stretching into neighbouring Iraq as parts of its so-called Islamic State. Regime strongholds currently lie mainly in more populated coastal and western parts of the country, rebels hold the north-western corner and Kurds and their allies are advancing along the Turkish border. Additional reporting by Reuters

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Input: A Palestinian assailant killed an American tourist and wounded at least 10 other victims in a stabbing spree that began in southern Tel Aviv's Jaffa Port, in the third attack within a number of hours on Tuesday evening. The American who succumbed to his wounds sustain in the attack had been evacuated to Wolfson Medical Center in Holon. Relevant to your professional network? Please share on Linkedin

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Input: Palmieri responded, “Yes, it is one she gets asked about. Not everyone likes her answer but can share it.” As it turned out, Clinton was asked about the death penalty, but the phrasing of the question was different. Brazile and CNN have denied that she has ever had any of the questions in advance. 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.

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Input: Trump said that Clinton’s statement on her remarks compounded the error. “Is n’t it disgraceful that Hillary Clinton makes the worst mistake of the political season and instead of owning up to this grotesque attack on American voters, she tries to turn it around with a pathetic rehash of the words and insults used in her failing campaign?” Trump said in an e-mail from Conway. Democratic strategists said the damage to Clinton's campaign from her remark would depend on the Republican and media response in coming days. When Republican Mitt Romney infamously declared at a secretly filmed fundraiser in 2012 that he wasn't concerned about “47 percent” of voters he considered to be dependent on government services who wouldn't vote for him, his remark was relentlessly highlighted by Democrats as an insult to working-class voters. When the Trump campaign sent morning talking points to its surrogates at 7 a.m. Saturday, the document said nothing about Clinton's “deplorables” remark other than to repeat the statement that a spokesman had released shortly after midnight.

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Input: Donald Trump, the Republican front-runner for the 2016 presidential nomination, said he favors better relations with Russia and the rest of the world. He also questioned the need to spend a “fortune” on NATO, advocating a non-interventionist foreign policy. Trump held a press conference in Washington, DC on Monday afternoon against the backdrop of a hotel he is building at the Old Post Office just blocks from the White House, which he hopes to occupy come January 2017. He is scheduled to address the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference later in the day.

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Input: Clinton recounts a conversation with a group of young African Americans she had earlier that day. One of the young women told Clinton that “none of us feel like we have the job that we should have gotten out of college,” Clinton recalls. This sense of economic disappointment has inspired some young people to embrace Sanders’ message, she suggests. “If you’re feeling like you’re consigned to, you know, being a barista, or you know, some other job that does n’t pay a lot, and does n’t have some other ladder of opportunity attached to it, then the idea that maybe, just maybe, you could be part of a political revolution is pretty appealing,” she says. Although some have interpreted the remarks as condescending, others, including Mike Casca, who worked on Sanders’ campaign, argued that they showcase Clinton’s empathy.

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Input: "If the people in this country, or in America, knew that there is a country in the world, where there is a free education, free housing, free medical care, then they'd have second thoughts," Thae said in a speech, according to the broadcaster." That is the reason why the mass media creates all those shocking, terrifying stories about my country," he added. John Nilsson-Wright, the head of the Asia program at the London-based think tank Chatham House, said western intelligence agencies would want to question Thae about Kim’s leadership and what happened to members of the previous government who media said were executed, the Guardian reported. Last month, the United States put Kim and 22 other individuals and entities on the U.S. sanctions list for human rights abuses. Pyongyang "continues to commit serious human rights abuses, including extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, arbitrary arrests and detention, forced labor, and torture," the State Department said in its announcement of the sanctions.

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Input: As the relationship between Saudi Arabia and the United States frays over a possible congressional vote about the Middle East nation’s role in 9/11 and whether the Saudis will sell U.S. assets in retaliation, the country could find itself isolated from its largest ally. It is not without military means even if there is a schism. The Saudis spent $ 87.2 billion on their military, which creates a formidable war machine.

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Input: Russia is allied with the leaders of Syria – as Russia had earlier been allied with Mossadegh in Iran, Arbenz in Guatemala, Allende in Chile, Hussein in Iraq, Gaddafi in Libya, and Yanukovych in Ukraine (all of whom except Syria’s Ba’ath Party, the US has successfully overthrown). Hersh was wrong to say that « nobody could figure out why » Obama is obsessed with overthrowing Assad and his Ba’ath Party, even if nobody that he spoke with was willing to say why. They have all been hired to do a job, which did n’t change even when the Soviet Union ended and the Warsaw Pact was disbanded; and, anyone who has been at this job for as long as those people have, can pretty well figure out what the job actually is – even if Hersh ca n’t. Hersh then said that Obama wanted to fill Syria with foreign jihadists to serve as the necessary ground forces for his planned aerial bombardment there, and, « if you wanted to go there and fight there in 2011-2013, ‘Go, go, go … overthrow Bashar!’ So, they actually pushed a lot of people [jihadists] to go. I do n’t think they were paying for them but they certainly gave visas ».

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Input: While he did not go as far as to suggest a full pardon, Sanders did say that in his view," the interests of justice would be best served if our government granted him some form of clemency or a plea agreement that would spare him a long prison sentence or permanent exile." Sanders ' note Wednesday is relatively consistent with his remarks on Snowden during a presidential debate last year, when he said Snowden should face a penalty, but added the lessons learned from Snowden's leak should be taken into consideration before the sentencing. Sanders ' brief memo appeared in an article along with those written by 20 other public figures, some of whom praised Snowden for performing what they say was a public service and urged the U.S. government to allow him to return home from his exile in Russia that began in 2013. These writers included Daniel Ellsberg who leaked the "Pentagon Papers" in 1971 and actress Susan Sarandon, both of whom are open to a full pardon for Snowden. Others, like former NSA Director Michael Hayden, were more critical of the whistleblower.

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Input: Six days since the start of the cease-fire no aid has been delivered. Russia has also called for an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council as a result of strike, The Associated Press reported. Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova says Moscow is demanding "full and detailed explanations about whether this was deliberate support of the Islamic State or another mistake." Zakharova was quoted by the state news agency Tass as saying that "after today's attack on the Syrian army, we come to the terrible conclusion that the White House is defending the Islamic State." The U.S. military said in its statement that it has previously targeted ISIS in the same area where the Syrian regime forces were reportedly killed today.

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Input: Two other officers were shot and injured. A man suspected of shooting them also is accused of killing his wife, whose body was found inside the home, police said. Guindon had taken her oath of office the day earlier. WASHINGTON OFFICER REGINALD ' JAKE ' GUTIERREZ

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Input: Advertisement Local residents told AFP that the blast had blown in their windows and caused their houses to shake. Employees from the Chinese and nearby American embassy were evacuated, the Kyrgyz emergency service said. Images circulating on social media show a plume of smoke rising in a part of Bishkek, the Kyrgyz capital and shattered pieces of concrete. Bishkek explosion

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Input: He’s tough, he’s real, and they’ve got his back, especially when he is attacked by all the people they have come to despise: liberal Democrats and traditional Republicans. At rallies, whenever a protester is hauled out, you can almost sense the rising rage of the collective identity venting itself against a lone dissenter and finding a catharsis of sorts in the brute force a mob can inflict on an individual. Trump tells the crowd he’d like to punch a protester in the face or have him carried out on a stretcher. No modern politician who has come this close to the presidency has championed violence in this way. It would be disqualifying if our hyperdemocracy had n’t already abolished disqualifications.

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Input: "Neighborhoods have been erased completely. Now as I talk to you, the aircrafts are in the sky." Another worker with the group said he does not trust the Syrian and Russian forces to stop bombarding the area." In a few days, they will bomb us, bomb everything and kill everything like yesterday," said Ismail Abdullah. In early October, Putin exacerbated the rift over Syria by suspending a key post Cold-War agreement with Washington over disposal of nuclear weapons accusing the US of failing to eliminate tons of weapons-grade plutonium and “unfriendly acts toward Russia.”

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Input: From liberal beacon to a prop for Trump: what has happened to WikiLeaks? Read more Assange has been confined to the Ecuadorian embassy in London since June 2012, when he sought and was granted asylum by Ecuador. Assange is wanted for questioning in Sweden over an allegation of rape in August 2010, which he denies. The Australian WikiLeaks founder has claimed he could be transferred to the US to face potential espionage charges arising from WikiLeaks’ publishing activities.

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Input: Sahloul said that one child who was in an ambulance died because he was not able to receive treatment during the chaos. Abu Rajab, of the M10 hospital, said two people had been killed because they could not receive treatment after the hospitals were attacked, but did not provide further details. Doctors Without Borders said the two hospitals have been forced to halt all activities, leaving just two hospitals with the ability to carry out surgery in a city experiencing “a brutal and relentless onslaught from air and land.” It said in a statement that the strikes on the hospitals caused the deaths of at least two patients and wounded two medics. The Syrian government and its ally Russia have been accused of targeting medical facilities in rebel-held areas.

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Input: “As you’ll be hearing,” the Bash email begins, “an Afghan (intelligence) officer pulled the ripcord on a vest in front of coalition guys loading a helicopter. Total of 14 either killed or wounded — some U.S., some Afghans. Right now we think one U.S. mil killed and one wounded.” U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks as her husband former President Bill Clinton and their daughter Chelsea accompany her at a campaign rally in Des Moines, Iowa January 31, 2016. BRIAN SNYDER / Reuters

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Input: The police group still holds its galas at Mar-a-Lago. Acts of ‘self-dealing’ At the same time that it began to rely on other people’s money, the Trump Foundation sometimes appeared to flout IRS rules by purchasing things that seemed to benefit only Trump. In 2007, for instance, Trump and his wife, Melania, attended a benefit for a children’s charity held at Mar-a-Lago. The night’s entertainment was Michael Israel, who bills himself as “the original speed painter.” His frenetic act involved painting giant portraits in five to seven minutes — then auctioning off the art he’d just created.

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Input: The top Trump staffer, Paul Manafort, previously worked as a lobbyist for the pro-Russian Ukraine government, and eventually left the campaign. Yet not arming forces in Ukraine is a good idea for the U.S.—it avoids an unnecessary military commitment and opportunity for escalation. Through the controversy, the fact that the Democratic platform didn't urge lethal aid for Ukraine either was largely missed, with Democrats choosing to take a hard right turn on Russia. Crimea is the location of Russia's only naval base with access to the Black Sea. Several important gas pipelines into Europe run from Russia through Ukraine.

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Input: It just could not happen by accident,” Waurishuk said. Encrypted SAP documents are sent to a computer channel via satellites maintained by the National Security Agency. Users in a SAP SCIF normally can not print or fax information to any non-SAP system or to an unsecured system. Thumb nail drives, cell phones and any kind of Wi-Fi are strictly forbidden inside a SAP SCIF. Each SAP details information for a specific, designated operation, weapon system, military test, diplomatic activity or intelligence operation.

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Input: He added Democrats may say they are afraid or do not like Trump but deep down they have to love him. “They love him because next to Trump they look like heroes, but next to us, they look like the cowards they are.” A student from DePaul University and organizer with the International Socialist Organization, Sam Piper, addressed the crisis facing students saddled with tens of thousands of dollars of debt from student loans. “Jill Stein is the only candidate in this election, who is willing to abolish student debt and make universities tuition-free.” Stein’s campaign maintains there are 43 million young and “not-so-young people” out there “locked into predatory student loans.” They believe they should be bailed out like Wall Street was bailed out.

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Input: There were also 10 crew members. Hide Caption 13 of 13 At 2:27 a.m., shortly before the aircraft was scheduled to exit Greek airspace, controllers tried to reach the pilots to transfer control to Cairo authorities. Despite repeated attempts, they received no response, the Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority said. Radar soon lost the plane's signal, just after it entered Egyptian airspace, the authority said.

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Input: UN officials expect the deal to come into effect this year. “We need to think more carefully about patterns of urban development,” said Anthony Capon, a professor at the UN university. “As it is, high income countries have more capacity to insulate their people from health impacts of climate change. People in the poorer countries are the most effected.” Watch Next: Capturing Iceland's Winds

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Input: Video There is nothing new about intelligence services for the United States and Russia hacking each other’s computer systems or trying to covertly influence other countries’ domestic politics. In recent years, Mr. Putin has invaded Ukraine, stoking political tensions there and in the Baltic States, and financed right-wing politicians across Europe; during the Cold War, the United States secretly tried to influence elections in Indonesia, Italy, Chile and Poland. What seems new here is the idea that a government would publicly disclose information it got from hacking into the computers of an American political party in order to influence an election. The Democrats are eager to exploit a Trump-Putin connection.

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Input: A Russian army officer holding a ballot walks through military cadets lining up to get their ballots at a polling station during a parliamentary election in Moscow, Russia A Russian army officer with his child, foreground, and military cadets line up to get their ballots at a polling station during a parliamentary elections Among the potential violations he cited were long lines of soldiers voting at stations where they were not registered and voters casting their ballots on tables instead of curtained-off voting booths A Russian military cadet casts his ballot at a polling station during a parliamentary elections in Moscow But the Kremlin exerts almost complete control over the media and public discourse, and this year's election campaign was dubbed the dullest in recent memory.

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Input: Seth Meyers took a closer look at the Senate's failure to pass stricter gun laws: The Clinton-backed super PAC Priorities Action USA will launch a multi-million dollar online campaign targeting millennial voters today. The series of digital ads urges young voters to “Stop Trump / Stop Hate." Watch the first ad: (Matea Gold has more.)

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Input: It tells you that he measures success by the discord he sows in countries he visits. And it tells you that he likes to humiliate these countries. Second, Trump claimed that in the classified intelligence briefing he received on Aug. 17, he learned “that our leadership, Barack Obama, did not follow what our experts” had recommended “in almost every instance.” That’s quite a claim, since the briefing was prepared by James Clapper, Obama’s director of national intelligence. The session was classified, so Clapper and his briefers ca n’t rebut Trump in public. This tells you how Trump would treat classified information as president: He would lie about it for political gain and dare the intelligence community to violate the law by exposing him.

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Input: Boykin told Breitbart in an interview on Saturday the same thing Donald Trump told the people at his rally on Thursday. What Hillary has done is punishable by jail time, and she must be punished. “What Hillary Clinton has done, I can tell you, it is … punishable by jail time. I think ultimately she’s going be indicted. She has to be.

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Input: A State Department official pressured the FBI to alter the classification of an email regarding possible arrests in the Benghazi attacks because it “caused problems,” FBI officials told investigators during the agency’s probe into Hillary Clinton Hillary Rodham ClintonGOP fires opening attack on Dem reportedly running for Heller's Senate seat Trump seeks tech's help for government IT overhaul What do Democrats stand for? MORE’s email server. ADVERTISEMENT

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

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Input: “Including Section 108 in any major copyright revision is not worth the substantial uncertainty it would create for libraries.” Proponents of revising Section 108, including the Copyright Office, have said the law, which hit the books in 1976, needs to be updated to address digital methods of reproducing content. QUICK DOWNLOADS WikiLeaks says it has access to NSA source code and will be posting it for free, unlike an outfit known as the “Shadow Brokers” that had announced plans to auction off code they allegedly stole. Univision won the bidding auction for Gawker and will buy all seven of the company’s media properties for $ 135 million. Pay TV providers posted their highest subscriber loss ever in this year’s second quarter, with cable, satellite and telecom companies losing at least 665,000 subscribers, reports CNET.

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Input: This shocking footage shows the moment a gang of Marseille youths launched an unprovoked attack on England supporters sitting in a bar in the Old Port district. In the video, the England fans were seen sitting in the Baloo Bar and adjacent pizzeria when the group of around 20 French hooligans arrived at the scene. One then hurled a bottle at the England supporters, before the gang started chucking chairs and tables at their opponents. Amid the ugly scenes, the English fans retaliated and threw chairs back at the local hooligans-before two rival fans squared up to one another. Riot police then arrived on the scene and the French fans dispersed, before dashing down the Rue Fortia.

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Input: He confronted Mr. Trump with a crass Twitter message from 2013 in which the future candidate suggested that sexual assaults in the military were a logical result of men and women serving together. “It is a correct tweet,” Mr. Trump said. When Mr. Lauer asked if Mr. Trump actually believed he knew more about the Islamic State than American generals, the candidate replied: “The generals have been reduced to rubble.” When Mr. Lauer brought up Mr. Trump’s admiration for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, noting that Mr. Putin had invaded Ukraine and was suspected of hacking Democratic emails, Mr. Trump refused to say a negative word about him. “Do you want me to start naming some of the things that President Obama does?” Mr. Trump asked. Still, with the formal debates set to begin on Sept. 26, Mr. Lauer’s performance seemed to preview the troubles that television moderators could face in balancing fairness with accountability.

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Input: The relative calm that dawn brings seems a lifetime away. All are at the mercy of the darkness. This is eastern Ukraine 28 months after the start of a conflict that once seemed unthinkable, and a year and a half after the signing of a second cease-fire deal, known as Minsk 2, that was supposed to bring lasting peace to this war-torn edge of Europe and reintegrate it with the rest of Ukraine. But the armistice is unraveling fast as fighting between Ukrainian government forces and Russia-backed separatists has escalated to levels not seen since more furious phases of the conflict in the Donbas -- where the separatists hold parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions -- in 2014 and 2015. Casualties, both civilian and military, are mounting.

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Input: Like the reporting you see here? Sign up for free news alerts from WND.com, America’s independent news network. Others on the list are Jewish nationalist Mike Guzovsky; imprisoned Russian skinhead leaders Artur Ryno and Pavel Skachevsky; and Islamic leaders Wadgy Abd El Hamied Mohamed Ghoneim, Abdullah Qadri Al Ahdal, Safwat Hijazi, Amir Siddique, Abdul Ali Musa, Samir Al Quntar and Nasr Javed. Said Savage, “How can a nation put me on a list and leave hate preachers in England who say that we’re going to kill all of you? We’re going to convert all of you to Islam.

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Input: The identities of the Americans emerged from the treasure trove of documents obtained by the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, the U.S.-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and hundreds of other media organizations. The consortium has so far identified more than 200 people with U.S. addresses who own companies in the leaked data from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca. Some appear to be retirees purchasing real estate in places like Costa Rica and Panama, according to the consortium. But there are at least a few Americans in the leaked files who have faced charges for serious financial crimes in the U.S. Here are some of the Americans who have been charged or convicted of financial crimes that have surfaced in the massive data leak, according to the media consortium.

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Input: The Israeli military is now monitoring Palestinian internet pages, searching for expressions of intent or approval of harming Israelis." We have been studying very closely those patterns of incitement in Palestinian society," Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Emmanuel Nahshon told Al Jazeera. INTERACTIVE: How many Palestinians are imprisoned by Israel? To those who know Majd, however, she does not fit the profile of someone who would incite others to violence." Since she was a baby, she has loved nails," Nidal said, flipping through her smartphone among photographs of Majd in a range of daring styles; in one, she sports blonde hair with purple streaks, while in another, it flows long and red.

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Input: This included at least 138 civilians, of whom at least 42 were children. By now victims of U.S. drones number in the thousands worldwide. What makes Obama’s drone joke particularly non-funny is that on the same night in 2010 — just a few hours before Obama spoke — a Bridgeport, Conn., man, Faisal Shahzad attempted to detonate a car bomb in New York City’s Times Square. After Shahzad was captured, he stated that one of his main motivations to kill Americans was “the drone strikes in Somalia and Yemen and in Pakistan.”

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Input: Speaking in Miami Wednesday, Trump said," I think NATO's great. But it's got to be modernized, and countries that we're protecting have to pay what they're supposed to be paying." Scaparrotti, NATO's supreme commander, says as of now only five of the 28 NATO nations are meeting their pledge to spend at least 2 percent of their gross domestic product on defense. They also are supposed to spend 20 percent of that on major weapons systems and equipment. Only three countries have met that goal: the U.S., the United Kingdom and Poland.

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Input: As she spoke, peeking nervously from behind curtains in her home, scores of riot and security police tightened a cordon around Wukan. Violence flared in the 10,000-strong hamlet early on Tuesday as police launched pre-dawn raids on homes seeking leaders of protests that had rumbled since June after the arrest of a popular leader. Village chief Lin Zuluan, one of the last of the 2011 protest leaders to remain in office, was jailed this month for three years on graft and other charges. Villagers threw bricks at police as they advanced with shields, batons and helmets, firing rubber bullets and using teargas. Some residents suffered wounds to their legs, mobile phone footage seen by Reuters showed.

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Input: Nonetheless, the suggestion that outrage at the U.S. banking system for its role in the financial crisis was based in “misunderstanding” and “politicizing” is risible. Here’s what one U.S. bank was up to seven years before Clinton’s speech: In April 2006, Goldman Sachs provided investors with a bullish report on Countrywide’s high-quality mortgage loans — loans the bank had helpfully packaged into AAA-rated mortgage-backed securities, thereby offering those lucky clients a low-risk way of profiting from America’s housing boom. When the bank’s head of “due diligence” saw the report, he typed a short email to his colleagues: “If only they knew …” You need both a public and a private position.

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Input: ... AND WITH THAT “LEAKED” CNN QUESTION On March 12, Donna Brazile, then vice chair of the DNC and a CNN and ABC contributor, allegedly wrote an email to the Clinton campaign with the subject line “From time to time I get the questions in advance.” It continues: “Here’s one that worries me about HRC … Should Ohio and the 30 other states join the current list and abolish the death penalty?” Palmieri wrote back within three hours, seemingly not as worried: “Hi. Yes, it is one she gets asked about.

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Input: Airline officials later said they had been told by Cypriot authorities that the belt was fake. The hijacker's motives remain unclear but the Cypriot president said the incident was not terrorism-related. No-one was injured in the hijacking, Cypriot government spokesman Nikos Christodulides tweeted. How the hijacking unfolded Image copyright AFP / Getty Image caption A man believed to be the hijacker leaves the aircraft

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Input: The 32-year -old woman was stoned to death by militants in Mosul’s Darkazliya neighbourhood. “The ISIS-led Sharia court said in a statement that the woman was charged with adultery, without providing further information,” media activist Abdullah al-Malla told ARA News in Mosul. “ISIS jihadists demanded the people of Mosul watch the brutal execution, and forced dozens to participate in stoning her along with the group’s militants,” al-Malla reported. Informed sources in Mosul told ARA News that the woman was, in reality, sentenced to death for refusing to marry an ISIS militant. “The adultery accusation was completely baseless.

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Input: Putin has served his country's national interest better,” Hewitt tweeted Friday morning. Democrats also piled on. Speaking to reporters after convening a meeting of national security experts in New York, Clinton said Trump's recent praise for Putin is “beyond one’s imagination." She also slammed his decision to appear on RT America. “Can I say I was surprised?

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Input: Coates said that the reason the senior officers gave for refusing to follow the orders to be more confrontational was because the orders were “dangerous.” Putin, according to Coates, retaliated by firing the 50 naval officers, considering their refusal to be a dereliction of duty. Though the news that Putin purged the 50 senior naval officers is just hitting many of the world’s media outlets, The Moscow Times announced that it occurred on June 29. The newspaper stated that “the Russian Defense Ministry” was behind the sacking of “the entire senior and mid-level command of the Baltic Fleet.” The purge of the 50 senior officers who were members of the Baltic Fleet, according to The Maritime Executive, “followed a month-long audit by the Kremlin” in the wake of the collision between a Polish patrol boat and a Russian submarine. The 50 officers who were purged also demonstrated, according to the Russian Defense Ministry, “serious shortcomings in the organisation of combat training, daily activities of their forces, failure to take all necessary measures to improve personnel accommodations, inattention to their subordinates and distorted reports on the real state of affairs in the fleet.”

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Input: Many contended that there is intersectionality between the oppressions of yesteryear and, say, the disproportionate number of Native peoples subject to overzealous policing. Once the country finally learns what “intersectionality” means, it’ll be sure to let President Trump know all about it. Then there was Sedinam Kinamo Christin Moyowasifza-Curry, a long-shot Green Party presidential candidate who regularly interrupted the proceedings to proclaim that the primary had been rigged against her. Anytime someone mispronounced her name or refused to repeat it in full, she would halt the proceedings with a yell. Rather than shut her down, the party secretaries typically yielded to pressure from the crowd not to muffle anyone’s voice, no matter how out of order they were.

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Input: There is some speculation that Israel could be open to increased Russian involvement on the Palestinian track in addition to its work with the Quartet. “We speak for overwhelming and just settlement of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict,” Putin said. “Active joint efforts, including in the framework of the Middle East Quartet, are in demand now. “Russia is ready to take part in that work,” he added according to Tass. On Wednesday Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov plans to meet with Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riad al-Malki, who will also be visiting Moscow, just as Netanyahu gets ready to fly back to Jerusalem. Regional conflicts, however, were not the only item on Netanyahu and Putin’s agenda. They also discussed increased energy cooperation, with Netanyahu assuring Putin that no legal limitations would be placed on Russian firms wanting to participate in Israeli energy projects. But the two countries remain at odds over Moscow’s ties with Tehran including the shipment of sophisticated weaponry to Iran, a country which has pledged to annihilate the Jewish state. Israel is particularly concerned that Iran is gaining a foothold in Syria. In an interview with the Russian news agency Interfax, Netanyahu said, “We have made a point of staying out of the Syrian conflict, with two exceptions: treating wounded Syrians on a humanitarian basis and preventing Iran from using Syria to attack Israel or to transfer sophisticated weapons to Hezbollah. We don‘t know what will come of Syria, but in any arrangement, it can not be an Iranian base for terrorism and aggression. ”Earlier in the day Netanyahu laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Lone Soldier and helped inaugurate an exhibit at Moscow’s main Manege exhibition hall, “Open a Door to Israel,” on innovation and technology. Among those presenting made-in Israel products is a settler delegation organized by the Council of Jewish Communities of Judea and Samaria.

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Input: Back then Trump threatened endless litigation unless 70 banks he owed money gave him millions more in new loans at low interest rates and provided him with $ 5.4 million a year for personal spending, the equivalent of $ 10 million in today’s money. Back then, one billionaire told The New York Times he did n’t know how to spend that much on himself and his family. What made the litigation threat credible was Trump’s refusal to pay more than 150 illegal immigrants who demolished the Bonwit Teller department store to make way for Trump Tower. A federal judge ruled that Trump conspired to cheat the workers, who never did collect all of their $ 4-an -hour wages despite an 18-year struggle. The bankers realized that a man who would endure almost two decades of litigation to avoid paying such meager wages might tie them up for eternity over the billions of dollars owed to them.

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Input: The campaign says the additional information explains that a Clinton got a chest scan Friday that showed a "mild, non-contagious bacterial pneumonia." Clinton was treated with an antibiotic called Levaquin, which she was prescribed for 10 days. Clinton's doctor has evaluated her several times since she became dehydrated at Sunday's 9/11 memorial event in New York City. Dr. Lisa Bardack saw Clinton on Wednesday and says through the campaign that the Democratic presidential nominee "continues to improve" after a few days of rest. Clinton's aides say she'll return to the campaign trail on Thursday.

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Input: Kerry tells us that Isis is “genocidal by self-proclamation, by ideology and by actions …” as if the destruction of the Armenian people in 1915 was not – and is perfectly happy to label the dark forces of the ‘Islamic Caliphate’ as genocidal themselves – which they clearly are. But it raises another frightful question. Since we know that Isis sells Syrian and Iraqi oil to the Turks – Russian bomber pilots have seen miles of Isis oil convoys running to the horizon towards Turkey – and since Turkish journalists have been imprisoned for reporting on secret Turkish arms transfers to Islamists in Syria – the Americans are, in effect, blaming Isis for the genocide of a hundred thousand or more human beings while being too frightened to label the Armenian massacres of a million and a half souls as genocide lest it offend Isis’ sinister chums in Turkey. It’s not difficult to accuse the bad guys of genocide – Colin Powell had no problem over Darfur in 2004 – but should n’t we stand up to the real bullies who prevent us honouring the memory of those million and a half Christians who were treated just as Isis treats the Yazidis and Christians and Shia today: the Turkish government and the Turkish army and the Turkish institutes of state? And all this at a time when an increasing number of brave Turks are themselves acknowledging the Turkish genocide of 1915?

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Input: Keeping our nation safe and honoring the people who do it will be my highest priority. I'm proud that we put a lid on Iran's nuclear program without firing a single shot – now we have to enforce it, and keep supporting Israel's security. I'm proud that we shaped a global climate agreement – now we have to hold every country accountable to their commitments, including ourselves. I'm proud to stand by our allies in NATO against any threat they face, including from Russia. I've laid out my strategy for defeating ISIS.

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Input: Marco Rubio announced that he will run for reelection to the Senate, a big boost for Republican hopes of retaining the Senate majority. (Sean Sullivan and Mike DeBonis) The Colombian government and FARC rebels reached a cease-fire agreement, clearing one of the last major hurdles in the effort to end a nearly 50-year conflict. (Nick Miroff) Pakistan’s government announced that it is giving a $ 3 million grant to the “University of Jihad,” agreeing to subsidize one of the world’s most controversial Islamist institutions even as the country vows to crack down on havens for the Islamic State. (Tim Craig) The Senate rejected a Republican-led effort that would have allowed the FBI to access a person’s internet browser history and email without a court order. (Karoun Demirjian) Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.) announced his intention to resign from Congress after being convicted of nearly two dozen public corruption charges.

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Input: But his low-intensity air campaign against ISIS has conspicuously failed to destroy the organization. “One of the top goals of the American national-security apparatus in Obama’s last year,” we learn, is to assassinate the “so-called caliph of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.” Well, the strategy worked with bin Laden, right? Decapitation of the organization is a sufficient response because, as the president tells Goldberg: “ISIS is not an existential threat to the United States.” He “frequently reminds his staff that terrorism takes far fewer lives in America than handguns, car accidents, and falls in bathtubs do.” (Maybe so, but bathtubs are not actively plotting to kill us.) There is, however, a second reason why Obama downplays the threat posed by ISIS: He remains more worried about “the sort of panic … that would manifest itself in anti-Muslim xenophobia” than about Islamic extremism itself. Those who believe in a “violent, radical, fanatical, nihilistic interpretation of Islam” are, the president insists, “a tiny faction.” But this view is very hard to reconcile with the president’s own observation to Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull that Indonesia — where he lived for several years as a child — has been moving, in Goldberg’s words, “gradually … from a relaxed, syncretistic Islam to a more fundamentalist, unforgiving interpretation”: Large numbers of Indonesian women, [Obama] observed, have now adopted the hijab, the Muslim head covering.

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Input: • A video produced in Aleppo province, Syria, attacks the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt as mainstream. A fighter says, “You are the preachers for polytheism and falsehood, you are the ones who issued the fatwa for people to take part in the polytheist democracy, and you are the ones who issued the fatwa for people to vote for the pagan constitution, which puts sovereignty in the hands of the people instead of Allah.” He added: “You have deceived your followers that [adhering to] democracy and entering the parliament will lead to [the implementation] of Islamic Shariah. Now, where is the Shariah, O enemies of Allah?” The Brotherhood’s overriding goal is to spread Shariah, or Islamic law, around the world by undercutting secular governments.

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Input: At the moment, RT can not verify authenticity of those videos. Read more Last week the Syrian government and Russia launched an effort to evacuate civilians wishing to leave Aleppo, establishing safe corridors and providing food, medical assistance and transport for those who chose to use them. Scores of people, mostly women and children, rushed to abandon the battered city, which has been contested by several armed forces. The Syrian opposition decried the move, claiming it was an attempt to depopulate the city, a part of which remains one of its strongholds.

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Input: Euroskeptic and anti-establishment, Five Star has allied itself with UKIP at the European Parliament. In France, Marine Le Pen of the far-right Front National has a wide lead in opinion polls ahead of presidential elections next year. Polls in the Netherlands show the country’s Party for Freedom, headed by Geert Wilders – who is currently on trial for inciting hatred against the country’s Moroccan community – would win an election if one were called today. Far-right parties are also gaining in opinion polls in Germany and Scandinavia, while governments in Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic have soothed public opinion by vowing to ignore an EU quota system that would see all member countries absorb a share of the more than one million asylum-seekers who arrived on the continent in 2015. After a decades-long lull during which things like borders and ethnicity seemed to matter less than in the past, angry nationalism is back – no longer as a bit player, but as a mainstream force in European politics.

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

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Input: Scientists gained more evidence for this theory after an expedition to the bottom of the crater. It revealed the air had an extraordinarily high concentration of methane. It's not just explosions and melting permafrost we should worry about, either. The EPA states that methane is a greenhouse gas that could have 25 times the impact of carbon dioxide over the next century. A significant addition to methane emissions would likely have a disastrous impact on our already troubling atmospheric warming, since it's 21 times better at trapping heat, according to LiveScience.

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Input: Colin Powell, a retired four-star general who served under three Republican presidents, slammed Donald Trump’s closest military adviser, retired Gen. Michael Flynn, as “right-wing nutty” and “a jerk” according to the former secretary of state’s personal emails seen by BuzzFeed News. Flynn has been advising Trump and is a close confidant of the Republican nominee. Powell was discussing Flynn, who served as the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency for two years under president Obama with Powell’s son, former FCC chairman Michael Powell. The two Powells were discussing Flynn’s speech to the Republican National Convention, where he led a chant of “lock her up” about Hillary Clinton.

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Input: But if she wins, she is coming back for you to take you along on the ride to America's future. (APPLAUSE) And so I say to you, if you love this country, you're working hard, you're paying taxes and you're obeying the law and you'd like to become a citizen, you should choose immigration reform over somebody that wants to send you back. (APPLAUSE) If you're a Muslim and you love America and freedom and you hate terror, stay here and help us win and make a future together. We want you.

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Input: -- “Company run by David Trone broke campaign contribution limits, state prosecutors say,” by Bill Turque: “A company run by David Trone, the Potomac wine magnate who was a candidate for Congress in Maryland’s 8th District this year, made more than $ 250,000 in illegal contributions to political candidates between 2011 and 2014, state prosecutors say. Before he mounted the most expensive self-funded congressional campaign in history — spending more than $ 13 million in his Democratic primary loss … he was best known as a major-party fundraiser, hosting [Obama, Clinton] and a long list of other political figures at his home. The Maryland State Prosecutor’s Office announced Friday that it had issued 12 citations to Retail Service and Systems Inc., charging that the company or its subsidiaries violated what was then the $ 4,000 limit on giving to a single candidate. According to an affidavit from the prosecutor’s office, the improper contributions were made by Trone’s companies to the 2014 gubernatorial campaign of then-Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown, his running mate Ken Ulman, and the 2014 reelection campaign of State Comptroller Peter Franchot.”

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Input: President Obama will request $ 582.7 billion in funding for the Pentagon as part of the fiscal year 2017 budget, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said. It will be partly used to keep a competitive edge over Russia and China, and to quadruple spending in Europe. Carter said part of the $ 582.7 billion will include $ 71.4 for research and development funding, adding that much of the money will focus on maintaining an edge over the competition.

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Input: MEGYN KELLY: You're accused of receiving a debate question whether a CNN town hall where they partnered with TV One that you had this question on March 12th, that verbatim, verbatim was provided by Roland Martin to CNN the next day. How did you get that question, Donna? DONNA BRAZILE: Well, Kelly, as I play straight up and with you, I did not receive any questions from CNN.

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Input: NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt moderated the debate at Hofstra University in New York. (Sarah Parnass / The Washington Post) Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump went head-to-head for the first time Monday night in a debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. The debate was moderated by Lester Holt of NBC News and came as polls both nationally and in swing states are increasingly tight. The complete transcript of the debate is posted below.

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Input: -- The selection process keeps becoming nastier: Delegates in both parties are now getting threats. On the Republican side: Colorado chairman Steve House said his office received 3,000 phone calls “with many being the trashiest you can imagine” after a state party convention last weekend awarded all 34 delegates to Cruz. “When they reference burials and your family in the same email, and telling you that you’re being watched, that’s concerning,” Craig Dunn, a Trump critic who was elected this past weekend as a Republican delegate from Indiana’s 4th Congressional District. (Ed O’Keefe) On the Democratic side: “The Sanders campaign says it has no connection to the efforts of outside supporters to lean on superdelegates … Among those efforts is a website created last week under the name Superdelegate Hit List, providing phone numbers and addresses for superdelegates and encouraging users to submit further contact information … Site creator Spencer Thayer, a Chicago activist, described the goal this way in a Twitter message: ‘So who wants to help start.

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Input: As stated by Reuters, “Hillary Clinton, under questioning by federal investigators over whether she had been briefed on how to preserve government records as she was about to leave the State Department, said she had suffered a concussion, was working part-time and could not recall every briefing she received.” Then of course, there’s the Clinton Foundation and the AP’s report stating 85 donors gave $ 156 million for access to Clinton. The report states “At least 85 of 154 people from private interests who met or had phone conversations scheduled with Clinton while she led the State Department donated to her family charity or pledged commitments to its international programs, according to a review of State Department calendars released so far to The Associated Press.” There’s plenty of smoke (and perhaps a raging inferno) there to give the election to Trump. Speaking of the Clinton Foundation, if you find Hillary Clinton’s laptop in the mail, contact the authorities. If Trump eventually wins the White House, it will be the fault of “progressive” writers and media.

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Input: Technology companies allegedly made donations of millions of dollars to various Democratic Party entities, including President Bill Clinton’s 1996 re-election campaign, in return for permission to sell high-tech secrets to China. B ernard Schwartz and his Loral Space & Communication Ltd. later allegedly “helped China to identify the cause of [a rocket failure], thereby advancing China’s missile program and threatening U.S. national security,” according to records. In a 2013 column titled “Proof Hillary is n’t fit to be president,” Klayman wrote: Not to be outdone by her prior scandals, Hillary … masterminded a scheme whereby the Clinton-Gore presidential campaign of 1996 took bribes from communist Chinese banks and their government to bankroll the president’s and the Democratic Party’s re-election efforts when it appeared, due to their low standing in the polls, that all the stops needed to be pulled out.

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Input: Soon, they'll be made in sunny Florida, too. Kalashnikov USA has been approved by the city of Pompano Beach to assemble guns there. Kalashnikov USA of Tullytown, Pa., was importing rifles made by Kalashnikov Concern, the original AK-47 manufacturer in Moscow, until 2014 when President Obama imposed sanctions against Russia following its annexation of Crimea. At that point, Kalashnikov USA severed all ties with the Russian company. The company started making the guns in Pennsylvania last year, but is shifting manufacturing to Florida.

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Input: ‘She was the point person … compelling the Chinese to commit to cutting carbon emissions.’ By David Axelrod, former Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama. When I was there, she played a very active role in rallying the world behind the global sanctions against Iran that brought them to the table over their nuclear program. She was the point person in Copenhagen in compelling the Chinese to commit to cutting carbon emissions. She personally negotiated a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

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Input: ), Collin Peterson (Minn.) and Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.). The sanctuary city debate centers on laws that are aimed at encouraging illegal immigrants to report crimes to the police without fear of deportation. Before Steinle’s death, the Federal Bureau of Prisons transferred Lopez-Sanchez to the San Francisco Police Department for an outstanding arrest warrant on drug charges. But San Francisco authorities dropped the charges and released Lopez-Sanchez weeks later despite a request from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to receive notification of his release because Lopez-Sanchez was prioritized for deportation. Democrats have argued that Lopez-Sanchez should have been deported even under the sanctuary statutes in San Francisco.

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Input: He had occasionally, however, run afoul of the Russian authorities in his work. In 2011, he was investigated for trafficking in performance-enhancing drugs, and he said he fully expected to go to prison. His sister was convicted and imprisoned on similar charges. The investigation into Dr. Rodchenkov, however, disappeared. He said he could not be sure why, but he suspected that he had been spared punishment so that he could play a crucial role at the Sochi Games.

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

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Input: But in the moment, McCain lost his nerve, as his aides have recounted the episode. Davis supplied a tear-filled soliloquy that saved his job. “Rick’s plea somehow worked — and that was the root of the divisions that tore apart the campaign,” one of McCain’s top advisers told me. It was just unsubstantiated hearsay that Deripaska had paid for Manafort’s flat. Yet McCain aides were right to suspect the relationship.

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Input: "It will be when we are satisfied that the changes have been made are both verifiable and sustainable," he said." This can not be just a one-off change, we have to be sure that these changes are culturally embedded in the sport going forward." Kamaev and a clutch of other top officials quit as Russia began the reform process it hopes will see it allowed it athletes to participate in the Rio Olympics.

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Input: In 2011, China commissioned into service an upgraded copy of Kuznetsov named Lioaning. She’s China’s first and so far only flattop. She’s never seen combat, either. And if Kuznetsov can pull off her inaugural wartime mission without major embarrassment, maybe Lioaning can, too. -- with additional reporting by Matthew Bodner

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Input: But there it is. “Socialism is a conspiracy of losers against achievers,” Menaker said. “America is the only country where you can come naked with no language and make it in 25 years.” I suggested to Menaker’s guests that even the most extreme of Sanders’ proposals — to make America resemble a Scandinavian country — is not quite as radical workers rising up to seize the means of production. The Russians did n’t buy it. There’s no need for America to become more like Finland or France, they said.

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Input: In June, the fight intensified as House and Senate Republicans put forward a new bill that targeted Planned Parenthood — ditching the upper chamber’s previous deal with leading Democrats. The bill’s language does not mention Planned Parenthood. Specifically, it says that only health services “provided by public health departments, hospitals, or reimbursed through public health plans” can receive the Zika funding from Congress. Republicans, including the top health appropriator Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), have acknowledged that the bill targets Planned Parenthood, while stressing that they are willing to pay almost as much money as the Obama administration has asked for. “We do have provisions, obviously, to make it more difficult for Planned Parenthood.

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Input: MacMahon recently represented former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling, who was convicted of leaking classified information. “You want to be in control of the process as best you can, having different people interact with your client does not serve your purpose.” Lazar, who was extradited to the U.S. before his Romanian jail term was complete, currently faces a September trial for separate hacking charges. The charges, made public in June 2014, include alleged hacking of accounts belonging to a member of George W. Bush’s family, former Secretary of State Colin Powell, and longtime Clinton confidant Blumenthal. A review of recent federal cases by Fox News found that Guccifer’s extradition appears to be an outlier.

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Input: (Photo by Ameer Alhalbi / NurPhoto) More than 1 in 10 Syrians have been wounded or killed since the beginning of the war in 2011, according to a new report that finds a staggering 470,000 deaths have been caused by the conflict, either directly or indirectly. The grim tally from the Syrian Center for Policy Research (SCPR) represents a dramatic increase from the total of 250,000 fatalities often cited by the United Nations, which stopped independently counting Syria’s war dead early in 2014. In all, 11.5 percent of Syria’s population has been wounded or killed since 2011, according to the SCPR analysis. The vast majority of deaths — 400,000 — were caused by violence, while 70,000 came as an indirect result of the war — the collapse of the country’s health-care infrastructure, lack of access to medicine, poor sanitation, the spread of communicable diseases, falling vaccination rates, food scarcity and malnutrition.

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Input: Just in Central America, Nicaragua’s military spending trails far behind its neighbors in the so-called Northern Triangle: Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. And the Dominican Republic outspent the rest of the isthmus by nearly $ 100 million in 2015, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Costa Rica’s foreign minister, Manuel González, said that tanks and weapons of war were ill-suited to the problems Central America faces: poverty, organized crime, human trafficking and drug trafficking. Instead of weapons, González said the region needs to “combat poverty with education, healthcare, technology and infrastructure.”

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Input: A nation that would n’t see civilian deaths as acceptable collateral damage from drone assassinations of suspected terrorists. That would n’t advocate and laugh at murder — even of admitted terrorists. You’d expect something more along the lines of “We tried our best to capture him alive so that we could bring him back to face justice starting with a fair trial, but, sadly, he died in a firefight.” With a serious face, becoming of a Presumptive Future President. Not with a cackle that dismisses the value of human life, a value enshrined in the American conception of justice: innocent until proven guilty. Yep, Robert Gates; Gang of Three; Dick Cheney (“ Vice”)—those are the Comrades with whom she shares her voluminous experience.

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Input: U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, said Washington was investigating the air strikes and "if we determine that we did indeed strike Syrian military personnel that was not our intention and we of course regret the loss of life." She said Russia's decision to call a council meeting was "cynical and hypocritical" as Moscow had never expressed such outrage at the killing of civilians by Syrian government forces during more than five years of conflict. skip-deir al zor map "Russia really needs to stop the cheap point scoring and the grandstanding and the stunts and focus on what matters, which is implementation of something we negotiated in good faith with them," Power told reporters.

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Input: When he was quizzed about foreign policy, he changed the subject to trade. When he was pressed for solutions, he talked instead about President Obama’s failures. When he was asked about a tweet in which he had blamed military sexual assaults on the integration of women, he acted as though he had always believed the problem was insufficient prosecution. He also claimed, contrary to fact — and undisputed by moderator Matt Lauer — that he had been “totally against the war in Iraq.” Advertisement

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Input: Encourage Russian aggression in Europe by renouncing our NATO obligations. Start by recognizing Russian sovereignty over the Crimea. Withdraw the U.S. from other treaties and international organizations: WTO, NAFTA, the U.N., the Paris Treaty on international climate change. Encourage Japan and South Korea to develop nuclear weapons by raising questions about the validity of our security commitments. Unofficially encourage or sponsor the growth of armed far-right “militia” groups, and discourage enforcement of federal laws against them (e.g., vigilante border enforcement groups, takeovers of federal lands by “sovereign citizen” organizations).

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Input: We basically destroyed the infrastructure which supported ISIS. And the political process is starting in Geneva. So basically we prepared everything and I would like to say that there is a ceasefire in Syria and there is less job to do for our aircraft and there is no need to keep such forces there because we are moving in the direction of the political process. That’s exactly what we agreed in Vienna.

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Input: She urged her husband to bomb Yugoslavia. She has pushed for “regime change” in Syria. She oversaw the coup that overthrew the democratically-elected president of Honduras. She brought neo-conservative Victoria Nuland, who arranged the coup that overthrew the democratically elected president of Ukraine, into the State Department. Hillary has called President Vladimir Putin of Russia the “new Hitler.”

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Input: Tax returns also wo n’t show market values. Many real estate people get rich with appreciation in value that is not currently taxed. If Mr. Trump buys a building for $ 50 M and it goes up in value to $ 200 M, that $ 150 M gain is n’t booked or taxed until it is sold. It does n’t really show up until he sells. The tax returns might show big write-offs.

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Input: This was accurate for Trump’s old tax plan. The top 0.1 percent — those making more than $ 3.6 million per year — would receive 18 percent of the tax cuts under Trump’s proposal, while the bottom 60 percent will enjoy only 16.4 percent of the cuts. Clinton:" He started his business with $ 14 million, borrowed from his father." Clinton is likely referring to a recent Wall Street Journal report on a 1985 casino-license disclosure. It shows that Trump owed his father and his father’s business about $ 14 million at the time.

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Input: Heat wave conditions across Siberia, with the hottest June ever recorded, have The mountain of sawdust measuring more than 25 acres in size is located in the Ust-Kutsky district of Irkutsk region in Eastern Siberia. The Trans-Siberian Forest company, which manages the site is depositing 70 cubic meters (2,500 cubic feet) of sawdust waste each day to the 2 million cubic meters (70 million cubic feet) dump literally adding fuel to the fire. Environmental activists have voiced concern as authorities expect the fire, visible from space, to continue burning for many years. Alexander Yaroshenko, head of the Forestry Programme of Greenpeace Russia told Siberian Times The company says that all possible measures to prevent the spread of the blaze have been taken including a “mineral border line” around the saw dust mountain and firefighting equipment on permanent standby. Heat wave conditions across Siberia, with the hottest June ever recorded, have sparked multiple wildfires across vast tracts of boreal forests in recent days. An extensive smoke blanket — which stretches across at least 2,000 miles of Siberia from west to east has engulfed the area. More about sawdust, Siberia, Fire sawdust Siberia Fire

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Input: To take just a few of hundreds of examples, why did his oath to the Constitution justify disclosure that NSA had developed MonsterMind, a program to respond to cyberattacks automatically; or that it had set up data centers in China to insert malware into Chinese computers and had penetrated Huawei in China; or that it was spying (with details about how) in many other foreign nations, on Bin Laden associate Hassam Ghul’s wife, on the UN Secretary General, or on the Islamic State; or that it cooperates with intelligence services in Sweden and Norway to spy on Russia; and so on, and so on. These and many other disclosures (see here for many more) concern standard intelligence operations in support of national security or foreign policy missions that do not violate the US Constitution or laws and that did extraordinary harm to those missions. There is such a disconnect between Snowden’s constitutional oath and the scale and type of sensitive intelligence information that he disclosed that it makes me question whether the Constitution had anything to do with the leaks. And indeed, when Snowden “set out the case” for his pardon on Wednesday, he did not (at least in the stories I read) argue from the Constitution. Rather, he now says of the disclosures: “when we look at them morally, when we look at them ethically, when we look at the results, it seems these were necessary things, these were vital things.” Let us set aside the “results” of having blown numerous intelligence operations against adversaries and many other legitimate intelligence targets.

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Input: 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. “Chasing communities off their land and trashing the environment has become an accepted way of doing business in many resource-rich yet cash-poor countries,” Gillian Caldwell, Executive Director at Global Witness, said in a statement. By expanding the kinds of actors that may be held legally responsible for crimes under international law, and by broadening the focus of crimes the ICC reviews, activists hope to see a decreased incidence of land grabbing, a renewed fight to protect the livelihoods of those who live on the land, and the integrity of the land itself. Legal experts say that this move could also open up criminal prosecutions for climate change. “Today’s decision by the ICC shows that the age of impunity is coming to an end,” Caldwell said.

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Input: You can watch it here. So Pence was unable or unwilling to defend Donald Trump — except by pretending that neither he nor Trump said what they most definitely said. Yes, all politicians exaggerate, and most of them lie, some more than others. But Trump is wholly and completely untethered from reality, and so are his senior aides and surrogates. This is what makes the idea of a Trump presidency so worrying.

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Input: The delay comes as Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is set to visit Washington from Tuesday to meet his US counterpart John Kerry for possible talks over the controversial defence system and North Korea. China opposes the proposed deployment of THAAD, with foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying warning Monday that it should not be used as a front to ' undermine China's own legitimate (security) interests '. South Korea's defence ministry reiterated Tuesday that the US missile defence system only targets North Korea and that its deployment is an issue between the two allies.

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Input: Some supermarket chains and industry groups in the US are pioneering ugly produce sections and actively campaigning to reduce such losses. But a number of producers and distributors claimed that some retailing giants were still using their power to reject produce on the basis of some ideal of perfection, and sometimes because of market conditions. The farmers and truckers interviewed said they had seen their produce rejected on flimsy grounds, but decided against challenging the ruling with the US department of agriculture’s dispute mechanism for fear of being boycotted by powerful supermarket giants. They also asked that their names not be used. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Compost collection at Union Square Greenmarket in New York.

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Input: Pumping for War in Libya In 2011, Clinton successfully lobbied Obama to go to war against Libya to achieve another “regime change,” albeit cloaked in the more modest goal of establishing only a “no-fly zone” to “protect civilians.” Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi had claimed he was battling jihadists and terrorists who were building strongholds around Benghazi, but Clinton and her State Department underlings accused him of slaughtering civilians and (in one of the more colorful lies used to justify the war) distributing Viagra to his troops so they could rape more women. Despite resistance from Russia and China, the United Nations Security Council fell for the deception about protecting civilians. Russia and China agreed to abstain from the vote, giving Clinton her “no-fly zone.” Once that was secured, however, the Obama administration and several European allies unveiled their real plan, to destroy the Libyan army and pave the way for the violent overthrow of Gaddafi.

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Input: "When you buy an app from Google Play or the App Store anywhere in Europe, VAT is charged at the place of payment, but not here in our banana republic," Klimenko frustratingly explained in statements originally relayed by Bloomberg. His solution? A revamp of the Russian tax code that would see consumers slapped with an 18% sales tax on all mobile purchases, an idea which, if implemented, would naturally direct consumers toward alternatives. If the proposed tax changes go through, the report indicates that Apple and Google might lose upwards of $ 3.9 billion in revenue. Klimenko, 49, is pushing to raise taxes on U.S. companies to help level the playing field for Russian competitors such as Yandex and Mail.ru.

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

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Input: The number of businesses with no women in senior management has increased to 33 percent from 32 percent in 2015, the report, which surveyed 5,520 businesses in 36 countries, said." Companies across developed nations have talked the talk on diversity in leadership for long enough," Francesca Lagerberg, global leader for tax services at Grant Thornton International said in a statement." It's time to put their promises into practice and deliver results." With more than a third of senior roles in the region held by women, eastern European countries, among them Estonia, Latvia and Poland, topped the diversity rankings. Meanwhile, 39 percent of businesses in G7 countries (Canada, Germany, Italy, France, Japan, Britain and the United States) had no women in senior management positions.

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Input: Such information could be used against her as political blackmail. What information could have been captured by a foreign power that could be used if / when Hillary Clinton came to office as President to gain leverage over her? “Undoubtedly, if she wins election, her first priority will be re-election. So, my concern is not just for information that she could have compromised as Secretary of State that would have harmed the U.S. from 2009-2013, but what information has been compromised that could be used against her as blackmail if she is in the Oval Office?” Clinton’s Judgment

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Input: In the summer of 1982 Cody, then under indictment, ordered a citywide strike — but the concrete work continued at Trump Tower. After Cody was convicted of racketeering, imprisoned and lost control of the union, Trump sued the woman for $ 250,000 for alteration work. She countersued for $ 20 million and in court papers accused Trump of taking kickbacks from contractors, asserting this could “be the basis of a criminal proceeding requiring an attorney general’s investigation” into Trump. Trump then quickly settled, paying the woman a half-million dollars. Trump said at the time and since then that he hardly knew those involved and there was nothing improper his dealings with Cody or the woman.

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Input: In east Aleppo, a Russian-declared "humanitarian pause" began Thursday, which Russia says will allow rebels and civilians to leave rebel-held sections of the city during daytime for three days. The Russian Defense Ministry unexpectedly announced the pause Tuesday after a weeks-long bombardment of the Syrian city. The airstrikes and the rising death toll received fierce criticism from Western powers. JUST WATCHED Ghostly new video shows Aleppo in ruins Replay More Videos ... MUST WATCH Ghostly new video shows Aleppo in ruins 01:06 There have been no airstrikes in the city since dawn Tuesday, Aleppo residents told CNN.

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Input: Working from an iPhone on the plane so am not able to access the transcript to cut and paste.” – CNBC’s John Harwood – who moderated the CNBC GOP debate / debacle – was telling Podesta how great Hillary looked: “She looked so much more comfortable talking to Andrea today than to Brianna a few weeks ago.” He sent the Clinton aide a tweet he posted defending Hillary’s ethics: “if there’s any specific / plausible suggestion of nefarious email @HillaryClinton was trying to hide, I have n’t heard it.” – CNBC’s Becky Quick – who also moderated the CNBC GOP debate – promised John Podesta after Sylvia Mathews Burwell as nominated as HHS secretary: “I will make sure to defend her when things get further along in the nomination process.” – Univision owner Haim Saban, a Clinton donor, is also advising on strategy. John Podesta emailed that “Haim thinks we are under reacting to Trump / Hispanics.

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Input: Jaw-dropping footage from Turkey shows fighters loading a Russian-made MANPADS surface-to-air missile launcher. Moments later a missile is hurtling towards a distant helicopter, smashing its rear rotor off and sending it into a tailspin. The helicopter then plummets to the floor trailing debris, in an attack that would claim the lives of both pilots. YOUTUBE DESTROYED: The Russian-made missile destroyed the Turkish helicopter “PKK has used Russia-origin MANPADS before, but not for several years” Charles Lister It comes after Turkey shot down a Russian plane in November, bringing the two nations to the brink of war.

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Input: The first one was bigger. It blew out all the windows.” Most of the wounded in the subway blast were evacuated to the Rue de la Loi, outside the station, which serves the area that hosts most of the European Union’s core institutions. Brian Carroll, 31, a communications consultant from Washington, said he was on a subway car near Maelbeek en route to a conference in downtown Brussels when he heard a loud blast. “As we were pulling into the station, there was suddenly a loud explosion,” he said in a phone interview.

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Input: "The only question is how widespread they are, how many chapters there are." It is also worth noting that the phrase "14 Words" seen on posters at these events is a reference to the popular white supremacist slogan "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children." The slogan was coined by David Lane, a member of the white supremacist terrorist group known as The Order, who later died in prison in 2007. It also is sometimes used in reference to the slogan," Because the beauty of the White Aryan woman must not perish from the earth," which was also coined by Lane. White Lives Matter protest at NAACP in Houston

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