Input: 16/20 Relatives at in St Petersburg A relative of a passenger on MetroJet Airbus A321 at Pulkovo II international airport in St Petersburg EPA 17/20 Relatives at in St Petersburg Relatives of passengers of MetroJet Airbus A321 at the Crown Plaza hotel in St Petersburg EPA 18/20 Bodies being repatriated An Egyptian soldier prays as emergency workers prepare to unload bodies of victims from a police helicopter to ambulances at Kabrit military airport on 31 October. AP 19/20 Bodies being repatriated Ambulances line up as emergency workers unload bodies at Kabrit military airport, 20 miles north of Suez, on Saturday AP

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Input: Email shows Clinton State Dept pushing Panama pact amid warnings it would help the rich hide money # PanamaPapers pic.twitter.com/OA3Z22Jgjq — David Sirota (@davidsirota) April 4, 2016 The Panama FTA pushed for by Obama and Clinton, watchdog groups said, effectively barred the United States from cracking down on questionable activities. Instead of requiring concessions of the Panamanian government on banking rules and regulations, combating tax haven abuse in Panama could violate the agreement. Should the U.S. embark on such an endeavor, it could be exposed to fines from international authorities. “The FTA would undermine existing U.S. policy tools against tax haven activity,” warned consumer watchdog group Public Citizen at the time, saying the agreement would encourage corporations to thwart any U.S. efforts to combat financial secrecy.

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Input: Turkey reacted with fury on Thursday (2 June) after the Bundestag labelled the World War I massacre of Armenians by Ottoman forces as genocide, threatening further measures. Berlin’s lower house of parliament overwhelmingly approved a non-binding resolution on the 1915-16 killings – one MP voted against and another abstained – in a move touching a raw nerve in Turkish-European relations. Germany angers Turkey with Armenian genocide resolution German lawmakers declared the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman forces a “genocide” in a symbolic resolution on Thursday which risks hurting relations with Ankara just as Berlin and European partners need its help in tackling the refugee crisis.

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Input: Business Insider, citing a a "top Democratic party source," reported the question was one that Brazile would face at a panel. According to the official Democratic Presidential Town Hall at Ohio University on March 13 transcript, a question asked was:" I came perilously close to my own execution, and in light of that, what I have just shared with you and in light of the fact that there are documented cases of innocent people who have been executed in our country, I would like to know how can you still take your stance on the death penalty in light of what we know right now." Over the past several days Wikileaks has release emails from the account of John Podesta, the Clinton campaign chairman. The US government, in a statement last week, blamed Russia for a series of hacks on Democratic Party officials, stating, “the recent disclosures of alleged hacked e-mails on sites like DCLeaks.com and WikiLeaks and by the Guccifer 2.0 online persona are consistent with the methods and motivations of Russian-directed efforts.”

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Input: “[Because] America stands up to countries that treat women like animals or people of different races, religions, or ethnicities as less human.” Yes — when it’s in America’s interest. You think it does n’t tear me up to see starving kids or women led to the slaughter? You think I do n’t wonder what I could have done? Sometimes the hard choice — yes, I read the damn book — is doing nothing at all.

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Input: He skipped his party’s convention in Cleveland this summer after initially indicating he would attend. This week, a source told the Miami Herald that Rubio “will not be going to any presidential campaign events” for Trump or Pence in the four weeks left before Election Day. Though Rubio disavowed Trump’s 2005 remarks, he reiterated on Tuesday that he is still backing his party’s nominee because he believes the election is a binary choice. “I wish we had better choices for president. But I do not want Hillary Clinton to be our next president,” he said in a statement.

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Input: Suddenly gunfire can be heard and the group are seen running for cover. (Photo: Twitter / bilalgezer13) The footage was posted on Twitter by Bilal Gezer, who said the group was part of a funeral procession. Read more: ISIS chiefs hiding in an enormous dam where UK, US and Russia refuse to bomb Additional footage taken by journalist A Rahman Gok shows the apparent aftermath, with several people lying motionless on the ground, as blood begins to pool in the street.

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Input: Alexander Polyakov of the software company ERPScan said the threat is particularly acute now that oil prices are so low, putting the industry under increasing pressure to cut costs. “Oil and gas is a critical industry, with so many different critical processes,” he told the RSA security conference in San Francisco. NSA accused of spying on Brazilian oil company Petrobras Read more From the oil rig to the petrol station, there are many pieces of software within the oil business that can be targeted. Every point in this supply chain is increasingly reliant on sensors that monitor and measure pressure, fuel levels, pipeline flows, quantities of oil, temperature and whether equipment is working properly.

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Input: At least 17 soldiers were reportedly killed, and 30 were injured. Hide Caption 23 of 68 Photos: The ISIS terror threat Syrians wait near the Turkish border during clashes between ISIS and Kurdish armed groups in Kobani, Syria, on Thursday, June 25. The photo was taken in Sanliurfa, Turkey. ISIS militants disguised as Kurdish security forces infiltrated Kobani on Thursday and killed "many civilians," said a spokesman for the Kurds in Kobani.

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Input: When the very first delegate, a white gentleman from Alabama, stood up to deliver his state’s votes, many in the crowd booed him. “THE GREAT WHITE HOPE, HUH?” one delegate yelled. There was the convention’s disproportionate focus on America’s Native peoples ― which is not a bad thing, but most of that attention was focused on broken 19th-century treaties and not on the urgent issues that beset many Native American communities today, such as widespread drug addiction, violence against women and crumbling schools. 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.

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Input: This is worse. Even a slaughterhouse is more humane.” Zaher Sahloul, a senior adviser for the Syrian American Medical Society, which supports both of the hospitals bombed overnight, said: “It is extermination of a major city by starving and killing its 85,000 children using all modern and middle ages weaponries.” In a statement, Unicef said at least 96 children had been killed and 223 injured in eastern Aleppo since Friday after a ceasefire brokered by Washington and Moscow broke down in mutual recrimination. “The children of Aleppo are trapped in a living nightmare,” said the Unicef deputy chief, Justin Forsyth.

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Input: Russia's foreign ministry has vowed to respond to the entry of a US Navy ship into the Black Sea with unspecified "measures". The USS Porter entered the Black Sea a few days ago "as part of a regularly scheduled deployment", the US Navy said. The guided-missile destroyer arrived at the port of Varna in Bulgaria, a NATO member, on 8 June, the US Navy's Sixth Fleet said in a statement.

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Input: In March, current president Enrique Peña Nieto lashed out, comparing Trump’s talk to that of fascists in Germany and Italy prior to the second world war. It was a sign the Mexican government was taking a proactive approach on Trump. Peña Nieto appointed a new ambassador to the US and diplomats are promising a pre-election public relations campaign. On America’s other border, Canada is also watching closely. Tim Barber of Canada 2020, a thinktank with close ties to the country’s governing Liberal party, said: “It’s gone from funny to, wow, this is really scary.

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Input: “We are thankful for the hard work and dedication of the FBI in its efforts to locate and capture the parties believed to be responsible for this criminal activity.” U.S. officials declined to immediately name the person arrested or provide details on the charges against him. The FBI said in a statement that the arrest shows the focus U.S. and international authorities are putting on cyber crime." As cyber crime can originate anywhere in the world, international cooperation is crucial to successfully defeat cyber adversaries," the FBI said." This arrest, pursuant to an INTERPOL Red Notice, highlights the collaboration that exists between U.S. law enforcement and our international partners."

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Input: “We did n’t know how serious he was.” (Spencer says he is not a fascist.) Spencer was more explicit about his views on race and immigration with members of the Duke Conservative Union, where he says he clicked with a columnist for the campus newspaper and fellow DCU member named Stephen Miller. Miller — who would earn acclaim for standing up for white lacrosse players falsely accused of gang raping a black woman — is now a senior adviser to the Trump campaign. Spencer also defended the Duke lacrosse players, writing about the case for The American Conservative — but that’s not the only reason he and Miller hit it off. Spencer says Miller helped him with fundraising and promotion for an on-campus debate on immigration policy that Spencer organized in 2007 featuring influential white nationalist Peter Brimelow.

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Input: Officially, Parliament was being asked to agree to spend up to around £ 30 billion renewing the four Trident submarines that are equipped with nuclear missiles and warheads. Every hour of the day or night, there is always one submarine patrolling the sea. Trident was originally bought from the USA by Margaret Thatcher as a last ditch defence in case the armies of the former Warsaw Pact, which was disbanded in 1989, overran Europe. Which countries have nuclear weapons? 14 show all Which countries have nuclear weapons?

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Input: Advertisement Continue reading the main story The revelations also touched Ukraine’s president, Petro O. Poroshenko, who was elected in the aftermath of the political upheaval in the country in 2014 that led to the annexation of Crimea and open conflict with Russia in eastern Ukraine. Mr. Poroshenko, a tycoon with assets in television and a chocolatier before his entrance into politics, pledged to divest himself of his holdings but instead moved the assets into an offshore company in the British Virgin Islands, according to the consortium’s reporting. It said that Mr. Poroshenko, who has received political support from the United States, had not disclosed the arrangement. The documents also contained information about how some foreign leaders used foundations and companies in Panama to anonymously own mining companies and real estate, according to the consortium.

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Input: Where Mussolini made comparisons between his Italy and the Roman Empire, Trump promises to make America great again without saying how. Where Mussolini attempted to make good his imperial promises by, in Churchill’s words, “frisking up to the side of the German tiger”, Trump has publicly praised Vladimir Putin, who is fast turning Russia into a dictatorship. Where Mussolini unrealistically promised the Italian people that he would capture Gibraltar from Britain, Trump promises to make Mexico pay for an impenetrable wall on the Rio Grande. Only in Trump’s utterly unenforceable promise to ban all Muslims from entering America – something that would wreck the US economy and destroy her influence in the world – is there no possible equivalent from “Il Duce”. The fact that every single significant conservative commentator has expressed their horror at the way that Trump seems to have sown up the Republican nomination speaks volumes for the wisdom of a commentariat that usually enjoys its diversity.

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Input: Trevithick’s parents said in a statement that he had been held for 40 days in Evin Prison. A senior U.S. official said Trevithick, 30, has already left Iran. Abedini is a Christian pastor who had been imprisoned since July 2012 for organizing home churches. Hekmati is a former Marine who spent more than four years in prison on spying charges following his arrest in August 2011 during a visit to see his grandmother. The detention of Khosravi-Roodsari had not been previously publicized.

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Input: While Russia Today, a source widely respected for their objectivity and journalistic integrity, initially reported Ammon to be accompanied by 150 bristling citizen revolutionaries -- this is likely a bit of literary flourish. Journalists on the ground are reporting no more than 15 heavily armed "militiamen" to be camping in the quaint, one story red-brick bastion of Federal oppression. Supposedly, Ammon and company are following in his father's felonious footsteps by seizing this federal property in protest of the arrest of two Oregon ranchers -- Dwight and Steven Hammond, who were convicted of arson for setting fire to 127 acres of Federal land so as to protect their own property from uncontrollable forest fires. The Hammond's argue that the Federal government was negligent in the managing of this land, and that their negligence presented a threat to their own property and livelihood. It's worth noting that the Hammond family, through their attorney, has steadfastly denied any association with Mr. Bundy and has vowed to report to Federal prison despite their potentially compelling disagreement with the government.

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Input: Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption The suspect emerged from the plane and was later detained A hijacking that diverted a domestic Egyptian flight to Cyprus has ended with all hostages released and the hijacker surrendering. EgyptAir Flight MS181 was taken over by a passenger claiming to be wearing a suicide explosive belt.

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Input: A bear of a man with a jowly, careworn face and Brylcreem-slicked hair, Keane exudes the supreme self-confidence you would expect of a retired four-star general. He speaks with a trace of a New York accent that gives his pronouncements a rat-a-tat urgency. He is also a well-compensated member of the military-industrial complex, sitting on the board of General Dynamics and serving as a strategic adviser to Academi, the private-security contractor once known as Blackwater. And he is the chairman of an aptly named think tank, the Institute for the Study of War. Though he is one of a parade of cable-TV generals, Keane is the resident hawk on Fox News, where he appears regularly to call for the United States to use greater military force in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan.

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Input: Later the Stavropol department of the Interior Ministry said there were three attackers and that all of them were dead. The building and cars parked near it were damaged by gunfire and explosions during the clash, but no casualties were reported among police officers or civilians. “The professional and well-judged actions of the police helped prevent any harm to civilians and officers,” a spokesperson for the Interior Ministry said. A bomb expert team was deployed to the scene. The Interior Ministry and the Federal Security Service also sent investigators.

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Input: According to diplomatic sources, international investigators will give a precise Google location showing that the Buk was located in separatist-controlled territory, near the village of Snizhne. The JIT has been working on the scenario that the Buk came from the Kremlin’s 53rd anti-aircraft missile brigade based in the Russian city of Kursk. It was smuggled across the Russian-Ukrainian border in July 2014 and spotted leaving rebel-held Donetsk on a low-loader, heading east. After arriving in Snizhne on the afternoon of 17 July, the Buk was offloaded and driven to a field south of town, investigators believe. It shot down MH17 in error, believing it to be a Ukrainian army transport plane.

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Input: Podesta said he did n’t know if the FBI’s investigation included a probe of Trump’s campaign – and believes that no other campaign officials ' email accounts, or Clinton’s own correspondence, had been hacked. An email to Stone Tuesday night was n’t immediately returned. Podesta said he wasn't happy about the invasion of his privacy -- which has provided an unprecedented view into the campaign's inner workings in real time -- but professed to be "Zen" about the ordeal, despite his reputation for having a volcanic temper. On Friday, Assange's group released the first batch of emails, featuring excerpts from Clinton's long-sought-after Wall Street speeches -- including one that included her assertion that politicians needed to have two positions, their real opinions, and a public stance that pacifies voters who aren't equipped to deal with the "sausage-making" of American realpolitik. Another tranche released Monday -- a rare bit of good news for the imploding Trump campaign -- revealed a ferocious internal battle at Bill Clinton's charitable foundation, with daughter Chelsea accusing foundation executive Doug Band of acting in his own financial self-interest.

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Input: Clarke: Yeah. I think John Kerry has this right. I think perhaps secretly he wished the coups had succeeded, but he’ll never say that. And in fact, if the coups had succeeded, it would have just created another host of problems for us. There’s really no place in a modern Turkey for military coups anymore.

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Input: "(The two-state solution) is perhaps the furthest away it's ever been, and in fact it is really worse than that -- it is slipping away as we speak," he told Reuters in an interview, citing Israeli settlement building and Palestinian violence and incitement as among the most troubling obstacles." It's time for the international community and the leadership on both sides to wake up." "The only alternative (to a two-state solution) that I see is perpetual violence here in Israel and Palestine and entangling this conflict into the broader problems of the region," he said, adding it would be akin to "writing a blank cheque to violence and radicalism" for generations to come. Since October, Palestinian street attacks have killed at least 33 Israelis and two visiting Americans. Israel has killed at least 202 Palestinians, 137 of whom it said were assailants.

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Input: Trump sent out a modified version of the message to his followers, tweeting:" Her rallies are held in (blank) & she still has room "instead. Trump also says he thinks high crime in inner cities will drive minority voters to his candidacy. He says:" African-Americans will vote for Trump because they know I will stop the slaughter going on!" He is also going after Clinton's intellect, saying her "brainpower is highly overrated." _ _ _

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Input: Singer says that Trump is “the most unapologetic … there has to be a word stronger than hypocrite, there really does.” He is despairing that some voters – stoked by the email scandal and the WikiLeaks revelations about her attempts to undermine Bernie Sanders – think Hillary Clinton is more dishonest than Trump. This, he says, “is what really makes you want to blow your brains out. It makes you want to go back and find patient zero and think, when was the moment where we stopped being willing to fund public education in this country, that it became so egregious that we no longer could have people who understood the constitution, the checks and balances? Trump says: ‘I love the ill-educated.’ You bet he does.” Singer blames Fox News and the web for what seems to be a growing disregard for the truth, but also acknowledges that widening inequality, leaving a large swathe of Americans essentially abandoned by the two main parties, has helped account for Trump’s rise – along with “the haters”, racists and xenophobes excited by this promises to keep Mexicans and Muslims out of America.

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Input: Just like she supported China’s entrance into the World Trade Organization. It is true that President Bill Clinton signed the enabling NAFTA legislation in 1993. However, the trade agreement was negotiated and signed by the prior president, George H.W. Bush in 1992. Also, the NAFTA bill could not have reached Clinton’s desk without Republican support in Congress.

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Input: We thought he would be pardoned after that. He was forced to memorise the Quran. But one day, people were summoned to a district of al-Raqqah to witness his execution. They asked people not to film it and not to call out ' Allāhu Akbar! ' as he was a Muslim.

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Input: A Russian general has died of unknown causes just weeks after reportedly being sent to Syria to negotiate with President Bashar al-Assad. Colonel-General Igor Sergun was the head of Russia’s secretive GRU military intelligence service and Deputy Chief of the armed forces General Staff. The Ministry of Defence gave no information on how or where he died, saying he passed away on 3 January aged 58. Igor Sergun died suddenly of unknown causes in January But the Financial Times reports that Col-Gen Sergun had been sent to Damascus by Vladimir Putin on a sensitive mission to ask the Syrian President to step down.

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Input: But anti-Americanism has surged in Turkey, where Vice President Joe Biden arrives on Aug. 24 to reassure the NATO ally that the US and Turkey still stand together against terrorism. He’ll try to assure the country also that the US stands with President Erdoğan against the coup attempt, which has prompted a host of fresh conspiracy theories and new enemies in the popular imagination, from the island foreign policy conference to the White House. Such rhetoric is not new: It has grown since 2013, prompted by Washington’s criticism of Erdoğan’s heavy-handed crackdown on Gezi Park protests that year. Later came disputes over the Syrian war, with the US critical of what it saw as Turkish encouragement of Islamic jihadist fighters. More recently, US military support to Syrian Kurds, whom Turkey considers terrorists, attracted Turkey’s ire in the fight against the self-declared Islamic State.

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Input: DUBNER: Abraham Lincoln. POSNER: Well, he suspended habeas corpus even though the Constitution pretty clearly says only Congress can suspend habeas corpus. So the practical effect of that was that the president could arrest people or have the military arrest people, and they would not be able to go to court. So that was pretty dramatic. But he did other things as well.

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Input: Democratic Republic of Congo (383,100) Chad (369,500) The UK has said its policy is to provide aid money to neighbouring countries so that they can support refugees closer to home. But Amnesty criticised the approach in its report, saying rich countries should not "pay to keep people ' over there '". Refugees and migrants continue to risk their lives attempting to reach Europe.

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Input: The attack killed 84 people of all ages and nationalities, including 10 children and teenagers who were out enjoying a fireworks display on the city's famed promenade, and injured scores of others. The driver has been named as Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a 31-year -old who lived in the French Riviera city and was described by neighbours as a loner who never responded to their greetings. A source close to the probe told the AFP news agency Lahouaiej-Bouhlel visited the Nice promenade with his rented truck on the two days before the massacre. He sent a text message just before the attack in which he expressed "satisfaction at having obtained a 7.65-millimetre pistol and discusses the supply of other weapons", the source said. During the attack Lahouaiej-Bouhlel fired at police who sprayed his rampaging truck with gunfire, eventually killing him.

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Input: The news of his appointment as foreign policy adviser to Trump in March 2015 was met with a wave of backlash. Phares is reported to have been a member of the Phalangist militia, a Christian Maronite force, during Lebanon’s sectarian civil war that spanned 1975-1990. According to a 2011 Mother Jones investigation, Phares was in charge of the ideological training of militia troops and even advocated for the creation of a Christian enclave within Lebanon, a hardline position in the multi-confessional state. There is no indication that Phares personally carried out any acts of violence or war crimes. The 15-year -long Lebanese conflict was brutal, with atrocities committed on all sides.

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Input: A record-breaking 18,300 folks applied. How much longer will the space station last? Someone once smuggled a sandwich into space, which is a horrible idea How filthy is the International Space Station? An astrobiologist weighs in.

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Input: In one sense, this is the most harmless of all of Trump's lies — either he's right and the polls really aren't telling the truth about his support, or he'll be proven wrong on Election Day, less than two weeks away. But when combined with his fearmongering about a "rigged election" and voter fraud (which, yes, includes more lies), it gets a lot more worrisome. Trump's lies aren't preparing his followers to face the reality that their candidate is probably going to lose the election; they're preparing them to expect a victory, and to get very angry if it doesn't happen. To the extent that Trump's supporters understand that he's not currently favored to win, it's because they're not listening to the candidate himself. Counting all of Trump's lies can numb you, but every one is a violation

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Input: Issuing an indictment against an individual hacker indicates publicly that the United States is so confident in its attribution that it can identify the offending individual by name. As a practical bonus, it also inhibits that individual’s ability to travel overseas due to the threat of arrest. After presenting the Chinese government with strong evidence of culpability, the U.S. Department of Justice issued indictments for five Chinese People’s Liberation Army members on charges of hacking; in conjunction with the September 2015 bilateral agreement, administration officials have tied this policy to subsequent decreases in attacks. If the local government is cooperative, we might see extradition or domestic legal action. (The indictments of the PLA members did not lead to extradition or domestic arrest, but in a later incident China did end up arresting hackers involved in the infamous OPM breach, perhaps as tacit acknowledgement of a move towards legal enforcement.)

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Input: https://t.co/WelOmqnROv pic.twitter.com/hy2SJx4zwv — ABC News (@ABC) September 12, 2016 Several people were arrested at the rally, but the man who punched Teter remains at large. Police also confiscated a firearm outside the stadium. In Sutherlin, Oregon, Trump supporter Billy Pitner hung a wetsuit dressed in women’s clothing and topped with a blond wig from a crane near the local interstate, next to signs saying “Vote Trump” and “Treason? Ask her,” local television station KVAL reported yesterday (Sept. 13).

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Input: Trump has built up a multi-billion-dollar net worth, expanding his father's lucrative real estate business to new heights. But while much of Trump's success is a credit to his work, he was born into a successful, wealthy family, inheriting part of his father's more than $ 200 million net worth. Trump's narrative of self-making his entire fortune doesn't quite hold up either -- The Washington Post Fact Checker found that he profited from loans, loan guarantees, his father's connections and trusts to help create his empire. Trump has boasted over and over that his net worth is $ 10 billion, but it's unclear how true that really is. Last year, Forbes rated his net worth as $ 4.5 billion -- less than half of what Trump claims.

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Input: Washington (AFP) -Dozens of US nuclear weapons stored at a Turkish air base near Syria are at risk of being captured by "terrorists or other hostile forces," a Washington think tank claimed Monday. Critics have long been alarmed by America's estimated stockpile of about 50 nuclear bombs at Incirlik in southern Turkey, just 70 miles (110 kilometers) from the border with war-torn Syria. The issue took on fresh urgency last month following the attempted coup in Turkey, in which the base's Turkish commander was arrested on suspicion of complicity in the plot." Whether the US could have maintained control of the weapons in the event of a protracted civil conflict in Turkey is an unanswerable question," said Monday's report from the Stimson Center, a nonpartisan think tank working to promote peace. Incirlik is a vital base for the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, with the strategically located facility affording drones and warplanes fast access to IS targets.

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Input: Mr. Trump was to stand in the middle because he leads in polls nationally and in New Hampshire, and he is battling for the lead in Iowa polls against Mr. Cruz. For Mr. Paul, who chose not to participate in the undercard debate this month after failing to make the cut for the later debate, the return to the main stage reflects a recent rise in his poll numbers, particularly in New Hampshire. His campaign sought to capitalize on the good news, fund-raising on Twitter after his inclusion was announced on Fox News. Rounding out the top-tier field on Thursday are Gov. John Kasich of Ohio, Ben Carson, former Gov.

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Input: "Unless a permanent lifeline to Aleppo is opened it will be only a matter of time until we are again surrounded by regime troops, hunger takes hold and hospitals’ supplies run completely dry. Death has seemed increasingly inescapable." So not only does attacking medical facilities and personnel hamper the ability of that one facility and those personnel to provide aid to the regime’s enemies, it also deters people in other areas of Syria from providing aid. As documented in the UN independent inquiry commission report: Medical workers, including doctors, dentists, nurses, paramedics, ambulance drivers and laboratory technicians, have been attacked for attending to the wounded.

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Input: Ventura added that his final decision on seeking the Oval Office depends on who wins each party’s nomination. He said "the chances are better" that he would run if Hillary Clinton Hillary Rodham ClintonWhat do Democrats stand for? THE MEMO: For Trump, danger signs in the polls McAuliffe touts buildup of cyber defenses in the states MORE is the Democratic nominee and Marco Rubio Marco RubioOvernight Finance: Ryan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax reform | Warren targets Wells Fargo board | Senators raise concerns over Russian takeover of Citgo | Pelosi hits GOP for budget delays Senators ask administration to probe possible Russian takeover of Citgo Week ahead: Obama DHS chief to testify on Russian meddling MORE is her Republican counterpart. “I do n’t want the revolution to die if Bernie gets beat,” he added. Ventura was spotted at a Sanders campaign rally later Monday by a newspaper reporter who was told Ventura and Sanders had a private meeting planned.

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Input: Aid shipments into the devastated city of Aleppo have yet to be allowed to reach civilians. More than 470,000 people have been killed in the Syrian civil war since 2011, according to the Syrian Center for Policy Research. On Saturday, Putin blamed ceasefire violations and the aid blockade on resistance from Washington, saying Americans “still can not separate the so-called healthy part of the opposition from the half-criminal and terrorist elements. “In my opinion, this comes from the desire to keep the combat potential in fighting the legitimate government of Bashar Assad. But this is a very dangerous route.”

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Input: The Obama administration was constantly weighing the value of surveillance against the issue of privacy, Holder explained. Still, the former top American law enforcement official added "We can certainly argue about the way in which Snowden did what he did, but I think that he actually performed a public service by raising the debate that we engaged in and by the changes that we made." By leaking a flood of classified information to select news outlets in 2013, Snowden revealed the extent to which the Obama administration was collecting personal data — far and above what took place under The Patriot Act following the 9/11 attacks. The revelations not only shocked the American public, but also international allies (think Angela Merkel, whose personal cellphone was revealed to have been bugged). The crisis prompted President Barack Obama to convene a panel that criticized the National Security Agency's domestic data collection — that is the bulk of metadata on Americans, which can show the most intimate details of an individual's life.

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Input: "Apart from wanting to know exactly what weapon was used and where it was fired from, we also want an answer as to where we go from here," said Evert van Zijtveld, who lost his 18-year -old son Robert-Jan and daughter Frederique, 19, in the tragedy." We want to see the perpetrators caught and put on trial," he told the AFP news agency. JIT prosecutors have established the identities of about 100 people "linked to the crash or the transport of the Buk" missile, but they are yet to determine who could be held criminally responsible. They will need to establish who gave the order to move the missile launcher into eastern Ukraine, and where the order for it to be fired came from. All of this will take time, they say.

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Input: In 2002, Sheremet won a journalism prize from the Organization for Security and Co‑operation in Europe (OSCE) for his reporting on human rights violations in Belarus, including the disappearances of opposition politicians and journalists. The OSCE called on Wednesday for action to address the safety of journalists in Ukraine. The founder of Ukrayinska Pravda, Georgiy Gongadze, was an investigative journalist who was murdered 16 years ago, his decapitated body discovered in a forest outside Kiev. The incident helped to precipitate the Orange Revolution of 2004/05, which resulted in an election re-run and the victory of an opposition presidential candidate. (Reporting by Natalia Zinets, Sergei Karazy, Alessandra Prentice and Margaryta Chornokondratenko in Kiev, Jack Stubbs and Maria Tsvetkova in Moscow, Andrei Makhovsky in Minsk, and Mohammad Zargham in Washington; Writing by Matthias Williams; Editing by John Stonestreet and Diane Craft)

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Input: GOP vice presidential nominee Mike Pence Mike (Michael) Richard PenceDems threaten to gum up Senate over ' secret ' ObamaCare bill This week: Senate plots path on healthcare Pence family adopts new kitten, puppy MORE will no longer attend a campaign event on Saturday with House Speaker Paul Ryan Paul RyanRepublicans and the lost promise of local control in education Ryan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax push Overnight Finance: Warren to Fed: Kick out Wells Fargo board | Senators raise questions about Russian takeover of Citgo | Pelosi bashes GOP on budget MORE (R-Wis.), according to reports. Ryan was originally scheduled to appear with Donald Trump Donald TrumpRepublicans and the lost promise of local control in education Press: Worse than Nixon What do Democrats stand for? MORE, but Trump was dropped from the event in the wake of the Washington Post publishing leaked audio of Trump making vulgar comments about women in 2005.

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Input: She was the lead diplomat for four years — what advice or suggestions did she pass on to John Kerry that might indicate she has anything useful to bring to the table? And how can diplomacy be effective when our bombing may be exacerbating the very sectarian divides negotiations are supposed to solve? Her bragging list of diplomatic accomplishments included nuclear weapons reduction negotiations with Russia (which were badly undermined by an accompanying trillion-dollar plan to “modernize” our own arsenal), the barely useful climate deal in Copenhagen, the 2012 Hamas-Israel ceasefire (which Israel soon violated), the pressure she applied on other countries to join in Washington’s sanctions against Iran, and (more laudably, if unevenly) her record of standing up for the rights of women, religious minorities, and LGBT people. But she did n’t mention her failure (matching the failure of the secretaries of state before and after her) to negotiate a just peace in Israel-Palestine based on international law, human rights, and equality for all. Indeed, her earlier promise to embrace Israel’s right-wing prime minister would make salvaging that legacy almost impossible.

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

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Input: Totally false. There is no evidence this is the case." Illegal immigration costs our country more than $ 113 billion a year." This is a figure from a group that wants to dramatically reduce legal immigration. Caveat emptor.

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Input: ● The other transition team members announced so far are Clinton insiders Ed Meier and Ann O'Leary. In short, there's not a single member of the Clinton transition team who isn't a seasoned Washington insider and none with strong relationships to the accomplished men and women in the progressive Sanders / Warren wing of the Democratic Party. If personnel is policy, the composition of the transition team is a telling sign that rather than implementing the progressive Democratic Party platform negotiated between Clinton and Bernie Sanders, a Clinton administration appears likely to ignore the progressive base and revert to "third way" neoliberalism and foreign adventurism. The time to halt the march towards a Clinton administration stacked with corporate centrist Washington insiders is now, during the campaign. Once the election is over, the appointments train will likely be moving too fast to restrain.

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Input: He added that the Israeli rejection of the French initiative came just as authorities informed the Palestinians that the army would continue to storm Area A of the West Bank. The Oslo Accords signed between the two sides divided the West Bank into three zones, with Area A under Palestinian jurisdiction. Mustafa Barghouti, head of the Palestinian National Initiative, said Israel's decision proved that "an alternative national strategy that focused on popular resistance and the boycott movement" was essential, in addition to reconciling feuding parties Hamas and Fatah. Source: Al Jazeera

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Input: Her only saving grace is that Bernie Sanders has n’t taken advantage of the bunker full of ammunition that he could use to sink Hillary’s campaign. There’s a lot to choose from emails, Benghazi, the Russian Uranium deal, Wall Street bribes, Bill Clinton’s past, Vince Foster’s death, and much more. You can be sure that Trump will have no qualms about annihilating Hillary Clinton when they face off in the general election The Bernie Factor The DNC wants Hillary Clinton to win the nomination at all costs.

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Input: In July, Rubio mocked Clinton in a tweet for wanting to “reset” relations with Cuba, just as she had in her “failed” attempt to forge new diplomatic channels with Russia. “Here we go,” speechwriter Dan Schwerin wrote his colleagues when he saw the tweet. Campaign staff began a spirited exchange over how to punch back at the upstart senator, who favored keeping a trade embargo born of the Cold War in place against the communist island nation. “John, did you have in mind having HRC hit back, or campaign?” senior Clinton aide Jake Sullivan asked Podesta. “I’m good with either.

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Input: As reported by Politico, Trump was bristling at the Manafort gang's takeover and he thought Manafort had stepped way beyond his brief. As a result, Lewandowski would be reinstated; but in giving his foreign policy speech on Wednesday, Trump was still dancing to Manafort's tune. Some have detected a more wooden walk, which they presume is how Trump has been told a president should walk. But he has been reassuring rallies that he would not go the way of Manafort – telling a Saturday crowd:" If I acted presidential, I can guarantee you this morning, I wouldn't be here "; and on Monday, he was the Trump we know, calling Ohio Governor John Kasich a" slob ", and Cruz an" ass ". SHARE

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Input: WikiLeaks tweeted in early October an alleged 2010 quote from then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asking if Assange could be killed in a drone strike, and, that same year, former Democrat strategist Bob Beckel said on Fox News Channel that "a dead man can't leak stuff." This month," specific information "prompted Assange to scrap a dramatic London balcony address to celebrate WikiLeaks ' 10th anniversary. Assange also has hinted that deceased DNC staffer Seth Rich may have been a secret source for WikiLeaks. Rich, 27, was discovered with multiple gunshot wounds to the back at a Washington, D.C., intersection in July. He died soon thereafter.

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Input: Beyond sharing this neocon “regime change” obsession, former Secretary of State Clinton also talks like a neocon. One of their trademark skills is to use propaganda or “perception management” to demonize their targets and to romanticize their allies, what is called “gluing white hats” on their side and “gluing black hats” on the other. So, in defending her role in the Libyan “regime change,” Clinton called the slain Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi “genocidal” though that is a gross exaggeration of Gaddafi’s efforts to beat back Islamic militants in 2011. But her approach fits with what the neocons do. They realize that almost no one will dare challenge such a characterization because to do so opens you to accusations of being a “Gaddafi apologist.”

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Input: Paradoxically, Nato’s newest deployments in eastern Europe merely serve to confirm the story that Putin and state television have been telling Russians for so long: that the west is hell-bent on “encircling” Russia and bringing it to its knees. The danger now is not from an open military conflict. Rather with troops deployed in big numbers, and with Russian jets routinely buzzing US aircraft carriers, and other assets, the greater danger is from an accident or collision. In September, a Dutch investigation concluded that it was a Buk missile smuggled across the border from Russia that shot down Flight MH17 in 2014, killing 298 people. For much of the 1990s, Nato had lost its rationale.

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Input: The kingdom of Saudi Arabia donated more than $ 10 million. Through a foundation, so did the son-in-law of a former Ukrainian president whose government was widely criticized for corruption and the murder of journalists. A Lebanese-Nigerian developer with vast business interests contributed as much as $ 5 million. For years the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation thrived largely on the generosity of foreign donors and individuals who gave hundreds of millions of dollars to the global charity.

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Input: We also do not approve of attacking the moderate opposition in Syria. We are also against the siege of Aleppo.” Turning to the coup attempt, Cavusoglu said Turkey had no intelligence on the possibility of Gulen fleeing to another country, such as Egypt, in the face of a potential U.S. extradition. “We see the efforts of Egypt in trying to increase its relations with FETO and vice versa but there is no concrete information about Gulen going to Egypt,” he said. He added that Gulen-linked schools in Libya had been closed down.

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

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Input: Last year, Islamic State troops moved into the ancient city of Palmyra and began waging war on what the terrorist group labeled as "false idolatry." More likely, ISIS aimed to erase a large part of Syria's rich cultural history, which was remembered by monuments of Christian, Sufi, and Shiite origin. The desert oasis was once known as a melting pot of faiths and ethnicities, and by demolishing its artifacts, the jihadists also hoped to eradicate knowledge of its diverse legacy. Now, more than one year after the occupation of Palmyra began, the group has released previously unseen video footage of ISIS fighters looting and smashing artifacts, and even crushing Syrian mummies under the wheels of bulldozers. Soldiers are shown entering one of the city's museums and smashing limestone busts resembling classic Syrian funerary reliefs.

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Input: The White House has said it hopes to have accepted 10,000 refugees by the end of 2016, and 10 Downing St has said the UK could accept 20,000 over five years. European leaders have been sharply divided about whether to continue accepting refugees, especially after high-profile incidents including sexual assaults in Germany, the destruction of refugee camps in France and the identification of war criminals in the Netherlands. Conservative leaders in the US have resisted refugee resettlement programs, and several governors have ordered a halt to funding. A federal court overturned one such order on Tuesday, saying it “clearly discriminates” against refugees. And contrary to the claims of several Republican candidates for president, most Syrian refugees are not young men but children aged 17 or younger.

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Input: Back in a October, David Brock's pro-Clinton Super PAC mistakenly raised over a million dollars for Bernie Sanders by comparing him to U.K. Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn. After Brock failed to clarify what he meant by the analogy, Bloomberg Politics Editor Mark Halperin accused the Clinton campaign of engaging in "McCarthyite tactics, where the campaign is n’t willing to stand up and say – or the super PAC – this is what we’re saying." More recently, the Guardian got a hold of an anti-Sanders dossier alleging he had "sympathized with the USSR during the Cold War" by traveling to a small Russian city in 1987 — an attack the newspaper suggested might factor into Clinton's message. SPIN Media-owned Death and Taxes magazine responded with the headline," Clinton goes full McCarthyism, brands Sanders a Communist sympathizer." It's worth noting that the dossier came from an anonymous source identified only as a "Democrat" and that Clinton has not yet made any mention of Sanders ' 1987 trip to Russia.

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Input: Are n’t they the ones criticizing the prison system on the grounds that putting people in jail for small crimes and treating them as criminals can actually turn them into criminals by alienating them from mainstream society and giving them new criminal associates? How could it be so hard for them to see that they’ve helped create the growth of the Alternative Right through exactly the same kind of process? When the Left makes a great show about “racism” because a village emblem supposedly displays a white man strangling a Native American, and it turns out that it actually depicts a voluntary wrestling match in which a white man earned the local Natives’ respect,[20], or because of the use of the word “Redskins” for a sports team when it turns out that 9 out of 10 Native Americans do n’t really care,[21] the Left is crying wolf. They’re desensitizing us to the very sound of the word “racist,” and showing us that people who most loudly condemn it are, more likely than not, simply wasting our time with non-issues. But then we notice that non-issues like these are given great publicity whereas on the very week I’m writing this, Google can “honor” the birthday of a so-called “anti-racist” who claimed that the U.S. is “the main enemy of the world’s people” while praising Osama bin Laden as “one of the people that [she] admire[s]” — a “strong leader who brought consciousness to [his] people.

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Input: Ronald Reagan was riding toward his 49-state romp over former Vice President Walter Mondale, and the mood at the convention was upbeat, with party leaders looking to expand what was being called “Big Tent Republicanism” to make the GOP appealing to all Americans. That message was hit throughout the GOP gathering in Dallas, perhaps with the strongest moment coming during the keynote address by Reagan’s U.S. treasurer, Katherine Ortega, who spoke to voters outside the party by saying, “Nuestra casa es su casa.” Related: Donald Trump's History of Lying Under Oath Our house is your house — a powerful message for Hispanics and all nonwhite voters, as well as others who previously might not have felt welcomed by the party. The GOP’s low point is now.

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Input: We can work things out, make a good deal for everyone, trust me. Even the poorly educated! When was the last time that an American politician acknowledged the poorly educated as something other than a tumor on the body politic that needs to be eradicated, much less thanked them? Which brings me to the other establishment irritant in the 2016 election: Bernie Sanders. Because of the Clinton machine and the stacking of the Democratic deck against insurgents via super delegates, it seems unlikely that Sanders will knock off the former secretary of state.

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Input: Her German countrpart, Angela Merkel, would vote "early and often" for Clinton, to invoke the legendary quip. The German chancellor heads the centre-right Christian Democrats. Yet, like some of Trump's hapless Republican rivals, she feels no kinship with the man who hijacked the GOP and preaches strategic as well as economic isolationism. SHARE Share on Facebook SHARE

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Input: Nato allies plan to send more troops and equipment to the Baltic states. Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia have expressed fears of Russian invasion, and last year Lithuania announced it would re-introduce conscription for men aged 19-26. In August, the German government was accused of scaremongering after advising citizens to stockpile food and water for use in a national emergency.

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Input: But voters deserve to question the schmoozing and fundraising that gets spun into nothing more than a mix up. So Trump has good, valid reasons to warn voters about Clinton's record. But unfounded suggestions that she could be blackmailed go a step too far. So does Trump's assertion in his speech that "Though I was not in government service, I was among the earliest to criticize the rush to war, and yes, even before the war ever started." What's left is the kind of red-meat, anti-Clinton bombast Trump has been serving up from the podium for a year now.

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Input: In a tense exchange, the hosts of "Fox & Friends" grilled Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Wednesday about his comments cr .. More Donald Trump Backs Away From Charge George W. Bush Lied on Iraq -The Wall Street Journal Donald Trump speaks with anchor Anderson Cooper during a town hall event hosted by CNN at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, S.C. Photo: Bloomberg News CHARLESTON, S.C. .. More Things Get Extremely Heated When Trump Blasts George Bush for 9/11, Iraq War: ‘They Lied!’ -The Blaze Donald Trump blasted former President George W. Bush Saturday night at the GOP debate, contending he lied about weapons of mass destruction in order to take the U.S. to war in Iraq .. More Jeb Bush Fires Back At Donald Trump On Putin, ISIS, Syria, Iraq War As Candidates Exchange Insults At South Ca .. -International Business Times Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush came out firing at rival presidential candidate Donald Trump at Saturday night's debate when asked about national security and Russian president Vladim .. More

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Input: advertisement “The Clinton Cash book by Peter Schweizer documents a level of corruption that may be unprecedented in American history— in fact, it almost certainly is,” Miller said on Breitbart News Sunday. The book, Miller explains, documents how under the Clintons, “the security of the American people was auctioned off to the highest bidder. You saw this, for instance, in the Uranium deal that the book documents, where U.S. uranium assets were given up to Russians while Bill [Clinton] was getting money from the interest groups affected. You’ve seen it in action relating to Iran.

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Input: Names, dates of birth and Social Security numbers for some White House staff and guests to vice presidential events. NBC reported that a senior U.S. intelligence official called the hack “the most damaging compromise of the security of the president of the United States that I’ve seen in decades, all caused by a careless staffer who compromised information outside government systems merely for convenience.” White House Press Secretary Josh Ernest did not respond to whether the hack was authentic but confirmed the White House was investigating. “We take any reports about a cyber breach seriously, particularly if it contains some sensitive information,” Ernest said. Advertisement-story continues below

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Input: For years, Spencer’s “identitarian” movement barely flickered in the dark corners of the internet on sites such as Reddit and 4chan. But Trump’s ascendancy was like kerosene dumped on a brushfire. From day one, the Republican insurgent sounded themes dear to the alt-right — his official campaign launch in the lobby of Trump Tower in June 2015, when he vowed to crack down on Mexican criminals and “rapists,” was simply the first clarion call. Ever since, Trump’s tacit embrace of the alt-right’s favorite media outlets and shrillest online voices has emboldened the movement beyond Spencer’s wildest dreams. (When Trump retweeted the user @WhiteGenocideTM this past January, Spencer responded, “Wow.

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Input: — In total three bombs exploded, the governor told TRT. –One of them was located just outside a terminal on the pavement, while the other was at the security gate at the entrance to the airport, Bozdag told CNN. — Authorities said no bombs exploded within airport buildings, according to the minister. — A video posted to Twitter shows a view from a camera inside an airport terminal. A few dozen people are walking around when a bright flash and fireball erupt in the background.

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Input: Hide Caption 11 of 25 Photos: The second presidential debate Trump goes on the offensive. Hide Caption 12 of 25 Photos: The second presidential debate The debate was moderated by CNN's Anderson Cooper and ABC's Martha Raddatz. Hide Caption 13 of 25 Photos: The second presidential debate Trump answers a question during the debate. Hide Caption 14 of 25 Photos: The second presidential debate Clinton looks on as Trump speaks. Hide Caption 15 of 25 Photos: The second presidential debate Trump responds to a question during the debate.

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Input: 1/7 Russia Russia’s antipathy towards homosexuality has been well established following the efforts of human rights campaigners. However, while it is legal to be homosexual, LGBT couples are offered no protections from discrimination. They are also actively discriminated against by a 2013 law criminalising LGBT “propaganda” allowing the arrest of numerous Russian LGBT activists. (Picture: Riot police hold an LGBT activist during a Moscow rall.) AFP / Getty

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Input: He added:" I mentioned the word Jewish and that was what was terribly wrong. But I'm not one of the racist members of this republic." Last month, President Obama cancelled a planned first meeting with Duterte on the sidelines of an Asian summit in Laos. It was after the Filipino leader blurted "son of a bitch" in a warning to the US leader not to lecture him on how he handles his country's drug problem. Mr Duterte later expressed regrets over his remarks.

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Input: EARNEST: I think the passion that's evident in the arguments that are being made by MSF is entirely understandable, and this is a tragedy. And this is an organization that does heroic work around the world. And in this case, some of the individuals that they employ, or at least support, were killed while they were trying to attend to wounds of innocent people who were injured in this conflict. So I think their response is entirely human; one that's entirely understandable, one that's entirely reasonable. But what's also true is that the investigation that was conducted by the Department of Defense is consistent with the orders they received from the Commander-in-Chief.

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Input: Nor did it escape the stigma of radicalism. Socialists found themselves targeted during the Red Scares of the 1920s and 1950s right along with communists. In 1920, the New York State legislature expelled its last five legally-elected Socialist members and never allowed them to return. This move was denounced by the New York Bar Association, Republican presidential candidate and future Supreme Court Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, and even Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, author of the notorious anti-red Palmer raids. Socialists maintained their anti-communism all through the following decades.

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Input: O’Brien said the UN asked to deliver aid to nearly 1 million people in besieged and hard-to-reach areas in August, but the Syrian government approved less than 50 percent of the requests, denying aid to rebel-held eastern Aleppo and several other besieged areas. O’Brien said that not one aid convoy has moved yet due to fighting, insecurity and bureaucratic requirements, and the end of the month is just nine days away. Russia, a close ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government, said last Thursday it was ready to back the UN call for weekly 48-hour cease-fires in Aleppo, provided aid convoys travel to both rebel-controlled and government-controlled parts of the city. US deputy ambassador Michele Sison reiterated American support for the humanitarian pauses in her speech to the council, saying “it is imperative that all armed groups in Aleppo respect these pauses.” She urged Russia to follow its unilateral declaration “with genuine steps to support regular and sustained access to Aleppo.” O’Brien welcomed the Russian announcement but also stressed that “we need the agreement of all parties to let us do our job.”

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Input: And there will be some truth to the accusation. It’s instructive to look at what prompted the flop-sweat panic of recent days. After leaving the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Trump climbed the rhetorical jackass tree and then hurled himself earthward, hitting every branch on the way down. There’s not enough space here to recount in any serious detail all of the self-destructive statements and bizarre rabbit holes he spelunked into — from attacking the parents of Captain Humayun Kahn, a soldier who died serving our country, to “jokingly” inviting the Russians to muck about in our elections, to reviving past controversies about Senator Ted Cruz’s father’s alleged complicity in the Kennedy assassination. And yet GOP establishment leaders stuck with their man — just as they’d stuck with their man when he threw NATO under the bus, and ridiculed our treaty obligations with Japan, and attacked American-born Judge Gonzalo Curiel for an alleged conflict of interest between his professional duties and his Mexican heritage.

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Input: This would enable recreation centers, public buildings like one-stop career centers, and transportation infrastructure such as train stations, airports, and mass transit systems, to access to high-speed internet and provide free WiFi to the public. Deploy 5 G Wireless and Next Generation Wireless Systems: America’s world-leading rollout of 4 G wireless networks in the first half of this decade has been a success story for policy-makers, industry, and American consumers. The Obama Administration played a key role by repurposing spectrum and auctioning licenses, as well as by making new spectrum available for unlicensed technologies. Hillary will accelerate this progress and help foster the evolution to 5 G, small cell solutions, and other next-generation systems that can deliver faster wireless connections. Widely deployed 5 G networks, and new unlicensed and shared spectrum technologies, are essential platforms that will support the Internet of Things, smart factories, driverless cars, and much more — developments with enormous potential to create jobs and improve people’s lives.

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Input: Over 60 civilians have been killed and at least 200 injured during three days of US-led coalition airstrikes on residential areas in Mosul, the Russian military reported. “There were numerous attacks of the US-led coalition targeting residential areas, schools, and other civilian objects both in Mosul and in other parts of the Iraqi Nineveh Governorate,” Gen. Sergey Rudskoy, head of Operations in the Russian General Staff, told journalists on Tuesday. “We are closely monitoring the situation around Mosul.

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Input: If countries like the U.S. and Canada would take in more people "then we would get much closer to a solution," she said." Fewer people would have died in the Holocaust if the world had accepted more Jewish refugees," she added. Otto Frank, Anne Frank's father, tried to get visas to the U.S. in 1940 to save his family from the Holocaust but got denied, Schloss wrote. At the time, America didn't want to take any more refugees." The situation today is worse than it was under Hitler because at that time all the Allies — the U.S., Russia and Britain — worked together to combat the terrible threat of Nazisim.

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Input: "Double your efforts. Triple them, if need be. We will not stop until the last drug lord, the last financier, and the last pusher have surrendered or [been] put behind bars -- or below the ground, if they so wish," Duterte said during his State of the Nation speech on July 25. Despite the bullish tone, a government spokesman insisted the Duterte administration is against any form of extrajudicial killings." We do not condone these acts," Presidential Communications Office Secretary Martin Andanar said.

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Input: Are you kidding me with this @hughhewitt? Mao killed 45 million people in four years! Effective at mass murder, yes. https://t.co/C1XA6SyuZb — Conor Friedersdorf (@conor64) September 9, 2016 CNBC Chief Washington Correspondent John Harwood:

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Input: Authorities have never charged him with a crime but they have mounted an extraordinary campaign to extradite him to Sweden for further questioning after he left the country. Assange has denied any criminal violation. Also, he has argued unsuccessfully in British courts that the investigation has been a ruse to extradite him to Sweden so he could then be extradited to the United States to face reported but still-secret U.S. charges. Assange is not subject to extradition directly from Britain to the United States. U.S. charges are reported to arise from WikiLeaks disclosures that severely embarrassed officials in the United States, Britain, Sweden and elsewhere in Western governments and private power centers.

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Input: A day after Donald Trump met with a group of Latino supporters, top aides suggested Sunday that the GOP nominee may be reconsidering his signature campaign promise to round up and deport 11 million people who are in the country illegally. His new campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, was asked on CNN’s “State of the Union” if Trump still wants a “deportation force” to remove everyone in the country illegally, as he has vowed repeatedly on the campaign trail. “To be determined,” she said.

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Input: Instead, he mostly shone a spotlight on his own weaknesses and stumbled through unforced errors — feeding concerns about his treatment of women, his readiness for the presidency and his temperament for the job. [Fact checking and analysis of the final presidential debate] For Trump, the debates have been at the center of the most destructive two-month period of his campaign, when he has faced multiple accusations of unwanted sexual advances against women and blowback over his vulgar comments on a hot microphone about forcing himself on women sexually. He now trails Clinton by a wide margin in nearly all national and battleground state polls, and party leaders fear it is too late for him to recover. For the GOP, the debates have amounted to an enormous missed opportunity to mount its case against Clinton, which has been years in the making and which many Republicans were once confident would be their key to victory.

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Input: This is — this is a serious difference between us. (LAUGHTER) And what I want to start by saying — it’s not a laughing matter — 90 people on average a day are killed or commit suicide or die in accidents from guns, 33,000 people a year. I take it really seriously, because I have spent more time than I care to remember being with people who have lost their loved ones. So, yes, we have a problem in America.

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Input: The poll was conducted Oct. 3 among 1,690 registered voters with a 2.4% margin of error. The ICANN handover had been expected long ago, but was delayed by successive administrations, particularly as control of the root directory of the Internet became seen as a strategic asset. The Obama administration sought to appease international outrage over its eavesdropping on foreign leaders, revealed in Edward Snowden’s leaks about the National Security Agency, by transferring control of ICANN. Critics charge that there is no international body currently capable of overseeing ICANN, and that without the antitrust exemptions it had formerly enjoyed under U.S. law, it will eventually come under the control of the United Nations’ International Telecommunications Union, where repressive governments have considerable influence. Republican presidential nominee issued a statement strongly opposing the handover of ICANN last month.

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

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Input: Clinton calls for some electoral reforms as well, but she does n’t go nearly as far as Stein and is n’t a particularly credible advocate against money in politics, given the arguments she and her supporters have made to defend the donations she’s received. On practically every issue social justice advocates say we care about — from addressing poverty to providing a path to citizenship for immigrants to regulating Wall Street to raising taxes on the wealthy to establishing education as a right — Stein is much more with us ideologically than is Clinton. In addition to having weaker proposals, Clinton often has a record that suggests she’s even less with us than she professes to be, in addition to having cultivated donors whose interests diverge from ours. Attacks on Jill Stein’s ideas are misleading, hypocritical, or both Stein is n’t perfect, and Clinton partisans have seized on some of her mistakes and flaws to attempt to discredit her as a candidate.

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Input: The group's recent release of emails from the Democratic National Committee exposed things such as the credit card numbers, social security numbers and passport numbers of some donors -- putting them at risk of identity theft. Some observers, including North Carolina professor Zeynep Tufekci, also criticized the organization for promoting links to a leaked database containing Turkish citizens’ personal information after a recent coup attempt in the country. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was the subject of a U.S. investigation after WikiLeaks posted a cache of diplomatic cables and military documents provided by the now-imprisoned Chelsea Manning -- then known as Bradley Manning -- in 2010. Although Assange was not charged, he has accused Clinton of pushing to indict him while she was secretary of state. WikiLeaks released the DNC emails just before the Democratic National Convention where Clinton formally received her party's presidential nomination.

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Input: He is thought to have stood in direct sunlight for only about 20 minutes during his incarceration, when he emerged on the balcony to address his supporters in August 2012. He has a specially adapted lamp to mimic sunlight in his room — which measures just 15 ft by 13 ft. Near a Victorian fireplace he has a treadmill donated by the Left-wing film-maker Ken Loach and in his first year at the embassy he notched up 744 miles on the running machine. Sources have said his health has suffered ever since he walked in four years ago, and there is a suspicion Assange, still unapologetic about his role in leaking government secrets, had pushed to leave because of illness. She said afterwards she was worried for his health and when a series of mysterious tweets were sent by WikiLeaks on Sunday his fans feared that he had perished after eating her food.

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Input: I just heard about it. (CROSSTALK) Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump says John Hinckley Jr., the man who tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in 1981, should not be freed. He was responding the the decision by a federal judge that Hinckley should be released from a government psychiatric hospital after 35 years. (Reuters)

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Input: That’s four times more than any of the other 192 UN member states. There were four resolutions on Israel. And one on North Korea — a country that is home to government policies of torture, starvation, enslavement, rape, disappearances, and murder – to name just some of its crimes against humanity. Four resolutions on Israel. And one on Syria.

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Input: Locals in the villages around Usinsk complain that the frequent oil spills pollute their drinking water, contaminate the river fish and reindeer they depend on for food and cause chronic health conditions. Statistics obtained in 2010 by local activists from the hospital in Ust-Usa, a village of 1,300 on the Pechora river that has suffered from many of the large spills, showed rises in almost every kind of illness. Nervous system illnesses in adults, for instance, grew from 26 in 1995 to 70 in 2009. In patients under 18 years of age, they skyrocketed from 72 to 254. Spokesman Sergei Makarov said Lukoil-Komi was investing 20bn roubles (£ 230 m) in environmental measures and would change 370 km of old pipeline in 2016, out of a 7,000km -long pipeline network in the region.

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Input: For example, as the glue that attaches the screen to the machine gets degraded, you get alignment issues, Norden explained. Poll workers and technicians have to recalibrate these machines regularly to ensure the buttons are aligned correctly, he said. In other cases, it's a problem of plain old user error, said Pamela Smith, the president of Verified Voting, a nonpartisan organization that advocates for accurate and transparent elections. In Texas, for example, where a handful of voters reported attempting to vote a straight Republican ticket, but found the Clinton / Kaine ticket selected instead, many precincts use an old, rotary-style voting machine." If you're used to using a mouse and then you're asked to use a track pad, it's easy to make a mistake," Smith told TIME.

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Input: "I believe the international community has totally failed in all its experiments, and must take real, practical measures towards the (Syrian) regime," Zoubi said, without elaborating. He said there were no signs of any preparations for peace talks, which the United Nations wants to reconvene on March 7. Talks in Geneva in early February collapsed before they started, with rebels saying they could not negotiate while they were being bombed. HNC spokesman Salim al-Muslat said the truce was a step in the right direction, but a mechanism was needed to stop such violations and encourage negotiations." There has to be a power that really stops what Russia and what the regime is doing," Muslat said in a television interview with Reuters in Riyadh.

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Input: The four-story building once was a cement company but had served as a makeshift clinic during the war, said al-Sobeih. In Turkey, the private Dogan news agency reported that more than 30 of those wounded in Russian air strikes in Azaz, primarily children, were transferred to a hospital in southern Turkey. It showed footage of ambulances arriving at the Kilis State hospital and medical personnel unloading children on stretchers and a girl wrapped in a blanket as well as a handful of adults. Meanwhile in Brussels, European Union officials on Monday called on Turkey to halt its military action in Syria after Turkish forces shelled positions held by a U.S.-backed Kurdish militia over the weekend. The EU's foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, said that "only a few days ago, all of us including Turkey, sitting around the table decided steps to de-escalate and have a cessation of hostilities."

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Input: England fans have blamed the heavy-handed tactics of the police for fuelling the violence. Assistant Chief Constable Mark Roberts, who is leading British police's liaison effort, said England fans had been in the city ' without issue ' on Thursday until locals arrived. He said: ' At around midnight, there was a short confrontation where a group of approximately 70 local youths approached a pub where England fans had congregated. ' This was quickly dealt with by French police and one English supporter was arrested. We are aware of no further incidents overnight. '

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Input: The Jarablus assembly refers to the body founded by the YPG-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) for the liberation of Jarablus from Daesh. Ankara has frequently voiced its concern over the activity of PYD's armed wing People's Protection Units ' (YPG) along the Turkish border, and has been rigid in its stance of not allowing the PYD terrorist group to found any kind of de facto Kurdish state in northern Syria. Despite consistent U.S. calls to retreat to the east of the Euphrates River, PYD units have not complied with the demands of the U.S. and Turkey, and the group has continued its offenses northwards amid the conflict between Turkish-backed moderate opposition forces and Daesh terrorists. The YPG — the Syrian affiliate of the terrorist PKK — has been expanding its dominance west of the Euphrates River in Manbij region since late December, reinforcing its presence in the region using the fight against Daesh as a pretext.

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Input: Again, the electoral cost would seem to outweigh a few days of jokes about such exotica. Mr. Trump has said that he will not release his tax returns because he is under audit by the IRS, but this is not a compelling reason for a presidential candidate to break with tradition. Of course no ordinary business person would want his tax auditors to get free advice from crowdsourced kibitzers, but a tax return is not supposed to be an opening negotiating bid: in signing a tax return, an individual is charged with making a fair and accurate assessment of tax liability against himself. If Mr. Trump’s returns in fact fall short of this standard, that is exactly the sort of insight into the candidate’s character that our tradition of publication is meant to reveal. ADVERTISEMENT

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Input: The Dilbert creator also said he was against Hillary Clinton's proposed estate tax hike, because he was a self-made man The cartoon creator then said he read up on the issue of the estate tax. ' I understand that issue and I view it as robbery by government, ' Adams explained, saying that he disagreed with the hike that Clinton proposed. ' You can argue whether an estate tax is fair or unfair, but fairness is an argument for idiots and children. Fairness is n’t an objective quality of the universe, ' he continued.

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Input: What will the Chinese especially get in exchange?" ‘I Do n’t Need Jets’ President Rodrigo Duterte holds up a photo, citing accounts of US troops who have killed Muslims during the US occupation of the Philippines in the early-1900s during a speech at the oath-taking of newly appointed government officials, at Malacanang palace in Manila on Sept. 12. TPhotographer: Ed Aljibe / AFP via Getty Images On Tuesday, Duterte said the Philippines needs propeller-driven planes that it can use against insurgents and fight terrorists in Mindanao.

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Input: (Jerusalem) – Israeli security forces are abusing Palestinian children detained in the West Bank. The number of Palestinian children arrested by Israeli forces has more than doubled since October 2015. Expand Israeli border police arresting Ahmad Abu Sbitan, 11, in front of his school in East Jerusalem. The police accused him of throwing a stone at them. © Majd Gaith

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Israeli border police

Ahmad Abu Sbitan

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Input: That’s down from $ 9.4 million in April, but it’s actually a pretty stunning amount when you consider that he’s not advertising or building a serious field operation. So where did all the money go? Matea Gold and Anu Narayanswamy report that the campaign paid out more than $ 1 million to Trump-owned companies and to reimburse his own family for travel expenses. Here are some of the campaign's biggest expenditures: Campaign swag and printing-$ 958,836: Hats, pens, T-shirts, mugs and stickers

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Input: Law enforcement and intelligence agencies are hard at work, and we will learn more in the hours and days ahead. For now we can say for certain that we need to redouble our efforts to defend our country from threats at home and abroad. That means defeating international terror groups, working with allies and partners to go after them whenever they are, countering their attempts to recruit people here and everywhere and hardening our defenses at home. It also means refusing to be intimidated and staying true to our values." The terrorist act will offer challenges to the campaigns as they try to figure out the best response to the situation.

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Input: Like, nobody's going to negotiate for her and, you know, trying to put ideas in her mind that she is different [from] us," Chavez said. But in March 2014, Mueller was told by ISIS to pen two letters to her family stating the demands for her freedom: the release of convicted al-Qaeda operative Aafia Siddiqui from a U.S. federal prison or 5 million euros. She gave a third letter for her family to the Doctors Without Borders women to smuggle out. Though similarly worded, it included important personal contacts on the back, including her friend and college spiritual adviser, the Rev. Kathleen Day of Flagstaff's Northern Arizona University.

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Input: "Secretary Clinton and I do disagree on issues. But what she was saying there is absolutely correct,” he told George Stephanopoulos. “And that is you’ve got millions of young people, many of whom took out loans in order to go to college, hoping to go out and get decent-paying, good jobs and you know what? They are unable to do that. And, yes, they do want a political revolution.”

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Input: 57/74 Iraq Militants from the Isis group parading with their weapons in the northern city of Baiji in the in Salaheddin province 58/74 Iraq A smoke rises after an attack by Isis militants on the country's largest oil refinery in Beiji, some 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of the capital, Baghdad. Iraqi security forces battled insurgents targeting the country's main oil refinery and said they regained partial control of a city near the Syrian border, trying to blunt an offensive by Sunni militants who diplomats fear may have also seized some 100 foreign workers 59/74 Iraq Militants of the Isis group stand next to captured vehicles left behind by Iraqi security forces at an unknown location in the Salaheddin province. For militant groups, the fight over public perception can be even more important than actual combat, turning military losses into propaganda victories and battlefield successes into powerful tools to build support for the cause

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Input: 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." Clinton takes a selfie with the crowd at a voter registration rally at Wayne State University in Detroit.

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Input: The conventional indicators — landmark treaties, a new doctrine, signature deals — are actually poor guides to assessing the caliber of American diplomats. Just as the best lawyers are n’t the ones with the most famous courthouse victories but those who quietly keep their clients out of trouble and litigation, belt-notching in diplomacy has led presidents and secretaries of state into trouble. When American diplomats restlessly roam land and sea, desperate for that Nobel-worthy moment, the national interest is rarely served. Remember that secretaries of state do n’t control U.S. foreign policy. Clinton was n’t following her own grand strategy when she reigned in Foggy Bottom; her job was to implement President Obama’s ideas.

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Input: View all New York Times newsletters. In October 2015, a Russian plane crashed into the Sinai Peninsula after what may have been a terrorist bomb brought it down. In March, a passenger wearing a fake explosives belt hijacked a domestic EgyptAir flight and diverted it to Cyprus. The crisis was resolved within hours when the man, later determined to be psychologically troubled, surrendered. In May, EgyptAir Flight 804 plunged into the Mediterranean, en route to Cairo from Paris, killing all 66 people on board.

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Input: The crackdown revealed a ruthless side to Najib. However, there was a loose end that could unravel everything: Xavier Justo. Not only had Justo leaked information about 1MDB’s dealings with PetroSaudi, he was also a potential star witness in any future court proceedings about the financial scandal. Justo was placed in a cell with 70 other prisoners. The floor was covered with sweat and urine

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Input: (Andrew Harrer / Bloomberg) THE LATEST ON THE HRC EMAILS: -- FBI Director James B. Comey testified for five hours before a House oversight committee hearing, as Republicans called for another investigation of Clinton’s private email use. From Matt Zapotosky: “Even under the relentless questioning from Republicans, Comey asserted unequivocally that it would have been unfair and virtually unprecedented to bring a criminal case against Clinton under current laws.” He did, however, also give Clinton’s political rivals some ammunition, “conceding that there was ‘evidence of mishandling’ classified information and that an FBI employee who did the same ‘would face consequences for this.’ He declined to say precisely what consequence he felt Clinton should face.” -- The State Department is reopening its internal investigation of possible mishandling of classified information by Clinton or her top aides.

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Input: But his response only underscored the schisms between himself and Obama." Did you ask if we had political prisoners? Give me a list of political prisoners and I will release them immediately," Castro said defensively when asked by CNN's Jim Acosta why his government was incarcerating dissidents. Unaccustomed to press conferences, Castro at first appeared confused at whether the question was directed to him and later asked for it to be repeated as he juggled the headphones he wore to hear its translation. Later, Castro delivered a litany of areas where he said the U.S. was failing, from inadequate health care to lower pay for women.

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Input: “I’ve instructed my people to look into it.” March 13, 2016 At a North Carolina rally, a 78-year -old Trump supporter named John McGraw walked across a row of seats and sucker-punched a protester who was being escorted away by security. Video footage captured the incident, raising new questions about whether Trump was implicitly encouraging such violence -- by, among other things, vowing to pay the legal fees of any supporters who fought protesters and faced arrest as a result. Chuck Todd, host of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” asked Trump whether that meant he’d pay McGraw’s legal fees.

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Input: (CNN) Regime airstrikes on a school complex in northwestern Syria killed at least 35 people, including 20 children, the Syria Civil Defense volunteer rescue group said, in what could be one of the deadliest strikes yet on a school in the nation's five-year war, according to the UN. The death toll is expected to rise as dozens of others were injured in the Wednesday attacks, said Majd Khalaf, a communications officer with the rescue group, also known as the White Helmets. Another rescuer told the activist-run SMART News Agency that around 50 children were leaving the front door when the strikes hit. An abandoned classroom after it was hit with airstrikes on Wednesday in the Syrian village of Hass. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights blamed the strikes on the Syrian regime and Russia, but it is generally difficult to distinguish between Syrian and Russian jets.

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Input: Reuters could not independently verify the video. Social Media Website via Reuters TV A view of the wreckage of a plane that crashed southeast of Damascus, Syria in this still image taken from video said to be shot April 22, 2016. The video was shared online by Islamic State-affiliated news agency Amaq. Reuters could not independently verify the video.

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Input: Bush and George W. Bush — and from the kind of muscular U.S. national security policy long embraced by their party. Reagan governed as a Cold War president when the world looked to the United States to check the Soviets. He confronted the Soviet Union, spending heavily on a military buildup that the other side could n’t match, then negotiated deep cuts in nuclear arms. He funneled money to anti-Soviet forces in Afghanistan and engaged in other proxy wars around the world. Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump visited the editorial board of The Washington Post on Mar.

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Input: The latest emails handed over to Judicial Watch, which sued over spurned or ignored Freedom of Information Act requests, are very revealing. As in “The Rime of the Mariner,” she may well find no wind in her sails when highly damaging Clinton Foundation information is made public. Julian Assange, true to his promise to release new material about the Clintons, did so most recently on the international classified information-leaking website WikiLeaks on August 8. Therein lies the real rub for Hillary Clinton and the United States if, as alluded to, Russia is WikiLeaks’ source of what’s being released now. Assange, WikiLeaks’s founder and editor-in-chief, may become the nemesis who could scuttle Hillary’s bid for the White House.

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Input: Questions about the former New York senator’s connections to Wall Street and the money she received from a series of paid appearances have dogged her during the campaign, both in her primary battle with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, and in the general election against Donald Trump, as she has declined to release contents of what she said were private events. Hillary Clinton Photographer: Ty Wright / Bloomberg According to the transcripts, Clinton discussed U.S. relations with Russia, the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill, the debt limit and the media, among other topics. WikiLeaks posted what it said were the full speeches, gleaned from hacked e-mails, after putting out excerpts earlier this month. The authenticity of the transcripts, posted Saturday, has n’t been confirmed.

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Input: “Believe me, she has tremendous hate in her heart,” Trump said. Clinton accused Trump of launching distractions and diversions: “Anything to avoid talking about your campaign and the way it's exploding.” It was nearly nonstop name-calling and nastiness — they opened by dispensing with the traditional handshake, and an agitated Trump repeatedly encroached on Clinton’s physical space as he paced the debate stage. There were only brief reprieves of policy discussion, which soon devolved back into a contentious affair, even as they had to balance their attacks with flashes of geniality before a town-hall audience of undecided voters. From its earliest moments, the debate was colored by the events of the previous two days, beginning Friday with the appearance of a decade-old tape in which Trump described in graphic and sexually aggressive terms making unwanted advances on women, which he said he was entitled to do because he was a “star.” Legions of Republicans have abandoned his campaign over the lecherous remarks, which co-moderator Anderson Cooper described to Trump on Sunday night as amounting to “sexual assault.”

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Input: Video of Clinton's departure seemed to show her buckling and stumbling as she got into her van. (Thomas Johnson / The Washington Post) Putin, as The Washington Post reported, was implicated by a British inquiry in January in the poisoning death of Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB operative, in London in 2006. The Post’s Griff Witte and Michael Birnbaum wrote at the time: Although the inquiry stops short of conclusively blaming Putin — noting the opaque nature of Kremlin politics — it finds that there is “strong circumstantial evidence that the Russian State was responsible for Mr. Litvinenko’s death.” And citing the high-stakes nature of an operation to assassinate a former KGB officer on British soil, it finds that the operation would probably not have gone ahead without Putin’s direct approval.

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Alexander Litvinenko

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London


Input: He proposed banning all foreign Muslims from entering the United States until we “figure out what is going on” with terrorism. Or maybe just people from certain countries. After two events last weekend — a bombing in New York that involved a suspect who praised the Islamic State and stabbings in Minnesota for which the Islamic State has claimed credit — Trump has revived his tough talk on obliterating the terrorist group — vowing to “utterly destroy ISIS.” But for more than a year, Trump has declined to lay out a coherent strategy for doing so. Whenever pressed for specifics, Trump insists that he has a plan but says it must remain secret to avoid tipping off the enemy.

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Input: With his condition worsening every day, he previously told the MailOnline that he wants the chance of having a new body before his disease kills him. He claimed his family fully support his decision to be the first human to undergo such surgery and said: ‘If you want something to be done, you need to participate in it. ' I do understand the risks of such surgery. They are multiple. ‘We can't even imagine what exactly can go wrong.

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Input: (Matt Zapotosky) German lawmakers passed a “no means no” law that makes it easier to prosecute rape suspects. The unanimously-passed measure is a considerable step forward for women’s rights. (New York Times) Bill Cosby lost another bid to get the criminal charges against him dismissed, as a Pennsylvania judge ruled that there is sufficient evidence for the entertainer to stand trial. (Manuel Roig-Franzia) Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said the White House's directive on bathroom accommodations for transgender students puts "a gun to the head” of local school districts. (Moriah Balingit) Hall of Fame running back Paul Hornung sued helmet maker Riddell, saying the company should have warned players that its helmets could not shield against brain trauma.

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Input: Less than a week after denying at a presidential debate that he had engaged in the sort of sexual assault of which he boasted in the now infamous “Access Hollywood” tape, Donald Trump was confronted this week with a series of statements from women who said, yes, he had groped or kissed them against their will. The reports exacerbated the problem Trump created by his gross and demeaning language about women, not just in the “Access Hollywood” tape but on countless occasions. As First Lady Michelle Obama powerfully put it on Thursday: “The shameful comments about our bodies, the disrespect of our intelligence, the belief you can do anything to a woman: It is cruel.

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